The robbery is now known to all the world except Austria, and I imagine nothing will be said about it here." "Is there, then, any truth in the report ?" asked the Princess innocently.
"Truth! It's all truth; that is just where the trouble is.

There is little use of our denying it, because this London paper is evidently well informed, and to deny it we should have to publish something about the robbery itself, which we are not inclined to do.

It is known, however, who the two correspondents of this London paper are, and I believe the police are going to make it so interesting for those two gentlemen that they will be glad to leave Vienna, for a time at least.
Of course, nothing can be done openly, because Englishmen make such a fuss when their liberties are encroached upon.

One of the young men has been lured across the frontier by a bogus telegram, and I think the authorities will see that he does not get back in a hurry; the other we expect to be rid of before long.

Of course, we could expel him, but if we did, it would be thought that we had done so because he had found out the truth about the explosion." "How did you learn of the explosion ?" asked the Princess.
"Oh, I have known all about the affair ever since it happened." The Princess gave Jennie a quick look, which said as plainly as words, "Here was the news that we wanted in our household, and we never suspected it." "Why didn't you tell me ?" cried the Princess indignantly.
"Well, you see, my dear, you never took much interest in politics, and I did not think the news would have any attraction for you; besides," he added, with a smile, "we were all cautioned to keep the matter as secret as possible." "And wonderfully well you have managed it!" exclaimed the Princess.
"That shows what comes of trusting a secret to a lot of men; here it is, published to all the world." "Not quite all the world my dear.