The Cairo bulletin., 1910-08-09
No Match
For a Woman
By SADIE OLCOTT
Copyright. 1910 by American Press
Association.
By SADIE OLCoTT


so intimate with Pierre fabri He
has Italian blood In his veins. and
don't place faith in those people,
! pierre Is my best friend
"And you will not be on your guard
against him?'
mo. You women take sudden dis
| likes. Ten to one piarre has nc,
treated you with that Difference or con
| sidcration a woman Graves from all
| men"
"He has treated me with the utmost
consideration"
What do you mean by that?"
"Well, since | must either tell you
or leave you TO stupidity put yourself
in his power | will do so. Know then
that before married you Pierre pro
posed to me"
| "Ah! Well, il woman loves man
! that another woman loves she will
to gain her ends resort to any trickery
to dispossess the other. You are
woman, and you look upon Pierre
| through woman's eye. | am not
afraid of him"
This was In 1870, when the Prussians
We're marching into France. One day
a party of French soldiers stepped up
to Jaques Chabouliez and arrested him.
They took him to headquarters. and
the general ordered them to search
him. In one Of his pockets was found
tiny ball no bigger than a pill. 1t
was carefully pulled apart and proved
to be tissue paper. On 1t was written
the position and strength of the differ
ent French army corps opposing the
Prussians.
"That Is sufficient said the general
stake him out aud shoot him"
There was no formatity of trial
Jaques, who was at loss low TO ac-
count for the paper being In his pocket,
was taken out and was about to sllf.
fer death when a volley came from a
wood near by IT was fired by Il line
of Prussan skirmishers, who had ar.
rived Just in time to save poor Jaques'
life. His French guards took to their
heels. Jaqucs was a true Frenchman,
but he would rather live among his
country's enemies than die among his
country's defenders.
The territory in which Jacques Cha
bouliez lived was from that time till
the end of the war occupied by the
Prussians, so that he had ne cause for
fear that he would be shot for d spy
Both he and his wife knew that the
paper which had convicted him had
been put into his pocket by some one
who was anxious to get him out of the
way. Nine. Chabouliez suggested that
1t might be her husbands friend. Pierre
Fabri Jaques was very wroth with
her for intlmating such a thing
One evening when Jaques came home
he found no supper, nor did he end his
wife. There was not even a fire III
the stove Astonished, he went oul
and inquired of the neighbors If they
had seen Nine. ChabouIiez. After many
inquiries he learned that she. In com
pany with Fabri, had been seen going
toward the Prussian picket line. Then
he began 10 lament and to curse and
to swear, saying that no man could be
sufficiently guarded against the duplic-
ity of women. His wife had been en-
deavoring to prejudice him against his
best friend, and now she had gone Oft
with that friend
Nothing was seen or heard OF Nine
Chabouiez or Pierre Fabri, and the
deserted husband assumed that to get
rid of him or to he where he could moi
get at them to punish them they hac
gone within the French lines. AS tbs
days passed and be heard nothing oil
them he made up his mind that bis
wife, In order that he might be shot
thus rendering her widow and en-
abling her to marry her lover, had pu
the paper in his pocket that had 50
nearly cost him his life. This failing
she had gone off with Pierre
One evening when he was a,mos
ready to kill himself through grief ant
anger at the treatment he had receiv
cd his wife walked into their home
His first impulse was to order hei
away. Then Ii occurred to him tina,
If she had gone away with Fabri she
would not have returned But he hat
not long to wait for an explanation
, She threw piece OF paper on tho
table He picked it up and read on 1t /
confession from Fabri that be had pu
the paper In her husbands pocket anG
then Informed on him Amazed, BIZ
asked her how she had obtained it,
II told Pierre" she replied 81 haC
long regretted that | had not married
him instead OF you. Then | proposed
) that we 20 within the French line.
/, and live together where You would no
] find u.s. So we went through tn
, Prussian outposts aud on into thu
French lines. On the way / tolt
Pierre that | knew he had placed tn,
paper In the pocket that was fount
there, that | forgave him because h,
Z did 1t for love Of me and that II BIZ
ruse had succeeded we could hav,
been married instead of living togethe
illicitly. He denied that he had don,
this. so l refused to go any furtheI
with him until he admitted 1t. He die
! So and had little trouble later in get
ting that written confession"
"Where is Pierre now? shall xii