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Jennie Baxter, Journalist

CHAPTER XVI
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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 trembling, held the news for a day, so that he might not embarrass his fair representative, but so anxious was he, that he sat up all night until the other 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 dropped off to sleep when the day was breaking.

Next night he had nearly as much anxiety, for although the _Bugle_ would contain the news, other papers might have it as well, and thus for the second time he waited in his office until the other sheets, wet from the press, were brought to him.

Again fortune favoured him, and the triumph belonged to the _Bugle_ alone.
The morning after her interview with the Director of Police, Jennie, taking a small hand-satchel, in which she placed the various bottles containing the different dusts which the chemist had separated, 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 disposal of the girl, but on this occasion she did not wish to be embarrassed with so pretentious an equipage.


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