Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-08-25
LURED by PROMISES. or THE
ATRlcAL PREFERMENT.
LOVE IN AUTOMOBILE
Imprisoned in Her Room, She Makes
Daring Escape.-Climbs Down
Ropes Made of BedcIothing and
Flees.-FinaIly Reaches Safety At
ter Many Exciting Adventures.

Arabella Crane has reputation
about Atlanta for her singing and
dramatic ability in recitations. She
went to Cincinnati some months ago
tc finish her education in music. Her
instructors praised her. She stud
led hard and by way of diversion at
tended receptions where her voice
was appreciated by many critics.
At one of these receptions one even
ing a gentleman from Paris was pre-
scented to her.
To make long wooing story short,
she came to like him pretty WE'LL
as she says. He was seemingly infat-
uated.
He returned to Paris.
A little later Miss Crane received a
letter from the agent of the Paris
Opera company offering her fiatter-
citing. She was enthusiastic over
the opportunity to go abroad and de-
velop her talent-to make name for
herself. And with her family's per-
mission she went to Europe-to Lon
don first, then to Paris, hurried by
advices from the opera company.
And all the while this Georgia girl
was thinking of her ambition and
her-well, her liking for the French
man.
She never suspected that she had
been decoyed to Paris, that the Opera
company was merely the invention of
a man whom she believed to be as
true a gentleman as a southerner.
But this Georgia girl did not lose her
wits, and when she discovered the
deception and-well, here's her own
story, told with reluctance, burt not
without a desire to caution every
American girl who goes abroad:
Girl Tells Her Story.
"The recollection Of my adventures
in Paris is like a relapse into fright
ening dream. No imagination of mine,
it seems to me, ever could invent that
wild automobile ride, the imprison-
ment and my final escape. Now I'm
happy to beat home again under the
protection of relatives and friends
whom l can trust.
'Well-let me see-to begin with,
the very night l arrived at the hotel
in Paris from London maid brought
card to me. 1t had the name of a
gentleman whom / had met in Cincin-
natl and | was just the happiest girl
in Paris. for | believed him to be my
friend, you know, and / cared just a
wee bitf or him, and then, you must
remember, | was in strange city,
with not even an acquaintance to
brighten things. For a moment
/ hesitated, wondering how he could
have found me. That's where the
mystery started. But, all, well, never
mind. l was so Joyous to meet any.
one l knew that hurried down to the
reception-room.
Nov, as had expected, he was as
nice as could be. He said the officials
of the Opera company were all friends
| of his and that it was through them
that he had CHANGED to learn of my
| arrival, and he offered to help me in
| any way he could. An appointment
! was made for visit IN the morning
, to the office of the company. I was
delighted.
| THE next morning, at the time he
said he would call, there he was al
| the door-in big comfortable auto
! mobile, mind you. \ Thought l was tt
ride in state, for sure, and kind OF
imagined that would impress the
| opera management.
He Threatened Destruction.
He speeded up the automobile an
til it seemed to me we were going
/ faster than any railroad train Tc
ever been on. 1 was getting brighten
| ed at the speed. You couldn't see q
thing at the roadside AS we tore
along, going fastr and faster all the
while, he shouted to me that l mus
marry him or he would dash into the
stone fence at the roadside and wei
! die together. And he wasn't joSina
either. l could see that
Now, l had come to like this man
burt such an impetuous remark fright
| ened the affection l had for him out
4 of me-
4 demonstrated as best / could
saying that he must have gone sever
| al miles and he had said it would be-
merely a mile further, and oh-he
made the automobile go even faster
still. He was obliged to give all his
attention to it and he looked grim anC
sullen. ] thought he had lost his
senses and l screamed at every auto
! mobile that passed us.
Perhaps it was an hour or more
before he slowed down at house il
a deserted part of the country.
/ Il was almost frenzied, because
knew was helpless. and that if the
man was brute must fight him
The thought was terrible.
At the door of the house appealed
to him as a gentleman to take me
back to Paris at once.
. ITO my entreaty he answered-oh