She may not have wished him to know that she was short of money.

But that she has stolen her own diamonds there is not the slightest question in my mind.
All that is necessary for me to do now is to find out how many persons there are in Vienna who would lend large sums of money on valuable jewels.

The second is to find with which one of those the Princess pawned her diamonds." "But, my dear Cadbury, the lady is in Meran, and Vienna is some hundreds of miles away.

How could a lady in the Tyrol pawn diamonds in Vienna without her absence being commented on?
or do you think she had an agent to do it for her ?" Again the detective smiled indulgently.
"No, she had no agent.

The diamonds never left Vienna.