"Yes, miss." He was very perplexed and, I think, troubled. We went downstairs, and he showed me the room where Karl was. It was directly under that in which I had been.
It was to the window of that room, then, I had seen Colonel Katona cross in the moonlight.
CHAPTER XVI
A WISP OF RIBBON
Karl was sitting in an attitude of moody dejection; his elbow on the arm of the chair, and face resting on his hand; and he turned slowly as I opened the door. The look of gloomy indifference vanished, and he rose quickly with a glance of intense surprise.
"Chris—Miss Gilmore!" he exclaimed.
"You asked for Madame d'Artelle. I have come to say she has left the house," I said in a quite steady tone.
"But you—how do you come to be here? I don't understand."
"I thought you knew I was Madame d'Artelle's companion."