o anywhere with you."

"Oh, yes, that reminds me. I spoke to my husband this morning, and asked
him if he could get you enrolled as a special detective, and he said
there would be some difficulty in obtaining such an appointment for a
woman. Would you have any objection to dressing up as a nice young man,
Jennie?"

"I would very much rather not; I hope you didn't suggest that to the
Prince."

The Princess laughed merrily and shook her head.

"No, I told him that I believed that you would solve the mystery if
anyone could, and, remembering what you had done in that affair of
my diamonds, my husband has the greatest faith in your powers as an
investigator; but he fears the authorities here will be reluctant
to allow a woman to have any part in the search. They have very
old-fashioned ideas about women in Austria, and think her proper place
is presiding over a tea-table."

"Well, if they only knew it," said Jennie archly, "some things have been
discovered over a teacup within our own memories."

"That is quite true," replied the Princess, "but we can hardly give the
incident as a recommendation to the Austrian authorities. By the way,
have you noticed that no paper in Vienna has said a single word about
the robbery of the war chest?"

"It must have been telegraphed here very promptly from London, and yet
they do not even deny it, which is the usual way of meeting the truth."

While they were talking, a message came from his Highness, asking if
he might take the liberty of breaking in upon their conference. A few
moments after, the Prince himself entered the apartment and bowed with
courtly deference to the two ladies.

"I have succeeded," he said, "beyond my expectations. It seems that a
newspaper in London has published an account of the whole affair, and
the police, who were at their wits end before, are even more flustered
now that the account of the robbery has been made public. By the way,
how did you learn anything about this robbery? It did not strike me at
the time you spoke about Miss Baxter's commission this morning, but I
have been wondering ever since."

"Jennie received a paper from London," said the Princess hurriedly,
"which said the war chest of Austria had been robbed of two hundred
million florins, but there is nothing about it in the Vienna Press."

"No," replied the Prince; "nor is there likely to be. The robbery is now
known to all the world except Austria, and I imagine nothing will be
s