The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-12


 breaking off at once with her husband.
 And take it from me, Cecilie," he had declared, this scandalous beha- viour of his shall cease-instantly!
 wilhelm took side with Cecilie against mel" the Kaiser told me. "Not content with quarrelling constantly with her own husband, Cecilie makes trouble between me and mine I suppose htere must be some truth in this tale she has raked up, but Cecil ie's sure to put the worst aspect on things. My sons own explanation might be quite different"
 The Crown Prince speedily had an opportunity of explanation or denial, for the Raised peremptorily summon ed him to Potsdam. Wilhelm could not deny that Major von Lowensteins wife had really been too much in his | company.
 Proceedings for Divorce.
 What passed between the Imperial | father and son I cannot tell, yet l | judge that the Kaiser had stormed and | raved, and, doubtless, pointed out the relationship of Olga von Lowenstein to Herr Bal1fn. He had sternIy in- sisted on the Crown Prince immedi- | ately breaking off the intrigue. Whether Wilhelm would have obeyed his father is uncertain had he not, as usual with him become tired of his new favorite.
 Other complications were promptly to follow. The affair reached the ears of Major von Lowenstein, on ac- tive service in Flanders. He applied at once for leave, and rushed home in passionate wrath. His wife had re- turned to Berlin - having travelled back with Willie - and people said that she was openly unrepentant and defiant. The Grown Prince would see she did not suffer whatever steps her husbaid took, so she declared, and Major von Lowenstein had furiously l left her to institute immediate divorce proceedings.
 Meanwhile the Grown Prince, though he had not returned to the front, and was constantly about the gay and fashionable resorts of Der lin with his boon companions, kept strictly away from Olga. As came out later, she wrote pressing him to come to her, but he made no response. She wrote again, telling him of her husbands attitude, and that she left her husbands house for a fiat in the 1 Potsdamer Strasse. Willie cursed and swore uneasily, but was the more de- termined not to go near her. Then l finally, driving in the Thiergarten, he brutally cut her dead, and from that moment believe Olga von Lowen- stefn-cast off by her husband, aban- doned by her Royal lover to heart break and rI1in-set her mind upon revenge.
 The Kaiserin, I know thankfully believed the affair to have blown over But one day, when I was with her in Berlin, the Empress caught sight of the Crown Prince ascending the steps of his Palace in the Zeughaus Platz. He had not been to see her for some time, and stopping the car, she I alighted and haStened after him.
 I could see that the Crown Prince looked gloomy and furious, and re- turned only snappish replies to the Kaiserins anxious inquiries as she followed him into the Palace. l TeTl-TaIe Letters.
 What is the matter, Wilhelm" she asked. ''Is there some further trouble with CeciEe?"
 Mot yet" Willie answered su1len- ly; 'but there will be, soon-over that confomded Olga von Lowenstein again!''
 'But, Willie,'' exclaimed the Kaiser in, "I-I thought you were done with that dreadful woman"
 She's not with me evidently!'' he retorted. That's just the trouble; she's mad at my breaking it off, es- pecial1y as Von Lowenstein is divorc- ing her. My name will be dragged in to that-still we might have kept it out of the papers. But now Olga writes threatening to put all my let ters to her in Ballin's hands and have them published in the 'Tageb1att'"
 "oh, wi1helm!'' the Empress cried aghast. '"That would be too dreadful l-such a scandal would be disastrous! But there must be some way of avert ing this,'' she went on desperately. Nov that the womans husband has left her she may be in need of money. You must buy those letters-no price would be too high to pay for them!'
 The Crown Prince laughed dismal 1y.
 "HimmeI! she can't get it from me I'm up to my ears in debt, as usual. And I don't suppose you have any money to spare!"
 "I haven't!' sighed the Kaiserin. "But I'll do what I can to help you, she added bravely and, think, nobfy. For the Empress shows her best side as a mother, and throughout the rest of this sordid business fought with
 pIrcky unse1fishness for her son. "II1 speak to the Kaiser-Fn ask him for money to buy over this wick
 ed woman!"
 'I wish you luck!'' said the Prince with a doubtful shrug of his slopine shoulders. But even if you persuade [ him to part with the cash you won't get me to go and offer it to Olga know better!"
 That very evening the Empress who had told me all this, braced her self to the unpleasant task of asking = the Kaiser for money.
 Imperial Greed.
 I understood what that meant; h was too well aware of the Kaiser @ amazing greed and niggardliness 0 which results in even common neces e sities of the household being almos l. impossible to obtain. And if the Kai d serin wants any little thing extra fo '' herself, she has more trouble to pro h cure it than if she were an ordinar. l, workman's wife.