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to the Rue de Provence, where he had
rooms.
The Arrest OF General o Trautmann.
On the third night following I stood
in the emperor's private room at Pots
dam and made my report, explaining
all that I knew and what / had wit
messed In Paris.
THAT man knows a very great deal
but how does he known snapped the
emperor. "See Schunke early tomor-
row." he ordered, and tell him to dis
cover the link between this young
BLACKBOARD and your friends the Brei-
tenbachs, and report to me-"
Next morning l sat with he astute
Schunke at the headquarters of the
detective police in Berlin, and there
discussed the affair fully, explaining
the result of my journey to Paris and
what 1 had seen, and giving him the
order from the kaiser.
But, count, If this woman Breiten-
bach and her daughter are your
| friends, you will be able to visit them
and CLEAN something" he said.
81 have distinct orders from the en-
peror not to visit them while the in
quiry is in progress" / replied.
Later that same morning / returned
to the Marmor palace to report to the
crown prince, but found that his high
ness was absent upon an official visit
of inspection at Stuttgart.
In the meantime I several times saw
the great detective, Schunke, and
found that he was in constant commu-
nication with Baron Steinmetz in Paris.
The peir were evidently leaving no
stone unturned to elucidate the mys-
terry of those annoying letters, which
we're still falling as so many bombs
into the center of the kaiser's court.
Suddenly, one Sunday night, all Ber-
lin was electrified al the news that
General Won Trautmann, captain gen.
eral of the palace guard-whom, truth
to tell, the crown prince had long Sc
cretly hated because he had once dared
been arrested and SEN to a fortress at
the emperor's order.
An hour after the arrest his males
tvs personal adjutant commanded me
by telephone to attend at the Berlin
Schloss. When we were alone, the
kaiser turned to me and said:
"Count Won Heltzendorff, you will
say nothing of your recent visit to
Paris, or Of the authorship Of those
anonymous letters-you understand?
You know absolutely nothing"
Then, being summarily dismissed by
a wave Of the imperial hand, I retired.
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my mouth be thus closed?
When I returned to my rooms that
evening Schunke rang me up on the
telephone with the news that my
friends the Breitenbachs had closed
their house and left early that morn
ing for Brussels.
"Where is Seeliger?" I inquired.
In Brussels. The Breitenbachs
have gone there to Join him, now that
the truth is out, and his father is
under arrest"
The emperor's fury knew no bounds.
His mind poisoned against the poor
old general, he had fixed upon him as
the person responsible for that dis
graceful correspondence which for so
many weeks had kept the court in con
slant turmoil and anxiety. Though his
majesty was aware Of the actnoI
writer of the letters. he would not
listen to reason, and openly declared
that he would make an example Of the
silver-haired old CAPTAIN general of the
guard, who, after all. was perfectly
innocent of the deeds committed nv his
vagabond son.
A prosecution was ordered. and
three weeks later it took place in
camera. the baron, Schunke and a
number of detectives being ordered 10
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