There was a young girl in Louisville, named Ellen Godwin.

Meeting him at a public ball she fell violently in love with him.

As Throckmorton did not reciprocate this, and refused to pursue the acquaintance, she began to dog his footsteps.
She dressed herself in deep black and took up a position in front of the Galt House, and when he came out and wherever he went she followed him.
No matter how long he stayed, when he reappeared she was on the spot and watch.

He took himself away to San Francisco.

It was but the matter of a few weeks when she was there, too.