“Whom I hold prisoner.”
“Yes, but prisoner as he is, he was consecrated.”
“By whom was he consecrated?”
“By the Cardinal de Guise. Really, Henri, you have a fine police. They consecrate a king at Paris before thirty-three people, in the church of St. Genevieve, and you do not know of it!”
“Oh! and you do?”
“Certainly I do.”
“How can you know what I do not?”
“Ah! because M. de Morvilliers manages your police, and I am my own.”
The king frowned.
“Well, then, without counting Henri de Valois, we have François d’Anjou for king,” continued Chicot; “and then there is the Duc de Guise.”