The rupture came to a climax.

Of the king's four other councillors one escaped in time; two were seized and thrown into prison; the fourth, Bureau de la Riviere was at his castle of Auneau, near Chartres, honored and beloved by all his neighbors.

Everybody urged him to save himself.

"If I were to fly or hide myself," said he, "I should acknowledge myself guilty of crimes from which I feel myself free.

Here, as elsewhere, I am at the will of God; He gave me all I have, and He can take it away whensoever He pleases.