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During ten minutes he alone kept the crowd at bay; at last Comminges appeared, pushing Broussel before him. "Let us break the carriage!" cried the people. "In the king's name!" cried Comminges.
Athos took the letter, frowning, but an idea that he should find something in this letter about D'Artagnan conquered his unwillingness to read it. "My lord, I shall send this evening to your eminence in order to reinforce the troop of Monsieur de Comminges, the ten men you demand.
Do not lose time, Comminges," he continued; "get out of the carriage if you can and make another draw up; be quick, or in five minutes the mob will be on us again with swords and muskets and you will be killed. Hold! there's a carriage coming over yonder." Then bending again to Raoul, he whispered: "Above all things do not divulge your name." "That's right.
The king, half dressed, the queen and Laporte remained each in the same state and almost in the same place, where they were listening and waiting. Comminges, who was on guard that night at the Palais Royal, ran in. He had about two hundred men in the courtyards and stables, and he placed them at the queen's disposal. "Well," asked Anne of Austria, when D'Artagnan reappeared, "what does it mean?"
"Unruly," Comminges smiled; "you wish to terrify me, I suppose. When he came here, Monsieur D'Artagnan provoked and braved the soldiers and inferior officers, in order, I suppose, to have his sword back. That mood lasted some time; but now he's as gentle as a lamb and sings Gascon songs, which make one die of laughing." "And Du Vallon?" asked Athos.
"The count, then, is in the chateau?" "Yes." "For what reason?" "The same as yourself." "Athos a prisoner?" "You know well," replied De Comminges, "that there are no prisoners at Rueil, because there is no prison." "Don't let us play upon words, sir. Athos has been arrested." "Yesterday, at Saint Germain, as he came out from the presence of the queen."
"I would that you were well enough to take part in the bouts this afternoon. I was in the Academy that morning when you disarmed Comminges. La! but the lieutenant was a most surprised man when his sword went rolling to the mat." "It was merely an accident, Vicomte," deprecatingly. "Monsieur de Comminges slipped, and I took advantage of his mishap, which I should not have done."
May he be saved, the good old man, cried Madame Darpent. And they could see a carriage with four horses containing the Lieutenant Comminges holding a white-haired old man, in a very shabby dressing-gown; while soldiers, men, women, boys, all struggled, fought, and shrieked round it, like the furies let loose.
"Oh! madame," cried Mazarin, "you have ruined us all the king, yourself and me." At this cry from the soul of the frightened cardinal, Anne became alarmed in her turn and would have recalled Comminges. "It is too late," said Mazarin, tearing his hair, "too late!" The gale had given way. Hoarse shouts were heard from the excited mob.
Mazarin turned the lock of a double door, on the threshold of which they found Athos ready to receive his illustrious guests according to the notice Comminges had given him. On perceiving Mazarin he bowed. "Your eminence," he said, "might have dispensed with your attendants; the honor bestowed on me is too great for me to be unmindful of it."
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