The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21

but De Vic, after a rally or two. re
marked that he was not playing his full
strength.
Wise man. he added,
YES" l said. who plays well
against kings plays ill.,
De Vic laughed. How he sweats!'
he said, land ne never turned a hair
when he played Coler. 1 suppose ne Is
nervous"
Probably" said.
And so they chartered and laughed
chartered and laughed, seeing an ordin-
airy game between the king and
marker; while I, for whom the court
had grown sombre as a dungeon, saw
a villain struggling in his own Tolls,
lfvid with the fear of death, and tor
tured by horrible apprehensions. Use
and habit were still so powerful with
the man that ale played on mechanical
lily with his hands, but his eyes every
now and then sought mine with the
look of the trapped beast; and on THESE
occasions l could see his lips move In
prayer or cursing. The sweat pouring
down his face as he moved TO ana no,
and fancied thet his features were
beginning to twiteh. Presently nave
said that the light was falling, so that
II was not in my Imagination only that
the court was sombre-the king held
his bali. my friend, your man as not
we'll" he said, turning TO me-
cit is nothing, sire; the honor you 40
him makes him nervous" l answered.
"Play up, sirrah,' / continued; you
make too good g. courtier."
Mademoiselle d'Entragues clapped her
hands and laughed at the hat, and L
saw Diego glare at her with an indie
scribafble look, in which hatred and de-
spair and horror Of reproach were so
nsceiy mingled with something as eX-
ceptional as his position, that the whole
bafsled words Doubtless the jibes and
laughter he heard the trifling that
went on round him, the very game in
which he was engaged, and from which
he dared not draw back, seemed in his
eyes the most appalling mockery, but
ignorant who were in the secret, un-
able to guess how his diabolical plot
had been discovered, uncertain whether
the whole were not a concerted piece
he went on playing his part mechani-
caily: with staring eyes and laboring
chest, and lips that, twitehing and
working. lost color each minute. At
length he missed a stroke, and stagger-
ing leaned against the wall, his face liv-
id and CHASTITY. The king took the
alarm at that and cried out that some
thing was wrong. Those who were sit
ting rose. 1 nodded to Maignan to go
to the man.
1T is a fit" said HE is subject to
them, and doubtless the excitement
but l am sorry that it has spoiled your
majesty's game
1T has not Henry answered kindly
1.-The light is gone. But have him
looked to, VIII you my friend? If La
Rlviere were here he might do some
thing for him.
While he spoke the servants had
gathered round the man, but with the
timidity which characterizes that class
in such emergencies. they would not
touch him. AS l crossed the court, and
they made way for me, the Spaniard.
who was sull standing, though in a
strange and distorted fashion, turned
his bloodshot eyes on me-
"A priest" he murmured framing
the words with difficulty, "a priestv
I directed Maignan to fetch one. And
do you,' / continued to the other ser
wants. take him to a room some
where"
They obeyed reluctantly. As they
carried him out, the king, content with
my statement, was giving his hand to
n1ademoiselle to descend the stairs; and
neither he nor any, save the two men
IN my confidence, had the slightest
suspicion that aught was the matter
beyond natural Illness. But ] shud-
dered when ] considered how narrow
HAD been the kings escape, how trifiing
the circumstance which had led to the
suspicion, how fortuitous the inspira-
ton by which I had CHANGED on dis
covery. The delay of a single day, the
occurrence Of the slightest mishap.
might have been fatal, not to him only.
but 70 the best interests of France:
which his death at a time when he was
still childless must have plunged into
the most melancholy Of wars
or the wretched Spaniard l need saw
yttle more. Caught in mis- own snare
ae was no sooner Withdrawn from the
court thAa M 5.d ln.r violent conyu,-
escsiS @Nch held MIA anti midnight.
when ne died with symptoms 60 nearly
resembling those which had attended
the death Of Madame de Beaufort AT
Easter. that have several times dwell
on the strange coincidence, and striven
20 ma the connecting link But never
nat on II; and the kings death. and
mat unexpected tendency to initiate
great crimes under which the v1llpar
labor, prevailed with me to keen fba
nlatter secret. Nay, as l believed thar
q EVora had played the part of an nm
conscious tool, and as a hint pressed
nome suf1ced TO procure the wfthdra wa
OF The chaplain whom Maignan had
named, 1 did not think it necessary In
disclose the matter even to the lfing
my master. ie'