The Leavenworth weekly times., 1874-10-15

and was LEFT 10 OCu her travelling sui'
and dress for dinner. In about an
hour che decended to the table. Her
iewells were superb, her ooifiuie I'M
posing, and an Elizabsthan frili of tie iich
est lace was fastened closely under her chin
by brooch holding a bouqet Of rosebudf.
A eimilar bouquet surmounted her forehead
and reposed against the hair, a coronet ol
bloom. Her conversational accomplishments
we're rs remarkable as the elegance of her
dress, Iu short, from her FIRST appearance
at the dinner table, the new boarder was
the envi of the ladies, the admiration OF the
gentlemen, and the sensation of the house
Every day brought a variety in a new and
more ravishing toilet than the day preTIou.;
and, in addition to the French and Spanish
that we're the yernacular Of the table, she
talked Swedish with the Swedes. Germrr
with the Germans. and Italian with the Ita.
lians. Her English was that Of an Amer
ican, with the least Interesting touch OF q
foreign accent. No wonder that wi,h all
this, added to an affable disposition, versa,
Utility of ideas. fiuency Of anecdote, the &C,
cumuiated knowledge of things in general
that comes from extensive travel, united
with a stately figure and superb toilet, al
tie gentlemen we:e fascinated and
ALL THE LADIES JEALOUS.
Time brought the end of the first week
and beautiful Madame bowed her lofty head
10 apologiz. to the landlady for the non-ar'
rival OF an expected remittance, wherefsre
she was unable to meet the bill. The land.
lady stated 10 an old bosrder the incongTui.
ty of lady having such a wardrobe and moi
s 5 with which to pay her board. The rich
and whole-souled Southerner, to whom the
landiady mentioned her little perplexity,
gave her the SIS, enjoined her no. &c
annoy Madame, ard should similar diff
Guilty again arise, to apply to him and moi
to the lady. The Southerner's still richer
friend vas 20 thoroughly enamo.ed with the
faoinaiiDg foreigner that he gave up his
lodgings in a fashionable hotel and took up
his abode under the same roof.
But the bewi;ching cosmopolitan wanted
and she won the good graces of the women
as we'll as the homage of the men. Ac'
cordingly che exercised her powers of facin.
alton, and their envy and anger melted like
wax beneath the sun of her swee;ly insinu-
aiing advances. When to them beguiled
into private tcic-a-tete in the penelralia OF
Madam's sanctum she opened her trunks
a
view of her rich robes and her jewels, they
we're enchanted, and before the end of the
second week madame was as fairly
fixed in the tender affections oil the
ladies as che was in the manly
bosoms OF their lords. Her lace was the
finest, her silks and salius lus;rous in the
extreme, the Jewels DAZZLING, the perfumes
were elegance itself, while the one coquet-
tish point Enthusiastically Madame Ru-
per's own, was, the unfaiIing loveknot of
roeebuds smuggling her throat under the
chin.
without one word of warning thunder clap
burst upon a clear sky of that summer board
ing house. One evening near the end of her
second triumphal week friend called TO see
the landlady, and after hearing an accoun!
of this wonderful woman, vino drew men
from their botels-fcr another gentleman
was on the point OF removal-the friend an
swered: 81 suspect your lady il man, v
showing the landlady a newspaper article
headed, Gle or She?" detailing the career
of Christopher Lund, and concluding with
NEW WORKERS, BEWARE.
II the impostor appears az a Spanish Don
or as the Countess Knuih, beware; for in
either character she, he, or it viii swindle
you, giving you to boot more genuine solid
lying tba1 any creature that ever donned
pe,t:coats or pants in this or any other
country.
The article first printed in Chicsgo
newspaper of August 81, 1874, described
how, year this fall, young Dane Of pre-
possessing address arrived in Chi ago fresh
FROM Europe, and got employment through
the assistance Of gentleman who had besn
fellow. passenger in The steamer coming
over. lie obtained various situations in he
tells, which he lost through indiscre,ions,
had pupils in French, gaining access I, per-
sons of place and afiluence, and WAS inter-
prefer for the Relief and Aid Society during
the greater portion of last winter, position
which he filled with considerable ability and
credit to himself, exhibiting no really bad
habiis EXCEPT that of telling long aud fluent
lies. The employees dubbed him "Maria,"
from his efieminate voice and countenaate
At one time he was the illegi,imats son of
the high Baron of Lovenskjo joid, n another
he was the offspring of the Count knuth,
then be was Alexander Lunti, and in the
next situation he was Joevanini Dominique
de L'Unti, then Spanish Don, and then
Mrs. Isabella Rothe, wearing the finest fab
RIGS of foreign looms, and the flsshy jewelry
worn at an earlier stage was replaced by
rings and bracelets of the costliest kind
Then she was Countess from Denmark, the
Countess Knuth, and mad been maid of hon.
or 20 the Queen, and lastly she va, known
as Mrs, Isabella Rupsr.
ABELLE WITH A BEARD.
Here was terrible hint TO act upon. The
alarmed landlady instantly sought the pres
ence OF the tewitcher, and on drawing very
near, under the pretence OF admiring more
closely the embroidery CT the Elizathian
frill, saw to her horror that rouge and pearl
powder had hitherto concealed the deep blue
of scant and closely shaven beard, and on
gently opening the ruff she saw a well de-
vel ped and significant Adams apple rear
ing itself from the bed of roses. The land
lady quickly retreating summoned a domes-
tic council and spread before them the
amazing fact that the lido! of the gentlemen,
the confidential aud bosom friend of the Ia. /
dies, was no more nor less than Christian |
Lund, the man who fascinated men a. a wo-
man and svindled women "a q man.
The CONSERVATION that followed this an
foreigners may be Imagined. The gentle
men wished to drag the deceiver from his
dowry couch and fling him out into the
darkness of the night. TIE fearful land
lady beeought them to leave the double de-
ceiver to his unmeriied slumber, and them
selves also to sleep over the terrible disclc-
sure, which they consented TO do after
long consultation. She or be was always