The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-14

day, threw a most sensational and In
love making The secret engagement
was broken off by the former kaiser
due TO pressure and cajolery from
members OF his encourage at Doorn-
Herewith. for the first time, Is pre-
sented an intimate picture OF the, for
mer ~Evar lord seeking n second ' WiIe
after the death Of haiserin Augusta
Victoria.
Berlin, Dec 14-"I lost my hus-
band about the same time the kaiser.n
died (April. 1921)" said Frau Gabrielle
Won RochOw, the woman who paid,
in the kaiser love triangle, in telling
her story of her love match WITH, VII
helm Hohenzollern-
shortly afterwards. the kaiser
wrote me a letter begging me to visit
him at Doom He said he was ter
rfhiy lonely and he wished to talk with
me as an old friend who understood
him All my life l had been the sub
ject of envy and jealousy because or
the favors Wilhelm had shown me-
4 went to Doom with some mis-
gfvMgs but felt that the kaiser. whose
letter bespoke gloomy loneliness Dor
dering upon utter despair, neeQeu
friend to cheer him up. He called 10
me because / had been his friend Tor
nearly four decades. l intimately
knew him and his family and his life
He said he needed some one ike that
or would go insane. went to Doorn
That was in the summer of last year
AT Doom found wilhelm terribly
sad and despondent. But as the days
passed, he frightened up more ana
more He took long walks in the
park of his home. He talked with me
for hours, telling me all his thoughts
and feelings.
She Was Frank With Him.
"As 1 had always done before. I
told him with absolute freedom what
I thought of his ideas and actions
The court camariIla which had always
hated anyone taking this attitude To-
ward the man whom they only told
that what he liked TO hear. viewed
my presence and Wilhelm's conf
dences to me with growing anger.
ION the surface they crawled in the
dust to me as they did to him. but 1
soon knew they had sworn war to-
the knife But 1 cared little did not
think they had the power to do what
they afterwards accomplished
up to that time my relationship
with the kaiser had been solely one
of deep friendship and mutual under
standing / only admired him as
man of dazzling brilliancy of mind,
animated in all his deeds by what
believed to be the noblest idealism.
have venerated him as my emperor.
Towards the end of August l be- |
gan TO notice a change in his attitude. |
His voice often vibrated with great
walked in the park noticed that he /
gazed at me long and lingeringly |
without speaking. This made me un-
easy and when he kept doing it, 1
asked him to explain what was the i
matter Just then an adjutant hap |
pened along and there was an inter- |
ruption- The kaiser weakly whispered: i
a. Please let me take tea with you
in your drawing room tomorrow Ii
have something important to say to
YOU
His eyes had a strange expression.
His mann r and speech were unusual. /
Whispering a consent, L left him and 4
went to my apartments in the gate
house"
tThese are the same apartments in
which Princess Hermine spent the
night prior to her wedding to Wilhelm,
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In the hours intervening between /,
that talk in the garden and the next
afternoon / was more uneasy than
ever before in my life. I knew the
message. I had read il in his eyes
It was I love you
Il did not know what answer to
make when his lips should speak. I
was not young woman taken off my
feet by realization that this man loved
me; / was not vain or ambitious to
exploit that love; I was not flattered
by its prospects or its consequences.