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THE AMOURS OF THE „EXOTIC ADVENTURESS -
THE CHINA MAIL.
Mata Hari mata
atapina frorn the merian pirtie
KAREN BROWN by strangement with
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CHAPTER VI.
THE DANGEROUS GAME.
returned before morning."
"And the signal7"
deserted them, they remained her devoted friends. If that were true, how could he, whom she had sought out, resist her? In the tumult which her nearness engendered in his senses, he forgot to be puzzled as to how she had found him, he forgot the wound to his pride in the morning. She had only to touch his hand, look into his eyes and say caressingly, "Well, then, my dear? I've said I'm sorry. Aren't you? glad I'm here?" and he was lost.
As for the dancer, it gave her a sort of sensual gratification just to play with him, to let him embrace "When the lights go out."
the All this time they had been travel-her, to draw away, to feel ling at the swiftest speed of a Paris |
strong pull of his Banses toward taxi, which is no mean one, and the
her, to taste her victory.
Meanwhile, she had always in
has been followed ever since."
WHAT HAS Happened so FAR "Oh, no, Madame. They will be
Mata Hari, famous dancer and [enemy spy, undertakes to get 'some aecret papers from her lover Shubin, Attache of the Russian Embassy in Paris. Shubin has been unnerved by a visit from Dubois, the head of the French Secret Service, and refuses dancer was jerked from side to sight the fact that the men below to discuss them. But before leaving side. It was hard to make herself were watching the windows. She his house, Mata Hari meets again heard above the noise of the engine, could not see them, of course, but a young aviator, Alexander Rosanoff, but she was intensely curious to their suspense was ever-present. It whom she has permitted to make learn by what trick Adriona had was a strange thing, her mind- love to her and dismissed, and learns managed to locate Rosanoff, and she one part of it voluptuously languid, Black or Brown he is flying to Russia in the morn-repeated her query until the driver almost drowsy, as she returned pas-
ing-
took notice.
"Madame, I drove him from your drugged herself as
sion for Rosanoff's passion, for she house to his this morning, and he victims-and the other part lucid, well as ber
The matter-of-fact. Of course, ahe knew that Adrians who had noticed that she was busi
Englishmen There is always a sensation of surprised delight when the missing often had her watched by his opera-resz-like had really shown some Phone 21474. part of a puzzle, after much figur- tives. She had realised that he was knowledge of character.
aware of her delinquency when he At length, she disengaged herself ing, slips suddenly into place.
This sensation Mata Hari felt sent her the orchids. Still, it was when, as she deftly added one and officious of him, though so fortunate and, Rosanoff following her about, one and one-the nice young aviator in this instance. She made up her she looked over the room again to flying to Russia in the morning and mind that it must come to a battle see if by chance she had missed any difficulties. But it was a quito ordered to keep to his rooms mean-between them sooner or later when;
jsimple room. There was a door to while the papers
no longer in she would show him that she would
the bedroom, not draperies-a very Shubin's possession-Shubin's state insist on following her own course. ment that the messages would be She was
prepared for the two good thing. safe in Russia to-morrow-the men who materialised like two She noticed a photograph of an unknown quantity leapt into her ghosts from a patch of shadow.old man and in a niche close by a mind and made a total of four. One of them pointed to where a lamp burning before an ikon.
"Who is the old gentleman?" Why, of course, Rosanoff had the
"My father." THE LIANG YOU CO. papers and was guarding them to
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And what was she to do? There
light burned in an apartment thres lights up before they let her in.
There was no need for further con- versation.
"I like his face. And this," abe said just to be saying something,
"The Madonna of Kazan," said interest.
was no question but that she must Climbing the stairs, for she de- "is a picture of the Madonna.” get the papers. Her pride would tested these self-operated lifts that never permit her to report a failure were just as likely as not to leave Rosanoff, pleased at her to Adriana, especially one due to one stranded between floors, Mata "My mother made a pilgrimage to her own negligence, for this would) Hari reflected with a superb assur- the Cloister of Miracles to get it not have happened yesterday. Andance that the young man was about for me. It's more than a hundred here was a challenge to her skill to get a most pleasurable surprise, milca from our town. She walked
Her lids drooped more senuously all the way." Only-where did Rosanoff live?
over eyea grown a little brighter! "Indeed! She did not particularly regret and a faint smile rose to her lips Bring you luck?" her action of the afternoon and abe from the wells of her secret "It guardo you from evil. I had had every confidence that she could thoughts. The ring that he, had to go down on my knees at the altar If only she could find the presented to her was still on her and promise I'd keep a perpetual young man in the haystack of Paris! finger recalling the embraces of the flame burning before it."
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If only she had not taken it for previous night.
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granted that he was so unimport- And when Rosanoff opened the ant! Whatever had made her do door, wearing a Russian amoek of
that?
What does it do?]
