The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-28

ficiently frightened"
The Baroness was delighted, and
eager to convey the good news to the
village at once. And the Emperor,
smiling into her bright eyes, accom-
panied her out.
1 have no doubt my mistress was
equally pleased; but meanwhile her
pleasure was swallowed up by other
feelings; and she looked the picture Of
Jealous anger and despair.
"You see that, Emilie?" she cried.
amy woman who makes eyes at Will
helm has more influence over him
than l."
The Kaiserin's Confession.
She was still hot and disturbed
when the Kaiser came back; and
seeming trouble, I quietly effaced my
self.
well Dona," Wilhelm said, you
have your desire after all"
mot my desire!" said the Kaiserin.
"You refused me last night, and no
doubt would have done so again today.
But simply because the Baroness Lam
gen. ofberg begs you must yield at
once!"
He stalked out wrathful1y; and soon
the Kaiserin was confiding this to me
with tears mingled with regret and
resentment.
An hour later there was great
hustle in the Castle, and on making
inquiries by my mistress request, I
learned that the Kaiser was departing
instantly to Berlin. His Castle at Ro-
minten is m direct communication by
special wire with the Wilhelmstrasse,
and Colonel Won Stahl informed me
the Emperor had received an urgent
summons to return.
But the Kaiserin did not wholly be-
lieve this. She attributed Wilhelm's
hurried departure to the difference
between them; and when he had gone
after a hasty and formal farewell, she
was plunged in the depths of woe.
ALAS, I am less fortunate than some
of these humble women who curtsey
to me-" she said sorrowfully.
Prince Joachim's Criminal Folly
Leads to Zeppelin Raids
On London.
mo Countess" said the Kaiserin
|
the match. I could not have believed
he would be so obstinate"
The Kaiserins youngest son, Prince
Joachim Francis Humbert, had just
left the Neues Palais after stormy
interview with his Royal parents.
Prince Joachim was always the
spoiled child of his mother, and, like
most spoiled children, has repaid in
diligence with worry and disappoint-
ment. Prematurely born, he has been
a physical weakling, and subject to
epileptic fits since his birth; nor is he
strong either mentally or morally.
Because of his poor health he was
unwisely allowed much latitude by his
, mother and tutors, with the result
that he takes his own way in every
: thing AS a child no governess could
, control him; and few of the ladies SO
engaged retained the post long.
Joachim did not improve with time;
and when I first went to Potsdam he
was an ENJOYABLE, selfish, peevish-
, tempered boy, whose ears 1 often
longed to cuff soundly. Yet that
would have been fatal to me, for the
) Empress saw few faults in her young
est son. Joachim took full advan-
tage of her weakness; but, on the 9TH
er hand he grew up in constant ter
| ror of his father, whom he avoided
at every opportunity. The Kaiser
openly disliked and despised the sick
| Nv youngster, and treated him always
with contempt.
eff Joachim would only take a SEN
sible wife, and settle down" the Kali
r serin had often said to me. She re-
5 peated the words now, adding, with a
l worried look, I'm in continual dread
! of his getting entangled with some in
2 ferior person"
The Lovely Erna
I had been aware for some time
that the Kaiserin, searching for suit
able union by which to fetter her
Youngest son, had fixed upon Marie
|, Augustine, daughter of the rich Duke
of Anhalt, as his prospective bride.
: NV mistress indeed, had set her heart
most keenly on the match; and the
Kaiser equally approved Of it. Will
helm had always looked out for veal
thy wives for his sons, that his own
pocket might be relieved of their sup
! port.
: Joachim won't hear of Marie Au-
: gustine as a wife" mourned the Kali
serin. I'm dreadfully disappointed,
and Wilhelm is very cross about it. !"
The Kaiserin did not suspect that
- Joachim had already formed such an
attachment as she feared.
Prince Joachim had as equerry and
friend young Franz Won Weberhardt
t of an old, wealthy Saxon family. His
S parents, though of good birth and an
y cient blood were not of Princely line
o but, as it happened, were very ambi-
tious, and were delighted that Franz
g should be on the staff of the Kaiser
e son. After his appointment I saw
: Franz Won Weberhardt several times
at Potsdam, and liked him as a nicely
: hammered, openfaced youth.
l. The absolute young Prince made
Franz his boon companion, and, to the
y Weberhardts' pleasure accepted an in
d vitation to spend one of his frequent
periods of leave from military duty al
e their beautiful oId-world castle ir
e Saxony. And there Joachim met his
equerry's only sister Erna, a lovely
d and innocent girl.
Y. Erna Won Weberhardt had just
reached her nineteenth birthday and
n been presented by her father with
d some beautiful Jewels which had be-
l. longed to the family for many genera.
If tions. She wore these to receive the
1 eagerly expected Prince; and doubt
l. less they enhanced her good l6oks
If Joachim was instantly attracted. and