g cries
of rage, and cursing the hour when, trusting to the promises of M. de
Villars, he had abandoned the mountains where he was as much a king as
Louis XIV at Versailles. The same evening he received orders to leave
Paris and rejoin his regiment at Macon. He therefore set out the next
morning, without seeing M. de Chamillard again.

Cavalier on arriving at Macon found that his comrades had had a visit
from M. d'Aygaliers, who had come again to Paris, in the hope of
obtaining more from the king than M. de Villars could or would grant.

Cavalier, without telling his comrades of the strange manner in which the
king had received him, gave them to understand that he was beginning to
fear that not only would the promises they had received be broken, but
that some strange trick would be played upon them.

Thereupon these men, whose chief and oracle he had been for so long,
asked him what they ought to do; Cavalier replied that if they would
follow him, their best course and his would be to take the first
opportunity of gaining the frontier and leaving the country. They all
declared themselves ready to follow him anywhere. This caused Cavalier a
new pang of regret, for he could not help recollecting that he had once
had under his command fifteen hundred men like these.

The next day Cavalier and his comrades set out on their march without
knowing whither they were being taken, not having been able to obtain any
information as to their destination from their escort--a silence which
confirmed them in their resolution. As soon, therefore, as they reached
Onnan, Cavalier declared that he considered that the looked-for
opportunity had arrived, asking them if they were still in the same mind:
they returned that they would do whatever he advised. Cavalier then
ordered them to hold themselves in readiness, Daniel offered up a prayer,
and the prayer ended, the whole company deserted in a body, and, crossing
Mont Belliard, entered Porentruy, and took the road to Lausanne.

Meantime d'Aygaliers, in his turn, arrived at Versailles, with letters
from M. de Villars for the Duke of Beauvilliers, president of the king's
council, and for Chamillard. The evening of his arrival he delivered
these letters to those to whom they were addressed, and both gentlemen
promised to present him to the king.

Four days later, Chamillard sent word to d'Aygaliers that he was to be
next day at the door of the king's chamber at the time when the cou