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MY position was an unenviable one, and as I sat ruminating in the dark upon my prison bed I realized it to the full. The news would be all over Paris by then that Léon de Bret had killed a man in the Place Royale. The king would know, and the cardinal would know--which troubled me but little; and Renée de Navéry would know--which troubled me overmuch.
What would she think? Had the Spaniard carried the news to her, and had he perchance--since he accused me of killing the man whom he had killed--also accused me of his full crime? Would he dare to say that I had struck a foul blow, and that I had not merely killed Raoul de Navéry, but _murdered_ him?