The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-25
SEARCH FOR THE GIRL.
lCopyrigft, 1909, BY the Author.l

work and 1 kept at my task which
light one, and thus appreciate the enormous strain
that has been you. Your account is magnificent
Miss Baxter; just what 1 wanted and never hoped
to GET
81 glad you like it," said the girl, laughing
somewhat dsmalIy at the croaking sound of her own
voice
81 need not ask you if you were there for no
person but one who present and one who knew
how to describe could have produced such vivid
account Of it ALL How did you get n7'
''In where?" murmured Jennie drOwsy. She
found difficulty in keeping her mind on what he was
saying.
s'To the Duchess of Chiselhurst's ball.
''Oh getting in easy enough; it the get
ting out that the trouble"
Like prison. eh?" suggested the editor. Now
will you have little wine something stronger"
mo All 1 need is rest
''Then let call cab. will see you home If
you will permit me-"
81 am 200 tired to go home. 1 shall remain here
until morning" =
Nonsense. You must go home and sleep for
week if you want to. Rouse upt 1 believe you are
talking in your sleep now"
81 understand perfectly what you saying and
what am doing. 1 have work that must be attend
ed to at s. Please leave orders that is to
call at and bring cup of coffee and biscuits
rolls anything that is to be had at that hour.
And please don't trouble further. am very thank
full to YOU but will express myself better later on"
With this the editor had to be content and was
shortly his way to his well earned rest. To
Jennie it seemed but moment after he had gone
that the porter placed coffee and rolls the desk
beside her. saying, ''Seven o'clock, miss!'
The coffee refreshed the girl, and she passed
through the editorial she noted their forlorn,
dsheveled appearance, which all places show when
at unaceustomed hour their time Of activity
and hustle past. The rooms were Uttered with torn
papers, wastebaskets overlooking, silent, scrappy,
abandoned in the gray morning light, which seemed
intrusive usurping the place of the usual artificial
illumination and betraying baroness which the
other concealed Jennie recognized relationship be-
tween her upall-nig feeling and the spirit Of
the deserted rooms.
At the railway station she found her maid wait
ing for her, surrounded by luggage.
'Have you got your heketT'
eyes, my lady"
81 have changed my mind and will not go to Paris
just now. Ask porter to put those trunks in the
left luggage Office and bring me the keys and the
receipt"
When this was done and money matters had been
settled between them, Jennie gave the girl f5
than due to her and her into the carriage,
well pleased with the reward. hanson brought
Jennie to her fiat and ended the exhaustng cpl
sede of the Duchess of ChseIhursts ball
Yet an event. like malady, leaves numerous
sequences in it's train extending-who shall say how
far?-into the future. The first symptom Of these
consequences correspondence and, there is
reading dreary than series Of letters, their
substance merely is here given.
When Jennie herself again, she wrote long
letter to the Princess Steinheimer, detailing the
particulars Of her impersonaton and begging pardon
for what she had done, while giving her for
doing it. But perhaps because it did not occur to
her. she made not the slightest reference to Lord
Dona Stirling. Two answers came to this-one
registered packet containing the diamonds which the
princess had previously offered to her, the other
letter from the princess hand The glitter Of
the diamonds showed Jennie that she had been speed
lily forgiven, and the letter correborated this. In
fact the princess upbraded her for not letting her
into the earlier 1T is just the jolly kind Of
thing I should have delighted in wrote her high
ness. "And then. if I had known, I should not have
sent that unlucky telegram. 1t you right,
and am glad you had fright. Think Of it coming
in at that inopportune moment just kilograms do
at play. But, Jennie are you sure you told me
everything? letter came from London the day be
fore yours arrived and it bewldered me dreadfully
at first. Don Stirling, whom l used to know in
nVashington "a conceited young fellow he then;
hope he has improved snee), wrote to say that he
had met girl at the Duchess Of Chiselhursts bah
who had letter inviting the Princess Stenhem-
er to the festvity. He thought at first she the
princess (which is very complimentary to each Of us).
but found later that she wasn't. Now, he wants to
know, you know, and thinks, quite reasonably that
I must have some nkling who that girl was, and he
begs me, by old friendship, etc. He is nice
young man, if trife confident (these young dipo-
matsts think they hold the rens of the universe in
their hands,. and would like to oblige him, but
thought first 1 would hear what you had to say
about it. 1 to address him of the embassy
at St Petersburg, 1 suppose he's stationed there
now. By the way, how did he get your glove. is
that merely brag his part? He says that it is the
only clew he has, and he is going to trace you from
that it seems if do not tell him who you are and
send him your address. Now. what to say
when 1 write to st. PetersburgT
In reply to this Jennie sent somewhat incoher-
ent letter. very different from her usual style Of
writing. She had not mentioned the young in
her former communication she said because she had
been trying to forget the incident in which he
the central figure. In circumstances could she
meet him again. and she implored the princess not
to disclose her identity to him by hint. She
explained the glove episode exactly it had hap
pened. she was comDeIled to sacrifice the glove TO