Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-06-28
BY ROBERT BARR.
YIL.-Tne HiZOTd IN His k0QiC AIIIC.
Copyright. 1900. by Robert Barrl

cried, "Well. have you seen him p APP
parently meaning the director of police.
"No, | did not see him, but | talked
with him over the telephone. | wish
Won could have heard our conversation;
il was the funniest interview that | ever
took part in Two or three times had
to shut off the instrument, fearing the
director would hear me laugh | am
afraid that before this business is ended
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 | been holding
mp the chief of police in this imperial
city as if | were a wild western brigand.
] have been terrori2ing the man, brow
beating him, threatening him, and he
the person who has the liberty of all
Vienna in his hands, who can have me
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 that;
yet, nevertheless, it is too funny to
think that a mere newspaper woman,
coming into a city which contains only
one or two Of her friends should dare to
talk to the chief of police as | have done
tonight and force him actually to beg
that shall remain in the city and con
tinue TO assist him.
Tell me what you said2' asked tho
princess eagerly, and Jennie related all
that had passed between them over the
telephone.
And do you mean to tell me that
you are going to give that man tho
right to use all the information you
have acquired, and allow him to accept
complacently all the kudcs that such a
discovery entities you tor
"Why, certainly" replied Jennie.
"What good is the kudos to me2 All
the credit l desire fget in 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. eff you
had gone to the government and said,
How much will you give me if i re-
store to you the missing goldY just
imagine what their answer would be B"
Eyes, / suppose there was money in
the scheme if it had been really 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 I held up the chief
of police tonight. But with the director
watching everything | did, and going
with me to the chemist, there was no
possibility of keeping the matter Sc
cret."
well, Jennie, all can say is that
you are a very foolish girl. Here you
sre, working hard as you said in one of
your letters, merely to make living,
md now, with the greatest nonchalance,
tou allow a fortune to slip through your
Singers. Now, am simply not going To
allow this. / shall tell my husband all
that has happened, and he shall make
the government yreat you honestly, If
not generously. [ assure you, Jennie,
that Lord Donal-no, | won mention
his name, since you protest so strenu-
pusly-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 il annoys you. y
When Jennie reached her delightful
apartments which looked even more
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-shc
walked up and down her sitting room
in deep meditation. She was in guam
Diary. Whether or not to risk sending 4
coded telegram to her paper was the
question that presented itself to her.
If she were sure that no one else woulC
learn the news, she would prefer to wait
until she had further particulars of the
treasury catastrophe. A good deal woulc
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
lewE If full account of the discovery
appeared in the next mornings Daily
Bugle, then, when that paper arrived
In Vienna, or even before, if synopsis
were telegraphed to the government a
it was morally certain to be- the direct
n would know at once that she wa
he correspondent of the newspaper
whom he was so anxious to brighten on
If Vienna. On the other hand, he
friendship with the Princess Won Stein
heimer gave her such influence with tn,
chief superior that after the lessor
she had Taught him he might hesitat,
to make any move against her. Then
again, the news that tonight belonged
10 two persons might on the morrow
come to the knowledge of all the CORE
spondents in Vienna, and her efforts. a
far as The Bugle was concerned, woult
have been in vain. This consideration
decided the girl, and casting off all sigi
of hesitation she sat down at her writ
ing table and began the first chapter q
the solution of the Vienna mystery
Her opening sentence was eXceedingl,
diplomatic, "The chief of police o
Vienna has made a most startling dis
covery." Beginning thus, she went oil
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