The Washington times., 1937-12-07
Cast of Characters in
"Liselotte James the
Service"
LISELOTTE, who is engaged
to
CHARLES, who deploreS the
fact that his fiance can
not speak French.
ROSE. a World War victim
of circumstance.
A Secret Service Agent.

had ever seen. How on earth
Rose had succeeded in establish
ing her service, I could not
| fathom.
The papers I held we're reports
on positions and troop movements
on the French front. Then, sud.
denly, I understood, as I found
one of the original letters: these
communications we're from one of
her brothers, a staff officer.
How the letters reached her un-
censored, was still mystery, but
one that I was not concerned with
at the moment. The grave ques-
tion was to see Rose at once and
put stop to her activities.
called on Rose that very evening.
IMPENDING DEATH
She bridled at my first words
and asked me how I had come to
suspect her. "Oh, do not SuS-
pect you'll know, my DEAR" I
said mildly.
"You see, I hear a good many
things and I have heard among
others that your desk has been
burgled and the papers there de-
ciphered. You must have missed
them Now, just think for a
moment: you are putting both
your brother and your husband in
an awful position.
They'll both be implicated. 1t
means a courtmartial and perhaps
a death sentence for your brother
and diShonor for Kurt, who will
be accused of breaking his pa.
role E"
II don't know what you are
prattling about" she cried; you
must be suffering from the current
spy hysteria prevailing among
your Ally friends. They're losing
the war and they are scared out
Of their wits :"
Rose ranted and raved, bewailed
her fate at having married Ger
man, protested her love for her
husband, threatened to kill her
self.
"Oh, no." I said, with uncon.
cealed contempt; people like you
don't kill themselves-they just go
on being contemplate. Now,
mind you, my only concern is to
save Kurt pain and dishonor.
This whole affair may be
hushed up. You must part from
him until the end of the war. ]
am confident that it can be ar.
ranged for you to return to France.
You'll be safe from your own pas
Sions there ;"
A plan was forming in my brain.
would copy and surrender the
evidence, while destroying every
thing that pointed to it's source. I
knew I could arrange for Rose to
be allowed to live in France, under
discreet surveillance, and I also
knew that, though suffering from
the separation, Kurt would agree
to the move.
REGAINS POISE
Rose looked at me steadily. She
had regained her poise, and her
calmneSs at that moment sur
prised me. "It would be rather
hard to live in the country I have
learned to hate" she remarked,
evenly.
Il do not know that my nerves
could stand it. Will you kindly
give me proofs of what you call
my treachery?"
did. quoted from the papers
Liselotte had stolen. I explained
how the key to those damning re-
ports had been found.
Nobody knows that the infor.
nation emanateS from your
brother and that it was addressed
to you," I told her; but, unless
you consent to my plan :"
I admit nothing" she told me
coldly. Il still maintain it is a
plot to separate me from Kurt and
make me a tool in the unscrupu.
1ouS hands of war-maddened coun-
trymen. I shall find a way out
myself"
But I saw a new expression in
her eyes: a great determination,
something like a flame of renun-
citation.
l reflected at that moment that,
with all the assets at her disposal,
wealth, position, beauty and
charm, Rose Won AtterSbach might
have been a great figure in his
tory.
We parted on note of friendli-
ness. II believe" she said, "that
you have acted in good faith, &C.
cording to your lights, and know
that you are genuinely fond of
Kurt and jealous of his good
name. Well, so am I, and I think
I can prove it :.
by the way, you might take
thiS-provided you treat it dis
creetly :" She unlocked her
desk and handed me a thin sheaf
of letters and loose sheets of
paper.
worked late that night, pre-
pairing circumstantial report on
the leakages which had worried
the service. I felt fully justified
in inventing a story to explain
how the evidence had come into
my possession. 1t was plausible
story.
1t was great shock to ali their
friends when Rose Won Attersbach
died from all overdose Of veronal.
A shock, but hardly a surprise for