St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-19

did he not sue for divorce when he
found AbeilIe hidden behind the cur
tains of Mrs. Deacon'5 bedroom? Were
there not also her excursions to the
Italian lakes and letters of guilty ma
ture? If ne shot Abeille it was less be-
cause he was jealous than because he
hated him with peculiar hatred. 1t is
only fair to admit that money affairs
Q'interet) did not enter into his mo-
tives.'
"Seeing what the role Of French pro-
curator is in the presence of an accused
party, it was hard for the one | quote to
say less against Deacon without giving
mortal offenSe to the parQuet or board OF
criminal investigations, who found that
there was case against him for trial.
The judge of instruction and all the
other law officers who had prepared the
case against Deacon would have had a
bad mark at the ministry of justice if
the procurator unsaid what they had de-
liberately written.
Two Kinds of 'FrOu-FrOu."
"Frou-Frou, if she lived and had not
run off to Venice, would, l doubt not,
have allowed an Abeille to serve as her
banker. The difference between her
and the beauty up to date is, that the
latter never thinks of running away,
she being of Mrs. Deacon's opinion,
that "a divorced woman is not well re-
ceived in high society in Paris and had
better hold her ground as married one.
So she has her gallant to visit her at
the conjugal domicile,, which in the
Deacon case seems to have been gen.
orally hotel.
"As to Abeille, he was podgy little
fellow, dyed, bald, old, greasy, ugly as
sin and absurdly vain of his 'cOnQuests.'
Several years ago l heard American la
dies wonder how Admiral Baldwin's
pretty daughter endured having such a
horrid little Jew revolving around her
when she might get herself made the
fashion with the Prince OF RastaQuou-
eres.
"Abellle was not Jew, unless, per-
hars, by blood. Nine. Abeille mere
had under the empire great reputa-
ton for dressmaking and bonnet-ar-
ranging taste and talents. The Coun-
tess Labordere. great friend of the
late Countess de Montijo, recommended
the Empress Eugenia, when she was
suddenly exalted to the throne, and was
not all elegante, to take lessons of Nine.
Abeille. This was done. and this pro-
fessor of la science du chiffon remained
a hidden influence at the Tuilleries until
the breakdown of the empire.
! The Abeille Fortunes Origin
81 dare say this was the source of the
rapid fortune of Abeille pere, who,
from nothing at all, jumped suddenly
into great wealth. His Wife'S InfOrma-
tion about what was going on within
the inner circles of the court would have
been gold to the Rothschllds, and
would have been we'll paid for, old
Abeille being as sharp a man as there
was In Paris. He gave out that he made
his fortune by investing all that he pos
sessed in SueZ canal shares when their
lowest. The wife had heard from the
empress that she would force England
to give up her opposition to her cousin,
De Lesseps.
recolIect that Abeille's house was.
just about the time Frou-Frou first burst
on the town, one of the rare private
houses, not a disguised tripot, where
baccarat was played for heavy stakes.
Rich men could enjoy nightly there all
the emotions of jeu d'enfer. That sort
of play was then rather the exception
than the rule at the fashionable circles,
though Khalil Pasha, Grammont-C Cader-
ousse and Wilson had been distinguish
ing themselves as gamblers.
"When Abeille was lying dead, Mrs.
Deacon turned to the doctor, who had
been called in, and asked him whether
he thought that she would still be re-
ceived by the Princess de Sagan and
other great ladies. Never was there a
more startling instance of the ruling
passion strong in death (of some one
else). But what can the woman he
made of. who. at such moment, asked
such question:"