South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-12-07

must not forget that these ours
would no doubt find out at once
with their lynx eyes the one weak
spot in our position. drag IL IN the
open. before the public. make IL
coarse. common. dirty. our friend
ly' relations. j never heard such
remarks except perhaps once that
I seem 20 be very interested in your
artistic development. But you told
me yourself that some woman made
a fresh remark in concert in S.
IT. so loud that you could hear it
with your own ears IL is a sad fact
that since the dismissal OF the two
decent (honorablej officials in the
local department Of Justice (about
"a days ago. and their replacement
my position here is 10 times worse
than it ever was; and the last New
York scandal has made the whole
pack stiu more rabid. The local
National Defense league had the
impertineuce TO send me "A letter to-
day with a number Of questions for
me % answer Woe 90 the Ameri-
can who falls into the hands OF these
beasts today as my friend" Don't
YOU see all this? Don't YOU see that
your brother is menaced by bust
ness anger and difficulties eventual
ly2 Tt is possible that one visit
might pass by without the pack get
ting wise to 10. But is this the time.
this the situation. where one may
risk so much for the sake Of pos
sibility2 You have no suspicion how
misera bly, 7 feel TO write YOU all this;
first. because the whole situation Is
so degrading for me: I am like a
shabby dog here in this country,
whom every cut-throat may bonn
bard with stones unpublished; and
il is not very pleasant TO be COM
PEELED to explain all this in addition
i'm detail. On the other hand, / am
again and again surprised that you
are so remarkably stubborn in this
one point and that you do not see
everything clear, when you are such
a clever and sensible head other
wise. And I am asking myself often
since yesterday: rs there some Sc
cret motive behind It. which I can
not see, cannot fOrebode (sUspect) p
When you have reached this point
of my letter, sit down quietly and
think IL over in peace what l. have
written you. and when you have
thought everything over quietly you
will agree with me.
II hope 10 see you tomorrow eve
ming in the choir rehearsal. am
so absent minded that 1 really do not
know for the moment whether the
rehearsal begins at : or 1880 O'Clock.
I will telephone you as TO this to-
morrow forenoon. The whole choir
and orchestra band must enter via
the stage entrance; YOU must, of
course. not do this. I shall take
care that the main entrance shall
remain open for you; respectively
that somebody should wait there for
you who Will admit you. During the
intermissiOn and at the end Of the
reheaNal perhaps also before the
rehearsal begins) I may find Oppor-
tunity to speak 10 you. to hold your
hands and TO glance into your eyes.
And now God bless you for to-
day, my beloved darling! Be sweet
10 me : Your KARL"
DIR Muck's Illusion.
DR. Muck long before his arrest
and even before the Indignation
against him arose had the persistent
idea that he was being bounded and
shadowed by secret service agents
II he wrote the truth in his letters.
he believed that his every action was
watched.
To those who do not know the
facts there is an element OF pathOs
in Or. Muck's cry in one of his let
tiers. II am shabby dog here in
this country, where every cut-throat
may assail me with impunity." But
the facts were entirely different. Dr.
Muck had been left severely alone
by tho secret service men. No one
had been detailed 10 shadow him,
he was free 70 come and go as he
.1ch Of 1a,1.-cbo,'c I