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    STARTLING EXPOSURE OF INNER LIFE OF KAISER AND CROWN PRINCE AS I
TOLD BY COUNT ERNST VON HELTZENDORFF TO WILLIAM LEQUEUX
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«4*. who here >h'«>alr|r* for hi*
4 Kraat v«a Helt»end«rlff,
<k hthfh rrtrlailea« of the lamer
tile « 4he Imperial uraie mart. ba»
• a rreufaivol throcshoaf F.a
rwpe •* the pwrwi r of It* taaeruaont
TW I asthh -Who* U hi." way* off
kiaa: -He haa Intimate knowledge «,f
the aeem «rr%W of < oatineatal rt.an
trlrti and In runeUrroi lay tke gutrra*
meat f «.reat Hrlndk* an aathorftty «■
•aei auttrn - % mother satburity nay a:
-f rw fM-wpir have krra raotr elo*e|> M*
nar-taied with or know a«rr of the
Mteaadlac lamer aui< kiaery of c.er
ama y tku he. ’
1 v*4 ur an peokahly kw more *our«-e»
•f ne- ret la format torn at hi* eomtunad
than may eoatemporary la elvll life, and
f*»r the last alt yearn the ftlrltl»h *•«'
rraarat ha* made valuable ume of Lin
*ani •tier of *r* rrt laformation through
n Ope-tally r* u aired department with
wki«-k letlarai work.* an a vvlaaiary
analwaat
« «uat im lieStaeadorfl beenme an in
timate of letgoeat ueverai year* prior
«a tke out break off the war; he ha* been
iJvtac la retlremeat la I roan- »iaee
%a«not. 1*1* aad It wan there that l.e
«iaeas re* * i% rd from the erowa prtnee**
late pemoaai ndjataat pern»l»*i to
make pahlte * krvr revelation* of the
tairr life of the Hobeanollerao— t l»at
the depone melon of the world mticht
* me to know the real, bat heretofore
hidden, personalities ol the two dotui
r* , i the aula rao they are
I rf a&alpnl
OH-H tllllllllllllllli t"H
T T
* The Kaiser's Secret X
♦ t
X Trip to the Hague, i
^ i i i it ,--t * 1 ■*
ON. I... CM - 111 1 «*T 1 WHS
i,iI.ylag •* "he ternu* of the
. of li:ilt*erg. at that
:t> s*---- "h of the
l_*e J - . rr Srtaa. uh*>m the
«ci- r >r ‘ftea v. sited.
*«'. 'll,.' ■ -.Us gill U'e iiinl arrived
with * Lu,:..«-r *u* state and a large
tturr.tter attendants. a:ul
C.r.i,; 'h.- .loumey h.« majesty .bail
a v• ci * receiving the daily re
j~ r- - - grnug iloTineub that had been
-•:."*'l * ■ 1... . atwi di-"u::ng - ae
jnermami letters tn French to certain
aovanipw with whom he wu« on
fr.e;,-; 1. r.t.s
1 * blt-k. however tliat "Ur l. ■*: t>e
eacie *"Ti ■., irritated at the frequent
Tt»tt» if t « imperial guest, for certain
ly what with 'be estubi.slmietlT of the
ip" u. *i-o-griiph '■* Berlin and a spe
cl*. offi • and the finding of ac
> -bit .n f« r the • - wd of te-rson
al afetciab's. each vis.t must have
-• ;.r . V.«n a c Uiiider
*i*.e am -uat.
1 t.. ready t-ren busy upstairs in
the r i-uried to Hie, and had colue
• u- • a vadk in the warm and
w»- - '■,.tisb.,n» when suddenly 1
saw ", 1 ■ emperor in a suit of brown
civilian -* striding toward* me.
I!- -.-exed t be in a humorous tuond
and . ».-• w.t • •- as I v.alkeid lies. ie
him.
Sou halted, as though re
C'.-ie- -mg - itnethiag and a»tged:
‘ U- t*et rff. have you with you
some .f r paper for 1:14s.riant docu
ments'*''
'» er*ain’t.” my r«-p.y.
Ah * 1 • e11 pie: place Some of it
with envelopes upon my table, and also
v - t. I> rim to send here ten cou
riers."
