Look to yourself,
for this strange blow will have fearful consequences."
Again in the Rue St. Honore another note was thrown him, whose
contents were akin to those of the first. Yet with misgivings
mounting swiftly to certainty, Sully rode amain towards the
Louvre, his train by now amounting to some three hundred horse.
But at the end of the street he was stopped by M. de Vitry, who
drew rein as they met.
"Ah, monsieur," Vitry greeted him, "where are you going with such
a following? They will never suffer you to enter the Louvre with
more than two or three attendants, which I would not advise you
to do. For this plot does not end here. I have seen some persons
so little sensible of the loss they have sustained that they
cannot even simulate the grief they should feel. Go back,
monsieur. There is enough for you to do without going to the
Louvre."
Persuaded by Vitry's solemnity, and by what he knew in his heart,
Sully faced about and set out to retrace his steps. But presently
he was overtaken by a messenger from the Queen, begging him to
come at once to her at the Louvre, and to bring as few persons as
possible with him. "This proposal," he writes, "to go alone and
deliver myself into the hands of my enemies, who filled the
Louvre, was not calculated to allay my suspicions.
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