The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-01-11
assessed herself of some Jewels ne was

possessed herself of some jewels ne was
taking home to his sisters and his rU-
pees, of which he had a good many. |
! 1t is not exactly known what became
Of Gabrielle now for a year or more, |
but she is thought to have at least seen
the inside of the Khedive's ialace. |
| The next adventure of hers was being
sent out of Constantinople in Turk
ish revenue steamer by express order
of the Sultana Valide. Given her
choice where she would be set ashore,
she decided upon Malta, and soon
made the intimate acquaintance of a
Col. Mompesson in the garrison there,
| man who had wife and five children,
and was worth flo, 900 year. In the
| height or the scandal attending this
affair O'Callaghan turned up in Valetta.
He was poor and ragged as q buzzard,
but he borrowed suit of clothes from
an Irish surgeon ami challenged Nom
pesson. They went to Gambia and
fought, and O'Callaghan was shot
through the heart. When Mompesson
returned to Valetta the bird had flown,
and the Colonel blew his brains out i'll
q fit Of remorse.
Gabrielle now came to Algeria, and
for while kept house in the city in q
very demure way, having q duenna and
two black servants. A Marshal of
France paid her great attention. 1t
was in his carriage that she came to
Constantine one day to attend the races.
That was the first time saw Gabrielle,
and she made profound impression
upon me, as she did upon nearly every
one. She was lively beyond descrip-
ton, and lively in unique sort of
beauty-a blending of styles one would
suppose could not be blended, yet which
in her harmonized splendidly. The
north and the south met in her face aud
figure without any dividing line, yet
you saw them both here. She was
Greek. she was Goth; she was blonde,
she was bruno; yet you saw this not in
any individual feature. It was the i'm
preston they made in their general eff
feet. Over all cast an air of indescrib-
, able innocence, mixed with frolicsome
espteglerie; give her grace and gentle
courage, and the power of elaborate
combination and foresight; let her be
false as hell, cruel as the vivisectionist,
cunning as the she-fox with stockings,
: hard as a milestone, mercenary as q
! Swiss, lascivious as Lesbia; and you
I will und arstand why they call this Ga
5 brielle, the most remarkable woman of
her age, the "Tiger-Lily."
[ do not treat of her career in Algeria.
I She got me in her tolls for one moment,
but could not keep me, and hated me
+, because she could not. Two of my
dearest friends died for heroine by
suicide, one in duel; then she made
little Preville, the Paymaster, marry
her, and give her name, house, fortune,
, and went off to Paris to consummate
r her career. 1t was famous one, with
broad swath of ruin and many graves
in her track. Now, at so, Gabrielle
was no older in look than when 20, but
: million times more rusee and danger
Gus. What she should be doing at
ChalOns | could not conceive, except
that her palling appetites hankered for
the vigor and rudeness of the camps
: She and Preville, poor, broken-down,
: cowed wretch, at least so years old, oc-
cupied q fine villa fronting on the
promenade of the lard; but Preville
J usually found something to take him
away to Paris, and Madame was not
lonesome in his absence. Her salons
were the headquarters Of the army, and
she was as dominant in military affairs
as, in former times, La Belle Imperia
had been in ecclesiastical affairs.
Behind Gabrielle's handsome saloon
was the daintiest of boudoirs, to which
: none but her prime favorites were ad-
mitted. 1t was here that the Tiger
Lily accorded me the interview which
had demanded. "Col. Maleval, it is
,, not my fault that you have not been
!, here BEFORE" she said. l answered
= brusquely: "No, but your fault that
| am here now. You know my rela-
; tons to Leon Pitou, as you know every
thing. demand that you release him
from your tolls; break the spells you
. have put upon him. Ii not, shall be
! forced to make public some things [
know of you, and that would make it
. uncomfortable for you to stay in
,, Chalons-equally so to return to Paris -
"You love the lad very much?" said
: she. eyes Sand loved his mother
passionatelyP" eyes" She turned
,, her eyes dreamily upon me and said ::
81 can not conceive of you loving pas
!, sionately, yet it must be so. [ never
knew the fire to melt some sorts of
ice" "Chaste warmth and pure glow,
madame, are mysteries of latent heat
i. which must needs remain problems to
, some" go sancta simplicitas!'' she
cried, laughing heartily; "sit down
i, here by me, Colonel. One rebuff from
you is worth a thousand compliments
OF ordinary men. Sit down, Maleval,
: Whiln toll rnr bout I con 3,