One of them said: "That was on the day when the police brought Catarau on board to help him to get away secretly." Catarau was heard of later at Cairo, which he appears to have reached with the aid of Roumanian friends.
It cannot be asserted that the Roumanian Government was implicated in the plot--but the Roumanian authorities certainly were, for in the Balkans, as in Russia, there are many bands like the _Cerna Ruka_, the _Narodna Odbrena_, etc., etc., who carry on their activities alongside the Government.
It was a crime committed by some Russian or Roumanian secret society, and the Governments of both countries showed surprisingly little interest in investigating the matter and delivering the culprits up to justice.
On June 15 I heard from a reliable source that Catarau had been seen in Bucharest.

He walked about the streets quite openly in broad daylight, and no one interfered with him; then he disappeared.
To return, however, to my interview with the old King.

Filled with alarm, he dispatched that same evening two telegrams, one to Belgrade and one to Petersburg, urging that the ultimatum be accepted without fail.
The terrible distress of mind felt by the King when, like a sudden flash of lightning from the clouds, he saw before him a picture of the world war may be accounted for because he felt certain that the conflict between his personal convictions and his people's attitude would suddenly be known to all.

The poor old King fought the fight to the best of his ability, but it killed him.

King Carol's death was caused by the war.