Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-08-21
No Match
For a Woman
BY SADIE OLCOTT
Copyright. 1910 by American Press
Association.
By SADIE OLCOTT

Chabouliez, Il wish you would not be
SO 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 not
treated you with that Difference or con
sideration 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. Wen. II woman loves n man
that another woman loves she will
10 gain her ends resort to any trickery
TO dispossess the other. You are a
woman. and you look upon Pierre
through woman's eye. am not
afraid OF him"
This was In 1870. when the Prusslans
were 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 bis pockets was found
tiny ball no bigger than pill. II
was carefully pulled apart and proved
20 be tissue paper. On IL was written
the position and strength OF the differ
ent French army corps opposing the
Prussinns.
THAT Is sufficient" said the general
Take him out and shoot him"
There was no formality OF n trial
Jaques. who was at loss how 10 ac'
count for the paper being In his pocket.
was taken out and was about 10 suf'
fer death when volley came from a
wood near by. 1t was, fired by line
OF Prussian skirmishers. who had ar
rived just In time to save poor Jaques
life. His French guards took TO their
heels. Jacques was 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 no cause for
fear that he would be shot for n 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 Mime. Chabouliez suggested that
1t might be her husbands friend. Pierre
Fabri. JaQues was very wroth with
her for intimating such thing.
One evening when Jacques came home
he found no supper. nor did he find his
wife. There was not even fire In
the stove. Astonished. he went out
and inquired OF the neiGhbors II they
had seen Nine Chaboullez After many
inquiries he learned that she. IN com
pany with Fabri. had been seen going
toward the Prussian picket line. Then
he began TO 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 of
with that friend.
Nothing was seen or heard OF Nine
Chabouliez or Pierre Fabri. and the
deserted husband assumed that to get
rid OF him or TO be where be could not
get at them TO punish them they had
gone within the French lines. As the
days passed and he heard nothing OF
them he made up his mind that his
wife, In order that he might be shot.
thus rendering her a widow and en-
Rbling her 10 marry her lover. had pu
the paper In his pocket that had SO
nearly cost him bis life. This failing
she had gone or with Pierre
One evening when he was almost
ready 10 kill himself through grief and
anger at the treatment he had rcceiy
ed his wife walked into their home
His first Impulse was TO order her
away. Then Il occurred 10 him that
II she had gone away with Fabri she
would not have returned But he had
not long TO walt for an explanation.
She threw a piece Of paper on the
table. He picked 81 M and read on II a
confession from Fabri that he had pnt
the paper In her husbands pocket and
then Informed on him Amazed. be
asked her how she had obtained H.
Il told rierre.- she replied. Il had
long regretted that | had not married
him instead OF you Then ! proposed
that We 50 within the French lines
and I've together where yOu would not
End Us. So we went through the
PrUssian outposts and on into the
French lines on the way ! told
Pierre that knew be- bad placed the
paper IN the pocket that WAS found
there. that forgaVe him because b.
dfH n for love % mo and that n Its