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game of cards to see winch of their collaborators
they should deliwr he it to Germany, be it to
Fiance.
And so, as I say, these professional spies, who
handle the espionage of Knrope - who have
formed and perfected a clearing-house of treason in
the fair citv of Mmsels arc the hlackost and bas
est critninnis on this continent or on any other. Some
of them 1 have named: and I shall name others.
The Lady of Ostend
ALWAYS in that perturbed month of January;
fMienrge Charles Parrolt, a warrant olllcer in the
Roynl Navy was convicted at the Old Mailey in Lon
don of selling naval secrets to an "unknown man"
nt Ostend. lie was sentenced to four years hard
labor. There was a touch of romance in his story.
At a musie-hall in London one evening lie had sat
next to a pretty woman. She admired the represen
tation of a scene on the deck of a battleship, but the
Avarrant ollicer assured her it was not correct. So
they fell into talk; and they supped together. She
told him she was going to Ostend and asked if he
could not run over there for a week-end with her.
I'arrott said his holiday was almost due and he would
go. That was the beginning. In Ostend be was
brought into touch with a man who gave the name
of "Richard." And the poor fool of a warrant of
ficer, with twenty years of honorable service to his
credit, was persuaded to betray his country; and he
did it. of course, for money for the Lady of Os
tend docs not lead the simple life and her tastes are
expensive. Who this man was, I'arrott did not know.
All he could tell the court was that his address was
Monsieur Richard, Padre Herbert Carre, Weuk
slradte Hclgimn. And of the Lady of Ostend he
knew only that her name was Rose. What he did
not know, you may if you will read here.
In the blithest and most fashionable restaurant in
I'russels, where a gypsy band plays waltzes and rag
time, and girls chielly undesirables dance be
tween the tables, 1 sat with the Lady of Ostend and
ate little, coppery oysters that had also come from
Ostend. It was over three years since I bad seen
her. At that time she was under a cloud. Indeed,
she had been in prison at Hheims, charged with at
tempted treason. Her name at that time was Hose
Hennequiii.
"My name has always been Rose," she says smil
jng. When Hose smiles, one understands, in part, her
power over men.
She is thirty
now, or v it ! y
near it; tall.
slim, w 1 1 h a
pretty feverish
air of fascina
tion about her;
brown-eyed with
abundant hair of
a lighter dye ;
with nice lips
and teeth and
animated, gestic
ulating bauds.
Today she is the
most attract ie
of the great in
ternational Spies
do haute lin
age and with
the ono excep
tion to he noted,
she is the clc cr
est. First of all
she is a lady by
birth and educa
tion. She was
born (according
to the police rec
ords in Paris)
in 1SS-1, near
Orange. There
Is no need of
printing; h e r e
li o r fat h e r's
name. She was
married v e r y
young to a man
in the French
diplomatic serv
ice. She was a
w i 1 d, extrava
gant girl. What
she wanted was
inouey and she
found it. It was brought to her by that man who
llgured so conspicuously in the Mrcy fus case, the
man who called himself the Napoleon of Spies ami
who was the (icrman agent in Mrusscls Richard
de fucrs. She became one of his collaborator; and
she was one of the most successful. She worked in
France in conjunction with a man named llenne
(tiiii, whose name she has since been known by.
Richard de fuels became dissatislied with Hemic
quill and sold him to the French poluc :i! Ann-.
where he was imprisoned tor
three years. Rose lneanw hile rose
to high grades in the spy-seiicc
of Germany. She was entrusted
with the correspondence w Inch
passed between the (ieriuan an
thorities and their agents m
France. Her zeal, her attiwtv
and her Jiiicssr at traded the at
tention of the great elmis
Herman espionage and tlu e
trusted her with an importa '
mission. There for the iirsi, a' d.
I think, the only tune, she laded.
This is the way it happened.
Rose was summoned to Mrussels
by the Napoleon of Spies and
taken thence to Met, where she
was presented to the chief of tin
German spy-service. Major win
Rock, of the Kighth Mawirian.
who is known to the spies as
Paul Leopoldus. It was under
this name that all reports were
sent to him, the address being
simply "Metz." Von Rock is a
stout, high-colored man, over
fifty, with thick red mustaches. He is a free handed,
jolly-appearing man and the spies all speak hnjih oi
his generosity. His aidr-di'-tralicxmi is Schull.. a cap
tain in the engineers, who lives at No. S rue Sie.
