New-York tribune., 1921-12-03
Reauvais Going
On Stand to Aid
Mrs. Stillman
sCrucified' in Divorce Case,
Says Guide, Who Will
Testify for Bankers Wife
In Montreal Hearings
Has played Silent Came
Won't Deny He Is to Wed;
Reddens at Mention of
Fondness for Children
From a stor Correspondents

Fondness for Children
Fror a STAFF Correspondent
MONTREAL, Dec. 2.--Fred X. Beau
vais, Canadian guide, named by James
A. Stillman in the suit for divorce
brought by him against Mrs. Anne
Urquhart StiTman. will take the wit
ness stand for Mrs. Stillman when the
taking of evidence in the divorce case
is begun here next month, he an
nounced to-day. Beauvais is declared
to have gathered q large volume of
evidence favorable to the defense. He
has been in daily conference with the
attorneys for Mrs. Stillman.
To-day Beauvais talked at length de-
scribing his plans. He spoke bitterly
Of James A. Stillman, who has named
him correspondent in the suit against
his wife. His lips were grim as he
said:
az am being crucifed now"
Advises Stillman to Stay Away
Beauvais talked to-day with news
paper men in a private room of the
Colony Club in the Windsor Hotel.
When a reporter told him he did not
look typical guide he laughed and
looked down trife admiringly at his
immaculate blue suit, fat gold watch
chain. tan brogoles topped by fawn
spats and said:
"Weu. YOU know, one doesn't look
like sporting catalogue all the time.
And every one in life is guide. Look
at ]. A. S. He guided the destiny of
the National City Bank And look at
him.
s"There are not many people in Grand
Anse and Stillman has never been
there, but the people have heard OF the
case. and it wouldn't do for him to
show his face there. They are like
bloodhounds pent up"
Some one aske. if it was true that
Eeauvais was going to be married.
There was a long pause, during which
he smiled, blinked, gulped, hesitated
and finally in burst of generalization
"Well, you know these things may
come to you suddenly on the spur OF
the moment"
"Will you seek an opportunity to
clear your name officially! ne was
he said that this was something he
could not possibly discuss.
Playing Silent Game
Again question bearing directly on
the Stillman case was shot at him, and
he shook his head.
"That cannot answer" he said. Il
am playing silent game. ! am gamb-
ling. Life is a gamble. / do not want
to be cauht in any traps. That is a
gambling expression. You know 1T,
don't you? l am playing silent
game. One has to-"
Beauvais smiled lazily at the impress
sion he seemed to be creating: Every
answer was delivered in leisurely
fashion. His English is perfect, with
out suggestion of dialect or slang.
"Have the events of last year af-
fected your welfare?" he was asked.
"They have hurt me, undoubtedly"
''In what way?"
''Well, they just hurt"
1t was when Beauvais was asked if
he intended to go back to the woods
that he started to talk in connected
fashion. His enthusiasm for the sim
pie life got the better of him and he
launched into a graphic description of
northern skies, the animal life of the
wilds, the thrill of capture.
mo man can tell his future" he
said, refectively. "Do you know what
you are going to do next? l cannot
say that l am going back to the woods.
l love them of course. don't know
every inch of the woods in Quebec, but
know great part of them and | revel
in the SPORT particularly the hunting
and fishing | really believe that peo-
pie lead simpler lives and are happier
in the woods. New York men and
women see so many things and do so
many, things that they are sated and
grow discontented. They are never
satisfied. In the. woods people live
simple lives, and that is all they have.
like the woods of New York equally
we'll. I am as much at home at the
club as am in sporting togs. 1t all
depends on the time and place, of
course. People living in the woods
rarely get out into civilization, because
they have neither the ambition nor
the intelligence to better hemselves."
Asked if it were true that he was
very fond of the stillman children
Beauvais first paled and grew red.
There was long pause while he
shifted in his chair, lost his self
possession for the first time in the
course of the interview and finally
blurtcd out in embarrassed fashion.
Repeats Charges Are False
s"Not only the Stillman .children
What real man doesn't like children ?
All over the country l have met chill
dren and liked them"
When one of the reporters suggested
that a sinister Interpretation might be
put on this remark, the guide shook
his head, and smiling, rather wanly
said:
II said before the charges against
Mrs. Stillman are absolutely false. But
as you know am playing a silent
game"
Turning the talk abruptly into an
other channel, Beauvais launched
forth on the description of trip he
made to Grand Anse not long ago and
. his passionate love Of the woods. He
is trying to put his love of the wilds
into words in the shape of magazine
article, he said. 1t is not completed
yet. but in it he is endeavoring to
teach the lore of the woods that he
has acquired in lifetime> of guiding