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Show HUGS 0EIUS1 OF REpil Former Kaiser Believes the Day Is Nearing When He Will "Come Back." Kept in Ignorance of Internal Inter-nal Disorders in One-Time One-Time Realm. By FRED A. SMITH. (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) AMEROXGEiV, Holland, March 19 (delayed)'. (de-layed)'. After elaborate advance arrane-rrients arrane-rrients by letter, telephone and personal conferences today I was the guest of young Count Carlos Bentinck at Amer-ongen Amer-ongen castle, where the former kaiser s waiting until the day when some Quai d'Orsay policeman steps up, and, laying his hand on the once imperial shoulder, says: "Come on, the judge wants to see , you." i Were it not for the moat all about the ! building and the picturesque causeway ' looking from the gates to the front doors of the castle U would be more like a girl's seminary than the home of a feudal lord. ''The emperor is out for 'an airing now,' said the count, and it was a good day for it, because a stinging cold gale from tho west was howling through the birches and firs. We strolled through the grounds, passing pass-ing along a path east of the castle, then wandering westward, then northward. "Those windows on the second floor ae the emperor's," said the count. "He re-Lires re-Lires to his suite in the afternoon." "But where is he now?", I asked. Ex-Kaiser a Lawyer. We had reached the east and west road running in front of the castle grounds, and at the question the count paused, raising his hand warnlngiy. From behind a bj;lck wall near a row of yellow leaved trees came the sound of wood sawing only a few feet distant. "That is the emperor sawing-," said the count, and I said I would like to meet the one- time kaiser and ask a few questions, ques-tions, as the people in America have some natural curiosity about his views of certain cer-tain events since March 21 a year ago. The count looked as If I bad scoffed at omnipotence. His explanations why this was perfectly impossiule ran on until the sawing paused, and this time my hand was raised for silence. From over the garden wall came a staccato stac-cato note such as that made by a Christmas Christ-mas treo . horn used by conductors on tho Dutch railways when they want the engineer to proceed. It was repeated, and then i realized the astonishing truth. The all highest, not once, but twice, had blown his nose. J-Ie was human after all, and in enthusiastic recognition the count blew a blast also, and I would have vaulted tho wall and unloaded a few heai ty war questions on the ex -kaiser right there had I not been deterred by the click of policemen's heels on the paths and by the knowledge we were carefully observed by hidden persons. The count thought it a great joke and called attention to how innocent were the amusements of the former emperor. I had a fleeting glimpse of the former kaiser from a distance later on. The kaiser's buffers nowadays are fending off the world from the all highest. From the townsfolk is obtained the explanation why nobody is permitted to speak to him. Is Kept in Ignorance. After four months' seclusion here it has become the general story that the ex-kaiser's ex-kaiser's isolation was due not so much to what he might say to interviewers, but to what the latter might tell him. H is said few letters addressed to the ex-kaiser ex-kaiser reach his bands and papers are carefully scanned and culled before he reads them. He knows nothing of the Bolshevik dis- is said, and there is reason to belitve the former kaiser still fondly hugs the fancy his stay In Holland is only temporary tempor-ary and his restoration a foregone conclusion. conclu-sion. Throughout his career surrounded by flatterers, the one-time kaiser still is under un-der the influence of those who treat him as a partner of the deity. Count (Joddard Beni inck, the kaiser's host, who has one son in the German navy, formerly decorated the pillars of the "castle gates with the arms of St. John of Jerusalem, of which the former kaiser is head, and at the gates, during the early part of the war, declaimed to the townspeople on the progress and Invincibility Invinci-bility of the German armies. Cabinet ministers in the Dutch parliament parlia-ment have referred to the ex -kaiser as Holland's unwelcome guest, but the ex-kaisor ex-kaisor apparently is unwelcome to so my mul welcome to others. It is safe to say laree numbers would be pleased to see hini moved, but nobody can suggest a better bet-ter place than the present, where a moat surrounds the brick wails ol the castle and a single policeman can guard against Intrusions from the main thoroughfare. However, he is still ;dditssod as "ms imperial majesty" despite the fact his retinue is reduced from fifty-nine to five. He has his own motor car, which Is rare-lv rare-lv used, because tho Dutch government rigidly enforces the internment limitations. limita-tions. The surprising- fact of the former kaiser's kai-ser's sojourn in Anu-rongen is that the townspeople take httle or no interest in him. |