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TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1932.

THE AMOURS OF THE EXOTIC ADVENTURESS -

Mata Hari

serpine ham shu manan puctur

KAREN BROWN

by anangsment with

Main Goldwyn Maye

CHAPTER XIV.

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WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR She leaned toward the heart Mata Hari, famous dancer and broken Maitre Caron and patted his enemy apy, makes un innocent ae-hand.

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Almost he convinced her. But she made him promise that no mat- ter what he did or didn't do for her, one duty he must not neglect. Не must make sure that Rosanoff was kept in ignorance of her arrest, ber sentence and, if so it must be, her execution. He must get her per- mission to write to him. With the attorney's help, she would play a part for the benefit of the blind

man.

Thus it happened that Rosanoff received a long-waited letter from the dancer. Sister Theresa read it to him.

"Dearest-I shall not be able to

But don't be some time to come.

A sudden alarmed.

attack-no- thing really serious-has caused me to be removed to a sanitarium -For

She

to

treatment...."

And she went on to say that she had commissioned a friend of hers, Monsieur Caron, to visit him with news from time to time, that he must not worry about her in the least, that she was not in pain and thought of him all the time and waited only for the day when they could see each other again.

complice of a young Russian aviater,| "My poor child!" he moaned. Alexander Rusam. As her former know you are innocent. Ah, Matalace you or even to write to you for

Το lover, Shubin, is about to telephone | Such courage! Such love! Dubuis, the head of the French sacrifice yourself an the altar of Secret Service and involve Rosano, love!" the daurer shoots Shubin. But

The dancer soothed him as if he Rosano comes to see the latter. were a child, smiling a little. The dancer persuades him not to understood quite well that she had cuter and sends him on his fight to rande her choice not so much Russia with messages, admitting spare Rosanoff na to spare herself. that she loves him. He is shot To have him divine how she had down.

From her hiding-place she tricked him in the past, to see him hurrica to him, finds him blind and bear on the witness stand the agony promises to marry him. But Mata of realization that it was he who Huri- is arrested as she leaves the might be the means of killing her hospital. At the courtmartial, her-that would be too great a shame, kryer moves for acquittal, pointing too great a pain for her. ant that

Acen her in in France, in trials of this sort, sto nie has Shubin's route the morning of the it is not the custom for the Court very syllablo of it. He would have liked the nurse to read the periods to announce the verdict. This slaying.

and commas, and when she was done NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY left to an attendant.

he begged the nurse, in some shame for he was aware that she had thousand tasks to perform, to re- peat it to him-"just once."

CONFESSION.

Dubois spoke. The man had Volce as hard as granite, but there was emotion behind it, nevertheless. Ile, too, he said, loved his country just as deeply as Maitre Caron, and le considered Madame Mata Hari

menace

The clerk stepped forward, cry ing, the words of the usual formula:

"Judgment in the name of thei French people!"

and

B

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out The guard was called Mata Hari set before them.

"Present Arms!"

The clerk then informed the pri- found to France. He had soner that she had been

Court sen- made

efforts to secure guilty and said: "The immense proof that would be necessary to tences you to be executed in such convict her. had eluded him. But this time he may provide." had made sure; he had stopped up

It was a long letter, but Rosanoff followed with absorption each and

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He like capocially the part where she said that she was not in pain.

"I am not in pain. I think of you all the time. And wait for the day when we can be reunited." Not long afterwards be received the expected visit from Maitre Caron, who kissed him on both

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5-5.49 p.m.-A Concert. Band-

Shepherd's Hey (arr. Sharp), Glorishears (arr. Sharp),

Song

Mayfair Band (20841).

Your Little Black Eyes (de Castro-de Falla), The Shepherdcas (Duarte-Tabuyo),

Marguerite D'Alvarez (Mezzo- Soprano) (1189).

Piano Solo-

To Spring (Grieg), Waltz in G Flat Major (Chopin),

Byrtle C. Enver (22158). Song-

For You Alone (O'Reilly-Goeh?), A Dream (Gory-Bartlett),

Violin Solo-

Enrico Caruso (Tenor) (507).

Thee) Aloha Oe (Farewell

(Lilluokalani-Kreisler), From the Land of the Sky-Blue

Water (Cadman-Kreisler),

Fritz Kreisler (1115).

Song--

June Brought the Roses (Stanley-Openshaw),

When You and 1 Were Seventeen

(Kahn-Rosoff),

John McCormack (Tenor)- (1086).

