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"And" went on De Launay, speaking more deliberately, "this afternoon their Majesties sail to The Islands " Von Glauben jumped excitedly to his feet. "Not possible!" Sir Roger looked at him with a dawning amusement beginning to twinkle in his clear blue eyes. "Quite possible! So possible, that the Royal yacht is ordered to be in readiness at three o'clock.
This time he signed and affixed the seal without additional request. He threw the second pen after the first, and looked up at me with a scowl. "A bold, brave signature, monsieur! There is one pen left!" and I handed him the third quill. He took it with a look of wrath, after which he gave a sigh of forced patience, and sat ready to write. "The bearer of this, Ernanton de Launay "
"This does not tell me that it was Bathilde and not Mademoiselle Berry who sang lost night." "We are coming to it." "Well?" "It happened that Mademoiselle de Launay, like the rest of the world, took a violent fancy to the little witch. Instead of sending her away after the costumes were finished, she kept her three days at Sceaux.
And with an impulsive quickness of action, he took a sword from a stand of weapons near him, drew it from its scabbard and kissing the hilt, held it out to De Launay who did the same "That is understood! And for the rest, Roger my friend, take it all lightly and easily as a farce! as a bit of human comedy, with a great actor cast for the chief role.
His henchman was seeing to it that the robbed and wronged cowboy had no opportunity to tell a story that would send the police upstairs. Half conscious and wholly drunk, De Launay was carted to Sulphur Falls' imposing stone jail, where he was duly slated before a police sergeant for drunkenness, assault and battery, mayhem, inciting a riot, and resisting an officer in the performance of his duty.
"I' faith, Monsieur de Launay, you deceive yourself very much," said the Marechal, to whom the recollection of his ancestors now occurred; "persons of our blood are subjects only at our own pleasure, for God has caused us to be born as much lords of our lands as the King is of his. When I came to France, I came at my ease, accompanied by my gentlemen and pages.
With an oath, Sucatash savagely dashed his signature where De Launay indicated, and then rushed out of the room. The soldier took another piece of paper and resumed his writing. When he had finished he folded the two sheets into an envelope and sealed it. Outside, Sucatash was heaving the lashings taut on the last packs. De Launay came to the door and stood watching the final preparations.
"You do not answer me, De Launay," he resumed, "You think perhaps that I am talking in parables, and that my mind has been persuaded into a metaphysical and rambling condition by an hour's contemplation of the sunlight on the sea!
With their departure the rest of the circle soon dispersed, there being no special guests present; and at a sign from De Launay, Prince Humphry reluctantly followed his father into a small private smoking-room adjacent to the open loggia, where the equerry, bowing low, left the two together. For a moment the King kept silence, while he chose a cigar from the silver box on the table.
Mademoiselle de Montauban and Mademoiselle de Launay, a person of some wit, who has kept up a correspondence with Fontenelle, and who was 'femme de chambre' to the Duchesse du Maine, have both been sent to the Bastille. The Duc du Maine now repents that he followed his wife's advice; but it seems that he only followed the worst part of it.
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