"Tec count rs? I e- hoed in surprise.
' d •-* ten. I may want ewe twelve
or more."
I * '-1 and re*titered the schloss
' put th. imperial command over the
wpe ... wir* i tter wh I took out
and pia- —d u|s •, the .mper.-r's table
•otue -beets of that sp-.-ial dark blue
paper -> b, b '--an* the imperial crown
and cipher embossed in black, with
.fie a or*d* tn • small ”d*a-unient of
■h. b.gbeat ini|« .rtance." the fonnid
- » ng env.-b.prs to match bear
.» the same words.
Jus- before eight o'clock that night
- « informed that the couriers were
■ting below, uni on descending
.:. i si 1 "f tii- imperial messengers
: t iur tr-cii 'he ministry of foreign
-- ready to travel anywhere, even
t he uttermost ends of the earth.
* atupencous Hoax
*■ Informing hi* majesty, the lat
’er 1—1 to in- about thirty of the
»r*:i' ue envelopes containing “docu
n.-:. >1 th- highest Imi-ortauoe," ad
dress'd la Ills own hand to various of
: -r- .f state, princes. princesses, an(j
■■■• ’ ;-r • ht i ■ -pie in parts af
fhr empire.
“These are to be taken at once. Ilelt
■ . -r* ” the cl [—r<>r said “Th- mes
«—pur« ue to bring as replies. “
"In -very eaaeV I asked.
I • - In every case.’ hr answered.
Then I carried the batch of corre
•’ideljee l-eb-W. and lull- ti pUZZted at
■I nature <-f this latest activity in
I r • Mter-wrifing. I handed them
’be uners. who sorted them out
«..vl . • r.-.uted them among them
selves.
lia.. a: hnur later the d-H-utr-ents
■ aveyed to various parts
-»f the empire
V I
th- k:. ser laugh-nc quietly to
»■< Mpdnaa *hat eaa
The rr»s-a. Ur signed Home docu
mmam I read to Mm. but ever and anon
a broad smile would cross hie usually
fern features.
Until a week afterwards I did not
learn the cause of the Imperial m-rrl
c-ent. but when I did I burst into loud
laughter myself.
Those envelopes containing “docu
t • at* of high-— Importance” each con
tUucd only a comic ta-stcerd. which
emperor had purchased during a
*i“it to Saart-mck.
The kaiser had played a huge Joke
at- those whom he despised, for the
delivery of these formidable imperial
dispat- h-s created a great stir in the
i* of their recipients. Old
ancces were awakened in ihe middle
- f tile night ti* be handed dispatch
fro::: tie emperor; old prl:*esses
jurair-d out of tied to receive an im
I»crial communication; officers tore
p-n th> envelopes eagerly expecting
high appointments: the admiral of the
grand fleet believed that war had been
.- ■ ;.r--*!; and insignificant foreign di
plomats were under the impression
'hut 'he emperor had at last deigned
to notice them.
Tie v. t >|e tiling was u huge joke in
• t. • liv the kaiser on the castle ter
ra'-.-. and ftie court and the imiierial
family were in fits of laughter over it
- for a week.
A Message to the Emperor.
One afternoon when we were back
again at the palace at Potsdam the
i.per. r was explaining to me u cer
tain order h wished carried out. Pres
ently on- "f the flunkeys entered with
. private note for his majesty. The
:::p* r >r r*-ad it. and instantly I saw
•hat his - ountenance grew pale and
r:: s manner changed.
lb read it again, and then re-read
' hi- lips compressed, his eyebrows
narrowed, and his cheeks unduly pale.
Afterwards he struck a match and
■ urtie ! the left* r in the grate.
T! it missive no doubt contained
s"!a- grave news, the nature of which
1 : -• gu> ss, because he suddenly
Lis work. and. telling me to
meet him iii the study at eight o'clock
•; • evening he strode out.
\\ .. h. had gone out I picked up
* tinder and examil ■ d it.
• • wa» - - charred that I could not
re;.: :.r:y . though from the two
t:.ariis af the pen 1 realized
v •:» ■ l.:i-l been written by the hand
I of a woman.
it I it r I learned that the eni
5-r-T had 1 ft Potsdam. He had by
..that letter evidently become
seriously j»nurbed.
