The Washington times., 1922-10-01
concluded from Last Sunday

Concluded from Last Sunday
tc) 1921 Weekly Great Britain Rights Reserved
n RY readers will understand from the last quoted
M testimony that tortured with anxiety
Avn by the ordeal to which my daughter was sub
jected.
With supreme courage my Paulette told the
plete truth and bravely withstood the attempts to
lure her to any false words-and yet few days
later impusively, she asserted that had slain M.
Bessarabo!
Had been permitted to say all knew and call
all the witnesses wished, the case would have ap
peared very different.
The facts which know concerning my unhappy
husbands disappearance that July 30 about
IL 80 at night he arrived at the house-he had not
come in to dinner. AS he pulled some evening news
papers from his pocket letter written by Mile.
Nollot one of his girl secretaries and of his mis-
tresses fell to the ground There was naturally
violent scene when again Ireproached him with his
infdelity. Then to my surprise he suddenly burst
into tears and knet down at my feet.
"Hera, Hera," he said, forgive me just this
more and swear to turn over a new leaf. l am
going to cut away from all my bad associates, who
have been leading me astray and making you miSer
able. have reflected very carefully. Tomorrow
morning we will 60 to our little villa at Montmorency
and there will stay together for several weeks.
1t will be another honeymoon. And am going to
drop all these shady affairs into which have been
enticed Lock up all the papers concerning them in
the old trunk, and will go through them at Mont
morency and burn all those that are not needful,"
Hopeful once again, allowed myself to be
v1nced and we made it up. Next morning NJ.
Bessarabo did not stay with us, he had intended,
but went out early, because he said that he had for
gotten rendezvous. Meanwhile Paue and packed
the dosses of business dealings away in the old box
and then called for the hall porter to help to
cord it up. 1t was, l must remark, open when the
hall porter came upstairs. He then carried it down
to our cab, with some other luggage. We drove to
the Care du Nord, where M. Bessarabo was to have
met US. He was not there. l then thought that
perhaps yesterdays scene had been another comedy
and that after all he meeting Mile Nollot at the
Care de Lyon. 1t took me but minute to decide
to go there, and off we bumped in the taxicab.
He not there, and so again across the streets
of Paris to the Care du Nord There found
my husband waiting for us. He very angry at us
for having kept him waiting, and was extremely curt
in his remarks. He told us to get out and wait for
him. and getting into the cab again, drove off with
it and the big trunk.
Don't worry" he said as he left US. Il will be
back in about an hour So"
Surely enough in an hour the cab rolled up to the
station again. and there on it was the box, but M.
Bessarabo was not there. The driver of the cab
brought with him note in my husbands handwrit-
ing, telling us to take the trunk and register it
through to Nancy railway station.
At Montm0renCy, in our little villa, we waited
hour by hour for my husband to come, and he never
turned up. At first / thought that he had gone
back to one Of his many mistresses. But it not