Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-02-13
The True Story of an
Interview Told In 1918.

haenanL Mnlle we We're pacing Nne
deck Of an ocean steamer. that the
late emperor was impolitic."
mot at all There was always
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 positionT
'aThe secret history OF that affair has
never been published. IL 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" I'M
eyes, 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 BuIOw.
Baron TrengeI was during the period
Of his intimacy with the late emperor
between the ages of thirty-lve 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 hateF.
while travelling in Egypt Trengel
fell in with 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 flnisher to her edu-
cation.
''Trengel 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 fraulein 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 nm
chaperoned or sailing alone with him
Dn the Nile.
1.-THE next heard Of Miss Wray she
was in Berlin. chaperoned by an en-
irely 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
md the now dowager empress. She
spent some time ostensibly visiting
rrengel's old maid sister, and while
here she was riding, driving and
. hunting in madcap fashion with the
baron.
"One morning Trengel was summon.
d to Berlin by the emperor for con-
Ference. Your countrymen were get
ing rather too thick with the Japa-
hese to please his majesty. and he de-
tired to head them or at this inter-
lew a number Of different matters
we're taken up, all Of them Of impor-
ance in European complications. Tren-
el when in conference with the en-
eror was accustomed to jot down the
oints discussed; also Williams views.
m returning to his schloss he found
Giss Wray, who had remained during
Is absence with his sister, and was
delighted to be reunited with her
nat he did something he had never
one before. He tossed his notebook
n his desk in the library to hasten
ut for a ride with the girl who had
fatuated him.
''That was the last he thought OF the
DtebOOk till the next morning. Then
r hurried to the library to find Il
|. PINE. Breakfast was waiting for the
. pest who had not yet come down
o fter waiting some time for her the
g IRON sent to her room. She as well
the notebook had disappeared.
. aThe CONSERVATION that seized upor
e e baron was nothing to that Of the
Of nperor when Trengel went to Berlin
d told him the story. The police
pre- notified, and the secret service
Nn got on the case in hurry. No
train in Germany that was not un
surveillance Of government ennis
les, each having a detailed descrip
p Of the American girl. They failed
GUl catch her. A boy excited some sus
|I0 Hcion, but got across the frontiel
~ thOut being detained. the German
&ecttves having been instructed t
OAA aAOA a 6AA~ ~ was AAAGA
/Il#rd supposed that this boy was thu
q ppery Miss WraE in disguise.
Miss Wray's identity and position
erward became known to those o
n the secret She was the daughte
poor professor in an American
A versity. She was twenty-five year
at that time and had taken nearl!
n ny honor in a woman's college 70
eh she was eligible for Compel
Leaving college. she went &
"a salW York and worked on one Of tn
~ Acipal papers there. II was this pa
~ - that sent her abroad for news o
ain diplomatic questions Of intez
W. TO the people Of the United States
a. liss Wray, who had always know
want OF money and consequent
enss its value, saw a chance for
% nne. She wrote out an interview
~ the emperor OF Germany and sol
Zx&o q London paper for $1O0.OOC
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