ROMANTIC STORY OF A LIVERPOOL WOMAN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 6 June 1868, Page 1 (Supplement)

ROMANTIC STORY OF A LIVERPOOL WOMAN.

Some three years ago there came to reside near Brixton, London, two sisters, of the respective ages of twenty-one and nineteen. They were both pretty, and they had a quiet, lady-like grace of demeanor which rendered them very attractive. They were -moreover highly accomplished, and had every requisite personal qualification to shine in society. Therewaß a>mystery, too, about them which, to jpeople of romantic imaginations, only served to 'heighten the interest with which they were generally regarded. "Nobody know who the ladies were -or what were their " antecedents." To their most intimate friends they had been known to confess, that they were themselves >very much in the dark respecting their -own parentage. All they knew for certain on the subject was, that they had a mother who, they believed, 'kept an hotel in Liverpool, but who,.having a horror of allowing them to reside in such a place, had established them m a villa near London, where she was in the habit of visiting them two or three times in the course of a year. .Am rests, they had been educated on the con- t^ tinent. Thus circumstanced, they had led a very pleasant life —and blameless as pleasant —until about a week ago, w hen one evening, just.as they were about to sit clown to dinner, they were equally surprised and delighted by a visit from their mother, who had come up from Liverpool on important and 'unexpected. „ business. The old Judy -seemed troubled in I spirit, and complained of being harrassed about " one thing and another j" butvdier daughters attributed her sense ofd||j|m7orfc simply 'to the fatigue and exofipfippnt of a long journey. The night wore on; as nights i will wear, and thn family had already retired. M to rest, when a knock was heavd at the door.Jjp? ■Female heads were thrust from the windows, and there was much expostulation with the untimely -visitor, who was entreated to explain the purpose of his visit, or, at all events, to defer his call until the morrow. The stranger was inexorable. His business, he said, was not with the young ladies, but with the old, and her he was determined to 6pe, come what might of it. So he thundered away at the knockur with all his might and main. His was a strong arm and muscular ; and as the law nerved its muscles, he cared not what row he 'might occasion in the most peaceable of neighborhoods at the most imseasonable of hours. At length the bolts are drawn, the door is opened, mid the stranger "stands confessed" —not "a maid in all her charms," but an officer of the Liverpool police, in all his terrors. He has come for tho old lady, Mrs. Gallagher, the most infamous procuress in England. It is said there is scarcely a town of any importance in the kingdom in which she has not established one or more ef her detestable houses. The two young ladies luwe, as yon may suppose, fled from Brixton. The revelation of their mother's infamy ds said to have come upon them like a .thunderbolt.; but, whither they have gone, or what has become of them, is not generally known. Their furniture is to be sold by auction in a few days, and meantime their .beautiful <villa is thrown open far the inspection «f the public. -Strangers walk through the elegantly-appointed rooms, and expatiate curioiwly on the character and conduct of their former occupants Everything in the house ibetokens a refined taste and elegant sympathies. There are books and pictures, bird* ond flowers, and all the means and appliances of Luxury —oos'ly furniture, a piano by -Col'ard, a harp by Erard, and the walls of the drawing-room are covered with crayons and wat«r color drawings, executed by the sisters. The mother, who, at all event*, nppears to ha.ye some "remnant of the angel" left, inasmuch as she preserved her .children from the infamy in which she herself was steeped, was tried at the last Liverpool 6essiona, and -sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. — " Belfast News Letter." _____________