Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-06-29


once" urged, full of wonder.
could plainly see that his imperia
highness had been much upset at men
ton of the mysterious person calle'
Minckwitz. What could the empero
know of him? Was there some scan
dial at the root of it all, some fact
which the crown prince feared nigh
be revealed?
Travel-stained and without changin:
his tunic, willie" went to the tele
phone and ordered Knot to bring bacl
the car. In it he drove across to thu
Neues Palais to see the emperor.
had an appointment in Berlin thai
night, and waited until quite late fol
"Willie's" return. AS he did not come
1 left for the capital, and on arrival
at my rooms, rang up VOLTS agency
and gave out paragraph to the press
that his imperial highness, the crown
prince, had been compelled to aban-
don his journey to Thorn, owing to
having contracted a chill.
At the SchIoss Gels.
Several weeks went by, and one day
we were at the ancient schloss at Gels,
in far Silesia,
The guests included old Count Won
Reisenbach, court chamberlain of the
prince of Schambourg-Lippe, who was
a noted raconteur and bonvivant, with
Major Won Heidkamper of the Fourth
Bavarian Light Cavalry, a constant
companion of "Willie," and Karl Won
Pappenheim, captain of the Prussian
guard, who had been educated at Ok
ford, and who was so English that it
was often difficult for people from
London to believe that he was a Prus-
sian.
Won Pappenheim was one of "Wil-
of a great landowner of Erfurt, and
the pair had for the past month been
He was a shrewd, keen
eyed man, who seemed ever on the
alert, but, of course, obsessed by mill
tary dignity. He had a sister, Marga-
rete, pretty girl, a year or so his
junior, who had been to the Mariner
palace on one occasion.
One day 1 had accompanied the
party out after stag. Soon after lunch
con, which we took at a forester's
house, we went forth again, and / con-
cealed myself at point of vantage,
lying behind a screen of ferns and
branches specially constructed as
cover.
was alone, at some considerable
distance from the others, and had been
there waiting for nearly an hour with
my gun in readiness, when suddenly
heard the cracking of dried wood not
far away.
Something was moving. I raised my
gun in breathless eagerness.
Next moment, however, heard the
voices of two men-"Willie" and his
friend, Won Pappenheim. They were
me. speaking in low, con-
idential tones.
You quite understand" willie"
vas saying. my position is a terri
de one. 1 don't know how to extri-
ate myself. If dare reveal the truth,
hen I know full well what their ven
,eance will be-
"But, my dear Caesar" was Karl
ION Pappenheim's reply, for he was on
UGH intimate terms that he called his
lighness by the name Won Hochberg
lad bestowed upon him, sis it not your
Iuty to risk all and tell the truth?"
Tho ,1o;r bo n ballad opIu foxv words
rom me and taken cover behind a
lead bush which had been cut down
nd placed conveniently at the spot,
n case the shooting party were large
ne and the screen behind which had
oncealed myself was insufficient. SO
ear were they that could hear all |
hat was said.
"The emperor would neither believe !
or forgive me-" "Willie" said. |
is a clever devil. He |
rould bring manufactured evidence
hitch must implicate me-"
Minckwitzi That was the name |
hitch the emperor had uttered, asking |
lie if l knew him!
But can he bring evidence?" asked |
is companion
Eyes, curse him The cam
"You can refute 1t, surely"
mo, I can't. If 1 could, I should
lake a clean breast of the whole mat
r." Willie declared.
He Holds Me in the Hollow Of His
Hand"
"But cannot help you? Cannot l
se Minckwitz, and bluff himf" his
lend suggested.
you don't know him." was the re-
". ''He holds me in the hollow of
s hand"
"Ahl Then you have been horribly
II have. / admit I have, Karl; and
do not see my way out of it."
But, my dear Caesar, think Of the
anger existing day by day-hour by
our I" cried Won Pappenheim. Think
hat there is at stakel That letter
~ showed me this morning reveals
lily too plainly what is intended"