The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-05-15
cHAPTER V1-Continued.l

81 am pleased that you should think
my advice worth asking. Is it to TINS
that I owe the pleasure of your visit?'
Partly" replied De Lussac, glancing
toward the bureau. land partly to IND
what | seek"
And that?"
us rest FOR a few days"
you will find it here. The house Is
at your disposal, and this gentleman
whose conspiracies you wish to I'M
earth.
II will tell you his name when my
plans have been successful"
And l will tell you that his ma
jesty will not be Indifferent to your
services. Have o Informed De Sar-
tines?"
ooh, no, monsieur, / wish to work in
this matter quite alone and not share
the honor of my discovery with Mon
sieur de Sartines."
De Richelieu laughed.
"Mordieu, it is droll,'' said he. for
mark youths is between ourselves
our lear De Sartines-hum-hum-'
Yes, monsieur"
"Only this: his majesty said to me
this morning, Tell your young cousin
De Lussac hat Monsieur de Sartines
IS quite concerned about his health
You know the way his majesty has of
saying things"
$50 you think
L IIllIlh IOlIllnS. 1 just lSll YOU
what I heard. Also, as l was leaving
the palace yesterday evening, l met our
friend De Sartines. You see, you lead
your own life and mix yourself up with
these philosophers and people. l say
nothing about that. If it amuses you
to dabble in these matters it is moth
ing to me, SO long as you exclude
yourselves from the hole and corner
revolutionaries, those h~alf-starved Sc
dition mongers, ballad makers, ca
naille of the Rue du Truand who hang
on the skirts Of the philosophers. Only
it is funny to think that De Sartines
is disturbed about you while you all
the time-as I gather from you words
-are preparing to expose one of those
same revolutionaries."
Yes" replied De Lussac, smiling
and with his eye cast on the bureau,
sit is strange, and 1 am certain of one
thing: If my plans are. successful I
very great surprise"
He spoke with spirit and animation
and as though a. weight a been
taken from his mind.
The mercilessness of the marechal
and his chilly advice had removed his
title Of conspirators against the good
of a state, surely 1t was these men
who, for the sake of personal gain
Were robbing a hungry nation of their
food.
"Honor!" The word had no meaning
in relation to them; they had placed
themselves beyond the pale.
CHAPTER VII.
WHILE MAHON MOUNTS GUARD.
Monsieur de Richelieu, when in resi-
dence at Versailles, received largely as
a rule. but Of late, or at least during
the last few weeks, he had been very
T.. n1iaf racafuino O. four frian1c j. x,sci+ire
fewer, but constant in his attention a
the functions of the court, n never
missing from the big and little recep.
lions, the levees Of Versailles and care
parties of Luciennes.
At this moment, in fact, thing.
seemed coming to a crisis. The storm
which on Christmas eve seven months
later would sweep Monsieur de Choiseu
and Monsieur de Braslin into exil
seemed about to break. and at such
moment a man could not be too cauti
GUS, especially when that man was tn,
DUO e,Richelieu.
On the evening Of de Lussac's visit
however, he had quite a large party t.
supper, the last Of whom, no less
person than de Maupeou. the vic
chancellor, did not depart till close OF
the stroke of IL.
De Lussac, bidding his host goo,
night, proceeded to his room on tn
first floor, closed the door, lighted tn
candles upon the dressing table an
glanced at his own reflection. in tn
great cheval glass that swung in it
bronze frame supported by two bronz
cherubs, one trampling upon a tortoise
the other upon an asp.
The window was wide open n tn
warm night air entered, bringing wit
1t a faint perfume of lilac. AS he turne
from the mirror, there came on tn
wind fromsthe nightsoutsiIe the strok
of a clock.
1t was the first stroke of IL from tn
great clock of the palace of Versatile:
He went to the window and, push
ing aside the curtain, looked out.
The moonlight was broad upon til