I called the flunkey who had handed
* r: - missive and questioned him.
lb 1.:. 1 r-ceived it fr cn another serv
: *.t v.; lu.d re-viv .1 it from someone
■ ■;« uat at last I discovered that it
* >•,. handed by a young girl to
■ of -entries on duty outside the
I a lace, who in due course had sent it
.u to majesty.
'
ridors tl: t evening 1 met bald-headed
••Id Vo;, Klupfel. who was at that time
grand ' hamberlain. ami be beckoned
me i;.-o his cozy room. Then, when the
b~ r >.as closed, he asked—
"What has happened? The emperor
has left incognito utid all of a sudden.
The stg’e 1 ; II toiiii ;to\v night lias been
cancelled."
"Cancelled!" I echoed. "Where has
emperor gone?"
"N dj kic vs—except Herman,
i - personal valet, whom he has taken
with him."
“Cur ms.” I remarked, thinking of
the le'tcr. though, of course. I told Von
Kl : nothing of it. Whatever tran
s; red within his majesty's study was
• ■ .... n t.
M re than one serious family quarrel
. ! urred there in my presence.
"\V. - tnething serious has cer
tvinly iic. urred. That is my belief,”
d-ciared the old chamberlain. “‘Uncle'
7.- ppelin was coming to the palace to
morrow ot> a visit, and I have just sent
him a telegram to postpone his jour
• uey.'”
“P !,i< majesty had two important
engagements tomorrow, and. in addi
t :i a military parade In Berlin,” I
wild.
All i- canceled, my dear Von Helt
zendorff." replied the old fellow. “The
• peror t.: - left for a destination un
- own I suppose 1 had better report
: ids absence to the imperial chancel
lor?" he added.
"No. if I were you I would say noth
ng. " 1 replied. “For some private rea
son his majesty has evidently been
forced to go on a journey. Without
d >ubt I shall hear from him tomorrow.
As soon as I do so I will tell you."
A Telephone Message From “Herr
Zeller.”
My expectation was realized, for the 1
! next day just after six o'clock in the •
evening I received a telegram dispatch- !
•si from Haarlem, in Holland, ordering !
me to go to the Adion hotel, in Berlin, j
at once and register there. The con- I
eluding words of tjie message, sent in j
English, wire: “You will receive a j
, telephone call at 10:30 tonight.” It'
was signed “Zeller,” one of the names i
u— ! by rile emperor when he traveled j
incognito.
I ordered the car and drove into Ber
>::i. t sing with me a small bag. and |
engaged a room in Herr Adlon’s hotel, |
which was a telephone.
Soon after ten o'clock I told the j
!• phon** operator that if anyone rang
nc- up I should ho in my room.
Half-past ten came, and then slowly j
tiie hands of the clock passed round to
eleven, and past.
Suddenly there was a sharp ring,
and I took up the receiver.
A strange voice sounding far away
asked fi r me, and I replied in the af
firmative.
Then in a few seconds another voice
—which I instantly recognized as the
emperor's—asked in English—
“Is that you. Von Heltzendorff?” and
having receive*] my reply, he said: “I
am Zeller, speaking from the Hotel
des Indes. at The Hague. Will you
tell madame I am here? Instruct
Klupfel to cancel all my engagements
for the next fortnight, and tomorrow
night come here and bring any papers
that I have to attend to. It would be
as well to tell them at my office that
1 have been called to Hamburg. Can
you hear me?"
"Perfectly.” was my reply. “I quite
understand your orders, sir. and will
attend to them at once. I shall leave
for The Hague tomorrow night.”
"Good. And bring me another suit
of civilian clothes.”
Then there was a sudden buzzing in
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; A LETTER FROM THE CROWN PRINCE’S PERSONAL ADJUTANT ;!
TO WILLIAM LEQUEUX, POSSESSOR OF THE
; SECRETS OF EUROPE. ]
* Veneux Nadon.
