Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-11

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He did so, slowly and unwillingly, remons-
trating with the laying aside of each article
of dress, but the pistol and few words from
the resolute Eve made him quicken his
movements until he stood in all the unre
lleved unloveliness OF a worn-out Adam. He
got into bed, whereupon Eve, laying aside
her pistol, undressed until she stood in all the
loneliness of herself, without so much as
hair-pin to break the symmetry of nature.
The old man looked amazement, but when she,
too, got into bed, seeing she was about to
play Mrs. Potiphar, the Joseph in him as
serted itself, and he jumped for his clothes.
But Eve was ready. She, too, jumped, and,
seizing the old mans trowsers, as Dun
dreary" calls them, threw them out of
window. She then made him sign paper
acknowledging attempt at out
rage and give her a check for
thousand dollars. This done, his clothes
were restored to him, and he went out with
her to have the check cashed, when he had
her arrested. The st. Louis case was net so
indecent, but it was equally fragrant. Mrs.
Mary Seafton, as the Journal tells the story,
secured employment IN the family OF MIR.
| J. as housekeeper, upon high recommen-
| dation as an unexceptionable person, lady
| like in her manners, and cultivated to the
| last degree. She had been there about a
week when the lady of the house, Mrs. j.,
| left the city on visit to friends in the coun-
try. For several days everything went on
| quietly, nothing in Mrs. Seaftons actions or
| behavior occurring to arouse any suspicious
as to her real character. One night, some
five days after his wife had gone away, Mr..
| J. came home late, about one o'clock, and
assembled to his bed-chamber to retire for the
| night. The gentleman proceeded quietly to
| disrobe, after which he reached toward the
| gas let to turn out the gas, when he was
| startled to hear a slight noise coming from
| behind the bed. Turning around, he went
toward the place from whence the sound had
issued, and drawing aside the bed curtains
| he was surprised beyond measure to see his
housekeeper, clad only in one garment, lying
on the outward side of the bed. Before the gen.
tleman could recover his presence of mind the
woman sprang to the floor and, winding her
arms around him, held him in vise-like
| clasp and began to kiss and hug him. The
| gentleman struggled to free himself from this
unsought-for embrace, and seeing this, the
woman uttered a piercing scream, followed by
| shrek after shrek. The household was
| aroused, and a moment later every servant
| in the house was in the room gazing IN
amazement at the suggestive spectacle pre-
sented to their eyes. Mrs. Seafton was lying
prone on the floor in dead faint, her dress
torn in several places and her hair disheveled,
and Mr.. J. stood looking at them aghast.
The woman told cock-and-bull story about
suddenly awakening and finding herself In
| Mr.. Us embrace, in his room. The appear
| ances were conclusive, anil the beautiful
| housekeeper left the house the next
morning FIVE hundred dollars richer In
| pocket. She also left st. Louis for another
city, perhaps Chicago, where, under the very
romantic name of Armande Duplisse, she
obtained a situation as governess 10 family
consisting of husband, wife, two grown
daughters, a grown son, and a little girl Of
whom she was to have charge. Miss Du-
plisse was SO quiet and gentle In her
demeanor, and gave such evidence of culture
and refinement that the family, believing the
story she had told about her once wealthy ano
aristocratic connections, treated her as thel
equal and as if she was one OF their own.
One of the young ladies of the family
was engaged to be married, and her be
trothed was expected to visit them a very
short time after Miss Duplisse's arrival a
their house The lover came, and to him
the governess was presented. He was told
that the same courtesy was due her as to the
other ladies of the family, as she was lady
born and bred, but Ia reduced circumstances.
Upon this the young gentleman took kindly
interest in the beautiful governess, frequently
sought her company, and, converslng with
her on various topics, found her very intel
hgent and we'll educated woman, fully &C
complished In ancient and modern literature,
art, music, drawing and languages She de-
termined upon him for victim, and leae
him on from tep to step, insinuating hersel
in thousand ways until she had won boil
his sympathy and his confidence. One NIGH
> he went into the library to get book, wher
he perceived a woman on the sofa. Drawing
nearer, he saw it was Miss Oupllsse. He
head was bowed on the cushion OF the sofa
half concealed by her arms, and it seemed t
him that he could hear sobbing. Calling t
put her handkerchief to her face as if to wip
away her tears. She excused herself to tn
: young man and gave some plausible reaso
for her presence in the library, but showe
no inclination to leave it. He noticed he
tear-stained eyes, heard her sobs, and aske'
for the cause thereof. The woman looked u
shyly, then sitting up, her eyes glazing almos
| fercely, her breath coming short, painting
Il her bosom rising and falling, and seeming t.
: swell with an intense emotion, she told Fran
{ that she loved him. Frank was bewlldere
: and astounded at this unexpected action o
Il the part of the beautiful governess, an
. hardly knew what to do, demonstrating wit
: incoherent words. In soft, honeyed wore
s. and passionate accents, the woman told hil
i how intense, how consuming was her 10y
e for him, and yet he was to be another's. Oh
Is that thought alone was killing her! TIL
young man lost his wits completely, an
u stayed too long listening to the charmln
Il tempter. Eve over again. A servant sa
% them, communicated with her young mistres
/ and there was, of course, scene. To max
Z a long story short, Frank had to pay th
e beautiful Armande four hundred dollars
: confess to his betrothed that he was innocen
e and that all the love-making was on h
y side The question will occur to our reader
y as it has to US, what protection have poor me
l against bold operators like these, and VIII;
refuge or sanctuary is there that Is safe again
them, when thus they break in upon tt
barriers of old age and, going to the other e.
+ IRENE attempt to rifle the Golfers of a ripene
love within the sacred precincts of hom
a The outcry that was raised in England Iii
/ tie while ago, when men were subjected
Sc the suspicion of criminal intentions iowa,
n solitary female passengers with whom the
n were locked up in compartment carriages
as nothing to that which is now daily heard
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