The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-26
wonderful gift in that direction"
 Marvellous Memory,

This was not idle boasting. tested her many times by retailing to her the details of various buildings and machines, and calling on her at later stages to put them on paper for me. She did so without the slight est error, and on the day before she was sent from London to begin her sentence at a convict prison she de- monstrated for the last time to me this uncanny gift of outlining on a sheet of paper the actual position of certain mines and other defences .of Dover. This information she had wormed out of an officer who had ac- cess to the information, and it was in connection with this that she scored her one great success over the |, authorities here.
 They knew of her conversations with the officer, and they dealt with him, and renewed their watch to pre- vent her getting this information out of the country. They were convinc- ed that she had not put it away, but they were mistaken. How it was done may never be known, but the plans did reach Germany, and the Teutons attached the utmost import ance to their possession.
 Not for more than two years did
  count by a sudden descent with des- troyers on Dover. In this daring raid, had they cared to push it through the Germans might for a time have had Dover harbor at their mercy. They contented themselves with sinking one ship and smelling the defences.
 There was an inquiry into the cir cumstances of how the Germans got through our defences, and it was prov ed that they had in some way ob- tained the plans from this spy.
 My own impression is that they were handed to one of the woman's accom- plices. who was in touch with Ger many through the United States questioned her on the point but did not get much satisfaction.
 That is my secret,' she said, and I will take it with me to the grave. It was one of the cleverest things I did, and if the whole story were told the public would have a big sur prise.'
 After our casual meeting in the restaurant saw a good deal of Wer- theim, and I never lost touch of her. I was keeping near to the centre. of the German espionage system in London. She never suspected any thing about me that would make her think me anything else other than what I claimed to be, a cinema ac- tress, with Bohemian tastes. Not once did she admit that she was a spy, but kept up the pretence that she was getting information for the fun of it, just to sharpen her wits at the expense of the not over discreet officers with whom she spent a great deal of her time.
 One night as I sat with her over coffee in a little resort off Lisle Street she suddenly said to me
 Why don't you become a spy for the Germans? You can get information easily from the people you meet, and you know great deal now. The Ger mans are keen on getting the slight est hints of what is going on here I have a friend who does that sort of thing, and he has more money than he knows what to do with. One night I was dining with him when a naval officer I knew came to say good bye. He told me he was going East My friend asked a, few casual questions. and satisfied himself that the Allies contemplated making war on Turkey That hint was worth more than fifteen hundred pounds to him. Why should not you do this sort of thing? You are not English by birth, and you do not love England"
 could see that she 2 was very anxious to get a favorable answer, and that satisfied me on one point, for it convinced me that I was at last on the track of the mysterious wo- man who had been doing work for Germany by melting other women to act as agents collecting information We had long suspected that this was being done, because we had found that certain woSlen were pump ing officers, and that these women were possessed of more money than usual.
 Afterwards I verified my suspicious, and established beyond doubt that this was the work that had just been allotted to this dangerous person. I did not tell her that though I was not English, was a F'renchwoman mar ried to an Irishman then fighting in France. but pretended to fall in with her suggestions.