The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-11

rensEe men in EnxIznd ON the ss~sd Of
war one Of the ssoss dasaiag IN the lists
OF sore. prsh--i hcrre his advantage. and
frs-n that bour dErinx his stay in the
Cape b. was her shadow He thought be
was foolinr TIE xrp~n zrzs<vijow. bur
she -kuew- she was sqgeezi1x him dry
N that she gathered from him went rap
isly. either by trusty messenger or BY
code prs-arrsnged 10 Delagoa Bay. and
from there Il soon found its way into the
hzuds Of the Boer leaders. vrho laughed
heartily around their mess tables at the
sioinxs n the little next at Cape Town
At first the nobre ore had madam %
himself bot rs lis information petered
out she SHARED Others and be had many
rivals and from each she gathered some
thing OF uss 70 her and her Boer friends
Like a skiiiful angler, she played them
all. varying her play TO suit her fish And
th0ss yOGnz men sni-yered among them
selves and made many wsgers which viii
rot bear repeating, and all the time oCr
generals az the front. battling for ma
tons honor and nations trust wonder
I'd how in the name OF all that was evil
the Boer commanders always forestaIled
them in every important move
When Lord Kitchener OF khartoum ar
rived in Africa she went 10 meet him.
for she knew that if she could get inside
his secrets she could learn all things She
made il 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 glance that she was face to face with
a magnetism stronger than her own. and
nothing would induce her to 20 near him
again.
That is the most dangerous man in
Britain she said. Il feel as if | were
within the shadow of death when / am
near him.. He is a man for men TO CON
quer. No woman can reach him to use
him: he would read me like an open
book in an hour. and / believe he would
shoot me as he would shoot kaffir if
he caught me red-handed. / will try all
other living men. but not that living
deaths head. No wonder he conquered
in Egypt. | think he would conquer in
hades."
She went back to her work among the
kid-glove contingent like a hawk in
poultry yard. until even our dull-witted |
officials became uneasy. So she closed up
the nest" in Cape Town and went up the |
country for 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 camel with nitrate of /
silver and logwood she stood TRANSPORTED |
as Kaffir woman. From farm to farm. |
right through the Free State. on TO Pre-
toria. she was passed. And in Pretoria
she gave the Beers information worth
kings ransom.
When things took a decidedly bad turn
for the Beers, and madam saw that her |
fertile brain could be of no further use
to the sinking cause, she drew her chV'k
on a continental bank and sailed for Eu-
rope, and for aught | know her eyes may
be the first to scan these lines in London.
For it would be characteristic of the cele
brated Boer spy if she elected to stay
in our capital on the money she earned |
by trying to wreck us.