The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-27

has FRUSTRATED all nature after its
efforts of the day. Not a leaf stirs
on our trees, and think only of you,
my queen, in these surroundings,
where we were SO happy in that sa-
cred hour, and l shall never forget
when without promises. without oaths,
above all without thinking of the
world, or even of the universe, we
tasted happiness, completed by the
unique joy of being together, of living
alone in solitude.
What did anything matter to us?
Did not our love smile like nature in
the spring and the verdure on which
my eyes are fixed, seeking thee al
ways? All, my treasure, why didst
thou abandon me? What shall / do
without thee, when all my thoughts,
all my strength each day, all my
hopes for happiness are turned to-
ward these? Everything is sad with
out thee, oh, beloved. Why didst thou
forsake me?
with the fall of the night sad
thoughts come to me. Are we the end
OF chapter of Manons oft-repeated
novel? Has the beautiful page been
read for the last time? Thou wished
to leave, and who will now reveal to
US the mystery of thy heart? And II
l cannot now, as at first, feel grieved
at seeing thy beautiful eyes yelled,
the memory Of their recent tears with
out cause Is not clear to me, but will
remain with me always.
Answer me, Friend, thou whom
have made my idol, so that l may
know thy thought without fear.
am ready for anything. I have al
ready enjoyed enough happiness to
last the rest Of my life. / kiss thy
dear hands again with tender fervor
whatever they may do to me-"
How He Won Women.
Lucien Outlet is the name which
Landru most often used in his
amours. He specialized in the de-
velopment Of affairs with widows and
divorces.
Usually he wooed by correspondence
and rarely did he fail. And after he
and the girl he had lured to him met
the girl disappeared and Landru be-
came weather..
Two and a half years ago the
Partisan police were puzzled by the
repeated disappearance Of women Of
approximately the same station in
life. They began an investigation and
learned from relatives of several in
the missing women that they had
been betrothed by Lucien Outlet, a
reputable engineer, they said. living
at No. rs Rue Rochechouart, in Paris.
A swarm of detectives went through
the villa. 1t was empty of occupants,
but they found an abundance OF femi-
nine clothing and other personal prop
erty of women and they found ac-
count books showing that the owner
Of the villa had sold much property
owned by women, with dates and
amounts carefully set down. In the
cellar and garden they unearthed
fragments of bones, teeth, shreds OF
hair.
Got Dupe's Fortune.
Among the women reported missing
and believed slain was a Nine. Bulls
son, whom Landru met through an
advertisement in 1915 under the name
Of Fremyet. She wrote assuring him
that she would make him a good
wife and regretting only that her
fortune was not as large as his own
vast properties. She estimated that
she had between 10000 and $4,000
francs. They met and she expressed
a desire to cherish him forever.
On August she made over her
fortune to her lover, and two weeks
later went with him to the villa In
Gambais, whence she never returned
A Nine. Pawcal crossed his life In
much the same fashion during the
same period, and then in 1917 he
met, through marriage notice,
Louise Leopaldine Jaumex, who was
thirty-eight. and separated from her
husband. She was intensely religi-
ous and n took him n YEAR to Der-