The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-07-10
DREYFUS BACK IN FRANCE
DISTRESSING MEETING WITH HIS
WIFE.
He Seemed Dazed and Was Cold i'm His
Demeanor-His Mind Affected-lm-
provement Shown Later.

RENNES, France, July captain
Dreyfus has arrived here. He was land
ed at Quiboron and was conveyed by
train to Bruz, twelve kilometers from
Rennes. There he entered a landau,
accompanied by the chief of the detect
tives of the project department and
was driven to Rennes, where twenty
five gendarmes waited his entrance into
the town. Ten of the gendarmes enter
ed a wagon and followed the carriage.
The rest followed on foot. The party
arrived at the prison without incident.
A large crowd assembled and witnessed
the arrival in silence and without man
! Hesitation.
! RENNES, July 2.-When the cell door
opened for Nine. Dreyfus and her COM
panion, Nine. Havet, Nine. Dreyfus
! flew to her husband with the single
piercing cry, Alfred" She claspad him
in'her arms. Dreyfus made no answer
no step forward He remained passive
| in her embrace, looking down on the
head of his wife sobbing against his
breast. There was still between them
barrier of four years of exile and agony
such as perhaps no other living man
has endured. While pushing his wife
back gently to look at her face, Drey-
| fus said:
well. yes, am here. l am not much
! better than a corpse, but here l am"
| he Inen walked away WlJn out KISS
| ing her He began to pace up and down
his cell, his hands behind his back. Sur
prised by his strange and cold attitude
his poor wife stood where she was aban-
doned in the middle of the room, abso-
lutely dumbfounded. She clasped her
shaking hands. She looked as if her
heart was breaking. The guard. who
had withdrawn to a corner of the cell,
Nine. Havet and others We're amazed
by the cold, strange attitude of Dreyfus
and almost overcome by the suffering
of his wife. The prisoner paced with
the precision of a prison cell habit. At
ter a time he sank into a chair.
Nine. Dreyfus threw herself on her
knees before him, clasped her arms
about his neck, imploring him repeate-
eddy: alfred, look at me! Don't you
know me?" she cried. The eyes of the
blanched, gray man did not turn. al
fred, Alfred look at mel" she repeated
over and over again. Don't you rec
ognze me? l am Luce, Lucie, your
wife!"
"Of course l recognize you" he re-
piled at last. 81 am sick, not insane"
Nine. Dreyfus melted into paroXysm
of tears and sobs. The man slowly
) touched her eyes. His fingers were wet
with her tears. He took her head be-
tween his hands and then he kissed hel
several times. Not much was said. He
seemed to have forgotten how to utter
his thought or to realize the necessity OF
utterng them.
Nine. Dreyfus and Nine. Havet were
Intensely distressed by the state of hi!
mind. He spoke little, often snappishly
From certain of his statements Nine
Dreyfus inferred that he had been pos
oned against his family. He accused hi!
relatives of having neglected him. HI
has not the faintest conception of VIVA
they have done for him, Of the import
ance his case has acquired and that tn,
attention of the entire world is fiXeC
upon him.
Captain Dreyfus believed that Faur
was still President of France He con
sidered his return the result of ordi
: nary proceedings and supposed it wal
= easily obtained. He shows much re-
sentiment for the severity shown him or
the ship and in prison, showing def
ance at times. He seemed to distrus
his wife. ard II was not until SECOND
interview that he softened and caress
/ ed her. He was angry that his children
. had not come to him.
Nine. Dreyfus had a third interview
! with her husband this afternoon. ShC
found him much better. He received
her with smiles, instead of tears.
! RENNES, July France received
Dreyfus calmly, and in the calm tina
prevails there is a stronger hope FOL
the justice that has been promised him
He was landed at Quiberon.
RENNES, July S-Maitres Labor
and Demange, counsel for Dreyfus
visited him in the military prison at II
o'clock this morning They were bott
greatly impressed with the appearance
of Dreyfus. They declared he was botf
! physically and mentally in much better
health than they anticipated
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