The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-25
''I may have been mistaken. I"

Il may have been mistaken"
Pooh, man" the queen cried with
biting contempt. "You have told it to
half-a-dozen. Discretion comes a lit
tie late"
We'll, if you will, madame he said,
striving to assert himself, but cutting
i a. poor figure, 81 fancied that I saw
Madame de Condo"
/ Come out of the wood ten minutes
before the king?"
1T may have been twenty he NUT
tered.
him. She turned, looking superb. in
her wrath, to the king. Now, sirr'
she said. Gam to bear this?"
Sweetr' the king said, governing
MS temper in a way that surprised me,
near reason, and you shall have it in
a word. How near was Bassompierre
to the lady he saw"
Il was not within fifty PAGES Of
her! the favorite cried eagerly.
But others saw herr the queen rec
joined sharply. Madame Paleottl,
who was with the gentleman, saw her
also, and knew her.
AT distance of fifty paces?" the
KING said drily. 81 don't attach much
weight to that And then, rising,
with a slight yawn. Madame he
continued, with the air of command
winch he knew so well how to assume.
S1lS present. am tlredi If
madame de Condo is here, it will not
De difficult to get further evidence of
ner presence. If she is at Brussels.
tnat fact, too. you can ascertain. Do
Inc one or the other, as you please:
Out, Tor today, I beg that you will ex-
. And that" the, queen cried shrilly
All, Madamer the king said stern
~. moreover. let me have no pratt
ing outside this room. Grand-master,
L will trouble YOU
And with these words. uttered i'm a
voice and with an air that siIenced
even the angry woman before rs. he
signed TO me to follow him, and went
from the room; the first glance of his
eye shilling the crowded ante-chamher
as II the shadow of death passed with
MN: followed him to his closet. huf
untli ne reached it. had no linking of
Mnat was in his thoughts. Then he
turned to me. -4o
Where is she?" he said sharply.
stared at him a moment. ssPardon
sfrer' I said. "Do You think thar h HI #
was Madame de Conde?"
why not?"
'iShe is in Brussels
tell you [ saw her this morningp'
ne answered. go, learn all YOU CAM
flnd her! find her, If she has re-
turned will-God knows what I will
90! ne cried in a voice shamefully
oIohe4' 80; and send Varennes to
watt iio one
L would have demonstrated with him
out ne was in no mood to bear it; and,
SAD at heart, [ withdrew, feeling the
PerPlexlty, Which the situation caused
me, less heavy burden than the main
with which I viewed the change that
had OF late come over my master. CON
EeTtlng him from the gayest and most
oeponna1re of men into this morose
ana sohtary dreamer. Here, had I
/ feit any temptation to moralize on the
tyranny or passion, was the occasion.
put, as the farther I left the closet
pehlnd me the more instant became
Inc Crisis, the present soon reasserted
lts power. Rejecting that Henry in
thls state of uncertainty, was capab1a
OF the widest acts, and that NOT less
was TO be feared from his imprudence
IMAM from the queens resentment T
scuoselled5 my brains to explain the
lencohtfe OF the morning; but as the
courier, whom L questioned. confirmed
the report of my agents. and assevar~
ated most confidently that he had left
madame in Brussels, was flung hack
on the alternative of an accidental re-
semblance. This, however. which stood
| Tor a time as the most probable solu-
tlon, scarcely accounted for the Wo
man peculiar conduct, and quite fell
TO the ground when La Trape, making
CAUTIOUS inquiries, ascertained that no
/ lady hunting that day had worn a
yellow feather Again, therefore. 7
Icund myself at a loss; and the deiec
tlon OF the king, and the queens i'll
temper giving rise to the widest sur
misses, and threatening each hour to
| supply the gossips of the court with
startling scandal, the issue of which
no one could foresee, went so far as
to take into my confidence NM. Eper-
suit. tsr
Such being my state of mind, and such
the suspense 1 suffered during two DAYS
1t may be imagined that NJ Bassom,
pierre was not more happy. Despairing
OF the king favor, unless he could clear
up the matter and by the event Justify
his 1ndlscretion, he became for those two
days the wonder and almost the terror
Oh the court. Ignorant of what he
Wan>ed, the courtiers found only inso-
lence in his mysterious questions and
something prodigious in an activity which
carried him in one day to Paris and back,
and on the following to every place in the
| vicinity where news of the fleeing beauty
might by any possibility DE gained; so
that he far outstripped my agents who
We're on the same quest. But though 1
had no mean opinion of his abilities, l
! hoped little from these eXertons and
was proportionately pleased when on the
third day, he came to me with radiant
face and invited me to attend the queen
! that evening.
THE king will be there he said. land
I shall surprise you. But [ will not tell
! you more. ComeI and promise to salts
| fy you
And that was all he would say; so that,
! finding my questions useless, and the man
almost frantic with JOY, / had to be con-
| tent with it, and at The queens hour that
evening presented myself in the gallery,
which proved to be unusually full.
Making my way toward her in some
doubt of my reception, / found my worst
fears confirmed. She greeted me with a
sneering face, and was prepared, 1 was
| sure, to put some slight upon me-a mat
ter wherein she could always count Oh
the applause of her Italian servants
when the entrance of the king took her
! by surprise. He advanced up the gallery
with a listless air, and, after saluting her,
stood by one of the treplaceS talking to
Epernon and La Force. The crowd was
pretty dense by this time, and the hum
| of talk filled the room when. on a sudden,
| a, voice which [ recognized as Bassom-
pierre's was lifted above it.
Very well!' he cried gaily, then L
appeal to her majesty She shall de-
eide, Mademoisellel No, no: 1 am not
satisfied with your claim!''
The king looked that way with a frown
but the queen took the outburst in good
| part. What is it, NJ BaSSompierre %