Summary

As Mata Hari waited to be searched so she could enter The Hague, a man whom she did not know threw a letter at her. The officer took the letter, looked at it and told his partner that the man running away from them was a deserter. The partner went after the man with a gun. Mata Hari did not look, choosing to hope he had gotten away. When she looked at the letter the man had given her, she saw it was a letter to his fiancé. He had already been in a firefight with French troops and had killed someone. Because he could not do it again, he was deserting.

One year later after Mata Hari was settled in The Hague she decided to talk to Franz’s friend from Germany in hopes that he could arrange for her to go...