The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-13

chiefs. they often give legendary names
to each other without having met.
How different from Hauser's patient
burrowing was the coup of Maize
Smythc! Arriving in Berlin with an
| American passport, distinguished. hand
some and wealthy, she got launched
socially through a consulate to which
| she had been brought by a well re-
spectcd American resident family. How
did she scrape their acquaintance? The
French Consul took her up-did he
have secret orders? And on the edge
of embassy society she won the ac-
quaintance and later the admiration
of socially important Prusslan mil
itary family. To these one day. burst
ing into tears, she confessed sudden
lnss Of for, une. and the disgrace of "a
dear one at home, which would make
return To the United States a great un-
happiness.
Could she get employment as an
English Governcss or lady companion?
With a past so apparently known and
irreproaChablc. an American to boot.
she appeared an acquisition to the
closed military caste of Berlin. Several
offered. but Maize, invcnting excuses,
waited for the kind of family she re-
quired in her business. Finally her card
and letter were graciousy received by
the high born wife OF "A comparatively
poor but greatly trusted functionary of
the great ctat-maju the soul of honor,
labor and CirCumspeCtion, consulted by
the Emperor and often charged with
making secret briefs for princes of the
| empire.
From dos 81 a as# y gt cd N
Photographed the formula of the Kraft
dctonator Cfor exploiting buried mines
fror. any point at any distancc); Ger
many's new destroyer plaus-a valu-
able gift for England; lists of German
industrial and mining enterprises on
French soil-invaluahle for counter
spying, maps of two for-s and report
on light artillery. But chiefly she got
a forty page brief Of the mobilization
| against France. veritahle cream of the
| invasion plan. whose possible existence
the hands Of 'hn French worried
| the Emperor-and explains many recent
| mysteries Did she get il, or only
papers referring to Il? Cruel enigma.
| Based on the new railways, which are
| based on it. To abandon it would be a
catastrophe Astonishing Maize OF
nights in her little bedroom she photo
graphed the documents without camera,
fiashlght or printing frames by simple
contact of sensitive paper between two
sheets of window glass
Josephine Laurent has done things
as daring. Some say she Is Alsatian,
| some Italian-Gcrman Swiss. In any
case her great spring seems to be pro-
fcssional pride. In Berlin. where her
mission had been To collect hand books
in military book stores, "slate notes"
of courses in officers schools, instruc-
tons mimcographcd in the etats-majors
or privately prin'cd in the national
press, she perfected her job by going Ia
work as chambermaid in quiet but ele-
giant boarding hotel frcuuented by Off
GERS temporarily in the Prussian capital
So she had opportunity to snoop
through the mail of "A brilliant young
| Lieutenant, steal some of his private
letter paper, make a list of his cor
respondents and keep tab on their move
monts. Among them she chose Cap
tain. fellow studen, in the Lieutenant :
| special course, or perhaps an instruc-
tor; and when the Lieutenant quit Ber-
| lin on his vacation Josephine forged
| Il letter in his name TO the studlous Cap
tain-whom she still saw going and
coming daily in the hotel The letter
begged the loan of all the special and