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

princes for the defense Of the faith and
against the King of France and the
King of Navarro. To get in, one had
to hold in his hand coin with hos
pierced in the center. Gorenfiot showed
Chico such coin.
Then he went to sleep, and Chico
took his monks robe and his pierced
coin and went to the church in his
stead. He was capital mimic, and
when Brother Gorenfiot was called
upon for his sermon Chico delivered
one for him of the most fiery and dis
loyal sort-ond nobody suspected the
deception. AT the close of the meet
ing the Duke d'Anjou was solemnly
crowned as King OF France in place Of
his brother, who was declared deposed,
and the counterfeit monks, who proved
to be soldiers and mobiles in disguise,
swore fealty to him. Then. hidoen in
confessional, after the others had gone,
Chico saw and heard meeting of the
council of the Guises. They laughed at
the Duke, whom they had just crowned,
declaring frankly to each other that
religion played no part in their schemes
except as blind for the populace anu
that their real object was to seat the
House of Lorraine on the throne in
place of the House of Valois.
In the council Chico saw not only his
mortal enemy, the Duke of Mayenne, but
his other mortal enemy, Mayenne's man
Nicholas David. David produced before
the council of the Guises pedigree which
he declared showed that their house, and
not that of valois, rightfully possessed
the throne of France, and this pedigree
was dispatched to Rome for the inspec-
ton and approval of the Pope. Nicholas
David was to meet the messenger in the
south of France, at a place to be decided
upon and bring back to the Guises the
pedigree which, it was hoped. would have
the approval of the Holy Father.
When all were gone Chico escaped from
the church by window, returned to the
Corne d'Abondance, restored his robe to
the still sleeping Gorenfiot and returned
to the palace with plans of his own.
Therefore he knew well why it was that
M. dAnjou. starting out roughly with
before the Grand Huntsman. Monsoreau
was one of those who in the abbey had
waved their drawn swords and shouted,
Long live Francois III!' upon the occa-
sion of the Dukes mock coronation-and
Monsoreau had threatened the Prince.
Busy, when he heard of the announce
ment Of Monsoreau that he would present
his wife at court. returned in despair to
the house in the Rue st. Antoine. "I had
hoped too much" said he. IT find 1 can
do nothing The baron deeply regretted
now that he had urged his daughter to
marry Monsoreau and desired nothing so
much as to get her again under his roof
at Meridor. This he finally accomplished,
as Monsoreau, seeing that D'Anjou began
again to pay his court to his wife, was
willing for her to return to her fathers
castle for time that she might be out Of
the way of the Prince. AS for Busy and
the Duke, there was, of course, quarrel,
the colonel bitterly reproaching D'Anjou
for what he had done, and most of all
for his perfidy in making friends with the
Grand Huntsman after promising that he
would have the marriage annulled. But it
is Ill quarrelIng with princes, and sort
Of peace was patched up, though Busy
had said things which ranked deep in the
heart of Francois d'Anjou and caused
him to mark for destruction this faithful
friend as he had marked for destruction
all who had been faithful to him and
trusted him before
As for Chico, he set on little expedi-
ton OF his own. He kept watch on
Nicholas David, saw linn set forth to
meet the messenger from Rome. followed
him to an inn in a little town in the
south, and after he had received the
papers fought with him, killed him and
returned to Paris with the reasonable
documents to resume his post Of watch
ing over the welfare OF the weak Henri.
On this expedition Gorenfot accompanied
the lester for when. after the meeting Of