The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-18
The True Story of an
Interview Told In 1913.

tGOpyI1knLx I5J5, Dy American EIESS ASSQ- 4
ciation.l
you must admit" said to Count
Haenant while we were pacing the
deck Of an ocean steamer. shat the
late emperor was impolitic"
mot at all There was always a
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 positions"
THE secret history of that affair has
never been published. It 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,
What, your
Yes, l. And. what's more, I'm go
ing to give 1t to you. Listen. There
was then in Williams service a 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-five and
forty. He was handsome as a 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 a 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, it was
understood, been graduated from
school the previous spring. Her trip
was intended as a finisher to her edu.
cation.
''Trengel had never before fallen IN
der the influence of one Of your uncon
ventionaI, coQuettish American girls
His ideas of women were derived from
| the German fraulein Of noble blood
and more especially from an ole
maid sister ten years his senior whs
kept house for him. Miss Wra,
made nothing Of visiting the ruins o.
| the temple of Karnak with him IN
chaperoned or sailing alone with hin
on the Nile.
1.-THE next heard Of Miss Wray sh
| was in Berlin, chaperoned by an en-
tirely different party from that whicl
she was supposed to have travelet
with in Egypt. She had not been Their
long before she received invitations t
houses whose owners were in higl
life and dined with the late empero
and the now dowager empress. Sh
spent some time ostensibly visitin
TEeogeps old maid sister, and Will
there she was riding. driving an
hunting in madcap fashion with tn
baron.
zone morning Trengel was summon
ed to Berlin by the emperor for cor
ference. Your countrymen were ge
J ting rather too thick with the Japs
nese TO please his majesty, and he d.
sired to head them off. At this intel
view number of different matter
were taken up, all of them of impo
lance in European complications Trel
gel when in conference with the en-
5 peror was accustomed to jot down til
) points discussed; also Williams view
. On returning to his schloss he foun
t Miss Wray, who had remained durin
E his absence with his sister, and wa
so delighted to be reunited with h'
that he did something he had new,
done before. He tossed his noteboC
on his desk in the library to haste
out for a ride with the girl who ha
infatuated him.
h ''That was the last he thought of Il
- notebook till the next morning. This
}. he hurried to the library to find
n gone. Breakfast was waiting for ii
t guest, who had not yet come dow
t. After waiting some time for her Il
. baron sent to her room. She as W.
as the notebook had disappeared.
1.-THE CONSERVATION that seized up
l the baron was nothing to that of L
emperor when Trengel went to Beri
and told him the story. The poll
were notified, and the secret seryi
men got on the case In hurry. n
i a train In Germany that was not q
der surveillance Of government EN-
saries, each having detailed descr
ton of the American girl. They fail
to catch her. A boy excited some ST
picion, but got across the front
without being detained, the Germ
" detectives having been instructed
Of look out for a girl It was aft
o. ward supposed that this boy was t
= slippery Miss Wray in disguise.
N Miss Wray's identity and positi
afterward became known to those
$ Us in the secret. She was the daugh
al of a poor professor In an Americ
ed university. She was twenty-five yes
10 old at that time and had taken nea
NC every honor In q woman's college
% which she was eligible for compt
h ton. Leaving college, she went
Is. New York and worked on one OF ;
MS principal papers there 1t was this
per that sent her abroad for news
I'D certain diplomatic questions Of int
81 est to the people Of the United Stat
a | miss Wray, who had always kno
70 the want Of money and consequen
a knew its value, saw a chance FOL
fortune She wrote out an 1ntervi
srt with the emperor OF Germany and s
at it to a London paper for $1,000
re- Since she could show Trengel's nj
* book containing confirmation Of "