The newspapers and illustrated weeklies raged about her for a while, elaborated the story of her struggles, the mysterious remittances which had, from time to time, saved her from direst poverty, her ambition, her education which, by dint of hard work, she had acquired.

It was all very puzzling and interesting and romantic.

For what purpose had she been stolen, and by whom?
The duke accused Franz of Jugendheit, but he did so privately.

Search as they would, the duke and the chancellor never traced the source of the remittances.

The duke held stubbornly that the sender of these benefactions was moved by the impulse of a guilty conscience, and that this guilty conscience was in Jugendheit.