The Man in the Iron Mask Page #6

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YOU SEE TOMORROW WHEN HIS

MAJESTY HAS DEPARTED

FOR PARIS, YOU WILL

BE ARRESTED ON THE CHARGE

OF MISAPPROPRIATION

OF STATE FUNDS.

CHEVALIER DUVAL WILL

BE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY

AS AN ACCESSORY.

MY DEAR COLBERT,

I HATE TO INFORM YOU

THAT YOUR PLOT TO DEPOSE

THE KING AND REPLACE HIM

WITH HIS BROTHER, PHILIPPE,

UPON THE THRONE, HAS BEEN FOILED.

THAT IS:

LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH.

ON THAT POINT AT LEAS WE CAN AGREE.

IN WHICH CASE, YOU WILL BE THE

ONE TO BE ARRESTED TOMORROW

MORNING ON CHARGES OF

CONSPIRACY AND TREASON.

POOR FOUQUET.

LOOK AT THEM AGAIN.

WHAT HAS BECOME OF DE LA VALLIERE'S

REVULSION FOR THE KING?

OR COULD HE SUDDENLY

HAVE CHANGED OVERNIGHT?

OH, COME NOW, SHE WON' BE THE FIRST RELUCTENT MAID

THAT HE HAS WON OVER.

MY, WE DO NEED

CONVINCING, DON'T WE?

WELL, PERHAPS WE COULD

REMIND YOU OF A CERTAIN

YOUNG APPRENTICE TAILOR

IN MY EMPLOY.

THE SASHES.

ALL THAT TROUBLE

AND YOU NEVER NOTICED.

DUVAL.

TOO LATE. HE'S ALREADY LEF FOR ST. MARGUERITE.

ON YOUR ORDER.

THE KING.

THE KING IS DEAD.

LONG LIVE THE KING!

LISTEN WELL, JAILOR.

THESE ARE HIS MAJESTY'S ORDERS

THEREFORE THEY MUST BE

OBEYED WITHOUT QUESTION

THE PRISONER IS QUITE MAD.

I AM LOUIS.

HE BELIEVE HIMSELF

TO BE THE KING.

I AM KING.

HE IS THEREFORE MOS DANGEROUS, AND MUS

NEVER LEAVE THIS CELL.

NO ONE IS TO VISI HIM, SAVE YOU.

NO ONE IS TO SPEAK TO HIM,

INCLUDING YOU.

AND WHEN ONE DAY

HIS FOOD REMAINS UNEATEN,

YOU WILL PROVIDE MORTAR AND BRICKS

AND SEAL IN THE ENTRY TO THIS CELL.

THEN SEND WORD TO PARIS

THAT THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK

LIVES NO MORE.

LOUIS! LOUIS!

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