The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-01
IAD)RFS BRAVE WIFE
Is a Coward for Dread of the
ASsassin'S Bomb.
HER LIFE ONE OF STORM
How She Came to Wed the
Champion of 0reyfuS.

New ork, Aug. 1.-The Journal says
The Dreyfus case the cause celebre, has
furnished another example Of wifely devo-
ton.
Nine. Labor, wife Of Captain Dreyfus's
chief defender, is as deeply devoted to hel
husband as Mime. Dreyfus Is TO hers
Nine. Mime. Labor has bravely stood DS
her husband in his Dreyfus fight
She has been his nurse since his al
| tempted assassination, and his constant
companion always. She has never shown
a sign of fear until the fumor came from
Paris that there was a plot to kill Labor
by destroying his house by bomb.
Hearing this, she ordered that theal
house be Illuminated from sunset to dawr
so that no secret bomb placed in the house
may be overlooked. She has been nearly
Frustrated with fear for her husband, and
never leaves him for a moment.
Mime. Labor was once Nine de Pachan
wife fthe Russian pianist. Vladimir d
Pachman Maftre Labor secured her d.
vorce and married her. His devotion tc
Tell my wife / think of her every mo-
ment." he said when he was wounded
When blinded by pain he CROPPED about fol
her hand. crying: where art thou, InJ
wife? Where art thou, my soul?"
Rennes. Aug. Sl.-This Is the life story
and the love story-for they gre one, OF
Mime Margaret Labor, the good wife, the
Bona Dea" OF Rennes.
Mime Labor Is a woman of sorrows
with the gift of joy. She IS gay. She 4
vivacsous. But in her laughter Is the
sound of falling tears. There has been
tragedy and there has been what Is equally
sad-disillusion. She has always been
brave and smiling. Never has fear come
until now.
At last the young and beautiful and
brave Mime. Labor Is afraid, terribly
afraid. She fears not for her own life
but for one she loves thousand times
better, her husband. He braved and
worsted the bastard pistol and she waf
glad. Even then she smiled. Now the
smile Is gone, for she fears the bomb that
some hidden hand may place before his
feet in the Darkness. Nine. Margaret
Maitre Labori's wife, Is as fearful in the
dark as little child.
'tLighti Lightr She screams. and
groups for her husbands hand, IL they
chance to be left in the darkness. Light!
Jight!' The house in the Place Laennec,
in quaint transformed Rennes, is flooded
with light. Before the sun has set the
house Is illuminated, end when the fam
lily is asleep there is still a shaded light
in every room; a light that penetrates
every corner and reveals every object.
The light makes the house target for
the foes without, but saves 1t from foes
within.
And even with the lights, Mime. Labor
gees seeking with still another light in her
hand for what she fears. a small. black
round object Of spiked metal. The small,
round back object Is more dangerous
than viper. 1t Is death. not only to one
whose careless foot treads upon 1t. but 10
all in the house and to the house itself.
What Nine La.bori IS afraid of is a
bomb. Word has come from Paris that
there is plot to kill Labor by placing a
bomb in his house. so that he may STUN
BILE upon 1t in the dark. Nine. Labor is
guarding his life.
She never leaves him for a moment, and
II they come upon a dark turn in a pas
sage way in the old house she screams as
one distracted: Light Mon Dieu! Mon
Dleui Lightr'
Nine. Labori Is a radiantly beautiful
woman The beauty Is rot of form and
feature alone. The radiance is that re-
hected by one of the kindest. most gener-
Gus hearts in the world. She is tall and
OF a graceful figure. Her hair has caught
the glow of a FURNISHED chestnut. and her
eyes the calm, brown depths of forest
pools in Autumn. Her complexion shows
a hint Of crimson roses beneath the olive
He rteeth are as white and as even as
young corn. Her face in repose Is noble
and gentle. Alight with quick thought It
Is changeful, fascinating. A beautiful face
and figure that appear centrally In ser
les fpiotures we will name, Zone wo-
mans Life"
1t is a tiny. Handicapped incense
quent figure in the first. Il has an insig-
niflcant nose. scarcely worth the name,
and feeble mouth and pink skin and fuz-
~ hair hardly worth the mention. But
William OiKey, who had, fathers inter-
est in the insignificant hurdle. said the
eyes were quite worth booking at Their
first galnce was deep and brown and medi-
tative. That was in Australia two and
thirty years ago.
There is something Of a family resem-
blancs TO the insignificant bundle in Mar
gares O'Key. daughter Of the gentleman
farmer OF Port Williams near Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Mr.. and Mrs. O'Key were
living on 10000 farm. and they had built
ZOO house. They were the finest folk
for many miles about. Margaret was 50
happy she sang al day. Perched in the
bows Of the apple trees she sent forth
soft trirs that set the passer-by to womb
erirg what manner OF bird was hidden
high yonder among the leaves and bios
SONS. While they were still wondering
the face OF a young girl showed among
che blossoms and the laughter OF a young
girl followed them.
Strange are the Subtleties Of human in
gercourse. A gray day OF discomfort. a
purple day Of dfsco-d, and life is never
quite me same again The neIEhbors did
no. know. and perhaps Mrs. OKey her
self did not quite understand why she and
her husband separated. and she and visit
ful-fact~d Margaret were on their way 20
Europe in search OF a new happiness and
a new home. The slim figure wrapped IN
a steamer rug. looked lonely in its $50
lstion on the deck Margaret O'Key was
thinking that childhood passed too feet
". and thar she would gladly have called
St back. but the young lips were set in a
straight. brave Inc and 5eaere was a world
OF resolve IN the candid brown eyes
group Of hotel employs eaiking rough
" A mans <riii Gr-Jre taror the ba.i