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Henry, hearing the noise and knowing well what it signified, very coolly stepped from his cabinet into the ante-chamber, and, looking calmly upon the bloody corpse, said, "Do you think he is dead, Lorgnac?" "Yes, sire," Lorgnac replied, "he looks like it." "Good God, how tall he is!" said the king. "He seems taller dead than when he was living."
De Lorgnac and I looked at each other, the same thought with us, and then on a sudden the wretched woman made a step forward and clutched me by the arm, her face like death, her breath coming thick and fast. "It is not my fault," she gasped, "but he the Vidame. Messieurs, if Mademoiselle de Paradis is to be saved, if I am to be saved, you must be in Paris ere the sun sets." "You mean?"
"I thought we would meet you here," said the latter; "but your task ends now, Chevalier. De Lorgnac will now escort mademoiselle back." "If I am permitted the honour," put in De Lorgnac.
So tremendous was the issue for me that now that the crisis had come I felt for the moment almost unable to move. But De Lorgnac gripped me by the arm. "Come," he said; "we either win or lose all in the next five minutes. Come!" With this he set aside the curtains, and we passed through. There were but three persons in the room we entered.
"It is God's providence," he said solemnly as he grasped my hand. "Orrain, take heart! We win! Read these and you too, Lorgnac! When you have read we must to the Queen at once." Monsieur de Créquy, his back to the light, stood in the embrasure of a window, deeply engaged in examining his features in a small hand-glass which he held daintily before him.
"Eh bien," said he, "you cannot miss finding the house, as the Mathurins is not a bowshot in length; but, in any case, whilst you go and prepare for your departure I will try and find the secret of the house out, and warn some who, I know, are of the new faith. To think of a prêche in the very shadow of the Sorbonne!" And he laughed to himself. "Le Brusquet is right," said De Lorgnac.
He had done as I asked, and we were to be met at Longpont, near Montlhéry; and in a postscript he added that Olden Hoorn had sent him the two hundred crowns I had asked for from Poitiers a piece of news not without interest to me. When I had finished Capus said: "I came with the escort, monsieur, as far as Montlhéry. It is commanded by the Sieur de Lorgnac.
Eustache into the Tiquetonne, and thence Rue Tire Boudin was but a short step. I need not say with what joy the good Pierrebon received me, and after a light supper in which, I fear, I did but scant justice to De Lorgnac's Joué I determined to snatch an hour or so of rest before starting. Before doing so, however, Lorgnac took me to see the horses.
But I will challenge the duke to open combat, and will cheerfully sacrifice my life that I may take his." This plan not meeting with the views of the king, he applied to one of the commanders of his guard named Lorgnac. This man had no scruples, and with alacrity undertook to perform the deed.
But as he spoke his eyes fell on the ring, and bending over it he continued: "Yes; this is where I have failed save for this I should be off to-morrow but to go with failure behind me " He stopped, for someone knocked at his door, and to Le Brusquet's "Enter!" De Lorgnac stepped in.
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