Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-24
No Match
For a Woman
By SADIE OLCOTT
Copyright. 1910 by American Press
Association.
By SADIE OLcOTr

ChabOuliez, Il wish you would not be /
so intimate with. Pierre Fabri. He
has Italian blood In his veins. and l
don't place faith in those people,"
"PierReis my best friend"
"And you will not be on your guard |
against himY'
mo. 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 ne"
"Ah. Well. If a woman loves a man
that another woman loves she will
to gain her ends resort to any trickery
to dispossess the other. You are a
woman. and you look upon Pierre
through a woman's eye. l am not
afraid Of him"
This was in 1870, when the Prussians
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 his pockets was found
a tiny ball no bigger than 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.
Take him out and shoot him."
There was no formality of trial.
JaQueS. who was at loss how to ac-
count for the paper being in his pocket,
was taken out and was about to suf-
fer death when a volley came from a
wood near by. 1t was fred by a 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 spy.
Both he and his wife knew that the
/ paper which had convicted him had
! hnnT1 int hic, Nv
who was anxious to get him out of the
way. Nine, Chabouliez suggested that
it might be her husbands friend, Pierre
Fabri. jacques was very wroth with
her for intimating such a thing
One evening when .IaQues came home
he found no supper, nor did he find his
wife. There was not even a fire in
\the stove. Astonished, he went out
! and inquired of the neighbors 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. Their
he began to lament and to curse and
to swear. saying that no man could b.
sufficiently guarded against the duplic
1ty 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 gel
rid of him or to be where he could no
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-
aiding her to marry her lover, had pu
the paper in his pocket that had sc
nearly cost him his life. This failing
she had gone off with Pierre.
One evening when he was almost
ready to kill himself through grief and
anger at the treatment he had receiv
ed his wife walked into their home
His first impulse was to order hel
away. Then it occurred to him that
If she had gone away with Fabri sh
would not have returned But he had
not long to wait for an explanation
She threw piece of paper on the
table. He picked it up and read on it a
confession from Fabri that he had put
the paper in her husbands pocket and
then informed on him. Amazed. he
asked her how she had obtained it.
II told Pierre" she replied, ST had
long regretted that / had not married
him instead of you. Then 1 proposed
that we go within the French lines
and live together where you would not
find US. So we went through the
s Prussian outposts and on into the
French lines. On the way I told
Pierre that I knew he had placed the
paper in the pocket that was found
there, that I forgave him because he
did 1t for love of me and that if his
ruse had succeeded we could have
been married instead OF living together
ulicitly. He denied that he had done
this, so I refused to go any further
with him until he admitted it. He did