Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08

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grasp by an invisible hand and flung
across the terrace! Then the harpist
glided to the end of the terrace and
vanished.
The princess was convinced that she
had seen the White Lady OF the Hohen-
zollerns; and since there is widespread
belief in German folklore that ghosts are
closely connected with hidden treasure,
she also believed that the spot where the
White Lady had disappeared marked the
hiding place of the treasure.
Workmen were procured the terrace
was torn up, and below it, to the prin-
cess great satisfaction, were found
. traces of much earlier building. When
these in turn were removed, there was
revealed gaping hole, the entrance to
a subterranean vault. Certain that she
would find hidden treasure, the princess
herself was the first to descend the lad
der that had been thrust down into the
vault BY the light of lantern she
looked about; there was nothing to be
seen save the damp stonework which
glistened sinisterly in the dim light.
But what was that in the corner? Ap-
preaching avariciously, the princess
stopped down, hoping to find bag of
gold. Then with cry she fell back,
dropped the lantern, Sprang to the ladder
and trembling and screaming ran to
her own apartment.
Workmen hurriedly descended to see
what had alarmed the princess. In
corner of the vault they found the cause
of her terror-a human skeleton, with
an iron collar attached by an iron chain
to the dungeon wall. They had found
not treasure, but the remains of the
White Lady
It was at this point that the Kaiser
came into the story. He became vastly
interested and ordered that the records
be searched
A FTER laborious search it was discov-
cred that the White Lady was in
deed the Countess of Orlamunde. She
had been noted beauty of her day and
had attracted the attention of mar
grave of Brandenburgh. BY promises of
marriage he had made her his mistress,
and to him she had borne two children.
His affections having cooled, the mar
grave then announced his intention of
marrying a princess. The countess,
crazed with love and jealousy, poisoned
her two children. The deed so disguised
the margrave that he ordered the
countess put to death by being entombed
alive in a dungeon below the palace
foundations. The beautiful woman was
chained to the wall and, the entrance
to the dungeon having been bricked up,
was left to die lingering death.
Glamis Castle in Scotland, the seat of
the Earl of Strathmore, where the
Duchess of York spent her childhood, is
one of the most ancient edifices in Scot
land and it is in connection with this
castle that some of the strangest ghost
stories are told. One portion of the
castle is believed to have been in exist
ence in 1893, and here King Malcolm II
is said to have been murdered by the
Macbeths-as told by Shakespeare.
The weirdest story centers round a
secret so terrible that as recently as 1905
the earl said to friends: eff you could
guess the nature of this secret you would
go down on your knees and thank God
it was not yours" Though the family
refuse to reveal it, the secret is gen.
orally thought to concern a certain room
in the castle. The location of this room
and its contents can be known at the
same time to only three people-the Earl
of Strathmore, the heir and the earls
factor.
There are several theories about the
mystery room. One tells that the fourth
Earl of Crawford, known as Earl
Beardie," occupies the chamber and is