The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-05-08
ole MINISTER
q POLICE
~ HENRY MoNTJoY
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. HENRY MONTJOY

tines lieutenant. Then he ,hastened
and took up his post Of observa-
ton at 10 minutes past 2, that is to
say, exactly six minutes after De Lus-
sac had departed for Versailles.
BY this fault he condemned himself
to q whole evening and night Of mount
ing guard over a house empty Of its
master, and he lost Monsieur DE Sar-
tines q point in the game, for had De
Sartlnes been apprised OF the young
mans movements, he would have nQti-
NED his police In Versailles, who had
g spy In every house, not excepting
that Of Monsieur de Richelieu.
IL was q lovely afternoon, and as
they left Paris and its sordidness be-
hind De Lussac, lowering the
windows OF the carriage, inhaled the
air with q delight m~onlentary and ban
isneo py the remembrance of what was
on hand.
He a no plan OF campaign. That
the due, though surprised at the sud-
denness OF his visit, would be delighted
70 receive him. he felt sure, for De
Richelieu a several times invited him
on q visit, leaving it open to him to
come Wnen ne chose; besides, the due
was his a relation and If De Lus-
q died before him, would be heir to
the Auvergne estates.
He would ave to give q reason,
however, for his visit; that would be
easy enough-nothing to the difficulties
OF q search for a carefully guarded
paper in a house filled, perhaps, with
guests.
De Richelieu's mansion was situated
on the Paris road on the left as one
approaches he palace. The gates
swung ope for the carriage, which,,
approaching the front door by a curt
yard, set with laburnum and lilac trees,
drew up, n the Comte de Lussac,
ascending hes steps where a lackey was
galleried hall where the majordomo,
Monsieur Beaupre, advanced to receive
him.
This parsonage. who possessed a
vast, stolid, ex~pressionless face that
seemed nodded from white wax, was
n Of those perfect f~unctionaries who
knew everybody, n everything about
everybody, everything about court ETH
quette, everything about precedence.
He knew the Cornte de Lussac, his
affairs, his peculiar manner of living,
his neglect of those things which were
essential to success in society. and the
nickname with which the court had
dubbed him. He despised him as heart
lily as a man of his sort could despise
a nan of De Lussac's sort, but he
showed nothing of his thoughts as he
bowed before him.
Good afternoon, Beaupre," said the
young man, giving his hat and gloves
to the servant who had admitted him.
is Monsieur lie Due at home?"
mo, monsieur, Monsieur lie Due is at
Luciennes, out I am expecting him to
return at any moment"
rs Monsieur Raffe in?" +
Monsieur Raffe Is in the library.
monsieur"
"Ah, the library" said De Lussac, his
haorf loo rino o< Ah@ .x.o-l~ N. Cl.z- ~u-
to him."
The majordomo led the way across
the hall to a door opening on the left ;
he opened the door and disclosed the
library of Monsieur lie Marechal Due de
Richelieu. De Lussac, as he entered,
could not but feel that the omen was
with him, inasmuch as this, the first
room he entered, was the room he had
come to plumber.
1t was not very large, this library of
Monsieur lie Due. 1t had only one win
dow Of stained glass, blazoned with the
arms Of the Richelieus and heavily
barred on the outside-through the
colors of the glass, the gray ghostlike
shadows of the bars showed yaguely
The books, chiefly tall folios sump-
tuously bound and stamped on the
backs in gold with the Richelieu arms,
stood In open bookcases.
Near the window, at a table by the
only bureau in the room, sat a man
engaged ! writing. 1t was Raffe. De
Richelieu's steward, factotum, and
right hand; he was engaged on the
monthly accounts, going over each bill,
item by item and sou by sou.
Why, 1t is Monsieur lie Comte de
Lussac," cried the old man, rising from
his chair n advancing to greet the
newcomer. How unfortunate that
Monsieur lie Due should be absent! But
I am expecting him at any moment"
ut does not matter" replied the
comte, Il have come on a visit for a
day or two, if my cousin will have
me. the air of Paris las suddenly be-
come too much for me and I am suf-
fering from sleeplessness. / have some
luggage in my carriage; will you kindly
have it seen to? Meanwhile, / will, If
o will permit me, anus myself with
a book till my cousins return."
"Oh, monsieur" cried Raffe, as he
gathered up his papers. II can assure
you that my master will be only too
delighted at our visit. I will have
your room prepared and you luggage
brought to 1T. Can I send you any re-.
freshments, monsieur, after your jour
ney?"
mo. thank you, dear Monsieur Raffe.
| require nothing in the way of re-
freshment u a book; you know that
I am a bibliphile, a creature to whom
the smell of Russia leather bindings
and the sight of printers Ink are re-
freshment in themselves; but it seems
to me that my cousin has extended his
library since 1 was last here"
Why, yes, monsieur" replied Raffe.
lingering with the papers in his hand.
only last month he acquired half the
library of Monsieur de M~eneval, books
Of amorous adventure, contes, superbly
funny. Monsieur may like to amuse
himself with them; they are on those
lower shelves"
He bowed and passed out with his
papers, and De Lussac turned to the
books of Monsieur de Meneval.
These books Of Monsieur de Meneyal
were mostly illustrated, and were SC
piquant that the mildest of them would
IN our 8 be relegated to the highest
n most inaccessible shelves Of q cus
rio hunters collection. Indeed the
whole of Monsieur de Richelie,,,s IL
orary might have been c~atalogued IN
ger three divisions: books like these.
Dooks concerning war. and books rela.
tive to he chase.
De Lussac. taking a volume ent;t,ed
L e Contes de suzanne" written b1,
d gentleman named Raport. and hear,
ing the imprimatur, Paris 17aon Iaid
!. on the little table left vacan, nv,