The Norfolk weekly news., 1900-07-26
JENNIE BAXTER: JOURNALIST
BY ROBERT BARR.
l.The D|OnOldS OI lhe Princess.
Ioopyrisht. 1900. by Robert Bsr.l

The roof or the carriage
.'Here we have, " he said nt last, ian
impecunious prince who mnrrics an
American heiress. as 80 many of them
do, The girl begins life in Austria on
e1, 600, 900, say G200, 900, and case of
diamonds snid 20 be worth another
5000. 900 NJ least--prohably more. Not
much danger Of running through that
very speedily, is there SmithT'
"No; shonld think not. F"
ESQ the average man would think,
continued the detective. However,
have long since got ont 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 were married
find that the repairs on the Schloss
Stcinheimor, situated in the Tyrol cost
something like 100000. 1t is huge
place, and the Steinheimers have not
had an heiress in the family for many
centuries. The prince owed n good deal
of money when he was married, and it
took something like goo, 900 to settle
those debts rather expensive, as con-
tinental princes go; but, II one must
have Injuries, one cannot save money.
Not TO weary You with details. found
that the G200, 900 was exhausted some
thing more than two months ago-in
fact, just before the alleged robbery.
The prince il OF course without money;
otherwise he would not have married n
Chicago heiress. and, the princess being
without money, what does she natural
ly DOR
Pawn her own diamondsi" cried
Smith enthusiastically.
The detective smiled.
81 Thought IL much more probable
she would apply to her father for mon
ey. l asked him il 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! l ven
tured NO. he said; Il did not. The
fact is, money is very tight in Chicago
just now, and 80 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 bright woman, she knew tho
traditional stupidity Of the official po-
lice, and so thought there was no danger
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 po-
lice We're given plenty of time they
might stumble ON the diamonds. All
that is necessary for me to do now is to
find ont how many persons there are in
Vienna who would lend large sums Of
money on valuable jewels. The second
ia 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,
she announced they had been stolen.
After having made such statement,
she Of course had to stick to il. and
Hntl 20 hA
America, she Is exceedingly anxious
that no real detective shall be employed
In investigation
At Dover Miss BAXTER, having notes OF
this interesting conversation in short
hand, witnessed the detective bid good
by to his friend Smith, who returned tC
London by later train. After that sh,
saw no more of Mr.. Cadbury Taylor
and reached the Schloss Steinheimer a
Aeran without further adventure.
Miss Baxter found life at the schlos
much different from what she had ex
pected. The princess was young an,
charming lady, very handsome, but il
q state of constant depression. Once o
twice Miss Baxter came upon her will
apparent traces of weeping on her face
The prince was not an old man, as sh
expected, but young and of manly, stal
wart appearance He evidently possess
ed fiendish temper and moped abou
the castle with a constant frown upol
his brow.
The correspondence Of the princes
was in the utmost disorder. There wer
hundreds upon hundreds of letters
many II which she could not tell wheti
or they had been answered or not, an
Mis- Baxter set To work tabulating an
arranging them. Meanwhile the youu
newspaper woman kept her eyes oper
She wandered about the castle unmC
Tested poked into odd corners, talke
with the servants and in fact, with ey
cry one. but never did she come upon
clew which promised to lead to a solr
tiou Of the diamond difficulty Once 81
penetrated into turret room and can
UNEXPECTEDLY upon tue prince, who W;
siiiils IN the window ledge, iookin
abseu'ly ont On the broad and smilin
VALLEY that lay for miles below the ca
tie He spTang 10 his feet and looked :
L. a. III