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Jennie Baxter, Journalist

CHAPTER XI
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This was promptly contradicted, but we all know what official contradictions amount to.

There is internal trouble of some kind at the Court of Vienna, and if we could publish the full details, such an article would give us a European reputation.

When could you be ready to begin your journey, Miss Baxter ?" "I am ready now." "Well, in an affair like this it is best to lose no time; you can go to-morrow morning, then ?" "Oh, certainly, but I must leave the office at once, and you should get someone to finish the work I am on." "I will attend to that," said the editor.
Thus relieved, Jennie betook herself to a telegraph office.

She knew that if she wrote a letter to the Princess, who was now in Vienna, she would probably herself reach that city as soon as her note, so she telegraphed that something important was on hand which would take her to Vienna by next day's Orient express, and intimated that it was a matter in which she might need the assistance of the Princess.

Then she hastened to her rooms to pack up.


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