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All depended on securing these before Catherine or the Duke of Guise should have an opportunity to influence him to another course. I felt, as I walked along with De Rilly, that, if I should obtain immunity from the punishment prescribed by edict, I could rely on myself for protection against any private revenge that the Duke of Guise might plan.
De Noyard, grave and reserved, stood a little apart from the others. For an instant, a look of profound displeasure, a deeply sinister look, interrupted the composure of Catherine's features. "You see that M. de Noyard does not have the effect on the Queen-mother that a rose in her path would have," remarked De Rilly. He did not notice what followed.
"I cannot, De Rilly," I replied, stepping into the place. "I have very important business elsewhere." Then I turned to Jacques and said, quietly, "Go, at once, to your master, and send your comrade for a surgeon to follow you there. Do you know the house in which he is?" The servant made no answer, but turned pale.
I quickly asked De Rilly. "The one with the indolent attitude, and the mocking smile?" "Yes, the very beautiful one, with the big gray eyes. By heaven, her eyes rival those of Marguerite, herself!" "That is Mlle. d'Arency, a new recruit to Catherine's Flying Squadron." Her face more than carried out the promise given by her chin and mouth.
At last, I fell asleep, and dreamt that I had told De Quelus my story, and he had brought me the King's pardon; again, that I was engaged in futile efforts to approach him; again, that De Noyard had come to life. When De Rilly awoke me, it was broad daylight. I dressed, and so timed my movements as to reach the Louvre at the hour when De Quelus would be about to officiate at the King's rising.
Only thing comforts me, they don't know how lunar I rilly can be." Then she told me about 'Leven. "A shroud, to look rill nice," Calliope said, "ought to be made as much as you can like a dress barrin' t' you can't fit it. Mis' Toplady an' Mis' Holcomb an' I made Jennie Crapwell's shroud it was white mull and a little narrow lace edge on a rill life-like collar.
Thus matters went for several days, during which the assertion of De Rilly was proven true, that my duties as a member of the French Guards would leave me some time for pleasure. Thanks to De Quelus, and to his enemy, Bussy d'Amboise, I made acquaintances both in the King's following and in that of the King's brother, the Duke of Anjou.
An' then I knew who he was an' I see how everything was. Why, the girl that was me an' that was lonesome there in Friendship wasn't me, very much. Me bein' Calliope Marsh was the chance part, an' didn't count. But things was rilly the way I'd dreamed o' their bein. Somehow, I had another self. An' I had dreamed o' bein' that self. An' there he stood, on the Friendship depot platform."
Then I remembered what De Rilly had told me, that De Noyard's counsels to the Duke of Guise were an obstacle to Catherine's design of conciliating that powerful leader, who aspired to the throne on which her son was seated. "No, no, monsieur!" I cried, unwilling to admit Mlle. d'Arency capable of such a trick, or myself capable of being so duped.
"'Well, I didn't mean it that way, s'I, reticent an' said no more, with the exception of what I'd rilly meant. "'Why under the canopy, I ask' him, for a hint, 'don't you take the Sum Merriman store, an' run it, an' live on your feet? I ain't any patience with a man, s'I, 'that lives on his toes. Stomp some, why don't you, an' buy that store? "An' his answer su'prised me.
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