68TH YEAR RICHMOND, VA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20,1918. l'RICE, SEVEN CENTS

subject of coiivcr.su t ion ,turncic! in .! Kit tachcd to all foreign military, naval and women would be tried. In case one a crrave tone that at last he ha the Fatherland ami Ko Ih:tt he wo;iM not ho in haste to Life for Ottille to dca.1 with the Story of subject, unGermany's Greatest Woman or perhaps the day after. In to-moirow|the mean- espionage. already spent on True to his word, sharp ;it 0 In tho Spy time, .1 have a very important Sho look me. evening Captain l.vov Molikof present- engage- great pride In telling mc "And how many foreign agents must '¦>1 hiin.-'If at 1 w^ts ment for you tu exhibit your dances about bur many osp mane adventures 1 >orothoenntrasso. As ho ihis 1 kill during tho venture?" I asked w;ts ushered t._> my rooms I stood at is&'srC"1-^-¦ evening-" , , ami listened to her hearless tales THRILLING STORY OF LOVE AND ADVENTURE. "I am with laughingly. Hie top of the stairs and ,-k. very glad for that. I'lease of , greeted him v-' .. ass, feellngn contempt ami destestaf.on. "Not one. not .. as lie tell me where this affair will tuKu Otto day 1 said to her: "Ottille. Kate one: you have notlut.t, though was my beloved, anil that »»-«««>. place?" 1 inquired cast to do with violence." I had ii. ? t s -en him for so loot;, Tho On October lf>, nix ^^r'avxsa! exultantly. us together arid I will tolerate "Then there is blonde still 1917, exactly miriuteH before sunrise. Mata Hari, the ;,{& "He patient, you shall learn it all you as long as I must, but 1 shall hate to be violence: I in¬ Russian, unsutypect ing. ac¬ beautiful and fascinating dancer, was shot the a terjected cepted my attitude as natural, and re¬ martial l»y order of French court- presently.*" ho admonished me in a you heartily when I am in a position excitedly." for having betrayed French and British secrets into the hands of fatherly demeanor. "At 7- to do "That depends. Hut your part is in¬ sponded to my reception ol" him gal¬ the Germans. She was Roentgen- .so." To tills she answered non¬ lantly, and ho v. found guilty of treason against the country. s^iss graustrasse. in a beautiful hall nearly chalantly: "Come! come! child, tricate. and if you keep full possession ing low kissed my hand France.which had once idolized her; she paid the grand ks 100 men and women of rank you of your wits you will fetch the twice. For a second or so I'umethini; French penalty, Besides high will are still a bit excited, I advise you to prize. within m.- betraying secrets, site also secured many vitr.l British naval for . be wailing to witness your rest k a said the baron. Then he began to map protested against tho v-ry which she communicated to secrets, t._ .rta.,', aiE: interpre¬ while; little more sleep, then (.lit | small part I was assigned to her employers.the German Foreign Intelli¬ 'oll°»'""-- tation of the lluddn U rites. 1 here you will become normal." She had a the plan whereby 1 was to bring the in perform gence Bureau. inwrntnK- will be Uussian Tsar's to the tragedy, Put I instantly brushed Th""VwrVr.V".' present to-.-..ght. at that dis- way of ridiculing me that always made special messenger the aside such a tlnguished gathering, men ex- me President of Franco to Dorotheen- sentiment. «b*Vh -si 1 holding feci foolish after such outbursts on "V ou must 1;now, my dear captain, alted positions in the s. r\u:e ot the my part. strasse. The Russian messenger was o/i my return homo I IIY MATA HAHI. i Copyrighted. i !. atherland!" at 11 in the carrving an autograph letter addressed found my mother , . Sharp morning Baron hail left I'dKcd l»y \nzurlcnr Dnuii , . for Rngiand for a v-rv short KnnnibHie. | 1 nfrrnntIoiimI .\rnit Iliirrnu. r.^>rwrvWf»»"«»-favorlle A feeling of childish pride rept into StelnbroucK arrived at Dorothcnstrusse to the Czar to the French President, visit, here i «>f and am ll alcri" wit"; His Majesty IIiVk riSc re''in1 tnv whole svstem ami I fe.t liko shout¬ and began to tell mo how valuable tlio outlining Russia's military position faithful my ing loudiv with the maid." I told the Russian aa The day of execution Ih joy. Now. many years high bureau chiefs held inc. They con- along Herman frontier: giving coipiettlshly as I could. my set. the hou.iij. When I was within flv "aro.n Stein- afterwards, sitting in my ceti in the giatulated the baron for suc¬ v.timbers of the stationed Within a few weeks the From!) will fcot or brouckssssS&b^&sis lti-iiit ii7 having troops uloni? "I do hope that nothing serious hn3 him I Hashed the fr shadow of death by 1 look the frontier mo weapon, antl execution, ceeded in impressing me Into the ser¬ and telling in detail necessitated your to stand against the wail of my prison, aiming at I ba«-k to that and see about) mother visit Kng- and him, shouted: "You fiend day how. sat in- vice of the fatherland. "To-morrow Russia's naval and political program. lam;." said tho Russian svrnpathetl- blindfolded, make me pay the you killed rny child." liU like. Baron had templed the Kaiser himself will hear of you This information has been supplie.. i.mI Krand penalty. 1 have no On representatives liuro n i Jl . . me Stelnbrduj'k to; ly. bitter fuel¬ seeing the muzzle " from one stage ot sin to another. from own 1 th~ German ing against of my revolve was my lips. shall tell hss Foreign Intelligence l.u- or my executioners. he BUddcnly turned to stone fear happy that such a LrJa.