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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Albanian what do you mean? I never saw Albania!" "You will never see it again. You will never see Budapesth again, either," was the menacing continuation of the criminologist's methodical speech. "But a very old lady, the Countess Laschlas, will see the accounts of her son's wretched death, in the New York papers which will be sent to her, in care of the American consul!"
After a couple of hours, which he devote to some personal matters, he received a response to his inquiry. When translated from the Hungarian it read thus: "Professor Montague Shirley, College Club, N.Y., U.S.A. Families extinct except Countess Laschlas, and son Count Rozi Laschlas, reported killed in Albanian revolution. Csherkini, Minister of Justice." The criminologist was happy.
In an old volume enumerating the noble families of Austro-Hungary he found two distinguished lines, "Laschlas" and "Rozi." From the library he went to a cable office where he sent a message to the chief of police of Budapesth inquiring about the remaining members of the families. The old volume in the library was thirty-four years behind the times: it was the only record obtainable in America.
It was merely a deductive guess: but the shot struck the center of the bull's-eye. Warren, alias Count Laschlas, staggered back, and his nervous fingers touched the chilling surface of the stone wall. He dropped his eyes, and then strove to regain his nonchalance. It was a pitiable failure.
Warren returned to his cell and the detective to the club house. There he found an additional cable message. It said: "Countess Laschlas has been dead ten months." It was signed like the other. Shirley tore up the message, and blinked more than seemed necessary. "Poor little old lady, she knows it all now. I will not have to tell her."
At Cronin's agency, late that night, there came a cablegram from the greatest detective bureau of France. "The Montfleury case" was the most daring robbery and sale of state war secrets ever perpetrated in Paris. It had been successful, despite the capture, and conviction of the criminal, Laschlas Rozi, a Hungarian adventurer who had killed three men to carry his point.
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