MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1932.
THE AMOURS OF THE „EXOTIC ADVENTURESS -
mata Mata Hari
sexatus from the momen pictur
KAREN BROWN
by arrangement with
Meno Colour Mayer,
CHAPTER VII.
trusting
THE CHINA MAIL.
going about all sorts of places- 'harm and unable to defend himself, with other men..... You must see engenders. Having meant to make that."
Įber escape with all possible speed What plan had she agreed to, ex-'and no farewell, she took the time actly 7 She was sure she had'nt the to write two or three notes before, she found one that was graceful!
| slightest idea.
The dancer gave
are
SHADOWS BEFORE
| Restaurant,
Entertainments. To-day King's Theatre; the "Canaries Sometimes Sing."
aweetest."
And another thing she came back from the door to relight the Madonna lamp
To-day Queen's Theatre; “Guilty Hands.”
Today Central Theatra "Tol'able David."
To-day - Majentic Theatre "The Smiling Lieutenant."
Today Star Theatre: "Bed and Breakfast.”
Home Mails.
"Of course, I see that,” she said enough. "It is morning now and COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED In trifle dryly.
I have come to my senses. I
IN CHINA MAIL. "You darling! I can't believe you will not see you again." No. That are really bere beside me in my own one she destroyed because it was so
Social Functions, place-that you are really going to brutal. No more harshness like
To-day-Ten Dances at Hong belong to me .... forever." |that of yesterday. After all she Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant;} So she had promised to belong to would never are him again and he Dinner Dances at Hong Kong, him forever. Well, that was quite had done her a favour, if he did and Peninsula Hotels and King's WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR,quite-shut bedroom door,
a customary promise and nothing at not know it. Mata Hari, famous dancer and that some signal would be given which to demur, only she had the enemy spy, undertakes to get some that she might heed, or that her feeling that somewhere in the few When she at last took her depar-| secret papers from her lover, Shu keen ears might catch some slight minutes that had passed she bad ture, she left one line behind her. bin, Attache of the Bussian Em- noise, the lick of a latch perhaps made an abstracted reply to some
"The shortest roads bassy in Paris. But Shbin has been But-nothing-except the whisper other query that was not quite so unnerved by a visit from Dubois, of Rosanoff's voice, murmuring usual. head of the French Secret Service, ondearments in the darkness. How
"It's almost too wonderful to be and refuses to discuss them. When she would have liked to ask him to
real!" she learns that the paper are in theļ be quiet!
a low laugh, The fresh early morning air woke possession of a young aviator, At length, she had to take the draway, almost tender.
her up thoroughly. It was delicious Alexander Rosanoff, who is infatuat- chance of taking it for granted that
"I'm very real. See..." to be alive, pleasant to have the cd, with her, she goes to his rooms, the men had arrived and making
The two points of light moved consciousness of a dificult job well informing her confederates on the them understand.
nearer and in a little while described performed. At her house she had To-day-Outward for Europe via way. She induces him to put out In a clear voice, as loud as she similar ares as they were cast aaide her breakfast and changed her Siberia (Hikawa Maru) 6 p.m. ell the lights.
dared, she called out, "I left my on the tray.
clothes, and on the stroke of nine, To-morrow-Outward for Europe NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY cigarette case on-the little stand-
The next morning, Mata Hari was was driving in her car along the via Suez (Menelaus) 2 p.m. In the other room, No... never the first to rise. It was just past Champs Elysees.
(D'Artagnan) 2.30 p.m.; for IN THE DARK.
mind .... one of yours 'will do." dawn when she got up to remove the Adriana affected not to notice her America and Europe via Siberia
■N the gleam of the lamplight, her! I face, looking up at him, the faint ring of light within the crack to hand and thus to still it. She times, and there to be surprised.
Her reward took the form of a ringing telephone instrument from until she had called to him several (Press. Lincoln) 2 p.m. slender column of her throat, one of the door. A flashlight, she guessed that Rosanoff's instructions Indeed, they chatted, he on the curb, shoulder from which the velvet had guessed. It lingered for a couple were already on the way and this ahe from her car, so that anyone slipped, were as if modelled after a of seconds. And in that brief
might be a means of delaying them.could hear them. Greck statuette, but warmly so, like interim Mata Hari truly realized During the night Adriana's men "How do you happen to be about with the glow of life how swiftly yet with what intense would have been busy photographo carly in the morning, my dear?"
alowness time could pass. All this Rosanoff worshipped with not that the dancer was in the least copying the most important ex-ever work, but I do.
