Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1932-04-23
adapted from The motion pietut,
By KAREN BROWN
By arrangement with
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4 After a while. he repeated. Good
bye" and took few steps away like
a man spellbound. having no real
idea Of where, he was going. When
6 he turned. the dancer stood notion
less. her. brooding eyes fixed on some
thing. far within Ill 4
Aiexlsl .8ei Il .ss 10 4e..ta
4 I'VE may never see each. other
\ again." she said. speaking with a
| strangely poignant clearness. "11
something should happen to you.,.
Il or to. me-. :. Iswant you to know that
| --that--for the first time I. wish my
Il life had been different. wish--No.
\ Watt. Alexts-aa Listenss carefully to
4 what I, tell YOU. I can t turn my life
II your way .sor. take, you mine. !.
But, WISH, L wish. that-it could
4 be sos" & II
i Natal. a
i Tearing herself away from his kiss.
she cried out. mo! Go! Go now!"
"Ill be coming back =. I'll be
| here on leave -
/ mo. no -. you mustn't! Good.
bye"
Eyes. I will! I'll live for that day!"
kiss me again X. and go!"
| Shortly after Rosanoff had left,
Mata Hari also departed from shu-
/ bins silent house.
| Her chauffeur. who had waited fer
| hours in the; Place Vendome, noticed
nothing but that she was preoccupied
and paler than usual. She was very
late for her appointment. But she
| was always late. She dismissed him,
1 which was also customary.
Half an hour later. she was sitting
upright in cab on the way to
| Adriana's smaller casino off one of the
| main boulevards. All her actions
since parting with Rosanoff had been
automatic. One would have thought
| that her instincts would have worked
| for escape at once. and SO they did,
but escape in the torturous way to
| which they had been adjusted. To
act as usual. to go the lressmaker's,
to dismiss her car. and all the while
to be escaping-that was her method.
Her conscious mind took no part in
this. She was thinking not Of flight,
but of death. Ironically enough,
Shubin. who had failed last night to
impress her with the idea Of death
had, by his own death. succeeded.
She had seen it now, even touched it:
Death was cold and-far away.
Where, was Shubin now?
| Adriana understood as soon as he
saw her that there had been a mis-
hap. Not that she was less composed
or less assured to the outward eye.
But her lips were shut shade too
closely. the skin was stretched a
shade too tightly over a head held a
shade too high.
When they were in his little office.
she told him without preface of any
sort.
"I've had to kill Shubin"
The dry. stony-eyed. elderly man
listened as If it were the most ordi-
nary affair in the world to the ac-
count of her morning. beginning with
the search and ending with the shot.
She did not omit Rosanoff's appear
ance, out Of sort of bravado. to show
him how well she could rise to an
emergency. but she did not tell how
that had ended.
"You still have the paper?" was his
6rst question.
She gave it to him and he at once
struck match and burned it in the
ash-tray. Not content with that. he
took the tray out himself and re-
turned with it empty.
ITS of no further use to U.S." he
explained. And he fitted together for
1>n. fa9~
the events that had transpired. CO.
menting them with knowledge which
| he possessed and guesses whose acute
ness she admired. until they formed
one pattern. Carlotta. the girl who
had committed suicide, had been able
to give Dubois only hints Of what
was going on before her sudden
death. Dubois knew that 1t was a
question Of Russian messages. He
knew that Shubin was involved Du-
bots had apparently called on the
latter to frighten him, to make him
remorseful or. falling that to trap
him. through jealousy. into be-
trayal.
l. And SIlubin. like a mad Russian.
fell into the trap, though not In the
way In which Dubois expected. When
Shubin is found-dead-whe Du-.
bots believes that he killed himself
or that he was shot. it is obvious
that he will warn the Russian authori-
ties that the messages Shubin had in
his possession previously had better
be nullihed and the code changed.
All our trouble for nothing"
II do not see how you could we'll
have done otherwise" he finished
biandly. Under the circumstances.
Of course, But 1t Is a pity you allowed
these circumstances to arise. You say
Shubin meant also to involve this
young-Rosanoff?" .+sa
It was question pointed by a
sharp CLEAN from the cold gray eyes,
and followed by one more direct.
You are sure that you did not lose
your head out -pity-or-pos-
sib,y something more serious--fo: this
young MANI"
How dare you say that to me.
Adrtana! l to lose my headl It was
necessary and now-what's to bs
done2"
TOMORROW-In Hiding