Plano Solo-

(a) A Dearrted Farm, (b) Of Brer Rabbit (MacDowell), (a) To a Wild Rose,

(b) To a Water Lily (MacDowell),

Myrtle C. Eaver (22101). 5.49-6.25 p.m.--Operatic. Cavalleria Rusticana-Selection

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March 10-Hong Kong & Kow- Creatore's Band (90001-2)-loon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.,

Messra, Jardine's Office, noon.

March 16-Hong Kong, Canton &

Always hitherto she manner as the military authorities cheeks and called him "my son." told the nuns that she had always Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., 1,

Mata Hari heard him every loophole. There was no lack utter calm and silence. of evidence to show that she had turned away, her, lips

Shubin's house. slightly.

been in

Colonel

As she

on

believed that it was better to lead earth n brief and intense to "drag oneself existence than through A scene barren

Mata was quite comfortable. The through indoctors thought that she might need an operation, oh, a...very twitched minor operation, but this was not

all certain.

They were hoping beauty." that it could be avoided. If not, then Maitre Caren had been in smelling structed to do everything possible to

On the contrary there was the best They permitted her to rest for a Maitre Caron, who was evidence possible, the testimony of moment. an eye-witness.

The testimony weeping, offered her the

of a man who had seen her come salts and the pathetic chocolates arrange for Rosanoff to come to her out of the room in which Shubin lay which dend!

recover.

room.

soldier," an

"Not that there is anything to fear," the attorney hastened to as- sure him. "But it will be such a

other." Maitre Caron somehow

On the day before the one set for the execution, the lawyer had an ap

The warder and the nuns knew of pointment with the President of tho Republic. It was a last resort.

this and were as tense with sym- as if the re- pathy and suspense prieve were to be brought to them.

Queen's Building, 11 a.m.

March 18-Hong Kong & Shang- hat Hotels, Ltd., annual meeting, Exchange Building. 11 a.m,, extra- ordinary meeting, 11.30 am.

March 23-Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., P. & 0, Building, 11 am,

Pearl Fishers-Selection (Bizet arr.

Creatore),

Creatore's Band (36601-30002),. Martha-Overture (Flotow),

Victor Symphony Orch. (35916). 6.26-6.46 pm-Hawaiian Music.

Palolo-Hula,

8am-Ku-West Harmony Boys, (21410). a Hawalian Moon,

They led her out of the court-wood excuse to get the hospital au-Mata Hari, however, bualcd herself Lepe Ulaula,

thorities to let you visit-each with sorting her possessions.

At length she looked-up from to his neigh avoided the word, "see," rather to suitcase with a gesture of helpless- Hano Hano Hawaii,

Kane's Hawaiians, (20704). "She will know how Rosanoff's amusement, "You under.ness and said to the nuns, "What

Hilo Hawalian March, stand, Mata thinks of you and longs can I give you? You don't want Droway Water,

jewellery, You can't use clothes."

Kane's Hawalians, (20702). to have you with her all the

nun The younger'

murmured,

6.46-7 pm**** time."

"There's nothing. We have every-Trio in G Major (Haydn), thing we need."

Alfred Cortot (Flanist), Jacques Thibaud (Violinist), Pablo Casals ('Cellist),

(3045-3046))}

"Everything you need!" repeated

"Is that possible?" the dancer. Not even the ex- "We serve God," the other man

said, "and are content."

Mata Hari looked from one to the. other wonderingly. The younger

1st Movement

Andante

2nd Movement-Poco adagio canta-

bilo 3rd Movement-Ronda all 'ongarese

(Presto) 7.05-7.34 p.m. Variety.

he had provided for-an beforehand. emergency. She pushed them away. He is "That man i can produce.

"I do not need these. I am not

I shall be brave." in a hospital at present. He is a baby. blind. His name 15 Alexander Rosanoff." Mata

have Hari appeared to

"That one is a good grown taller, more gaunt, to tower old guard muttered above the necusing Frenchman. Her bour in line. taut hands were pressed against her to die." sides.

