The Washington times., 1921-12-04
Continued from Pages 10 and H.

was not uncommon for penniless
nobleman in dire financial difficult
ties to 60 to America and marry .
rich heiress, who promptly paid on
his debts and refurnished his fam
ilyncastle. ! gayly told Mrs. Moro
SIM that / hoped her own little
daughter Giulia, would some day
become an Austrian.
do believe the kindly little LADY
at once saw a prospective sutton
for her daughters hand. She spent
the rest of the evening inquiring
as to my identity. only to nnd tnat
countless others were wondering
too. who might be the dashing oni.
Ger whose mask completely banled
curiosity. Baroness Marie was
beset on all sides by banterers VINO
pressed her to take them IN on ner
secret. But she waved them all
aside. Mrs. Morosini returned 10
America still wondering who was
the dashing officer who danced
with her and made half love to her
that night.
Many years later / stood IN the
Morosinf ballroom, guest OF the
little daughter, Giulia, now grown
nm and married. The mother. now
gray and grandmotherly. fitted In
the background. an amusing re-
minder of that night in Vienna
when / was the Colonel's bootblack
and her knight of romance
That was a busy world OF In
trigue. fraud and trickery, Illicit
love making and bursting scandals.
I could not withstand the tempta'
ton to try Bruenner, the money
lender, on my own account. ana
went to him one day asking for ten
thousand forms, for the Colonel as
usual, but really for myself.
They we're forthcoming without
ado, and / had to spend on myself
and my servant friends what was
a fortune indeed to a corporal. l
expended this first ten thousand IN
Praeger's, the resort Of the hall
world. where a private. servant or
peasant Is as welcome as a Grand
Duke IL he has money 70 spend.
Then, between the ColonePs calls
on the money lender, I made drafts
of my own, until soon there was
fifty thousand forms on the money
lenders books which had never
passed from me to the Coloners
purse.
Then the inevitable happened.
Prince Kinsky discovered his wife's
delinQuencies. He went post
haste to the Emperor and COM
planned of Prince Windfsch Graetz.
The Colonel was quietly notified
that he must be prepared to de-
fend himself, and was summoned
to appear before Franz josef.
He called me into his quarters
and looked at me quizzically.
Corporal" he said after he had
told me OF his forthcoming inter
view with the Emperor. you have
been trustworthy and a valiant ser
want. But this is a situation In
which I can trust no man, for /
must save not only myself, but the
Princess Lilli as well-to say
nothing OF clearing myself with
Taglioni.
you will have to disappear. You
know too much to be questioned
There was never a servant who
wouldn't sell out to the highest bid
der. You must desert-leave Aus
tria. where no one can wedge your
mouth open with forms. II you
don't desert tonight. about the
time the express leaves for Paris.
I'll have to have you shot in the
morning for trying to poison me.
MY aide will give you a bag con-
tanning q thousand British pounds.
That VIII ease your journey to
London, where you ultimately must
20. Now go quietly about your
remember Ill De
looking for you to have you shot IN
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