’ par Moret-nur-Lolcg. 4
, Sclne-et-Marne. ,
| February 10th. 1J)17. < J
i ’ My dear I^Queoxi 1
i * I have just finished reading the proofs of your articles describing *
| my life as an official at the Imperial court at Potsdam, and the two or 4
1 , three small errors you made 1 have duly corrected. 4
| ► The gross scandals and wily intrigues which 1 have related to <
were many of them known to youraelf, for. us the intimate friend of <
* Luisa, the ex-crown princess of Saxony, you were, before the war, * ,
i ‘ closely associated with many of those at court whose names appear In ]
1 ► these articles. <
► The revelations which I hate made, and whL*h you have recorded <
* here, are but a tithe of the disclosures whicb I could make, r^d If the *
* world desires more. 1 shall he pleased to furnish you with ether and '
" even more startling details, which you may nlso put Into print. *
, My service as personal adjutant to the German crown print*** Is. hap- ,
► pily, nt an end. and now. with the treachery of Germany against civil!- <
, * ration glaringly revealed. I feel, In my retirement, no compunction in 4 ,
I * exposing nil I know concerning the secrets of the kaiser gnd his son. * ,
* With most cordial greeting* from , *
Your sincere friend, 4
(Signed) ERNST VOW HE1.TZEN DORFF.
^ - ■*•**•* **--*• * ns nr--*--*- ^4
the instrument, a sharp t ick, and all
was again silence.
I put down the receiver in wonder.
I saw that to telephone v- me at the
palace was impossible, as it would go
through the exchange there, and some
body might be listening. For that rea
son he had sent me to the Adlon, and
from his conversation he was evidently
representing h : self at Tin* Hague to
be a prosperous German merchant, as
h- had done at Nice and other places.
At nearly tw , o’clofl in the tnom
iu- I passed th- sentri-s on duty, and
re-entered the P rsdam palace. It was
then too late t give 'he kaiserin her
husband's rues- _ . th- rvfore I waited
till morning, and guv it to her ver
bally when alott- with l.er in her break
fast room.
The empress -eemed greatly relieved
when I told her of th- telephone con
versation. and during the day wrote me
a note to hand to the emperor on my
; rrival ut Th- Hagu- That night I
left for Holland, and nest morning
duly inquirei] at th- Hotel des Indes
for Herr Zeib r. I was conducted to a
small suite of rooms on the first floor,
where, dressed in a gray suit, his ma
j. sty rose to meet me, smiling at my
astonishment.
"Well, you heard me plainly on the
telephone, eh?" he asked. “Ah. I see
you are surprised that I am here. I.
t " am equally surprised to find my
self here. And. further. I do not know
how long I shall remain."
“I have brought the clothes.” I re
marked, and afterwards drew the em
press' letter from my pocket and hand
ed it to him.
"H- r majesty should have left for
Prague yesterday," he said. "Did she
•'No. She was still at the palace
when I left at eight o'clock lust night.”
The emperor gave vent to a grunt of
dissatisfaction. From the books lying
about his room I gathered that he
passed his time in reading, preferring
not to go out in the day time for fear
of being recognized. Apprehension on
that score was unnecessary, for the
kaiser, shorn of his uniform and deco
rations. presents in civilian attire a
very ordinary appearance and not
readily recognizable by the man in the
street. For that reason he was often
able to spend a week in Paris, Nice,
or on the Italian Riviera without any
b.Kiv being the wiser.
mjr&Lcrjr oi inc rtoyai ©cneme.
I engaged a room close to that of
Herr Zeller, and for some hours re
mained with him while he signed a
number of state papers which I had
brought with me. He seemed strangely
absent-minded, I thought, but present
ly he took up one of the formidable
blue documents which, by the heading,
I saw was an urgent report from the
imperial chancellor.
“I.ook, Heltzendorff! Look at this!”
cried the emi*eror.
“The chancellor reports that the edi
tor nf the Cologne Gazette has called
at the chancellery and inquired how
long it was intended that I should re
main out of the country? Think of it.
My absence is known!"
“That may be so,” I responded, “hut
your majesty’s whereabouts is un
known to all save her majesty the em
press.”
“Yes, yes,” said the emperor impa
tiently. . “Bat onr police will commence
making inquiries. and I shall be traced
here.”
“Why not leave at once,” I suggest
ed, in the hope of elucidating the truth.
