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Chicot the Jester
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They waited, but no one answered.
“Did you put up that ladder?” asked Antragues of a man who was examining the ground.
“God forbid!” replied he.
“Why so?”
“Look up.”
“Blood!” cried Ribeirac.
“The door has been forced,” said Antragues; and seizing the ladder, he was on the balcony in a moment.
“What is it?” cried the others, seeing him turn pale.
A terrible cry was his only answer. Livarot mounted behind him. “Corpses! death everywhere!” cried he. And they both entered the room. It bore horrible traces of the terrible combat of the previous night. A river of blood flowed over the room; and the curtains were hanging in strips from sword cuts.
“Oh! poor Rémy!” cried Antragues, suddenly.
“Dead!”
“Yes.”
“But a regiment of troopers must have passed through the room,” cried Livarot. Then, seeing the door of the corridor open, and traces of blood indicating that one or more of the combatants had also passed through there, he followed it. Meanwhile, Antragues went into the adjoining room; there also blood was everywhere, and this blood led to the window. He leaned out and looked into the little garden. The iron spikes still held the livid corpse of the unhappy Bussy. At this sight, it was not a cry, but a yell, that Antragues uttered. Livarot ran to see what it was, and Ribeirac followed.
“Look!” said Antragues, “Bussy dead! Bussy assassinated and thrown out of window.”
They ran down.
“It is he,” cried Livarot.
“His wrist is cut.”
“He has two balls in his breast.”
“He is full of wounds.”
“Ah! poor Bussy! we will have vengeance!”
Turning round they came against a second corpse.
“Monsoreau!” cried Livarot.
“What! Monsoreau also.”
“Yes, pierced through and through.”
“Ah! they have assassinated all our friends.”
“And his wife? Madame de Monsoreau!” cried Antragues; but no one answered.
“Bussy, poor Bussy.”
“Yes, they wished to get rid of the most formidable of us all.”
“It is cowardly! it is infamous!”
“We will tell the duke.”
“No,” said Antragues, “let us not charge any one with the care of our vengeance. Look, my friends, at the noble face of the bravest of men; see his blood, that teaches that he never left his vengeance to any other person. Bussy! we will act like you, and we will avenge you.”
Then, drawing his sword, he dipped it in Bussy’s blood.
“Bussy,” said he, “I swear on your corpse, that this blood shall be washed off by the blood of your enemies.”
“Bussy,” cried the others, “we swear to kill them or die.”
“No mercy,” said Antragues.
“But we shall be but three.”
“True, but we have assassinated no one, and God will strengthen the innocent. Adieu, Bussy!”
“Adieu, Bussy!” repeated the others; and they went out, pale but resolute, from that cursed house, around which a crowd had begun to collect.
Arriving on the ground, they found their opponents waiting for them.
“Gentlemen,” said Quelus, rising and bowing, “we have had the honor of waiting for you.”
“Excuse us,” said Antragues, “but we should have been here before you, but for one of our companions.”
“M. de Bussy,” said D’Epernon, “I do not see him. Where is he?”
“We can wait for him,” said Schomberg.
“He will not come.”
All looked thunderstruck; but D’Epernon exclaimed:
“Ah! the brave man par excellence – is he, then, afraid?”
“That cannot be,” said Quelus.
“You are right, monsieur,” said Livarot.
“And why will he not come?”
“Because he is dead.”
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