The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-31
CContinued from Yesterday

 duving the WIT none cut a more inn posing or romantic figure than the Anglo-Egyptian who passed by the name of Madame Take Ramallah- This woman was an adventures of common antecedents but uncommon cleverness. She set up in West End flat soon after the outbreak of the war, and obtained 0 reputation as palmist, fortune-telle-, nd later as a medium who could bridge the gulf beyond the grave, and put bereaved ones in communication with their dead. Her salon, as she called It was a dream of Oriental splendor. It was furnished with exquisite taste, being covered with the best carpets and hung with gorgeous tapestries. The rooms were sweet with the fra grant perfumes of the East, and ebout the place there was an atmos- phere of luxury and grandeur that had a. soothing and deadening effect on the senses. Just the right atmos- phere for the trickery that was car ried on by the occupant.
 Soon Became Popular
 I first heard of madame in Decem- Der. 1914. Then her name was whfs- pered about in the West End as one who could be relied on to read the future for all who were anxious about
 
 on different fronts. There were tales of how she had foretold the fate of this and that man of note who had fallen in the early days of the war. l have no doubt these stories were put about by the well-connected toats of the woman. They had their ef- fects, and people soon became so pop uiar there, that admission could only be gained by making appointments.
 L l ExA 1ax advance.
 When Madame Ramallah first came under my care after her convic- ton before the Court martial I made various attempts to get her to tell me something of the methods by which she had rendered herself so useful to her employers. I failed un- til I tried flattery, and then it be- came easy enough, for she was exces- sively vain.
 "1fadame Ramallah," said, do you know that you are the only woman agent of the Germans who has given us real trouble by reason of the information you got hold of, and not only got hold of, but succeeded in sending out of the country. am moved to intense admiration every time I think of what you have done. and merely as a matter of curiosity
  managed to get together all those facts about the distribution of our troops in different theatres of war and about the output of munitions, aeroplanes and ships"
 The woman smiled after tho man ner of a person well pleased with his or herself "You are very good to pay me such a compliment" she Sn- swered with a bow that was meant to
 11tlf ma CT do not deny that have gifts out of the common, and I have employed them to serve those who were willing to pay. In doing so I have proved myself too clever for some of the best brains in your Secret Service. Is it not so?"
 F1attery Succeeds
 "Yes." I answered. 'T must admit that you are right, but how did you manage to keep 1t up for so long? l am simply dying with curiosity to know. It was wonderful of you"
 Again there was a. smiling grimace. and the woman replied, "It was very difficult work, and only a person of exceptional gifts could have done it. l thought myself of the notion of starting the palmistry business, be- cause ' realized that people that were credulous enough to believe in such things could be imposed on and in duced to talk about things they ought not to talk of. I made a. modest be- ginning and found 1t so successful that [ tried 1t on a larger and more ambitious scale."
 Tt was not always women who were the offenders. catered for of- ficers back from the front. and you would be surprised if told you some of the names of those who came to
 Il +s@r4 for people I could trust, and with these I went over the great map, pre- tending to tell them exactly where they were likely to meet there death or incur great danger. In going through this farce I always asked my clients to point out to me the exact position in the line where their unit was at the moment"
 In this way obtained information that was frequently far more accurate than that in possession of the War Office. These people never suspected that this information was wanted for an improper service. They were so convinced that my occult powers and SO forth were right, and the thing scanned so much in harmony with my professions that they took it all as a matter of course, and my victims ranged from humble privates to gen erals
 Remarkable Luck
 "I remember on one occasion I had n long sitting with a Brigadier-Gen- eral. who was killed at the front la- ter, and in his case I had a remark able stroke of luck. I had pretended to tc in a trance, in order that might the better commune with the spirits and obtain from them an in- dication of the probable fate of my client. I went over the whole Of the battle front, mentioning the divisiohs in line in such a vague way as to trap the General into correcting me where l was in error"
 Just about that time the Germans mud made a break in tho Allied line, and there had been a thoroush re- grouping. My map was more than usually faulty and it waG of great im- portance to the Germans to know - e