“Ah! That is just the unfortunate
point. I am unable to leave,” he re
plied. “I must remain—and I do not
know for how long!”
Further than that he would tell me
nothing. The fact that his absence
from Germany was known greatly up
set him. It seemed to me as though,
by that truth leaking out. some clever
secret plan of his had been thwarted.
From his countenance, as he re-read
that document, I saw that serious trou
ble was brewing for somebody. His
majesty, seized by his mania for travel
would very often at five minutes’ no
tice leave Potsdam and journey to the
farthest end of the empire. But the
papers were always at once informed,
and the kaiser never went out of his
country without first acquainting the
chancellor of his intentions. In this
case, however, he slipped away by a
night train, and nobody knew until
next morning.
The Dark-Haired Woman.
On concluding the correspondence, I
went out for a stroll, when, not far
from the hotel. I noticed a well-dress
ed, rather handsome, dark-haired wom
an approaching. To me her face seem
ed familiar, and I was puzzled to know
where I had seen it before.
I passed on, and, entering a cafe,
sat down to smoke and to think. Mem
ory of that woman's face still haunted
me. I felt that I had met her some
where, and had had good cause to re
| member her, yet, for the life of me, I
could not recall the circumstances of
our meeting.
An hour later, on returning to the
I hotel, I saw her speaking with the eon
! cierge.
She was evidently staying there,
hence a few minutes afterwards, when
i she had ascended the .ft. I questioned
ihe man. and learned that she was
Madame Rosales, fr m Malaga, in
Spain. She had arrived with her hus
band three days ago, h it monsieur had
j left the same morning for Paris, and
she was now awaiting ins return.
The motive of the emperor, usually
so restless and pompous, in remaining
virtually a prisoner in the hotel, and
| posing as a merchant, was certainly
most mysterious, and • en a chat with
Herman, his majesty's chief valet, eli
cited no information.
That night, as I sat .done eating my
dinner—for Herr Zeller took his meals
in his private sitting room—the dark
haired woman sat at a table near me.
With her was a pretty, girl in a pale
pink dinner gown, evidently a friend
who lived in the town.
The pair chatted tog* ther and laugh
ed merrily over their meal, while I
watched them covertly.
Why. I cannot even now tell. • but I
held Madame Rosales n distinct sus
picion. Yet I could not recollect where
we had met before. N w. however, as
I sat there in the corner eating my
meal I felt convinced that, on her j
part, she had recognized me, and
!
further, that she had pointed me out
to her companion.
Later in the evening X made other in- j
qulries in the hotel, and learned that
Madame had several friends. The eve
ning that her husband left for Faris
a tall. thin, pale-faced young man had
called upon her after dinner, and had J
a long chat with her in a corner in 1
the lounge. Afterwards they went out ,
together for a short walk, and. return
ing. he smoked a cigar before he left.
On the following day another man. of
rather unkempt appearance, called and
• lunched with her.
Needless to say, I watched madame
; carefully, and managed during that
evening to catch several glances of her.
After the pair had dined they spent a
; short time in the lounge, where they
| both smoked cigarettes. Then, it being
a beautiful moonlit night, they put on
i their coats and went for a stroll.
i nc tmfjcror rccpg in.
So interested had I become in the j
' woman that I followed, and, unsus- •
pected, I dogged their footsteps for j
nearly half a mile, until they entered a |
, dark, forbidding-looking house which i
faced a weedy canal.
W hen the door opened a man greet
ed them, and slipping in quickly, they
disappeared.
They were there for over an hour—
yet I remained keeping constant vigil,
until at last madame emerged alone,
retracing her steps hurriedly to the
hotel.
Next morning I met her In the lift
at about eleven o’clock, and we de
scended together. She was dressed to
go out. but in the hall the porter hand
ed her a telegram. This she opened,
afterwards writing a reply, and tak
ing it herself to the post office.
I was much irritated because my
memory was so at fault. There were,
I felt, some peculiar circumstances con
nected with the woman at the time I
had known her. but what they were I
could not recall. I saw. however, that
i her memory was better than my own,
: and that she knew me. and because of
| that fact had already grown apprehen
sive.
It was not in Berlin society that I
had met her. Of that I felt assured;
just as cerfnin. indeed, that her real
name was net Rosales.
