The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-21
WILES OF A BOER WOMAN
OUTWITTED THE BRITISH.
Lured BY Her Charms, the Army Dandies Di'
yulged Their Campaign Secrets.
Information Enabled Kruger's Men to Battle the English
Clever Spy Met Her Master in Kitehener,
and Disappeared.

there were long. sleepy. silent avenues
where doves could bill and coo from dawn
until dark and where the football would
not awaken the echoes. Along those ave
nI:eS Madame drove in her pretty little car
riasc. looking very pathetic in her lo,ieIi-
ness. Pleasure seekers of the civilian type
saw her and made advances and We're
promptly snubbed.
Woman Outvittcd Officers.
Then to that suburb came one clad In
khaki-not a cu!nmoR fellow of the baser
sort. hu, on" whom my Spanish-Americ;.n
servant would term "A hidalgo OF tha blusst
blood. He was of noble birth. ami had a
pretty face. soft blue eyes. aud a brain tn
match. His teeth were of the whitest. his
lips red. fun and tremuiouS: his Eair was
fair. and his skin pink and white. lie held
"A high position in the nontightins force of
the British Army. and many valuable Sc
crets were i'll his possession. though God
knows how any wise man could irtrust a
man with Il soft. foolish mouth like his
with secrets OF any import 10 the nation.
Yet. as L have said, he was OF noble blood,
and that counts for more than brains. or
long service, or fitness OF nature, with some
people.
They met and Madame qulvered all over
under his gaze. Something went wrong with
her ponies. The noble one went to adjust
things. Madame thanked him: he, possibly
one of the most gentle OF men in England
~ aA' II Va va VIC u tAst ga
In the lists of love. pushed home his advan-
tasc. and from that hour during his stay
In the Cape he was her shadow. He thought
he was fooling the green grass widow, but
she knew she was squeezing him dry. All
that she gathered from him went rapidly.
, either by trusty messenger or by code pre-
arranged. TO Delagoa Bay and from there
soon FOUND its way into the hands of the
Boer leaders, who laughed heartily around
their mess tables at the dOings in the little
nest in Cape Town.
At first the noble one had Madame to
himself. bit as his information petered out
she shared others and he had many rivals.
and from each she gathered something Of
use to her and her Boer friends. Like 4
skiilful angler. she played them all, varying
her play TO suit her fish. And those young
men snickered among themselves and made
many wacers which will not bear repeating,
and all the time our Generals at the front
wondered how the Boer commanders always
forestalied them in every important move.
Bafned by Kitchener.
When Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ar
rived in South Africa she went to meet him..
for she knew that if she could get inside his
secrets she could learn all things. She made
1t her business to come casually in contact
with the Egyptian sphinx. She ran her eyes,
over the tall. gaunt figure. the rugged, ugly
face. She looked into the prominent, all
seeing eyes and knew at a glance that she
'Ne~ AoN- ~ A1NS "ASA
than her own, and nothing would induce her
to go near him again.
That is the most dangerous man in
Britain" she said. Il feel as if I were
within the shadow of death when l am near
him. He is a man for men to conquer. No
woman can reach him to use him.. He would
read ne like an open book In an hour and
l believe he would shoot me as he would
shoot a Kafiir if he caught me red-handed.
1 will try all other living men, but not that
living death's-head. No wonder he con-
quered in Egypt. 1 think he would conquer
in Hades."
So she went back to her work among the
kid glove contingent, like a hawk in a poul-
! try yard, until even OUR dull witted Off
ciaIs became uneasy. Then she closed up
the nest" in Cape Town and went up
! country for a change of air. Wherever she
went she was welcomed by our officers,
and It was a noticeable fact that disaster
to our arms followed her friendship.
A time at last arrived when she found It
absolutely necessary to confer with the
Boer leaders. Dyeing herself as black as
the inside of a camel with nitrate of silver
and logwood. she stood transformed as a
Kaffir woman, and il was then that her
| glorious figure stood her in good stead.
From farm to farm right through the
| Free State, on to Pretoria. she was passed.
| And to Pretoria she gave the Beers infor-
nation worth a kings ransom.
When things took a decidedly bad turn
for the Beers. and Madame saw that her
fertile b: ain could be of no further use to
the sinking cause. she drew her check on
a continental bank and sailed for Europe.
and, for aught / know, her eyes may be the
| first to scan these lines in London. For It
| would be characteristic Of the celebrated
Boer spy IL she elected to stay in our cap
| ital on the money she earned by trying to
. wreck Us