Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-16

HIS DAILY A
the task that I now impose upon myself. Al
low me 10 premise, however, that what you
find herein written is faithful! to feet; no eK-
sggsraticn, no inaccuracies. no false asser-
tions. Your b=lisf and my own correspond.
I should not hesitate to believe implicitly
your statement, and l believe you will yield
equal crsdeDce to mine.
This much said, ] siilI tremble on the brink.
Ny messsge il 80 terribly awful that II IL al
most impossible to pen it. but what / have
to communicate concerns your daughter, and
viii alu1ost drive you TO madness, because l
know you worship her Let come what will,
the blow must fsl, and the sooner, ss 1 take
II, the better, in ord r if possible, that the
calamity may ia come degree be aVerted.
Have patience uotll l give you brief out
line OF my acquaintance with her.
The fret time / remember having seen her
was At the Presbyterian church. She sat
across the aisle from ms. / asked some one
VINO she was. thought she was the prettiest,
incest and most modest girl ever saw.
Short y after you moved into your new house
A. {. Hogan came 10 me and told me that
Miss Breckinridge Wss visiting at your house,
bring one out. l readily conssnied and went
with him, and was introduced the first time.We
were all spending the evening very plessant-
iy in the trout room, where the folding doors
are now About o'clock your Lzz'e said
10 NJ Hogan that enc had something to tell
him. de wanted to know what 1t Was. She
loId him to come iato the Il .xt room and shs
would tel him. They showed the sliding
dor blck iust far enough 10 pass through
a a hare
in total darkness about half an hour. | was
astonished, but thought her youth and ineE
periance palliatiDg circumstances, and ex-
cused her.
THE FIRST KIss.
few weeks subsequently, l called upon
her consonaut to her cordial .HyiIatiou, and
she received me in the dining- room. She
b ad q manner most Hlnbing end- sree nom
guile, and cAmv and sat very near Il, the.
She remarked that she had a burn OF her
hard, and undertook to show 1t TO me, hold
ing her hands in front of my face. The
light sh sded the place where she said the
bu wa, and / took hold OF her hand 10
order to turn il into position to see. l did
so, but when / mad done that she made no
attempt 10 withdraw her hand, but let 1t rest
in mine / placed the other hand lightly
upon il also, aud just for fun | made feint
80 il to kiss her. l was utterly surprised
when, instead OF Withdrawing her face from
me, she absol uiely advanced her face TO meet
me.
OF course such reception fsttered my
vanity, and / began TO feel an interest in her.
| | went away, and promised to call on her
again. In about two weeks thereafter /
started back again. The front door was not
| hung then, and the entrance was from the
porch by the back door. AS | was passing
| in front of the large window OF the front
| porch-the shutters nor the blinds were not
| yet up-I saw opposite the window, upon
| aofa HOGAN, with his arms about her. /
| stood moment and watched him fondle her
| with no objections from her. My dream was
| dispelled, aud l turned my head and walked
| home, aud visited them no more until she
| had a party OF some kind, and then paid my
| party call and staid away. She would, when
| did not appear, drop me note, asking
what had become OF me- etc. / would then
call and be receixea with the utmost cordial
| ity, and treated with all appearance of pref
erence. | felt Hattered by her attentions, and
things ran on in this way for year or such
| a matter, / making occasional calls. All this
| time there came swarm OF young men
calling there, each thinking he had the pref.
erence.
| GOSSIP OF HoNoRLEss MEN.
Hogan thought he WAS fret, and frequently
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| told me that she was mashed on him and
showed me several very cute notes from her
He told me how she used him the night of a
| psrty there, AID how she squeezed his hand
| every time he passed her Ia the grand chain.
Things went on the same way, and one
| evening, while calling there, just thought l
would set a trap for her, Mr.. Kennedy was
| cAIlIsg there quite frequently, and l had an
idea that ne was also one of the preferred. |
ssid; LIZZIE, | have good joke on you"
OF course sue wanted to know what it WAS,
aud told her that / hsd come out one
evening and beard voices in the psrlor, and
a. one oil the shutters was Just partially
opened iiIisd myself mp aad looked in at
The siniow, sud saw her and Kennedy on
| the sofa with his arms around her. She
looked confliei and said it was not true.
| saId that II 40 use 10 deny it, because /
" il with nv own eyes She then said
hs ueysr did Il BAT that once. then told
her s5 ak Esp Wsd do sS e ss, Efsok
did.
1 She told me one day what L was surprised
| to herr, and what, think, she did not in
tend 10 tell She said that Jen told before
her N other that she had looked through the
keyhols and cav her sitting on Mr.. Kenne.
dy's lap. 1t seems strange 10 me that the
child would tell such thing that unless
| 1t was true. Oae evening, while l was there,
Kennedy came and tapped on the window
and she began talking to me. and then be
rang the bell. Almost since frs. knew her
che would sit on my lap like Child.
thought she was youthful, bat her beauty
and afectionate manner would disarm the
devil himself. / never thought of taking
advantage OF her innocence, and have such
a regard for you that she was wholly free
from harm.
Some time-I think last February OF
March-when Nat Fry was following hei
about like her shadow, and everybody was
Temarking the desperate mash that Nat Fry
had ON Lizzie Mutt at the dancing school, he
taking her almost invariably every night, a
yoaug man inlimated to me that everything
was not right between them. l repealed the
. lnsinuation Indignantly. He Gays: "You
need not be 80 mad about it. l. would not
be the first time for her." / say: "What dc
, you meant" He says: "Jes Bogardus told
me that when she used to live on Rsdstone
street she used to meet him out often"
say: "He is a dirty liar and ought to bt
shot down in his tracks"
, thought would know about the matter
I and the next time / called I determined tc
test her, feeling sure she was grossly aud out
rageously slandered. She came up AND
placed herself on my lap as usual, and after
tondllng her for some time | made solicita
6 lion. To my infnits establishment and griei
she melted down like wax. Oh, how pitieC
her weakness, but where is there man that
could resist the temptation OF such beauty
, and leveliness. You would have done as
, did, but what was my horror and heartsick-
ness when l afterward reproacheC
, her with it, and she denied it. l told her i
was no use; that / could net be deceived
and that should think all the more of her
il sne would tell me the truth. After con
siderable bandying she broke down in fooC
, Of tears and said il was Jes Bogardus, and
went on to explain how she met him fire.
| quenily through Miss Donaldson; that she
! was young and did not know any better.
RANKLED WITH JEALOUSY.
Well, about the time of The fatal night
; have spoken of, called again and found
young Fry there. 1 determined to know, i
! possible, what his visits there meant. / left
frat, but came back to the house and tried tc
see through the window, but the shutter,
prevented anything of that kind. / ther
hid myself where / could see him when be
vanr- OF the door. lie finally appeared:
: and stood at the door with his arms abou
! | her and kissed her repeatedly. l after ward
, , called and told her what had seen, but SD,
1 strenuously denied il. l think she after
ward told him that / had seen him, becaus
: he told one of his friends that had watchet
him hugging LIZ Mutt.
This same brute of Fry was 10 Reiss'
/, , clotbiug-store not long since, and uuiie ,
,, number OF other young men were present
, This portion of the letter is unf
for publicstion.l | mad never heard thi
: until last week. A young lady told me sh
| saw that biackleg NJ aTriott kiss her.