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went on.
"It was impossible to take such action" de-
clared the King sullenly "You know that more
than half the people are for the allies and would
have rebelled. Ihaye done my best for Wilhelm.
have helped him by keeping Greece out Of the
war; The time has come to yield
Queen Sophie rage then passed beyond con-
troll. With the typical savagery Of the PrusSian.
displayed by her eOuntrymen on many battle
field, she drew from her bosom small Offering
jeWelled dagger presented to her by the Kaiser
Is a birthday gift. She few at her husband,
brandishing the dagger and plunged il into his
chest.
"You cowardP' she shrieked. "You shah
never live to betray my brother and GermanyP'
Constantine fell to the floor, bathed in blood,
and the Queen callously left him to his fate. At
tendants, alarmed by the noise, rushed In and
carried the King to his bed Constantine is q
huge powerful man, and the knife had been
turned aside by one Of his thick ribs. It had In
ficted long and painful, but not deep or dan
gerous, wound.
While he lay wounded the explanation was
given out that Constantine had had relapse Of
the attack Of pneumonia from which he had suf-
fered some months before. he made rapid re-
eovery from the wound By that time the situa-
ton Of Greece had become desperate. Every
public man of consequence IN the country de-
elared that the King must accept the terms Of
the powers. /.
eve can have no further dealings with Your
Majesty" declared the French envoy, the august
spokesman Of the allied powers, speaking boldly
to the King in his palace. 'You have broken
every promise and betrayed rs at every turn.
We require that you abdicate Internationally
and leave Greece -
Thousands Of picked French troops backed the
ENJOYS words, and the guns Of British and
French bsttleships covered the Royal Palace and
the city Of Athens.
Constantine could do naught but yield He
left Athens on June II, 1917, on British war
ahip, which carried him to Italy, whence he made
his way to Switzerland. With him went his
energetic Queen and large suite Of attendants
Sophie displayed furious hate against the alisd
officers to the last, and before she SAILED ths
Kaiser sent her telegram, which read
81 pledge you my word that will parish the
perpetrators Of this unspeakable outage apoa,
you"
Thus fortified, Queen Sophie eOmplstcd her
voyage to Switzerland, where, as we have already
learned, she has been conducting espionage and
propaganda for the Kaiser with energy and
mahgnity.
II Is necessary to return once more to the
activities of Sigmund Won Rosenberg the chief
German financial agent in Switzerland. Of whom
Queen SOPHIE has now become a leading accom-
pliee. Investigations continue to reveal new
and widespread operations throughout allied
countries by this schemer.
Rosenberg holds. property under fictitious
names in practically every country in the world.
He makes it a practice of acquiring casinos, -
'kursaals" and similar public places Of enter
tainment which can be used very conveniently
in spying operations. Thus it was shown that
he owned the Casino at Lugano, in the Italian
part of Switzerland, which was held nominally
by one of his French confederates. His French
agents could meet him here on apparently inno-
cent pleasure excursions without exciting the
suspicion that would have attended their visits
to the German-speaking centre Of Zurich.
Rosenberg is now proved to have been the pay
master of Duval, the notorious editor Of the
Bonnet Rouge" who was sentenced by the
Paris court martial to face the firing squad at
Vincennes The Bonnet Rouge" was an an
arehist sheet that savagely attacked the war and
the French army and its leaders. When the
censor suppressed an issue it was secretly re-
printed and distributed with fendish ingenuity
among the soldiers In the trenches.
Duval was arrested on his way back from
Switzerland with a check for $4,000 on his per-
son, drawn by Swiss bank in which Rosenberg
has funds Curious to relate, Duval said that
he had received the money as liquidator OF a
casino in Turkey owned by French stock
holders.
1t was shown that this wretched anarchist had
received upward of 100000 from Rosenberg for
his task of undermining the spirit of the French
soldiers
1t is Rosenberg who forms a link between
finance and espionage in the vast system by which
Berlin sought to enslave the world-Rosenberg
who finances the Queen of Greece, as he financed
the adventures Nine. Storeh.
There is no chapter in the career Of Nine.
Storch as interesting and thrilling as that which