Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
s Chief Spv Was Introduced as "All Brain, No Heart

taking part in a supreme war council,
with the Emperor of Russia, Alexander,
and Emperor Francis Of Austria in
person listening to some OF his propo-
sails for retrieving from Napoleon some
OF their vast lossesl
And once more, soon after That, on
December 2. 1905, the Austrian Armies
and their allies, the Russians. Te-c
smashed by Napoleon.
It is idle to measure exactly how
much Schulmeister contributed to this
result: one can, however. be sure OF
one thing: Napoleon. who scrutinized
expenses as sharply as any thrifty
housewife. made not the slightest COM
nlaint of the fact that at this time his
treasury was paying Schulmeister at
the rate of 500, 900 a year. sum which
for those days was fabulous as salary
This time. however, Schulmeister
could not hope to stay on with safety
in Austria Nevertheless, he did stay
on. Not openly, 1t was true, Tor q
swift court-martial and a flring squaa
would be the program the moment
Austrian hands were laid upon him.
LIE disappeared from his peasant
IL places in gay Vienna. But under
one disguise or another he drIfted
about Austria, still Napoleon's spy.
His face was widely known by now.
Rut. as we have seen, 1t did not stay
the same face long. Nevertne!esS, MS
soiourn was becoming q highly DELL
cate business for him. He more IMAM
once had occasion Tor the employmenC
of his talents in getting out OF close
corners.
once. for instance. he was in bar
hers chair having his newly acquired
beard removed. Through the WINDOW
he saw a detail of police coming on the
double trot for the barber shop. Some
thing told him he had better leave.
with an exclamation of pain, he dou-
HE'D IN in the chair as If with collie.
Thrusting o gold piece into the bar
hers hand, he jumped out OF the CHAIR
and. wiping of the lather from the
unshaved half of his face, he ran out
into the street. A..,
Smooth shaven, he would nave peen
recognized by the police. so ne clappeo
the towel to his shaved cheek as II ne
were in an agony of toothache and
what the police saw as he passed them
was a bearded man they did not recog-
nize, apparently making for the near
est dentist.
On another occasion he was In a
university town walking along the main
street. keeping a furtive eye on man
he recognized as one Of the Austrian
secret service. Just as he passed his
man a voice called out from across the
street:
"Schulmeister, as I live"
The spy, electrified, saw Prof: Ed
ward Rouss, a jovial academic soul who
was so far behind the times In his
| knowledge of events that when he rec
oanized the man he had met in VII
emma he thought him still some one to
greet heartily.
Schulmeister out of the corner of his
eye saw the secret service man glance
sharply at him and keep that look.
Cutting straight across the street,
Schulmeister held his hand out and ex-
claimed for all the world to hear:
my dear Rouss, how kind Of you to
remember and recognize your old
schoolmasterl
AS the greeting and reply were in
German and as "Schulmeister" to the
ears Of the secret service man might
either signify the spy that was being
hunted or only "schoolmaster," as the
the moment was ticklish one.
| In any event the secret service man
carelessly strolled across the street close
on the heels of the "schoolteacher." He
heard him say:
Nov, look; I have a table reserved
| for me in my favorite corner at the
King of Poland But I have q five-
minute errand TO do first. Why don't
you 60 and tell the innkeeper that
you're to have lunch with me and wait
| for me there2"
The innocent professor was delight
| ed. The secret service man decided
that he, too, wanted lunch at the King
of Poland in close proximity to the "fa-
vorite corner" where in five minutes he
would wait and hear what the man
with the interesting name would have
to say.
The five minutes" I need not say
stretched into eternity.
x x X
LIS narrowest escape from capture
i was during the battle of Wagram
He was still inside the Austrian lines
and was fleeing from pursuit, one OF
his fellow officers on the Austrian gen.
eral staff having recognized him.
He had just time to gain the tor
floor of house on the outskirts of the
battlefield when from window he saw
squad of soldiers running in his
| direction.
The pursuit had been so hot that he
had been fired on. So far he had
escaped unscathed. but it looked as
| if his good luck was at an end.
For he heard the front door crash
and dragons were in the lower hall.
In the room where Schulmeister
found himself he saw q writing desk
and waShstand. He snatched up a
|. hand towel; smashed a bottle of red
ink; rolled up his sleeves and calmly
walked out on the staircase.
He Was seen inst as he ont down to