Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20

These are all essential TO your per-
forming the many missions with which
you Will soon be intrustcd.
Your studies will begin Tomorrow
or perhaps the day after. In the mean
ment for you 10 exhibit your dances
this evening""
, II am very glad for that. Please
place." l inquired exuItantly. " ''N'
BE patient. you Shall learn 1t all
present he admon,shea me in
gratzstrasse. in a beautiful hall nearly
100 men and women OF high rank will
be waiting to witness your interpre-
Will be present tonight. at that dis
tinguished gathering, men holding eX-
allied positions in the service Of the
a feeling OF childish pride crept into
my whole system and / felt like shout
Ing loudly with JOY. Now, many years
afterwards. sitting in my cell In the
shadow OF death BY execution, look
back to that day and see how, satan
like. Baron Steinbrouck had tempt ed
had | the chance once more to live
modern Lucifer again? candidly. 1
and say That ina" wouid S' DO 5fhhsnrnt,y
Perhaps 1 would. and perhaps j would
not. very likely l would NOT. | have
been led to sin by Sucn a slow process
and each time these sins have been so
pleasing and beautiful that / some
times. even now, feel that death is not
lures that J have experienced. But
again. could have enjoyed innocent
experiences and lived happy. honor
uary course during my early days. But
away with meditations. 1t is too lat
My fate is sealed.
PRESENTED TO THE KAISER
IN THE SECRET HALL
The affair at ~ Observation-Disclosures
was fairy dream. j danced FOR hours
zled my youthful eyes. and I danced on
Il fiower-covercd stage. amidst the APP
presiative appliaqses OF DISTINGUISHED
supreme joy. After the performance.
was introduced to many members Of
my audience. who bowed low ana We'd
beautiful was and how divine was my
Interpretation of these ORIENTAL rites
u Was very late at might when Baron
from the admiring men and women and
take me back to my room at ~ Doro-
,heenstrasse on reaching the en-
the second floor. so exhausted was.
"Freulein Mata Hari. you will be
too tired to start Your studies to-
the day after. Meanwhile. shortly be-
fore noon. ] will return 10 you and we
VII take dinner together. However.
before ] come to you shall make
other visits telling of you TO several OF
our bureau chiefs. Pleasant dreams."
Towing YER. low. the baron kissed my
very sfe,Se to SeiE e. to Of s'f %2
dreams; while lying. in my bed. ex-
cold chill every few minutes crept over
my pody. Several times OH closing my
Eyes Eyes i was rudeiy awakened by
my child crying. Toward morning I
saw my husband in my dreams He
stood stood before my bed as he used 10
IL; iiit'inS indiscretions, and said to me
IN grave tone: "Mata Hari, the wages
| could not sleep 1 rang for O,ti,io
who rushed TO my room in her night
me r,a ot' 81 cannot sleep; bring
you are highly excited: try to be
calm" she said in a motherly tone,
While While she handed me the glass Of vine
Of wine; and when / drank the third
less In - and ordered her out of the room.
TO her and wanted to whin her.
mated her. and her very smile seemed
70 me malicious and fun OF treachcry.
And finally in the intervals between
horrible Nightmares / snatched a lit
ne steep, and was wide awake at 2
0ttie to Serve makfnG ordered
room and dressed in haste
DoHOTHEENSTRA WHERE
IN nASTARDLf PLASs am laid
strasse? and why is this establishment
maintained? Who are the inmates OF
this establishment? l will tell you ali
No. AZ Dorotheenstrasse is a i've
STORY pudding with ninety-two rooms.
From the outside it has the appearance
OF being the palace OF a wealthy per-
an iron fence nine feet high with
irnn Tod
double gate. and there are eight other
man servants in and about the build
ing.
Reside being the boarding house for
countesses and baronesses employed in
the secret service, the house has many
beautiful female inmates who are main
tanned at the expense OF the service.
The interior of the house is furnished
.uNuriously. and beside the men ser
wants there are about twenty maids.
The place is maintained by the Foreign
Intelligence Department of the German
Secret Service as q place where foreign
attaches and other diplomatic agents
of foreign governments may be enticei
and where men and women have been
drugged, robbed and as often murdered.
When ] arrived at Berlin the house
mad been in existence as an annex of
the Secret Service for only two years
Besides being the living apartments
TOR the female members of the German
secret service, on the first floor there
Is big library. card-indeX room and a
large lecture room. with it's walls COW
cred with many maps. On the rear end
OF the house there is photographic
studio managed by one of the female
agents of the service.
And who is Ottilie Freiburs?
Nominally my maid" she was one of
Germany's master female spies. She
had carried out many successful mis-
ssions in every part Of the world. She
knew nearly all European languages
and was verSed in Oriental dialects
She was tall and sturdy looking. with
black eyes ard countenance that must
have been once good 10 look at: but as
she was over forty-five vicious wrin-
lles had already settled deeply. In her
youth she had been n school teacher
and at twenty, on account of her mas
terry OF European languages. she was
induced to join the service at n high
salary
She was talkative. jovial and often
pleasing. but at times could not help
seeing. through the veneer Of cultured
deception, 4 devilish soul that would
not stop at anything, not even at muir
der. To her nothing was sacred but
the mission she was assigned to exc
cute from time to time. I asked her
pointedly once II ever she meditated
about her past and thought over in her
mind the horrible things she was COM
PEELED TO perform during her present
career. Her reply was characteristic
OF her profession. She said. "Wbnp ono