Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-23
A BURGLARS STORY.

long list recorded IN the arcnlNe' OF tue
Police Prefecture of the Ssine.
Monsieur Horace DAubigne, gen.
tIeman Of fortune, mlddle-aged, but late
" retired from the civil service Of the
Empire, having strong passions, q
penchant for women, = love OF intrigue,
and by no means lacking in vanity, be-
came enamored Of Mile Borrine, then
an actress, attached to the OdeOn.
Monsieur DAublgne, having resolv-
ed upon the cong uest Of this young Wo-
man, very speedily obtained an lnIro-
duction to her, and from that moment
as he came within II e influence l hef
smile and WAS thrilled by the Hash OF
ner dark Spanish eyes, he had but
idea, one IhJGght-that OF possessing
her, oil putting her In the gIlded cage Oi
his projection and revealing in the light
of her love.
And Mile. BOrrine-wbat OF her:
Twenty-Five years Of age, an almost
perfect form, q beautiful face the mask
OF innocence and gentlenesS covering
the baleiul defOrmity OF a woman VINO,
from her gIrlhOOd Of sixteen, had been
an adventures: who had been driven
from Marseiiles by the shameless noto-
riety she cOurted Is h mistress OF
Count Henri De- Lap!erre, and whose
suicide three months after her disap-
pearanoe made pIOlIc the fact she had
dishonored aud Impoverished hun. Sue
came to Paris, and us world OI MANY
and social degradation, It's great held Oi
vice and passion, IN when suCn As she
could reap her harvest, lay open To ner.
NJ - -. vr..rHl H. a. not nF nIUFr .
ths lover Of to-day 10 this whirlpool Of
seethiDg immortality could tomorrow
be cast off and his fate forgotten. tn
Empire was tie thing Ct to-day; it had
no tO-usOTrOw; its self.appOinted ruter
an adyeuiurcr sud his Government q
MUSHROOM. And Paris Wa the km
pire-FTaIce.
Mile BUrriue WIS snrewd and cuu.
nmR. AS cola, p~aSSsOn!eSS in tempsra.
ment rs AL lCiCle, selfish anj CRUEL sne
was simply u beautiful iend.
Her pusitiau a. an ingeuue at the
OdeOn was only that OF favor. She had
10 merit ~ an actress on the mimic
stage. She was an actress on the broad
er and vasler stage Of human Credulity.
The manager Of the OdeOn paid her no
salary. He had been paid by q high
state official 4 good round SUN To give
the woman, whose greed and depraYIty
Disguised him, q chance TO draw into
her tolls another and more GOuplalsant
victim than himself
IL WAS her own choice, this Of using
the stage as n mart wherein she might
find . purchaser. She knew too well
the power of her beauty and h method
by which il could be enhanced and
made almost irresistible in the glare OF
the fOOtlights.
With this beauty as q bait she angled
i'm q social pool which n knew was
filled with gudseOns hungry for a taste
Of the deceptive morsel.
She was vivaciOus, could converse
ChaTmiDgly, and Assumed al the pretty
cOquettish, winning graces, the cnyness,
demure modesty OF mieu or the holder
and more aggressive expressions OF pas
sion which were by turns necessary to
secure success IN capturing her prey.
She had admiTers-the lOungers Of the
theater and the boulevard. These were
too small hsh for her net.
Money, the ambition to live like q
princess aud u nOtOriety which would
make her the toast of the cluOs and the
chief mOrsel of gossip for all Paris was
hers. She had heard OF VI. D'Aubigue.
When he obtained an introduction to
her sue had ascerlained his wealth and
by inquiry learned his habits, his Ia
ture and his history. She knew,
though all this, that she would be able
to mold him to her wishes "a il he were
potteI's clay. And she knew that OF
Ler past lie was ignorant.
Size set upon him with all her arts
M d'WithIn the inst month OF their
hHisOn, this man OF strong passions,
vanity, and u lover Of intrigue, became
infatuated with his prize. lie was ner
slave. By u thousand devices she in
creased this ~iniatuatiOn to u dellrum o.
abjtct worship.
lie FURNISHED \ residence for her-No
~ Rue MUntfermell-as sumptuOusly
as for "A Queen. She asked for nothing
ste did not receive. Her object was
not accomplished. The serpent had en-,
veloped the victim in its folds, but the
victim was not to be devOurSd on the
instant.
She found that he WAS the heir to q
large estate in Brittany; that in Mar,
settles, the very city from which she
years before had been driving Is 3 pest
he owned u magnificent chateau and
grounds, from which he drew an enOr,
NOUS rental, and, better than all, be
had no living relatives. He must marry
her. That would be her browning
triumph. Once his wife she could
snap her fingers at fate, defy the world,
and, As Mime. DAubigne, abandon ali
care as to the revelations Of her past in
fanny.
She had laid her plans adrolEy.
Slowly and surely she led him, blind
In his passion, step by step 10 the trap
she had made.
Then she sprang ii.
On the 18TH OF September, 1864, whom
be entered her OOudoir TO ask her to ao-
company him TO a jewelers. for a par
ture of diamonds she had fancied, she
threw her arms around him and burst
into 3 food Of tears. SObbing ~cOnvul-
sively, she said:
Horace, we must part. This is our
last meeting. l can no longer live in
this manner. 1t will shatter my heart
lit will bring grief to you but iE must
be. This will be our farewell en-
bracem
Wild, eTazed, all his passions aroused
by her apparent terrible suffering, aad
stimulated 20 frenzy by the thought OF
losing the wOmAn who had so COM
pleteiy enmeshed him, he begged,
wepL, raved and osressed her in turn,
until, in his despair, he at last uttered
the words she was waiting to- hear the
words which sealed his doom:
Remain! Live with me, not as my
mistress, but ss my wifem
One month laler-in OotOber-they
wire married in the church Of the
Madelsine. Her triumph was com
plete.
Was 1t? Here began the records OF
the police department.
Mad. D'Aubigne, her extravaganza,
dash and the briillance Of her style of
living, the slavi>h obedience Of her hus-
band to her wbims and capriCes, were
for the time the talk OF Paris. She held
her levees in q salon which rivalied
those, In luxury aud splendOr, Of the
Tulleries. Men Of note and al that
class of the middle strata OF sOcIety gath