°L*U man hadv \ Had 1 the chance once note to live majesty what great are jeau through at the Why should 1? He with appreciated -iri inv possibilities Germany's agents KNTH T,J> TO SI'ITER To knew I would make good my threat my life over, would I listen to the within" the ren-h of the fatherland Czar's own palace. Hut these agents. me life was sport, arid 1 played In a voice full of ". ""¦ modern Imeifer again? I with a divine and while aware In ten minutes Ottllle it with full supremo agony h Candidly. charming countess that such a message had tliat announced consciousness of the con- cried: "Oh, lady. lady! have rnerev 01 n,TScha,"d'" u,Z""'LJ ZT cannot answer that question truthfully like you working for our intelllirenco been penned by the Czar to tlio French Uf supper was ready. She stood sequences. My English husband used my innocent and say that I would do otherwise. Of 1 at tho threshold of the door, fee¬ to r "The reward of sin is death." And I shot him in the chest. He fell uead not. very likely 1 would not. I have self do not know your own value. With lull contents. j purposely placed opposi.. where he sinned and wondered but iliiii been led to sin suoii a siow* \ was expected to sii without the Rus¬ tho recklessly why my anger was not yet soothed. ";r,;iff«j£':,rhors hr by process women like you on our side, yes. in "It is highly important that we should sian reward was so lone postponed. stood over his dead and and e:tcli time these sins have been so our employment, we are in a know what the Czar h..a seeing her, she sudd. n!v .-!¦ ;>p>d Hut now body emptied position written to back and to me to that that long-promised re¬ i the chambers of rny revolver over his £« pleasing and beautiful thai I some¬ to read every move of every govern¬ the French President. Such a knowl¬ beckoned P-nvo' tho .rKl? room ward for a is at last at hand I will tell my now prostrate body. Of course, I was times, even now, feel thai death is not ment In Europe.military, na^al. edge might avert a minute. I apologized to ! too a polit¬ military 'he Russian ami left th" whole story, and If 1 fail to tell it all. immediately put under but in ; high price to pay for the adven- ical. commercial, financial and indus¬ for tho fatherland in the disaster) room, and It in not with j arrest, tures that 1 have coining al- found Ottilia highly agitated. She aid intention that I shall month my husband's high position se¬ experienced. Hut trial." The baron was on his knees llgnment of nations in the liel.i of bat- t he hide * ^ to ro to Berlin° 1 win again. I could have Russian would inxtantlv j j any Incidents of my life; it is cured my and the was f . enjoyeu innocent kissing my hands again and gniso release, matter again. her. and would at om.e >. i i because the siius 1 have committed hushed up and never appeared in the experiences and lived a happy, iionor- "lint I'.aroii Steinbrouck. I am not a '-And what part must I take in steal- su- tho spread a able and lif* had I house. lie most not see her. Sbe rni;-t through period of long years, Indian newspapers. Yet I know that long taken a con¬ countess!" I exclaimed. in« the Czar's letter?" I asked itnpa- sul'stltue anoi and some of them I even HKCIll iriX.; ,y trary course during my early "I still that are her"mah'" in her place, have forgotten. to-day. there are men and women liKH TnB I days, But Insist you a tiently. (Utilie had been a I was born in the exact month in a certain OK THE away with meditations. It is too late. ess. "the countess of Llndeo!" liecount-j , ,, . secret ag< lit of <;. r- 1880. city of *Burma who still KAISER pro- "Vou shall know it presently. I many in the Czar's for a and day I do not know. was the For . Mv fate Is sealed. duced a bunch of piilaco whole My father remember tragedy. U H°rr »®rnhardt finely engraved cards, have made every preparation. I am year, and was es¬ a Dutch trader who had settled in his and , lMtESKNI Kl> TO TUK KAISKlt be.iriiiK the name which he the finally suspected and Although my husband's high position h|}f wife Talked* IX THK persisted manager of the drama, and you caped from Russia Willi her life. Had early youth In Java. He married my was able to secuie my not SKCIIKT 1IAI.Ii that j.liall be my name from that time are the actor. Vou follow instruc¬ t ie release, The affair at 72 on. my Russians succeeded in capturing mother, u beautiful native Malay of an even the Viceroy of Indian himself conversation KoeniKengraUstrasse tion and we will get in possession of her, she would have .1 was a fairv dream. 1 danced for hours BECOMES A been shot as a eccentric Buddhi3t. cult. My father could permit me to remain in India. that I fr," .}.,.' firwt1 I!m° b'~«n lo see COI'XTKSS the Czar's letter. sp.v in the palace. died before I was old to know The 'h.-irr !n! restrAJt ! before a brilliant audience that daz¬ TO Kl'ltTIIER WOltK. "We are informed enough authorities gave my husband just in me was other " zled by our agents at Served a him. My mother always spoke of him two months in which to have me sent of my youthful eyes, and 1 danced on "But someone might know the own- St. Petersburg that the mes¬ by substitute maid, the Rus- .y «lan,-C8. a flower-covered stage, amidst or. the owner of Imperial and I linlshed suit>i»r and with respect, but one of the priests in away from British India. It fills in" T»^.iW"'rC"i:i,lon manner the ap- rightful that name senger will reach by way of j.ianto returned the "f preclatlve applauses of and expose me as a grand I Paris, my room, where I resorted to temple told me once that he had with remorse even now when I think showhij'"mo hi«l'pv?:'- distinquished Imposter. Posen and Berlin. To-night you start every livingartifice so deserted her I now ho to the personages until I was intoxicated with can not use that name, impossible." for Posen. You will engaire iiim long before was born. My tried change dictum of supreme After the 1 reach there on enough to permit the agents mother, upon my father's death, took the authorities. He could not. Ho joy. performance. replied. Saturday morning. It is all arranged baron to of the me to 1 was introduced to many members or "My child, ho patient, I shall explain that on s"-\rch his lut.tr-,go at 1 !s her people, and there in my iri- j loved me, yet he could not give up his mv it to account of an accident occur- the baron fanthocd I was and India audience, who bowed low and vied you presently. Count Linden was lng to the there a , '''jtir.lly hail decided brought up In the Budd¬ position leave along with n with each other in an old locomotive, will he that (he letter of tho Czar was on tho hist religion. When I was I would havu deserted him even if li.j telling me how traveller and some thirty years rearrangement of the train the ] eight years beautiful 1 was and how divine was my ago he sold all his landed estates in bearing person of the imperial messenger Tho old she took me to her people