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While M. de Laubardemont was questioning one of the nuns, the superior came down into the court, barefooted; in her chemise, and a cord round her neck; and there she remained for two hours, in the midst of a fearful storm, not shrinking before lightning, thunder, or rain, but waiting till M. de Laubardemont and the other exorcists should come out.
The green water received with a loud noise a burden which cracked the enormous wheel of the mill; one of its large spokes was torn away, and a man entangled in its beams appeared above the foam, which he colored with his blood. He rose twice, and sank beneath the waters, shrieking violently; it was Laubardemont. Cinq-Mars drew back in horror.
Laubardemont, still intimidated by his ill reception of the preceding day, dared not speak a word to him, and Joseph hardly recognized in him his former master.
Did the Huguenots cry out as one man at the death of their dear duke?" "Less so than at the affair of Loudun, which is happily concluded." "What! Happily? I hope that Grandier is dead?" "Yes; that is what I meant. Your Eminence may be fully satisfied. All was settled in twenty-four hours. He is no longer thought of. Only Laubardemont committed a slight blunder in making the trial public.
Although his victim was unconscious, Pere Lactance continued to strike; so that, having lost consciousness through pain, pain soon brought him back to life. De Laubardemont took advantage of this revival to take his turn at demanding a confession of his crimes; but Grandier said "I have committed no crimes, sir, only errors.
The impassible Laubardemont made the sign of the cross, without being struck dead for it! When Monsieur du Lude took back his box the nuns became still. 'I think, said Lactantius, insolently, 'that you will not question your relics now. 'No more than I do the possession, answered Monsieur du Lude, opening his box and showing that it was empty. 'Monsieur, you mock us, said Lactantius.
I am at home in his cabinet." His heavy and awkward manner, however, betrayed a very inferior being; it was Laubardemont. Richelieu knit his brows when he saw him, and cast a glance at Joseph; then, turning toward those who surrounded him, he said, with bitter scorn: "Is there some criminal about us to be apprehended?"
He arrived at the tent of the guards, which was before the pavilion. "Monseigneur gives audience to some one," said the captain, hesitating; "you can not enter." "Never mind; you saw me leave an hour ago, and things are passing of which I must give an account." "Come in, Laubardemont," cried the minister; "come in quickly, and alone." He entered.
The holder being frightened, dropped the line and fled, and although M. de Laubardemont, the exorcists, and the spectators waited, expecting every moment that the cap would rise into the air, it remained quite firm on the owner's head, to the no small confusion of Pere Lactance, who, all unwitting of the fiasco, continued to adjure Beherit to keep his word of course without the least effect.
Joseph often whispered to them with the most studied politeness, glancing at Laubardemont with a ferocious sneer. It was arranged that an armchair should serve as a bar; and all were silent in expectation of the prisoner's answer.
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