Year: 1876


cyntly. AMI while there confilcd to
fricnd.thr "details of al adventure in n
Boston hotel - remarkable as to de
serve a life in print. The story is brief.
hut With an immense moral as showing
how IN some things lovely woman will
always come tn the relief Of a sister in
distress to outwit the tyrant man. The
journalist above referred to, stopping at
the hotel. private one, where the
guests were accustomed to the entire
freedom Of the house. felt, late one
night, the imperative necessity of eat
ing some fruit before retiring. 1t was
too late to send out to buy any; he did
not want TO arouse the servants of the
house at so late an hour, and yet fruit
OF preserves or something toOthsOme of
the kind seemed to him a personal ne
cessity. He knew where tho store
house was, knew that the door was left
open, and finally resolved to go down
very quietly and prig enough sweet
meats to satisfy his ne ed. No sooner
was the thought conceived than acted
upon, and within five minutes he was
in the storeroom hooking preserves out
of jar, and enjoying himself i'm
mensly in satisfying the craving which
had come upon him.


For a few minutes the enjoyment of
the man at the preserves was complete.
Then he was startled by light, swift
step in the hall, there was whish and
rustic of garments, the door opened
suddenly, and some one bounded in
with such suddenness as, coming square
ly against the form of the midnight
raider, to knock him half way across
the room, and fairly off his feet. Leap
ing up at once, he closed with his un-
conscious assailant, to be startled by o
subdued shrek, and to find that he had
captured a womanl Further, and more
terrible still, he discovered that the
plump form of the lady, who had want
ed something to eat as well as he, was
clad only in night-dress. Still, though
trying, the occasion was one not of un-
mixed horror by any means, and in a
moment the gentleman's nerve return
ed, and his curiosity rose to fever
heat.


"Who is this ?" he demanded, of the
plump figure in his arms. No answer.
"Who is it?" he repeated. you'll not
get out of this until you tell" Still no
answer, but a struggle in the darkness,
the plump figure trying hard to get
away.


Again the query was repeated with
equal lack of response, but this time a
resounding slap in the face from hand
that was doubtless pretty, but which hit
with decided force, was the reward OF
the questioner.


He was put on his mettle at once.
"You think you'll get off unknown
Well see about thatp he exclaimed.


i've a device thatll work, I think. u
And then, after silent and determined
struggle, he caught little bit of the
lady's right cheek between his teeth
and bit it-not badly so as to break the
velvet skin, but sufficiently hard to leave
mark which he knew could not disap-
pear for a day or two. Then he released
his unknown prisoner, and she fled like
the wind along the passage, disappear
ing in some room impossible to locate
in the darkness.


The next morning the gentleman with
a mystery to solve came down to break
fast early. No ladies had yet appeared
but at his table were one or two intimate
male friends, and to them he confded
the story of his adventure in the night
relating also the means he had taken tc
secure the Identification of the unknown
lady. The most intense curiosity at once
prevailed at the table, and the advent oi
the ladies' was awaited with an impati
ence scarcely to be controlled. Five
minutes later the door opened, and the
, belle of the hotel entered demurely


glided across the room, and seated her
self for breakfast. Eager eyes followed
her, and, as her face was fairly exposed
there was a sensation among the gentle,
men. Upon her right cheek was a strip
of ourt-plaster an inch longi The ex.
cited men exchanged glances, whispers
and smiles. The mystery was solved
early. But Just then another lady en-
tered, this time digniied matron. As
, she seated herself there was disclosed
upon her right cheek piece of court
plaster identical in appearance with thai
upon the face of the belief Another and
another lady entered. Upon the right
, cheek of every one Of them appeared 9
piece of court-plaster. The tables filled
up, and not a lady at one of them but
wore court-plaster on her right cheek
J And then the gentlemen looking conf
IDENTIFY for q revelation wilted. They
compfehended the situation. The lady
who had been captured in the night had
| confided her extremity to her friends
and they had come to the rescue to out
wit male humanity. They succeeded
too. The discounted men at that par
ticular table knew that beneath one O.
the many pieces of court-plaster in thu
room were hidden the marks of teeth
but which was the identical bit of court
plaster they could not tell. And they