"Advances!" said D'Alençon. "What advances?"
"One of them, Monsieur de Mouy of Saint Phal, the son of the brave De Mouy, assassinated by Maurevel, you know"—
"Yes."
"Well, he came at the risk of his life to show me that I was in captivity."
"Ah! indeed! and what did you say to him?"
"Brother, you know that I love Charles dearly. He has saved my life, and the queen mother has been like a real mother to me. So I refused all the offers he made me."
"What were these offers?"
"The Huguenots want to reconstruct the throne of Navarre, and as in reality this throne belongs to me by inheritance, they offered it to me."
"Yes; and Monsieur de Mouy, instead of the consent he expected to ask for, has received your relinquishment?"
"My formal relinquishment—even in writing. But since," continued Henry.