The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-19

her but winning ways and pretty laCc. II
was discovered by nnny people who came
In the store ut unreasonable hours that
Pearson and Miss Bradley were always to-
gcther, and occupied the most loving posi-
ton. Their conduct soon became the talk
Of the town and was whispered from ear to
ear, the aforesaid trim spinstcrs vying with
each other in spreading the scandal and
reveling in its nastness. Matters
finally came to n climax last week and cul-
minated in the elopement of Pearson and
his paramour and the descrtion Of faithful
wife Before leaving he appropriated al
available funds, and, taking his pretty clerk
under his wing, he started for Memphis,
Tennessee. The run-aways arrived there
one week ago last Tuesday and stopped at
an out-oEthe-way hotel, where no questions
likely 10 stop and recognize them. The
pretty clerk and
THE MERRY MERCHANT
enjoyed themselves there for few days,
when suddenly shadow was cast across
their pathway. A busy-body from Dallas
had located them and sent word to
that town informing the authorities
where they could be found. Hastily
packing their trunks the guilty couple de-
liberated as to the point that offered the
most suitable inducements for immigration.
Having heard of the good name and re-
ligious character that this city bears they
decided to come here and endeavor to hide
themselves from the view of their inquis-
tive friends in Dallas.
Having decided this, they took the first
northern-bound train and arrived in this
city last Friday. The next point was Where
to go. Pearson had been in st. Louis be-
fore and knew the character of its hotels.
He thought the best way to evade suspicion
was to get into the most quiet and orderly
of them. With this end in view ne escor-
ted his inamorata to Barnum's hotel, and
with flourish of the pen he regis
tered as Allen A. Peterson and wife. Gin
cinnat, Ohio. The clerk assigned them
room No. 2S, to which they quickly re-
treated and during their stay they moved
not beyond its threshold. The couple
stayed from Friday until Monday, and was
TO all appearance very respectable, very
as one meets with every day, a common
place young woman and her husband. A
keen observer, however, would discover
that when they made their appearance in
public, iurtive glances were cast about
and all disguise possible put ON.
On Monday the gallant gentleman
from Texas began to, seriously, dis
cuss with himself whether he had not
better desert his present paramour as he did
his wife. The more he thought over the mat
ter the more he was inclined to believe it
was the best thing to do. So mastering up
courage he told the pretty Miss Bradley
that their
"sToLEN BLISS"
was at an end, as he wanted to 60 back to
Dallas. She made vociterous kick against
any such proceedings; they were both ruin
cd in Texas and it was foolish for either to
think of going back He replied that his
norIxr hot
thing had to be done instantly, and that
his only hope lay in his business at Dallas.
About this time a commercial trav-
eer for some Texas house came
along and recognized Pearson and
asked him what induced him to desert his
wife and family and run away with milli-
ner He replied that he was insane the
night he did it and that he thought about
going back and squaring up things. He
was Informed that his wife had got out an
attachment against his late stock of goods
for 81 400 for clerk services performed by
her. This seemed to decide the question,
and he retreated to the precincts of room
% and told pretty Miss. Bradley that he
would buy her a ticket to New York city
if she did not want to go back to Dallas.
Pretty Miss Bradley answered by doing
what women usually do under such circum-
stances, she sat down and cried helplessly
for half an hour. This did not move
the merry merchant from Dallas. He
informed her that there was no
other course open, and that the best thing
she could do was to 90 to New York, and
that perhaps he would meet her when he
went there to settle with his creditors.
This paciied her n little, but she still
dreaded the ordeal of going to New York
alone. but il was preferable to going back
to Dallas and facing the taunts of the trim
and envious spinsters Of that village. She
couldn't do that. Her mother was there,
and her sisters and brothers were there, and
she had written that she was
STUDYING FRENCH
and elocution but they had discovered her
name, ana death would be preferable to
Meeting them face to face. She had rsked
Ier all for the man Pearson, and
now, after few weeks together.
he was about TO throw her over and
go back to Dallas, and perhaps his
wife. How bitterly she repented her fall,
as, with fearful eyes and breaking heart she
approached her companion for his unkind
conduct. He had naught to answer but
the oft repeated quotation from "Sam'l Of
Posen," Business is business, Rebecca."
+ nding that the die was east, pretty Miss
Bradley gradually braced up and said that
il it WAS inevitable, why, she would go TO
New York. The affair being now settled,
the couple left the hotel Monday morning,
both saying they were going to New York.
Upon reaching the depot the maiden from
Texas was placed on board n New York
train, and Pearson, seeing her depart in
safety. bought n ticket for DenisOn which
point he reached Tuesday.