"I have no regrets." "But don't you see,"-- she turned upon him suddenly--"it only leaves you all the more free!" "I can not understand you." "Will it not give you and your friend, Lieutenant Kammerer here, precisely the opportunity you've wished ?" "Still I do not follow you." "My dear Countess," ventured the German, "I'll go anywhere under your orders.

You may be sure of that." She turned from them.

"Come to my hotel, will you not, to-morrow?
I may have something to say to you." Thus she passed back into the throng, and into the arms of fickle and repentant Washington, which marveled when she danced, flushed, excited, yet absorbed, with the gallant old general, himself intoxicated by the music and by all this warm talk of freedom, of equality, of democracy,--in Washington!.