Show H HISTORY'S STORYS STORY'S MYSTERIES ie c flat StAI Pact I s Hero Here tad ad Jd Ab Abro foal d The TIe Javanese Dancer HEn H FR true name a appears ars to ha have e been heen Marguerite Gertrude Zelle though the one by which she was much blUer bitter better and rather more notor notoriously known was Mile mc Mata Marl Uarl the title which she ehe took when she arule her o vows 8 as a n vestal priestess at nt the great grent BuddhIst temple of ot Burma at a n time when mixing In the affairs of or the great nations of or the cst est was wasas v wasas as asas as foreign to her ber thoughts as the World war was to the minds of or the majority of or people Rut But Mats Mata was as destined to come Intimately Into connection with the conflict of or nl tione an and finally On after atter a life lite of ot rays mys mystery tery to face f a firing squad In the fortress of or S The child of ot a Javanese mother and anda n a wealthy Dutch planter M J Zelle appears to hive hl been gh given en et e-c opportunities for education and training opportunities far above abo e those usually afforded to children of her race r Lien en before she slie entered the sen ser Ice of ot Buddha she gave ga signs ot of po possessing more thin th an ordinary ry tat tal talent ent for dancing and Ind during the ten years ye which she spent within thelIs the wails lIs of the nunnery Mata data Marl Uarl perfected her herself elt In the v wierd men measures ures In v which the nath natives cs wooed the benefIcence of ot their deities But Kut the world orld stretched forth Its first t tentacle In the shape of ot a young oung and person personable ble ble army anny officer who ho at attended attended tended one of the Buddhist festivals I and with whom Mata Inta fell In love e lovent at sight Less than a week eek liter later she escaped from the sanctuary and fled ledwith v with Ith her lover lo to Paris where here they were manned man led and lived hied for several se years It v was as not long tong however howe er be before before tore fore the French capital began to hear rumors of or a beautiful and extremely e graceful dancer d v who ho had brought with her nil all the sinuous sen sensuous move mo movements movements m ments of or the East presenting these before private ate audiences at special afternoon functions Society e ever er watching for some some- something something tiling some thing novel no enthused over o this new nev and her time fame spread rapidly to other parts of ot the continent Lon LOD LODdon London London don Madrid Rome nome Lisbon Berlin and Sienna all put In bids for her services and Mata lata lIar found It hard to melt meet all the cills cells for tor her art Apparently Apparent she divided her time equally among the different capitals but those who follon followed ed her career closely recalled later tint that she made a point of being In Berlin and Vienna at certain stated perIods of ot the year the year the time v when hen the agents of ot the the dreaded German secret service ser were ere gathered together for their confer conferences conferences behind locked doors However no suspicion attached It Itself Itself Itself self to the beautiful Javanese Ja until some time after the outbreak of ot the war She came and went ent unhindered by any thought of ot treachery tre and dur durIng durIng durIng Ing the first thc two years of ot the hostilities hostilities ties she flitted through Hot Hal Hoiland land Spain and gl undoubtedly In constant communication with Der Ber but unsuspected by hy the author authorities How much slun valuable le Information she had gathered during these trips was ne never er discovered ered but the tact fact that she spent huge sums of ot money upon her personal adornment and the support of ot her ber large and Imposing re retinue retinue retinue Is In Itself proof of the fact that the Germ German n secret service ered her v well ell worth orth her hire Finally the combination of ot her frIendship with Ith a n young officer of ot the BrItish tank tan corps and the fact t that the Germans had been receiving recel on an almost constant flow of ot Information about this most Important branch ot of the service sen een Ice led the h authorities to place Mata under a more strict sun surveillance Sensing this the dancer removed remo cd the scene of ot her op to Prance France but the In Instant tant she stepped ashore at Cherbourg the french took tool up the trail tr where here the British had h left off ocr Mata lata Marl was a l 1 marked woman Less Lees than a month lat later r she was vai placed under ar arrest arrest arrest rest and the verdict of the tho court martial was Guilty and condemned to be shot for tor high treason Just what secrets Mata Ilan had discovered disco ered how she man mac to get them past the watchful eyes c e es of the British h and French censor censors how lIo she received recel the money which enabled her to live lI In almost re regal nJ splendor and the v way ar iri In which she had h secured se- se secured se secured cured admittance to the charmed cir clr circle d cle o of ot the are arc only n a few of ot the m mysteries which sur surround surround surround round this remarkable m woman woman-ms woman s teries which she took too with her when hen on the morning of ot October 15 Hi she faced the rifles of ot the firing Squad In inthe inthe the court yard of ot the palace of Vin Vincennes cennes c A 2 by tho th wheeler Wb tl r Syndicate te |