I know I shall end by getting myself into an Austrian prison.

Just think of it! 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 me 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 to-night, and force him actually to beg that I shall remain in the city and continue to assist him." "Tell me what you said," asked the Princess eagerly; and Jennie related all that had passed between them over the telephone.
"And do you mean to say calmly that you are going to give that man the right to use the astounding 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 me?
All the credit I desire I get in the office of the _Daily Bugle_ in London." "But, you silly girl, holding such a secret as you 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 had not been entirely eradicated by residence in Vienna.

"If you had gone to the Government and said, 'How much will you give me if I restore to you the missing gold ?' just imagine what their answer would be." "Yes, I suppose there was money in the scheme if it had really been a secret.