Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-10
Cardinal RicheIieu.
Founded on the Play of "Richelieu," by
Lord Lytton.
CHAPTER TX.

hero was taken and lodged, by moro
or less kind attention OF the Cover.
nor. in the cell of his former resi-
dence, Captain Huguet had been
dragged, resisting with all his
strength, like mastiff in leash
which at times threatens rather to
be conducting the groom.
Huguet chafed and vocifcrated in
his bass voice rs they forced him
under the St Antoine gate OF the
gloomy emblem of despotism. Ills
captors having delivered him to the
deputy governor, who did not judge
him of the quality to be put in the
turret chamber, where Adrien Maui
pratt was incarcerated, consigned
him to ''the dark, deep place, six
yards under ground, beside the
stagnant water in the intervalation
of the moat.
Huguet hammered with his fist on
the wall, which was half dozen feet
thick; butted at the door till even
his head ached and kicked tho floor
OF sodden sweepings over bed of
masonry, till he churned up stencil
which nearly choked him; and fling
ing himself in a corner in the Egyp-
tian darkness, he resumed his INJECT
ives against the minion who had
tricked him so cleverly.
"Oh, that | ever confided in man
with baby mouth and hand like
q dwarf's" CALCULATED he. clinching
his own fist which would have given
Gargantua no desire to shake it
twice. such thing is no man at
all / may rot in stone pit, but |
thank the God OF my fathers that /
am not of the same dough as he!
Now he'll be the kings right hand
man, and be dispensing stars and
garters, and, mayhap. death to me,
if he does not forget me- No, not
death, when / let him know that l
clutched the letter to the count Of
Soissons-tho letter which damnifies
them all, and will cost Prince CASTOR
his neck if placed before his blind
folded brother"
So he fumed and halloed till even
his giant lungs were weakened, and
after some hours fell off into sleep
as sound as that OF the governor
overhead in less obscure and moi
some chamber, with all the latter's
twenty-five hundred pounds a year,
not to mention what the extortionist
squeezed out of such wretches as the
eX-captain OF the guards.
TO that governor had come visi-
tor whom no one dreamt to delay in
his passage. For whilst in the town
beyond, the dread OF the gray monk
Joseph was the deepest fear men
knew, for his political power, In the
Bastile the awe of the officers arose
from another cause; Joseph's brother.
Du Tremblay, was the keeper OF the
keys. If ever an Abel walked trust
fully up to Cain, it was the Capuchin,
not generally credited with conf
dence, for fraternity apart, which
went for little in those days of in
trigue, the governor owed his post
to the prime minister.
"Huguet," so unused the monk,
''has the letter to the treacnerous
commander Now, il can but gain
one moments access to this prisoner,
all is ours The cardinal, after his
repulse by the king, trembles be-
tween life and death. His life is
power, and to smite one, Stays both!
No Aesculapian drugs ever bore the
healing which that scrap of parch-
ment will medicine to ambition
tagging heart France shall be
saved by me!
With his impassive face he met
his brother, whose features. on the
contrary. were twitching with varied
sentiments Baradas had anticipated
the monk, and of the two prisoner:
whom he sought TO SEQ, one was al
ready beyond him and the other on
the verge OF perhaps more fata
voyage.
1.-The knight OF Mauprat. removed
to the Louvre by summons OF Count
Baradas" reiterated Joseph, amazed
for once out of his marble aspect
"And our late captain going away
also!-whither?
"Well, brother, you may better
divine that if you were his confessoi
whilst in your household, for he /:
QOOneu 10 ule III HOOu
"By whose order?"
The kings as a matter OF course
We obey only his majesty here in hi
own fort OF the towns end"
The accent made Joseph shrinl
tnto his cowl. Another who KICKED
at the goad
''At noon he dies" cried he, turn
ing into another track with the quick
ness OF experienced duplicity. an
moment to delay the pious rite
which fit the soul for death. Quick
quick-admit me to Huguet"
"You cannot enter, brother! NJ!
orders are Imperative.
"Ordersl royal orders! vain! tn
cardinal still Is minister. His order
crush all others"
''Ill not be menaced, Josephl vi
not brotherly," returned the other
ia an irritated voice. besides, tn
cardinal was reported dead and no.
is surely dying! / do not wonder
who would caro- TO live under tn
disgrace OF our noble Louisl" he said