their speed, shouting, "Fire! fire!" throwing behind them foot-trippers,
and by menaces causing all the lights to be put out which were being
lighted here and there in the shops.

[Illustration: Murder of the Duke of Orleans----38]

The duke was quite dead. One of his squires, returning to the spot,
found his body stretched on the road, and mutilated all over. He was
carried to the neighboring church of Blancs-Manteaux, whither all the
royal family came to render the last sad offices. The Duke of Burgundy
appeared no less afflicted than the rest. "Never," said he, "was a more
wicked and traitorous murder committed in this realm." The provost of
Paris, Sire de Tignouville, set on foot an active search after the
perpetrators. He was summoned before the council of princes, and the
Duke of Berry asked him if he had discovered anything. "I believe," said
the provost, "that if I had leave to enter all the hostels of the king's
servants, and even of the princes, I could get on the track of the
authors or accomplices of the crime." He was authorized to enter
wherever it seemed good to him. He went away to set himself to work.
The Duke of Burgundy, looking troubled and growing pale, "Cousin," said
the King of Naples, Louis d'Anjou, who was present at the council, "can
you know aught about it? You must tell us." The Duke of Burgundy took
him, together with his uncle, the Duke of Berry, aside, and told them
that it was he himself who, tempted of the devil, had given orders for
this murder. "O God!" cried the Duke of Berry, "then I lose both my
nephews!" The Duke of Burgundy went out in great confusion, and the
council separated. Research brought about the discovery that the crime
had been for a long while in preparation, and that a Norman nobleman,
Raoul d'Auquetonville, late receiver-general of finance, having been
deprived of his post by the Duke of Orleans for malversation, had been