Being a woman she read the world news last.

On the front page she saw a queer story, dated at Albany: Mysterious guests at a hotel; how they had fought and fled in the early morning.

There had been left behind a case with foreign orders incrusted with several thousand dollars' worth of gems.

Bolsheviki, said the police; just as they said auto bandits a few years ago when confronted with something they could not understand.

The orders had been turned over to the Federal authorities from whom it was learned that they were all royal and demi-royal.