While I h=d been out watching the
woman on th« previous night the em
peror had also taken a stroll through I
the city. What, I wondered, would the |
Berlin police figve thought if they j
knew that William was walking about
at night unguard<*d and unattended at
The Hague.
As I sat with hire attending to some
correspondence and taking down a
number of instructions regarding im
portant matters at the Wilhelmstrasse.
he suddenly broke off and told me
how he had, on the previous night,
spent an hour drinking Dutch beer at
that popular resort of tradesmen and
their wives, the Royal Brasserie.
“Nobody recognized me.” be laugh
ed. “I found out that they sold the
best beer one can get outside Germany,
and I really enjoyed it. I sent t'.r you,
but you had already gone out. Did
you go to the theater?”
“No,” was my reply, and then I told
him practically what I have related in
the foregoing lines.
“How curious!” exclaimed his ma
jesty. “I would much like to see this
mysterious Spanish lady. She must be
interesting.”
At first I tried to dissuade him. but
he was so persistent that I described
at which table she sat ur lunch, and it
was agreed between us that while we
were eating our meal he should come
to the door of the dining room and
peep in.
This tlie emperor did, and cleverly,
too, for she never saw him. being at
that moment engaged in conversation
with a wniter.
When I rejoined him in his room
lie said: "No, Iieltzendorff, I have nev
er seen her before.”
"Well, majesty,” I declared. “I am
certain I have seen her or her photo
graph somewhere, and that she is not
what -he repre >ems herself to be.”
“She's an adventuress most proba
bly,” replied the emiieror. "Many wom
> a are. Indeed, it is difficult to dis
cover one win* does not adventure ei
ther in love, in politics, or in crime.”
A Trip tc Berlin for Information.
His words impressed me. An hour
later I went fo a photographer's and
arrang.-d for a surreptitious portrait
to be Taken of Madame Itosales the
next time she took a walk.
All day the young photographer
haunted the vicinity of the hotel until
the light faded. Yet next morning as
site camt out he snapped her without
her knowledge, and in three hours I
had a rough prim of it in my pocket.
That night, after writing down a
great mass of memoranda, instructions
to various departments of the state, 1
left again for Berlin, with orders to
ring up H< rr Zeller on the telephone
from some unsuspicious place every
night at ten o'clock.
i returnee to me joeritu acuioss ab
solutely mystified, and next day spent
the greater part of the time visiting
the chancellor and the various minis
ters. and giving them the emperor's
commands. Then at about six o'clock
I called at t: chief bureau of police
in the Alexander Platz, and entered
the private r< in of old Leibbrand. who
at that time was chief of the detective
service.
To him I showed the surreptitious
photograph of Madame Rosales. The
astute thief catcher removed liis spec
tacles. and examining the picture with
the aid of a big reading glass, gave
vent to a loud grunt.
In response to his bell a younger
and more alert man entered, and to
him he handed the photograph, saying:
"Please see if anyone recognizes
this. I believe I do—but I tnay be mis
taken."
He then became inquisitive as to
where and bow I had obtained the pic
ture. but naturally I said nothing.
“I’ve been away on a journey," I
said, “and meeting the woman, I
thought her suspicious.”
"And if my memory serves me prop
erly I think. Count, that your suspi
cions are very well grounded.”
"Why?" I asked.
“Let us wait for the report from out
side." replied the old fellow. Then, in
order to turn the conversation, he ask
ed news of Balz, who was at that mo
ment the detective in attendance on
the kaiser’s i**rson. and whose vigi
lance the emperor had. of course, evad
ed.
“Oh! He's at Potsdam." I laughed.
"I haven't seen him lately, for I've
been away on a mission."
"The emperor is in Thuringia." Leib
brand said. “There seems to be some
mystery as to his whereabouts, hut
Balz telephoned me today to say that
his majesty has gone tq Thuringia
without any staff or personal attend
ants."
"That is so, I believe," was my re
ply, hut I smiled, for the Thuringia
myth had been invented by myself be
fore I had left for Holland. It is at
any time difficult to impose upon the
Berlin police, hut. of course, news giv
en out officially from the court they
naturally believe to be the truth.
rerii ot ine tmperor.
