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that the Emperor held a paper IN
his hand, realized that by It's coIor
1t was one OF those secret reports iur-
nished for the Kaiser's eye alone
report of one OF the thousands OF spies
Of Germany spread everywhere.
Minckwitz! / impressed that name
upon my memory, and, being dismiss
ed, bowed myself out Of the Imperial
presence. g,
Returning tosthe Marmor Palace
sent a long and urgent message over
the private wire. to willie" at Al
tbna, repeating His Majesty's orders,
and recalling him at once. Quite well
knew that such an unusual message
would arouse His Highness's appre-
heusion that for some offense or other
he was about to receive q peternal
castiRation. But / could not be ex-
piicIt, because had no knowledge
Of the reason the Emperor was can
ceiling our engagement at Thorn
GDta He Ask You Thatr '-
At o'clock that might the Crown
Prince burst into the room wherein
was attending to the correspond
ence.
.sWhat in the name Of Fate does
all this mean, Heltzendorff' he de-
manded. "Why did the Emperor fail
to reply to my message?
aI delivered IT," said And then
1 described what took place In the
Emperor's private dining room Wnen
] mentioned the name OF MlnckWlts
the Crown Princes cheeks blancneo;
aDid he ask you that7" he gasped-
ssYes. 1 told him that the only per
son I knew of that name was Count
Won Minckwitz."
"Ah, that little fat, old Master OF
the Court Oh! The Emperor knows
him well enough. 1t Is somepooy
else he Is referring to-.
aHfs majesty Wishes to, see you At
once" 1 urged, full of wonder.
IL could plainly see that MS I'M
perial highness had been much up
set at mention of the mysterious per
son called Minckwitz. What could
the Emperor know of him? was
there some scandal at the root OF 1t
all; some facts which the Crown
Prince feared might be revealedE
Travel stained and without chang
ing his tunic, willie" went to the
telephone and ordered KNOT to bring
back the car. In 1t he drove across
10 the Neues Palais to see the EN-
peror.
had an appointment in Berlin that
night, and waited until quite late
for ~WiIlie's" return. As he did not
come 1 left for the Capital, and on
arrival at my rooms rang up Wolns
Agency, and gave out paragraph
TO the press, that his imperial high
ness the Crown Prince had been com
PEELED to abandon his journey to
Thorn, owing to having contracted
chill
At the sehIOss Oels.
Several weeks went by, and one
day we were at the ancient schloss
at Oels, in far Silesia, the great es-
tate which the Crown Prince in
herited on coming OF age. The cas-
tie is a big, prison-like- place, sur
rounded by wide lands and dense for
ests, lying between the town OF Bres-
lau and the Polish frontier, q remote,
rural place, to which willie" loved
sometimes 10 retire with q few kin
dred spirits in order to look over the
estate and to shoot
The guests included old Count Won
Reisenbach, court chamberlain OF the
Prince of Schombourg-Lippe, who
was a noted raconteur and bon vivant,
with Major Won Heidkamper, of the
Fourth Bayarian Light Cavalry, q
constant companion of "Wille's," and
Karl Won Pappenheim, q captain of
educated at Oxford, and who was so
English that IL was often difficult
for people from London to believe
that he was Prussian-
Won Pappenheim was one of will
lies" new friends. He was the son
Of q great landowner OF Erfurt, and
the pair had for the past month
been inseparable. He was q shreHd,
keen-eyed man, who seemed ever on
the alert, but, of course. obsessed by
military dignity. He had a sister.
Margarete, a pretty girl, year or SO
his Junior, who had been to the Mar
NOR Palace on one occasion The
Crown Princess had received her, but
from the fact that she was not in
Vited q second time 1 concluded that
the inevitable jealousy had arisen,
because in my presence willie" had
more than once referred to her
beauty.
sometimes suspected that "wil.
lies" sudden and close friendship
with Won Pappenheim had some con.
nection with intense admiration OF
the latter's sister. j, however,
learnt the truth concerning their IN,
timacy in a curious way while at the
Schloss Oels.
TAe Conversation Heard From
Ambush.
One day had accompanied the
party out after stag. Soon after
luncheon, which we took at for
ester's house, we went forth again
and / concealed myself at q point OF
vantage, lying behind q screen 81
ferns and branches specially con-
6tructed as cover.
/ was alone, at some considerable
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