The Washington times., 1917-05-06


consciousness. until at last he sat up,
dazed and wondering.
-That Glass Globe"
His first words to me wereI
THAT feIlowi Where is hef That
that glass globeT
An hour later he was comfortably
In bed in the 6reat old-world room
in the castle. attended by q local doe
tor-upon whom set the seal Of
official silence-and before dawn he
had completely recovered.
Yet, even to me, he declared thar
he retained absolutely no knowledge
Of what had occurred.
81 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 men
tion- OF the man, Karl Krahl.
Later on he summoned the Coun-
ties Won kienItz, and for twenty MIN
utes or so he had an animated di5-
cussion with her. Being outside the
distinctly.
Well. succeeded, by bribes and
threats. in hushing Up the whole az
fair and keeping II out Of the pa
pers. while by those who knew Of the
incident II was soon forgotten.
Karl KrahI Again.
1 suppose 1t must have been fully
three months later when one even
ing. having taken some documents
over to the Emperor for signature. at
the Berlin Schloss, / returned to the
Princes private room in the Palace.
when. to my great surprise, / found
the man Karl Krahl seated there. He
looked very pale and worn, quite un-
like the rather athletic figure he pre-
sented at the forester's house.
If you still refuse to tell me the
truth, then 1 shall take my own meas
ures to ind out-severe measuresI
So l give you fulrwarnlng," the crown
prince was declaring angrily, as / en-
tered so Unexpectedly.
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 puzzling.
What had happened on that afternoon
in the Hartz mountains l could not
at all imagine. BY what means had
his highness been rendered uncon-
scious. and what part could the little
old countess have played in the curl
Gus affair?
In about half an hour the crown
prince returned in a palpably bad
humor, and, fiinging himself into his
chair. wrote a long letter which he
addressed TO Countess Won KienitZ.
This he sealed carefully. and ordered
me to take II at once to the Stuler-
strasse and deliver II to her person
ally.
The countess left for Stockholm
this morning." / was informed by the
bearded man servant. "She left by
the o'clock train. and has already
left sassnitz by pow"
when do you expect her to re-
turn
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 grimly.
That Internal old woman has left
Germany. and will never again put
her foot upon our soil. Heltzendorn.
he said. "You may open that letter.
II will explain something which
know must have mystified you"
I did so. And as read what he
had written I held my breath. Truly,
It did explain much
What the Crown Prlnee Told Ne.
Imposing the strictest silence upon
me, the Crown Prince then revealed
how utterly he and the Crown
Princess had been misled. and how
very narrowly he had escaped being
the victim of a cunning plot to effect
his death.
The little old Countess Won Kienitz
had, II seemed, sworn to avenge the
degradation and dismissal of her son.
who had been in the famous Deaths
Head HusSars She had secretly
traced the Crown Prince as author of
8 conspiracy against him. the under
lying motive being Jealousy. With
that end In view she had slowly
wormed her way into His Highness
confidence, and introduced him to
Karl Krahl, q neurotic young Saxon
who lived in London, and who pre-
tended he had unearthed q plot
against the Kaiser himself.
cit was to tell me the truth con
cerning the conspiracy that Krahl
came to me IN secret at Ballenstedt-
He remained with me for half an
hour, when. to my great surprise, we
were Joined by the Countess, The
story they told me OF the plot against
the Emperor was a very alarming
one, and I intended to return at once
to Berlin. The Countess had left to
walk back to the schloss. when pres
entity we heard a woman's scream
her voice-and we both went forth to
discover what was IN progress. As
ran along a little distance behind
Krahl. suddenly what seemed like
thin glass globe struck me In the
chest and burst before my face, 1t
had been thrown by an unknown
hand, and. on breaking, must have
emitted some poisonous gas which
was intended to kill me, but which,
happily, failed. Until yesterday the
whole affair was q complete mys-
terry, but Krahl has now confessed
that the Countess conceived the plot,
and that the hand that had thrown
the glasa bomb was that OF her son,
who had concealed himself In the
bushes for that purpose"
Though, of course, l hastened to
congratulate His Highness upon his
fortunate escape, yet l now often
wonder whether, II the plot had sue
ceeded, the present world conflict
would ever have occurred,
(Copyright. 1911. by William Ls ousu1)
will tell OF the British girl who