Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-08-10
No Match
For a Woman
BY SADIE. OLCOTT
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.
By SADIE OLCOTT

ChabOuliez, Il wish YOU would not hS
80 intimate with Pierre Fabri He
has Italian blood I'm 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:"
NO. You women take sudden dis
likes Ten to one Pierre has MOI
treated you with that Difference or con
sidcration woman Graves from all
mon"
lie has treated me with the utmost
consideration"
WHAT do you mean 10y that?"
well. since ! must either tell you
or leave YOU to stupidity put Yourself
I'm his power viii DO 50. Know then
tbct before married you Pierre pro.
posed TO me-"
"Ah' Wen. il woman loves man
,bat another woman loves she will
20 gain her ends resort to any trickcry
90 d.sposscsS the other. You are
woman. and you look upon Pierre
through a womans eye am not
afraid of him"
This was i'm 1870. when the Prussians
were marching into France One day
r cty OF French soldiers stepped up
90 Jaqocs Chabouiiez and arrcs -sd him
They took him TO headquarters. and
the general ordered them to search
a.m. IN one of his pockets was found
tiny ban no bigger than pin. II
WAS carefully pulled apart and proved
CD Do tissue paper On it was written
t.c position and strength of tie differ
French army corps opposing The
rr.seilns.
"lh1t is sufficient" said the general
eel. AXE him out and shoot him"
irere was no formality of trial
leQuns. who was at a loss how to ace
count for the paper being I'm his 30, l5ot
Was taken out and was about to SUI
fer death when a vollcy came from
wood near by. 1t was fired by a line
of PruSSian skirmishers. who had ar
rived just in time TO save poor Jaqucs'
life. His French guards took To their
heels Jaqucs was a true Frenchman
but he would rather live among his
countV'S enemies than die among his
couutry'S defenders
The territory in which jacques Cha
bouiicz lived was from that time I'm
the end Of the war occupied py the
PruSsianS. so that he had no cause for
fear that he would bc shot for spy
Both he and his wife knew that the
paper which had convicted him bad
been put into his pocket by some one
who was anxious 10 get him ont of the
way. Nine. Chaboulicz suggested that
it might be her husbands friend. Pierre
"a .sar.
her for intimating such thing.
One evening when Jacques came home
he found no supper. nor did lac nud his
wife. There WARS not oven Il fire in
the stove. AStouishcd. he went ont
and inquired Of the ueishborS If they
had seen Nine. Chabouliez. 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 ANA to curse aGd
to swear. saying that no man coulG n"
sufficiently guarded against the Gnp,ic-
iUy OF women. His wife had been cn-
deavOring to prejudice him against his
best friend. and now she had gone OH
with thar friend
Nothing was seen or heard OF Nine
Chabouliez or Pierre Fahri. and thn
uc,ei sru i"ND"'u ass. l'i'u 'ilA' ID ger
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