The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-16

verSation it the funniest interview that ever
took part in. Two three times | had to shut OFF
the instrument fearing the director would hear me
laugh. afraid that before this business is end
ed you will be sorry L guest at your house. [
know 1 shall end by getting myself into an Austrian
prison. Just think of it: Here have been mold
ing up the chief of police in this imperial city as If
l wild Western brigand L have been terror
fling the man, browbeating him. threatening him.
and he the person who has the liberty of all Vienna
i'll his hands, who can have dragged off to d
dungeon cell any time he likes to give the order"
Not from the Palace Steinhemer,' said the prin-
cess, with decision
''Well, he might hesitate about that yet, never
theIess, it is too funny to think that Il news
paper coming into city which contains only
Of her friends should dare to talk to the
chief of police 1 have done tonight and force
him actually to beg that 1 shall remain in the city
and continue assist him"
Tell me what you sad?' asked the princess
eagerly and Jennie related all that had passed be
tween them the telephone.
''And do you mean tell me that you going
to give that the right to all the information
you have acquired, and allow him to accept com
paceny all the kudos that such discovery entities
you TOP
why, certainly" replied Jennie. what good Is
the kudos me? All the credit 1 desire 1 get in
office of the Daily Bugle in London"
But you silly girl, holding such a secret
you held you could made your fortune insist
ed the practical princess. for the principles which
had been instled into her during a youth spent in
Chicago had been eradicated by her residence
Vienna IF you had gone to the government and
said How much will you give me if I restore to you
the missing godT just imagine what their answer
would be-"
Eyes, l suppose there money in the scheme II
it had been really secret But you forget that
morning the chief of police would have
known much he knows tonight. OF course II
had gone alone the treasury vault and kept my
discovery to myself l might perhaps have held up
the government of Austria Hungary successfully
as | held up the chief of police tonight. But with
the director watching everything 1 did, and going.
with me the chemist, there possibility OF
keeping the matter secret
well, Jennie all l say is that you a
very foolish girl. Here you are working hard
you said in of your letters, merely to make Il
living and now, with the greatest nonchalance, You
allow fortune to slip through your fingers. Now.
l simply not going to allow this. shall tell my
husband all that has happened, and he shall make
the government treat you honestly if generously
| assure you. Jennie, that Lord Donal-no, won't
mention his name, since you protest so strenuously
but the future young man, whoever he is, Will
think the less of you because you come to him
with handsome dOwry. But here we are, at home,
and won't say another word the subject if it an
noys you"
When Jennie reached her delightful apartments
which looked even more uxuriantly comfortable
bathed in the soft light that flooded them from
quiet toned shaded lamps than they did in the more
garish light of day-she walked up and down her
sitting in deep meditation. She was in guam
dairy Whether risk sending coded telo
gram to her paper the question that presented it
self to her. If she that no one else would
learn the news, she would prefer to wait until she
had further particulars Of the treasury catastrophe.
A good deal would depend whether the director
of police took any into his confidence that night
or If he did not, then he would be aware that
only he and the girl possessed that important piece
of news. If a full account of the discovery appeared
in the next mornings Daily Bugle then. when that
paper arrived in Vienna even before if Synop-
sis were telegraphed to the government, as it was
morally certain to be, the director would know at
that she the correspondent of the news
paper whom he was so anxious to brighten out Of
Vienna On the other hand, her friendship with the
Princess Won Steinhemer gave her such influence
with the chiefs superior that after the lesson she
had taught him he might hesitate to make any move
against her Then again. the news that tonight be-
longed to two persons might the morrow come TO
the knowledge of all the correspondents in Vienna
and her efforts, far the Bugle was concerned
would have been in vain. This consideration decided
the girl and casting off all sign Of hesitation, she
sat down at her writing table and began the first
chapter of the solution Of the Vienna mystery Her
opening sentence exceedingly diplomatic. The
chief of police of Vienna has made most startling
discovery" Beginning thus, she went on 20 details
of the discovery she had that day made. When her
account was finished and cOdified. she went down
her hostess and said:
Princess want trustworthy man, who viii
take long telegram to the central telegraph office,
nav for it, and come away quickly before any one
can ask him incOnyenient questions
no hptt to q
ga dienstmanner? That your commissonnaire
or telegraph messenger? No, think not They are
all numbered and can be traced"
ooh 1 KNOW cried the princess. Il will senc
our coachman He will be out of his livery now. and
he is a most reliable man; he will not answer in
convenient questions any Others even if they are
asked"
To her telegram for publication Jennie had added
a private dispatch the editor that it You'll
rather nconvenient for her if he published the
count next morning but she left the decision entirely
nth him Here was the news. and if he thought II