East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-08
II TWO BRIGHT EYES AND A WHITE FEATHER

was not yet twenty-five and perhaps
beauty had had great deal to do with
her success-who, unlike the German
women, wore fashionable French clothes
with exquisite charm. She had dainty
feet. and her small hands gIistened with
gems worth thousands of marks 1t had
maddened him to gaze at her lips and
white. even teeth When she mounted the
step of her Stutz car he observed with
sincere but lecherous admiration the
slenderness of her ankles, remembering
the unbeeoming sturdiness of his wife's.
In short this heart and home breaker
had suddenly discovered that he was in
fatuated with the Dutch actress. He
wrote feyerish epistles to her when she
went back to Holland, and the idea that
be would be able to gather valuable in
formation was, after all, merely an ex-
cuse to see this wonderful creature, with
the flashing eyes and glossy golden hair
He had kissed the last letter he received
from her, for in II she had penned:-'Il
must see you very soon"
It was just an hour after his arrival in |
Amsterdam that Won Putkalmer drove to
the dwelling of the actress He greeted |
her with a shower of German, uttered
mostly in excited falsetto notes, for the
charmer appeared more irresistible than
ever before. His Dutch. fraulein, he
called her She laughed as she per
mitted him to kiss her white hand, anGl
she actually half closed her dark lashed
eyes.
"You blond giant" she said, "and you
have been bombing the terrible Lon
ioners?'
There was a hint of hero worship in
her tone. he told her that only once
iad he succeeded in getting as far as
London, adding that it was wonderful to
zee the exploding bombs, dropped by a
ouch of a button from the gondola of tie
Zeppelin
''Then tie fiends fired shen after shell /,
Ehile their searchlights lighted ustup in
he skies, no moon above and the gunsl
nd an occasional dfmly outlined district
'elow," said the German "And those
earchnghts, first strong and cutting the
arkness and then hay as they reached 9
s two miles above But, fraulein, for
Ot the stars which might have been
hey shone ike your eyes as you sit
here"
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German wine the Teuton airship COM
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lechsnisn. He told her that a rudder
ring hal nearly snapped one night, and v
lat he thought he would be taken pris-
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