Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-17


powers of Europe was desperate one.
On the one hard, the kaiser was max
ing pretence of fair dealing with Great
Britain and France, yet on the other
his agent, Herr Reitschel, was ever
busy lending money in all directions in
order to secure favor in Germany's in
terest.
Yet further game was being played,
namely, that while the kaiser was max
ing pretence of being the best friend of
the sultan Abdul Hamid, visiting Con-
stantinople and Palestine, building
fountains, endowing institutes, yet he
was also secretly supporting the Young
Turk party so as to effect the sultan's
downfall.
Herr Anton had been paying a num-
Der of flying visits to Berlin, and had
many private audiences of both kaiser
and sultan.
Suddenly all of us were surprised by
the announcement that the kaiser's IA
vored civilian in Turkey had married
Mademoiselle Julie de Lagarenne,
daughter of Paul de Lagarenne, son of
the great French sugar refiner, and
secretary of the French embassy at
Rome. A week after that news was
spread I met them both in Kranzlers
in Inter den Linden, and there he in
troduced me to pretty, dark-haired,
vivacious young Frenchwoman, who
spoke German well, and who told me
that her husband had already given
in her name for presentation at the
next court.
That was about a month prior to
Orville Wright's flight and the mid
night visit of Frau Kleist to the en-
peror.
Truth to tell, the old woman's men
ton of Herr Reitschel's name caused
me considerable misgivings, because
three weeks before had gathered GER
tain strange facts from a secret report
of a spy, who in Constantinople had
been set to watch Herr Reitschers do
ings. That spy was Frau Kleist's son.
The kaiser trusts nobody. Even his
spied upon, and reports upon those IA
miliar blue papers are furnished regu-
larry. In view of what had read in |
that report from Karl Kleist, 1 stood |
amazed when, at the grand court a |
week LATER had witnessed Herr Reit- |
schels French wife bow before the |
emperor and empress and noticed how |
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her.
Nearly three months passed.
The Trip to Ilmenau.
Herr Reitschel often came from Con-
stantinople, and frequently brought his
handsome young wife with him, for he
was persona grata at court. To me
this was indeed strange in view of the
reports of the ex-opera dancers SON
who, by the way, lived in CONSTANT
nople in the unsuspicious guise of
carpet dealer, and unknown to the
bank director.
The latter had, assisted by his wife's
fortune, inherited from her grand
mother, purchased the Schloss Langen-
berg, the splendid ancestral castle and
estates of the princes of Langenberg,
in the beautiful Thuringian
forest, and acknowledged to be one of
the most famous shooting estates in
the empire. 1t was not, therefore, sur
Drising that the emperor, to mark his
favor, should express a desire to shoot
there-a desire which, of I
course, delighted Herr Reitschel, who
lad only a few days before been dec
orated with the Order of the Black
Eagle.
One afternoon in midautumn the en- {
)eror, accompanied by the crown {
prince and myself together with the
lutte, arrived by the imperial train at g
he little station of Ilmenau, where, of i
curse, Reitschel and his pretty wife,
With the head and underforesters, and c
III sorts of civil officials in black coats q
nd white ties bowed low as the all
ighest stepped from his salon. The I
.aiser was most gracious to his host a
nd hostess.
The emperor had complained of 1,
light cold, and in consequence, just
efore we left Berlin, l had been in fl
tructed to summon by telegraph GER p
ain Doctor Vollerthun from Augsburg, Il
Tho was perfect stranger to US all, fl
ut who had, 1 supposed, been recon- il
lended to the emperor. b.
While the emperor and his host were p
ut shooting remained alone in ST