The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-09

| in during this Investigations
| What investigation, madame?"
| THE investigation of the recent terrible
| explosion
Il have heard of no explosion, replied
the chemist. evidently beWildered: Then
| lars of the disaster in the treasury were
/ known TO the rest of the world no knowl-
| edge of the catastrophe had got abroad in
| Vienna.
The professor" continued the chemist.
noticing Jennie's hesitation. lis not very
| practical man. He is deeply learned and
has made some great discoveries in pure
science. but ne has done little toward ap-
fui purpose. If You meet him, you viii will IND
] him dreamer and a theorist. But IL you
once succeed in interesting him in any mat
| quite regardless of the time he spends or
| the calls of duty elsewhere.
Jennie and with that at Sey tooS
leave of the chemist. and once more entered
| the carriage.
| Jennie, before ii gets too late"
| Good gracious!" cried the princess You
surely do not intend IN, to call on Professor
No, but 1 want. to drive to the office of
| the director of police.
"Oh, that won't take us long!'' said the
princess, giving the necessary order. The
| coachman took them to the night entrance
| of the central police station by the Hohen
| the carriage Jennie went alone to speak
/, with the officer in charge.
! Il wish to see the director or the police,
He will not be here until morning.. He
is at home. Is it anything imaportant?"
| Yes; where is his residence?"
IF you will have the kindness to inform
me what your business is. madame, we
will have pleasure in attending to it without
| disturbing Herr Director"
Il must communicate with the director
| in person. The Princess Won Steinheimer
is In her carriage outside, and do not wish
to keep her waiting At mention of the
| princess the officer bestirred himself and
became effusively polite.
| II shall call the director at once, and
he will be only too happy to wait upon you y
| "Oh! Have you telephone here? And
can l speak with him myself without being
| overheard?"
Certainly, madame. If you will step into
this room with me 1 will call him up and
| leave you to speak with him."
answered Jennie introduced herself to him.
II am Miss Baxter, whom you were kind
enough to escort through the Treasury
"Oh, yes" replied the chief. ct thought
| tomorrow
Yes. such was the arrangement but 1
wanted to say that If my plans are inter-
| fered with If / am kept under surveillance.
| shall be compelled to withdraw from the
A few moments elapsed before the chief
! replied. and then 1t was with some hesita-
II should be distressed to have you with
| draw; but, II you wish to do so. that must
| be a matter entirely for your own con-
sideration. I have my duty to perform:
| poor ability"
"Quite so. am obliged to you for speak
ing so plainly. / rather surmiSed this aft
ernoon that you looked upon my help in the
light of an interference"
''I should not have used the word inter
| ference" continued the chief, but must
confess that never knew results to follow
amateur efforts which could not have been
| reached much more speedily and enectu-
oil hxyt hn aSyrI1or MD NV
| mand."
| well. the regular force under your COM
| mand has been at work several weeks and
has APPARENTLY not Accomplished very much en-;
| evening to the matter, so before Withdraw
| / would like to give you some interesting
government, and am quite willing that
| you should take all the credit for the dis
| covery, as 1 have no wish to appear in
any way as your competitor. Can you
Perfectly, madame" replied the chief
Then. in the first place. inform the gov.
| eminent that there has been no robbery"
mo robbery! What an absurd statement,
If you will excuse me for speaking so alb
rob6egry? p mere '"e s''' 4 'A' was A'
81 am coming to that Next inform the
| government that it's loss will be but trifiing.
| That heap of debris which you propose to
| cart away contains practically the whole OF
| the missing 2OO,OOO,0OO forins. More than
| one-third Of the heap is pure gold. If you
! want to do a favor to good friend Of
yours and at the same time confer a benefit
upon the government itself. you will advise
| the government to secure the services OF
| Herr Feltz, SO that the gold may be ex-
| tracted from the rubbish with the least pos
| sible loss / put in a word for Herr Feitz
| because L am convinced he is a most compe-
| tent man. Tonight his action saved you
| from dismissal tomorrow; therefore you
should be grateful to him. And now have
| the honor to wish you good night"
| "Wait-wait moment" came in beseech-
| ing tones through the telephone. MY dear
| young lady, pray pardon any fault you have
| to find with me and remain for a moment or
| sion. and what was its object?"
| THAT must leave for you to find out.
| Herr Director. You see, am giving you the
| results of merely a few hours inquiry, and
| you cannot expect me TO discover every
| thing in that time. / don't know how the
| explosion was caused; neither do know who
| the criminals were. 1t would probably take
| me all day tomorrow to find that out but
| as am leaving the discovery in such COM
petent hands as yours i must curb my i'm
| patience until you send me full particulars.
| So. once again. good night, Herr Director.
| No, no. Don't go yet i shall come at
| once to the station, IL you will be kind
| enough to stop there until i arrive"
| The Princess Won Steinheimer is wait
| ing for me in her carriage outside, and
do not wish to delay her any longer:
Then let me implore you not to give up
| your researches"
why? Amateur efforts futile, you
know. when compared with the efforts Of
the regular force"
.Oh, my dear young lady, you must
/ pardon an old man for what he said in a
thoughtless moment II you knew how
many useless amateurs NEEDLE In our very
difficult business. would excuse rae. Are
you quite convinced OF what you have told