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| Koch, French by birth, and, in fact, the
son of a rural constable at .Tony-aux-
Arches. He said snooringly: "For
sure, Wessel gave them away."
Charles flashed out at him: "Who
the devil cares for Otto Winter —he is
a swine. And Horstmann is a swine.
Dcs sales roelus!" X
Then we drank Schiedam, out of tall
thin -glasses; and casually, I asked:
i 'And where is Mathilde, these days?''
"Bouclee," said Charles shortly. ;
There is no way of putting into Eng- j
lish the pithy abruptness of Charles';
slangy French; but what he meant/to
say was that Mathilde was still in prison,
having been bundled blindly across the
German frontier, where she never in
• tended (Heaven knows!) to go. A blond
.French spy — Audouin, a deserter from
the French army— said sentimentally:
; "She was the best of them all. I ought
to know!" And he twisted up his mus
taches with a self-satisfied air.
'' Bah > said Charles, '' she got bet
ter men than you, you sausage, she got
Wessel, when he «was a lieutenant at
Potsdam."
"Wessel was a captain, then! "
And they quarreled while I paid'the
bill. : : r ,' X ' ~*•'-,.
3 Five days later —it was January 29 —
as I was coming out of the Hotel Metro
pole I came face to face with Wessel.
He had coarsened and fattened; he was
\ no longer the handsome German officer i
— spy and rogue and thief — some of
us knew a half-dozen years ago in Paris.
• An insolvent spy, withal, for over him,
was there not the protection of ; two
Great Powers, France and England?
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' IN BRIEF this is the story of Wessel;
I 1 in the background of it is the mys
terious veiled/figure of the most extra
; ordinary adventuress Europe has suf
l fered from in the last two decades. I
have named Mathilde Baumler. She ■is
a ■ handsome, blue-eyed woman, with
the look of a Slav rather than of ; a Ger
man. She was born in Kolnigsberg. Her
parents were Protestant folk of good
J j standing. She was educated in a teach
er 's college, and went out into the world
;as governess in the family of a . Prus
; sian general. She was young then —
- twenty years ago — and fell into the
hands of Richard de Cuers, the Napoleon j
of Spies. Be it was who trained her.!
j Like ; all the women who succeed as spies
she had a natural taste for, intrigue,
i the love of adventure; she was fond
jof riot and extravagance and of ; the
iadmiration of men. Ten years ago I
met her in an opera-box at the Monnaie
in j Brussels; she shimmered with opals!
from her ; slippers to her hair. And she
had charm. A worn and wicked woman
she?still radiated charm — that uncanny
kind Kof ';■' fascination which captures " a
certain kind of unpraiseworthy man. The?
man ; who was under her spell at that j
time; was essel. Indeed, she had just 1
been married to him; but that was a
passing sentiment and had nothing to
do with her business in this world.
Wessel had been a lieutenant of engi
neers in the German army. She was
working for France at the * time — chiefly
for .Tomps who was then prominent ,in
the ,'' service — and she succeeded in
(corrupting the young German.officer, who
turned over to her all the military docu
ments upon which he could lay his hands.
Meanwhile, Wessel, "unsuspected, '': was
made a captain. But Mathilde was an
expensive acquaintance, and :in an en
deavor to secure more important docu
ment — for which a high price ;l was of
fered —. Wessel was detected. By the
(good ; offices of Mathilde, he managed to
get; across the front \ Together * they '
went;to Brussels and thence, to the sum- j !
iner resort of treason, Ostend. In those
days Ostend was one of the gambling
places of Europe — a little Monte-Carlo.
Wessel lost heavily. One night he gave
a false cheque to a "German army of
ficer. ' He.was arrested and locked up
in the prison of St. Giles. •. X (The ; Ger
man■'' officer "was a spy, who had been
detailed to "get" Wessel so he might
be arrested, extradited and made to pay
for his treason.)
A few weeks later the Belgian gov
ernment turned , Wessel i over to the Ger-
I man authorities. He was hand-cuffed
and put, 'in the train for Cologne,
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