The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-08-17
AND CROWN PRINCE AS

, 81 am ready to do anything-any-
thing for my dear husbands sake" the
handsome young woman assured me,
tears yelling in her fine dark eyes
! In that case, then, please leave
the matter entirely in my hands," I
said.
That same night, about ten o'clock,
the emperor entered the room TO which
had just returned to work.
"Send Frau Kleist to me-" he
snapped. "And / will summon you
later when l want you, Heltzendorff."
Frau Kleist had no idea the wom-
an had arrived at the castle But dis
, patched one of the servants to search
for her and afterwards heard her high
, pitched voice as she assembled the
, stairs to hold secret counsel with his
majesty.
Below / found the fat, fair-haired
/ little doctor from Augsburg who was
still an enigma, but eager to see his
! imperial patient.
, Suddenly one of the imperial fun
keys bowed Mt the door commanding
the doctor to the royal presence, and
! he left me, hot and fiurried.
Had the emperor called the unknown
doctor into consultation with Frau
Kleist?
Inquiries had made concerning the
doctor from Augsburg showed that he
was quite well-known specialist on
mental diseases and he had also writ
I ten textbook upon bacteria, )gy and
the brain. Why had the kaiser sum-
7 moned him? He required no brain
: specialist.
eve leave tomorrow at noon," the
: emperor exclaimed brusquely when, an
hour later, l was summoned to his
. room. This amazed me, for our ar
/ rangements We're to remain three days
o longer. l recollected Madam Reit-
. schels words.
Il do not feel at all well'' his majes-
u ty added, land this Doctor Yollerthun
orders me rest at Potsdam"
In silence l bowed, and then ven
= tured to refer to what was uppermost
= in my mind.
I, May be permitted to speak TO your
q majesty upon certain confidential
~ subject?H 1 begged.
~ "What subjectT' snapped the EN-
~ peror.
- "Your majesty's negotiations wit
the sultan of Turkey. Frau Rel
-, schel has learned of them, but she
- eager to come before you and tax
-. an oath of entire secrecy"
~ The kaiser's eyes narrowed an
- glowed in sudden anger
80 a Woman's Oath.
oss "a woman's oath |" he cried. "Bah
h.sxy + in ell I'm
er- posed upon any wonan's tongue
90 more especially that of born enemy
appreciate your loyalty and acumen
- Won Heltzendorff, but / have, fortu.
- nately, known this for some little time,
~ and in strictest secrecy have taken GER
- tain measures to combat it. Remem-
:, :, Der that these words have never been
: uttered to youl Remember that! You
are adjutant, and | am emperor. I'm
derstand l fully appreciate and note
your royal report, but it is not woman's
- sphere to enter our diplomacy, except
as secret agent of our fatherland.
Let us say no more"
- Ten minutes later, being dismissed,
~ l wandered back through the great 81
lent, echoing corridors of the ancient
r castle to nay own room. A great human
r. drama, greater than any ever placed
Ut upon the stage, was now being en-
II. acted.
~ The emperor was plotting the down
fall of the Turkish empire and the
ISL overthrow of Islam in Europe. Be
" tween the all-highest one and the real
en- ization of those plans for world power
Is stood one frail little Parisienne, the
M vivacious, well-meaning Madam Reit-
schel!
Next day we left the Schloss Langen-
Die berg, but before doing so we heard
with regret that our charming little
ed hostess had been suddenly taken i'll
ms during the night, and the kaiser, as a
lat mark of favor, had ordered his doctor,
l. Vollerthun, to remain behind to attend
ON her. That Herr Reitschel was in great
IN distress l saw from his face as he
as stood on the little platform at Ilmenau
Back in Berlin, | wondered what was
'eu in progress in that far-on sehloss III
ate Thuringia, but week later the truth
became wildly apparent when read
ne in the Staats-Anzeiger an announce
ment that Frau Reitschel, the young
the wife of the famous Anton Reitschel OF
or Constantinople, had been seized by q
tn sudden and mysterious illness and hac
developed insanity to such hopeless
'ln- degree that it had been necessary e
ear confine her in the Rosenau private asy
lum at Coburg.
us In a second thought of the dancing
req mistress and the mental specialists
from Augsburg.
can Poor Madam Reitschel! She diet
in aorIv in 1919 a raying lunatic. Hel
devoted husband, having served th'
ST. onneror,s nurnose had been recalled
to Berlin. where, bereft of the kaiser'
re- fo,,or ba nradeceasad her bv about ST,