Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24

gram of official visits in eastern Ger
many, when suddenly the crown prin-
cess entered, pale with anger and de-
manded fiercely an explanation of n
certain anonymous letter which she
held in her hand.
"Kindly read that ~ she said haugh-
tily, 'and explain what it means"
The crown prince grinned, that cold
sinister expression overspreading his
countennnce, a look which is such a
marked Characteristic of his.
Then, almost snatching the letter
from his young wife's fingers, he read
IL through, and with a sudden move
ment tore it up and flung it upon the
carpet. saying:
Il refuse to discuss any unsigned
letter. Really, if we were to notice
every letter written by the common
scum we should, indeed. have sufficient
to do"
His wife's arched brows narrowed.
Her face betrayed fiercest anger.
II happen to have inquired, and 1
now know that those allegations are
correct!" she cried. "This dark haired
slnger-woman, Irene SperOni, has OBJ
tanned great success on the variety
stage In Italy. She is the star of the
Sala Margherita in Rome"
"Well?" he asked in defiance. "And
what Of 1t, pray?"
THAT letter you have destroyed tells
me the truth. 1 received it a few
days ago, and sent an agent to Italy
In order to learn the truth. He has
returned tonight. SeeI" And sud-
denly she produced a crumpled snap
shot photograph of the crown prince
in his polo-playing garb, and with him
smartly-dressed young woman,
whose features were in the shadow.
"Yes," she cried bitterly. "You re-
fuse, of course, to look upon this piece
of evidence l now know why you
went to Wiesbaden. The woman was
singing there, and you gave her a pair
of emerald and diamond earrings
which you purchased from Vollgold
in Inter den Linden. See! Here is
the bill for them ~
And again she produced q slip of
paper.
The scene ended in the poor woman,
IN frantic paroxysm of despair, tear
ing off the splendid necklet Of dia-
monds lat her throat-his present to
her on their marriage-and casting it
full into his face.
Uvhn,, raoIfofnc 4baA eaaNo boI
become too tragic, 1 took her small
hand, and, with q word of sympathy,
led her out of the room and along the
corridor.
As l left her she burst into sudden
torrent of tears; yet when l returned
again to the crown prince 1 found his
manner had entirely changed. He
treated his wife's natural resentment
land indignation as huge joke, and it
was then that his imperial highness
declared to me:
"Cilli is fool ~
listen, Heltzendorff," his highness
exclaimed suddenly. "In Nice l may
disappear for a day or two. l may be
missing. But If 1 am, please don't
raise a fuss about 1t. I'm incognito,
and nobody will know. l may be alb
sent for seven days. If am not back
by that time then you may make in
Quiry."
"But the Commissary of Police Eek
ardtl He will surely known 1 re-
marked in surprise.
mo. He won't know. shall evade
him as I've often done before" re-
piled his imperial highness. II tell
you of my intentions so that you may
curb the activities of our most estima-
BILE friend. Tell him not to worry, and
he will be paid a thousand marks Oh
the day Count Won Grunau reappears.'
l smiled, for / saw the influence OF
the eternal feminine.
"NO, Heltzendorff. You are quite
mistaken" he said, reading my
thoughts. "There is no lady in thl:
case. l am out here for secret pur
poses of my own. For that reason
take you into my confidence rather
than that unnecessary inquiry should
be made and some of those inferna
journalists get hold of the fact tha
the Count Won Grunau and the crown
prince are one and the same person.
was a fool to take this salon. l ough
to have travelled as an ordinary pas
senger, know, but" he laughed, "thi
Is really comfortable and, after all
what do we care what the world think
-eh? Surely we can afford to laugl
at 1t when all the honors of the gam
are already In our hands"
His words mystified me, but l be
came even more mystlfied by his &C
tions a few days later.
l was in ignorance that a fortnigh
before Hermann Hardt, one of hi
highness' cOuriers, had left Potsdar
and on arrival at Nice had rented 70
three months the fine Villa Lilas.
We soon settled there and on tn
evening of our arrival 1 accompanie
the crown prince down into the tow
to the Jetee promenade.
We smoked together and chatted, O
, we often did when his imperial higl
: ness became bored. 1 was still myst
fed why we had come to the Rivier
! so early In the season.
Yet our coming had, no doubt, bee
} privately signaled, because within ha
7 an hour of our arrival at the Will
, Lilas a short, stout old Frenchmal
r with white, bristly hair-who 1 a
terward found out was Monsieur Pa,
2 Bavouzet, the newly appointed prefe,
t of the department of Alpes-Maritim,
] called, to leave his card, upon IL
!. Count Won Grunau.
e The imperial incognito only meal
0 that the public are to be deluded. OF
S cialdOm never is. They know the rus
and support 1t all the world over. H
highness the crown prince was payir
his annual visit to Nice, and the pres