The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-06-19
A CHRISTMAS
EPISODE
Involving His Majesty the
Emperor OF Germany
By JOSEPH MICHALOWSKY


erything ready for Christmas so far
as | can foresee. Can you think Of
anything that has been overlooked"
Have you ordered the treeT'
81 have. and have procured a fine
one. The children will be delighted"
"a gift from me TO each childT
Every one has been provided for"
well, then, l don't see what else
there is to do"
Are you going anywhere, Adolph.
with the emperor during the next few
daysT
HE may go to Hamburg on Thurs
day If so ! shall doubtless go with
him. Why do you ask?"
! "Oh, nothing! simply wish to know
If you will be absent on Christmas
eve."
81 am quite sure shall-that is, If
we make the trip"
! why do you go with the emperor
on all his journeys?"
I Being intrusted with the regula.
tons to insure his safety when he
travels. 1t is usually necessary that
! should do SO Just now II is impera-
tive. for we have got wind of plot
of the anarchists to assassinate the
emperor"
/ The count kissed his wife. went out
to his carriage and was driven to his
cabinet in the palace. where he pro-
ceeded to make the arrangements for
his masters trip. During the day fur
ther details of the plot hatched by the
anarchists were brought in and occa-
stoned the count great concern. But
when he went home in the evening
and found his children absorbed In
their anticipations for Christmas be
threw off care and entered into the
spirit of the season.
my dear" said his wife. has the
emperor's trip been decided uponY'
mot surely"
or not?"
''Why should one wish to known
asked the husband, looking at his wife
curiously
why why our calculations for
Christmas are In measure dependent
upon your being here just before
Christmas day"
81 don't see why"
'Well, never mind. l shall try to
arrange everything irrespective of four
being with u.s."
| This reply seemed to satisfy the
count, who was especially desirous
since receiving the information of the
anarchist plot to keep the emperor's
going secret He played with his
children till their bedtime, kissed them
good night and then fell TO thinking
about the coming journey and how to
head off those who were bent on MUIR
dering his imperial master The next
morning he said to his wife:
ut will be decided today whether
we go to Hamburg or not. Ii we go
shall send you private message-l
dondS dare trust to the telephone-that
you may get my baggage ready"
"Will his majesty's departure be an
nounced in the newspapersT'
THAT can't be avoided here In Ger
many as 1t might be in Russia. II
we go the next Issue Of the journals
will announce the fact"
The count spent the day in his cab
met as usual. and during the afternoon
a police officer came in and handed
him a note. Demidorf read it and
turned pale. The chirography he recog-
nized to be his wife's. The note was
addressed to her brother. Heinrich Won
Kinningen. and read:
Bring it on Thursday provided the en-
peror goes to Hamburg on that day; II
not. delay till you hear from me. In any
event, you had better hand II in by the
back door Twelve midnight would be
the safest hour to make the delivery,
"How did you obtain this?" asked
the count, making an effort to control
his agitation.
1.-THE messenger who was employed
to carry 1t, finding that 1t had been
carelessly sealed, had the curiosity to
open and read 1t. He considered 1t of
vital Importance and instead Of deliv-
ering 1t handed It to our chief. who
directed me to bring It here"
"Call another messenger with orders
to carry 1t to the person to whom it
is addressed" said the count But
first will take a copy of It."
When he had done so he gave 1t to
the officer and dismissed him. Then,
when he was alone, his head sank on
his desk and he groaned. Was 1t pos
sible that his wife had been dra wn into
sympathy with anarchists through her
brother. who was an extremist and
possibly an anarchist himself, and had
she consented to use such kno Wedge
OF the emperOr's movements as she
might derive from her husband to ia
vor their designs? Heavens! She must
be intending to receive the bomb with
which II was intended the murder
should be committed But wha, would
II avail the assassins to receive II aft
er the emperor had gonei
"Ach. | have ltr' he said to himself.
The assassination 10 to take place on
our return. II Is then that precautions
taken in such cases are apt to be re-
laxed oh. my Amelial To think that
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