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"But in truth my being here is very simple," said he. "As soon as Nicolas came back to La Tournoire with your message the day after you set out, I started for Paris to solicit your pardon for the affair at La Flèche. Six days later I presented myself to the Duke de Sully, who immediately took me for an audience of the King.
La Tournoire is now waiting for me in the red gallery; I suppose he wishes to beg my intercession. His presumption will be properly punished when the guards arrest him there." I turned sick, at this revelation of treachery. This was the gentleman who owed his life to me, and, in the first outburst of gratitude, had promised to obtain for me a captaincy!
I bought a peasant's cap from the landlord, telling him that the wind had blown my hat into the river the previous night, and set forth. It was my intention to walk to La Tournoire, that my money might last. Afoot I could the better turn from the road and conceal myself in woods or fields, at any intimation of pursuit.
"Monsieur," she said, "I suppose that the Sieur de la Tournoire, whom we are so soon to meet, is a very dear friend of yours!" "A very close friend," I replied, with an inward smile. "And yet he has got me into so much trouble that I might fairly consider him my enemy." "I must confess," said she, "that I have heard little of him but evil."
He did not know how near we then were to it. He did not then know that I was La Tournoire." "But there was much talk of La Tournoire on the journey. Did you at any time drop any hint of this place, and how it might be reached?" "None that could have reached his ears. I told only Mlle. de Varion, and we were quite alone when I did so." Blaise looked at the ground in silence.
Having robbed him of his means of guarding his lovely charge, I shall in fairness relieve him of the charge." I perceived here the opportunity of learning whether it was under the governor's orders, received through Montignac, that De Berquin pursued mademoiselle while he came in quest of the Sieur de la Tournoire, or whether it was on his own account.
Then she entered the inn, but stopped on the threshold, and, casting on me a strangely wistful look, she added, "Great must be the friendship between you and La Tournoire, that you can so confidently assure his protection to those for whom you ask it." "Oh, I have done much for him, and he cannot refuse me any request that it is in his power to grant," I said, truly enough.
"Oh, you have merit, Montignac," said La Chatre, with lofty condescension. Then he glanced at the letter, and his face clouded. "But meanwhile," he added, in obedience to a childish necessity of communicating his troubles, "my favor depends, even for its continuance in its present degree, on the speedy capture of this Tournoire.
Montoire where the letter had evidently come from and where therefore the lady probably was lay on the road to Vendome. "And I, Monsieur?" "You are to go back to La Tournoire, but not by the way we have come over. This road to the right that you will soon take leads first to Jarzé, and there you will find a road to the West which will bring you to our own highway not two leagues from home."
"And he acknowledges, as well, your many successes as he complains of your failure to catch this Sieur de la Tournoire." So the letter by which the governor was so irritated came from the Duke of Guise, and concerned myself! My work in Berri had not been in vain.
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