CHAPTER IV.

ANNE OF AUSTRIA, THE QUEEN-MOTHER. Mazarin, when left alone with Bernouin, was for some minutes lost in thought. He had gained much information, but not enough. "My lord, have you any orders?" asked Bernouin. "Yes, yes," replied Mazarin. "Light me; I am going to the queen." Bernouin took up a candlestick, and led the way. There was a secret passage between the Cardinal's apartments and those of the queen; and through this corridor Mazarin passed whenever he wished to visit Anne of Austria. In the bedroom in which t…