"The Countess attended the fete at Baron Pultz's last night, leaving at twelve o'clock.

I said good-night to her at the fountain and watched her until she passed through the gate between the Baron's grounds and those of her father adjoining.

She would not permit me to accompany her to the doors.

Her maid had preceded her and was waiting just beyond the gate--at least, so she says to-day.

It is less than two hundred feet from the gate to Perse's doorsteps.