The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-12-19
Another Letter from Bill

ed him but somehow or other it didn't
He answered me insolently: 81 have
a fairly good bunch to the effect that
you are the who used to hold the
job of emperor of Germany, not that
care whoop, but just answering your
question by way of passing the time.
However, if you were the angel Ga
briel or the devil himself you couldn't
get across that line without orders
from my boss"
1t makes a lot of difference notice
whether you are travelling as a poten-
tate because you want to or as an sex
because you have to. Finally they let
me and Willie across and we headed
! for the castle Of my friend Count Won
Bentinck. When we drove up to the
gate said pleasantly and condescend-
ingly "Hello, Count, we are here" The
count looked as pleased as if he had an
liberated tooth which had been on
the rampage for couple of days and
was getting more hostile. "How long
" goin' to stay?" he replied with
sort of a grunt. Any other time If
man l had gone to visit had asked me
as unmannerly question as that l
would have turned on my heel right
then, but l was in no position to give
back talk and he knew it. Also knew
that he would have been tickled almost
to death if l had gone off lnsulted.
So just passed the remark off as
joke and said: "Oh, not more than
month or two, / suppose" If l have
anything to say about it you can cut
down that guess by several weeks"
remarked the count. "Do you think l
am running a private boarding house
or anything like that?" / saw that l
wasn't going to have real pleasant
visit and so l telephoned to Wilhelm
mas husband who is a relative OF NINE
and asked him to mention to the queen
that | was in, the country and would
be pleased to pay her visit. NOW
heretofore Prince Hank, Wilhelmlna's
husband, has always been ready TO
orovel before me with his nose in the
dirt. but this time he answered me IN
a truculent manner. He said that the
queen was apprised of the fact that l
was in the country and that she wasn't
tickled about it either. He said that
she had indicated that she would rath-
err not have me and the crown prince
hanging around there. She would pre-
fer that we be hanged somewhere else.
And had always counted Wilhelmlna
and Hank, her husband, as particular
friends of mine.
She is talking about sending me
home, but ! have received word that
if | come home there are large num-
Der of trained snipers ready to take
a shot at me. When a man gets to the
point where he can't stay either at
home or away from home the sltua-
ton is decidedly unpleasant, believe me
To make the matter worse | have an !
attack of the flu and to pass away the
time the nurse comes in and reads to
me what the people of various coun-
tries want to do to me and what they
think ought to be done. One of the
mildest suggestions is that l be boiled
and after the flesh drops off that my
bones be passed around among the al
lied nations as souvenirs.
AS for the crown prince they want
to put chain round his neck and lit
tie cap on his head, and lead him
around the world in charge of an tia
liam organ grinder and make him
dance for the amusement of the cur
ous multitude. In view of these
things 1 ask you if you insist on fur
ther punishment?
WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN, Elk.
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