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Then, as Ernanton still hesitated, he cried, "For pity's sake, monsieur, I entreat you." Ernanton raised him in his arms at this last appeal, and was somewhat astonished at the delicacy of the body he held. Just as Salcede had taken the pen, and looked round as we have said, he saw this young lad above the crowd, with two fingers placed on his lips.
The brothers then pressed each other's hands, and separated. During the conversation we have just related, night had begun to fall, enveloping the city with its damp mantle of fog. Salcede dead, all the spectators were ready to leave the Place de Greve, and the streets were filled with people, hurrying toward their homes.
Ernanton had not even time to ask her name, or where he should find her again; but in disappearing she had made a sign full of promise. Meanwhile, Catherine was standing up in her place, full of rage. "My son," said she, at last, "you would do well to change your executioner; he is a leaguer." "What do you mean, mother?" "Salcede suffered only one draw, and he is dead."
"Thanks; but what do you conclude from all this?" "That a man who dies like Salcede was a good servant, sire." "Well?" "And the master who has such followers is fortunate." "You mean to say that I have none such; or, rather, that I no longer have them. You are right, if that be what you mean."
Henri of Guise consented, and it was then that Lorraine and Spain sent Salcede to the Duc d'Anjou to assassinate him, which would have suited the views of both; but Salcede, as we know, was arrested and executed without having carried his project into execution.
Your poor Cruchard takes less and less pleasure in life, and he even has too much of it, infinitely too much. Let us speak of your books, that will be better. They have amused me, and the proof is that I have devoured with one gulp and one after another, Flamarande and the Deux Freres. What a charming woman is Madame Flamarande, and what a man is M. Salcede.
"If you have disclosed all," said Tanchon, "you are safe." A strange smile strayed over the lips of Salcede. Ernanton, who was fatigued, wished now to put down the page, who made no opposition. With him disappeared all that had sustained the unfortunate man; he looked round wildly and cried: "Well, come!" No one answered. "Quick! quick! the king holds the paper; he is reading!"
Thus they told, in the crowd, that Salcede was of a race of warriors; that his father had fought against the Cardinal de Lorraine, but that the son had joined with the Guises to destroy in Flanders the rising power of the Duc d'Anjou, so hated by the French.
"An attempt to rescue him," replied Briquet, "would have been very dangerous, because, whether it failed or succeeded, it would have been an avowal, on the duke's part, that he had conspired against the Duc d'Anjou." "M. de Guise would not, I am sure, have been restrained by such considerations; therefore, as he has not defended Salcede, it is certain that he is not one of his men."
"You are not clear-sighted, monsieur, in spite of your pretension to be an observer: for, with a little sense, all that seems obscure to you would have been explained. Was it not very natural that Madame de Montpensier should be interested in the fate of M. de Salcede, in what he might be tempted to say, what true or false revelations he might utter to compromise the house of Lorraine?
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