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"It was my duty, when I followed to protect her," the boy said. "Mlle. de Varion was mad, I think, to go alone at this hour." "Mademoiselle?" I echoed, in great mystification. "Alone? Whither?" "To Clochonne, to M. de la Chatre," was the reply. It took away from me for a moment the very power of speech. I stared at the boy in dumb amazement. "Clochonne! La Chatre! Mademoiselle!"
I approached the bed. The abbe was so alarmed that he did not think of preventing me. I took Edmee's hand, cold and lifeless, as ever. I kissed it a last time, and, without saying a single word to the others, went and gave myself up to the police. I was immediately thrown into prison at La Chatre.
De Berquin had probably retained his men that he might have one to use as messenger to the governor, in notifying La Chatre where to place his ambuscade, and that he might have others to waylay mademoiselle. His lie was doubtless a bold device to put mademoiselle into his power, and to get entrance to my company.
We turned and drew sword. From the guard-house by the gate, where they must have been gambling or drinking or sleeping, or otherwise neglecting their duty, came four men, who seemed utterly astonished at sight of us. "Name of the Virgin!" cried one. "The gate open! Where is Lavigue? He has left his post! Who are you?" "Enemies! Down with La Chatre!"
Claude de la Châtre, Marshal of France, was the son of Claude de la Châtre, Baron de Nancy, Besigny, and Baune de la Maisonfort. He was created Knight of St. Michael and of the Holy Ghost by Henri III in 1588, and was Governor of Berry and Orleans.
"I am all right, sir; it's my Junian Latins who are not getting on." "You don't say so. We must look into that. But before we begin I forget where you come from. I like to know where people come from." "From La Chatre. But I spend my vacations at Bourges with my Uncle Mouillard." "Yes, yes, Mouillart with a t, isn't it?" "No, with a d."
He was but a boy, and to a boy the imminent prospect of closing one's eyes forever is not pleasant. "Speak, then! Tell the truth!" I said, still holding him by the neck, ready to tighten my clasp at any moment. "I will, I will!" he said. "I went from Mlle. de Varion to M. de la Chatre, with a message, and he kept me in his service." "What message? The truth, boy!
"And to-night, yes, it was only to-night, it seems so long ago, when you held my hand on the dial, and plighted fidelity, what happiness I should have had then, but for the knowledge of my horrible task, of the death that awaited you, of the treason I was so soon to commit! For I and Jeannotte had already arranged it, Hugo was soon to be sent to La Chatre. And then came De Berquin.
Aerssens communicated at once with Villeroy, and notice of Bouillon's acceptance was given to the Queen, when, behold, the very next day Marshal de la Chatre was appointed to the command expressly because he was a Catholic. Of course the Duke of Bouillon, furious with Soissons and Epernon and the rest of the government, was more enraged than ever against the Queen.
Far a moment the young king, drawn on by example, was an the point of forgetting the responsibility of a general in his zeal as a soldier; but this first impulse was checked by Marechal de Gie, Messire Claude de la Chatre de Guise, and M. de la Trimauille, who persuaded Charles to adopt the wiser plan, and to cross the Taro without seeking a battle, at the same time without trying to avoid it, should the enemy cross the river from their camp and attempt to block his passage.
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