Chapter XXXVI.

In M.Colbert's Carriage.
As Gourville had seen, the king's musketeers were mounting and following their captain.

The latter, who did not like to be confined in his proceedings, left his brigade under the orders of a lieutenant, and set off on post horses, recommending his men to use all diligence.

However rapidly they might travel, they could not arrive before him.

He had time, in passing along the Rue des Petits-Champs, to see something which afforded him plenty of food for thought and conjecture.