The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
MADAME CAILLAUX BREAKS DOWN WHEN LETTERS ARE READ
 BEFORE THE COURT
tcontinued From Page one)

 tie show at Lemans and of a visit by M. caillaux to Paris
 It then. continued:
 Thou must be very reasonable and stay at Dinard for the present I fear only one thing-blackmail Perhaps some one will make a scandal Some times l am discouraged. What a life. l have but one consolation, thee"
 The. letter concludes:
 "A thousand million kisses over all your little adorable self"
 First Letter is Read
 The following is the text of the first letter from M. Caillaux to the present Mme. Caillaux before his divorce from his first wife. as read in court today: My Dear Little Riri:
 T have read with the attention 1t merited the letter which thou hast written me, and which calls for an ex- plicit response.
 For several days I have had the in- tention of dssipating any misunder- standing by complete explanation When l met thee 1 felt the impulsion or my whole being. l should neverthe- less have resisted and no doubt would have the courage to conquer myself if
 
 not happy. I was humiliated and wounded by the action I had undergone anu no one make me forget my bruised feelings No one could sooth my injuries. On the contrary they ag- Travate them. Therefore l threw my self towards thee with passionate fury, or rather with furious passion Never ac less. at the time of the incidents t~ which 1t is unnecessary to allude l considered it my duty to release thee ,utireiy by giving thee in a letter thy full liberty.
 As matter of fact I did not feel myself sufficiently sure of recovering my Independence to give me the right to engage thee to obtain thine. With fine courage and with the beautiful boldness which love and confidence gave thee, thou hast reconquered thy freedom, saying to me in substance:
 'I ask for thee but one engage ment-that is to give me thy love now and to this thou hast added q shall not believe quite in the fullness of thy love if thou doest not succeed some day in thyself becoming free
 T answer thee, do, and will love thee. certainly expect to regain my liberty some day but in any case shall not before the elections move
 "Is not that it, my Riri? What was 'rl :. pack ground of my mind was that l had embarked on a wrong ven tute--that there was between another person and myself such opposition of temperaments, of natures, of characters that catastrophe was inevitable; that necessarily time would bring about rupture apart from all questions of an- other love- and the sole result of the clash of two beings who did not un- aerstand each other"
 But I understood and I still under stS.d that in no case could my love be the direct cause of that rupture, first of all because in such a circumstance should have lost some of my self-esteem, and finally because I Judged that for the future-for our future it was in the highest degree important that no con nection should exist between the break which 1 foresaw and an affection which is dear to me.
 Matters went on very much as I had fcreseen during a year Then events followed in quick succession and my con- scence-whch is of delicacy carried to 3 point of scruple and sometimes amount Ing to folly-suffers little at the thought that my heart has influenced these events. ITO speak frankly and clearly 1t is (t certain that things would not have de- veloped as rapidly as they did if I had had thee and had had love in my heart. But that is secondary, and fully realize khat from this point of view my scruples Ire excessive. When a man is unhappy tt home and he has outside delicious tnection that naturally reacts upon him.