It was ing the documents, decoding them, "A rehearsal. No one thinks ing, noon. his eyes for the lovely work of art afraid. On the contrary, she had tracts.
I am planning March 2-Hong Kong Land In- Shu- It was at the same time that he went' never been aroused to such a pitch hin's defection was a pity in a way
some new dances."
vestment & Agency Co., Ltd., blank with natonishment at ber of exquisite, tingling aliveness in because if he could not be cajoled to see if anyone had taken notice of
Meanwhile, they were watching Messrs. Jardine's office, 12.15 p.m. which every nerve In her body out of
March 10-Hong Kong & Kow- his resolution-and, of; "The Madonna's Lamp?"
them. There seemed to emit a spark of energy. course, their quarral last night had;
were not a great loon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., "Yes, Put it out," urged the But all sorts of ideas had the time not made this easier-she would]
on the avenue many passersby
at Messrs. Jardine's Office, noon. to wing through her mind quite have to find some other means of this hour.
to An officer turned March 4-Hong Kong Benevo The light showed pale on bis face slowly and forcefully, without hur-getting the information with which
the well-known face stare at
of lent Society, Sanitary Board Room, as he shook his head.
Mata Hari. But there was nothing Post Office Bldg.; 11 8.0. rying in the least,
he had been able to provide her. "Don't you understand it's a holy Suppose Rosanoff should be at On the other hand. she could not
to fear from him; he was only lamp? I swore to keep it burning!"tracted by the anggestion of light. regret his change of heart.
curious, To get The understanding that the act too, in spite of her care. Suppose the papers unknown to Rosanoff had would be really dreadful to him, that she was unable to prevent him from proved
A much more thrilling you." he would expect certain punishment investigating. Would he kill her, episode than to have had them pass-drawled Adriana as he stepped into "That will be very nice of you," to follow, made her, if anything, defend her or betray her? Noted over to her by Shubin. firmer. With an amazement that betray her, of that she felt cer-
She went to see whether they had the limousine and it moved off. matched his own, abe inquired, “You, tain. She could not believe that been returned.
To-morrow Followed. АБ she step- won't do that for me?"
any man who had been under her ped into the living-room; ahe "But why?" erled Rosanoff. away could ever bring himself to do met face to face the 12:21 "What can the lamp matter? Why her an Intury. None ever had. who had been in the act of do you ask me to?"
4 marble breathed into it.
request.
dancer.
Her work was done.
Not long ago a French officer, whom ceplacing the portfolio. By the Bce If you love me as you say ... her, had been caught in his jerk he had made just before he
To this she replied inflexibly, "To she had beguiled into working with tautness of his lips, his eyes, the
before honour.... before God........" treachery and court-martialled. realized it was she, she knew that
"I do, Muta-I dol”
Adriana had been in a fever lest he his hand was the gun in his!
softer tone.
on
"if you're going my way, I'll drop
LESSON-SERMON.
Meetings.
March 2-Dairy Farm. Ica & Cold Storage Co., Ltd., 2, Lower Albert Road, 11 a.m.
March 2-Hong Kong Realty & Trust Co., Ltd., Exchange Build-
March 9 Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd., Exchange Bldg., 2nd floor, 11 am.
March 16-Hong Kong, Canton &
Queen's Building, 11 am. Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., 1,
March 18-Hong Kong & Shang- hal Hotels, Ltd., annual meeting, Exchange Building, 11 a.m., extra- ordinary meeting, 11.30 a.m.
March 23--Hong Kong Electric
Flower Show.
First Church of Christ, Co., Ltd., P. & O. Building, 11 a.m. Scientist, Hong Kong.
