he Emperor recovered his
faculties. He was able to move, he was able to speak; his arms,
legs, tongue, obeyed his autocratic will once more. He uttered a
loud terrified cry, which resounded throughout the palace.
Officers, chamberlains, guards, servants, came running to the
gallery, white-faced, to see what had happened. They found their
royal master in a state bordering on collapse. Yet, to the anxious
questions which they put to him, he only replied incoherently and
evasively; it was as if he knew something terrible, something
dreadful, but did not wish to speak of it. Eventually he retired to
his own apartments, but it was not until several hours had passed
that he returned to his normal condition of mind.

The same doctor who had been summoned on the occasion of Wilhelm's
former encounter with the White Lady was in attendance on him, and
he looked extremely grave when informed that the Emperor had again
experienced a mysterious shock. He shut himself up alone with his
royal patient, forbidding any one else access to the private
apartments. However, in spite of all precautions, the story of what
had really occurred in the picture gallery eventually leaked
out--it is said through a maid of honour, who heard it from the
Empress.

The third appearance of the White Lady of the Hohenzollerns to the
Kaiser did not take place at either of the palaces, but strangely
enough, in a forest, though exactly where situated has not been
satisfactorily verified.

In the middle of the month of July, 1914, while the war-clouds were
darkening every hour, the Emperor's movements were very unsettled.
He was constantly travelling from place to place, and one day--so
it was afterwards said in Berlin--while on a hunting expedition, he
suddenly encountered a phantom female figure, dressed in white,
who, springing apparently from nowhere, stopped in front of his
horse, and blew a shadowy horn, frightening the animal so much that
its rider was nearly thrown to the ground. The phantom figure then
disappeared, as mysteriously as it had come--but that it was the
White Lady of the Hohenzollerns, come, perchance, to warn Wilhelm
of some terrible future fate, there was little doubt in the minds
of those who afterwards heard of the occurrence.

According to one vers