The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-05-29
JENNIE 6lX7ER:: JOURNALIST
BY ROBERT BARR.
vi. The NiZUTd IN His NlQiG Hiiio.
Copyright, 1000. by Robert Barr.

paItuLlS ileduinS tue ulISClOI o. ponce
mo, did not see him, but | talked
with him over the telephone l wish
you could have heard cur conversation;
it was the funniest interview that / ever
took part in Two OF three times had
to shut off the instrument, fearing the
director would hear me laugh. I am
afraid that before this business isended
you will be sorry am a guest at your
house. | know | shall end by getting
myself into an Austrian prison. Just
think of it! Here have I been holding
up the chief of police in this imperial
city as if l were a wild western brisand
l have been terrorizing the man, brow
beating him, threatening him, and lic
the person who has the liberty of all
Vienna in his hands, who can have HE
dragged off to dungeon cell any time
he likes to give the order.
'.Not from the Palace Steinheimer,
said the princess, with decision.
'>Well, he might hesitate about thar
yet. nevertheless, it is Zoe funny 10
think that mere newspaper woman,
coming into a city which contains Only
one OF TWO of her friends, should dare to
talk to the chief OF police as have done
tonight and force him actually to beg
that l shall remain in the city and con
time to assist him.
Tell me what you said?" asked the
princess eagerly, and Jennie related all
that had passed between them over the
telephone.
And do you mean 10 tell me that
you are going to give that man the
right to use all the information You
have acquired, and allow him TO accept
complacently all the lsudcs that such a
discovery entities you toy
"Why, certainly, replied Jennie.
"What good is the .kudos to me2 All
the credit l desire I get il the Office Of
The Daily Bugle in London.
"But, you silly girl holding such a
secret as you held, you could have made
your fortune insisted the practical
princess. FOR the principles which had
been instilled into her during youth
spent in Chicago had not been eradicat-
ed by her residence in Vienna. If you
had gone to the government and said,
How much will you give me if re-
store to you the missing gold?' just
imagine what their answer would be. .
':Yes, | suppose there was money in
the scheme if it had been really a Sc
cret. But you forget that tomorrow
morning the chief of police would have
known as much as he knows tonight.
OF course, if ] had gone alone to the
treasury vault and kept my discovery to
myself ] might, perhaps, have held
up the government of Austria Hungary
as successfully as l held up the chief
Of police tonight. But with The director
watching everything ] did, and going
with ne to the chemist, there was no
possibility of keeping the matter q Sc
cret "
Well. Jennie, ali can say is that
you are 4 very foolish girl. Here you
are, working hard, SIS you said in one of
your letters, merely to make living,
and now. with the greatest nonchalance,
you allow fortune tc slip through your
fingers Now, am simply not going to
allow this. | shall tell my husband all
that has happened, and he shall make
the government treat You honestly if
not generously. ] assure you, Jennie,
that Lore. Donal-no, won mention
his name, since you protest so strenu-
ously-but the future young man, who
ever he is. Will not think the less of you
because you come to him with hand
some dowry. But here we are, at home,
and / won't say another word on the
subject if it annoys you y
When Jennie reached her DELIGHTFUL
apartments which looked even moro
luxuriantly comfortable bathed in the
soft light that now flooded them from
quiet toned shaded lamps than they did
in the more garish light of day-she
walked up and down her sitting room
in deep meditation. Sae was in a guam
Diary. Whether or not to risk sending a
coded telegram to her paper was the
question that presented itself to her
Ii she We're sure 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 on whether the director of police
took any one into his confidence that
night or not. If he did not then he
would be aware that only he and the
girl possessed that important piece OF
news. If q full account of the discovery
appeared in the next morning DAILY
Bugle, then, when that paper arrived
in Vienna, or even before. ii q synopsis
were telegraphed to the government, as
it was morally certain to be, the direct
or would know at once that She was