A quarter of an hour later Leib
brand's assistant re-entered the room,
and, handing back the photograph,
placed a file of papers before his chief,
saying:
“The woman is a famous Spanish
dancer, and one cf the most active
members of the anarchist society of
Geneva—the society which committed
the bomb outrage upon King Alfonso,
and who were responsible for the re
cent attempt on the king of Italy.”
“An anarchist!” I gasped.
“Yes," answered the official. “And a
very dangerous one, too. If she put
foot into Germany, we should have
her at once under lock and key.”
"Why?”
“Because it is known that there is a
conspiracy on foot, organized by that
league in Geneva, against his majesty
the emperor. We had news of it from
the Swiss police a month ago."
“Is there really a plot against the
emperor?” I asked, much startled.
“There certainly is in Geneva,” re
plied Leibbrand. “At the present mo
ment we are watching for this dancer’s
appearance in Germany. I thought I
was not mistaken when I first saw her
picture.”
I stbod in that bare official room ut
terly staggered. I dared not tell those
two men the truth or give them warn
ing of the emperor’s peril.
I saw, however, that I must act in
stantly. In five minutes I had gathered
that the woman was one of the most
dangerous anarchists In Europe, and I
also realized that my memory had
served me very well, inasmuch as I
had seen her picture in an illustrated
paper a year before, when she had
been arrested in Rome in connection
with an alleged attempt upon the life
of the king.
“Herr Leibbrand. will you please
write down for me the facts you have
just related?” I urged.
“Most certainly,” was his reply, and
- ij
taking up his pen he scribbled the
truth, signing it with a flourish.
Eighteen hours later I ascended in
the lift at the Hotel lies Indes to the
suite occupied by Herr Zeller.
Without waste of time I produced
the snapshot photograph and asked
him whether he recognized it.
“Certainly,” was his reply. “It is
Madame Rosales," adding, laughingly,
“I became acquainted with her and
her husband in a curious manner hi
the lift last night. We were ascending
together, madame. who wore a soft
blue evening blouse, standing next to
me. t nfortunately the button on the
wrist of my coat caught in the sleeve
<>f her blouse and tore it very badly. I
apologized for ruining the blouse, and
insisted that her husband should send
the damaged garment to me so that I
might replace it with s unething bet
ter. It arrived only five minutes ago.
and is in that little box over there.”
ani; he indicated a cardboard box ly
ing upon the couch.
Ah . \ou haven t opened it. I see!”
I exclaimed. “Tour majesty must not
Pit «s, ri thisAnd I
put before lain Ri*i!>brand*s signed
statement of the identity of Madame
Rosales.
"ljen fbe emperor read it he in
stantly realized the situaii'in.
Luring the Kaiser.
An . i see it all. Ileltzendorflf. My
practical joking becoming known, the
anarchists have taken advantage of it.
I have been lured here, out of Ger
man}. by a cleverly conceived dodge
for I came here believing that 1 was
T" meet iu secret General < iranovski,
chief of the czar's military cabinet,
v-lio wished to confer with me. And
though he was due three days ago lie
la.- not arrived. Instead, this woman
and her friends are busy plotting iuv
death."
“Without a doubt. Probably had
you opened that box yonder it might
have been fatal." I said. “Is it not
wise to leave at once for Berlin?"
Herr Zeller acted promptly upon my
suggestion, and we carried back to
Germany the box containing the ac
tress blouse. Next day in my pres
ence. the box was carefully opened in
the military laboratory, when we
found, wrapped in a pretty blue crepe
de chine blouse with heavy beaded
trimming, a small canister tilled with
a high explosive, the fuse so arranged
that had the string of the box been
suddenly released by cutting in the or
dinary way a terrible explosion must
have ensued.
i ertainly the emperor very nearly
lost his life as a result of his own
practical joking.
As for the Spanish dancing girl, she
apparently followed the emperor, for
two days later she and a man named
Ferroni. a well-known Italian anarchist
who was posing as her husband, were
arrested at Herhestal when about to
enter Prussia, and both were eventual
ly sent to prison for ten years.
(Copyright. 1917. William LeQueux.)
