The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-25

III ACCAS HHdL LOu are
saying and what / am doing. / have work
that must be attended to at s.. Please leave
orders that some one is TO call me at I and
bring a cup of coffee and biscuits or rolls or
anything that Is 10 be had at that hour.
And please don't trouble further. 1 am
very thankful 10 you, but will express N.Y.
self better later on"
with this the editor had to b content
and was shortly on his way to his own we'll
earned rest. To Jennie it seemed but a
moment after he had gone that the porter
placed coffee and rolls on the desk beside
her, saying, Seven o'clock, MISS"
The coffee refreshed the girl. and as she
passed through the editorial rooms she
noted their forlorn, disheveled appearance.
which all places show when seen at an un-
accustomed hour, their time OF activity and
bustle past. The rooms were Uttered with
torn papers, wastebaskets overlooking.
silent, scrappy, abandoned I'm the gray
morning light, which seemed intrusive,
usurping the place of the usual artificial
illumination and betraying a baroness which
the other concealed. Jennie recognized a
relationship between her own up all night
feeling and the spirit of the deserted rooms.
At the railway station she found her maid
waiting for her. surrounded by luggage.
Have you got your ticket?'
Yes. my lady"
1 have changed my mind and will not go
10 Paris just now. Ask a 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 more than was due to her and
saw her into the carriage, we'll pleased with
the reward. A hanson brought Jennie to
ner nat, and so ended the exhausting cpl
sode Of the Duchess of Chiselhurst's ball.
Yet an event. like a malady, leaves numer-
Gus consequences in its train, extending
who shall say how far?-into the future.
The first symptom of these consequences
WIS a correspondence, and. as there is no
reading more dreary than a series of letters.
their substance merely Is here given.
When Jennie was herself again she wrote
a long letter to the Princes Won Stein
heimer. detailing the particulars of her i'm
PRESERVATION and begging pardon for what
she had done. while giving her reasons for
doing it. But. perhaps because it did not
occur TO her. she made not the slightest
reference to Lord Donal Stirling. Two an
swers came to this-one a registered packet
containing the diamonds which the princess
had previously offered to her. the other a
letter from the princess's own hand. The
glitter Of the diamonds showed Jennie that
she had been speedily forgiven, and the let
ter corroborated this. In fact, the princess
upbraided her for not letting her into the
secret earlier. 1T is just the jolly kind of
thing 1 should have delighted in" wrote her
Highness. And then, IL l had known, 1
should not have sent that unlucky tele-
gram. 1t serves you right, and I am
glad you had a fright. Think of it
coming in at this inopportune moment just
as kilograms do at a play. But, Jennie, are
you sure you told me everything? A letter
came from London the day before yours ar
rived, and 1t bewildered me dreadfully at
first. Don Stirling. whom 1 used to know
in Washington Ca conceited young fellow he
was then: L hope he has improved since),
wrote to say that he had met a girl at the
Duchess of Chiselhurst's ball who had a
letter inviting the Princess Won Steinheimer
to the festivity. He thought at first she
was the princess (which is very compli-
mentary to each of us). but found later that
she wasn't. Now. he wants TO know, you
know. and thinks, quite reasonably, that L
must have some inkling who that girl was,
and he begs me by our old friendship, etc.
He is a nice young man, if a tri1e conf
dent (these young diplomatists think they
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hands,, and / would like to oblige him, but
to say about it. 1 am to address him care
of the embassy at ST. Petersburg, so I sup
pose he's stationed there now. By the way.
how did he get your glove, or is that merely
brag on his part? He says that it is the
only clew he has, and he is going to trace
you from that, it seems. if 1 do not tell him
who you are and send him your address.
Now, what am l to say when / write to st.
Petersburg?"
In reply TO this Jennie sent a somewhat
incoherent letter, very different from her
usual style of writing. She had not men,
toned the young mar in her former COM
munication, she said. because she had been
trying to forget the incident in which he
was the central figure. In no circumstances
could she meet him again, and she implored
the princess not to disclose her identity
to him even by a hint. She explained the
glove episode exactly as 1t had happened;
she was compelled to sacrifice the glove
to release her hand. He had been very kind
in helping her TO escape from a false posi-
ton, but it would be too humiliating for
her ever to see him or speak with him
again.
when this letter reached the schloss at
Meran, the princess leleSTdpHeu W LoAuou,
Send me the other glove" and Jennie sent
1t. A few days later came a further COM
munication from the princess.
II have puzzled our young man quite eff
fectually, l think. clever as he imagines
himself TO be. I wrote him a seml-indignant
letter to. St. Petersburg and said l thought
all along he had not really recognized me
at the ball. in spite of his protestations at
first. Then l saw how easily he was de-
luded into the belief that l was some other
woman, and so the temptation 10 further
cozen him was irresistible. Am / not a good
actress? i asked him. I went on to say.
with some show of anger, that a quiet flirta-
ton in the gallery was all very we'll in its
way, but when it came TO a young man
rushing in a frenzy bareheaded into the
street after a respectable married woman
who had just got into her carriage and was
about 10 drive away it was too much alto
gether, and thus he came into possession Of
the glove. AS the remaining glove was of
no use 10 me, / had great pleasure In send
ing it to him. but warned him that If the
story of the gloves ever came to the ears of
my husband 1 would deny having either
owned or worn them. 1 should like TO see
| Don's amazed look when the other glove