Ten Years Later: Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 2 Page 10

As at this moment the gentleman with the torn clothes was pulling about the soldier, to show how the commissary of police had pulled him about, D’Artagnan effected his pillage of the letter without the slightest interference. He stationed himself about ten paces distant, behind the pillar of an adjoining house, and read on the address, “To Monsieur du Vallon, at Monsieur Fouquet’s, Saint-Mande.”

“Good!” he said, and then he unsealed, without tearing the letter, drew out the paper, which was folded in four, from the inside; which contained only these words:

“DEAR MONSIEUR DU VALLON, — Will you be good enough to tell Monsieur d’Herblay that he has been to the Bastile, and has been making inquiries.

“Your devoted