Chapter 250 Lady in White

Lucia poured herself a cocktail, held it with two slender fingers, walked lightly around the bar and came to Charles, leaned on the table, and raised the glass to Charles with a smile, "Colonel, if you say you will pay for everything, does that include this drink?"

"Of course!" Charles answered.

The officers around him started to make a noise. Lieutenant Colonel Fernand patted Charles on the shoulder, leaned closer and whispered in Charles' ear: "You are lucky, Colonel. Many people want to buy Lucia a drink but no one can do it!"

Charles just smiled and said nothing.

The officers tactfully made room for Charles and Lucia in a corner, and Lucia sat down in front of Charles with ease.

Then she suddenly noticed that there was vigilance in Charles' eyes, and his hand was even on the revolver at his waist.

"You don't seem to welcome me?" Lucia asked puzzledly.

Charles' voice was cold: "Tell me, what do you want from me?"

Lucia was stunned, then laughed: "I don't know what you are talking about!"

"I overheard what you just said to Garel." Ciel stared at Lucia, "You can't refuse a rich hero."

"Is there any problem?" Lucia still had a smile in her eyes. She even looked Charles up and down teasingly, like a leopard looking at its prey.

"If I hadn't met Dominic, I would probably have believed you," Charles replied, his fingers gently unbuttoning the holster.

Lucia's face changed slightly, she knew where the problem lay.

Charles said slowly, "Before this, I could understand that you were a woman who advocated independence. Of course, there are some people in this world who are unwilling to give up love for money, and you may be one of them. However, you generously told others that you approached me for money."

Lucia laughed, her beautiful blue eyes looking directly at Charles fearlessly, and said with a hint of embarrassment: "Maybe, you can have both money and love..."

"You are more like a spy." Charles interrupted Lucia: "Being a bartender in the officers' club can help you get a lot of information you need. Dominic may be a good choice, but you can't choose him because you have to obey the orders of your superiors. Am I right?"

Ever since Charles met Harry at the ball, he has become more wary of women.

He had always thought that spies were far away from him and that they were characters that only appeared in movie plots. Since then, he discovered that spies were actually around him.

Lucia in front of us may be one of them.

Charles took out his revolver, held it in his hand, pointed it at Lucia in front of him under the cover of the table, and said, "If I arrest you now and send someone to search your house carefully, maybe we can find something as evidence."

Then Charles added: "Even if we can't find it, there's no loss, right?"

Lucia's expression changed again, with a flash of panic in her eyes. She glanced around and shook her head gently: "You can't do this, Colonel!"

Ciel said, "Hmm," "You have one minute!"

The reason why Charles didn't take action was because espionage during this period was too complicated.

Lucia may not necessarily be a German spy. She could also be from Britain, Russia, or an informant planted by capitalists in the military.

Except for the former, all the others can be considered "our own people".

"I..." Lucia hesitated and explained, "I don't know how to convince you. I don't belong to any organization you know. In fact, we organized ourselves..."

Charles continued to hold the pistol in his right hand, picked up the wine glass on the table with his left hand and took a sip, and ordered in a cold and expressionless voice: "Go on, you'd better tell the truth!"

"I'm originally Belgian." Lucia looked at Charles with a trace of admiration and sincerity in her eyes: "Your actions in Belgium have inspired many people! Therefore, we spontaneously organized a team. We hope to do something for this war, and we hope to make a difference under your command!"

Charles raised his eyebrows. It sounded like that.

The Belgians did have such a need. After all, helping the Allies was helping themselves, and Charles had a strong appeal to Belgium. He was almost the embodiment of victory.

But of course Charles would not easily believe this woman. Spies are very good at acting, especially female spies. They are good at using their beauty and even their bodies to make men believe their words. Harry is a living example.

"You mean..." Charles looked at Lucia sarcastically, "You've been here for so long just to get in touch with me?"

"You can say that." Lucia nodded gently: "But you come here too seldom. Last time I thought it was a rare opportunity, but it was ruined by Dominic!"

Charles recalled that Lucia did seem to want to talk to him through Lieutenant Colonel Fernan, but then Dominic showed up...

Ciel smiled and shook his head: "Lies, you don't have any evidence to prove that what you said is true."

"How else can I prove it?" Lucia said anxiously and angrily, "Perhaps you should prove that we are guilty first. We have not done anything to harm the war. On the contrary, we have provided the British with a lot of intelligence!"

"British?" Charles looked at Lucia in confusion.

"Yes!" Lucia replied, "The British intelligence network is much stronger than that of France. We know some British spies, so we secretly provide them with military intelligence through civilian connections."

Then Lucia seemed to have thought of something: "You can go and verify with the British. We have provided the locations and number of artillery pieces of two artillery positions near Condos Town and Anrol, as well as the deployment of Anatol's troops!"

An organization called "Lady in White" suddenly popped up in Charles' mind.

This organization, as Lucia said, was a spontaneously organized Belgian civilian organization that wanted to provide intelligence to the Allies, so they contacted the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and became part of its spy network.

During the war, he made many outstanding contributions and provided a lot of valuable intelligence to the Allied Powers.

Moreover, this organization does not need any funds or support. They have only one request: to be recognized as fighters rather than spies.

They want to be seen as fighters fighting against invaders.

Ciel asked doubtfully, "You want to fight under my command? So, what are the conditions?"

Lucia shook her head slightly: "There are no conditions. We just want to be regarded as soldiers and have the same organization as the troops!"

Charles felt a little dizzy.

This should be because she has established a reputation in Belgium. The "Lady in White" did not go to the British as in history but found herself, and the time of her establishment seems to have been advanced!

(End of this chapter)