The Ordway new era., 1917-08-10


powers of Europe was desperate one.
On the one hand. the kaiser was max
ing pretence of fair dealing with Great
Britain and France. yet on the other
his agent, Herr ReitSchel. was ever
busy lending money in oil directions in
order to secure favor In Germany's in
terest.
Yet n further game was being played,
namely, that while the kaiser was max
ing pretence of being the best friend of
the sultan Abdul Hamid. visiting Con-
stantlnople and Palestine, building
fountains, endowing Institutes, yet he
was also secretly supporting the Young
Turk party SO us to effect the sultan's
downfall
| Herr Anton had been paying num-
ber of flying visits to Berlin, and had
many private audiences of both kaiser
and sultan.
Suddenly all of us were surprised by
the announcement that the kaiser's IA
vored civilian In Turkey had married
Mademoiselle Julie de Lagarenne,
daughter of Paul de Lagarenne, son of
the great French sugar retiner, and
secretary OF the French embassy at
Rome. A week after that news was
spread I met them both in Kranzler's
| in Inter den Linden. and there he in
troduced me to pretty, dark-haired,
vivacious young Frenchwoman, who
spoke German WELL and who told me
that her husband had already given
] I, sk,-
next court.
| That was about a month prior to
! Orville Wright's flight and the mid
night visit of Frau Klelst to the en-
peror.
Truth to tell the old woman's men,
ton of Herr Reitschel's name caused
me considerable misgivings, because
three weeks before I had gathered Ger.
tain strange facts from n secret report
Of a spy, who in Constantinople had
been set to watch Herr Reitschel's do.
ings. 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
niliar blue papers are furnished regu
larly. In view Of what had read ir
that report from Karl Kleist, I stood
amazed when. at the grand court {
week later. l had witnessed Herr Reit
schel's 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 lImenau.
! Herr ReitscheI often came from Con
! stantinople, and frequently brought hi
! handsome young wife with him, for h
:. was persona grata ut court. To IN
e this was indeed strange in view of tn
9 reports Of the ex-opera dancers SON
e who. by the way, lived in Constant
d nople In the unsuspicious guise of
n carpet dealer. and unknown to tn
bank director
4 The latter had. assisted by his wife
J. fortune, inherited from her grant
z mother, purchased the Schloss LANCER
d berg, the splendid ancestral castle an
s, estates of the princes of Langenber
n situated In the beautiful Thuringia
e. forest, and acknowledged to be one I
r the most famous shooting estates
e, the empire. 1t was not, therefore, su
,f prising that the emperor, to mark h
D. favor, should express desire to sho
.e capercailzie there-a desire which,
IN course, delighted Herr Reitschel wi
n had only few days before been de
in GRATED with the Order of the Bla,
d. Eagle.
IN One afternoon in midautumn the el
n peror. accompanied by the crov
to prince and myself. together with Il
ey suite, arrived by the imperial train
IL the little station Of Ilmenau, where.
Id course. Reitschel and his pretty vii
Tx with the head and underforesters, al
w all sorts of civil officials in black coa
ad and white ties bowed low as the a
n. highest stepped from his salon. T
kaiser was most gracious to his ht
h and hostess.
ar The emperor had complained Of
nm slight cold, and In consequence, il
IL before we left Berlin, had been
Of structed to summon By telegraph G
e. tain Doctor yollefthun from Aussbu
~ Who wns . perfect st1rn8er to ~
- bat whe Aad, ~ nsd. been Bocu
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