Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-10-15
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American Confidence hen who Ensnara
.-' Victims in Europe.s

American Confidence hen Who Ensnare
Victims in Eurore.i
IF any reader on lis travels meets a
handsome young fellow, with srwny hair
curling over his forehead pair of honest
looking blHe eyes, handsome travelling
outfit and perhaps = valet--fOr when
Jack is in fumes he is a luxurious dog
let that reader look well to his pocket.
book.
Jack viii dine him and wine him, show
him all there is To see, chatter about th5
best people in the readers native place,
and sooner or later Master Jack will tell
how his banker has made a stun l biun5Cr
about his credits and lament that he viii
have TO break OF their pleasant cOmpGn-
ionahip by waiting over where he is until
the error isIeCtiied You advise him to
try the American Com III Witha dratt, but
he tells you that the Consul is too cautious
to do such Il thing, "and quite right, too"
says candid Jack, '1o7 l may be an adven-
turcr for ell he knows" If you cash d
draft for him, he is called away By q tells
gram from a sick friend and by the time
you discover jacks little game he is out
of reach.
You hate to make a laughing stock of
yourself by publishing your folly to the
world, and you woald in any case feel
awkward about appl5 ilg TO for, ign pylicc
authorities, and in nirc cases out of ten
Jack has 10 tlouble from his piGcJ ns. In
London lie makes your acquaintance at
the Langham Hotel ard offers to take you
down to the Windsor or the Coach or 20 o
f>h dinner at Greenwich. II you so With
him he causually and quite unostenta-
ti,I1Clyr 1hfG know TINT NO @ lap
more of a swell than you are, and when
he offers 10 present you at his club you
never suspect that The club is really dis.
gu!sed hell. II jack can get Ii tie more
branded champagne into you than you
can sail under, the rCSs OF his work is easy
and ' on find yourself next morning deb
tor to some of jacks aristccratic friends
for a sum Of money lost st ca DIS: ard you
don't like to think Cf Jack writing to the
PEOPLE on Mob Hill or Bcae, n street that
you do not 7 ay your debts os honor. The
CleveIeSt-and most infamuus-tIicl1
Jack ever perpetTatcd was at the cost of
a we'll known manufacturer of agIicul-
tural implements il Detroit. Mr.. Plough
share was at the Hotel dos Quartles Sal
sou, in Hamburg, on his bridal tour, wi h
a very pretty young second wife. Jack
was likewise there, and he'd with lin q
yourg fellow from Chicago, whom he was
preparing to pluck Mrs. Ploughsharo
was very pretty and q trihe taken with
hands one Jack. One evening, at the
CurSaal, Jack told her to pair off with the
Chicago youth and take . stroll in the
secluded part OF the CurTarten with him,
SO that the husband, il he Observed ary
| little attentions on jacks part, would
think there was safety in numbers.
| Now, Mr.. PloUghshare YVES di posed to
be jealous, aud Jack found it easy to give
such tuln TO the conversation as to lead
him to believe that Mrs. Plougksharc was
compromising herself with the Chicago
youth, ard finally forced the cd fellow.
just as q coniurer forces certain cad on
you, to impl0re Jack counsel ard aid.
The Price spoke Of the Chi'agoGn Cs o
very dangerous ard unprinc pied yGGrE
man, and said that he had been friend
of his so long that he did not like to "shake"
him, although Jack the Wealthy wat at
that time defraying his friends travelling
expenses, and deploreI his inability owing
to delay in his remttances, to remove
tho dangerous youth from Hamburg
"For," said artless Jack, 'if it were not
for this ridiculous imPecunioaity | could
take him away early in the morning, as
he is quite helpless without me-"
After u great show Of reluctance Jack
accepts a handsome. sum from Plough
share, giving him q draft.on New York
in exchange. But that is not enough for
Jack. When he says good night to Mrs.
Ploughshare he b?gs her to let him have
her diamond lOckct to wear next his heart
that night, promising to return it The
next day before her husband noticed its
absence. Mrs. Z. Gccedes, Jack tells the
Chicago youth that he thinks they had
better go on to Baden the next morning,
where he wants TO introduce him to d
Russian princes he Knows, and before
Mr., and Mrs. p. are awake Jack is miles
away chuckling over his immunity from
prosecution, confident as he is that they
will rot talk for their own sakes.