Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-07-27


MAMA few days in Ostend before VS.
return to Potsdam."
Next afternoon we had taken up our
quarters at a small but very select no
tel on the Digue at Ostend, a place
called the Beau Sejour." IT was
patronized by old-fashioned folk, and
Herr Richter" was well known there
There may have been some who sus.
pected that Richter was not the visit
or's real name, but they were few, and
1t always surprised me how well the
crown prince succeeded In preserving
his incognito--though, of course, the
authorities knew of the imperial visit.
The English Girl Again.
The following day, about three
o'clock, while the crown prince was
carelessly going through some letters
brought by couriers from Potsdam. a
waiter came to me with message that
n Miss King desired to see Mr.. Richter.
In surprise l received her, welcom-
ing her to Ostend. From the neat dress
OF the pretty English girl l concluded
that she had just crossed from Dover,
and she seemed most anxious to see
his hlghness. I noted that she still
wore the beautiful golden butterfly.
When 1 entered his room to an
nOunce her the crown princes brow
knit, and his thin lips compressed.
"H'ml More trouble for us, Heltzen-
dorff, l supposed Very well, show
her in"
The fair visitor was In the room for a
long time-indeed, for over an hour.
Their voices were raised, and now and
then, curiously enough, l received the
impression that, whatever might have
been the argument, the pretty girl had
came out she smiled at me In triumph,
and walked straight forth and down
the stairs.
The crown prince threw himself into
a big armchair in undisgulsed dissatis-
faction. Towards me he never wore
mask. though, like his father, he in
yariably did so in the presence of
strangers.
"Those accused women I" he cried.
"Ah, Heltzendorff, when a woman Is
In love she will defy even satan him.
self And yet they are fools. these
women, for they are in ignorance of
the irresistible power of our imperial
house. The enemies of the Hohenzol-
Terms are as a cloud of gnats on a sum-
mer's night. The dew comes, and they
are no more. 1t Is pity. Has not |
one of our greatest German philoso- |
piers written: 1T is no use breathing |
against the wind?"
'True," 1 said. "But, surely, 1t is
n nuisance to be followed and worried |
by that little English girlr'
Worried Yes. You are quite
right. my dear Heltzendorff. But 1
do not mind worry, If 1t is in the in
terests of Prussia, and of our house
Of Hohenzollern. 1 admit the girl.
though distinctly pretty, is most ir-
person. She does not APP
peal TO me, but am compelled to hui
nor her, because l have a certain OBJ
ect In view."
l could not go further, or I might
nave betrayed the knowledge 1 had
sained by housekeeping.
Il was surprised that she, should
urn up here, in Ostend," l said.
Il had written to her. 1 expected
ler.o
.She does not know your real rank
r stationT'
mo. To her I am merely Herr Emil ,
Richter, whom she first met away in
he country. She was a tourist, and l :
Fas Captain Emil Richter Of the Prus-
ian Guards. We met while you were i
way on a holiday at Vienna"
was anxious TO learn something /
bout Miss Kings brother but willie" L
as generally discreet, and at that mo- 1
lent unusually so. One fact was plain, a
owever, that some secret report pre- I
anted to the emperor had been shown n
} her. Why? l wondered If his high A
ess had been successful In coercing K
er into acting as he desired.
Certainly the girls attitude as she I
ad left the hotel went TO show that, $
! the contest. she had won by her
oman's keen wit and foresight. n
A fortnight afterwards we were back 2
gain at Potsdam. N
4 Surprise Package for willie" D
About three months passed. The 81
own prince had accompanied the EN- Il
sror to shoot on the Glatzer Ge5irge. o,