“Then the miserable fanatic must be found who will serve as an instrument of God’s justice.” “He will be found.” “Well,” said the cardinal, “then it will be time to claim the order which you just now required.” “Your Eminence is right,” replied Milady; “and I have been wrong in seeing in the mission with which you honor me anything but that which it really is—that is, to announce to his Grace, on the part of your Eminence, that you are acquainted with the different disguises by means of which he succeeded in approaching the queen during the fête given by Madame the Constable; that you have proofs of the interview granted at the Louvre by the queen to a certain Italian astrologer who was no other than the Duke of Buckingham; that you have ordered a little romance of a satirical nature to be written upon the adventures of Amiens, with a plan of the gardens in which those adventures took place, and portraits of the actors who figured in them; that Montague is in the Bastille, and that the torture may make him say things he remembers, and even things he has forgotten; that you possess a certain letter from Madame de Chevreuse, found in his Grace’s lodging, which singularly compromises not only her who wrote it, but her in whose name it was written. Then, if he persists, notwithstanding all this—as that is, as I have said, the limit of my mission—I shall have nothing to do but to pray God to work a miracle for the salvation of France. That is it, is it not, monseigneur, and I shall have nothing else to do?” “That is it,” replied the cardinal, dryly. “And now,” said Milady, without appearing to remark the change of the duke’s tone toward her—“now that I have received the instructions of your Eminence as concerns your enemies, Monseigneur will permit me to say a few words to him of mine?” “Have you enemies, then?” asked Richelieu. “Yes, monseigneur, enemies against whom you owe me all your support, for I made them by serving your Eminence.” “Who are they?” replied the duke. “In the first place, there is a little _intrigante_ named Bonacieux.” “She is in the prison of Nantes.” “That is to say, she was there,” replied Milady; “but the queen has obtained an order from the king by means of which she has been conveyed to a convent.” “To a convent?” said the duke. “Yes, to a convent.” “And to which?” “I don’t know; the secret has been well kept.” “But _I_ will know!” “And your Eminence will tell me in what convent that woman is?” “I can see nothing inconvenient in that,” said the cardinal. “Well, now I have an enemy much more to be dreaded by me than this little Madame Bonacieux.” “Who is that?” “Her lover.” “What is his name?”