As I came up, he walked his horse forward to meet me, and I beheld a man in the uniform of the gardes du corps, in whom presently I recognised the little sparrow Malpertuis, with whom I had exchanged witticisms at Choisy.

He was the one man wanting to complete the trinity that had come upon us at the inn of the Connetable.
It flashed across my mind that he might be the officer charged with my arrest, and that he had arrived sooner than had been expected.

If so, it was likely to go ill with him, for I was not minded to be taken until St.Auban's soul sped hellwards.
He hailed me as I advanced, and indeed rode forward to meet me.
"You are come at last, M.de Luynes," was his greeting.

"I have waited for you this hour past." "How knew you I should ride this way ?" "I learnt that you would visit Canaples before noon.

Be good enough to quit the road, and pass under those trees with me.