The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-07-09

this affair"
"With what affair, monsieurp
haven't the faintest idea what l was
brought here for" 1 responded.
Why, just this; about fortnight
ago two English-women stopped at the
Grand Hotel in this city, and left with
out paying their bills, carrying off with
them all the household linen they could
lay their hands on"
And so we had been arrested as house
linen thieves 1t was too humiliating.
was then interviewed as to my COM
panion's refusal to give her name etc..
which argued very much against her. L
explained as well as could the extreme
annoyance and brutal treatment TO
which she had been subjected, her hor-
ror of having anything to do with a
police-court, and how the disgrace of
being suspected of crime was aggra-
waited by nervous excitement brought on
by the insolence of the police. After
considerable pleading on my part in her
behalf-for L felt that was the sole
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that she should be relieved from coming
to the court upon condition that she
would sign paper giving her name,
nationality, etc., and L was dismissed
without the slightest apology for the
trouble to which had been subjected.
At that point the affair ceased to be fun
ny, and, turning back after had reach
ed the door of exit, L made a short
and as effective speech as the polite
language of the French would allow, in
which conveyed frank idea of my
opinion of Austrian courtesy. 1 sue
ceeded well enough to convince my ex-
aminer of something-probably that he
had caught a Tartar-and 1 left him tug
ging furiously at his moustache. My
official escort led the way back to the
hotel with very crestfallen air, savage
and sullen.
found Miss Barton in worse con-
dition than ever, the prosecutions of the
guarding policeman having continued
with increased ferocity. He had dogged
every movement she made, until the
poor girl had nearly gone mad; and it
was only after long persuasion that in
duced her to sign the paper, such one
as most travellers without passports in
Austria are obliged to fill out. She final
ly wrote her name in great scrawl
which nobody could decipher, and gave
as her country "Cape Town, Africa !"
which again confounded the men, as
they had no idea how Hottentot'
could be an English subject. But they
swallowed their ignorance, and finally
went away.
When Kate had become restored to
her normal condition she heaped upon
herself all sorts of self-reproaches, and
paid me extravagant compliments for
what she called "good sense" and "pres-
ence of mind" AS she demanded re-
dress for the insults she had suffered, and
Austrian policeman privily searched the
trunks of American women who had
the misfortune to comeinto the Austrian
dominions, we posted off to our respect
i've national ambassadors. Kate had the
satisfaction of being told that she ought
to congratulate herself upon getting off
as well as she did, since two of her
country-women had been arrested, put
injail and kept there for two weeks up
on even less grounds for suspicion. The
result of our complaints was, that the
amplest official apologies were made by
the Foreign Office, the two policemen
severely censured and degraded from
rank, while, through the influence of
Herr Schwager, who went to the presi-
dent of the police, an officer was sent
from that organization to apologize to us
in person. But what cared most for
never got-an acknowledgement of the
right of the police to search baggage
oldisir
AS might have been expected, our
liking for Vienna had been thoroughly
damped. From that moment Kate
never saw an officer without fear and
trembling, and officers were everywhere.
ITO think" she exclaimed, "that !
have grown to be such ninnyl My
brothers always said, 'Oh, we can trust
Kate to go anywhere; she never gets
nervous or afraid;' and here am actu-
ally afraid to cross street / shall
never have a moments peace until /
get out of this horrid country
At the end Of Il fortnight, having en-