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The Chevalier de Villerai, who was next on de Lotbinière's list, was one of the quartermasters of Louis' company, and de Lotbinière, to see him, would have had to journey to Châlons, some fifty miles away. Being a relative, he instead wrote him. He received a reply, enclosing one from de Léry, who was lying ill of his wound.
Such has always been my way of conduct, according to the truest principles of honour." "Of honour!" the stranger exclaimed sarcastically; "and who taught de Léry to apply these principles to a fellow Bodyguard?" "He acted, as I have said, under the advice of his superior officers, especially of Monsieur de Villerai, who is his relative, and a Canadian gentleman of distinguished ancestry."
But Monsieur Lecour must know well that, as for the branch of the Chevalier de Villerai, the further back you go in his family tree in Canada the more brightly his noblesse stands forth in splendour." "His grandfather," the stranger retorted scornfully, "was a runaway bankrupt out of the prison of Rouen. And who is this de Léry?
Then Madame de Léry's letter from Canada; after it a solemn statement which he had caused to be drawn by Quartermaster Villerai of Châlons. Then the folded paper left by Jude, which was a copy of the damaging entry discovered by him in the books of the church of St. Germain-des-Prés.
Every second seemed to pull with the tug of a cable on Germain's beating heart. The door opened. In hurried the Chevalier de Villerai, heated, rubicund, confused, and his uniform partly in disorder, saluting the Marshal as if bereft of his senses. "Your Excellency your Grace, I mean I I most humbly your Excellency ah pardon me, your Grace." "Entirely, Quartermaster.
Withdrawing entirely into a proud reserve, he was soon banished from the regiment and from society, and driven to find a refuge over the ocean in Canada, where, hidden from the eyes of European criticism, he entered upon a new career. The Marquis de Lotbinière heard of the loss of the documents first by a letter from de Villerai.
They have done all this, as it appears, while his claims were perfectly regular, and while they themselves fail to produce the slightest atom of evidence against him beyond the unsupported assertions of their own family. What am I, as patron of this regiment, and a military man of sixty years' experience, to say to this state of things?" "Excuse my my Lord," de Villerai cried in desperation.
Villerai cast an uncomfortable glance at Germain, then he blurted out "That he is an some say an im . I confess I know nothing against the gentleman myself he seems to be a very nice young man, but Monsieur de Léry says he is something of that sort." "And that his proper title is not de Lincy, but that he is the son of a merchant in Canada who is no noble?" Collinot added.
Louis de Léry immediately sent to de Lotbinière the notice he received from Collinot. The measures of the Marquis were varied and vigorous. First he took the Record with him, and travelled posthaste to Châlons, where he asked de Léry to take him to their relative, de Villerai. "You are the man to present this, my dear Villerai," said he.
Great movements, he heard, had been aroused among the highest circles of Court, in Lecour's favour; the Prince de Poix had proved a broken reed, while the Bodyguards of both companies had clamoured for their de Lincy. The Marquis vented his rage upon de Villerai behind his back, but after a few days concluded it advantageous to make no further references to the son of the cantineer.
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