The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-26
Second Installment.)

meaning of paternal affection, the at- titude of his father toward him be- ing distinctively negative. But when :the boy reached manhood and evinced ] a love for learning and an instinct for free thought and a disgust for the infamous education his father was giY ing him, Fat Williams negative at- utude turned into positive hatred. "He is only" the King sputtered, "a young schoolmaster with the brains of e Frenchman, who will ruin all my work"
 9Iow significant Is it today that tFat William was a hater of France. Nike his ancestor, Withered Wilhelm Fts likewise obsessed of Gallophobia. From the moment that Fat William realized his son possessed a marked taste for study the persecution of the Crown Prince began. It was a vio- p1ent persecution which transformed youthful carelessness into crime and stnnocent little love affairs into sean Ndals.
 Fat williams first step was to for bid his son to study. If he caught him with book in hand, he would throw the book away after having boxed his ears. Frederick loved music more than all other things. The flute was his favorite instrument. Time and again the brutal father broke up flutes between his fingers.
 f. Once after an arduous day of mil 3tary duty, Frederick was finding re- IAxation at the home of a Branden- burg sclToolmaster in Potsdam. The schoolmaster's daughter, Doris, was an excellent player of the clavecin. Fred Srick was accompanying her on the flute this evening when Fat William burst into the home.
 Ignoring the presence of her father, kEat William made scandal out of the l4ayllic affair. Doris was arrested, beaten publicly in the streets of Pots dam and condemned to three years in the prison.
 Most irritating of all thoughts con- nected with his son to Fat William Twas that Frederick would succeed him lon the throne of Prussia. He made ixSpeated efforts to bulldose the boy eDy threats and violence into renounc- ling his rights in favor of his younger ,nrother On one occasion Fat Will 9diam drove his son beyond endurance and the boy declared:
 ''Very well, if you publicly declare that I am not a legitimate son of
  Brother"
 This resolute rejoinder melted mur- :der in the heart of the brute. Not long afterward, when Frederick en- tered his fathers room, Fat William seiIed the boy by the hair, dragged Shinn to the window and tried to stran- gle him with the curtain cord
 Only the opportune arrival of va let who cut the cord from the neck of Frederick prevented murder on that occasion
 Some time after this horrible cpl sode Frederick decided to run away from Potsdam. Ironically enough, Fat iWilliam had once said to him:
 'If my father had beaten me so of Iten, had treated me as have treated you, should have gone away thou sand times, but you have no courage You are nothing but a cowar7".
 Taking his aide-de-camp Keitt and his friend Katt, into his confidence Frederick made plans for escaping trom his unbearabIe life at home tc England. Fortunately the Kings . Suite was touring Southern Germany at the time and made the attempt propitious.
 A Dutch Jew presented Frederick with several hundred ducats. Keitt Bought him a horse. The three friends were to meet at little village neal lFrankfurt.
 But Frederick had unluckily turned ~ over his correspondence casket to hiI sister Wilhelmina's care. A letter wal lost from the casket. It betrayed him So that just as he was about to leavt lPotsdann, Frederick found himself un der arrest. The next day he wa! brought before his father. In a flu rtous rage, Fat William asked:
 why did you wish to desert"
 Because you have not treated m as son but as a slave" the yout replied.
 "where\were you going?"
 "To Algiers."
 Then you are nothing but bas deserter who has no sense of honor :?
 q have as much as yourself, and have only followed your advice"
 The King flew at his son in a fit 0 passion at this reply. If General Mo sel had not rushed between Fat vii -- liam and Frederick, striking up tn uplifted sword there would have bee murder committed. As 1t was Fla William managed to seize the stick c his warder and strike his son square ly in the face with it. The bloc started. Then Fat William sent hir to the Citadel of Kustrin under strong guard.
 Still in his fit of passion, Fat Vii liam started like a rnadman for Der lin.Shouting: the casket! the cas ket!" he ran into the royal palace. H hurled aside the Queen and wilheI Enina who had come forward to gree him.
 Rage" says the gentle princess her memoirs" so disfigured the fac of the King that he made one afrai to look at him. He went black, h eyes sparkled with hate, and he foam ed at the mouth"
 "'Infampus wretchY he said to m do you dare to show yourself my presence. Go and keep compan with your rascal of a brother!'
 ''In uttering these words, he seize me with one hand and struck me rt peatedly In the face until I fell bac senseless in Madame de Sonsfeld arms"
 Finally the Queen brought him tf casket Fat William took out tt letters, lifted the casket above h head and smashed into q thousar pieces. Then he went out, exclain ing;
 Now. have evidence to convi that rascal Fritz and his sister wi hslnIna. have here that whi' will be sufficient to execute the two
 Eat William was fully resolved tn Frederick at least should die. The is no explaining the resolve unless