The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-05-11
5000, 600 at least probably more Not
much danger Of running through that i
very speedily is there, Smith,
ssNo. T sho,ld think not -


$50 the average man would think,
continued the detective. However, 1
have long since got out of the habit of
thinking; therefore make sure. The
first problem | set to myself is this:
How much money have the prince and
princess spent since they We're married2
find that the repairs on the Schloss
Steinheimer, situated in the Tyrol, cost
something like $40, 000 1t is huge
place, and the Steinheimers have not
had an heiress in the family for many
centuries The prince owed a good deal
of money when he was married, and it
took something like ego, 900 to settle
those debts-rather expensive, as con-
tinental princes go; but, if one must
have luxuries, one cannot save money.
Not to weary you with details. / found
that the 5000, 600 was exhausted some
thing more than two months ago-in
fact. just before the alleged robbery.
The prince is of course without money;
otherwise he would not have married
Chicago heiress, and, the princess being
without money, what does she natural
ly do?"
pawn her own diamonds' cried
Smith enthusiastically. ~
The detective smiled.
81 thought it much more probable
she would apply to her father for mon
ey. / asked him if this was the case,
giving him the date, roughly speaking,
when such letter had been sent. The
old man opened his eyes at this and told
me he had received such letter. But
you did not send the money! ven
tured. NO. he said; I did not. The
! fact is, money is very tight in Chicago
! just now, and so cabled her to run on
her debts for awhile This exactly
bore out the conclusion at which had
already arrived. So now, having failed
to get money from her father, the lady
turns to her diamonds, the only security
she possesses. The chances are. that she
| did so before her fathers cable message
/, came, and that was the reason she SO
confidently wished information to be
/ given to the police. She expected to
have money to redeem her jewels, and,
! being a bright woman, she knew the
traditional stupidity Of the official po-
of her little ruse being discovered. But
/, when the cable message came saying no
money would be sent her different
complexion was put upon the whole af-
fair, for she did not know but if the POI
lice were given plenty Of time they
might stumble on the diamonds. All
that is necessary for me to do now is to
lind out how many persons there are in
Vienna who would lend large sums Of
money on valuable jewels The second
is to find with which one of those the
princess pawned her diamonds In my
opinion, the diamonds never left Vienna.
You see, the ball had been announced,
and Immediate money was urgently
needed. She pawned the diamonds be-
fore she left the capital Of Austria, and
the chances are she did not intend any
one to know they were missing; but on
| the eve of the ball her husband insisted
that she should wear her diamonds, and
| therefore, being quick witted woman,
1 she announced they had been stolen.
! After having made such statement,
she of course had to stick to it. and
now, failing to get the money from
America, she is exceedingly anxious
that no real detective shall be employed
in investigation.
AtDover Miss Baxter, having notes Of
this interesting conversation in short
| hand, witnessed the detective bid good
by to his friend Smith, who returned to
London by a later train. After that she
saw no more of Mr.. Cadbury Taylor
SoI s,Ia ok
Meran without further adventure.
Miss Baxter found life at the schloss
much different from what she had ex-
pected. The princess was a young and
charming lady, very handsome, but in
a state of constant depression. Once or
twice Miss Baxter came upon her with
apparent traces of weeping on her face.
The prince was not an old man, as she
expected, but young and of manly, stall
wart appearance. He evidently possess
ed fiendish temper and moped about
the castle with a constant frown upon
| his brow
The correspondence of the princess
was in the utmost disorder. There were
hundreds upon hundreds Of letters,
| many of which she could not tell wheth-
| er they had been answered or not, and
Miss Baxter set to work tabulating and
arranging them. Meanwhile the young
newspaper woman kept her eyes open.
She wandered about the castle unmo-
Tested, poked into odd corners, talked
with the servants and, in fact, with ev-
cry one, but never did she come upon
clew which promised to lead to solu-
tion of the diamond difficulty. Once she.
| penetrated into turret room and came
unexpectedly upon the prince, who was
sitting on the window ledge, looking
absently out on the broad and smiling
valley that lay for miles below the cas-
tie. He sprang to his feet and looked SO
fercely at the intruder that the girls
heart failed her, and she had not even
the presence of mind to turn and run.
"What do you want2" he said to her
shortly, for he spoke English perfectly.
''You are the young woman from Chi
cago, suppose9"
''No, answered Miss Baxter, forget