She married there and pretended that her wife's child was
her own son. She removed to Seville, still serving as a
policeman, and was engaged there as cook and orderly at the
governor's palace. She served seven successive governors. In
consequence of the discovery of her sex she has been discharged
from the police without the pension due to her; her wife had died
two years previously, and "Fernando" spent all she possessed on
the woman's funeral. Mackenzie had a soft voice, a refined face
with delicate features, and was neatly dressed in male attire.
When asked how she escaped detection so long, she replied that
she always lived quietly in her own house with her wife and did
her duty by her employers so that no one meddled with her.
In Chicago in 1906 much attention was attracted to the case of
"Nicholai de Raylan," confidential secretary to the Russian
Consul, who at death (of tuberculosis) at the age of 33 was found
to be a woman. She was born in Russia and was in many respects
very feminine, small and slight in build, but was regarded as a
man, and even as very "manly," by both men and women who knew her
intimately.
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