'So your father took the papers?'
And the man answered:
'He did.'
'He stole the score of Griseldis? How did he do it?'
'He had only to step into your apartment, which a locksmith had opened for him. He knew the room, he knew the very drawer where the manuscript was kept, and he took it.'
"There came several questions from the woman which I don't remember, evidently asking how the Archduke had prepared the whole affair.
'He had obtained an engagement for your father,' explained the man, 'to play a concerto in Prague. He knew that this would cause him to be absent for three days. You had told Augusta that in such cases your maid used to ask you for a holiday, and my father had learned this detail by chance from Augusta. There was but one more difficulty: to remove you.'
"For a minute or so they both kept silent; then suddenly the woman cried fiercely:
'You sent me that wire!'
'I obeyed my father's orders,' answered the man.