"And have you?" she inquired. "Oh, yes."
Something in the way he said it heavy silk, the dancer decided that made the dancer look at him euri- Down the wide, tree-shaded street, she found him even more handsome ously.
[
a taxi chugged along rather slowly. than in hip uniform and quite as "You're a funny boy." When it had reached a spot not far much to her liking. from her, the driver seemed to have.
"Do you, indeed 7"
"Who lovea you!" declared Well... here I am," ahe an-Rosanoff. some engine trouble. He got out nounced easily... and a moment} and peered into the hood. He hter, "Aren't you going to let me stamped his fæet and rubbed his in?" hands, but did not
look around. The incredulous confusion on his The dancer hugged the shadow of a face amused her. He gaped! In wall. And after a second the taxi stinctively, he moved aside to let went on.
her enter.
In a little while the taxi appeared] Quite at her ease, the sauntered around the corner again. And at past him noticing the books, the about the spot where it had previ-pictures, the carved oak table, the ously halted, it paused once more. portrait of the Czar draped with} The driver appeared to have some the Russian flag, casting her eyes fresh engine trouble.
at a stand against the wall, on Now, Mata Hari had made certain which lay a black portfolio. The
clement," he said.
"I love you as one adores ancred things," he said in a low voice.
This was a game she played vary. prettily when she chose.
"What things?” "God Country You"
Honour ...
Always their silly honour! "I come last?" she inquired offended.
"No-no! You come first... be- fore anything."
"Before God?”
After a pathetic struggle, ho that this was no coincidence. But stand was of black wood and the brought out the word, "Yes."
Mata Hari regarded him with) she signalled as she would have to case, flung there so casually, might an ordinary taxi and waited for the have seemed of slight importance to something that may have been pity.
He did seem so in earnest. To! man to speak first.
an inexperienced person, else why
she came before God "Madame, the weather is most in- was it exposed? It made Mata admit that
Hari recall a story she had read was, she could see, sacrilege to him.! somewhere in which the police had And yet the word, "yes," had been He was badly. "I am to tell you we have traced searched a house from top to bot wrung out of him.
burat! the papers and to drive you there." tom, time after time, for a letter.
Really, Adriana
With a smile that promised to re-' almost only to find that all the while it had Was worthy to give her orders! He left reposed in plain sight on a rack. ward him, she bade him in a soft nothing undone, he was over on She knew she had discovered what voice to put out the lights. The guard against the unlucky chance. she wanted.
blood rushed to his head. He obey-
She then got in.
All the game, she examined the "What a charming little place you ed till the room was in darkness driver before replying. Fortunate-have! But then you must be often save for the glitter of the lamp ly, she was able to recognise him in Paris to keep your own quarters before the fkon. under the disguise and at that she here."
It may have been the glow on the relaxed.
Rosaroff had regained his voice, gentle head of the image that an- "Are you sure we're not being if not his poise, and he asked in a noyed her. It may have been that followed? Is there any one at the strangled tone, "Why did you come she thought even this faint light window, perhaps?”
"No Madame, there is no one in the street and I have seen nothing,
I am quite sure."
here ?"
"Mmm
would be dangerous to her confed-i to see you."""
erates or might be reflected on the "You finished your rendezvous window pane and confuse them as early," said Rosanoff with a bitter- they waited below. Or it may have "They're at the young Russian's, ness that burst forth in spite of been a last caprice to test her I suppose."
himself, a bitterness which the power. "Exactly, Madame. It's not far. dancer caught, at once
I am to tell you that the concierge met her wishes.
and, which
But as Rosanoff took her in his armas, she detached herself and
is asleep, the men have kers and "No. I ran away from it. Be-pointed to the lamp.
will let you in, and they will come cause I saw you. I'm afraid later at your signal."
"But they can't take them away because in the morning
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Shubin was in a temper about it?
"I can't make you out!"
"I can't_elther,” she admitted. "This morning," he went on, "you acted like? -
“I'm sorry—————
MONDAY-In The Dark.
· MAGDALEN, COLLEGE FIRE.
A fire at Magdalen College, Oxford, to-night I find you alone was extinguished after damage had with **
been done to valuable,oak panelling. It occurred in ope of the rooms Alexia, you mustn't, think unpardonable thoughts. Shubin is which was occupied before his death rich and influential. He's sys-old by Sir Arthur Cowley, who was for friend of mine, and he is often very many years librarian of the helpful Surely, to dine with an old Bodleim. A quantity of bedding friend, to exchange a’Has and a was being aired, in preparation for clasp of the hands for old times, next term, when it caught fr. A sakes--is there any harm in that member of the college staff seized * I came into Bosanoff's mind that the burning material and throw, it be, had heard that so potent was into the quadrangle.” The panelling, the enchantment in which she held which had taken ile in thể” mean- her lovers that ever after, she had time, was then extingulabed."
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