Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-19
Powerful and Subtle
Influences Amayed
on Both Sides of Case

popular among business men of the
republic and the society set.
DeSaulles was then thirty years old.
but he had lost little of the physical
power that had gained him fame on
the Gridiron. They tell story of his
| being entered In a swimming race
| shortly after his arrival against a
| field of the best contestants to be
gathered. He outdistanced them all
without difficulty.
BECOMES EAvORITE
WITH SOCIETY FOLK
He rapidly became a favorite of the
| society folk In Valparaiso. and met
| Blanca de Errazuriz. called by many
the most beautiful girl on the South
American Continent. She was then
sixteen years DID, Her family was
said to be among the wealthiest in
Chile and had proud history.
The story of the first meeting OF
these two strangely opposite persons
has been told by Mrs. De;saulles: II
| remember SO we'll when he first came.
| TO me-" she said shortly after she had
been placed in the Mineola. L. l., Jail.
on the charge of Staying her former
husband.
1T was in Valparaiso, where my
| mother lived. l was sixteen. You
know 1 did not know much about the
world at sixteen. and In those sur
roundinss girls are not taken much
into the confidence of older people in
| regard to the thorny things of life.
| They are kept some flowers are
kept-apparcntly in the fear that some
| i'll wind will fade them.
Our men are gallant and yer. po-
| lite. But they went languidly about
their pursuits. as people in this coun-
try might regard things One might
compare the difference between the
music of guitar and that of brass
band when the brass band is being
taken by motor and the guitar is being
| played under the shade of tree.
Il was at the country club. where
the men rode their ponies and played
polo. l saw many men pass whom /
had long known-from my very child
hood. Then there appeared a stranger.
lie was taller than the other men. his
shoulders were broader and he moved
with an action that did not belong TO
| my land was attracted to him from
| the beginning. He was brought to my
| box. From the first he paid desperate
| court to me.
| II looked upon him AZ some young
god. who had come from strange and
| happy heaven to make me happy. lie
asked my mother IL / might be his
wife. She insisted that we should
wait until she and I had made :. trip
to Paris that had already been
planned"
That was the first chapter In the
romance. according to Mrs. DeSaulles's
own story. She and her mother left
for Paris. only to find on their arrival
that the football star. who was un-
! able to leave ut the time because Of
business. had arranged that friend,
who was noblewomaa, Shout. meet
| them. The mother found out that De-
saulles had relatives who were promi-
ncnt in France. The two months
| passed quickly for the mother. but
slowly for DeSaullts and the girl he
then loved. so much so that she finally
! cablcd him to come.
ARRIVES IN PARIS
AND PRESSES CASE
! DeSaulleS left, and, arriving In Paris
| pressed his case so vigorously that the
m other consented. and the banns were
published. AS DeSauiles was Prot
cstant and his future wife 4 Catholic
| 1t was necessary to mako arrangements
with tho Vatican. In this connection. It
is Interesting to note that the papers
from Rome were late. whereupon the
brides nurse said: eft is bad luck.
You should never postpone your mar
riage."
Bad luck was the farthest thing
| from the mind of Blanca de ErraZuriz
at that time. ut was the beginning
OF the most wonderful fairy picture Of
my whole life" she said. I'VE were
on shipboard. coming to n new land
had never seen. Ho told me OF It's
wonders. Of the great things that were
done here. of the palaces and the vast
opportunities"
81 will work to win the world and
lay 1t at your feet he told me. as we
hung over tho rail. gazing into tbA
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