"It is like enough the Guises sped it.

But they know now what is the King's will, and they have taken the hint and withdrawn themselves.

It will not happen again, Mademoiselle.

For proof, see the guards"-- they were passing the end of the Rue Bethizy, in the corner house of which, abutting on the Rue de l'Arbre Sec, Coligny had his lodgings--"whom the King has placed for his security.

Fifty pikes under Cosseins." "Cosseins ?" she repeated.