The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-03
THE THREE GUARDSMEN
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 rhe queen is nay enemy, but is moi yours, sire. On the contrary. she is a devoted, submissive and irreproacha ble wife Allow me, then, sire, to In texcede for her with your majesty"
 ~Let her humble herself. then, and come to mo nrst"
 "On the contrary, sire, set the ex ample"
 s'what. make advances frst?' Bn1d fhe ling. 'sNever!"
 s'eire, entreat you to do so.''
 sBesides, in what manner can ] make advances lrstY
 eaive . b1l1. You, know how much the queen loves dancing. will an 6wer for It her reeenfment win not hold out against such m attention.r
 ssM le Cardinal, you know that no not lIke mundane pleasures."
 ~The qneen will only De the more Gx1teful to you, as she knows youl anfipathy for that amusement Be sidss. 1t win b n opportunity for her Co wear those beautiful diamonds which y0l gave her recently on hez blrthday and with which she has since ha0 no dDcnalon tD adOrn. herself.
 Then t1s9 cardinal, hearing the clock ohike n, bowed low, demanding per uliDion ofi the king to retire and sup p1icatin& him b come to good mn derstandIng with the queen.
 Anne of Austria, who in consequence of the sei&ure of her letter, expected ropfoache4 was much astonished the next day to see the king make some aftemptG sdt reconcilIation with her. Her nr1f mQy&1nent was repulslve. Ovefper1n1fG6d by the advice of her women. she at last had the appear anee of beglnning to forget. The king took aavanflge Of this favorable mo- ment to 1slI her that hs had the intsn- ton of slprt11 giving Aete.
 A f0te was 70 rare a thing for poor Anne q Austz1a that at this announce ment. n the cafdinal had predicted, tie last trace of her resentment dis appeared, If not from her heart, at least frcm her ccslatenance. She ask. a upon what da3 fhis fete would take piaee but the kipg replied that he mud eonsult the cardinal upon that head
 n fact. every day the king asked the cardlnnl when this f4te should take placos and every day the cardinal, un- der come pretense or other, deferred nxinG fl. Ten days passed away thus. On the eighth day after the scene we have decKibed. the cardinal received a letter with the London stamp, which oaly cUntaind these lines:
 q have them, but am unable to leave London for want of money; send me 60O p1stoles, and four or five days after ' have received them shall be in Paris" ssel.s 0a the same day that the cardinal received this letter, the King put his customary question to him. . Richelleu countod on his fingers and oaid to himeelf:
 '-she w.ll arrive, she says. four or I've dayD after having received the money It will require four or i've days for the transmission of the mon ey. four or i've days for her to return, that makes ten days Now, allowing for contrary winds, accidents and . woman's weakness, we cannot make if altogether less than twelve days.''
 s-Well, M. le Duc," said the king, sh4ve you made your calculations p
 ~Yes, sire, today is the 2Oth of Sep tembers the aldermen of the city give . fete. on the 3d of October. That will fall in wonderfully we'll. You will not appear to have gone out of your way 0 please the queen"
 Then the cardinal added:
 "Apropsr. sire, do not forget to tell her majesty the evening before the fets that you should like to see how her diamond studs become her."
 CHAPTER XIII.
 eenaeisux at Home.
 VT vas the second time the cardinal
 had mentioned these diamond
 studs to the king. Louis XIII
 wns struck with these repetitiona and began to fancy that this recon. mendation concealed some mystery. He h0ped in a conversation with Anne of Austria to obtain some information from that conversation and afterward to come upon his eminence with some secret which the cardinal either knew or did not know, but which in either case would raise him infinitely in the eyeg of his minister.
 He went. then, to the queen and, ac- cording t0 custom, accosted her with fresh menaces against those who sur rounded her.
 But" cried Anne of Austria, tired of thage vague attacks, "but, sire, you @ not tell me all that you have in your heart. What have done, then? Let nc know what crime I have commit te4 It ls impossible that your majes- ty can make III this to do about let ter written to ny brother!'
 Tho k1ne, atf1cked in . manner 90 di- rest &4 not knew 1het to enswer.