September 13, 1916 I actually had a bit of free time today, a very rare occurrence indeed, so I arranged to meet Nurse Haley Higgins over lunch. We’d met last summer when I delivered a wounded French operative to the triage unit in Beauvais, and she saved his life. I recently discovered she was to be stationed in Amiens for a few weeks during the same time I would be there as well.   How fortuitous! A little cafe on …

August 19, 1916 ​ As usual, I’m carefully using my own code system to record my life as an operative. A year has past and I find that I have almost settled into a kind of normalcy. It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable the human spirit really is. I take on my given role as Mademoiselle LaFleur everyday almost as if donning a familiar dress, and my real identity almost fades into the background. One thing I’ll never …

June 14, 1916  Yesterday I was summoned to a farm on the outskirts of a village just inside the border of Belgium near Passchendeale. Members of the French and Belgium spy network had stolen a German wireless set and struggled with its operation. Since I had some experience with operating a wireless and a basic knowledge of morse code, I was asked to help.  It was set up in one of the upper rooms of the house with the antenna …

Baby ~ Just when I thought I had done and seen just about everything imaginable as a secret service operative, yesterday, life threw me another surprise yesterday. I’d been visiting a farm on the outskirts of a village just on the German side of the front belonging to a family who’d been distributing food to French soldiers at the front. This was strictly forbidden, of course, since much of the food grown on farms in occupied France is seized by …