New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-08-10


ings. That spy was Frau Kleist's sor
h kaiser trusts nobody. Even hi
favorites and most intimate cronies ar
spied upon, and reports upon those fu
miliar blue papers are furnished regu
larry. In view of what | had read fl
that report from Karl kleist. | stoo,
amazed when. at the grand court
week later, had witnessed Herr Reit
schers French wife bow before tn,
emperor and empress and noticed how
graciously the kaiser had smiled upOI
her.
Nearly three months passed.
The Trip to llmenau.
Herr Reitschel often came from Con
stantinOple, and frequently brought hi
handsome young wife with him, for h,
was persona grata at court. To me
this was indeed strange in view OF thu
reports of the ex-Opera dancers n
who, by the way. lived in CONSTANT
nople In the unsusplcious guise of q
carpet dealer. and unknown to the
bank director.
The latter had, assisted by his wife's
fortune, inherited from her grand,
mother, purchased the Schloss Langen'
berg, the splendid ancestral castle and
estates Of the princes Of ~Langenberg,
situated in the beautiful ThuringIan
forest, and acknowledged to be one of
the most famous shooting estates In
the empire. It was not. therefore, sur
prising that the emperor, to mark his
favor, should express Il desire to shoot
capercailZie there-a desire which. of
course, delighted Herr Reitschel, who
had only a few days before been dec
Grated with the Order of the Black
Eagle.
One afternoon in midautumn the EN-
psrOr, accompanied by the crown
prince and myself. together with the
suite. arrived by the imperial train at
the little station Of Ilmpnau, where. Of
course, Reitschel and his pretty wife,
with the head and underforesters, and
all sorts Of civil officials In black coats
and white ties bowed low as the all
highest stepped from his salon. The
kaiser was most gracious to his host
and hostess.
The emperor had complained of Il
slight cold. and in consequence, Just
before we left Berlin, ] had been in
structed to summon by telegraph n Ger
tain Doctor VOllerthun from Augsburg,
who was Il perfect stranger to us nll,
but who had, l supposed, been recon-
mended to the emperor.
While the emperor and his host were
out shooting l remained alone in a
big. circular. Old-worId room in one
of the towers of the castle, dealing
with n flood Of important state pa
pers which a courier had brought
from Berlin two hours before. Papers
followed us daily wherever we might
be
About midday Doctor Vollerthun was
ushered In to me-a short, stout, gut
tural-speaking man Of about sixty.
rather bald, and wearing big, round,
gOld-rimmed %spectacles. I quickly
handed him over TO the major-dOm0.
About three o'clock that same after
a light tap came at the door, and
l saw my hostess standing upon the
threshold.
She was quietly but elegantly
dressed, presenting the true type Of the
smart Parisienne, but in an instant
that she was very pale and
agitated. Indeed, her voice trembled
she asked permission to enter.
Since her marriage l had many times
with her, for she often came
TO the palace when her husband visited
l had danced with her; | had
her into dinner at various houses
where we met. always finding her n
bright and very intellectual compan-
She quietly closed the door and nd
1anccd to the table from which | had
'isen.
Count Won HeltzendOrff, :" she ex-
.laimed in a low, strained voice. II
ave come to seek your aid because
veil, because I'm distracted. and I
now that you are my husbands
she exclaimed in French.
"And yours also, madam" / said ear
Iestly.
MY husband is u with the emper-
RI" she gasped in a curious, unnerved
one. "And I fear; oh. | fear that we
re in great periodically peril, every ,
our-eyery moment, :"
Really, madame, l hardly follow
ou,' I said.
"My husband, whom 1 love devoted
has done his best i'm the interests
his emperor. You. count. know the 7
eal aims Of the kaiser in Turkey. 4
hese last six months 1 have watched. I
nd have learned the truth! 1 know
ow, when the emperor went to Con-
5antinople five months ago in pre- a
nee. Of friendship toward the sultan, t
18th Professor Vambery as i~nterpre- b
r, he practically compelled Abdul u
amid TO give him. In return for GER a
i'm financial advapces. those wonder d
Jewels which the Empress Cath y