The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-04

I had seen and heard, I recalled the
 incidents of the mysterious nocturnal
 journey which the eX-War Lord had
 undertaken, his return to the Castle,
 clutching under his arm the package
 which looked like documents, the
 many comings and goings to and
 from the Castle of different couri-
 CTS; and piece by piece I fitted the evidence together.
 \ Huge Bluff.
 The exile of Wilhelm of Hohenzol- Tern in Holland was to be by no means of a permanent character if these pIotters had their way. His stay with us was but part and parcel of a huge bluff which the Germans were attempting to put across the world, and the Allies in particular. l was not an infant in the game of dip1o- macy. nor was I innocent enough not to recognize the very serious conse- quences to Holland If the plot sue i ceeded. Holland had striVen hard to l maintain her neutrality during the horrors of the European war. Was that success which she accomplish ed in those awful days-while the j Germans stood on our frontiers ever threatening; while the Allies held our seaboard, suspicious or our every action-going to be damned and rem dered of no account? If the German l plotters succeeded, then I dared not think of the terrible consequences i which would befall my country. i Taking this view, I decided that it
 was my duty to immediately obtain i further direct evidence, and report 1 Already I had succeeded in making a 11 pprta n , members of the exKaiser's entour- ! a ge and the fact that Wilhelm had | condescended to speak to me, and | had conferred many little favors, If
 I may use that expression, upon me, 1 had done much to place me on good 1 terms with some of the suite.
 i I make no excuse for the line of 1 conduct which I adopted that even 1 ing. To make it appear that I was i acting the part of. spy upon the Kali ; ser. Perhaps I was, but it must be re- membered, that in acting as I did ! I was acting according to my light in 1 the interest not only of Holland, my i own country, but in the interest of l civilization.
 1 I was fortunate enough that even- i ing to induce one of the officers of l the suite, who had been present at 1 the luncheon to which I referred, to ! spend an hour wiht me in my own ! private room over a bottle of wine
 and a cigar.
 i Advancing cautiously, I managed i to lead the conversation into the de- ! sired channels and very soon had the i officer talking rather freely upon mat i ters which, had he not been led to i think that I was acquainted with 1 many of the details of the plot, he T r1 A few judicious questions, and I had
 the whole story. I sat listening in amazement at the facts which this Prussian related.
 Wilhelm for HunIand.
 "Of course, it was never intended that the Kaiser should renounce the throne,'' he said, a statement which heartily agreed on. Do you fol one moment think that We Prussians l let alone the millions of people wht go to make up the great German
 Empire, would allow our Emperor to be reduced to a mere nonenttty and live the rest of his life an exile
 in this dead little corner of Europe ?
 he asked, and before I could make
 an answer he had continued, "Befor'
 many months are over our head, Will
 helm of Hohenzo1lern. will again rul
 Germany, and his power will b
 greater than ever before. The Ger !, man people today know that the! cannot advance without their Raise ] that Republicanism, Socialism 1 useless for Germany
 !, I heard over again the story o the ex-Kaiser's flight from Spa, in | cidents which I have already re1at 7 ed in preceding chapters of these rev t ] citations, but it was to me absolutel necessary that I should sit and liste . to them without interrupting the of ( ficer.
 '"The Kaiser" he went on, ha 1 been asked to return now, and to wal } no longer promised peace. nysel
 know that hundreds of thousand have assured his friend of their un = swerving loyalty and devotion, an, expressed willingness to fight at an