The Glenwood post., 1917-09-22
ST Won FiELTZENDORFF TO WILLIAM LEQUEUX

what had occurred.
"I went out quickly, aad 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, l was unable to hear distinctly.
Well, succeeded, by Bribes 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.
I suppose it must have been fully
three months later when one evening,
having taken some dOc1nents over to
the emperor for signature at the Berlin
schloss, returned to We princes pri-
vate room in the palace, when, to my
great surprise, I 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 shall take my own meas
ures to find Out-severe measures! So
l give you full warming" the crown
prince was declaring angrily. as en-
tered so unexpectedly.
l did not withdraw, pretending not
to notice the presence of visitor,
therefore his higlrness 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 Harz mountains l 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?
In about half an hour the crown
prince returned in palpably bad hui
NOR and. flinging himself into his
chair, wrote a long letter, which he
addressed to Countess Won Nenftzs
This he sealed carefully and ordered,
me to take 1t at once to the Stuler-.
strasse and deliver it to her person.
ally.
"The countess left for Stockholm
this morning." l was informed by the
bearded anservant. "She left by the
eight o'clock train and has already
left Sassnitz by now" Y
'When do you expect her to re-
turn?" 4
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 okl woman has left
Germany and will never again put her
foot upon our soil, Heltzendorff," he
said. "You may open that letter. II
will explain something which know
must have mystified you"
did so. And as l read what he had
written l held my breath. Truly II
did explain much.
What the Crown Prince Told Me.
Imposing the strictest silence upon
me, the crown prince then revealed
how utterly he and the crown princess
had been misled, and how very narrow
ly he had escaped being the victim Of
u cunning plot to effect his death.
The little old Countess Won Kienitz
had, it 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 a
conspiracy against him, the underlying
motive being jealousy. With that end
in view she had slowly wormed her
way into his highness' confidence, and
introduced to him Karl Krahl, neu-
rotic young Saxon who lived in Lon,
don, and who pretended ne had un-
earthed plot against the k0iser him-
self.
1T was to tell me the truth concern
Ing the conspiracy that Krahl came to
me In secret at Ballenstedt. He re-
mnined with Inc 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 en-
peror was very alarming one. andsI
intended to return at once to Berlin.
The countess had left to walk bnck to
the schloss, when presently we heard
n woman's screnm-her voice-and we
both went forth to discover what was
ip progress. AS ran along little dis
tance behind Krahl, suddenly what
seemed like n thin glass globe struck
me in the chest and burst before my
face. 1t had been, thrown by an un-
known hand and, on breaking, must
have emitted eOlne uDiennous 1aa
which was inteHded to kill me, but
which happily failed. Until yesterday
tho whole affair was Q complete mys-
terry, but Krahl isas now confessed that
the coants1s ecosceived the plot, and
that the, hand itAat lad thrown the
gaasa bomb ,VaS tat of her son. .vho