Williams news., 1917-08-16
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VON F1ELTZENDORFF TO WILLIAM LEQUElX

"Ah! You have perhaps devised something I hope SOL said the emperor. "You are usually ingenious in a crisis. GoodI Here is the or der; act just as you think fit.''
 "I was summoned, your majesty" said, in order to remind him of my presence there.
 "Ahl Yes. You know this Miss King, do you not?"
 q received her in Plymouth" was my reply.
 Probably your services may be very urgently required within the next few hours. You may go," and his majesty curtly dismissed me.
 waited in the corridor until his inn perial highness came forth. When he did so he looked flushed and seemed agitated. There had, knew, occurred violent scene between father and son, for to me it seemed as though willie" had again fallen beneath the influence of a pretty face.
 He drove me in a big Mercedes over to Potsdam where I had a quan- tity of military documents awaiting at. tention, and after a change of clothes. tackled them.
 Yet my mind kept constantly revert ing to the mystery surrounding the golden butterfly.
 A Note From Miss Kina.
 After dinner that night returned to my workroom, when, upon my plotting pad, I found a note addressed to me in the crown princes sprawling hand.
 Opening it, found that he had scrib- bled this message:
 T have left. Tell Eckhardt not to trouble. Come alone, and meet me tomorrow night at the Palast hotel. in Hamburg. I shall call at seven o'clock and ask for Herr Richter. shall also use that name. Tell no- body of my journey, not even the crown princess Wilhelm, Kronprinz.
 read the note through a second time, and then burned it.
 Next day I arrived at the 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 I had en- gagged. no visitor arrived.
 Just after twelve, however, a waiter brought up a note addressed to Herr Richter.
 Believing it to be meant for me, opened it. To my great surprise, I found that 1t was from the mysterious Miss King, and evidently intended for the crown prince. It read:
 My brother was released from the Altona prison this evening" pre- sume, owing to your intervention and we are now both safely on our way across to Harwich. You have evil dently discovered at last that am not the helpless girl you believed me to be. When your German police arrested my brother Walter in Bremen as spy of Britain I think you will admit that they acted very injudiciously, in face of all that my brother and myself know today. At Plymouth you demanded, as the price of Walters liberty, that I should become attached to your secret service in America and betray the man who adopted me and brought me up as his own daughter. But you never dreamed the extent of my knowledge of your country's intrigues; you did not know that, through my brother and the man who adopted me as his daughter, I know the full extent of your subtle propaganda. You were, admit, extremely clever, Herr Richter, and confess that was quite charmed when you sent me, as souvenir, that golden butterfly which returned to you as mark of my refusal and defi- ance of the conditions you imposed upon me for the release of my brother from the sentence of fifteen years in fortress. This time, Herr Richter, a woman wins. Further, I warn you that if you attempt any reprisal my brother will at once expose Germany's machinations abroad. He has, I as- sure you, many good friends, both in Britain and America. Therefore if you desire silence you will make no effort to trace me further. Adieu!''
 Twelve hours later handed that let ter to the crown prince in Potsdam. Where he had been in the meantime I did not know. He read it through; then he crushed it in his hands and tossed it into the fire.
 Copyright. 1917, William LeQueux)
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