As the night is hot, I could not sleep; so I threw open my window, and saw those lights, which were, as it appeared to me, somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Admiral's house; and I thought it was as well to see what they meant." As they went along, they came upon men with lighted torches; and saw that, in several of the streets, groups of men with torches were silently standing.
"What is taking place ?" the Sieur de Pascal asked one of the men.
"There is going to be a night masque, and a mock combat at the Louvre," the man said.
"It is strange.

I heard nothing about it at the Louvre," Philip said, as they proceeded on their way.

"I was with the King of Navarre up to ten o'clock and, had anything been known of it by him or the gentlemen with him, I should have been sure to have heard of it." They were joined by two or three other Huguenot gentlemen, roused by the unusual light and talking in the street; and they proceeded together to the Louvre.

Large numbers of torches were burning in front of the palace, and a body of soldiers was drawn up there.
"The man was right," the Sieur de Pascal said.

"There is evidently some diversion going on here." As they approached they saw a movement in front, and then three or four men ran towards them.
"Why, De Vignes," De Pascal exclaimed, as the first ran up, "what is the matter ?" "That I do not know," De Vignes said.