ll 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. Like her brother, she sold all her shares in
the bank, and after the final crash divested herself of all her means in
the assistance of ruined shareholders. She followed her brother in his
flight to Rome. L'Argent.

HAMELIN (GEORGES), son of a Montpellier physician, a remarkable savant,
an enthusiastic Catholic, who had died poor. After his father's death
he came to Paris, along with his sister Caroline, and entered the
Polytechnic school. He became an engineer, and having received
an appointment in connection with the Suez Canal, went to Egypt.
Subsequently he went to Syria, where he remained some years, laying out
a carriage road from Beyrout to Damascus. He was an enthusiast, and
his portfolio was full of schemes of far-reaching magnitude. Having met
Saccard in Paris, he joined with him in the formation of the Universal
Bank, which was intended to furnish the means of carrying out some at
least of his schemes. Against his wish, Hamelin was made chairman of the
bank, and he thus became liable for the actions of the other directors,
though he was himself absent in the East forming the companies in which
the bank was interested. He was a man of high honour, and when the
gamble in the shares of the bank reached an excessive point, he did all
he could to restrain it, even selling his own shares. The money received
for these was subsequently used in relieving other shareholders who lost
their all. When the crash came, Hamelin was arrested along with Saccard,
and, after