The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-02-01
Tie True Story of an
Interview Hold IN 1918.

lCopytlBnt, lJVJ Dy american Erc3s AbSO-
ciatlou.l
"you must admit" / said to Count
Haenant while we were pacing the
deck Of an ocean steamer, "that the
late emperor was impolitie."
"Not at all There was always q
method In his madness"
"What method could there possibly
have been in that affair Of the sup.
pressed interview which stirred up
the whole world and put the emperor
in humiliating positionf"
THE secret history Of that affait has
never been published. 1t was never
known to more than three persons be-
sides the emperor and his chancellor.
and | am now the only person living
In possession OF it."
.NNhat, your
eyes, |. And, what's more, I'm GO
ing to give 1t to you Listen. There
was then In Williams service man
whom he consulted more on matters
Of statecraft than even Won Bulow.
Baron Trengel was during the period
Of his intimacy with the late emperor
between the ages of thirty-hve and
forty. he was handsome as pic
ture and would have been attractive
to women had he taken any interest
in them But he was a pronounced
woman hater.
while travelling In Egypt Trengel
fell In with O party OF your country
men from New York. among them a
Miss Rebecca Wray. She had come
over and remained with her fellow
travellers by permission, having, 1t was
understood, been graduated from
school the previous spring. Her trip
was intended as fnisher TO her edu-
cation.
'sFrengel had never before fallen IN
der the influence Of one of your uncon-
ventional,. coquettish American girls.
His ideas of women were derived from
the German frauiein OF noble blood
and more especially from an old
maid sister ten years his senior who
kept house for him. Miss Wray
made nothing Of visiting the ruins of
the temple OF Karnak with him I'M
ehaperoned or sailing alone with him
OH the Nile
THE next heard OF Miss Wray she
WINS In Berlin, chaperoned BY an en-
tirely different party from that which
she was supposed to have travelled
with in Egypt. She had not been there
long before she received invitations to
houses whose owners were in high
life and dined with the late emperor
and the now dowager empress. She
spent some time ostensibly visiting
Trengel's old maid sister, and while
there she was riding, driving and
hunting In madcap fashion with the
baron.
Zone morning Trengel was summon
ed to Berlin by the emperor for con-
ference. Your countrymen were get
ting rather too thick with the Japa-
nese to please bis majesty, and he de
sired to head them off. AT this inter-
view a number of different matters
were taken up, all Of them Of impor-
lance in European complications. Tren-
gel when in conference with the EN-
peror was accustomed to iot down the
points discussed; also Williams views.
On returning to his schloss he found
Miss Wray, who had remained during
his absence with his sister, and was
so delighted to be reunited with her
that he did something he had never
done before. He tossed his notebook
on his desk In the library to hasten
out for ride with the girl who had
infatuated him.
''That was the last he thought of the
notebook till the next morning. Then
he hurried to the library to find it
gone. Breakfast was waiting for the |
guest, who had not yet come down.
After waiting some time for her the
baron sent to her room. She as well |
as the notebook had disappeared.
"The CONSERVATION that seized upon |
the baron was nothing to that of the
emperor when Trengei went to Berlin
and told him the story. The police
were notified, and the secret service
men got on the case ia a hurry. Not 1
n train In Germany that was not I'M
der surveillance of government ennis
5aries. each having detailed descrip-
tion Of the American girl They failed
to catch her. A boy excited some sus-
pieion. but got across the frontier
without being detained, the German
detectives having been instructed to
ook out for a girl It was after
ward supposed that this boy was the
slippery Miss Wray in disguise
Miss Wray's identity aud position
sfterwsrd became known to those Of
rs in the secret She was the daughter
of poor professor in an Americas