When it
was night, she sent one of her own serving-men to fetch Du Mesnil; and
he, having no suspicion of the mischief that was being prepared for
him, went boldly to St. Aignan's house. As his mistress was still
entertaining his servant there, he had but one with himself.
Just as he was entering the house, the servant who had been sent to
him told him that the lady wished to speak with him before he saw her
husband, and that she was waiting for him in a room where she was alone
with his own serving-man; he would therefore do well to send his other
servant away by the front door. This he did. Then while he was going up
a small, dark stairway, the Proctor St. Aignan, who had placed some
men in ambush in a closet, heard the noise, and demanded what it was;
whereupon he was told that a man was trying to enter secretly into his
house.
At the moment, a certain Thomas Guerin, a murderer by trade, who had
been hired by the Proctor for the purpose, came forward and gave the
poor young man so many sword-thrusts that whatever defence he was able
to make could not save him from falling dead in their midst.
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