I am setting out for Blois on a mission of exceeding delicacy wherein your advice and guidance would be of infinite value to me.

I shall remain at Choisy until to-morrow morning, and should there be no ties to hold you in Paris, and you be minded to bear me company, join me there at the Hotel du Connetable where I shall lie to-night.

Your grateful and devoted "ANDRE." So! There was one at least who desired my company! I had not thought it.
"If there be no ties to hold you in Paris," he wrote.

Dame! A change of air would suit me vastly.

I was resolved--a fig for the Cardinal's threat to hang me if I were found in his nephew's company! "My suit of buff, Michelot," I shouted, springing to my feet, "and my leather jerkin." He gazed at me in surprise.
"Is Monsieur going a journey ?" I answered him that I was, and as I spoke I began to divest myself of the clothes I wore.