Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-17

1ngS. That spy was Frau KleiSt'S son.
The kaiser trusts nobody. Even his
favorites and most intimate cronies are
spied upon, and reports upon those IA
m1liar blue papers are furnished regu-
larly. In view of what l had read in
that report from Karl Kleist, l stood
amazed when, at the grand court q
week later, l had witnessed Herr Reit-
schels French wife bow before the
emperor and empress and noticed how
graciOusly the kaiser had smiled upon
her.
Nearly three months passed.
The Trip to IImenau.
Herr Reitschel often came from Con-
stantinople, and frequently brought his
handsome young wife with him, for he
was persona grata at court. To me
this was indeed strange in view of the
reports of the ex-opera dancers SON
who, by the way, lived in Constanti-
nople in the unsuspicious guise of a
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. 1t was not, therefore, sur
nriCiDo thot tho tn roorl- bic
favor, should express a desire to shoot
capercailzie there-a desire which, Of
course, delighted Herr Reitschel, who
had only few days before been dec
GRATED with the Order of the Black
Eagle.
One afternoon in midautumn the en-
peror, accompanied by the crown
prince and myself, together with the
suite, arrived by the imperial train at
the little station of Ilmenau, 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 a
slight cold, and in consequence, just
before we left Berlin, 1 had been in
structed to summon by telegraph a GER
tain Doctor Vollerthun from Augsburg,
who was a perfect stranger to us all,
but who had, l supposed, been recon-
mended to the emperor.
While the emperor and his host were
out shooting l remained alone in q
big, circular, old-world room in one
of the towers of the castle, dealing
with a 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
rather bald, and wearing big, round,
gold-rimmed spectacles quickly
handed him over to the major-domo.
About three o'clock that same after
! noon a light tap came at the door, and
1 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 ]
realized that she was very pale and
agitated. Indeed, her voice trembled
when she asked permission to enter.
Since her marriage had many times
chatted with her, for she often came
to the palace when her husband visited
Berlin. 1 had danced with her; 1 haC
taken her into dinner at various houses
where we met, always finding her &
bright and very intellectual compan
ion.
She quietly closed the door and ad
vanced to the table from which 1 haC
risen.
"Count Won Heltzendorff ~ she ex
claimed in a low, strained voice. Ct
have come to seek your aid because
well, because I'm distracted and
know that you are my husband.
friend" she exclaimed in French.
"And yours also, madam" I said ear
nestIy.
my husband is out with the emper
orr" she gasped in curious unnerveC
tone. "And I fear; oh, fear that W.
are in great peril-deadly peril every
hour-every mOment"
! Really, madame, 1 hardly follow
you" 1 said.
"My husband, whom I love devoted
ly, has done his best in the interest,
of his emperor. You, count, know tn,
real aims of the kaiser in Turkey
These last six months l have watched
and have learned the truth! l know
how, when the emperor went to Con
stantinople five months ago in Ore
tence of friendship toward the sultan
/. with Professor Vanbery as interpre
ter. he practically compelled Abdu
. Hamid to give him, in return for Ger
tain financial advances, those wonder
full jewels which the Empress Cath