and to had. tli»> imperial compartment assigned to the telephone l.e'l ransr. an.I I a l)i:»KHTS IIHit interpretation of these oriental rites. Fatherland, and settled In some f'zar's messenger, which will be know that Buddhist temple and offered me for I1AHONKT | It was very late at when part of Java. He died unmarried next It was he who Wished to give iustruc- celibacy. IILSIIAM) AT I/A ST .MOMENT night Huron and to yours. Hons in < utilie. ... Sieinbrouck felt rne without , I compelled to tear relatives. You are his daugh¬ t Kron) the age of elsht till twelve I When realized that 1 must leave from the admiring men and ter from a native OllDKItKI) TO STKAIi LETTISH utilie then madn her appearance at was trained in the Uuddhist and India. I began to make my plans for Raiser women and mother, who was tho I'ltOM ( ZAIl TO tn»» door, and. rites, ... take me back to my room at 42 Doro- daughter of a high priest in one of I'UKSIDEXT finding me sitting too on attaining the age of at my future career and where to take up than that 1 »hni.i-i in Berlin as "On being assigned to near the Russian maturity the innovator of ,. n""c,nr theenstrasse. On reaching the en- the Buddhist temple. If anyone dares your compart- motioned me -»» un- twelve, I took part for th<» lirst time rny future residence. I gathered to¬ to inent, you will at once assume a ter- - 1 made an excuse ! trance at No. 42. the baron took me in annoy you with interrogations this «. i?r , and in the festival dance. 1 danced so well gether all my Jewelry, and, taking all his arms and carried rne story will be rible rage. You will revile the C.er- walked further away from nrnl cash.about advan- upstairs to amnio. In tho meantime man ' him, during that festival that the high prle.-t the £55(1.taking th<» second floor, so exhausted 1 was. yon are the countess of Linden. And railroad system and will denounce ,roely turned round a/ra'n of the tctntjle selected me tage of my husband's absence on an im- with the German people in the 8aw Ottilia rush into especially "Kreulein Mata Ilarl. you will be that name you will have free en¬ strongest ... r»\ the room and - for training in higher rite3. portant mission to the north of Burma, too tired to start studies to- trance into grade of language you choose. Bu't remember. j throw at the Rus inn's face ir 1;» I a your any foreign my The In my fourteenth year 1 was selected took my little girl and under false I morrow, we must postpone them until society. Lo I make myself plain?" dear Mnta llari. your bitterness 'i'I l"1'.!"'" Russian dropped sud- to ta'o^tn^7srt^1 i the tlav after. be- finished tho baron against everything pertaining to the anoc:unAmsterdam and loft my lit¬ against the English. together. However. with the smiling wrinkles, must make this scene lit natives, hundreds of Europeans and straight before I com®, to you I shall make confident satisfaction that he 'After good French. hi'"' V-OU'Ve kl1110,1 Eurasians (offspring of |ulxftd races) tle girl in a convent, leaving all my C!);,rrn'ntf. you other visits of to had Impressed mo with his this eloquent denounciatlon of MmV!"UIVcr(edIed are* wol'f ?n telling you several of completely "He . attended as spectators, and among Jewelry with the convent authorities v'rsH our bureau chiefs. Pleasant dreams! ingenous scheme. I saw in his'a replica everything German, you will be waited calm: lie is n- d«ad: h« vill as for child's care. Then of one of upon by porters, train only sleep sound for them was an English oflirer. tall, hand¬ payment my Bowing very low, the baron kissed my the priests in tho Buddhist other otfloials and and an hour or no" some. soldierly, and. above all. honor¬ 1 journeyed to Paris. <»i Paris I heard, hand and left. temple, who, on removing one of his servants who will every saying this she started to search and of Paris I had dreamed. On many fellow effort to apirease your make_ Ms ody for the able. At the end of the festival this I was too excited to go to sloop priests from the confines of the not like rage. You do letter. Kor about English officer made many visits to the Mccasions my husband's friends, and very soon. At the temple by the simple process of the accommodation given to teen minutes she looked at evorv told me how Paris height of my him stab-j you and you will par. of the temple and was welcome there a- he once he himself, hail "."? "»««" dreams, while lying in my bed. ex¬ bing with a dagger, had aroused persist that the com¬ Russian's gh rmf-nts, but without a^ntl would rave over me should 1 exhibit x:'-voT,"vji1*,11 hausted with a feeling of distrust and partment assigned to you Is not lit for nothing ^ould she find. Fpent money BtSnt brought joyful triumph, a certain repulsion the a Then she took to are my Buddhist dances in one of the many cold chill within my childish breast. His commonest workman. at fountain pen from his re¬ many presents the priests, who every few minutes crept over of smile the end, you will Finally, moved pocket always poor. artistic theaters. On reaching Paris, my body. Several times on satisfaction while standing over his go hysterical and the top and gave a shout of I communicated with the Dutch au¬ I closing my victim from whose threaten to thrash the servants the satisfaction. The One dav, about two weeks after tlie , eyes was rudely awakened by soul miserable body the railroad ipf pen was unusuallv festival had 1 was summoned thorities regarding the fortune ray Imaginary sounds. I 1 heard was slowly departing was so system. These will be the la.rtre and thick. So thick that she (tided. father had left me, which, under the my child thought similar to the Baron's sr.iile agents of our espionage system and cou. d easily stick her h- the high priest of the temple and crying. Toward morning i could not that I every one of little linger Into to the He Dutch law. would pass to my child. saw my husband in help showing, a them have a special fnnc- Us fountain. She pulled out a roll of presented English olhcer- I have never seen my dreams. He feeling of temporarily, tlon to perform and | was the first Europesin I had ever been Since I left Burma stood before my bed as lie used to deep repulsion against this well therefore will know i paper and nervously enrolled It. It rny husband. How he would grieve ».