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The Wingham Times, 1906-01-25, Page 7TII WINCH M TIMES, JANUARY 25 i9OG I OM JENNI{ BJFR: JOURNALIST nightoulor net. IP he did not, then he would be aware that only he and the girt possessed that important piece of BY ROBERT BARR, 111.—The WizaCd h Nis Mogic MIiC. [Copyright, 1000, by Robert Barr.) When Jennie entered the carriage in which her friend was waiting. the other cried, "Well, have you seen him?" ap- parently meaning the director of police. "No, I did not see him, but I talked with him over the telephone. I wish you could have heard our conversation; it was the funniest interview that I ever took part in, Two or three times 1 bad to shut off the instrument, fearing the director would hear me laugh. I am afraid that before this business is ended you will be sorry I am a guest at your house. I know I shall end by getting myself into an Austrian prison. Just think of itI Here have I been 'holding up' the chief of police in this imperial city as if I were a wild western brigand. I have been terrorizing the man, brow- beating him, threatening him, and he the person who has the liberty of all Vienna in his hands, who can have ole dragged off to a 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 I have done tonight and force him actually to beg that I shall remain in the city and con- tinue to assist him." "Tell me what you said?" asked the princess eagerly, and Jennie related all that bad passed between them over the telephone. "And do you mean to tell me that you are going to give that lean the right to use all the information you have acquired, and allow him to accept complacently all the kudos that such a discovery entitles you to?" "Why, certainly," replied Jennie. "What good is the kudos to nue? All the credit I desire I get in the office of The Daily Bugle in Loudon." "But, you silly girl, holding such a secret as yon held, you could have made your fortune," insisted the practical princess, for the principles which had been instilled into her during a youth spent in Chicago bad 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 I re- store to you the missing gold?' just imagine what their answer would be." "Yes, I suppose there was money in the scheme if it had been really a se- cret. But you forget that tomorrow morning the chief of police would have known as much as he knows tonight. Of course, if I had gone alone to the treasury vault and kept my discovery to myself, I 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 I did, and going with me to the chemist, there was no possibility of keeping the matter a se- cret." "Well, Jennie, all I can say is that you are a very foolish girl. Here yon aro, working hard, as you said in one of your letters, merely to make a living, and now, with the greatest nonchalance, you allow a fortune to slip through your fingers. Now, I am simply not going to allow this. I shall tell nay husband all that has happened, and he shall make the government treat you honestly, if not generously. I assure yon, Jennie, that Lord Donal—no, I won't mention his name, since you protest so strenn- ously—but the future young man, who- ever he is, will not think the less of yon because you come to him with a hand- some dowry. But here we are, at home, and I won't say anotieer word on the 1 subject if it annoys you." When Jennie reached her delightful .apartments—which looked even more luxuriantly comfortable bathed in the soft light that now flooded then from .quiet toned shaded lamps than they did in the more garish light of day—she walked np and down her sitting room in deep meditation. She was in a gnan- •flary. Whether or not to risk sending a coded telegram to her paper was the .question that presented itself to her. If she were sure that no one else world 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 ono into his confidence that Diseases of the Kidneys news, If a full account of the discovery appeared in the next morning's Daily Bugle, then, when that paper arrived in Vienna, or even before, if a synopsis were telegraphed to the government, as it was morally certain to be, the direct- or would know at once that she was he correspondent of the newspaper whom he was so anxious to frighten out of Vienna. On the other hand, her friendship with the Princess von Stein- heimer gave her such influence with the chief's superior that after the lesson she had taught him he might hesitate to make any move against her. Then, again, the news that tonight belonged to two persons might on the morrow come to the knowledge of all the corre- spondents in Vienna, and her efforts, as far as The Bugle was concerned, would have been in vain. This consideration decided the girl, and, casting off all sign of hesitation, she sat down at her writ- ing table and began the first chapter of the solution of the Vienna mystery. Her opening sentence was exceedingly diplomatic, "The chief of police of Vienna has made a most startling dis- covery." Beginning thus, she went on to details of the discovery she had that day made. When her account was fin- ished and codified, she went down to her hostess and said: NO one can afford to neglect de- rangements of the kidneys. The results are too painful and the risk too great. Some of the symp- toms are :—Pains in the back and kegs, gradual loss of flesh, deposits an the urine, headaches, scanty, dark -colored urine, painful, scalding sensations when urinating, dropsical §welling of ankles and legs, irregu- larity of the bowels, and gradual failure of health and strength. Judged by actual cures made, Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills are the most satisfactory treatment obtain- able for kidney disease. Relief is prompt and cure thorough and last- ing. Enquire about cases in your own neighbourhood. Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, 25 cents s box, at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates tic Co., Toronto. The portrait and signa- ture of Dr. A. W. Chase, the famous receipt book author, are on every box. "Princess, I want a trustworthy man, who will take a long telegram to the central telegraph office, pay for it, and come away quickly before any one can ask him inconvenient questions." "Would it not be better to call a dienstmanner 4" "A dienstmanner? That is your com- missionnaire or telegraph messenger? No, I think not. They are all numbered and can be traced." "Oh, I know!" cried the princess. "I will send our coachman. He will be out of his livery now, and he is a most re- liable man; he will not answer incon- venient questions or any others, even if they are asked." To her telegram for publication Jen- nie had added a private dispatch to the editor that it would be rather inconven- ient for her if he published the account 111) He glared at her through his glasses. next morning, but she left the decision entirely with him. Here was the news, and if he thought it worth the risk he might hold it over; if not, he was to print it regardless of consequences. As a matter of fact, the editor, with fear and treaubling, held the news for a day, so that he might not embarrass his fair representative, but so anxious was he that he sat np all night until the oth- er papers were out, and he heaved a sigh of relief when, on glancing over them, he found that not one of them contained an inkling of the information locked up in his desk. And so he drop- ped off to sleep when the day was break- ing. Next night he had nearly as much anxiety, for, although The Bugle would contain the news, other papers might have it as well, and so for the second time he waited in his office until the other sheets, wet from the press, were brought to him. Again fortune favored him, and the triumph belonged to The Bugle alone. Tho morning after her interview with the director of police Jennie, taking a small hand satchel, in which she placed the various bottles containing the dif- ferent dusts which the chemist had sep- arated, went abroad alone and, hailing a fiacre, gave the driver the address of Professor Carl Seigfried. The carriage of the princess was always at the dis- posal of the girl, but on this occasion she did not wish to be embarrassed with .so pretentious an equipage. The cab took her into a street lined with tall edifices and left her at the number she bad given the driver. The building seemed to be one let out in flats and tenements. She mounted stair after stair, and only at the very top did she see the professor's name painted on a door. Hero she rapped several times without any attention being paid to her summons, but at last the door was opened partially, by a man whom she took, (mite ncenrately, to be the pro- fessor himself. His head was white and his face deeply wrinkled. He glared at her through his glasses and said to her: "Young lady, you have made a mis- take. These are the rooms of Professor Carl Seigfried." It is Professor Carl Seigfried that I bottle—the bottle—in the cupboard bo wish to see,"said the girl hurriedly as hind you." the old man was preparing to shut the She hurriedly flung open the doors of door. the cupboard indicated and found a "What do you want from him ?" bottle brandy and a glass, which she '"I want some information from him tl fill d. The old man rind with an an effect on metals and minerals fie this power has had," "Ah, dynamite is a toy for chil- dren!" cried the old man, opening the door a little farther, exhibiting an inter- est which had up to that moment been absent from his planner. "Well, whero did this explosion take place? Do you wish me to go and see it?" "Perhaps, later on. At present I wish to show you some of its effects, but I don't propose to do so here in the pas- sageway." "Quite right, quite right," hastily ejaculated the old scientist, throwing the door wide open. "Of course I am not accustomed to visits from fashion- able yonng ladies, and I thought at first there bad been a mistake, but if you have any real scientific problem I shall be delighted to give my attention to it. What may appear very extraordinary to the lay mind will doubtless prove fully explainable by scientists. Come in, come int" Tho old elan shut the door behind her and led her along a dark passage into a large apartment, whose ceiling was the roof of the building. At first sight it seemed in amazing disorder. Huge as it was, it was cluttered with curious shaped machines and instru- ments. A twisted conglomeration of glass tubing, bent into fantastic tangles, stood on a central table and had evi- dently been occupying the professor's attention at the time he was interrupt- ed. The place was lined with shelving where the walls were not occupied with cupboards, and every shelf was burden- ed with bottles