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Show I a' FAIR SMUGGLER i tHE DEALT IN CONTRABAND BE-CAUSE BE-CAUSE OF THE EXCITEMENT. Hat Many Thrilling Brushes with the Exele Officers on the Frontier ef Switzerland, But Never Lose Her Nerve. Alihoueh the world novur moved fuller ihan 11 doeH nl tho Ireaet time. ire ,0 some Is MM Incklng In excite-Lnt excite-Lnt and variety. To a certnln Mdlle. Marine IUc. who was young, beautiful beauti-ful and rich, the quietness of her homo l(e at Urlye. a small frontier vlltago of Switzerland, had becomo unbearable unbeara-ble The mountain scenery bored her; nd even the exhilaration of dashing along dnngcroiis highways In her 40-horao 40-horao power motor car at breakneck .oeed had begun to pall. Somothlng nyist be dono. Mdlle. Itoyo decided to nSd excitement to her life. Then n thrilling )lan nrose In her mind. Tobacco To-bacco saccharin and snuff were cheap enough to buy in Geneva. Away across IhP frontier In Hnuto 8avole ,ucb luxuries were dear. Visions, no doubt, of tales of smuggling arose In her thoughts and ndded picturesque-nets picturesque-nets to tho Idea. At nny rate, within few days of tho first conception of the plan Mdlle. Itoyo had equipped her-telf her-telf for tho enterprise. Snugly Btored In her powerful car sho had placed many pounds of tobacco, whilst boxes of muff and unccharln completed tho cargo. The right and wrong of tho exploit had not escaped madcmolscllo'a mind, If mccessful, she realized her profit would bo great; so sho satisfied her eontclcnce by determining that all her profits should bo given to tho poor. One dark night, driven by her elderly elder-ly and experienced chauffeur, Mile. Ileje hct out on her first Journey across the frontier. Tho coldness of the night thrilled her; and tho excitement excite-ment grew Intense as, letting tho car go, the chauffeur dashed by tho French excise outpost, and n little Inter In-ter drew up In Hnuto Snvoln. Kor pome tlmo madcmolscllo made her imuggllng expeditions across the f . frontier with Impunity. Only once, so far hail the excitement grown a 'little mora Intense than sho had desired. Then It was that the excise authorities, authori-ties, their alertness heightened by being be-ing repeatedly baulked by tho car, had managed to get in closo pursuit. Mademoiselle Ma-demoiselle had heard tho crack of their rifle, but tho old chauffeur hnd mahagrd to reach tho shelter of Haute Savole safely. tint, misfortune was In storo for the pretty smuggler. Her chauffeur fell III, and perforce she was compelled to engage nnother, less experienced and resourceful, So It happened that on the second trip with tho now driver, the customs officers captured tho car. Mile. Hoye. attired In tho latest Paris costume ,ameu on (liem Plained laughingly. . ,he customs of nclals overhauled the car and fast dls-l"ZZlVl dls-l"ZZlVl Vh conl"l"l burden ed the pretty smuggler only smiled S3?T.i b""a" ' " " m la a Mile. Reye, Attired In the Latest Paris Cottume, Beamed on Them Unper. turbed. many pages. Let It sufflco to say that far from putting an end to her wild rides across tho frontlor, capture by tho authorities only added to her zest for tho sport. A fow weeks later sho was again captured red-handed, ngnln laughed and Joked, and again nonchalantly paid tho now doubly Increased In-creased line. Hut thlH tlmo sho was warned that If caught again her car would be confiscated. |