Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-27

list rather than rs the--the brute--as
you have been pleased to suggest.
am not cruel and | shall prove 1t TO
you"
In America. Excellenz. we do not
mako war upon women"
Nor do ] make war upon YOU" he
put in quickly. II did not bring you
to Germany. Fraulein. Herr Rlzzio
acted upon his own responsibility. Even
yet. IL he is an English agent, | cannot
understand his purpose in bringing such
an discriminating document"
He smiled as he spoke. but she felt
the question and its threat. For r..
moment the dircctness Of his attack be-
wildered her and SO she sipped her
chocolate to gain a moment of time.
General Won Stromberg." she said
at last, as the idea came to her, II am
told that you have one of the keenest
I feel much like child before YOU.
who should see matters much more
clearly than /. There were two reasons
why he brought me. one of which bears
upon our personal relations. the other
upon his relation TO England I knew
that he possessed your confidence. 9TH
| erwise he would not have been in posses
| sion Of n document which empowered Mr..
Hammersley to give up the secret mes
sage of Captain Byfleld, / knew too
England what | knew. his utility to
| England would have been gone"
why? II seems TO me that having
my confidence would have made his
utility to England the greater"
He would have been suspected OF
double dealing, would he not?"
AS friend of England you would
have let him be suspected?' he asked
quietly Given evidence against a man
whom you knew to be acting in Eng
| lands INTEREST,""
| There were Observation-Disclosures, -
she faltered. more Important to me
than England's-Mr Hammersleys
You have daughter, Excellenz. Per-
as you would think of her IN a similar
situation. When | read those papers
Mt Ashwater Park l knew that the man
to whom l was promised and of whom
had always thought as an English
man was acting as a secret agent--a
spy of Germany. He was pursued by
agents of the English War Office.
knew that II his connection with Ger
many We're discovered he would be
shot. was frightened: ! did moi
know what to do. John Rizzic followed
me to Scotland and tried to get the
papers / refused to give them to him
And then when--when Mr.. Hammersley
came | burned them. There was notn
ing left for me to do--for England
for him. If there were no papers ther,
could be no evidence against him."
She paused to get her breath. awar'
that her companion was listening in
teutly. and fearfully afraid that she wa
saying too much.
And then----?" he asked.
"And then" she went on more slowly
Il found the other papers. When
wouldn't give them to him. Mr. Ham
mersey took them away from me. w
quarreled. Excellenz, and l gave hin
up"
And after that"
After that came Mr.. Rzzio's not
asking me to go to Ben-a-Chielt and Sc
the meeting between Cyr--between Nj
Hammersley and your messenger in tn
last hope that | could make Mr.. Ham
mersley give up his plans TO deliver tn
message TO you. AS you know, l failed
1t was thereafter that-that MI
Rizzio, who had overheard our conyer
saton, tried to kill Mr.. Hammersle.
knowing that he had resolved TO delive
the message She got up and paced tn
floor. "Oh. II is so clear, what RiZzi
was, that I wonder that It should b
necessary for me to tell it to you"
"Yes. see. And the other-the per
sonal reasons you mentioned"
She hesitated. "It Is difficult to speal
of them--but will tell you. Mr. Rizzi