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"Monseigneur," said Aurilly, "I believe we have arrived too late; he must have gone straight from your hotel and must have entered." "Perhaps so; but if we did not see him go in, we can see him come out." "Yes, but when?" "When we please." "Would it be too curious to ask how you mean to manage?" "Nothing is more easy; we have but to knock at the door, and ask after M. de Monsoreau.
Remy did not occupy himself with her at that terrible moment, but searched Aurilly, took from him the two rouleaux of gold, then tied a stone to the neck of the corpse, and threw it into the lake. He then washed his hands in the water, took in his arms Diana, who was still unconscious, and placed her again on her horse.
"Well, then, be easy, for if he escape Monsoreau, he will not escape from another." "And who is that?" "Does your highness order me to name him?" "Yes, I do." "It is M. d'Epernon." "D'Epernon! who was to fight him to-morrow?" "Yes, monseigneur." "How is that?" Aurilly was about to reply, when the duke was summoned; for the king was at table, and had sent for his brother.
The duke called Aurilly. "Well! he has condemned himself," said he. "Does he not follow you?" "No." "He goes to the rendezvous?" "Yes." "Then it is for this evening?" "It is." "Is M. de Monsoreau warned?" "Of the rendezvous yes; but not yet of the man." "Then you have decided to sacrifice the count?" "I have determined to revenge myself; I fear now but one thing." "What is that?"
Joyeuse, seeing the duke talking to Aurilly, stopped short. The duke, who had, after all, been paying more attention than he seemed to do, asked him what was the matter. "Nothing, monseigneur; I am only waiting until your highness is at liberty to listen to me." "Oh! but I do listen, M. de Joyeuse. Do you think I cannot listen to two people at once, when Cæsar dictated seven letters at a time?"
"But M. d'Anjou saw her; she was not hidden then." "Pure chance; but it is just because he did see her that she is more careful than ever." Days passed on, and they were nearing their destination, but Aurilly's curiosity had not been gratified. Already Picardy appeared to the eyes of the travelers. Aurilly began to lose patience, and the bad passions of his nature to gain the ascendant.
The brave young man had, at the sight of Aurilly, felt, in spite of himself, that nervous shudder that one feels at the sight of a reptile; he wished to kill him because he feared him. But as he went down, his resolution returned, and he determined, in spite of Diana's opinion, to interrogate Aurilly to confound him, and if he discovered that he had any evil intentions, to kill him on the spot.
"Oh! be easy, then, Du Bouchage; I know too well the importance of such an article, in our situation, to neglect it. I will watch over it myself." They said no more until they arrived, when the duke, after giving Henri many charges not to quit his post, returned. He found Aurilly wrapped in an officer's cloak, sleeping on one of the seats in the dining-room. The duke woke him. "Come," said he.
"It is true, is it not, Aurilly?" continued the duke; "I return to France like Francois after the battle of Pavia; all is lost but honor. Ah! ah!" A sad silence received these laughs, more terrible than sobs. "Monseigneur," said Henri, "tell me how the tutelary genius of France saved your highness."
But I shall soon be more sure still." "What will monsieur do?" "Come." Meanwhile, the duke and Aurilly turned into the Rue St. Catherine, intending to return by the boulevard of the Bastile. Monsoreau went in, and ordered his litter. What the duke had foreseen happened.
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