The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-29

vices to the British agents in Chris tiania?"
 Baron von Rautenfels laughed con- fidently. He said: My Gracious Countess need not worry on that ac- count. have safely under lock and key good evidences showing that these men are guilty of criminal of- fences against the laws of their coun- try. Should they decide to betray us, we will at once produce proofs of their criminal guilt, for which they might suffer long prison sentences or even pay the penalty of death. Their accompIices? - I am here se- cure in the fatherland."
 "But supposing that these marine engineer inspectors make arrange ments with the English agents to do likewise to ships bound to our ports?" I persisted.
 In reply to this he said: ''The Eng lander has no brains; he has no eff cient secret service department in Christiania." His answer, however, did not satisfy me.
 On further questioning him found out that his method of introduc- ing the bombs into Norway was as simple as it was dangerous. They were packed in boxes and consigned to MichahelIes, our diplomatic repre- sentative at Christiania.. ''No one may examine parcels sent to an embassy" crowed Baron Rautenfels.
 On leaving Baron Rautenfels I found myself thoroughly convinced | that the Baron should have been sent | to an insane asylum long time ago. l knew that his schemes would sooner or later involve us with more than one friendly neutral neighbor. wanted to tell someone that the old Baron was thorough ass.
 A Husband and a Passport.
 went directly to the Foreign Office where a husband" and 8 passport were provided for me. As I have al- ready mentioned in one of my former
 records a "husband' always accom-
 panied me until I reached my desti-
 nation; after that I discarded my
 husband" until ready to return to
 the fatherland.
 Our Own Bernstorff Again.
 When I arrived in Stockholm I had
 definitely decided that any plan
 might adopt would certainly not be
 modelled on the lines followed by
 Baron van Rautenfe1s.
 On the following day after my ar
 rival at Stockholm I reported tc
 Count Bernstorff, who, having been informed of Rautenfels' methods, was
 in a state of considerable apprehen-
 sion at my coming. He told me that
 he was wonderfully relieved when
 I explained to him that was not the
 precursor of consignments of bombs
 to him in Stockholm.
 "I am delighted at your prudence,
 dear Countess he said heartily. "1 am quite anxious to colIaborate in any
 reasonable way, but I could not risk
 such schemes as those of Rautenfels. l Sooner or later he will ruin himself and poor Michahelles as well. The Wisdom of Bernstorff.
 The wisdom of that remark was quickly justified; for within a short : time a consignment of over 200 bombs , was discovered Rautenfels involved
 proud German empire was forced to apologize humbly to the insignificant l little kingdom of Norway.
 s t dealing with Count Bernstorff. The ) Count was no stranger to me. had l in the past, my experiences with him 7 quite a few of which were unpleas.
 ant. The Count is an energetic man 3 and although he has reputation o.
 never having told a lie, I sincerely n believe that he has acquired this rep I utation only through his not being A caught in telling one. Although thC = Count is a thoroughly patriotic Ger Q man, yet I am always conscious O 6 his English birth. He was, as vel c known, born in London, in our em
 bassy. For that reason he is somes :, times suspected of English kultur n Before the war my people in the ser ., vice had regarded him as a weak mal VI with an English education. However I knew there was no English taint il u him; so far as his kultur is concern e ed. But like the Englander he is ofte1 q a trickster; he is so unreliable in hi n dealings with his fellow members il the service.
 'e Those Egyptian Days! d Let me relate one incident whic' le took place under our joint assign h ment during those days when he wa I'd the representative of the fatherlan 'e in Egypt.
 IS In those days we were busy organ
 izing the Egyptian Nationalist part
 against England. We were then con 10 trolling no less than 50 Arabic news le papers, which is the language of tn to natives. mostly. We had one nativ