Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-05
INNER LIFE OF KAISER AND CROWN PRINCE AS

what had occurred.
Il went out quickly, and I-weli. I
don't know what happened" he told
me soon after dawn, as he lay in bed.
Strangely enough, he made no mention
of the man, Karl Krahl.
Later on he summoned the Countess
Won Kienitz, and for twenty minutes
| or so he had an animated discussion
with her. Being outside the room, how
ever, I was unable to hear distinctly.
Well, l succeeded, by bribes and
threats, in hushing up the whole affair
and keeping it out of the papers, while
by those who knew of the incident II
was soon forgotten.
Karl krahI Again.
I suppose 1t must have been fully
three months later when one evening,
having taken some documents over to
the emperor for signature at the Berlin
schloss, l returned TO the princes pri.
| yate room in the palace, when, to my
great surprise, found the man Karl
| pale and worn, quite unlike the rather
athletic figure he presented at the for
| ester's house.
IF you still refuse to tell me the
/ truth, then l shall take my own meas
/ ures TO find out-severe measures! So
/ 1 give you full warning" the crown
prince was declaring angrily, as l en-
( tered so unexpectedly.
l did not withdraw, pretending not
TO notice the presence of a visitor,
! therefore his highness himself beck.
| Oned the young man, who followed him
| down the corridor to another room.
/ The whole affair was most puzzling
/ What had happened on that afternoon
/ in the Harz mountains l could not AT
/ all imagine. By what means had his
/ highneSs been rendered unconscious
/ and what part could the little old
countess have played in the curious
/ affair?
In about half an hour the crown
prince returned in a palpably bad hu.
NOR and, tiinglng himself into hiS
| chair, wrote a long letter, which he
| addressed to Countess Won kienitz
This he sealed carefully and ordered
! me TO take it at once to the Stuler-
strasse and deliver it to her person.
/ ally.
this morning" l was informed by the
bearded manservant. 'She left by the
eight o'clock train and has already
left Sassnitz by now
when do you expect her to re.
turn:"
The man did not know.
On going back TO his highness and
telling him of the countess departure
he bit his lip and then smiled grimly
THAT Internal old woman has left
Germany and will never again put her
foot upon our soil. HeltzendOrff." he
said. You may open that letter. II
will explain something which l know
must have mystitied you"
did so. And as l read what he had
written l held my breath. Truly i,
did explain much.
What the Crown Prince Told Me.
Imposing the strictest silence upon
me, the crown prince then revealed
how utterly he and the crown princess
had been misled, and how ver8narrow'
ly he had escaped being the victim OF
cunning plot TO effect his death.
The little old Countess Won Kienitz
had, it seemed, sworn to avenge the
degradation and dismissal of her son
who had been in the famous Deaths
Head Hussars. She had secretly
traced the crown prince as author of q
conspiracy against him, the underlying
motive being jealousy. With that end
in view she had slowly wormed her
way into his highness' confidence, and
introduced to him Karl Krahl, neu.
rotic young Saxon who lived in Lon
don, and who pretended he had un-
earthed plot against the kaiser him.
self.
'Tt was to tell me the truth concern.
ing the conspiracy that Krahl came to
me in secret at Ballenstedt. He re.
manned with me for half an hour,
when, to my great surprise, We were
Joined by the countess. The story they
told me Of the plot against the EN-.
peror was a very alarming one, and
intended to return at once to Berlin.
the schIoss, when presently We heard
| a woman's scream-her vOice-and we
both went forth to discover what was
in progress. As ran along little dis
lance behind Krahl, suddenly what
seemed like a thin glass globe struck
| mo in tho chest and hurst before nv