The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23

! nave spent enough and done enough
IN the kings service to have my
Hisaes respected in small matter
such as this; and shah regard any
man as direct offense to myself.
Z Whereas M. de Clan, who will doubt-
less pc here IN a few MIMI ties,
But stop, said, interrupting him,
Il heard. you speaking o this young
fellow the other day. * > did not tell
me- e.. then that he was yo.sf kiIlsnaan
Nevertheless, he Is; my wires sec
ond cousin, he answered with heat.
And you wish him to
BE let alone!" ne replied, interrupts
ing me in his turn more harshly than
i approved II wish him to be let
alone. IF he.wsn fight ST. GERMAN. and
kill or be killed is that the kings af-
fair tia he need interiors? I ask for
no interference" NJ. de Salntonge con-
tinued bitterly only for fair play and
no favor And for NJ de Clan who IS a
and has never done anything but
tf1wart the king. for him to come now,
and-faugh! 1t makes me sick. = s
Yes said drily; II see"
You understand me?
Yes" said II think So. ~
Every well" he replied haughtfly-
he had gradually wrought himself into
passion; be good enough to bear my
request in mind then. and my services
also. | ask no more, NJ. de Rosny than
is due to me and to the kings honor 2
And with that, and scarcely an ex-
preston of civility. he left me. Some
may wonder,.I know, that, having In
the edict of Blois, which forbade duel
ling and made 1t capital offence, an
answer to convince even his arrogance,
4 did not use this weapon; but. as a
fact, the edict was not published until
the following June, when, partly in
consequence of this affair and at my
instance. the king put it forth
Saintonge could scarcely have cleared
the gates before his prediction was full
filled. His enemy arrived hot foot, and
entered with a nien so much
lowered by anxiety and trouble that /
hardly knew him for the man who had
q hundred times rebuffed me, and
whom the kings offers had found con-
sistently obdurate. All I had ever
known Of NJ de Clan heightened his
present humility and strengthened his
appeal; so that | felt pity for him pro-
portioned not only to his age and me-
cessity, but to the depth of his fall.
Saintegne had rightly anticipated his
request; the first, he said, with a trace
of his old pride, that he had made to
the king in eleven years his son, his
only son and only cffld-the single heir
of his namei Ee stopped there and
looked at me; his eyes bright. his lips
trembling and moving without sound,
his hands fumbling on his knees.
But I said. your son wishes to
fight, M. de Clan?p
He nodded.
s.And you cannot hinder hinl?H
He shrugged his shoulders grimly
ssNo, he said, 'slle is a ST. Gernaain"
well, that is just my. case" an
swered. you see this young fellow ST.
Mesmin was commended to me, and is,
in manner, of my household; and that
rs fatal objection. I cannot possibly
act against him in the manner you
propose. You must see that; and for
my wishes, he respects them less than
your son regards yours"
M. de Clan rose, trembling a little on
his legs, and glaring at me out of his
fierce old eyes. Every WE'LL, he said,
ct is as much as 1 expected. Times are
changed-and faiths-since the king of
Navarro slept under the same bush
with Antoine st. German on the night
before Cahors! I wish you good-day,
NJ de Marquis"
I need not say that my sympathies
were with him, and that would have
helped him if 1 could; but in accord
ance with the maxim which l have
elsewhere explained, that he who
places any consideration before the
kings service is not fit to conduct it,
did not see my way to thwart M. de
Saintonge in a matter so small. And
the end justified my inaction; for the
duel, taking place that evening, re-
suited in nothing worse than a serious,
but not dangerous, wound which st.
Mesmin, fighting with the same fury