"Christ Jesus" was, the subject of "Then put it out." she said in a should turn informer in exchange pocket. If it had been Rozanoff-the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches!
for a reprieve. He knew that He passed her a slip on which of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, He gave an angulsbed groan. Dubois was exerting every effort. Mata Hari read: "At nine. The February 28. Mata Hari almost regretted having But Mata Hari stood firm In her as- Champs Elysees" in Adriana's hand- The Golden Text was.-"God sent started the stupid duel. Particu-surances that the man would not say writing. She nodded and return- not his Son into the world to con- larly as time was so short, the men a word to harm her. She was cor-ed it and on the man's exit began demn the world; but that the world' must be waiting impatiently in the rect. The officer died without to dress with great dispatch She through him might be saved." (John) cold, or even worse, they might be speaking.
felt sleepy, hungry and unbrushed. 3; 17).
on their way up. She did hope Rosanoff would never betray her. Dear me! it was a pity the young Among the citations which com- that they would have sense enough Defend her, perhaps? She believed, man hadn't an extra toothbrushprised the Lesson-Sermon was the to listen for voices before they made the mad Russian might do so and An ikon, but no extra toothbrushes following from the Bible.-"God, an attempt on the door.
then shoot himself for having en- And, then, about that Ikon. The who at aundry times and in divers "But whywby 7" he besought dangered his country by his infatua- Madonna's white face stared at manners`spake in time past unto her again.
tion. No, she believed that he her humbly from the wall. He the fathers by the prophets, Hath Torn between her anxiety to get would kill her and then himself. In had his silly eternal lamp! But abe in these last days spoken unto us the undertaking under way and herjany case, be would surely kill him- was not without her own supersti- by his Son, whom he hath appointed need to add another victory to her self in the horror and agony of his tions and rementering some of heir of all things, by whom also he score, hér voice came forth as a disillusion. She would not blame them--the Buddhas that she always made the worlds; Who being the long-drawn sigh. It sounded to him if he killed her.
kept in her apartment, and a Java- brightness of his glory, and the Bosanoff like a sigh of passion This took only a few instants and nese saying that she whispered to express image of his person, and wrung from her.
then the flash went out and she herself before she did her dance,upholding all things by the word of heard the slightest of sounds which) and others of the same nature-abe his power, when he had by himself else-any-confirmed her impression that the) was seized with compunction. It purged our sins, sat down on the men were going.... had gone. wasn't that she wanted to have any right hand of the Majesty on
The point of her cigarette was thing happen to the young Russian.high." (Hebrews 1; 1-8).
"I want to be sure."
"But I'll do anything thing!"
"I'm going," said the dancer with
a quite unaffected finality, for she like a tiny red eye afloat in the She thought, I shouldn't have made The Lesson-Sermon also included did not dream that he would re-blackess and Rosanoff's beside it, him put out that lamp. No. That the following passage from the linquish her.
made a twin glow that bobbed up wasn't really necessary.
Christian Science textbook, "Science
And, indeed, after an instant, in and down with the motion of his In turning away from the mirror, and Health, with Key to the Scrip a sort of terror he murmured a lips. The poor young Russian had after pulling her little velvet captures," by Mary Baker Eddy- prayer and blew out the flame. She been making plans to which she had firmly over her hair, she backed "Christ is the true idea vuiclar let him carry her into the bedroom, doubtless replied after a fashion into a table and sent a
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tobacco jar good, the divine message from God TSANG FOOK PIANO Her one, thought was how to and for he seemed to have got her con- crashing to the floor. She could to men, speaking to the human con- a way to advise her confederates of sent.
hardly contain a cry. Damn the sciousness. The Christ is incor- the location of the portfolio. Not "We'll be rather poor for a long luck! After all this trouble, to porcal, spiritual,-yea, the divine but what they could not find it for while, but some day I shall inherit have awakened him!
image and likeness, dispelling the themselves if they looked around, all my uncle has, and then we'll be But no, the poor devil was sleep- Illusions of the senses; the Way, the but when they had so Itle time and quite comfortable."
ing through it all, with an arm Truth, and the Life, healing the were obliged to work with such The darkness hid her smile as she under his head and his hair all | sick and casting out evils, destroy- stealth, every bit of aid she could replied, "Don't you think, darling, tousled over his forehead. It was a ing sin, disease and death. As Paul give them was precious. After her we might wait until the war la touching sight, she reflected, with says "There is one God, and one eyes had become accustomed to the over?"
some irony and yet with the pity mediator between God and men, the darkness, she glued them to the not- "No-I don't. I can't have you' which a sleeping person, deaf to all man Christ Jesua." (p. 882),
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