"No one."
"We need not go into the house," she continued; "I can tell you here why I came."
Ludwig was more and more perplexed. He had believed the baroness wished to enter the Nameless Castle out of curiosity.
"My visit," pursued the lady, "has as little conventionality about it as had yours. The magnitude of the danger which prompted yours must also excuse mine; I am come to repay the debt I owe you."
"Yes; danger threatens you—and some one else! Let us come farther into the park, that no one may by a possible chance overhear me."
When they had reached a sheltered spot the lady again spoke:
"Do you know anything about Colonel Barthelmy?"
"I received the cards he left here when he called," indifferently replied Count Vavel.
"You certainly have heard more about him," returned the baroness, a trifle impatiently. "His domestic troubles were in all the newspapers—it was a cause célèbre. He was a major in the French army, under the Directory, but entered our service when the Empire was established. The domestic troubles I referred to occurred while he was still in France. His young and beautiful wife ran away with another man—a man who is unknown to Barthelmy, who is pursuing the fugitives over the whole world—"