«. -ss-vx "-vr;r.' stand before me when German priest of their part in the plan. In all was a sealed near enough to speak to. Ohi how it hear -fr"' 1 had been cotn- Steinbrouck espionage. Baron probability the envelope and the letter over faio if lie should noticed special thrilled me when this mighty-looking my present .-no milting Indiscretions, and said to me his my disopproval of the Czar will messenger of Inside was of very th'n parehment- man in his full of it. and I have no doubt he has al¬ .,.vr'-1f. j?»» jn!;; in a grave tone: "Mata the plans and suddenly changing his sympathize with you and like paper. It was written «>n uniform bowed low ami rne. agree to t;o to Berlin?" 'of sin llari, wages facial will try to appease four kissed my hand. 1 felt transformed in ready heard what has befallen are death!" expression he again pointed a your rage." loner strips of naner about s'xfeon In¬ arrival in Paris I what aliotit my dance?" T asked I could not I glorious future before ine At this po!i)t Baron that Instant to a goddess of love. I Soon after my ;;TJut\ ou to j sleep. rang for Ottilie. when the Stclnbrouck pro¬ ches long and live Inches -vide. to.ik stock of cash and suddenly promise ^o to Berlin I who rushed to room in world would rage over nv.- duced a batch of typed sheets and After was surprised when he addressed me my can assure you that you shall have my her night when tho dancing and to me read again admonishing me to re¬ became on realizing that robe. "Ottilie. I cannot sleep; royalties of Kurone would these remarks about the personal main calm she rushed out in Javanese and spoke the native lan¬ fear-strick^i in ho opportunity to appear in the host me a bring worship me. 1 must characteristics of of the rooiu a I re¬ I had only two pounds left my glass of wine." 1 cried in despair. confess th-it when¬ the Imperial messen¬ and in a few moments she was guage like native priest. still fear as dis¬ :i roall>' large saiarv." . "You are ever the baron resorted to ger. "Lvov back member his first words. He said. pocket. But this suddenly a', highly excited; try to be of this way Melikof: he la Incorruptible. with them. She put the strips of pa nor for the moment when I re¬ Duringr>uHnl^°»7'the dinner the tisron ex- calm," she said in a tempting me he was successful, for Hates Germany and the German hack in the .Charming goddess, I have come to appeared ained what a splendid he while she motherly tone, I was a your t peo¬ thin envelope and returned I membered what my husband had said proposition handed me the glass of wine. Oriental and mv oarlv ple Intensely. Ts Anglophile. Speaks the letter back into th.? worship you." He was a baronet how Paris would .l»f) how I had promised Ottille me two more education in .the was many fountain nen fell In love with He visited the about my dances and toAM?"eumcfollow his of brought glasses lust and temple based on languages fluently, among thorn and placed the pen in the Russian's him. race over me. advice. Both Herr Hern- ! wine, and when I drank the third pomp, French, German, vest t*-mple everv day for one month, and hanit and his wife approved of it fcn- glass I began to "Whit about English, Italian and pocket. Then she told me to The next day 1 visited nearly every grow still more rest- my studies, my dear Spanish. Has a brother in Uuriua. a leave the room, and as I to do final:/ one day. with his assistance. I in Paris and every- "' During the dinner and less, and ordered her out of the room. baron?" I inquired. naturalized started went to Burma with theatrical manager hri more In an "You are Englander. Heroic and so the . door hell rang and the baron escaped and him. where I was face to face with a de¬ Mu^hours after dinner thev instant I took a terrible dislike not rested yet, a few davs fearless; a I w here he held a high ofllcial position, filledr.ii . me with and a to her and longer then formerly captain of the entered excitedly. I heard him inquire mand for previous engagement certifi¬ praise pictured wanted to whip her. I you will be in a better con¬ guards. Intensely impulsive and reck¬ of Ottilic if sho found and where 1 married him under < hris- cates. I that I was brought new world before me that hypnotized hated her, and her very smile seemed dition, mentally, to start less at times. the 1 -tier, and told them r to me your many Age, thirty-two. Medl- > on being told hv her that the tian rites. at a Buddhist that rny spe¬ n-anV years afterwards. finnUv malicious and full of studies. To-day I go to his letter up temple, rareor in this The And In treachery. and majestv jum-sized. but powerful; smooth-faced: had already been and >1A It It IK I) K.VUMS1I (IKI-HKIl cialty was the interpretations of Ori¬ ending my prison. finally the intervals between report my recer.t work in England. complexion is light, almost the photographed AT THE AUK OK I'll- ri-.EN rites and that I was baron then offered me £50 as a retainer horrible night-mares I snatched a lit¬ You see. Frauleln Mata relatives blond. Oiher original returned to the person «sf ental religious tle and was Harl. our espi¬ unknown. Said to be a Can- the Czar's he an Oriental religious dancer. My ex¬ WHO Aim THESE Iirxs sleep, wide awake at 7 onage system is a casion messenger, shouted ex¬ He was about twenty-five years of o'clock in the morning. I ordered ization. undergoing reorgan¬ Tartar. Orthodox religion an i ultantly and shook hands with Ottille age. while 1 was fifteen. lie planations in every case amused and WHO I'HOVIiilSD FOR HER* Ottilie to Heretofore we have been la¬ nearly fanatic: and and scarcely amazed the managers and some sar¬ serve breakfast in my sitting boring under the old gallant extremely superstitious; again again kissed my hand. treatc-d me as his equal and always a«l- B-it who were these people? Herr room method; since tho and very fond of women!" The castically, others sympathetically, re¬ and at Lon- and dressed in haste. last two years, under xny baron read out WHAT wii.i, v»r no vlsed me like a good father. 