The Glenwood post., 1917-09-01

ERNST Won HELTZENDORFF.
powers of Europe was a 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 NIL directions in
order to secure favor in Germany's in
tereSt.
Yet 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 as 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 refiner, and
secretary OF the French embassy at
Rome. A week after that news was
spread met them both in Kranzler's
in Inter den Linden, and there he in
troduced me to a pretty, dark-haired
viyacious young Frenchwoman, who
spoke German well, and who told me
that her husband had already given
in her name for presentation at the
next court.
That was about q month prior I'd
Orville Wright's flight and the mid
night visit Of Frau Kleist 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 had gathered Ger.
tain strange facts from secret report
of spy, who in COnstantinople had
been set to watch Herr Reitschel's do
ings. That spy was Frau Kleist's son
~ kaiser trusts nobody. Even his
favorites and most intimate cronies are
spied upon, and reports upon those fa
miliar blue papers are furnished regu
larly. In view of what I had read ir
that report from Karl Kleist, stood
amazed when, at the grand court @
week later, / had witnessed Herr Reit
schel's French wife bow before the
emperor and empress and noticed how
nj ion ho l,nyc hoA cypi1ai
her.
Nearly three months passed.
The Trip to IImenau.
Herr Reitschel often came from Con
stantinople, and frequently brought his
handsome young wife with him, for ht
was persona grata at court. To me
this was indeed strange in view Of the
reports of the ex-opera dancers SON
who, by the way, lived in Constants
nople In the unsuspicious guise of c
carpet dealer, and unknown to the
bank director.
The latter had, assisted by his wife's
fortune, inherited from her grand
mother, purchased the Schloss Langen
berg, the splendid ancestral castle ant
estates Of. the princes Of Langenberg
situated in the beautiful Thuringiar
forest, and acknowledged to be one o.
the most famous shooting estates IL
the empire. 1t was not, therefore, sur
prislng that the emperor, to mark his
favor, should express desire to shoe
capercailzie there-a desire which, o.
course, delighted Herr Reitschel, wht
had only a few days before been dec
GRATED with the Order of the Blacl
Eagle.
One afternoon in midautumn the EN-
peror, accompanied by the crown
prince and myself together with the
suite, arrived by the imperial train al
the little station of nmenau, where, o.
course, Reitschel and his pretty wife
with the head and underforesters, ant
all sorts Of civil officials in black coat
and white ties bowed low as the all
highest stepped from his salon. Th'
kaiser was most gracious to his hos
and hostess.
Z The emperor had complained of
slight cold, and in consequence, JUS
before we left Berlin, had been in
structed to summon by telegraph Ger
tain Doctor vollerthun from Augsburg
who was perfect stranger to us NIL
but who had, supposed, been recon-
mended to the emperor.
While the emperor and his host wer'
out shooting I remained alone in .