"Your
implacable enemies have killed you at last! I knew it! Oh, I knew
that your precious life would one day pay the penalty of your truth
and justice! And Pierre! Oh, where is he on this day of all days
of grief and sorrow?"
She wrung her hands at the thought of Pierre's absence to-day, and
what a welcome home awaited him.
The noise and tumult in the street continued to increase. The
friends of the Bourgeois poured into the house, among them the
Governor and La Corne St. Luc, who came with anxious looks and
hasty steps to inquire into the details of the murder.
The Governor, after a short consultation with La Corne St. Luc, who
happened to be at the Castle, fearing a riot and an attack upon the
magazines of the Grand Company, ordered the troops immediately under
arms and despatched strong detachments under the command of careful
and trusty officers to the Palace of the Intendant, and the great
warehouse of the Friponne, and also into the market-place, and to
the residence of the Lady de Tilly, not knowing in what direction
the fury of the populace might direct itself.
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