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member her, yet. for the life of me,
our meeting.
An hour later, on returning to the
hotel, saw her speaking with the con-
cierge.
She was evidently staying there,
hence a few minutes afterwards, when
she had assembled the lift, questioned
the man, and learned that she was
Madame Rosales, from Malaga, in
Spain. She had arrived with her hus-
band three days ago, but monsieur had
left the same morning for Paris, and
she was now awaiting his return.
The motive of the emperor, usually
| so restless and pompous, in remaining
virtually a prisoner in the hotel, and
posing as a merchant, was certainly
most mysterious. and even chat with
Herman, his majesty's chief valet, ell
cited no information.
That night. as sat alone eating my
dinner-for Herr Zeller took his meals
| in his private sitting room-the dark
haired woman sat at a table near me.
With her was a pretty girl in pale
| pink dinner gown, evidently a friend
who lived in the town.
The pair chatted together and laugh
| ed merrily over their meal, while l
watched them covertly.
Why, cannot even now tell, but I
| held Madame RosaIes in distinct sus-
| picion. Yet could not recollect where
we had met before. Now, however, as
I sat there in the corner eating my
meal I felt convinced that, on her
part, she had recognized me. and
to her companion.
Later in the evening made other In
Quiries in the hotel. and learned that
Madame had several friends. The eve
| ming that her husband left for Paris
a tall, thin, paIe-faced young man had
called upon her after dinner, and had
a long chat with her In a corner in
| the lounge. Afterwards they went out
together for a short walk, and, return
ing, he smoked q cigar before he left.
On the following day another man, of
rather unkempt appearance, called and
lunched with her.
Needless to say, watched madame
carefully, and managed during that
evening to catch several glances Of her
After the pair had dined they spent q
short time in the lounge. where they
both smoked cigarettes. Then, it being
a beautiful mOOnlit night, they put on
their coats and went for q stroll
The Emperor Peeps In.
So interested had 1 become in the
woman that I followed, and, unsus
pected, logged their footsteps fol
nearly half mile. until they entered 6
dark, forbidding-lOOkfng house which
faced q weedy canal.
When the door opened a man greet
edthem, and slipping In quickly, the!
disappeared.
They were there for over an hour
yet remained keeping constant vigil
until at last madame emerged alone
retracing her steps hurriedly to tn,
hotel.
Next morning I met her in the lif
at about eleven o'clock, and we de
scended together. She was dressed t,
go out, but in the hall the porter hand
; ed her telegram. This she opened
afterwards writing a reply, and tax
ing it herself to the post Office.
I was much irritated because m,
: memory was so at fault. There were
> 1 felt, some peculiar circumstances con
I nected with the woman at the time
had known her, but what they were
could not recall I saw, however, tina
her memory was better than my OWL
and that she knew me, and because o
: that fact had already grown apprehen
r sive.
It was not in Berlin society that
1 hnr Fol 4
q just as certain. indeed, that her req
name was not RoSales-
While had been out watching tn
? woman on the previous night the en-
peror had also taken a stroll throug
4 the city. What, wondered, would tn
! Berlin police have thought if the
: knew that William was walking abou
j at night unguarded and unattended g
= The Hague.
o As I sat with him attending to som
e correspondence and taking down
]. number OF instructions regarding in
s portant matters at the Wilhelmstrass,
e he suddenly broke of and told ID
8 how he had, on the previous nigh
a spent an hour drinking Dutch beer s
u that popular resort of tradesmen an
their wives, the Royal Brasserie.
Nobody recognized me-" he laugI
ed ST found out that they sold u
n best beer one can get outside German,
, and I really enjoyed 1t. sent for 20
\ but you had already gone out d
D. you go to the theaterT
y @No." was my reply, and then tol
him practically what have related
.. the foregoing lines
D. How curiOusr exclaimed his m
ID iesty. 81 would much Ike to see IN
- mysterious Spanish lady. She must
3 interesting.