Self-trapped.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 230, 3 October 1904, Page 2

Self-trapped.

WOMAN THIBIV'S LONELY VIGIL IN A SHOP. PAWS, Aug. 18. Coveting with an intense desiro a magnificent continue displayed in u milliner's window in tihe Cliaussee d'AnWn, IMle. Leoiitine Uriant, n pretty young Woman ol Montinartrc, at last determined to risk all in the attempt to make it her own. Soberly clad in a black dress and an old hat, she mingled, wiuh the 1

> crowds of customers in. tho shop last ' Satuixlay evening, and just before, 3 closing iime secreted herself in a! " cupDo a rd among l a number of drosses!

f wh,ieh were there. > Whom the last attendant's footsteps I * had died a w «y. and the. brilliant) c lights were lowered she stole outi 1 from her hiding-placo anjd. hastened '■ to soarch for thy costume so long desired. Quickly she exchanged it for.

* her old garment, chose a becoming ' hat from another department, and * utter .admiring herself in a neighbour-! * ing mirror, retired once more to the, cupboard, sure <yf escaping unnoticed ' wh:n the shop tilled next morning, j ! When she awoke after a troubled ' sleep the eun was streaming into the! shop, but though she waited many, hours all around her remained strangely still. Suddenly she remembered I it was Sunday, and she had to re-' ftign herself to another n iigihit and day| in her retreat. " i

Whim Monday dawned and grew to, mid-day oi«d np one came to open the shop. Mile. Drlant, tired and hungry,! and with crump in all her limbs, recollected with horror that it was Assumption Day and a public holiday.! Vainly she searched every coiner, for a scrap pf, fopd, and then, com-] pleteiy exhausted, fe\l fainting to the floor, where, says the Petit Parlsion, she was found next d.oy. After being fed she \va.s, handed pver t the police.