Connecticut western news., 1909-01-28
The Tue Stor-t of au
 interview TOi ] ln 1918.

IIaenant while we We're pacing the deck of an ocean steamer, that the late emperor was impolitic."
 Not at all There vas L.ways a method i'll his madness"
 "What method could there possibly have been in th-t affair of the sup pressed interview which stirred up the whole world and put the emperor in humiliating position?
 "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 I am now the only person living in possession of it."
 "What, youY'
 ''Yes, I. And. what's more Pm 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-fve and forty. He was handsome as a pie 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 iron. school the previous spring. Her trip was intended as a f1nisher to her edu- cation.
 "Trengel had never before fallen un- der the influence of one of your uncon- vcntional, 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 bln: un- chaperoned or sailing alone with him oI the Nile.
 "The next heard of Miss Wray sbe was 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 fu high life and dined with the late emperor and the now dowager empress. She spent some time ostensibly visiting Trengels old maid sister. and while there she was riding, driving and hunting in madcap fashion with the baron
 "One morning Trengel was summon. cd to Berlin by the emperor for con- ference. Your countrymen were get ting rather too thick with the Japa- nese to please his 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- tance in European complications. Tren- gel when in conference with the en- percr was accustomed to jot 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 consternation that seized upon the baron was nothing to that of the emperor when Trengel went to Berlin and told him the story. The police were notified, and the secret service men got on the case in a hurry. Not a train in Germany that was not un- der surveillance of government emis- saries, each having detailed descrip- tion of the American girl. They failed to catch her. A boy excited some sus- picion. but got across the frontier without being detained, the German detectives having been instructed to look out for a girl. It was after ward supposed that this boy was the slippery Miss Wray in disguise.
 Miss Wray's identity and position afterward became known to those of 
 us In the secret. She was the daughter of a poor professor in an American university. She was twenty-two years old at that time and had takee nearly every honor in a woman's college for which she was eligible for competi- tion. Leaving college, she went to New York and worked on one of the principal papers there. It was this pa- per that sent her abroad for news of certain diplomatic questions of inter- est to the people of the United States.
 Miss Wray, who had always known the want of money and consequently knew it's value, saw chance for q fortune. She wrote out an interview with the emperor of Germany and sold it to a London paper for $100,O00. Since she could show TrengePs note R-- n.n~~- 4R1-~ oQ ,I~nA