Christine made a last
effort to detach him, but the call of his masterpiece was too strong,
and one morning she found him hanging in front of the picture, dead. She
fell on the floor in a faint, and lay there to all appearance as dead as
her husband, both of them crushed by the sovereignty of art. L'Oeuvre.
HAMELIN (CAROLINE), sister of Georges Hamelin, accompanied him to Paris
after the death of their father. She took a situation as governess, and
soon after married a millionaire brewer in whose house she was employed.
After a few years of married life, she was obliged to apply for a
separation in order to avoid being killed by her husband, a drunkard
who pursued her with a knife in fits of insane jealousy. Living with
her brother, in the flat of the Orviedo mansion above that occupied by
Saccard, she made the acquaintance of the latter, becoming after a time
his housekeeper and subsequently his mistress. During the absence of her
brother in the East, after the foundation of the Universal Bank, she
did everything she could to protect his interests, and tried to persuade
Saccard to discontinue the gambling in the shares of the bank which
ultimately led to its ruin.
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