Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-11-27
Love Leads to Conflagration

ltiently waited until the starving
process had been completed.
If CIemence had been the ordinary
girl it would have been completed
soon. Parental authority would have
been INDICATED, the sedate farmer
made happy, and Jules the cavalry
man could have sulked in his bar
racks and moped.
But Clemence is not the ordinary
sort of girl, and that's why she is IN
prison for the lest part of her life.
In her room she manged to make a
number of torches. In Anvers the
cottages are close together, and they
are matched with rushes, dry as
finder in the summer time. Clemence
also secured matches, and one night,
when she could hear Jules riding to
and fro on the road, she lighted one
of the torches and threw it out of her
barred window on to the roof of the
nearest cottage.
The house was afire in a second,
but Clemence was still busy. AS far
as she could throw she sent the fam
ing torches, and before the residents
in the first were out of their beds and
rubbing their dazed eyes at the
spectacle, half dozen cottages were
on fire and the rest of the village
rapidly catching from their sparks.
Then as the terrified people ran in
hopeless confusion, making wild and
Intellectual efforts to stop the flames
and save their property, Clemence
raised her voice in loud shrieks. Into
the midst of the panic stricken viii
layers rode Jules on his spirited
black cavalry horse. He battered
down the door Of the Blossier home,
now burning like the others, and had
Clemence out in second. Wrapping
his blanket about her, he carried her
to the horse, while the villagers stood
and watched with amazement.
The lovers were dashing down the
road before Blossier recovered from
his establishment. Then he and his
sons and some of the neighbors left
their homes to the flames, saddled
the swiftest horses in their stables,
and were down the road after the
escaping girl and her soldier.
1t was a long chase and might not
have been a successful one If other
villagers in Anvers had not telephon-
ed the police in the towns along the
road that Anvers was burning and the
guilty persons were escaping on
horseback.
The lovers had these persons to
thank when they found their way
blocked in numerous places and at
every step becoming more and more
difficult to travel. They urged the
black horse to his greatest speed and
squirmed and twisted in their course.
The obstacles became too much, ana
rs they were retracing their steps in
hope of finding an outlet through the
circle which was surrounding them
they ran into the pursuing party from
Anvers.
Clamence and her lover were taken
to Pontolse, where the desperate
young girl found herself facing the
charge of arson with no excuse to
offer. Against Jules no civil SEN
tence could stand, and he went to the
barracks under arrest to await mill
tary trial.
Clemence was found guilty. She
had no plea. Ten years Imprisonment
at hard labor was her lot She &C
cepted the sentence smiling and with
the statement that twenty years in
prison would be preferable to one
with the sedate farmer.
The girl went to her fate. Jules
the cavalrymGn was subject to severe
military discipline, which will cost
him his liberty for several years, and
the villagers of Anvers went back to
their homes.
For a quiet country girl Clemence
had involved number of people in
her story of blighted affections, hut
of them all no one is suffering as the
girl herself