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On the following day she repaired to the barracks , and remained with her sister till the evening , when she returned , and came up to me . `` All has happened as I wished , '' said she , as she took off her bonnet ; `` you are nowhere to be found , and they have not the least suspicion that you are here . When you were first missed , they thought you had returned to the colonel 's , and your father did not think it advisable to make inquiry until the next morning , when to his surprise he learnt that you had never been there . The dismounted hussar , who was sentry during the evening , was then examined ; and he replied , that about half-past eight o'clock , a young person , who by her figure he presumed to be Mademoiselle Chatenoeuf , had gone out of the gates , but that she had a thick veil over her face , and he could not see it . When your father and the colonel had interrogated the man and dismissed him , my poor sister burst into tears and said , ` Alas ! alas ! then she has kept her word , and has thrown herself into the Seine .