“But—the king!”
“The king will approve your conduct.”
“Impossible!”
“Listen! and you will see that I am right.”
At this moment they heard a great commotion in the royal chamber.
“The physician! the physician!” cried several persons, running from the room.
“What has happened?” asked Tito.
“The Countess of Rionuevo is dying,” said Don Miguel de Guerra. “Come this way, they have placed her in the queen’s bed-chamber.”
“Go, Captain!” said Tito, “I insist.”
And he accompanied these words with such a glance and gesture that the soldier departed without a word. Tito followed De Guerra into the queen’s chamber.