Fighting Tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is being vigorously
fought in Australia, for though the
percentage of deaths from tuberculosis
in Australia is less than in most othei
countries, the federal government is
not unmindful of the fact that its pen
sion list contains the names of many
persons who are rendered physical
wrecks through the undermining influ
cnees of diseases of the respirator}
organs. A federal committee on the
causes of death and invalidity in the
commonwealth is conducting an inves
tigation of tuberculosis and means ol
combating it. The figures for 1914
when there were 3.574 deaths from tu
berculosis. indicate that the disease U
most destructive in its effect between
the ages of twenty-one and thirty-five
years, as far as both sexes are con
eernod, but after this life period
deaths in male cases predominate.
Hunting at the Front.
All game laws are in abeyance it
France, and, with that strange disre
gard of shell fire observable among
the wild life to be found on the west
ern front, pheasants, partridges, rab
bits and hares have increased to ac
extraordinary extent. No man’s land
teems with game, while the marshes
beside a certain river (which must bt
nameless) are full of wild duck and
snipe. There are no shotguns, and
service revolvers do not make good
shooting when fired at the flying birds,
so the snipe and wild ducks are stalked
in wary style and shot "sitting." The
sport of sniping snipe in the marshes j
is fraught with many dangers, and it
requires a very ardent sportsman tc
crawl through the reeds, amid the ever
lasting mud. in the hopes of potting
snipe.—From Soldier’s Letter.
The Failure.
The S400.000.000 distributed in gifts
to workers at the year's end by the !
employers of America led George W.
I'erkins to say at a dinner in New
York:
“It is impossible to miss success in 1
America; it's impossible to fail in this
rich land, unless, indeed, you’ve got
the spirit of the Faint Rock storekeep
er.
“The keeper of the Paint Rock store '
was playing checkers and chewing to
bacco beside the blazing stove in the
back room when a man came in and
said:
“ There's two customers in thar j
waitin'. Si.’
“ ‘S-sh,’ said Storekeeper Si in a
whisper. ‘Keep quiet, an’ they’ll go
away ag’in.’ ”
Christiania was. 292 years ago,
known as Oslo, which, for the ffi0 j
years preceding, was the capital of i
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His Trouble.
Visitor—My poor sum. when you get
out of this place, do not yield too
hastily to temptation. Take time to
think : take time.
Convict-—That's wot I'm in for. I
took too many watches.
Catching On.
‘•What is the meaning of ’alter ego?"
asked the teacher of the beginner-’
class in Latin.
"It means the ‘other I." ” responded
a pupil.
"Give me a sentence containing the
phrase.”
"lie winked his alter ego.’*—P.oston
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Wiiling to Share.
She—Ninety-nine women in a hun
dred are naturally generous.
He—Yes; where one woman will
keep a secret, ninety-nine will give it
away.
Her Parting Shot.
“You have returned all my letters
and presents. Hortense," says Egbert,
“hut you seem to be retaining my
photograph. May I yet dare to hope
that—”
“Oh. your photograph? I sent that
to Life, thinking the editor would want
to run it as one of those pictures for
which they pay a $100 to anybody that
can supply a proper title.”—Life.
Rubber Consumption Growing.
Consumption of rubber i*-r capita is
more than twice what it was 25 years
ago. One company expects to manu
facture uppers of shoes from rubber
as well as soles. This company will
operate its own merchant marine to
bring crude rubber from Sumatra and
'•arry manufactured articles to all
parts of the world. The company now
employs 28.021 men, and manufactures
218,930 pairs of rubber shoes a day.
More than a million trees on Sumatra
plantation^ are being tapped.
The Reichsrath a Babel.
That parliament of Babel, the
reichsrath. now engaged in playing an
obscure part in the Austro-Hungarian
peace hunt, is permitted to express its
emotions in eight official languages—
symbolic of the war of tongues raging
in the empire itself. In the great vocal
'•horns the Slovanian may be said to
have struck the strident top note, for
the very word he has coined for him
self expresses the belief that no man
is a talker except himself. “Siowan."
in Old Slavonian, meant “to speak.”
and as the Slav understood no other
speech, the others were naturally the
dumb dog*.—i r>ndon Pally Chronicle.
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Post Toasties
—They like 'em”
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