The Washington times., 1922-10-18
GAMBLER
COURTED
/ BY CABLE
Letters and Postcards Fre-
quent While New Orleans
Beauty Was in Europe.

HucfIt Vnh6 NEW OTledtIS
Beauty Was in Europe.
oNEZIMA DE BOUCHELLE'S
own story as told to Martha Ran
dolph, Of the Atlanta Georgian:
Copyright. ls?2. by Cosmopolitan News
-, service.)
tcepyright 1891. by the Georgian Com
pany).
(AI rights reserved)
CHAPTER Nv.
ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 49,
When I left Atlanta after the
Confederate Reunion of 1919 l
had no thought Of Asa G. Gambler
than had become pleasantly ac-
auainted with a gentleman who is
= rather famous in our section of
the land. I planned to spend sew
eral weeks in New York
preparatory to sailing with the
American delegates to the Inter-
national Suffrage Congress at
Geneva, among whom were some
Of the most distinguished women
Of our nation, hardly likely to
accept into full companionship u
woman as notorious, as the
Gambler family has painted me.
Imagine my surprise, though,
when / reached New York to find
letter from Mr.. Gambler almost
as soon as | arrived. Remember
! was still the wife of Dr.. Adolph
Rocquet. Still there was nothing
In Mr.. Gamblers letter that indi-
Gated that he did not recognize
this fact. 1t was just a cordial,
friendly message.
- Gambler Cabled Her.
L spent several months in Europe
that year and Mr.. Gambler wrote me
repeatedly during my trip. He
even sent me several cablegrams.
l am quite sure my correspondence
to him was confined to the usual
tourist picture post cards, that any
Nonc who chose might read.
I His letters remained friendly and
fatherly. There was no hint that
/ romance had leaped into his old
age. My first animation that his
regard for me was other than purely
friendly came on my return to
America as the big liner was dock.
ing in New York, the first person
saw at the foot Of the gangplank
was Asa G. Gambler, waving gaily
to me.
He called on. me in New York and
though he observed all the pro-
prieties, my womanly intuition told
me that he was smitten and there
could be no mistake about 1t. His
efforts to shake off the years that
intervened between us were ap-
parent, because they were more or
less successful.
I remained in New York but q
few days before returning to my
home in New Orleans. There I
found that bad matters had become
worse. DR.. Rocquet had been play
ing the cotton market with the usual
result and my property had suffered
tremendously. This would not have
the fact that while he was flinging
away my money. another woman
was being made the beneficiary.
New Orleans was full Of gossip
concerning DR.. Rocquet and a
rather flashy and vivacious little
beauty who was o favored enter.
tainer In q carbaret
On to Reno.
That girl was frequently seen
with DR.. Rocquet in my own car.
,,Sometimes my own chaffeur was
used as q driver. All too often,
my husband was both driver and
escort.
I determined to be freed Of DR..
Rocquet. I have been criticised for
this determination. for It was op-
posed by the canons Of my church.
To tell the truth, I have never
been essentially a churchwoman. I
believed that my further life with Dr.
Rocquet would have been violative of
the canons Of decency. and therefore,
I was entirely willing to defy the
canons Of the church.
I wished to obtain my decree with
a. little publicity as possible. and so
decided on establishing a residence
in Reno. Understand that Mr.. Cand-
Ter had no part in this divorce pro.
ceeding. He was not consulted. He
did not advise It, ! may have men,
toned my plan to him, but / did not
do 30 either for his approval or dis.
approval.
My residence in Reno was estab.
.lished In December, 1920. and from
then on I have lived life Of prac.
4 tical isolation.
At Lake Tahoe.
I saw nothing of Mr.. Gambler until
' the following summer. During June
] made a trip to Lake Tahoe, in Cali.
fornia and Mr.. Gambler came to see
me. There was then no question Of
his purpose. He was there as suitor
for my hand. He did not propose
marriage at that time, but there was
no doubt about his ardor. He told
me Of his lonesome life in Atlanta,
of his early struggles and his bril-.
liant achievement He took a great
and abiding pride in the fact that
Immediately after the civil war he
came, into Atlanta and walked the
streets, blocks Of which he now owns,
while looking for q Job that would
stye him shelter. He narrated how
he had at last obtained a place in a
,,.tf. y,harYnacy. and, how IN save