CHAPTER XXXI

In Vienna

After two months in Weggis we find the
Clemens family located at the Hotel Metropole,
in Vienna.

VIENNA, Tuesday, Sept. 28, '97. Left Salzburg noon yes-
terday, arrived 7 PM. in Vienna. Visited seven hotels
last night before we could get a suitable lodging. Stopped
at the Hotel Miiller. Visited eight hotels today and then
moved to the Metropole. We have never approached
this record before.

Hotel Metropole, Vienna, Oct. 3, '97, At the next round
table to ours sits a princess (daughter of the Dowager
Empress Frederick, and granddaughter of Victoria); also
the young daughter of the above and her intended, the
young Prince Henry Reuss, called Henry III, whose
mother and sister and uncle, the Prince von Wernigerode,
in Ilsenburg, were in the Hartz Mountains six years ago.
With them, a maid of honor, and a couple of Equerries.
Good-looking people. They all smoke.

A man has sent me a Bible 250 years old (formerly
the property of Queen Christina, of Sweden) to look at.
It is as big as a trunk—and as uninteresting as an empty
one. It has been in the room three days and we are get-
ting tired of the responsibility. To people who value such
antiquities it must be worth much money.

339