Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-28
Foreign Adventures.

Paris Correspondence New York Times.
may tell you that an elOpement was pre-
vented quite recently by the energetic activity
Of the young persons mamma, an American
widow lady, whose name you will permit me
not to mention. Mrs. x. had passed the sum-
mer with her two children, boy of Is and
girl of Is, at Ostend, where they had made the
acquaintance Of-accOrding to his own state
ment-a Prussian officer. who SO far as the
mother knew. was not particularly attentive to
Miss Arabella, but very nice and sOciable with
George. The season ended. The X. family re-
turned to Paris; everything seemed to go on
happily. when Mrs. X, noticing that the daugh-
ter moped and lost her appetite, called in doc
tor. 'sThere's nothing organic TO fear. " Opined
Hippocrates; "feed her well, and she will get
over 1t; but evidently she has something on her
mind" whats the matter, Arabela," asked
her mamma; ''are you in love with anybody?"--
having had a considerable and varied expert
the bull by the horns. /" If you love any body
you shall marry him. even If he's nigger!"
She distinctly said "ngger," declining its syno-
nym, "cOlOred man." Arabella burst into tears
and confessed that it was not niger but
German. the very identical German who had
been SO friendly with her brother and that she
had been In correspondence with him. via the
concierge, rendered willing by the bestOwal of
occasional pieces of money purlOned from the
maternal purse, and that it had gone on thus for
Z"
do so mOre-nO, never, never, never! and if
dear mamma would only forgive she would
cease to think of Adelbert Mrs. X. did for
give, but her eye was not shut up. Probably
remembering sundry experiences at Saratoga,
back, she watched and waited. and finally
bounced upon another missive in which an an
pointment was made for flight to Belgium,
expenses for the same to be paid from the ma
ternal stronghold above referred to- for which
ho6 nh fol Eo,y
Hesitation was no longer possible; in fifteen
minutes after the discovery Arabella was being
conveyed to one of those institutions where re-
belliOus Olive-branches are kept out of harms
way, and there she remains, and is likely to re-
main until who Adelbert really is can be ascer-
tained, which appears to present some Difficult.
ties. as in the Rue de Lille at the German en-
bassy, no name similar to the one which he gave
can be found on the official list of the German
army. Probably he will turn out to be one of
the many chevaliers d'industrie who haunt
continental watering places and get into the
society of travelling Americans, all of whom are
supposed to be of the Cresus family Their
object is to marry fortune. Their plan Of
campaign Is to compromise q girl, 80 that her
parents will consent to marriage, II she be
wealthy-to turn her adrift with a ruined repu-
tation if she be dowerless You may form some
idea Of the character of this particular Don Juan
from the fact that in reply to the agonized
mothers appeal to his sentiments as q gentle
man he sent challenge to her son. a mere boy,
still wearing the uniform of q French college,
"Be careful Of foreign confidence men!'" ought
to be written on every page of an American
tourists note book for there are legions of that
class wandering about, and. spite of all warn
ings, getting on, too thanks to assumed titles
and varnish Of good breeding which go far
with the multitude always, and which are more
astonishing. not only with the multitude, but
with those who, by their own birth and social
status, ought to have learned to distinguish be-
tween sterling metal and pinchbeck. met q
man last year In the drawing-room Of lady
whose position and belongings are undoubted.
recognized this man as q released jail bird
who f1aa passed six months In Mazas for swfnd.
ling. took to her the account Of his trial and
sentence as published in the Petit Journal, and
was told that ''the fact Of his conviction
proved nothing; he must be all right because he
was received BY the Duke de Ia Rochefoucauld!"
1t Is not astonishing, then, although deplora-
BILE, that guileles Anglo Saxons should be taken
In aud done for.