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Show Donlanger and Mine. X Chicago News. St. Hkliees, Jersey, Oct; 15. It is now au open secret that the Mine. X of the "Byways of Boulangerisra," whose identity was for a long time a subject of curious speculation, is a Mme. de Bonne-Main, who inherited not very long ago a sum of 5,000,000 francs, in which, however, she is said to. have only a life Interest. Hence it is obvious that it is she who provides the luxury of St. Brelade's villa. In appearance Mme. de Bonne-Main is a woman of 85 or 38 years, a little inclined in-clined to stoutness, becomingly and somewhat elaborately dressed, but with a certain air of the grande dame about her. The whole ground floor suite of apartments, too, at the villa is furnished in excellent taste, and bears evident signs of the hand of a woman of the world in its arrangement. During the first months of the general's tenure of office he led the fast life of a gay bachelor. bach-elor. Suddenly, and for the first time, he fell under the fascinations of a clever ferame du ruonde of good social position, posi-tion, and according to all accounts has remained her devoted slave ever since. After the Boulanger-Flouquet duel it was Mme. de Bonne-Main, not Mme. Boulanger, who hurried to the bedside of the wounded soldier and nursed him through his days of convalescence, and this proof of affection naturally fanned the flame of the general's passion. Thus once more the old saying of "cherchei la femme" has proved itself true and the fortunes ot France, have once again been largely dependent on the accidents of illicit love. It is not too much to suppose that the fear of separation from Mme. de Bonne-Main was a most powerful factor in the general's gen-eral's decision fatal to his career to flee into exile rather than face the verdict ver-dict of a court of law. - v " f.t " . . ' |