Mata Hari

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She was the second child of Adam Zelle and his wife Antje van der Meulen and was the only girl in a family of four boys. M'greet was the nickname her family gave her.</I></div> <div> <I>In a family and society known for fair-skinned, blonde, blue-eyed folk, the pretty M'greet was noticeable for her thick black hair, black eyes, and easily tanned olive complexion. Neighbors thought she had either Jewish or Javanese blood. The latter was suggested because Java was a part of the Dutch East Indies.</I></div> <div> <I>Adam Zelle had a successful hat business in an era when virtually no man would be seen in public without a hat. He kept his family in comfortable circumstances and seemed to especially enjoy indulging his vivacious and lovely daughter.  She would someday recall that her father seemed to regard her as “an orchid among buttercups.”</I></div> <div> <I>For her sixth birthday, her father gave her a most special present: a miniature carriage to which two goats were harnessed. Manually skilled, Papa Zelle had made the carriage, which would seat four passengers. Young M'greet knew how to drive a carriage because she had often taken the reins of her father's jitney so she was delighted to show off her present and pick up her friends in it. </I></div> <div> <I>In many ways, M'greet showed a flair for the dramatic early on.  She loved wearing flamboyant clothes to school and regaling pals with stories of her exalted origins. “I was born of illustrious ancestors,” she would claim. “My cradle stood in Caminghastate.”  The Caminghastate was a mansion in Leeuwarden in which an authentically noble family resided. M'greet sometimes told them she lived in a castle.  Although her friends suspected her stories were fantasy, she was still a popular person. Teachers liked her too for M'greet was a bright child who showed herself especially quick with languages.</I></div> <div> <I>Disaster struck the family when M'greet was thirteen years old. Adam Zelle went bankrupt as a result of a series of misguided speculations on the stock market. After selling off their nice furniture, the family moved from its spacious home in one of the better parts of the city to a tiny, shabby house in a poor section. Adam told them he was going to Amsterdam to try his luck there and left Antje to look after four children by herself.</I></div> <div> <I>Antje was not up to the task. She soon became deeply depressed, then physically ill. She died when M'greet was fifteen years old. Although she was a “daddy's girl,” M'greet had also been quite close to her mother and took her death very hard.</I></div> <div> <I>Adam Zelle came home for the funeral but did not repossess his young. Instead, he distributed them among those relatives who could be persuaded to take in an impoverished and orphaned young person. M'greet went to her godfather's house in the small town of Sneek. By this time, M'greet had attained her full height of five-feet-ten inches tall and towered over other females. Indeed, she was taller than the average Dutch </I><I>man</I><I> at the time and this was considered a distinct disadvantage in gaining suitors.</I></div> <div> <I>The godfather, Heer Visser, suggested that M'greet try to get training as a kindergarten teacher. M'greet took the hint. She knew she was not really wanted in the Visser household and did not enjoy being the object of dutiful charity.  She was soon on her way to the town of Leyde to a school for future teachers run by Heer Wybrandus Haanstra.</I></div> <div> <I>The school emphasized that teachers were to be disciplinarians with their small, rambunctious charges. The softhearted M'greet did not like to bring switches down on the palms of little kids and was thought unsuited for the work for which she was training.</I></div> <div> <I>She had another major problem and that was the proprietor of the place, fat Heer Wybrandus Haanstra. He was infatuated with M'greet and the lonely girl appeared to reciprocate his feelings, at least partially. Their romance caused public consternation that erupted into a scandal. Ironically, the focus of disapproval was not the older male who made advances but the relatively powerless female who was the object of them. Thus, M'greet was forced to leave the school in disgrace.</I></div> <div> <I>The bewildered M'greet sought refuge with her uncle, Heer Taconis, in The Hague. In Heer Taconis' home she did domestic chores and ran errands and generally tried to make herself useful for the family that had been good enough to take her in. She was soon eighteen and thinking of matrimony.</I></div> <div> <I>She had two major disadvantages in attracting men.  The first was her height since most men, and then as now, want a woman who is shorter than they are. The second was that she had very small breasts in a culture that idealized the hourglass figure.  