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Updated: May 4, 2025
"Yes, yes," replied the governor, hesitating; "I think I do remember." "It was when you came to the palace to see me; you told me some story or other about your accounts with M. de Louviere and M. de Tremblay." "Oh, yes! perfectly." "And about M. d'Herblay's kindness towards you."
Freed from the real king, it would have been impossible in all futurity to guess the false. And if the usurper had been recognized by Anne of Austria, he would still have been her son. The usurper, as far as Monsieur d'Herblay's conscience was concerned, was still a king of the blood of Louis XIII. Moreover, the conspirator, in that course, would have had security, secrecy, impunity.
"What!" said M. d'Artagnan, starting in his chair; "what's that you say? And what has M. d'Herblay's name to do with your groceries?" "Just as you please. Get angry if you like, or call me names, if you prefer it; but, the deuce is in it. I know what I know."
"There are no bells in the Bastile," he said, "and it is in the Bastile I am imprisoned. In what way can I have been made a prisoner? It must have been owing to a conspiracy of M. Fouquet. I have been drawn to Vaux, as to a snare. M. Fouquet cannot be acting alone in this affair. His agent That voice that I but just now heard was M. d'Herblay's; I recognized it. Colbert was right, then.
"Good, sire; but royal blood must not be shed upon a scaffold." "The royal blood! you believe that!" cried the king with fury in his voice, stamping his foot on the ground. "This double birth is an invention; and in that invention, particularly, do I see M. d'Herblay's crime. It is the crime I wish to punish rather than the violence, or the insult." "And punish it with death, sire?"
"A pistol-bullet through the head," pursued Fouquet, "and the disfigured features of Louis XIV., which no one could have recognized, would be M. d'Herblay's complete and entire justification." The king turned pale and giddy at the bare idea of the danger he had escaped. "If M. d'Herblay," continued Fouquet, "had been an assassin, he had no occasion to inform me of his plan in order to succeed.
"It is not that, at all, monseigneur; but that I am going to look for M. d'Herblay, and, consequently, to leave you alone." Fouquet uttered a cry of delight and surprise. "To look for M. d'Herblay! to leave me alone!" he exclaimed, clasping his hands together. "Which is M. d'Herblay's room? The blue room is it not?" "Yes, my friend, yes."
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