The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02

Now arrived at Anglers, Catherine de
Medicis, the Queen mother, sent by Henri
to bring his brother back to his allegiance
and avoid civil war. Catherine succeed
ed in patching up peace between the
brothers and the scene shifted to Paris,
whittier all now returned, Monsoreau
watching carefully the Duke, but trust
ing implicitly in Busy and conhdfng
his wife much to his care.
st cannot play this part" said Busy
to st. LUG 81 cannot meet that man day
after day. take him by the hand, feign
friendship with him and injuro him as
am doing. Let me provoke him to a hght
and kill him-that at least would be a
manly part, not this that I am playing"
But St. Luc's sophistry and the power of
that great love which Busy had for
Diana kept Turing him on in the same old
path, Turing him to death and ruin. He
had given away so much to his desires
and passions that he had lost the power
to struggle against them. D'AnJou still
continued to conspire against the King,
and Chico to discover and bring to naught
formed by his spies that some one was
visiting his wife secretly at night. OF
course, he thought It the Duke, and lay
in wait for him. The Dukes agents also
informed him that Diana had a lover who
visited her clandestinely, and he, like
Monsoreau, lay in wait to discover the
lovers identity. Hidden in an angle of
Apfa f1o
house, and when, later, he encountered
Monsoreau, he told him what he had dis
covered. The two decided upon Bussy's
destruction.
Monsoreau pretended to set out for Com
piegne, but that night as Diana and Busy
talked in fapcied security in her apart
ment the injured husband broke into the
house, accompanied by six armed men.
Diana shrieked and fell upon her knees,
but Busy cried out: "Ah, It is assassina-
ton, then, monsieur" Yes" replied
Monsoreau. THE Duke d'Anjou will
avenge me-" said Bussy. 1T was he who
sent me-" laughed Monsoreau. Bussys
sword was out and the desperate battle
began. Remy and st. Luc, who followed
his assistance, but the party of Monsoreau
was reinforced by three more men, who
came clamberins over the balcony. They
set upon Busy and his companions with
sword and pistol. Remy was wounded
and st. Luc, at the earnest command of
Busy, carried off Diana to a place of
safety-for it was easy to See that her
life as well as the life Of Busy was
sought by Monsoreau. Still other follow
ers of Monsoreau came rushing in. and.
wounded in many places, bleeding and
exhausted, that brave man, who had
never known fear, saw plainly before him
the image of death reckoning with its
gloomy smile.
Seven men had he stretched dead at his
feet, ut still nine sharp blades more
sought his hfe. Yet he fought on and,
springing upon Monsoreau with a cry,
killed him. Then he wounded the others
or forced them to jump from the balcony
and seemed about to become master of
the bloody fray He sprang from the
room into the corridor, hoping to escape
by the stairs, but saw on the stairway
more of Monsoreau's friends coming up.
Busy dragged himself to the back of the
house, where there was a balcony look
ing out over a small park. His fresh pur-
suers were close behind him; he threw
himself from the balcony, but his clothes
caught on the pickets of the iron fence
and held him suspended there. Two men
advanced from behind a tree. Gentle
men," called Busy help an unfortunate
nobleman who may yet escape II you will
aid him." What do you say, Mon
signeur?" asked one voice 1t was DAN
jou and Aurilly. Deliver him from his
sufferings,'' replied the Duke with 4
kind of laugh, and Aurilly discharged an
arquebuse into the breast of the DYING
Busy d'Amboise.
Years afterward Diana de Meridor APP
peared before the Duke d. Anjou His old
love revived and she presented him with
a peach, a bouquet and a perfumed
torch. All three were poisoned and the
Duke died in agony. Diana sought sane
tuary in convent. where she died soon
after the man who had made her life
such tragedy. Chico long lived to watch
over Henri, but he could not save him
from the dagger OF an assassin which
reached him in the camp of Henry of
Navarro, where the king had taken re-
fuge from revolt of the Guises.
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