Williams news., 1917-08-09

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 "Why. I don't understand. But his majesty told me that you would ex plain. The young lady and her mother are friends of mine."
 Exactly. That's just itr' he ex claimed. "You apparently know but little of them-eh?-or you would not call them your friendsl''
 These words surprised me, but I was the more astounded when he contin. ued:
 'You of course know of those dis. graceful anonymous letters which have been continually arriving at court-ot the emperor's fury concerning them.'
 replied in the affirmative, for, as a matter of fact, for the past three months the whole court had been flood ed with most abusive and disgraceful correspondence concerning the eama- rilla that had again sprung up around the kaiser. The emperor, the empress, the crown prince and princess, Prince Eitel, Sophie Caroline, Prince Henry of Prussia and others had received let ters, most of them in typewriting, con- taining the most intimate details of scandals concerning men and women around the emperor.
 Fully dozen of these letters ad- dressed to the crown prince he had handed to me-letters denouncing in some cases perfectly innocent people, destroying the regulations of honest men and women, and abusing the heir to the throne in an outrageous manner.
 On at least three occasions "Willie" had shown me letters addressed to the kaiser himself, and intercepted by the kaiserin, who, in consequence of this flood of anonymous epistles that had produced such a terrible sensation at Potsdam, had ordered that all such letters found in the imperial postbag should be handed at once to her.
 "The identity of the writer is the point that is engaging my attention" the baron said, as he opened a drawer and drew forth a bundle of quite hundred letters, adding: "AIl these that you see here have been addressed either to the emperor or the empress" and he handed me one, which on scan ming I saw contained some outrageous statements. allegations which would make the hair of the all-highest bristle with rage.
 "Well," I exclaimed, "that certainly is a very interesting specimen of anonymous correspondence"
 "Yes, it isT exclaimed the baron. Tn Berlin every inquiry has been made to trace its author. Schunke (head of the detective police) was charged by the emperor to investigate. He did so, and both he and Klewitz failed utterly, Now 1t has been given into my hands,"
 A Typical German Investigation.
 Presently, when sat with the baron at his table, he switched on an intense electric light and then spread out some of the letters above a small, square 
 You see they are on various kinds of note paper, bearing all kinds of wa termarks, of French, English and Ger man manufacture. Some we have here are upon English paper, because it is heavy and thick. Again, three differ ent makes of typewriter have been used-one a newly invented importa- tion from America. The written let ters are, you will see, mostly in a mans hand"
 "Yes, see al that" I said. "But what have you discovered concerning their author? The letter I received bore French stamp and the postmark of fingers"
 He placed before me quite a dozen envelopes addressed to the emperor and empress, all bearing the postmark of that town in the Maine-et-Loire. Others had been posted in Leipzig, Wilhelmshaven, Tours, Antwerp, Der lin. Wilmersdorf and other places.
 "The investigation is exceedingly difficult, I can assure you," he said. q have had the assistance of some of the best scientific brains of our empire in making comparisons and analyses. h. deed, Professor Harbge is with me fom Berlin"
 A few minutes later the professor himself, an elderly, spectacled man in gray tweeds, entered the room. II knew him and greeted him.
 "Sixteen different varieties of paper have been received at the Neues and Marmor palaces" the baron remarked. Well, I have worked for two months. night and day, upon the inquiry. I have discovered that eleven of these of paper can be purchased