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Identifier: chicagobydaynigh00vynn (find matches)
Title: Chicago by day and night
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: (Vynne, Harold Richard) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Amusements
Publisher: Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of some sort, for the lady is sel-dom too exacting, and if John is inclined to bedocile—to the extent of four or five hundred,maybe—she will probably be very good-naturedand let it go at that. This is the highest type of adventuress—thearistocrat of her profession. From her the typesdescend in grades, down to the very lowest ofall, the birds of the night who prowl the streetsin search of victims whom they may lure to thedens of their male accomplices, there to be vul-garly drugged or slugged and robbed of theirportable valuables. The indignant husband game is a favoriteone with adventuresses of the second class, bywhich term is signified such fair and frail crea-tures as occupy a somewhat lower place in theplane of rascaldom than the fairy who relies 92 solely upon discreet blackmail without publicityfor her means of support. This game is usuallyplayed upon very green persons for the reasonthat very few others would fall victims to it.The fair decoy makes the acquaintance of her
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quarry on the street, at a matinee or elsewhere.For the first interview she is on her good be-havior, and by her repression of any approachto familiarity that her newly acquired friendmay make she creates the impression that she 93 is a very nice and decorous person indeed—alittle disposed to flirt, that is all. She does,however, write him to call upon her and ofcourse he does so—perhaps to-day, perhaps to-morrow, but he calls, anyway. By letting fallcertain artful hints she contrives to let hervictim know that she is a married woman. Thisof course lends an added spice of interest to theadventure. The idea of poaching on forbiddenground is attractive to the dupe. So an hourpasses in pleasant converse, and in the naturalcourse of events the caller becomes sentimental.This much accomplished, he is hers, so to speak.At the very moment that the poor victim iscongratulating himself upon his conquest thereis a thundering knock at the door. My God! screams the lady, with the dra-matic in

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