CHAPTER XXIII.

THE ROYAL LOCKSMITH. As the King had undertaken a very important piece of locksmith work, he sent his valet Hue to beg General Lafayette to come into his smithy. It was on the second floor above his bedroom, with inner and outer stairs. Since morning he had been hammering away at the work for which Master Gamain gave him praise and so much regret that the politicians should take him away from it to trouble about foreign countries. Perhaps he wanted to show the Commander of the National Guard that however weak as a …