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The chemist wrote the address on a sheet of paper and handed it to the young woman. "Do you happen to know whether Professor Seigfried or his assistants have been called in during this investigation?" "What investigation, madame?" "The investigation of the recent terrible explosion." "I have heard of no explosion," replied the chemist, evidently bewildered.
"Then he is just the man I wish to see," said Jennie decisively, and with that they took leave of the chemist and once more entered the carriage. "I want to drive to another place," said Jennie, "before it gets too late." "Good gracious!" cried the Princess, "you surely do not intend to call on Professor Seigfried to-night?" "No; but I want to drive to the office of the Director of Police."
The morning after her interview with the Director of Police, Jennie, taking a small hand-satchel, in which she placed the various bottles containing the different dusts which the chemist had separated, went abroad alone, and hailing a fiacre, gave the driver the address of Professor Carl Seigfried.
If Professor Seigfried could have foreseen his own sudden death, would he not, she asked herself, have preferred her to make public all she knew of him? for had he not constantly reiterated that fame, and the consequent transmission of his name to posterity, was what he worked for?
It had been stated that a large quantity of gold had been stolen, and that a disaster of some kind had occurred in the Treasury vaults. Then a ridiculous story had been printed which asserted that Professor Seigfried, one of Austria's honoured dead, had in some manner that savoured of the Black Art, encompassed this wholesale destruction.
"I am afraid," replied Jennie solemnly, "that we have hardly reached a state of development that would justify us in criticizing the wisdom of Providence. In my own short life I have seen several instances where it seemed that Providence intervened for the protection of His creatures; and even the sudden death of Professor Seigfried does not shake my belief that Providence knows best."
Jennie had promised Professor Seigfried not to communicate with the Director of Police, and she now wondered whether it would be breaking her word, or not, if she let that official know the result of her investigation, when it would make no difference, one way or the other, to the Professor.
She resolved, therefore, to tell the Director of the Police all she knew, which she would not have done had Professor Seigfried been alive. She accordingly sent a messenger for the great official, and just as she had begun to relate to the impatient Princess what had happened, he was announced. The three of them held convention in Jennie's drawing-room with locked doors.
"I knew nothing of any explosion until you spoke of it. What have I to do with the Treasury or the Government?" "That is just what I want to know." "It is absurd. I am no conspirator, but a man of learning." "Then you have nothing to fear, Herr Seigfried. If you are innocent, why are you so loth to give me any assistance in this matter?" "It has nothing to do with me.
"I have only a theoretical knowledge of explosives, and I know of nothing that would produce such results as we have here. Perhaps Professor Carl Seigfried could give you some information on that point. The science of detonation has been his life study, and he stands head and shoulders above his fellows in that department." "Can you give me his address?"
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