Ilelene in Treves, and to whom letters are sent ad
dressed Fraulein Milon his wife's maiden name. In
addition to these, Rose met Louis Koch and a French
renegade. Schwartz who had once been a commis
sary of police near Paris. What they wanted was
a lot of important documents in the French military
bureau of Longwy-Ilaiit. They knew that a French
soldier of the name of Mariner had connaissaiice of
them. He was, at that moment, in the J;t2ud Infantry
stationed at Hheims. To him they sent the siren
Pierre Tliietscn, first of con
temporary ipies
Rose. Maibicr fell in low with her. as many men
lime fallen; hut He was honest and when she tried
to pcisuadc linn to betray his country he untitled his
colonel. And Rose, for a little while, knew lite ihnk
side of the pi ison-hoiisc of Rheinis.
She beliew'd that Richaul tie fuers for no one
spy trusts another -had sold her to the French
authorities. So she entered into a little colispnaix
numnM i lull Napoleon of Spies, aided by the Finn h
"sri ire ot itilormal ion." Richard de fuel's was keen
on yetting some of the cartriducs
of the Lehel rille. Rose had
I hem sent to him, hut the cai
indues had been "dosed" by
French engineers and the purls ot
the Lehel villi's sent him weie
ciiially "fake." Then she de
noiiuced de fliers to the Merlin
am horities and that Napoleon ot
Spies was sent otherwhere, tills
successor was Pierre Thiesscn, of
w hoin there is much to be said.)
"And the Kiiglishnian .'" I
asked.
Rose laughed softly.
iiiis alums fail Ic coup de
Iit Imrd," she said.
After all, Richard de fuers is
the Napoleon of Spies and it was
Ins historic method that brought
the Knglish warrant ollicer to Os
tend -and to dishonor. It was
the same plan he used with Thics
sen who was to succeed him as
chief of the German spy system,
with hcad-iiiartcrs in MrusscN.
Thiesscn was a uou commissioned
ollicer in I be Mclgian army, lie was stationed at Vcr-
ters. Handsome, wiiu. n spendthrift, he borrowed
money from de fuers. who urged him to go to Paris.
jjiij "M
""VOf will send me." fuel's said, "newspaper cor
respondence and clippings from the daily
papers I am establishing a press bureau here."
Soon the newspaper correspondence was trans
formed into plans of fortresses and photographs of
strategic railway lines; and Thiesscn was arrested
and imprisoned for fhe years in France. He re
lurncd to Melgiuin to take, dually, the place of fuers.
lie is known as Midler and as .lean Lacosle, hut
now and (hen for the sake of auhl lung syne
he assumes the name of his former chief. And it was
as Richard that be met the Knglish warrant ollicer,
engaged him as a "newspaper correspondent" en
tangled him in treason and, in the end, sold him with
cynical unconcern to the Mritish govcruincnt. That
is Richard's historic coup.
When a spy has risen to the high rank attained by
Rose lleiiiieiiiu, she receives her money and her in
si ructions direct from the army bead of the spy
system.
Thus, at present she is "working" for Major win
Rock. She sends him no letters from France, for
instance. That would be too dangerous, for cwry
Kuropcau po.stollice department has its "dark chain
her" where suspicious letters aic examined. In case
she has something of importance to communicate by
post the letter is sent across the frontier and put in
a German letter box. There is only one exception.
When Rose, or any other spy in good standing, needs
money word is sent by post-card. For example
some morning Paul Leopoldus receives a picture
post-card, representing the cathedral of Rouen. On
the card there is not a word, not a signature, not an
initial, not a mark; nothing. Hut Leopoldus under
stands. He steams the card for a moment and takes
off the postage stamp. Underneath is written in lead-pencil:
H. H. fill
fi()()
At dcuert ihe Announced gaily
thai ihr had a iurpriie for them all
It is as clear as day, Rose Ilciiucquiti, whose num
ber in the spy register is fi!f, requests that five hun
dred francs be sent her at Rouen; anil the next day
she receives a dve-liiiiidred-franc note in a plain en
velope. Hose is "working" to use her own eiipbimislic
phrase for Germany at the present time. And she
works indifferently in Kngland or France. It is her
business to get in touch with men so placed that they
can betray naval or military secrets.
"1 have never worked except in France and Kng
land," she said. "They wanted me to go to Russia,
but that did n't appeal to me. If anything had hap
pened ! The Russians arc not chivalrous no, I
won't work in Russia." (Cnulinucd on Page 12)