1 kn> w Bernhardt his wife lived IJOHOTHK I'.X STH A S S12 W11 we are supervision, these remarks In a not the ways of Europeans, and m> fused me a chance to demonstrate my ilon as theatrical booking apenis and Kit K installing a new system. Tho j jubilant voice: WITH Tin: MAN'S llflDY art. After my attempts to of Baron IJASTAKDI.Y 1*1.ANS AKH T.AIO London hooking agent, that "But what are many acts, although without guile, oc¬ repealing worked under the direction But what is this No. 42 tleman who klndlv gen¬ "Now. my dear Frauleln Mala ITa'rI." you going to do with casioned constant admonitions on the secure a theatrical engagement for two Stoinbrouck. one of the chiefs of the I>orotheen- sent you to our faithful "The Countess of him?" I asked, very much agitated. days, and after being convinced that strasse? and why Is this establishment servant of the Fatherland at Linden," I inter- part of my husband He seemed too Berlin toreign intelligence bureau! maintained? Who are the Johan London. | jected jokingly. "Nothing, my dear Mat a llari, noth¬ Paris did not appreciate mo. I decided were to search out inmates of von Bernhardt and his "No. no. in a few moments he re¬ mature for his ace, and my many in¬ Their specialties this establishment? I will tell all are charming Jdata Hari on this o«jSaslon.*' ing; will bo sins. to visit London, and the following day men and women of unfortunate cir¬ you wife; they one and all the l raid the moved to bis hotel." discretions appeared to him as 1 about it. of our agents baron. departed. but with _ intelligence service. what Yet he loveJ me and wa.f ,,a" cumstances of obscure past, No. 42 Dorotheenstrasse Is a tlve- ser must Our Kai¬ "During your long journey from Po- "But wHI lit say when he be¬ with and In of V0IJ',Eura¬ THEATED COHll.Y IX PAIIIH. potential talent, work on their poverty, himself kuow how well our sen to Herlin comes conscious? He will at once tlent me, spite my sill-: goes to i.oxoox be¬ story building with ninety-two rooms. London agencies haw you have ample oppor- go sian blood, he always stood by me anil finance them liberally, and. after From the outside it has the appearance served the Fath¬ tunity to become good and to Ills embassy and have n search es¬ other treat In London. I interviewed many man¬ them, use them in hiryh cir¬ of erland in recruiting you to the friends with confident tablished for me!" I cried demanded that Europeans but was assured that the friending being the palace of a wealthy per- As the baron sorvifce." Captain Lvov Melikof. Re- me as his wife. But 1 was too young agers. again cles of European capitals as their spe- sonage. The mansion is inclosed spoke these words lie member, you live at this "He calm, my dear Mata llari, bo Hnglish public would not appreciate to secure valuable infor- an by handed me a check on the house with I and energetic, and he was too mature and that the eial agents iron fence nine feet high with lo Imperial your aged mother. On at Her¬ calm. have made arrangements that or tolerate my dances mation from military and naval guilded A man Bank the amount of 20,000 lin. the arriving will take care of all for his age. me 'or a civil, tops. servant stands "This is marks. captain of the Czar will eventualities," the I a music hall that hired puh- at inside only to show you how well cover that dis- baron assured me. In my sixteenth year bore him would be sh'it down .jflicials. duty the huge iron-grated Fatherland the ho will not tind train ac- son. and In my seventeenth I bore him iic performance My good readers, you will soon learn double gate, and there are eight other appreciate your willingness commodatlon until he And then four men servants came before I finished my dance. However, shall re- man to be of use to lie has stayed here a girl. By all the rules of convention¬ how these methods work. T servants In and about the build- us." said. "My car¬ nearly seven hours. A train and removed the unconscious body of been one kindly and appreciative manager late to all until you yourself un- inp. riage is at your service. Otillle luxurious with more the ality 1 should have and told me that my esthetic Buddhist you pilot you will accommodation will he avail¬ Russian, and. taking him down¬ oroud I was proud of my stationhappy arid derstand the deep-laid methods of the! Beside being the boarding house for through Berlin. Go with her able on the stairs. placed him in the baron's car¬ dances would, perhaps, find an audi- as 1 do my¬ countesses and baronesses and cash the check. following morning. If he uroud of him. but happy I was not. ence at entertainments. 1 had Berlin intelligence system employed in Buy dresses, hut decides to wait here for that riage that wns, w aiting at tin- door. women servants private self. the secret service, the house has above all do not worry about will have to train, he As baron closed the Men and waited on me a strong repulsion for such private I many matters. I money stay in Herlin about the door after and 1 was a real but these did So. financed by Baron Steinhrouck. beautiful female Inmates who are main¬ bid you good-by till to¬ teen hours cigh- tliein, I asked him what they would lady, demonstrations, but thought that it him, on his morrow." altogether. He will doubt-! not make me iiappy. lie hired tutors a me went to Berlin, engaged by tained at the expense of the service. less remain In Herlin do to the man: how was he to explain might open way for for public to appear at a The interior of the house is That day I rode for the later his ion. for me, who tauKht me, besides his own introduction of my dances so. foliow- oath as a "gentleman," furnished cf through (he streets train. That will again give you couilil r ortu- theater, but when I went to the luxuriously, and beside the. men ser- lteriin and. guided by Ottilio, I spent to entice ample "It is for him to explain his condi¬ language, French. Spanish, ing the kindly advice of that manager, great the baron 1 vants nearly two-thirds of the Opportunity hirn to this place." tion!" gue"=e and German, until I became elll- I went to an address at Cir- address as directed by there are about twenty maids. money that the "And what will I do with him answered tho baron syniealiy. Piccadilly a different