and apparatus of differ- ent kinds. Whatever care Professor Seigfried took of his apparatus, he seemed to have little for his furniture. There was hardly a decent chair in the place, except one deep armchair, cov- ered with a tiger's skin, in which the professor evidently took his ease while meditating or watching the progress of an experiment. This chair he did not offer to the young lady—in fact, he did not offer her a chair at all, but sank down on the tiger's skin himself, placed the tips of his fingers together and glared at her through his glittering glasses. "Now, young woman," he said sharply, "what have you brought for me? Don't begin to chatter now, for my time is valuable. Show me what you have brought, and I will tell yon all about it, and most likely a very simple thing it is." Jennie, interested in so rude a man, smiled, drew up the least decrepit chair she could find andosat down, in spite of the angry mutterings of her irritated host. Then she opened her satchel, took out the small bottle of gold and handed it to him without a word. The old man took it somewhat contemptuously, shook it backward and forward without taking out the cork, adjusted his glasses, then suddenly seemed to take a nervous in- terest in the material presented to him. He rose and went nearer the light. Drawing out the cork with trembling hands, he poured some of the contents into his open palm. The result was startling enough. The old man flung np his bands, letting the vial crash. into a thousand pieces on the floor. He stag- gered forward, shrieking, "Ah, mein Gott—mein Gott!" Then, to the consternation of Jennie, who had already risen in terror from her chair, the old man plunged forward on his face. Jennie bad difiicnity in re- pressing a shriek. She looked round hurriedly for a bell to ring, but there evidently was none. She tried to open the door and cry for help, but in her ORES CATARRHAL DEAF- NESS One week's Use of Hyomei Did afore Than Six Month's Treatment by Specialists. In the treatment of deafness which is often a result of catarrh, Hyomei nets almost immediately upon the inflamed membrane and the hearing begins to re- turn at once. Miss Meeks of Mattewan, N. Y., says: "Hyomei is truly wonderful. I have used it but a short time and see a great change in my condition. 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T, Booth Comyany, Hyomei Building, Ithaca, N.Y. excitement could find neither handle nor latch. It seemed to be locked, and the key, doubtless, was in the professor's pocket. She thought at first that be had dropped dead, but the continuing moans as he lay on the floor convinced her ttt her error. She bent over him anxiously and cried, "What can I do to help you ?" With a struggle he muttered, "The about explosives. I have been told that pal y e ho knows more about explosives than effort struggled into a sitting posture, any other man living." . and she held the glass of fiery liquid to "Quite riht---hedoes. What, then?" his pallid lips. Ile gulped down the "Art explosion has taken place, pro- brandy and gasped: "I feel better now clueing the most remarkable results. Help me to my chair. They say that neither dynamite nor any Assisting him to his feet, she sup - other known force could Have had sgeh ported himto his armchair, when he A &gaiter's Triumph The Mooney Baker cannot produce anything better t It a n ' MMooney's Perfection Cream Sodas The very best of flour, butter and cream — the most modern plant, the very best baker in Canada. A biscuit superior to any other you have ever tasted. Say "Mooney's" to your grocer. : shook himself free, crying angrily : "Let ole alone! Don't you see I am all right again?" The girl stood aside, and the professor dropped into his chair, his nervous hands vibrating on bis knees. For a long interval nothing was said by ei- ther, and the girl at last seated herself in the chair she had formerly occupied. The first words the old man spoke were. "Who sent you here?" "No one. I cane of my own accord. I wished to meet some one who had a large knowledge of explosives, and Herr Feltz, the chemist, gave me your ad- dress." "Herr Feltz! Herr Feltz!" he repeat- ed. "So he sent you here 4" "No one sent use here," insisted the girl. "It is as I tell you. Herr Feltz merely gave me your address." "Where did you get that powdered gold ?" "It came from the debris of an ex- plosion." "I know; you said that before. Where was the explosion? Who caused it?" "That I don't know." "Don't you know where the explosion was?" "Yes, I know where the explosion was, but I don't know who caused it." "Who sent you here?" "I tell you no one sent me here." "That is not true. The man who caused the explosion sent you here. Yon s!