The Woman of Mystery

Unmasked and helpless, she maintained an attitude of challenge and defiance
BY MAURICE LEBLANC
AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF ARSÈNE LUPIN, THE TEETH OF THE TIGER, ETC.
NEW YORK THE MACAULAY COMPANY
Copyright, 1916. By THE MACAULAY COMPANY

Suppose I were to tell you, said Paul Delroze, that I once stood face to face with him on French. . . .
Élisabeth looked up at him with the fond expression of a bride to whom the least word of the man she loves is a subject of wonder:
You have seen William II. in France?
Saw him with my own eyes; and I have never forgotten a single one of the details that marked the meeting. And yet it happened very long ago.
He was speaking with a sudden seriousness, as though the revival of that memory had awakened the most painful thoughts in his mind.
Tell me about it, won't you, Paul? asked Élisabeth.