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Jennie Baxter, Journalist

CHAPTER XX
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We will not go back into that car, but stay here, where some of our fellow-countrymen are." "That is what I was going to propose," said Jennie.

"And now listen to the story I have to tell you, and then you will know exactly why I came to Russia." "Don't tell me anything you would rather not," said the young man hurriedly.
"I would rather not, but it must be told," answered the girl.
The story lasted a long time, and when it was ended the young man cried enthusiastically in answer to her question,-- "Blame you?
Why, of course I don't blame you in the slightest.

It wasn't Hardwick who sent you here at all, but Providence.

Providence brought us together, Jennie, and my belief in it hereafter will be unshaken." Jennie laughed a contented little laugh, and said she was flattered at being considered an envoy of Providence.
"It is only another way of saying you are an angel, Jennie," remarked the bold young man.
They crossed the frontier without interference, and, once in Germany, Jennie took the object of so much contention and placed it in the hands of her lover.
"There," she whispered, with a tiny sigh, for she was giving up the fruits of her greatest achievement, "put that in your despatch box, and see that it doesn't leave that receptacle until you reach London.

I hope the Russians will like the copy of the _Daily Bugle_ they find in their envelope." The two chatted together throughout the long ride to Berlin, and when 11 p.m.and the Schleischer station came at last, they still seemed only to have begun their conversation, so much more remained to be told.
The telegram from the Princess was handed to Lord Donal at Berlin.
"I congratulate you most sincerely," she wired; "and tell Jennie the next time you see her"-- Lord Donal laughed as he read this aloud--"that the Austrian Government has awarded her thirty thousand pounds for her share in enabling them to recover their gold, and little enough I think it is, considering what she has done." "Now, I call that downright handsome of the Austrian Government," cried Lord Donal.


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