The Washington times., 1917-04-22

Emperor had wished to establish. set
out from Oels on my long journey
might across Germany.
In due course l arrived in Hanover,
and found the house situated in the
pleasant suburb. Here l found that
| ''willie's" suspicious were correct, and
the man MinckwitZ was living under
| the name Of Sembach and pretending
| to be a musician. / watched. and very
| soon with my own camera In secret
took a snapshot of the mysterious In
dividual as he walked in the street.
With this 1 left two days later on my
return to Oels.
The photograph was that Of thin.
narrow-faced. deep-eyed man, with
scraggy. pointed beard-a typical Pole,
and when 1 handed 1t to Willie" he
held his breath.
| "Lookr he cried, turning to Won
Pappenheim and his sister, who were
both present. Look! There is no
mistakei That Is the man. What
shall we do? No time must be lost.
How can I act?'
A Talk With Won Pappenheim's Sister
Brother and sister exchanged
glances blankly. From inquiries I
had made In Hanover, Il seemed that
the man was a stranger, a musicmas-
ter, who had arrived there about a
month ago. I feared to make inquiry
| through the police, because my Off
| cial capacity, as personal adjutant to
| the crown prince was too well known
and suspicion might have thus been
aroused.
The trio again held secret counsel,
but I was not told the nAture of their
/ deliberations. All knew was that
the crown prince was in some terrible
and most dangerous difficulty.
| That afternoon 1 met the girl Mar
garete walking alone in the grounds
near the Schloss. The autumn SUN
was pleasant, though there was q
sharp nip in the air, which told of the
coming Of the early Silesian winter.
| We had walked together for some
distance, when i suddenly halted and
asked her point-blank why they were
all in such great fear of Herr Minck-
witz.
She started. staring at me with her
big blue eyes.
"His highness has not told you,
| count. Therefore, IL would i'll become
me to reveal his secret" was her cold
rebuke.
"But II the situation is so grave,
and II have been entrusted with the
secret mission to Hanover, may, per-
haps, be OF service in the matter.
understand that you are acquainted
with Herr Minckwitz, alias Sembach
I-eh?"
"who told you that?"
| Nobody. / learnt 1t myself" I an
swered, with q smile.
For a second she reflected, then,
with a woman scleverness, she said:
~ can tell you nothing. Ask the
crown prince himself" And she re,
fused to discuss the matter further.
Indeed, she left the castle two hours
later.
The Crown. Princes Fear.
That night I went boldly to "wil-
lie," finding him alone in a little cir
cular room in one OF the towers OF the
castle, to which he often retired to
smoke end sncoze.
stood before him and without
mincing matters told him what / he'd
overheard and all I knew.
The effect OF my words was almost
electrical. He sat UP, staring at me
almost dazed at my statement.
at Is true, Heltzendorff. Alas!
True. he replied. But he would even
then give me no inkling of the reason
OF HIS fear.
'If this Herr Minckwitz means mis-
chief, then surely II would be easy
to secure his arrest for some offense
or other. and you needn't appear in
it." / suggested.
: tive thought of all that But II
the police lay hands upon him, then
he will revenge himself on me. Ha
, will carry out his threat-and-and
, 4 II
my head again"
"why?"
ST can't be more explicit. I'm in q
hole, and I cannot extricate myself
/ reflected for a moment. Then
said:
you appear to fear some action OF
Minckwitz's. II that Is so. will re
turn to Hanover and watch. II there
is any hostile intent, will sndeavoI
to prevent it.. Fortunately he does
not know me-
Next night was back again ir
Hanover, having stopped in Berlin tc
pick up a friend OF mine upon whose
discretion ! could rely implicitly
retired member OF the detective forct
named Hartwieg. Together we start
!. ed to watch the movements of tht
mysterious Polish musician, and tc
our surprise we fOund that ne mac
. three friends, one of them a furrieI
living in the Burgstrasse, who Wis
, tied him regularly each evening. They
always arrived at the same hour, anC
generally left about eleven o'clock
Through five days we kept watch, al
ternately closely shaddowing the mar
who called himself Sembach, and be
coming acquainted with his friends
, most of whom seemed of a very
} queer set.
A Strange Purchase.
There was no doubt that Minckwiti
and the two young women were as
sociates of some criminal gang. and
: further, was staggered one evening
to watch the arrival at the house o
a young man whom I recognized a,
Brosch, an under-valet OF the EN-
, peror, at the Neues Palais.
For what reason had he come from
PotsdamI
He remained there till noon OF
the following day. When he emerged
accompanied by Minckwitz, the pail
went into the city. and we followed
when, curiously enough, I came far,
y to face with Won PappenhAim's sis
ter. who was apparently there for tn,
: same purpose as myself! Happily sh,