Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-18
No Match
For a Woman
BY SADIE OLCOTT
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.
BY SADIE oLcOTT

mas 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 Pierre has not
treated you with that Difference or con-
sideration a woman Graves from all
men"
HE has treated me with the utmost
consideration"
What do you mean by that2"
"Well, since l must either tell you
or leave you to stupidity put yourself
In his power l will do so. Know then
that before l married you Pierre pro-
posed to me-"
Ah. Well, If woman loves a man
that another woman loves she viii
to gain her ends resort to any trickery
to dispossess the other. You are
woman. and you look upon Pierre
through a womans eye. 1 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
a tiny ball no bigger than a pill. 1t
was carefully pulled apart and proved
to be tissue paper. On it 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 a trial.
Jaques who was at a loss how to ac-
count for the paper being in his pocket,
was taken out and was about to 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. Jaques was a true Frenchman,
but he would rather live among his
country's enemies than die aLIong 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
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 intimating such a thing.
One evening when JaQues came home
he found no supper, nor did he find his
wife. There was not even a fire il
the stove. Astonished, ne went ou
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. Thel
he began to lament and to curse anC
to swear. saying that no man could b.
sufficiently guarded against the duplic
ity of women. His wife had been en-
. deavoring to prejudice him against hi
best friend, and now she had gone of
with that friend.
Nothing was seen or heard OF Mime
/ Chabouliez or Pierre Fabri, and tn
deserted husband assumed that to ge
rid of him or to be where he could nc
get at them to punish them they ha
gone within the French lines AS tn
days passed and he heard nothing o
them he made up his mind that hi
| wife, in order that he might be sho
thus rendering her a widow and Ell
aiding her to marry her lover, had pu
the paper in his pocket that had S
nearly cost him his life. This falling
she had gone Off with Pierre.
One evening when he was aimos
ready to kill himself through grief an
anger at the treatment he had Feeei'
ed his wife walked into their hom
His first impulse was to order h'
= away, Then 1t occurred to him this
II she had gone away with Fabri 81
! would not have returned. But he ha
D not long to wait for an explsnatio
She threw a piece OF paper on Il
table. He picked it up and read on it
confession from Fabri that he had pl
b the paper in her husbands pocket al
then informed on him. Amazed,
. asked her how she had obtained it.
"I told Pierre" she replied, II h,
q long regretted that l had not marri'
B him instead of you. Then l propos'
q that we go within the French lin
y and live together where you would n
n find US. So we went through t
n Prussian outposts and on into [
y French lines. On the way l to
Pierre that l knew he had placed t
. paper in the pocket that was foul
there. that ! forgave him because
did it for love Of me and that If
ruse had succeeded we could ha
been married instead of living togett
illicitly. He denied that he had do
this. so 1 refused to go any furtI
with him until he admitted it. He
so. and | had little trouble later in g
ting that written confession"
'sWhere is Pierre now2 / shall
~ hinlID exclaimed Chnhnnliez