A Reuter's telegram published in Thursday's papers states that the
King and Crown Prince of Bulgaria arrived at the Headquarters of the Austrian Archduke Karl on September 15th, and observed the battle which was proceeding. "After conferring on the Archduke the Chevalier Cross for bravery, the King with the Crown Prince left during the night in a special train." Note that nothing is said as to where King Ferdinand came from or where he went. Thus no corner of the veil of mystery which shrouds the habitat of this strange Royal personage is lifted. Our own belief has always been that the King, ever since Bulgaria joined the Germans, has found Vienna the best shelter-trench available. He always wants the best in such matters. If men fancy they have seen him at Sofia, we venture to suggest that it is only a simulacrum, and that the Bulgarians who imagine they are shedding their blood for a visible Sovereign are only doing what the Greeks and Trojans did before Troy. It will be remembered that, according to one Greek legend, the armies contended for a shadow, a vision, a chimera, who occupied Helen's apartments at Ilium while the real flesh-and-blood Helen spent a comfortable ten years in Cairo, or whatever was its equivalent in the age of Agamemnon.
