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Updated: June 17, 2025
Le Brusquet had sought the tennis courts, haunted the apartments of La Valentinois, and lounged about the lawns where the ladies and gallants of the Court played at grelot of an evening; but in vain. Finally, he mounted his mule, and ambled off to the great square house behind the Bourgogne, where Antony of Vendôme lodged with his train.
"Au revoir!" cried Le Brusquet, who had up to now preserved silence. "Remember, Le Brusquet is also your debtor doubly once for a life and once for a sword and forget not my address is the sign of the Crescent." With this mocking allusion to the Louvre and to Diane de Poitiers' influence there, he followed on the heels of Vendôme, leaving me with the ring in my hand.
"Hush, Le Brusquet!" said the other in the same low tone. "There is no fear, and if there is danger I turn not from it." I had heard enough, and seen enough too. The other man had got off somehow. He had fallen, it is true, but recovered himself sufficiently to make away. One can never be sure of the riposte in an uncertain light, and uncertain moonlight is worst of all.
It is worth a hundred, I dare say, and, as money is needed now, 'tis better to use our own than to go a-borrowing." It was impossible to refuse this faithful friend, and the diamond was transferred to me. I may mention that I had declined all offers of money made to me by the Queen and Le Brusquet, for I had a mind to work out my way without any such obligation.
"Mice, as I thought," I chuckled to myself, whilst Le Brusquet, with a profound bow, said: "Mademoiselle, I had thought to have found M. de Lorgnac in waiting here." "Here! M. de Lorgnac!" replied the maid-of-honour, with a little laugh. "No; M. de Lorgnac never ventures here, unless compelled to." "I suppose neither of you can tell me where he has gone? Can you, De Lorges?"
I was now fairly well supplied with money, but took the opportunity to write to my friend at Antwerp, bidding him send two hundred crowns of the sun for me to the care of Le Brusquet. This, with many misgivings, I entrusted to the King's post. It, however, arrived in safety, and I got my money.
La Valentinois was too quick, and struck at once." Le Brusquet swore under his breath, and Lorgnac went on: "It happened in this way. On leaving Orrain this evening he told me that De Ganache had been arrested." "De Ganache arrested too!" "Yes; at sundown near the wicket gate.
"Mille tonnerres! Stop! Do you want to bring half the Louvre here to listen?" And De Lorgnac placed his hand over the singer's mouth, and took the lute from him. "Enough!" said Le Brusquet; "you have banished the inspiration. I sing no more. And as for you, Monsieur Blaise, take yourself off with that long sword of yours.
"But it is true," said De Lorgnac. "It appears to me," I said, "that my departure for Italy will be a little delayed." "If you were as superstitious as I am," and Le Brusquet smiled as he spoke, "you would say that departure is a dream of the past." "Why?" "Eh bien, a month ago, you left Paris from this very house never to return, and here you are back again!
I looked inquiry, and Le Brusquet continued: "A few things have been happening lately that make me think there is a porridge on the boil that would be the better for our help in the stirring. There have been little whispers afloat that Diane is meditating a great coup. Certain it is, that she and that upright judge Dom Antony de Mouchy have been much together of late.
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