The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-28

bereft of ideas. wish I had less
money and just few original plans
whereby I could serve a cause, do
something.
My words had effect of breaking a
dam that had held back a reservoir
of love and emotion. 1t is not neces-
sary for me to go into details Of what
he said. But may state that we be-
came partners in his enterprise
furnishing the funds to put it in mo-
ton. At that time 1 did not have a
definite plan as to what next step to
take. But this much certain; I had
Lopez in my power, and it was for
another time to decide how to utilize
him.
AS I prepared to depart Lopez once
more bowed low and was about to kiss
my hand when 1 raised his hands,
held them in my own, and blushingly
offered to him my cheek. This was
the first time in all my career that
I had ever yielded to my own emo
ton. Yes, I had Lopez in my power
but he also had my heart. I knew
the days would come when I had to
pay dearly for it. The time would
soon come when I had to return to
Berlin with heavy heart that had
yielded"
Still More Plots
When I returned to my rooms that
night I felt that I had just woke up
from a pleasant dream. For man5
hours I had to reason with myself as
to the best way to defeat my own
temporary weakness.
I lost no time on the next day in
making my way to our Minister in
order to tell him about my previous
nights conquest. I had accomplish
ed something. I had opened a way
to munition our Southern Brazil Ger
mans which task had worried many of
our Service chiefs for months. I had
scraped an acquaintance with this
crazy dreamer and great advantages
must be gotten from it. Our Minis
ter in turn called in our consul, a
man unsurpassed in his knowledge of
Brazil, as a German consul must Ger
tainly be at any place.
| had to repeat the whole story of
my previous nights conquest to this
man, our German consul, whose name
was Adler. had hardly finished my
story when Herr Adler jumped off his
seat and in another moment he was
dancing round and round very uncere-
moniously.
my Gracious Countess, you have
unearthed mine of diamonds. All,
my Cod! you are the most skiIlful
servant in the service. Our Gracious
Kaiser will decorate you with the
highest medal in the fatherlandv' and
our consul could not be- stopped from
praising me this fashion. ..
what is the significance of our
Gracious Countess acquaintance with
this mad lopez" demanded our min
lister of our Consul Adler.
"But it is simple" replied the Con-
sui. Lopez controls this Amazonian
port and if the Gracious Countess will
undertake to form a partnership viii
him to have the arms landed at this
Amazonian port, will undertake all
the rest. I will furnish Lopez twenty
shiploads of arms if he will undertake
to take them by the river.
That Minister Is No German
, But still everything was blank tc
our Minister. He could not see any
advantage in us furnishing this Lopez
J with munitions. What earthly good
was it to have him take twenty ship
: loads of munitions to his desert Re-
| public?
, The Minister pressed him for ex'
, plantations, and he told US some verJ
interesting things about the great river
system of Brazil. At one point in the
Central Plateau, there is a place, he
told us, where the tributaries of the
} Amazon and the Rio Grande, the great
waterways of the South of Brazil; ap'
proach so nearly together that a por-
tage has been made there.
= This was the port where Lopez and
l his Cabinet held court. Back of thE
l place ran fertile valley which reach
= ed the outskirts of one of the princi-
5 pal German settlements. We would
: let Lopez fetch for US to that point as
munitions a she wished. We would
man his ships with reliable German
I reservists, we would order thousands
V of our reservists to join his mob army
4 we would build depots for munitions
/ and Lopez would have the nominal ii
v tie of them all. But when. the right
r moment comes-that was easy-wt
0 would put him under arrest for plot
V ting to become "a king. Lopez wouI(
I be put out; then the Republic would
:. be ours. OF course, we cared yer!
s little for his foolish Republic; W.
t would take charge of the munition de
8 pots, and our German colonists il
e Southern Brazil would possess enough
). ammunition to enable them to def!
n the Brazilian authorities Indefinitely
y Gun Running
: I left all the arrangements 70
: transport with Adler and returned t,
y my poor Lopez whose Republic W
y were about to steal from under hi
e very nose. I raised him to the sew
Il enth heaven of bliss by promise o
= all the arms he could carry to hi
n hard pressed Republic by the river
e providing, of course, that he could un
: dertake the business of landing then
y in the country. When 1 mentione,
e machine-guns and Mannlichers, h
s hailed me as an angel, kissed my hands
n lifted me up in his arms, and kisse,
/ me on both cheeks, and trustfully Sc
n out about his part of the business.
There is no need to go into to-
many details of the gun-running eX
d plot which followed, 1 had two tram
e steamers chartered under the direc
', tion of our Consul Adler, and thes
d lwere loaded with our arms. This wa