1932-03-09 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932.

THE AMOURS OF THE „EXOTIC ADVENTURESI-

mata

CHAPTER XV.

Hari

arated from the moran putine

KAREN BLOWN

by arrangement with

Men Gay Ma

CHAPTER XIV.

"I've told him You must

said to the nuns. this is a sanitarium.

THE CHINA MAIL.

had taken root in his mind and he counted on her to nourish it. She had been talking to a great friend of hers, she said, a famous doctor.

"--and he said that the best eye- specialists were in Vienna. Though.

of course, that won't be of much

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I made him write down all the ons wavelength of 355 metres. names, and I gave the list to M. Carou and he has promised to keep it safe for you—”

"But you'd go with me he broke in, alarmed.

"Of course, I'll go with you. But WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR be careful. And not a word of I'm so silly, I wanted him to keep

It's highly Mata Hari, famous dancer and this must leak out.

it in case-anything happened. There would be dread-You'll remember that he has it?" enemy spy, makes an innocent de irregular. complice of a young Russian aviator, ful complications."

"You're still afraid," Rosanoff at- Aleronder Rosanoff. As her former "Oh, go. Caron, xo! They under-cased her. "Look, darling, I've been lover, Shubin, is about to telephone stand."

through it. I can tell you. The Diboin, the head of the French

anaesthetic's unpleasant. That's

40

After Caron had left, the warder Sceret Service and involve Rosanoff, cleared his throat and announced in the dancer shoots Shubin. But his stiffest military tone, "Madame, Romanof comes

the latter. I'm leaving the door unlocked to see The dancer persuades hint not to that the visitor won't hear the rattle cuter and sends him on his flight to of the locie." Russia with

mexrayes, admitting "God bless you!" she said. that she loves him. He is shot down, went out.

Не

all,"

He was not aware of the dawn. But Mata Hari saw the sun rise gray in a misty sky. It looked as If it would clear, though, and be a very pleasant day. She heard foot- steps in the stone corridor and rose and said that she ought to get ready. She brushed her hair and twisted it

her face and made herself generally neat. Oh, if only he could see her Just for one little second! Not the cell and the cots and the barred window, but just her alone, It entered her mind that it was a pity

From her hiding-place, she hurries In a few moments the two men to kim, finds him blind and promises returned with Rosanoff. His face to marry him. But she is arrested. was all a-glow and in his hand heup again, and put some powder on At the courtmartial, when Dubois carried a little bouquet of roses (UNORATER thei k can produce That little bouquet broke her heart. Romnog to prove she was in Shu "Lover, my love!" he cried out, bin's rooms, Meta pleads guilty in when she called his name. order to keep the truth from her were in each other's arms. lover. She is sentenced to die.

In a very gruff voice, the warder Romanoff thinks she is in a hospital, said, "Come, nurse, we will look awaiting an operation. And her after the patient in the next lawyer hopes for a reprieve,

room and leave these young people NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY lone".

THE LAST PERFORMANCE.

It was night before the lawyer

Canic.

They

Perhaps the older nun would have busitated, but the other gave her a beseeching look and urged her out with a gentle pressure on the Outside, she did protest.

"This is most irregular.

she had not known before how black and pallor and simplicity became her, and she gave a little laugh to

foolish

think how

now.

that idea was

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Rosanoff believed she had got over

8 p.m.-Local Time. her scare. But her voice seemed a

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"She'll be all right... Please, Sister Angelica!"

A man over sixty and in feeble health, the strain of his final exer-instructions were—" tion had brought Maitre Caron to a state of collapse. lie made no at tempt to keep back the tears, nor éould he meet Mata Hari's eyes. defiantly. "To-morrow she'll be Indeed, he could barely stund.

"Let them alone," said the warder

dead." And he closed the heavy "My dear child.. "he managed door very gently behind M. Caron. to stammer.

Mata Hari and Rosanoff sat very But one glance at him had been jelose on one of the cots and kept enough to give her the answer which their hands entwined.

he could not utter.

"No."

A pulse began to beat in her throat and choke her. She took several quick breaths.

her.

"Don't be frightened, dear," he repeated, "I wait right here until the operation is over."

"Oh, no, you mustn't? 'I don't want you to. M. Caron you back to the hospital. let you know at once...

I am."

will take And he'll just how

"Darling, you are afraid," cried "And if the operation is success-Rosanoff in great concern, fumbling ful how much longer will they keep in the dark to get to her. you here?" he wanted to know.

"I don't know. Not long. We can go away

and be married-in

The old man wept. "I tried every Switzerland." thing..."

"And we'll never let anything

She took his head in her hands and kissed him.

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"No. I'm not... Goodbye, my ploring, to commend the blind man beloved."

to the old advocate's care. He un- "But you sound so tragic."

derstood at once and stepped back and put his arm about Rosanoff's shoulder to steady him.

"I know you did," she told him, separate us again. You are telling "Goodbye, my beloved," she said coming quickly to his uid. Sheme the truth?" he said suddenly, as gaily

"It isn't a dangerous operation?"

