Connecticut western news., 1888-04-18

as the third and fourth generations un- doubtedly, and had not been wanting in respectful inquisi'iveness concerning her own ho me and family. I learned from her modest and enchanting lips that her home was in Middletown, and that she was the daughter of an old resident of the place who had been banker. Having amassed satisfactory fortune, he had retired from active business life, living with his family in spacious old fashioned house on one of the principal streets of the village.
 We ate together with the familiarity of brother and sister the luncheon had procured during the fivc-minute stop at Bath. The refined manners and unusu- al knowledge of tho country possessed by the young lady impressed me. 1had looked many times into her dark and lovely eyes, and if any one had told me they were not honest ones should have laughed at his idiocy. We are all phy- siognomists, but thore are people whom VIC meet closely and forget to study or criticise. A skilful physiognomist would have been baff1ed in this case, I think. If anything in her appear anco had mystifed mo, her ready con- versation and frank manners ,dispelled uufavorablc thoughts. Sometimes she had spoken with slight hesitation, but seemingly it was for a choice of words rather than of thoughts. A young woman, with a taste for the re- fined Whittier, who talked knowingly of poetry and poets, and was familiar with the events of the dry - who would have suspected that there were two sides to her lifea
 A sheep that had its head fast in the fence and bony horse laborlng with load of heavy stones were objects of her pity as the train whirled by them, and her heart went out towarl the poor people that were compelled to live in the mud surrounded and un comfortable looking dwellings in the eastern suburbs of Buffalo. Her name she gave me on a delicate card-E;la Thorpe. Of course I reciprocated aud presented her both my name and address.
 In the city after six-hour ride, l helped her to street car, and at Mag ara street regretfully left her to walk to my office, promising to call on her the next day if time would possibly al- low.
 Hello, Sam," shouted my friend, Detective Langspine, next morning as he came across the street to walk down town with me. ''Have you got your watch with you yeta'
 II guess so Qeeling for left vest pockeD. Whya'
 "Well, you ran a rather big risk yesterday with that pretty girl saw get off the train with you2"
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 "What2 Didn't you know her2 I thought perhaps sho was a client of yours. That was Sally Fitz Williams, the shcp!ifter and jewelry thief of Bal timore. I'll bet that the satchel you carried for her contained some of her earnings"
 "Aren't you mistaken about that2"
 'I may be mistaken about the satch- els contents, but not about the girl. Come over to my office and I'll show you her photograph. She knows better than to try to work Buffalo, but we keep an eye on her while she is here. She usually works large villages in the country"
 was thunderstruck, but concluded to keep my counsel. I was positive that the detective was wrong. found that afternoon, however, that the Main street number my friend had given me was church. I recalled tho name of a friend who live in Mlddletown and wroto him. The reply was that Ella Thorpe was a name quite unknown there. Could it be true that had been so easily deceived2
 met my detective friend a few days afterwards and referred to the young woman. 1 d,d not tell him that I had lost three s10 bills that were fold ed to- gethcr ia my left vest pocket, and which supposed, had pulled out ac- cidentally with my watch on the day that I rode from Binghampton to .Buf- falo with the coy damsel. I walked with the detective to his office, and there, sure enough, in tho toughest possible company, was tho very face that I had been so enchanted with. What did you say about studying rhysiognomy2 I have never seen my fair friend since, nor am I anxious to meet her.-[Inter Ocean.