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Show A VILLAINS PLOT FOILED BV HIS INTENDED VICTIM. Although wouieu may travel alone in America with more ealety and im-inunity im-inunity irom iusult, than in any other country in the world, their immunity must still depend very much upon their own circumspectness and viritie. To give no opportunities is to he stilt'; to give opportunities is, at least, to take chances, which may lead to some terrble contretemps hel'oie tho journey shall have ended, or may even lead to worse. The selt'-corjtideut, the innocent and the careless each travel upon dangerous dan-gerous ground. Perhaps the relation of the following incident, which happened hap-pened recently in this city, may serve as a warning to lady travelers, that, no matter how virtuous they may be, if they be not circumspect, they may have to sull'er terrible insult. Upon the overland train which arrived in this city on Tuesday evening came a handsome man, richly but rather gaudily gaud-ily dressed, nnd a. young and modest looking J'Jngli.-h lady. They were driven to oneol' our good hotel.1;; the lady was shown up-stairs into her room, the man remained behind, and registered upon the hotel-book. " r'RANK (IIIAIIAM ANI WJl-'K." lie then wnt up stairs, followed by the hotel clerk and porter, bearing some ol'uid baggage, lie entered the room where the lady was, and the porter entered after him. The lady turned round, and wilh a surprised air saidj pombih'to "Graham's" bipgage: ''Those do not belong hero. W hat are you bringing them here for?" Then all at once -(die 'pc-cmcd to realize the situation, and turning, deadly pale, she walked out of tho room. Urahani followed fol-lowed her hastily with a disconcerted look, and, taking hold of her arm, walked her up and down the corridor, speaking to her all the time wilh great apparent eun-eslncw. The clerk went up to bim and intimated a wish to see him down in the olhoe, and renewed his request two or three tinier. The man, however, thrust him aside, saying, say-ing, "L will talk with you presently," and resumed hia persuasions to the poor girl. Finally, however, he loosened loos-ened his hold upon her, turned hastily around and ran down stairs into tho street, lie has not returned since, and most likely never will. As he was watched by one of the porters when ho left the hotel, it is known that after walking about for a while, he dived down into a low mclodcon on the .southeast .south-east corner of Kearney and Sutter I slreets. After the villain had mado his dastardly retreat, the clerk asked the lady if she wanted a room. She said "Yes," that she had friends in the city, but would not go to them until next day (yesterday). Tho clerk then asked her name. She told, him Miss 11 . iJtd she know how her Jriend had registered his uamo and bersupon 1 the hotel books? No, ho did not. ; The clerk told her, and she then sat down, and covering her face with her I hands, burst into tears. That was tho end of it, fortunately for flliss 13 . ! That it is probably the end of it for I "Uraharu," too, is a pity; a eowhiding for him would be a tame and and unworthy un-worthy ending. When he came to the i hotel he wus, as we have said, richly dre&scd, and wore a conical .seal-skin i traveling hat without a brim. Probably j some of our readers may have seen ! him promenading about. MissB . I is now with her friends. Sun Francisco Fran-cisco Call. |
