The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-08-03
AND CROWN PRINCE AS


Yet, even to me, he declared that he
retained absolutely no knowledge Of
what had occurred.
Il went out quickly, and well.
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, was unable to hear distinctly.
Well, succeeded by brides and
threats, in hushing up the whole affair
and keeping it out Of the papers, while
/ by those who knew of the incident it
was soon forgotten.
Karl Krahl Again.
! / suppose it must have been fully
1 three months later when one evening,
4 having taken some documents over to
the emperor for signature at the Berlin
schloss, l returned to the princes pri-
vate room in the palace, when, to my
great surprise, l 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 l shall take my own meas
ures to find out-severe measures So
give you full warning" the crown
prince was declaring angrily, as 1 en-
tered so Unexpectedly.
l did not withdraw, pretending not
to notice the presence of a visitor,
therefore his highness himself beck
oned the young man, who followed him
down the corridor to another room.
The whole affair was most puzzIlng-
What had happened on that afternoon
in the Harz mountains / 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?
IS In about half an hour the crown
= prince returned in palpably bad hui
NOR and, hinging himself into his
70 chair, wrote a long letter, which he
7 addressed to Countess Won Kienitz-
H. This he sealed carefully and ordered
he me TO take it at once to the Stuler
~ strasse and deliver it to her person
o4 ally.
,an 1.-THE countess left for StockholI
~ this morning l was informed by til
bearded manservant. "She left by tt
A. eight o'clock train and has alread
left Sassnitz by now"
he ''When do you expect her to r.
90 turn?"
- The man did not know.
~ On going back to his highness ant
i. telling him of the countess departure
n he bit his lip and then smiled grimly
q 'aThat Internal old woman has left
10 Germany and will never again put her
n foot upon our soil. Heltzendorff," he
II said. you may open that letter. 1t
II will explain something which know
II must have mystlfied you"
a 1 did so. And as l read what he had
d written l held my breath. Truly it
d. did explain much.
If What the Crown Prince Told Me.
e Imposing the strietest silence upon
me, the crown prince then revealed
r how utterly he and the crown princess
r had been misled, and how very narrow
n IL he had escaped being the VICTIM OF
st a cunning plot to effect his death.
1t The little old Countess Won Kienitz
$ had, it seemed, sworn to avenge the
Il, degradation and dismissal of her son.
| who had been in the famous Deaths
y Head Hussars. She had secretly
h traced the crown prince as author of
lie conspiracy against him, the underlying
re motive being jealousy. With that end
in view she had slowly wOrmed her
way into his highness' confidence, and
rs introduced to him Karl Krahl, neu-
* rotic young Saxon who lived in Lon
K don, and who pretended he had I'M
p, earthed plot against the kaiser him
TO self.
ne 'It was to tell me the truth concern
IT ing the conspiracy that krahl came to
me in secret at Ballenstedt. He re-
is manned with me for half an hour,
eff when, to my great surprise, we were
e. Joined by the countess. The story they
Is, told me of the plot against the en-
4 neror was Il very alarming one, and l
nj intended TO return at once to Berlin.
he The countess had left to walk back TO
It. the schloss, when presently we heard
be a woman's scream-her vOice-and we
both went forth to discover what was
p in progress. As ran along little dis
n lance behind Krahl. suddenly what
as seemed ike thin glass globe struck
at me in the chest and burst before my
e face. 1t had been thrown by an I'M
known hand and, on breaking, must
al have emitted some poisonous gas
lie which was intended to kill ME, but
he which happily failed. Until yesterday
n the whole affair was a complete mys-
&c terry, but Krahl has now confessed that
is the countess conceived the plot, and
i'd that the hand that had thrown the
glass bomb was that of her son, vino