The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-26
CAILLAUX'S CASE
LIKE PAGE FROM
BOURGET'S BOOK
Editor in Novel, Like Cal
mctte, Threatens to
Print Love Notes.
LIAISON IN STORY
AS IN REAL LIFE
Tf lOu Use Stolen Letters
You Are Accomplish"
Says Heroine.
LITERATURE IS NOT
REALITY, SAYS AUTHOR
Novelist Tells Meaning and Pur-
pose of "The Demon
dc Midi"
LITERATURE rs NOT
REALITY, SAYS AUTHOR
sp.-4ai cable p..pstcA TO TIL, Sun

sr.1ai cable D.spatcA 10 TIL, sur.
PaRts. July 25.@'Thcse letters were
not given to you BY either OF these. mo
sender or no recipient. and therefore
they hnv. been stolen n you use them
=, you oecons an aocomplice and merely
keeping them Ia like theft"
When Paul Bourget. tho novelist. WINS
sstify,rx IN defence of tho character OF
ne friend the lats NJ, Calmetts in tho
caflsur murder trial last Tuesday NJ.
Labor, Nine. Caillaux's fawyer. startled
hin By readins an extract from his
tBourset's) latest book. Tho Demon dc
Ma" The words quoted at the beginning
Of this dosratnh werc spoken by one Of tho
women oharacters in tho novel and their
rsad.rs svp-ared % BE- % apropos, in
vSv of che importance which love lot
'nv played in the killing Of NJ CAL
msttA nat much Of the effect Of NJ.
Boury-t's Testimony wss iost
The hero Of Tho Demon Dc Mar N
Louis savsnan. . politician. ascd a.,
and Roman Cathoiio. He y . wsdower
wth a son, JscaueA 10, The nrther has
- guilty haison with oenev1eve. wife OF
very wealthy Radical named Cayaiierea
Lous and Genev1eve meet and fnd that
hey Still love as whom they were young
when poverty prevented thsm from mar
ring.
Tries Go Prevent Pubrcatfen.
" Cavalieres finds ietterv from Louis
70 Genevieve which ne gives to NJ. Eau
chon, former priest and a Modernist
Who has becorDe a Journalist, for puolioa-
Ton Fauchon has married Theresa,
whom jacques Cavalieres loves. Theresa
hear, OF the letters which her husband Is
Shout 10 publish and she objects to his
printing letters which belong to some
Npfy tho sender and receiver Of which
are not known" Then she speaks the
Npn's already quoted.
Tho second extract from Thereso's let
'Ts to her husband describes her feel
'AsH Wien she realizes that the man for
Whom she sacrifices everything meditates
ssch crime The moro she thinks of
THIS public uso OF private correspondence
lie more 4; appears 10 her TO be hideous,
cowardly and degrading The cx-priest
speaks o. Justice. Therese replies that
'|f' ~ ." bFFh4HS only revenge
fAu! Bourget was q great friend OF
'Amette and was in tho latter's office
win him when Nine. Caillaux called on
se afternoon when she killed him. NJ
'-'oori' chief counsel for Nine. Caillaux,
sASed ". BourCe, II Theress expressed
ne authors sentiments.
~ Bourget after thanking NJ. Labor
''' The splendid advertisement which he
"a" given the book. said Literature
"0o' iIe | am not responsible for what
\ max" my characters say NJ. Calmetto
VeNeNed that the part OF tho letter he
''n'ed was public property"
Bourgot Defends CaImette,
sourget then quoted NJ. Calmette's
lords which prefeaced his publication Of
u' Ton 10" letter and said:
see herein man who beloved him.
W. oe'Wesn conflicting duties. He do
~Isa his act OF conscience IN q way I
IN no. called upon TO divulea but from
We pain caused by publishing a purely
P''N'caI phrase from a private letter the
horror q would have caused to publish
Tie rest 10 proved"
M Paul B1urget In an article in the
- 'tn explains the title OF his
''"N tne ''b"mon de Midi" and IT'S
s"''HH"I which certainly TO the ordl-
~ reader seems somewhat engmatlc.
hNnrr'' saws that no wrote on the fly
:" m" GLOWING verse from the Psalms,
%" uHnsiated from the Vulgate
~ no chaIudras pas les fraycurs
:, nut r! IA Ia feche qul vole
.IH'f IA f0l1r. nj les
,'''"0' dams les tenehre-, nj les
r'"7s du demon do midi
inns passage Is found In Psalms
-. .''.'a and Ga Psalm telling
N" ro1'y) and in English reads
a follows.
=. ''"u shalt not he afraid for the
'' fy night; nor for the arrow
", Moth by day:
Nor for tho pos'ilence that walk
" IN 0arF0css, nor for the destruc-
'0'' varteth AT MONDAY"
h'r"F"' thon continues
,h''""'n mis- toXt Of the Psalmlst and
uaiN' ~ passion in the Paris Of 1873
nssn' TINT There IL little IN common
,,r,nRo7 so1o interest viii he found IN
my ''c work of the mind by which
~ al demon de nidi' has be-
s,.. '.' '"rnp', Of y temptation that we
W.T. encountered, either in ourselves
o"O'I about us.-the cXpro sslon Of a
s,,SSe'0'os Il! tpct OF the most common
Evil spirits at Noonday.
r,.U 0rs', what Vse this demon dc
w., Ior IN" rsalmst, The Hebrew
~, 'll '1" iro,k translation and
~. ne ~ gate have made demon sig
NJ f''' which dcvastatcs' Il is
''N'Ahit 'Irf IN ,.,rs. a., bn va an