% �.i le staggered forward, shrieking, 11tCi1t Gott—lnctm Gottl" are his minion. What do you expect to find out from me?" "I expect to learn what explosive was used to produce the result that seemed to have such a remarkable effect on you." "Why do you say that? It had no effect on me. My heart is weak. I am "1171, subject to Foch attacks, and I ward them off with brandy. Some day they will kill me. Then you won't learn any secrets from a dead man, will yon?" "I hope, Professor Seigfried, that yon have many years yet to live, and I must further add that I did not expect such a reception as I have received from a man of science, as I was told you were. If you have no information to give to me—very well, that ends it; all yon have to do is to say so." "Who sent you here?" "No one, as I have repeated once or twice. It any one had, I would give 'tinnily opinion of him when I got back. You refnse to tell me anything about the. explosive that powdered that gold?" "Refuse? Of course I refusel What did yon expect? I suppose the man who sent you here thought, because you • were an engaging young woman and I an old dotard, I would gabble to you the results of a life's work. Oh, no, no, no 1 But I am not an old dotard. I have many years to live yet." "I hope so. Well, I must bid you good morning. I shall go to some one else." The old man forbidding grin, "It is melees. Yonr bottle is broken, and the material it contained is diesi- r ttrace ofit isleft. ,> .a I ate i Not He waved his thin, emaciated hand in the air as he spoke. "Oh, that doesn't matter in the least," said Jennie. "I have several other bottles here in my satchel." The professor placed his hands on the arms of his chair and slowly raised him- self to his feet. "You have others," he cried, "other bottles? Let me see them—let me see them!" "No," replied Jennie, "I won't." With a speed which, after his recent collapse, Jennie had not expected, the professor ambled round to the door and placed his hack against it. The glasses over his eyes seemed to sparkle as if with fire. His talonlike fingers crooked rigidly. He breathed rapidly and was evidently laboring under tense excite- ment. "Who knows you came op to see me?" he whispered hoarsely, glaring at her. Jennie, having arisen, stood there, smoothing down her perfectly fitting glove and answered with a calmness she -. was far from feeling. "Who knows I am here? No one but the director of police." "Oh, the director of police!" echoed the professor, quite evidently abashed by the information. The rigidity of his attitude relaxed, and he became once more the old man he had appeared as he sat in a heap in his chair. "You will excuse ole," he mattered, edging round toward his chair again, "I was excited." "I noticed that you were, professor. But before yon sit down again please unlock that door." "Why?" ho asked, pausing way to the chair. "Because I wish it open." "And I," he said in a higher tone,, "wish it to refrain locked until we have come to some understanding. I can't let you go out now, but I shall permit yon to go unmolested as soon as you have made some explanation to foe." "If you do not unlock the door im- mediately, I shall take this machine and fling it through the.front window out on the street. The crashing glass on the pavement will soon bring some one to my rescue, professor, and, as I have a voice of my own and small hesitation about shouting I shall have little diffi- culty in directing the strangers where to come." As Jennie spoke she moved swiftly to- ward the table on which stood the strange aggregation of reflectors and bent glass tubing. "No, 110, no I" screamed the pro- fessor, springing between her and the table. "Touch anything but that—any- thing but that! Do not disturb it an inch—there is danger—death not only to you and me, but perhaps to the whole city. Beep away from it 1" "Very well, then," said Jennie, step- ping back in spite of her endeavor to sustain her self control, "open the door. Open both doors and leave them so. After that, if you refrain seated in your chair, I shall not touch the machine, nor shall I leave until I make the ex- planations you require and you have answered some questions that I shall ask. But I must have a clear way to the stair in case you should become ex- cited again." "I'II unlock the doors. I'll unlock both doors," replied the old man tremu- lously, fumbling abort his pockets for his keys. "But keep away from that machine unless yon want to bring swift destruction on us all." With an eagerness that retarded his speed the professor, constantly looking j over his shoulder at his visitor, unlock- ; ed the first door; then hastily he flung open the second and tottered back to his chair, where he collapsed on the tiger skin, trembling and exhausted. "We maybe overheard," he whined, "One can never tell who may sneak quietly up the stair. I ant surrounded by spies trying to find out what I am doing." "Wait a moment," said Jennie. 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"If I tell you," said Jennie, with some hesitation, "will you keep what I say a secret?" "Yes, yes, yesl" cried the scientist impatiently. "Well. I am in the service of a Lon- don daily newspaper. " "I see, I see, and they have sent yon here to publish broadcast over the world all you can find ont of my doings. I knew you were a spy the moment I saw yon. I should never have let you in. " "My dear sir, the London paper is not aware of yonr existence even. They have not sent me to you at all. They have sent me to Learn, if possible, the cause of the explosion I spoke of. I took some of the debris to Herr Feltz to analyze it, and he said he had never seen gold, iron, feldspar, and all that, reduced to such fine impalpable grains as was the case with the sample 1 left with him. I then asked him who in Vienna knew most about explosives, and he gave me your address. That is why I am here." {"Bot the explosion --yon have not told me when and whero it occurred!" 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