"No. The letter I found upon my dressing-table, but I have not discovered who placed it there," he said. "The fellow evidently intends to carry out his threat and expose me to the Emperor."
"What can he expose?" I queried.
But "Willie" was not to be caught like that. He merely replied:
"Well—something which must at all hazards be concealed. How this Spaniard can know I cannot in the least imagine—unless that woman gave me away!"
For the next two days I was mostly out with his Highness in the car, and in addition the Kaiser reviewed the Prussian Guard, a ceremony which always gave me much extra work.
On the third day I had in the morning been out to the Wildpark Station, and, passing the sentries, had re-entered the Palace, when one of the footmen approached me, saying:
"Pardon, Count, but there is a gentleman to see his Imperial Highness. He will give no name, and refuses to leave. I called the captain of the guard, who has interrogated him, and he has been put into the blue ante-room until your return."
At that moment I saw the captain of the guard striding down the corridor towards me.
"A bald-headed man is here to see His Highness, and will give no name," he told me. "He is waiting now. Will you see him?"
"No," I said, my suspicions aroused. "I will first see the Crown-Prince."