412 LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE. utter a single word to procure admittance, and the carriage passed on without further difficulty. While they were pro- ceeding along the covered way which led to the courtyard of the governor's residence, D'Artagnan, whose lynx eyes saw everything, even through the walls, suddenly cried out*
- 'What is that out yonder?"
"Well," said Athos quietly, what is it?" "Look yonder, Athos!" "In the courtyard?" "Yes, yes; make haste!" "Well, a carriage; very likely conveying a prisoner lik<> myself." "That would be too droll." "I do not understand you." "Make haste and look again, and look at the man who is just getting out of that carriage." At that very moment a second sentinel stopped D'Ar- tagnan, and while the formalities were being gone through, Athos could see at a hundred paces from him the man whom his friend had pointed out to him. He was, in fact, getting out of the carriage at the door of the governor's house. "Well," inquired D'Artagnan, "do you see him?" "Yes; he is a man in a gray suit." "What do you say of him?" "I cannot very well tell; he is, as I have just now told you, a man in a gray suit, who is getting out of a carriage; that is all." "Athos, I will wager anything that it is he." "He— who?" "Aramis." "Aramis arrested? Impossible!'* "I do not say he is arrested, since we see him alone in his carriage." "Well, then, what is he doing here?" "Oh, he knows Baisemeaux, the governor," replied the musketeer shyly, "so we have arrived just in time." "What for?" "In order to see what we can see." "I regret this meeting exceedingly. When Aramis sees me, he will be very much annoyed, in the first place, at seeing me, and in the next at being seen.*' "Very well reasoned." "Unfortunately, there is no remedy for it; whenever any one meets another in the Bastile, even if he wished to draw back to avoid him, it would be impossible."
