New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-08-10

"Of course. of course" replied tn
emperor, turning in his chair. Com
In and close the door. 1t has turne'
quite cold tonight. Wellf" he asked
looking at her in%qulringly.
The court dancing mistress hesitate
for II second. Their cyes met. and il
thnt glance l saw complet. understand
ing.
May ! speak In confidence with you
maJestyT she asked. advancing int
the room. Except the court ladies' sh'
was the only female at court whom
the sentrles stationed at the end o,
the corridor allowed TO pass to hi'
majesty's private cabinet.
But Frau Kleist had access every
where. Her eyes were the eyes Of the
emperor. Many a diplomat, f%inancier
raised TO position of favOrite because
he first secured the good graces of the
ex-ballerina. And. alas! many a good
honest man has "een cast out of the
POtsdam circle lnp oblivion because
Of the poisonous declaration of that
smiling, bejeweled old
"Of what do you wish to speakf" In
CURED the emperor.
"Of the Reitschel affair" was the
old wOman's low reply.
At her words the kaiser frowned
slightly. and dismissed me. l bowed
myself out, and closed the door upon
the emperor and his clever female spy.
That she should have mt that late
hour come from Potsdam-for, looking
down into the courtyard, saw the
lights Of her big Mercedes-showed
that some underliand work was In
progress.
BY handling, as I did, hundreds of
secret reports which reached the EN-
perOr ! had learned much concerning
Herr Anton Reitschel. and from old
Won DOnaustauf. master Of ceremonies,
| had also been able to obtain certain
missing links concerning the intrigue.
Reitschel, a burly, rOund-faced. fair
haired Prussian of quite superior type,
ICiu thN poSltIpH VI "a hllC,NoA vi
the German Ottoman bank in COnstan-
tinOple. His duty for the past three
years had been to cOnciliate the sultan
and to lend German money to any in
dustrial enterprise in which any grain
of merit could possibly be discovered.
He had been singled out. taken from
the Dresdner bank. and sent to Con-
stantinOple by the kaiser In order to
play G%ermany's secret game in Turkey
especially that of the Bagdad rail
way-and to combat with German gold
Great Britain's diplomacy with Tewfik
Pasha and old Abdul Hamid, in view
Of "The Day." which the emperor had
long ago determined should soon dawn.
AS old Won DOnaustauf had put 1t:
"Our employer intends that, notwith-
East. Germany shall soon rule from
Berlin to Bagdad. Herr Reitschel Is
in reality charged with the work of
Germanizing' the Ottoman empire"
That I already knew by the many Sc
cret reports Of his which arrived so
constantly from ConstantlnOple.
Truly the game which the emperor
was playing in secret against the other
powers Of Europe was a desperate one. |
On the one hand. the kaiser was max
ing p~retence of fair dealing with Great
and France. yet on the other
agent, Herr Reitschel. was ever
busy lending money In all directions In
order to secure favor in Germany's in
Yet q further game was being played,
namely, that while the kaiser was max
ing pretence of being the best friend Of
he sultan Abdul Hamid. visiting Con-
stantinOple and Palestine, building
fountains, endOwing institutes, yet he
vas also secretly supporting the Young
Turk party so as to effect the sultan's
DOWNFALL.
Herr Anton had been paying a num-
,er of flying visits to Berlin. and had
private audiences of both kaiser
md sultan.
Suddenly all of us We're surprised by
announcement that the kaiser's IA
.ored civilian in Turkey had married
fademOiselle Julie de Lagarenne,
laughter of Paul de Lagarenne, O of
he great French sugar refiner, and
of the French embassy Mt
ZONE. A week after that news was /,
pread l met them both in Kranzler's [
n Inter den Linden. and there he in ;
reduced me to a pretty, dark-haired, l
i~vacious young Frenchwoman, who
poke German we'll, and who told me ,
hat her husband had already given
! her name for presentation at the !
ext court. a
That was about a month prior to r
'rville Wrlght's flight and the mid ]
light visit Of Frau Kleist to the en- a
error. ....,- ~. d. .-N! In
Truth to tell, the old woman's men, S
of Herr Reitschel's name caused +
e considerable misgivings, because "
Tree weeks before l had gathered GER t
lin strange facts from a secret report f
a spy, who in Constantinople had t,
zen set to watch Herr Reitschel's do Il