¡better?" She assured him it was nothing. I Nothing at all.

me."

drew him down into a chair. The older nun grasped the smelling- salts in one hand and the cognne in the other. Mata Hari reached for the latter, poured some into a glass and held it to the lawyer's lips. "Hero... take a sip of this... it'll do you good." And the warder who had contributed his precious She had been wondering how to cagnac in the interests of a beauti-prepare him just a little, and she ful woman watched with amazement went on, with a catch in her voice. the spectacle of a prisoner soothing "You know what operations are. her lawyer for his failure to ob even the slightest of them.

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I Love to Hear a Military Band,

Oh! Mo'nah

You Try Somebody Else,

.(22822)

1 Should Have Known Better,

(22854)

Hiding in the Shadows of the Moon,

(22856)

That's Why Darkies Were Bern,

Walcz

Carolina's Calling Mo, Fox Trot

A Faded Summer Love, Old Playmate

One of Usa Was Wrong Lucille!

Mary

(22877)

(22857)

(22827)

Can't You See

When it's Sleepy Time Down

(22828)

As she was descending the steps, "I assure you, dear, it won't hurt her lover realised that she See, you close your eyes and going away-that they

were all "I'm glad of that. But even 80, take a long deep breath-like this going away. He grasped the rail I can't bear to think of it."

--and that's the last thing you and in his pathetic eagerness to "Promise you won't worry about know. And when you wake up it's follow her with his body, since he all over. Really you'll see could not with his eyea, would have ... it won't hurt at all, ..

South thrown himself down the stairs if Waltz The warder stood at the door. not for Caron. blinking hard, and the

two nuns. There was no daylight in the with downcast heads in their black corridor,

but they had still to veils. Mata Hari gåve each of traverse Д sort of dining-hall them a mute pressure of the hand. studded with wooden benches, and

"I'll try not to."

there

H

a reprieve. Never had he is always the chance... promise "I'll remember," she called back here the first hint of the ever-rising ... if something should happen to to Rosanoff, who remained motion-sun crept in like a white shadow. seen anything like that!

hour with the me, you'll not grieve too much, you'll less, looking in the direction from Here they were near the entrance "I spent a whole president ." poor Maitre Caron take care of yourself... you'll which her voice came and smiling to the courtyard and far away from

for her same. "A long deep breath Rosanoff,

stumbled on "... he is one of my carry on." oldest friends... but-___”

a little.

"Oh, that is arranged just as you wanted it. I brought him with me. He's waiting downstairs."

Always, Princess Flavia-Medley ... (19955) Fox Trot

River Stay Way from my Door, Was it Wrong

(22831) Now's the Time to Fall in Love, Freddy the Freshman ......(22886) Nobody's Baby ia Somebody's

Baby Now,

Any Corner is a Cozy Corner,

Waltz-

Pagan Moon,

(22829)

One More Klas, Then Good-Night,

(22878) The Night Was Made for Love, She Didn't Say "Yes".... (22869) Gettin' Sentimental,

My Goodbye to You

One Little Quarrel,

"Of course, I promise," he said.... and that's the last thing you After that there was the court- "I know. I know. Never mind smiling, because it occurred to him know ... Goodbye." My dear old friend! And what that after all she was afraid and it)

yard. And Mata Hari thought that Fox Trot- In the corridor, Maitre Caron the difference between life and about... Alexia?

was he who would have to comfort) waited with Captain Lafarge, death was only a difference in time. Maitre Caron's face brightened her now. So he made his voice Dubois, and the officer of the guard. Only a short while ago she had very gentle and coaxed her not to The six soldiers of the escort were reckoned in years and later in think of it. "Nothing can possibly below with bayonete fixed. All of months, then it had been days and happen to you. They're very com- them hated their task, it was yesterday it had been hours. This petent, the doctors, darling, you obvious. Even Dubois, who stood morning it had been minutes, and mustn't be afraid."

out from among them in his civilian now it was only a question of a few Walt He kissed her and petted her. clothes, looked very yellow.

seconds. To reckon in eternity. Fox Trot To be without time. No time at all! What vast and icy Unimagine- able lay beyond the region where a second counted!

"Why didn't you tell me?" cried the dancer. "Oh, bring him, bring him to me, quickly!"

She ran about the cell and smooth ed her dress and patted her hair

It was pleasant to be in the position She spoke to him, as the loser to

of the one with the most strength,

in spite of his sightless eyes.

and scented herself from an "You're not afraid when I hold you,

atomizer. She wished for just are you?" second that he could see her. The

"No. Not when you hold me."

the victor.

"I am ready."

Dubois bowed to her. Captain Lafarge stared straight ahead like A good soldier.

*

Mata Hari was shot on a' chill black velvet was becoming--when All through the night, the warder, She let Caron embrace her and morning at. Vincennes. Her last she sent for It, she had said to the who kept watch, could hear the kiss her forehead. She was wet words were: nuns. "I need a warm dress, it's murmur of voices when he approach-with his bears and one dripped "It's not as good house as I'm chilly at dawn." She was wan batled the cell door.

He took care not saltily onto her mouth. With accustomed to. But I'll do my it suited her and her hair was fold-to come too close.

Rosanoff not far behind, it was im- utmost to make this last perform- ed softly away from her face.

Mata Hari spoke about Rosanoff's possible to talk, but she made a ance the best."... "The young man is blind." Caren eyes because she could see that hope gesture at once imperious and im-

THE END.

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Sugar

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