So that after the first phase she did not re-enter her chamber till midnight.

Daddy Jacques was there at ten o'clock, as he was every night; but he went in merely to close the blinds and light the night-light.

Owing to her disturbed state of mind she had forgotten that Daddy Jacques would go into her room and had begged him not to trouble himself.

All this was set forth in the article in the 'Matin.' Daddy Jacques did go, however, and, in the dim light of the room, saw nothing.
"Mademoiselle Stangerson must have lived some anxious moments while Daddy Jacques was absent; but I think she was not aware that so many evidences had been left.

After she had been attacked she had only time to hide the traces of the man's fingers on her neck and to hurry to the laboratory.