Chapter 81
HOW M. LE DUC D'ANJOU SIGNED, AND AFTER HAVING SIGNED, SPOKE. There was a moment's silence. Then the duke said: "Well, M. le Comte, what have you to say to me from the Duc de Guise?" "Much, monseigneur." "They have written to you?" "No; the duke writes no more since that strange disappearance of Nicholas David. They have come to Paris." "MM. de Guise are at Paris?" "Yes, monseigneur." "I have not seen them." "They are too prudent to expose themselves or your highness to any risk." "And I was not told!" "I tell you now." "What have they come for?" "They come, monseigneur, to the rendezvous you gave them." "That I gave them!" "Doubtless; on the day when your highness was arrested you received a letter from M. de Guise, and replied to it verbally, through me, that they were to c
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