The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-06
HEROINE OF PARIS.


her betrothed, betrayed by him to the
authorities, arrested, cast into prison,
made gray-haired in single night
all these happenings, crowded into one
brief year, have made the beautiful
Mile. Thirion the heroine of Paris.
She is now living with her eminent
ly respectable parents in the Avenue
Victor Hugo. The house is lombard
ed with letters from all sorts and con-
ditions of men who wish to wed her,
but she has had enough of lOvmaking
for a while. In one thing only does
she initiate some latter-day risky
Princesses-she IS writing her men,
oirs.
What Memoirs at twentyfour|
cries Octave Mirbeau. wait till you
are eighty"
but have crowded four score
years into one" pleads the pretty and
accomplished woman. And, indeed, her
story is a strange one.
A year ago Mile. Thirion was fol-
lowing the humble but honorable call
ing Of teacher in wealthy German
family. Here she was courted most
ardently by a Prussian officer named
Schesnur. His fifty-one winters diluted
not the strength Of his Wooing. lie
even made a trip to Paris to ask the
girls parents 10 give their consent TO
the marriage, bus It was refused. VI
course. their refusal made the young
woman all the more DESTROYS Of mar
rying the big German officer, Captain
Schesnur, on his part swore eternal
love, and IN order to hatter his fan
GEES patriotism he said he would be
come a French subject, which pleased
her nightly.
When the engagement ring was on
her finger and everything arranged for
the marriage, the gallant Captain pro
posed to his fiancee to commit an act
of espionage upon the German army.
At first she refused, so he played upon
her heart strings and appealed to her
patriotism He pointed out to her now
France would be the gamer, and now
she should become a second Jeanne
dare. He recalled a conversation with
her in which he said that he himself
was at heart Frenchman and would
soon be one legally.
Mile. Thirion yielded to the prayer
full and passionate entreatios. she dl'
not then know that he was an office
on the retired list and that his retire
ment was brought about not by prov
ess in the field, but by proficiency II
gambling. She was arrested. The uh
gallant captain turned informe
against his own fiancee and she wa
condemned to prison. The Judge trle'
in vain to establish some relation pe
tween her spying and the adyentur
j. of Captain Lux, the French oihcle
> who recently astonished Europe by nj
= picturesque escape from German
! prison -,
The occupant of another cell in tn
4 same prison, captivated by the del
+, cate beauty of the young Parislenn'
( offered to help her to escape Ihoug
: her sufferings were severe 1T IS cha
f acteristic of the feminine mind tina
S her chief pain was caused by III
e German newspapers saying she wa
+ thirty-one years old.
o THE prison of Kottleus, in Colosn
e where | was shut up for six month
+ made my black hair gray said NIL
e Thirion. What kind of a MIND ma
It he's who makes a young girl iall
# love with him, then gives her u
Judas kiss, induces her to ylolaIe u
t. law, turns common informer again
It her and rejoices that he has had NJ
1t locked up in prison is question IN
e. is nightly interesting the Hsychol
d gists. In all the records OF the Il
lie ropean spy mania there IS no placA
er case.