The Washington herald., 1914-11-15

! have heard that I am likely to dis
solve the Reichstag if there is any
difficulty about the colonial vote,
and they will bring out this volume
on the morrow of the dissolution,
as a counterblast to my policy.
Bismarck did not believe in Ger
man colonization, and that was one
of the causes why l had to part
with him."
l could not resist the conviction
that his majesty was right. E.vi-
IDENTIFY the missing volume would be
d strong card in the hands of the
party in the Reichstag opposed to
the world-policy of the Kaiser. He
had received information before
hand of their probable tactics, and
his own design to anticipate them
in securing the manuscript had
been adopted in self-defense.
An intuition which has rarely
deceived me made me think that
the purloincrs of the manuscript
would most likely have hastened 70
send it out OF the country in which
it had been seized, and I resolved
to exhaust Paris before trying
farther afeld.
! The whole OF my staff were now
put on the work. One-half of them
spent their time in searching the
reimbursement most favored by
foreign Socialists, and the other
in exhausting the printing offices
devoted to literature Of a revolu-
tionary character.
One day, as I was sitting alone
in my office, happened to take up
a field glass OF special construc-
ton made for ME by the famous
! Jena firm. 1t has a range Of only
two or three hundred yards, but
within that range it is extremely
powerful.
turned the glass, in a fit of
pure absence of mind, on the build
ing across the way, which happens
to be a publisher office. l need
hardly remark to any one familiar
with the French capital that the
Rue Scribe is the last quarter from
which Socialist literature would be
likely to be circulated. and | had
not given NJ. Rollin thought when
issuing instructions to my subor-
dinates. But, now, as l carelessly
examined his premises. l was
struck by an alteration in the ar
rangements with which had long
been familiar. The front room on
the first floor, nearly opposite NV
own. which had hitherto beer usc,f
by the accountants department,
had been converted into a printing
office. and l could see one Man, all
by himself, busily engaged in set
ting up type for what appeared to
! be a fairly large work.
The question irresistiblv forced
itself ujon my mind: Who was
this printer. and why was he thus
: shut up almo-t like 4 prisoner 10
exeCutc >inglr-handed a work
which in the ordinary course Of 4
printing business would have been
idiyidcd among a number OF hands
Hardly had the question present
ed itself when the answer leaped,
! a, it were, to my lips. OF course.
, the po>seSsors OF the Bismarck
manuscript, whoever they might be,
would not need, or desire. to issue
I it as if it were on the level OF So
cialiSt literature Socialists or not
and the Socialists were not the
| only party in the Reichstag op-
posed to the KaiSers policy-they
would have the sense to seek out
the best publisher they could get;
land there was no publisher in Paris,
however fashionable, who would
not jump at the chance of bringing
out such volume.
llcNCl llhC u lG>Oll 10 dOludI
crime: but on the other hand sub,
! >tantial justice ought not be sacriA
ticed to technicalities. Late that
night l provided myself with the
tool known to French burglars as
4 pince-monseigneur. broke into
my neighbor's premises, mounted
to the first floor, scattered the type
in every direction, and bore off the
complete copy OF the third volume
Ui RismarckS "reminiscences.
Forty-eight hours later l was
able to ring up his German majes-
ty on the telephone and say to him:
II am able to set your majesty's
mind at rest on the subject of the
stolen manuscript. 1t will not be
published"
you have recovered it"
"Ncs, sire
You are perfect! Bring it to
Berlin by the next train"
Il regret, sire, that I have al