Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1912 — Concluded He Had Been Bribed. [ARTICLE]

Concluded He Had Been Bribed.

Kellogg Durland, the author of "Royal Romances of Today,” after spending a morning with the children of King Alfonso of Spain and finding them bright, normal, healthy youngsters, was surprised to be engaged by people in his hotel in conversation' like the following: "What a pity that the princes are not right in their faculties." "But they are perfectly right,” I replied, indulgently; "those stories are pure nonsense.” "Oh, no, sir! You must be mistaken.” "How can I be mistaken?” I answered. “I have just spent a morning with them and I found them not only normal in every way, but particularly intelligent” "That -cannot be,” was the reply, “because it Is said they are defective." The writer grew indignant and broke off the controversy, but learned that after he left people had speculated on how much he had been paid by the king to say that the prinoqs were all right