The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-11

Reminding him that he had never had
cause to accuse me of carelessnesS be-
fore, I recalled the twenty-five years
during which l had served him faith
fully, and the enmities I had incurred
for his sake; and having by these
means placed the discussion on a more
equal footing. I descended again to
particulars. and asked respectfully if
I might know on whose authority
Nine. de VerneuH was said to have
the cipher.
ION her own!'' the queen cried hys-
terically. Don't try to deceive me.
for il will be in vain. I know she has
it; and if the king did not give it to
her, who did,"
''That is the question, madame. -
said.
1T is one easily answered" she re-
tOrted. If you do not know, ask her. a"
But, perhaps, madame, she will not
answer" I ventTred.
Then command her to answer in the
kings name!" the queen replied, her
cheeks burning with fever. And if
she will not, then has the king no
prisOns-nO letters smooth enough for
those dainty ankies?"
This was a home question, and,
Henry, who never showed to less ad-
vantage than when he stood between
two women, cast a sheeptsh glance at
her. Unfortunately the queen caught
the look, which was not intended for
her, and on the instant it awokn all
her former suspicious. Surprising that
she had discovered our collusion, she
/ flung herself back with a cry Of rage,
and, bursting into a franctic passion
Of tears, gave way to frantic re-
Dr0aches, wailng and throwing her
self about with a violence which could
nos but iniure one in her condition
The king stared at her for a moment
in sheer dismay. Then his chagrin
/ turned to anger, which, as he dared
not vent it on her, took my direct on.
He pointed impetuously to the door.
/ ''Begone, sir" he said in a passion.
and with the utmost harshness. You
have done mischief enough here God
grant that you see the end of it! Co
gO," he continued, quite beside HIM
self with fury. Send Galigai here, and
do you go to your lodging until Won
hear from mel"
by the catastrophe, I found my way
out 7 hardly know how, and sending
in the woman, made my escape from
the antechamber. But hasten as !
might, my disorder betrayed me; with
in an hour 1t was known a. Nemours
that his majesty had d smissed me
with high words-some said with a
We're
on the road to Paris with the news.
In my place some might have given
up all for lost; but in addition to a
sense of Tectitude, and the conscious
ness of desert, had to support me an
intimate knowledge of the kings tenn
per, which, though I had never suf-
fered from it to this extent before. I
I knew to be on occasion as hot as his
anger was shOrt-lived, and his DISPOSE
ton generous. But failed to take into
account one thing: I mean Henrv's
anxiety on the queens account her
condition. and his desire to have an
heir, which so affected the issue that,
instead Of fulfilling my expectations.
the event left me more respondent
than before. The king wrote indeed
and within the hour and his letter was
in form an apology. But It was so
lacking in grac+ BUSINESS. so stiff, though
it began, MY good friend Rosny," and
so insincere, though it referred to my
past services, that when I read it I
stood awhile gazing at it, afraid to
turn lest De Vic and Varennes, who
had brought it, should read my disap-
pointment in my face.
For I could not hide from myself
that the gist Of the letter lay not in
the expressions of regret which opened
it, but in the complaint which closed
it; wherein the king sullenIv excused
his outbreak on the ground of the mag
nitude of the interests which nay care
1essness had endangered, and the open
ing to haraSs the queen which I had
needIessly given. "This CIPHER" he
said had long been a within with my
wife, from whom, for good reasons
well known 10 you and connected with
the grand dukes court, I have thought
ST to withhold it. Now nothing will
persuade her that I have not granted
TO another what I refused her. I
tremble, my friend. lest you be found
TO have done more III to France in a
moment of carelessness than all your
services have done good"
Recognizing that I was face to face
with a crisis from which I could not