El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-30
By Pierre valdagne.

w FHEN he entered his luxurious
" private office at the great
Arudy steel works. Emil Bene-
jajcdue found in his desk small regis
tered parcel marked Personal" and a
registered letter The stamps showed
both to have come from Pernambuco.
Emile Beneiacdue opened the letter
first It was very long, ana as ne
looked at the last page for the sigma
ture, he gave way to an exclamation OF
a0h. the thief! He daresr
He read the letter.
sir: 1t is today exactly 10 years
since Nine. Odette Benejacque dled. on
DrObablv don't even remember II, as
YOU married again so Shortly after tnat
terrible event which ought to stand en-
graved upon your mind and which as
honored me in the eyes Of the world:
THE affair caused some sensaIlons
but people knew only very little about
the real tragedy, and 1t is time thaL 1
tell you the details. go
"At that time I had apparently been
1-our friend for years. though L really
defested and despised you with all my
heart. I detested everything ABOUT you :
your way of thinking, your way q
living, your success in life. You started
your great business you formed a trust
YOU bought up for mere trlIle the IN
MENTIONS of poOr people who were starF-
ing while they made you rich nave
known scores of men whom you ruined
while your wealth grew from day 10
zone thing especially made me despise
vO1I-vour love of ostentattOns your al
conquering vanity-and this would have
separated me from you even II your
wife had not been there.
Your wife!
eDo YOU know who she VASE How
should YOU even have been able 10
know2 How should your coarse braln
ever have been able to understanS1 HeF
noble qualities Of miRd and hearty
You made this loving and loVaDle
woman into a Door, timid dOwnhearted
creature who only feared you. 1ou
yourself killed the love she earnestly
tried to give you!
You used her for your own purposes.
She was to spread splendor around your
name by her magnificent tollettes a1u
priceless Jewels. She was to you only
a living advertisement OF the prospeIl-
ty of your firm.
From the very beginning you treat
ed her with the utmost Indifference
You only wanted her 10 be submissive
and silent You taught her to be so
but you also at last succeeded IN max
ing her hate you.
T have the right to tell you all this,
for Odette and I loved each other
ooh YOU need not feel indignant
in vonr 0uality of husband We re-
spected your rights as / did not wish
the woman I loved to be branded IN
your own ewes as a faithless wife. But
( with all the fury Of my dead hopes, ]
must cry out to you: Never has a
faithful wife hated and despised the
man whose name she bore, more than
she did. Day by day you revealed 70
her a little more Of your contempt
bic qualities. which she refused to be-
/ lieve in with all her strength. How
I often did she not believe to nave found
in YOU a faint spark Of something she
might at least respect, only to find
there was nothing in YOU but conceit
vanity, selfishness and dishonesty
Your very smartness in business Of
which you were so proud filled her
with horror, because of your utter
/ unscrupulousness.
DO you imagine that we refused
/ ourselves the supreme happiness OF Pc
! longing to one another. because we