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

"AhI You have perhaps devised
something-eh? l hope So" said the
emperor. "You are usually ingenious
In a crisis Good Here is the or
der; act just as you think fit"
II was summoned, your majesty"
said, in order to remind him of my
presence there.
"Ahl Yes. You know this Miss
King, do you noty'
81 received her in Plymouth" was
my reply.
"Ahl then you will recognize her.
Probably your services may be very
urgently required within the next few
hours. You may CO." and his majesty
CURLY dismissed me.
waited in the corridor until his i'm
perial highness came forth. When he
did so he looked flushed and seemed
agltated. There had, I knew, occurred
violent scene between father and
son, for to me it seemed as though
willie" had again fallen beneath the
influence of pretty face.
He drove me in a big Mercedes
over to Potsdam where I had a guam
tity of military documents awaiting at
tention, and after a change of clothes,
L tackled them.
Yet my mind kept constantly revert
ing to the mystery surrounding the
golden butterfly.
A Note From Miss King.
After dinner that night 1 returned to
my workroOm, when, upon my blotting-
pad, l found a note addressed to me
in the crown princes sprawling hand.
Opening it, found that he had scrib-
bled this message:
81 have left. Tell Eckhardt not to
trouble. Come alone, and meet me
tomorrow night at the Palast hotel,
in Hamburg. l shall call at seven
o'clock and ask for Herr Richter. I
shall also use that name. Tell no
body of my journey, not even the
crown princess-Wilhelm, Kronprinz."
l read the note through a second
time, and then burned it.
Next day I arrived at ethe Palast
hotel, facing the Binnenalster, in Ham
burg, giving my name as Herr Rich
ter.
AT seven O'Clock I awaited his high
ness. Eight o'clock came-nine-ten
even eleven-midnight, but, though
L sat in the private room 1 had en-
gagged. no visitor arrived.
Just after twelve, however. a waiter
brought up note addressed to Herr
Believing 1t to be meant for me, I
opened it. To my great surprise, I
round that it was from the mysterious
Miss King, and evidently intended for
the crown prince. 1t read:
'My brother was released from tbe
Altoona prison this evening" pre-
sumo, owing to your intervention
and we are now both safely on our
way across to Harwich. You have evil
iently discovered at last that l am not
the helpless girl you believed me to be.
When your German police arrested nv
brother Walter in Bremen as q spy
IF Britain think you will admit thar
hey acted very injudiciously, in face
II all that my brother and myself know
oday. AT Plymouth you demanded.
Is the price of Walters liberty, that
'houid become attached to your secret
service IN America and betray the man
VINO adopted me and brought me I'D as
us own daughter. But you never
lreamed the extent of my knowledge
Il your country's intrigues; YOU did
lot know that, through my brother
nd the man who adopted me as his
| know the full extent of
our subtle propaganda. You were. I
amt, extremely clever, Herr Richter.
nd confess that was quite charmed
'hen you sent me, as souvenir. that
olden butterfly which l returned tn
GU as mark of my refusal and def
nee of the conditions you imposed
pom me for the release of my brother
rom the sentence of fifteen years in
fortress This time, Herr Richter. a
oman wins. Further, | warn YOU
lat II you attempt any reprisal my
rother will at once expose Germany's
achinations abroad. He has. / as
Ire you, many good friends, both in
ritain and America. Therefore if you
esire silence you win make no effort
} trace me further. Adieui"
Twelve hours later l handed that let
r TO the crown prince in Potsdam.
here he had been in the meantime I
d not know. He read it through:
EN- he crushed it in his hands and
ssed it into the fire.
Copyright, 1917, William LeQueux.)