It was her accolade. At the sound of Rouanoff's

But later in the bare cell she sat Sho name she went ashen white. started to speak and could not. She with her cape huddled around her

Truly, in her prison room, there put a handkerchief to her lips. as she had sat on the long, dreary

They were all waiting for her to drive to the hospital when death was nothing the dancer so longed had never been out of her thoughts. for or had so much in her mind as In a moment, Dubois would re. The nuns could not console her, the blind soldier, sume his discourse and ask the court, She was not resigned to death. She pected reprieve, although Maitre to summon Rosanoff. She had to would accept it, but only because Caron became more and more con- He speak.

she must, when she must-if she fident that he could obtain it. Her voice had grown dull as if must. She could not yet quite had already been able to get the data of execution set weeks ahead. for the first time she realized her grasp the thought that it was 80 As often as possible the old lawyer fate and yielded to it and would close to her, and Maitre Caron en- make no more effort.

couraged her to repel the idea. The would appear at the prison, bearing and "It is not necessary to produce old man had determined on a fresh gifts of fruits and flowers

He books, te report further progress. ning? a long pauso attack from a different angle. him.""

There was

Everyone was very kind to her, "No," she said aloud. "This is which seemed filled to all the people would use his influence. He would

This is how I had to In the courtroom by a deep inaudible go to the President of the Republic moved by her beauty and her stoic- how I am.

No! I must play my part as sigh.

himself, if necessary, and he could iam-the two nuns and the warden be.

to play it and--take of sentence and who had charge of her cell, the pri- is given me "I plead guilty

to the charges surely get a stay

She read care to make my laat performance made by the court. I-shot Colonel have the execution put off and put son doctor, the priest.

Sometimes she was the best!" Shubin... I am guilty."

off till perhaps the end of the war, good deal.

The younger nun gave A little Mata Hari went and put her the nun's black white hands on shoulders. "Thera... little sister

Face Jubilee Singers with Hattle ... that's nothing to cry about

Parker,............. (21661). .. You have both been so kind

7.84-8 p.m.-Orchestral. and tender to me though in your Over the Hills and. Far Away (Grain- eyes 1 am a great sinner."

not

нест

Arden & Phil Chman, 21929.

nun was rather pretty and very Song-Kentucky Babe, gentle; there were tears in her eyes Vaughn De Leath (Soprano), (20664). for the dancer. Could she have Duet for Two Pianos-

If she had it to Dance of the Paper Dolla, been like that? do all over again-from the begin-

Ragamuffin,

Victor Chorus

Evenin' Comin' Home,

The Revellers (21807). Instrumental-

Fourth of July at a Country Fair, Going to Ride that Midnight Train,

Georgia Yellow Hammers (20549). Į Banjo Solo--The Doll Dance, Chorus

Eddie Peabody & His Banjo, (20008).

·

She sat down. The procedure when passions would have cooled quite gay and declared that she

could not understand why they in- sob. was quickly resumed but with little and there would no longer

an entrancing pisted on shooting people at dawn. help from Maitre Caron who was al-nny reason to shoot

Why not at noon, after a good most voiceless with amazement and (and innocent woman, despair. Mata Hari would

"For I know you are innocent,"luncheon with friends, and when It would be "Morally, if the sun was shining? Not until the mem-jinsisted the attorney. answer him.

so much more cheerful You say bers of the court filed out, one by not legally.

you killed

But as the weeks passed and it one, to consider the verdlet, did she Shubin to protect your lover, who

branded as a became only a question of days and When the other sister went out glance up.

It could be seen that would have been she looked at each man intently as traitor by Shubin out of sheer still Maitre Caron could bring her into the corridor to see if the lawyer he passed by. Did she have a last fealousy.

When the war is over, no definite news, the nuns noticed might have arrived, the warder flash of hope that perhaps in the end my dear child, this will be a splen that she sat more and more quietly pressed into her hands a flash of on her cot no longer reading, but cognac-for the lady-"In case the they would be lenient? Not death did defence." but imprisonment? Did she believe "Look upon this only as an im- with her hands folded, waiting, re- reprieve didn't come." Smelling "Domembering perhaps. If this grim salts were no good. This was the that after all these men would not prisonment," he urged her.

His grandfather had be able to condemn her to death-no not relinquish hope! You have been compartment of stone recalled to real stuff. men would she had too much wonderful in your fortitude. Con- her other and times of waiting be laid it down in Napoleon's time.

I will save you. Ifore she had come to Paris to dance, power over their senses and their tinue to be so.

no one else knew. imagination?

Bringing Up Father.

ewear to you."

Only once she

[TO-MORROW--The Last Performance.]

Leave it There, Stand By Me,

ger-Schmid),

Colonia! Song (Grainger-Schmid).

Victor Symphony Orchestra (98085).

Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent L'Arleslenme (Bizet),

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