Remember, The place, is maintained baron had handed to me. I be should Then ho led mo clent in all of them. cus. where to my surprise a huge, found it place. by the Foreign THE able to entice him here?" I asked. taking my arm, 'up¬ But made me more ana I was then scarcely twenty-one years Intelligence Department of the German SATAX IXCAUXATE "You have to stairs, and after again telling me to every day bulky, but courteous, person received the ways of I HOT I nothing do with that; be that on more discontented with my surround¬ me me Inside. .if age, and a stranger-to Secret Service as a place where foreign IIXS TO SEE IIRR Ottilie will look after calm, and the following and invited The place attaches On the the details." re¬ morning ho would return to me and ings. and finally the tragic day came was simple, but expensively furnished, Europe. J I and other diplomatic agents] following day the baron ngain plied the baron. no On arriving at Berlin. I presented of foreign governments may be enticed ..etiirned to Dorot hcenstrasse. He was "Hut if the tell me what developments had taken when I could longer persuade my- and as I sat almost buried in a large with my this letter of the Czar is no: In of Kelf that I still loved him. I wanted I noticed that there were myself at -12 Dtrotheenstrasse and where men and women have been jubilant, tall, well-set, but slander in hts possession, place disposing the Russian, ho leather chair, as directed by the baron, espionage chief. Ho and if he leaves it left me and went out of the house and the dull monotony of men and servants about. The huge introductions, drugged, robbed and as often murdered. was happy as a iti his luggage?" I asked. Adventure, is a of the Merlin When I arrived at hoy and was so excited hurriedly. his home bored me until I lost every man requested me to wait for him for This department Within Berlin the house that lie could "Again, it will be taken care Intelligence Bureau. had been in existence as an annex of hardly keep his seat while my agents at of by When Baron Steinhrouck returned to affection for him. a few moments and disappeared. He Foreign sins and offenses, ni e. addressing the hotel. Should it bo me on the follow' On discovering my changed affection, returned with a woman whom he in- its walla unspeakable the Secret Service for only two years. found out that he has lg day he told mo God and man, have been Besides the "My dear Mata Harl. our left the letter in how he had disposed of the unpleasant lie crew suspicious of me and conse¬ troduced as his wife. I did not have both against com- being living apartments Emperor has his luggage, ho will be here before I was nnd are still being for the female members of the German hoard of you from my own He we have kept until Incident. The chl. f of tho Bedlin po¬ quently attempted to exact very strict to talk to them very long committed is supervised by enthusiastie lips. is attended to It at the hotel." lice visited the Russian at his hotel conventional behavior on my part. absolutely certain of their nationality mitted. This building secret service, on the first lloor there regarding our new meth¬ "And if the letter Is Freiburg, one of Germany's most Ik a od in I am found on his and informed him that unfortunately This made me dislike him. and then he .tliev were Germans. Ottille my big library, card-index room and a espionage. going 40 plan person will you keep It?" and he "Madame is a an astute female spies. On presenting large lecture room, with its walls cov¬ for yoyr appoifranoe at an unwittingly had visited a liouso turned stern and cold. My fateful day foreigner? Perhaps introductions to this when his imperial "No, no, by no means! The letter of of ill-repute which had been raided, dates from that moment, when I made Oriental?" asked the woman as her hus- credentials and ered with many maps. On the rear end party, majesty will give you the Czar must not he and with other in charge of the establishment of the house is a recognition by his stolen on Ger¬ along persons he was up my mind to escape from him. band introduced me to her. woman excellency, the there photographic august presence a! man soil. It will he found there drugged and his pockets ^ When we. three were seated the man I was informed that his studio managed by one of the female the function. A few months and returned back photographed and But what about my two children; would wait cn me in the even- then you will be longer to his person." emptied. The police had recovered all uke a mother should, I loved my chil¬ spoke. He told me that he was a pro¬ baron, loft Lon- agents of the service. regarded as one of "Then Otlllie is not | the money and the fountain ducer In London, but his specialty was ing. Baron Kteinbrouok had And who is Ottille Freiburg? the friends of the Emperor!" him?" I going to kill strange dren and could not eVen think of de¬ same as I, but had I asked somewhat pen, which the women of the house I to book Paris and London successes don on the day Nominally my "maid." she was one or was speechless. I was within a "Of course relieved. had out serting them. became ill-tempered, a different route not, certainly not'-' ex- opened of curiosity, as it was on almost occasion treated for several Berlin houses. reached Berlin through Germany's master female spies She short distance of my wildest dreams. claimed the an and every a I I taken. Wealth, baron. "That would unusually large ami thick one. and men and women servants with cru- "But I am not success. have than had at had carried out many successful mis¬ praise by even the royalty and France and put found a letter hidden in it. and, my an to demon¬ In the evening the baron arrived sions in of power were within my Russia on their guard. finding fl never had opportunity a conversa- every part the world. She easy roach In a Robbery must not be it of no value to them, had put it back I strate niy specialty of art. I come to the house and had long knew nearlv all lOuropean languages, few months after I had loft my <'is- German committed on in his The inmates One day became angry at one of tion with me. He told me that T was tiMit and soil!" cried the baron, pocket. of the ,nv