Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-14

what had occurred.
II went out quickly, and well. I
don't know what happened" he told
me soon after dawn, as he lay in bed.
Strangely enough, he made no mention
Of the man, Karl Krahl.
Later on he summoned the Countess
Won Kienitz, and for twenty minutes
or so he had an animated discussion
with her. Being outside the room, how
ever, 1 was unable to hear distinctly.
Well, 1 succeeded, by brides and
threats, in hushing up the whole affair
and keeping 1t out Of the papers, while
by those who knew Of the incident 1t
was soon forgotten.
Karl KrahI Again.
suppose It must have been fully
three months later when one evening,
having taken some documents over to
the emperor for signature at the Berlin
schloss, 1 returned to the princes pri-
waite room In the palace, when, to my
great surprise, found the man Karl
Krahl seated there. He looked very
pale and worn, quite unlike the rather
athletic figure he presented at the for
ester's house.
"If you still refuse to tell me the
truth, then / shall take my own meas
ures to find out-severe measures! So
I give you full warning" the crown
prince was declaring ahgrily, as 1 en-
tered so Unexpectedly.
did not withdraw, pretending not
to notice the presence Of u visitor,
therefore his hlghness himself beck
oned the young man, who followed him
down the corridor to another room.
The whole affair was most puzzling.
What had happened on that afternoon
in the Harz mountains 1 could not at
all imagine. By what means had his
highness been rendered unconscious,
and what part could the little old
countess have played in the curious
affair?
In about half an hour the crown
prince returned in palpably bad hui
NOR and, flinging himself into his
chair, wrote a long letter, which he
addressed to Countess Won Klenitz.
This he sealed carefully and ordered
me to take it at once to the Stuler-
strasse and deliver it to her person
ally.
"The countess left for Stockholm
this morning." l was informed by the
bearded manservant. "She left by the
eight o'clock train and has already
left Sassnltz by now
when do you expect her to re-
turnT
The man did not know.
On going back to his highness and
telling him of the countess departure,
he bit his lip and then smiled ghm1yl
THAT Internal old woman has ieft
Germany and will never again put her
foot upon our soil, HeltzendOrff," he
said. "YOu may open that letter. II
will explain something which l know
must have mystified you"
did so. And as read what he had
written l held my breath. Truly it
did explain much.
What the Crown Prince Told Me.
Imposing the strlctest silence upon
me, the crown prince then revealed
how utterly he and the crown princess
lad been misled, and how very narrow
y he had escaped being the victim Of
| cunning plot TO effect his death.
The little old Countess Won Klenitz
had, 1t seemed. sworn to avenge the
degradation and dismissal of her son.
Who had been In the famous Deaths
Head HussarS. She had secretly
raced the crown prince as author of a
against him, the underlying
motive being jealousy. With that end
n view she had slowly wOrmed her
way into his highness' confidence, and
to him Karl Krahl, a neu-
otic young Saxon who lived In Lon
on, and who pretended he had I'M
arthed a plot against the kaiser him
elf.
ut was to tell me the truth concern.
ig the conspiracy that Krahl came to
lie In secret at Ballenstedt. He re,
lained with me for half an hour,
hen, to my great surprise, we were
'ined by the countess. The story they
I'D me Of the plot against the ein-
error was a very alarming one, and
sNANSu W iVluIh Ut Ouce 10 berlln-
he countess had left to walk back TO
he schloss, when presently we heard
woman's scream-her voice-and we
9th went forth to discover what was
progress. AS / ran along little dis
nee behind Krahl. suddenly what
,emed like thin glass globe struck
70 In the chest and burst before my
ice. 1t had been thrown by an I'M
nown hand and. on breaking. must
i've emitted some poisonous gas
hich was intended TO kill me, but
hich happily failed. Until yesterday
10 whole affair was a complete mys-
ny, but Krahl has now confessed that
o countess conceived the plot. and
at the hand that had thrown the
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