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

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staying at great, high-up prisonlik'
schloss, the ancestral home of Prince
Ludwig Lichtenau, in the Wolfels
grund.
The emperor and his suite hat
left, and our host had been suddenly
called to Berlin by telegram, his
daughter having been i'll. Therefore
the crown prince and we Of the suite
had remained for some further sport
On the day after the emperor's de-
parture | had spent the afternoon in
a small paneled room which over.
looked deep mountain gorge, and
which had been given up to me for
work. was busy with correspond
ence when the courier from Potsdam
entered and gave me the battered
leather pouch containing the crown
princes letters. Having unlocked 1t
with my key, / found among the cor
respondence small square packet adj
dressed to his imperial highness, and
marked private"
"Now, fearing bombs or attempts by
other means upon his sons life, the
emperor had commanded me always to
open packets addressed to him. This
one, however, being marked private"
and, moreover, the inscription being
In feminine hand, I decided to await
his highness' return.
When at last he came In, wet and
muddy after a long days sport,
showed him the packet. With a care
less air he said: "Oh, open it, Helt-
zendorff. Open all packets, whether
marked private or not"
81 obeyed, and to my surprise found
within the paper a small leather-cov-
cred jewel case, in which, reposing
upon a bed of dark blue velvet, was
the beautiful ornament which 1 had
admired at the throat of the fair
haired British girl-the golden butter
fly.
handed it to his highness just as
he was taking a cigarette from the box
on side table.
The sight of it electrified him. He
held his breath, standing for a few
seconds staring at it as though he
were gazing upon some specter. His
countenance was as white as paper.
"When did that arrive?" he man.
aged to ask, in a hoarse voice, which
showed how completely sight of it had
upset him.
'"This afternoon. 1t was in the cou-
rier's pouch from Potsdam."
"If the Truth Came Out"
He seemed highly nervous, and at
the same time extremely puzzled. Re
ceipt Of that unique and beautiful
brooch was. 1 saw, some sign, but of
its real significance remained in en-
tire ignorance.
That it had a serious meaning 1
quickly realized, for within half an |
hour the crown prince and myself were |
in the train on our 200-mile journey |
back to Berlin.
On arrival his imperial highness
drove straight to the Berlin Schloss, |
and there had long interview with |
the emperor. At last was called into
the familiar pale-green room, the kali
ser's private cabinet, and at once saw
that something untoward had oc-
Cured.
The emperor's face was dark and
The crown prince, in his
badly creased uniform betraying a
long journey-so unlike his usual
splck-and-span appearance, stood ner-
vously by as the kaiser threw him.
self into his writing chair with deep
srunt and distinctly evil grace.
81 suppose it must be DONE" he
yrowled to his son. ibid I not fore
see that the girl would constitute a Sc
'ious menace? When she was in Ger.
many she might easily have been ar
'ested upon some charge and her
mouth closed. Bah our political po-
ice service grows worse and worse.
We will have 1t entirely recognized.
rhe director, Laubach, is far too SEN
mental, far too chicken-hearted."
AS he spoke he took up his pen and J
to write rapidly, drawing a
leep breath as his quill scratched !
pom the paper.
''You realize" he exclaimed angrily :
0 his son, taking no notice of my +
arcel of the great machinery of the +
curt, ''you realize what this order Y
leans2 1t is blow struck against our Il
ause-struck by mere slip OF girl. 4
link, If the truth came outl Why. t,
Il cur propaganda in the United
tates and Britain would be nullified
/ single day, and the good rela-
ons' we are now extending on every
and throughout the world in order to Il
islead our enemies would be exposed Il
all their true meaning. We cannot b
ford that. Ii would be far cheaper D
pay twenty million marks-the an 81
lal cost of the whole propaganda in a
to allow the truth to be "
town." v
Suddenly the crown princes face m
rightened. as though he had had al
me inspiration. M
"The truth viii not be known. l ia
omise YOU" he said, with a strange in