Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-07-27
Richelieu.
Founded on the Play of "RIchelIeu," by
Lord Lytton.
CHAPTER VII-CoNTINUEp.


tions, Richelieu was closeted with
Brother Joseph upon the securing of
the compact of the rebels at any cost.
The name of the kings brother upon
it would be worth all the world to
the seml-exiled minister.
''lf any sign this night" were his
parting words to the Capuchin, "thc
morrow's sun must see that written
treason in our hands.
"Or rise upon your ruin" added
the monk, without enthusiasm.
GAY, and close upon my corpse!
Old age is mansion which lets in
the rain at too many crannies. lam
not able to live with friends, glory,
France, all reft from me; nv star,
like some vain holiday mimicry of
fire, piercing heaven, and then fall
ing down, rayless and blackened, to
the dust-a thing for all mems feet
to trample. Yea; tomorrow, tri-
umph or deathr
On the highway the coach of his
gray eminence passed a soil
tary horscman, with long sword
under the mantle which cloaked him
TO his plumeless hat The latter
dismounted and turned his horse
adrift some little way from the cas-
tie which Father Joseph had quilted.
Farewell, good charger, trans
ferring the pistol taken from the
holsters to his belt, IL am leaving
thee as an adventurer his burning
ship But deep as may be the gulf
so that man cannot see in it, God
himself penetrates it TO the bottom.
Though. woe worth our sins. what
hath God to do on the side of an as
sassin! Assassin! yea, but If succeed,
the desperate wretch whom this
priestly Judas saved from death for
shame as a kind of convenience
Sir Pandarus to his own bride-will
be hailed another Brutus! Then the
Tarquin snail fall"
Having crossed the drawbridge he
knocked in that peculiar manner
with the apple of his sword at the
castle gate which Baradas had
adopted as a signal to Huguct.
The same double dealer in person
un-barred to him aud questioned
him eagerly.
The news from Paris is good.
They await our answer to sign the
agreement
1--WE will take his head and roll it
on the table to them" said the
guardsman, with concentrated
hatred. "For long has my father
lam unavengedi This band OF
gownsmen, of whom my malicious
master is head, slew him because he
would not bow to their Dagon or
sing in their manner. Please the
devil and all his saints, I'll give
them plenty Of cause for requiem
chanting"
"But Julie is herer'
well" said the savage, "what OF
that? I'd trample thousand flow
erets, IL must over them, to reach
the poison-weed.
"Do you reflect what harm we may
do the state-our country, Huguet,
whatever our creed? To top tree
sometimes kills it down to the root.
"Are you come to preach, too?"
men! Come what may. not star
the less will shine for my destruc-
tion. Lead ont"
81 have planted sentries at every
outlet, and the menials are guarded
whilst they sleep. Not even chance
can throw a shadow between the VIC
tim and vengeance"
al Dnfn o.
me-"
ITO you?"
Yes No lesser wrongs than mine
can make this murder lawful.
Very we'll. That chimes in with
my intentions no longer to be mere
mercenary and a plebeian. The
colonelcy and rank in nobility which
Richelieu only promised, they must
redeem TO whom l bear the news in
Paris. Get my best horse ready,
Vermont" he ordered, after posting
Mauprat in the room where he as
sured him the cardinal would come.
Indeed, not ten minutes had been
licked by the clock in the courtyard
before a weary step approached. and
Juo NdbCncI HtdTu bllc Wtll-kHOW II
voice coughing in the heavy air, just
before the tapers on the writing
table made tho STOPPING form dis
cernible He sprang upon him with
drawn sword.
behold thy dooms-man!" he cried.
with a vehemence which announced
his assurance that the guards
would not come, whatever the dr.
turbance. Call not! thy spirits for
sake thee. wizard; thy men of mail
are my confederates. Stir but one
step. and the next is thy grave"
Thou Hest. knave!" cried the
other. shaking off his gauntleted
hand with force he never expected.
Armand de Richelieu dies not BY
the hand Of man! the stars have said
It, Call all thy brother butchers!
Earth has no such fiend-no-as one
parricide OF his iatherland, who
dares in Richelieu murder France"
"Thy stars deceive thee. cardinal. "
replied the swordsman. ''for there Is
one-I am Adrien Maupratl Expect
no mercy