News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-07-11

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is referring to-"
"His majesty wishes to see you a
once" I urged, full of wonder.
l could plainly see that his imperia
highness had been much upset at men
ton of the mysterious person calle'
Minckwitz. What could the empero
know of him? Was there some scan
dial at the root Of it all, some fact
which the crown prince feared nigh
be revealed?
Travel-stained and without changing
his tunic, willie" went to the tele
| phone and ordered Knot to bring bach
! the car. In it he drove across to the
Neues Palais to see the emperor.
had an appointment in Berlin that
night, and waited until quite late for
"Willie's" return. AS he did not come
I left for the capital and on arrival
at my rooms, rang up VOLTS agency,
and gave out paragraph to the press
that his imperial highness, the crown
prince, had been compelled to aban-
don his journey to Thorn, owing to
having contracted chill.
At the SchIoss Gels.
Several weeks went by, and one day
we were at the ancient schloss at Gels,
In far Silesia,
The guests included old Count Won
Reisenbach, court chamberlain of the
prince of Schambourg-Lippe, who was
q noted raconteur and bonvivant, with
Major Won Heidkamper of the Fourth
Bavarian Light Cavalry, a constant
companion of "Willie," and Karl Won
Pappenheim, a captain of the Prussian
guard, who had been educated at Ok
ford, and who was so English that it
was often difficult for people from
London to believe that he was a Prus-
sian.
Won Pappenheim was one of evil
lies" new friends. He was the son
of great landowner of Erfurt, and
the pair had for the past month been
He was a shrewd, keen
alert, but, of course, obsessed by mill
tary dignity. He had sister, Marga-
rete, a pretty girl, year or so his
junior, who had been to the Mariner
palace on one occasion.
One day l had accompanied the
party out after stag. Soon after lunch
con, which we took at a foresters
house, we went forth again, and con-
cealed myself at a point of vantage,
lying behind a screen of ferns and
branches specially constructed as
cover.
/ was alone, at some considerable
from the others, and had been
here waiting for nearly an hour with
ny gun in readiness, when suddenly
heard the cracking of dried wood not
ar away.
Something was moving. raised my
yun in GREATNESS eagerness.
Next moment, however, heard the
yoices of two men-"Willie" and his
riend, Won Pappenheim. They were
approaching me, speaking In low, con-
idential tones.
you quite understand" "Willie"
vas saying. "My position is a terri
lie one. 1 don't know how to extri-
ate myself. If I dare reveal the truth,
hen I know full well what their ven
,eance will be-"
"But, my dear Caesar" was Karl
on Pappenheims reply, for he was on
UGH intimate terms that he called his
Iighness by the name Won Hochberg
lad bestowed upon him, "is it not your |
uty to risk all and tell the truth"
The pair had halted only few yards |
rom me and taken cover behind a |
cad bush which had been cut down
nd placed conveniently at the spot, |
n case the shooting party were large
ne and the screen behind which had |
myself was insufficient So
ear were they that l could hear all
hat was said.
"The emperor would neither believe
or forgive me-" "Willie" said.
is a clever devil. He
yould bring manufactured evidence
hitch must implicate me-"
AllCkWltZ! mat was Ile nhIne |
'hich the emperor had uttered, asking
he if / knew himi
But can he bring evidenceT asked
is companion.
Eyes, curse him he CAM
"You can refute it, surely?"
mo, / can't. If I could, should
lake a clean breast of the whole mat
r." Willie declared.
He Holds Me In the Hollow of His
Hand"
But cannot / help you? Cannot I
Re Minckwitz, and bluff himT' his
lend suggested.
you don't know him." was the re-
Iy. "He holds me in the hollow Of
is hand"
"Ahl Then you have been horribly
ldisCreet-ehp
81 have. I admit 1 have, Karl; and
do not see my way out of it,"
"But, my dear Caesar, think of the
anger existing day by day-hour by
ourl' cried Won Pappeuheim. '"Think
hat there is at stakei That letter
ou showed me this morning reveals
MY too plainly what is intended"
1T is a letter of defiance, admit"
"And q cofostropha r7ausf inevitably