I wish you would write and tell me exactly what he said to you that evening." But with this wish Jennie did not comply.

She merely again urged the Princess never to divulge the secret.
For many days Jennie heard nothing more from any of the actors in the little comedy, and the episode began to take on in her thoughts that air of unreality which remote events seem to gather round them.

She went on with her daily work to the satisfaction of her employers and the augmentation of her own banking account, although no experience worthy of record occurred in her routine for several weeks.

But a lull in a newspaper office is seldom of long duration.
One afternoon Mr.Hardwick came to the desk at which Jennie was at work, and said to her,-- "Cadbury Taylor called here yesterday, and was very anxious to see you.
Has he been in again this afternoon ?" "You mean the detective?
No, I haven't seen him since that day at the Schloss Steinheimer.

What did he want with me ?" "As far as I was able to understand, he has a very important case on hand--a sort of romance in high life; and I think he wants your assistance to unravel it; it seems to be baffling him." "It is not very difficult to baffle Mr.Cadbury Taylor," said the girl, looking up at her employer with a merry twinkle in her eye.
"Well, he appears to be in a fog now, and he expressed himself to me as being very much taken with the neat way in which you unravelled the diamond mystery at Meran, so he thinks you may be of great assistance to him in his present difficulty, and is willing to pay in cash or in kind." "Cash payment I understand," said the girl, "but what does he mean by payment in kind ?" "Oh, he is willing that you should make a sensational article out of the episode.