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 Navarre, after the departure of Alice, was to endeavour to obtain some information, as to the cause of the unexpected return of the Count de Nevers and the Seur de Joinville to the court of France, at the moment he supposed them at Bourdeaux, prisoners to the Prince of Wales. He learned, they were just arrived at court on their parole, loaded with the favours of the Prince of Wales. This information only served to increase his agitation.

The attractive Alice, and the jealousy with which the Count de Nevers had inspired him, only caused a part of his agitation; his intriguing spirit made him apprehend some interruption to his diabolical schemes against the Regent, as also to see, with fury all that he promised himself from the beauty, spirit, and character of Alice, transferred to another person, and that person the one from whom he feared an overthrow of his political views. Determined to employ every possible means that was in his power to satisfy his love, and to calm his ambitious fears, he instantly assumed a disguise which had often been used by his emissaries when sent on secret enterprises; and wrapping his head in a hood (then in use with the lower class of people), he went alone to Marcel’s, where, in the secretary of this seditious magistrate, he had a creature devoted to his interests. This man was accustomed to receive, in the middle of the night, emissaries from the King of Navarre in this very disguise; but what was his astonishment, when he saw the prince’s head under the hood!-"You, sir!" cried he: "Ah, is it possible! have you been so happy as to destroy Charles de Valois!—and must I go and stir up the city to rebellion?"-"No," said the King of Navarre, "I have not destroyed the Regent—I