She learned to disguise her mammary shortcomings by putting stockings into the fronts of her undergarments. However, M'greet was unquestionably pretty, had a certain exotic look about her, possessed grace and style and so was found attractive by many males.</I></div> <div> <I>The family moved into Abawara, a city in the heart of the island. M'greet found Java enchanting. She simply loved its lush vegetation and the physical grace so common among its people. Unlike most of the wives of other Dutch military officers, she adored wearing sarongs like a native.</I></div> <div> <I>However, the old problems of their marriage followed them to their new home and Rudolph was often jealous as other men tried to flirt with his wife. M'greet wrote in despair, “My husband won't get me any dresses because he's afraid that I will be too beautiful. It's intolerable. Meanwhile the young lieutenants pursue me and are in love with me. It is difficult for me to behave in a way which will give my husband no cause for reproaches.”</I></div> <div> <I>Rudolph's bad temper worsened and he was mean to servants as well as his wife. He openly took a native woman as a concubine and informed M'greet that such a practice was customary in this neck of the woods so she would just have to adjust to it. He was often drunk and enjoyed marital rapes. </I></div> <div> <I>M'greet found herself pregnant during Java's dreaded monsoon season. Heavy rains poured relentlessly down on the country, making transport difficult and sometimes nearly impossible on its dirt roads. Thus, a frustrated, bored, depressed, and often battered M'greet spent much of her pregnancy trapped in her own home. </I></div> <div> <I>Probably in order to ensure her utter dependence on him, Rudolph flatly forbade his wife to learn to speak Malay, the language of the people of Java. However, M'greet discreetly got around her husband's order. Like most things Javanese, she found the Malay tongue particularly melodious and charming.</I></div> <div> <I>M'greet delivered the couple's second baby May 2, 1898. If she hoped that another child would revitalize their marriage, the new mother was sadly mistaken for Rudolph was disappointed at its being a girl. He named his daughter Jeanne Louise after his sister but the child was usually called by the Malay name Non.</I></div> <div> <I>After a year passed, Rudolph was called to Medan, Sumatra. He could not immediately take his family with him but would send for them after he arrived. He dropped his wife, infant daughter, and toddler son at the comptroller's house. </I></div> <div> <I>Yet again, M'greet found herself feeling like an outsider in the home in which she lived. Rudolph was slow at sending the promised support payments so she also experienced the familiar, guilty sensation of being a freeloader - only now she had two babies dependent on her.</I></div> <div> <I>Despite their many marital woes, M'greet was delighted when she got Rudolph's missive summoning her and the children to his home in Medan. His residence was a spacious and well-built home for Rudolph was now a garrison commander.</I></div> <div> <I>As the commander's wife, it was M'greet's duty to give lavish parties and this was a responsibility she undertook with aplomb. As Erika Ostrovsky in </I><I>Eye of Dawn</I><I> writes, M'greet “could reign like a queen. Dressed in the latest fashions imported from Amsterdam, a paragon of beauty and elegance, she conversed with visitors in their native language - whether Dutch, German, English, or French - gave instructions to the servants in Malay, played the piano most musically, danced with unusual grace.”</I></div> <div> <I>The marriage of Rudolph and M'greet benefited enormously for Rudolph was finally proud of his wife and grateful to her for the assistance she gave him in being a social success. </I></div> <div> <I>Then their world came crashing down in a single night of horror. It was June 27, 1899, and M'greet had settled down to her comfortable bed for the night. Suddenly she heard terrible screams of agony from the children's nursery. She leapt up from her bed and raced up the stairs to their room.</I></div> <div> <I>The room stank of vomit and both youngsters were soaked in it. Moreover, the vomit itself was a bizarre black color. The children convulsed in pain, their bodies twisting grotesquely as they cried and shrieked. Weeping and terrified, M'greet hugged her vomit-covered children to her while a frantic Rudolph ran from the house in search of a Dutch doctor.</I></div> <div> <I>Little Norman was dead by the time the physician arrived. The doctor pulled the sick Non from her mother's grasp in order to take the child to the hospital.</I></div> <div> <I>The daughter was saved and eventually made a full recovery. Both children had apparently been poisoned. No one ever proved who had done the dreadful deed but it was widely rumored that it was a perverse retaliation by someone, possibly a servant Rudolph MacLeod had wronged.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>