The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-12-17

preme war lord. He is told how Dr.
Strumpf substituted him for the ba-
by boy who had followed his mother
in death by but few hours.
Overcome, Robert finds this start
ling revelation of his royal parentage
thing sickening and distasteful.
Thoroughly imbued with the spirit of
America and American freedom, ne
remains loyal. But to DR.. Strumpf
he feigns ardor for Germany. He is
made a member of the Pan-German
League, a national organization of
spies, doing a stealthy work OF de-
struction and murder.
He volunteers to act for the Secret
Service in trapping members of the
League. His loyalty to the latter re-
mains unquestioned, and he is finally
entrusted with a mission to Berlin
and the Kaiser. The day before his
departure the League quarters, in a
subterranean chamber, are raided.
One of the spies is his father, previ-
ously unrecognized by Robert in his
hood and long black robe. Disgraced,
the elder Busch commits suicide to
save his daughter from social and
financial ruin.
Possessed of a ring bestowed by
the Crown Prince on one of his girl
companions, Robert makes his way
to German army headquarters. He
meets the Crown Prince, his step
brother, and is struck by the remark
able resemblance between them. At
the first opportunity he shoots and
kills the imbecile leader of one of
his fathers armies. His. resemblance
to the dead Prince is so close that
only the addition of a small Imperial
mustache makes it complete. After
a series of exciting adventures he
makes his way to the Kaiser's head
quarters. The important members of
the General Staff are in deep con-
sultation with their ruler over the in
vention of a new and deadly bomb,
designed particularly by a German
chemist for use by aviators in de-
stroying hospitals and hospital trans
port ships.
The conference ends, the officers
depart, leaving the Kaiser gloating
over the possibilities of further wan
ton killing that lurk in the small
black iron ball on the table before
him. Robert enters, dressed in the
uniform of the Crown Prince. The
Kaiser instantly detects the decep-
ton, crying, "You are not my son"
''I am your son, but I am also a
son of America, where autocratic
brutality, Kaiserism with its stencil
of murder, manning, destruction, de-
vastation, suffering and lowest crimi-
nality is a thing loathed and despis-
ed."
In series of vivid pictorial SEN
sations Robert drives home to the
Kaiser at the point of his automatic
the suffering he has wrought, the
great armies sweeping across the At
lantic from America, the recent AL
lied triumphs on the Western Front,
the promise of more and greater
ones, the ultimate doom of Imperial
Germanism, the conquering Allied
hosts of the air, the supreme artil-
terry commands of the American,
French, English and Italian forces,
taking him through a gamut of dra-
matte picturizations ending with the
words:
"And now you are going before
the Divine Being, whose name you
have reviled and dragged through the
bloody mud of Belgium and France" /"
A shot and the Kaiser falls. Instant
ly the place swarms with officers and
men. Robert seizes the bomb-pat-
tern for thousands proposed for the
destruction of hospitals harboring
wounded and dying and explodes it
in the midst of those seeking to ov-
erpower him. The tremendous build
ing is shattered to it's foundations,
carrying into death the loyal Ameri-
can youth who struck direct to the