The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-26
The True Story of an
Interview Told In 1918.

copyright, 1909, by American Press Assoc
ciation.l
t"You must admit" | said to Count
Haenant while we were pacing the
deck of nm ocean steamer, that the
late emperor was impolltic."
''Not 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 .humlliatlng positlonT"
'The secret history Of that affair has
never been published. 1t was never
known to more than three persons be-
sides the emperor and his chancellor,
and l am now the only person living
in possession of It."
"What, your
Eyes, /. And, what's more, I'm GO
ing to give 1t to you. Listen. There
was then I'm 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 thlrty-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 q pronounced
woman hater.
"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 anisher TO her edp-
cation.
"Trengel had never before fallen un-
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 un-
chaperoned or sailing alone with him
on the Nile.
"The next heard of Miss Wray she
was In Berlin, ehaperoned by an en-
tlrely 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
Trengels old maid sister, and while
there she was riding, driving and
hunting in madcap fashion with the
baron.
"One 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 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-
peror 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
80 delighted to be reunited with her
that he did something he had never
done before. He tossed his notebooks
on his desk in the library 70 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 II
gone. Breakfast was waiting for the
guest, who had not yet come down
After waiting some time for her the
baron sent 10 her room. She as well
as the notebook had disappeared.
"The CONSERVATION that seized upoI
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. NOl
train In Germany that was not un
der surveillance OF government emls
saries, each having detailed descrip
ton 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 4
look out for girl. 1t 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 poor professor In an American
university. She was twenty-five year
old at that time and had taken nearly
every honor In woman's college fol
which she was eligible for competl
tlon. Leaving college, she went L
New York and worked on one Of TN
principal papers there. 1t was this pa
per that sent her abroad for news 0
certain diplomatic questions OF inter
est to the people of the United States
| "Miss Wray. who had always know