maids and beat her with a you to give me an opportunity to dem¬ that Ot- and was versed in Oriental dialects. dreary Burma home. What ti'.stingly. "Your pro- house would be punished by long-term whip dance before a the mistress of that house, and She was tall and else could a young mission is to entlcr ! unmercifully. She left my house and onstrate my private would serve me in the sturdy looking, with girl, brought up in him here and keep him here sentences in prison. audience." I found mys'elf pleading tilie Freiburg black eyes and a countenance that must tho confines of a Buddhist temple as as long I never thought that l.vov swore that she would be revenged on of n "maid." have by possible, and Otlllie will look Captain ine She made good her threat in :t with him. capacity conversation the baron been once good to look at; but as poverty-stricken priests, have wished the details." after Melikof believed the Berlin police's She "You are short of funds?" inter- During this she was over forty-live, vicious wrin¬ for' explanation of his own personal expe¬ short time. was espoused to our threw off the mask and informed me kles Then my studies ENTICED THE rience at irardener, who was a native whom we rupted the woman with apparent sym¬ as a in the ser¬ bad already settled deeply. In her began. They look VICTIM Dorotheenstrasse. Neverthe¬ bluntly that it was spy a from eight to ten INTO he was not in a had nlcknamod "Ilanl." She was pathy. I admitted that I was. The that he was in- youth she held been sehool teacher, hours of my time DOUOT1IEEXSTR ASSK less, position to bring vice of the Kaiser and at on account of her daily. Those wore hard Sumce it to the subject to the .attention of his em¬ about to marry, and through him she husband and wife exchanged glances me. and that be cared very twentv, mas- days, but I say that I woman terested In tery of she was worked without as Posen and traveled to bassy 1 suppose lie found some ex¬ sworn revenge and executed her oath. significantly. Thereupon the dances. "These French Kuro'pean languages, complaint, I know there acted tho part as¬ us and returned with a little about induced to join the service at a that tho sucecssful execution of my fu¬ signed to ir.e to tho planation about the letter's having ".II\UV SON POISONEn left ten-pound frivolities!" he shouted scornfully. high ture career I very letter of It. and the Czar's note, and putting her hands on my not the courage depended wholly on my ab¬ found Captain Lvov been opened seal broken. TO AVENUE BEATIXU I confess that I had was solute in the man Melikof exactly Hi- must have found Home plausible shoulders, begged me to accept her of- to the cold world again. 1 had &AShe talkative. Jovial and often proficiency these necessary described by Karon lust one week after I had whipped in the form of a retainer. T face pleasing, but at times I could not f-uhjects. brouek's Stein- ! explanation, because Ottille told me foring tried Paris, London, and, should I turn help memorandum. On afterwards that she met him at a the maid my son was playing with naturally accepted the money offered it would have been seeing, through the veneer of cultured Buring my studies at Dorotlieon- Berlin, we had become reaching royal . Hani" In the when I had down the baron, a devilish soul strasse, I gave and he confident friends function at the Spanish Court, and that pardon gone and left tho house with the under¬ for me to dance at Berlin. deception, that would private performances had accepted an he almost roc for a horseback ride. On my impossible not stop at not even at mur¬ before exclusive and take invitation to rnized her as being tho return in standing that I would return on the His offer of a high salary tempted me anything, audiences, from supper with me at Dorotheen- spy that bail escaped from tho the evening my son fell III, and died to take sup¬ woman der. To her was sacred but day to dav I became very well known strasse. Rus¬ following evening prepared and the adventurous life of a nothing to Following the instructions sian police many years ago. and that the next morning of herb poisoning. with them and show them some of me. I the the mission she was assigned to exe¬ many Berlin dignitaries, and about from the baron, T had per spy appealed to accepted cute five months after represented at that time he was still acting in his "Hani" had given my hoy poison herbs. and from time to time. I asked her my arrival at the myself to be a . my dances. baron's offer in its revised form, (-'erman under Eureslnn with English capacity as the special messenger of .Ylthough my husband would not be¬ On the appointed time I was at the. that time on became an admitted pointedly onco if ever she meditated capital, the patronage of blood from Burma. Baron tho Czar I knew had from about her and over Baron I danced had Steinbrouck lieve It, that my boy been house of my newly-made German agent of the Berlin Foreign Secret Ser¬ past thought In her Stolnb»-oHok, before an thought t.hat In view of the fact ninil' I'UOCKSS OK poisoned by our native gardener. Of friends. In these days, when I was mind the horrible things she was com¬ audience where his majesty, the Kal- that the Czar's vice. to s»r himself, was French messenger knew the thk (iKmr.vx Kn.Ti it course my rage know no bounds. I still guileless and a stranger to the H Alt I pelled perform during her present present. language like his wanted to tear "Hani" limb from limb. PROVIDED MATA career. Her reply \vas After the performance T was would grow own, ho I then began to realize that tho ways and methods of the ICuropcans, WITII MANY TUTORS -characteristic sented to the pre¬ suspicious of me had I T visited the girl with two hired na¬ I naturally did not understand why ot her profession. She said: "When one Emperor by the baron, represented myself us a baron had not only succeeded in get¬ her to a se¬ to-morrow, Fraulein Mata joins the service one must and the Kaiser praised me ma n. French wo- ting possession of a of the tive* ruflians. and, taking this German couple so suddenly Inter¬ Beginning six disengage highly for copy Czar's cluded place, whipped her until she themselves in my affairs. Ilari, you