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Updated: June 16, 2025
Accordingly at that hour next morning, attended only by La Trape, with a groom, a page, and four Swiss, I started, giving out that I was bound for Sully to inspect that demesne, which had formerly been the property of my family, and of which the refusal had just been offered to me. Under cover of this destination I was enabled to reach La Ferte Alais unsuspected.
"They have all been tasted?" he asked, still holding the cup in his hand with the lid raised, but looking at it gravely. "They should have been!" I answered. "But La Trape, whom I made answerable for that, is outside. I will go and question him. If you will wait, sire, a moment " "No," Henry said. "Have him here."
In a second my two men stood over him. "In the King's name," La Trape cried; "let no man interfere." "Raise him up," I continued, "and set him before me; and Curtin also, and Fonvelle, and Philippon; and Lescaut, the corn-dealer, if he is here." I spoke boldly, but I felt some misgiving.
In the end, therefore, I made up my mind to see things for myself; and early next morning, at an hour when I was not likely to be observed, I went out by a back door, and with my face muffled and no other attendance than Maignan and La Trape, went to the tennis-court and examined the dressing-room.
At sight of the page, however, carrying the dead cat, he turned briskly, and we both examined the beast which, already rigid, with staring eyes and uncovered teeth, was not a sight to cheer anyone, much less the stricken man. La Trape, however, seemed to be scarcely aware of its presence.
At that hour, next morning, attended only by La Trape, with a groom, a page, and four Swiss, I started, giving out that I was bound for Sully to inspect that demesne, which had formerly been the property of my family, and of which the refusal had just been offered to me. Under cover of this destination, I was enabled to reach La Ferté Alais unsuspected.
We had proceeded about four hundred paces when La Trape pointed out that the path was growing more narrow and showed few signs of being used.
Your sentence has been pronounced, and will certainly be executed unless you can avail yourself of the condition I now offer. You shall have three minutes; if in that time either of you can make a good joke, he shall go free. If not, let a man attend to the bellows, La Trape!"
My mind had not failed to conceive a certain suspicion. "Only one, your grace. The rest were servants." "And that one?" "A man in the yard fancied that he recognized M. de la Varenne." "Ah!" I said. My agitation was indeed so great that, before giving reins to it, I bade La Trape withdraw.
Your sentence has been pronounced and will be executed, unless you can avail yourself of the condition I now offer. You shall have three minutes: if in that time either of you can make a good joke, he shall go free. If not let a man attend to the bellows, La Trape!"
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