shall have the services of one's self from such sentiments." This my divine interpretation of the Budd¬ I bid Captain Lvov letter to the French President, but by ested who will instruct you as !» of hist rites and addressed me as he Melikof good-hy the same act he made a full confession. She told me AGENT tutors, on, Ottille, No. 12 Borontheenstrasso. as "the assured ine that at 6 in had taken complete that she had Informed gardener IIUX SECRET many subjects, which you must master T1IK IIIiACK HOI K I.V f!ountcss of Linden." thus confirming the evening he would sharp possession of my bo,iv and soul. It was my I1ECOMES IIEH "ANGEI," before are with an im¬ the title bestowed at present himself In his to me that she would never mnrr# nim until you intrusted mutOTllFRXSTIlASSIC Illegal upon me by my apartments to take supper with power denounce at will he took revenge on me by poisoning T was met at the door by Johati von portant mission to a foreign country, When Ottille brought my breakfasi Baron Steinbrouck. me and my aged mother. the Berlin police and send me to were .ou must know these sub¬ I asked her lo sit After six months of him 1 had led prison on a long sentence for my boy with herbs. "Hani" had told Bernhardt, my "angel." They proficiently at the table with arduous studies to believe that I was in havin r her that he knew of a poisonous herb dressed In evening clothes and wore jects In their relations to foreign coun¬ rne, whi'h she did willingly. As I I failed to qualify as wholly proficient Berlin with my residing enticed th® Russian to that house, tries: have in the mother cm a mission should I refuse t.» serve his which, when given to the child, would waiting for their carriage. They told already said she was very talka¬ requisite knowledge to become from the Knglish government. The wishes I him without tho mo that they had accepted an and Its bearing on po- tive. She told mo many of her ex- an International spy of the first rate. Russian believed would not be safe in Russia, as tho kill European doctors hastily wiV 9°°Krar>'iy industrial and racial So every word I uttered, baron could denounce me" detecting any traco of It. Invitation to dine out, and after the lltlcai, military, nerienccs and things that had hap- my studies were continued another and as he was a great admirer of through one I would bo an conditions. pencd In that house that at times three months, and about ten months he Eng-> of his audits as a Herman spv and I told my husband about what tho dinner given opportunity I land, counted himself honored for me "¦ thorough study of national wna chilled with fear for my own after my arrival at Berlin I was have arrosted on the Russian soli. cirl had said to mo, hut he still scoffed to demonstrate my dance to an audi¬ . A. life. an¬ having met me. But I was careful to In and at the Idea. he called In ence of 100 guests who could characteristics of different tountrles. She told me how a young French at- nounced thoroughly efficient. assure him that France Kngland, too. I would However, perhaps .i. divisions and feuds that tachc onco lost his life l« my mission from Eng¬ be exposed to such throe European doctors, and had tho appreclato my art. I was surprised Religious nearly and.how SIIAMKKl SCENES SHE land was not military or denunciations. From Influence nations' policies in all coun¬ four Turkish students who had do- WITNESSED IN I was political, and that Mine on body and soul I became child's body examined, and they too and happy to think that in such a HOUSE that studying the German one of the slaves reported against me. 1 then knew short time T had succeeded in tries. olared their opposition to the pro- During those ten months' residence tem of higher school sys¬ of the Herman Intel. that winning A thorough knowledge of the press Gorman policy .of their Sultan at Dorothcenstrasse I 1 education. Upren-tc Bureau. By this I do not wish I could not havo revengo on tho gar¬ over such friends. Little did I Imag¬ had witnessed things then rushed back to to the but I was certain of the world nnd their sources of "committed suicide." or (led under pe¬ that would put to shame even one of strasse and Dorotheen- ronvey Idea to my readers that dener, that he was ine that I was then and there enlist¬ revenue. telephoned Baron Stoln- had I wanted to detafh B-ullty of my child's death. I was hound in tho service of tho Kaiser. culiar circumstances In that house. Or our licentious high priests at a Budd¬ brouck, telling him how myself from ing acquaintance with the course, ihe Berlin pof.ee chief was well hist But as the Captain Meli¬ the baron's clutches add wished to to kill him, and» I did kill him with Half an hour's ride brought us to a 'H;.^ -temple. days passed I kof had accepted my invitation to dine resort to the heroic I mv husband's o>^i service l'mC!l' habits nnd sociological con¬ aware of tho character of the nouse, found myself hardened to my environ¬ with me and -.w»uM not iave revolver. I place where wo stopped and where wo ditionj?.8. of and In instance a my mother In my rooms. succeeded ».> freeing mvself loaded my husband's revolver, wero entortalned at a dinner people. every plauslblo sub¬ ments until these horrible things ap- In a short time the from }iih wrapped party of th°r°UKh knowledge of the terfuge was Immediately to me as baron reached the hands. I am oi ly tixplaluiWg how tho myself in a white robe and walked to ten couples. During the dinner I planned and I cared part of tho regular houHo and went Into conference Herman secret service where he was the foreign diplomatic and carried out. When the German secret events <>f tho day. Ottlllo with chain* * near'.y spading flower bod Judged from the.course of conversation °f "yK'cm" Hnd th« pecu- servlco wished to entice a certain Freiburg and Instructed me to all lis agents to its wilt by an unacflU around the fountain aorao distanco from that wero all Germans. o.oTJ?0 por- Finally one day Baron Steinbrouck, make every offort to tho hand. they Every PiarynlnrC, standings of the personnel at- 'son to that house, ono o£ tho many cumu lo my rooma and Informed mo keep Czar's in moubongcr in the house as Ions as (To Bo Continued.) '