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The king began to walk slowly round the little edifice, exa it carefully, while Master Olivier, who followed hie of wood of solid beath by eight in breadth, and of the height of seven feet between the partitions, sreat bolts of iron, which has been placed in a chamber situated in one of the towers of the Bastille Saint-Antoine, in which cage is placed and detained, by co our lord, a prisoner who fore There have been ee, ninety-six horizontal beaht joists, ten wall plates three toises long; there have been occupied nineteen carpenters to heork, and fit all the said wood in the courtyard of the Bastille during twenty days"

"Very fine heart of oak," said the king, striking the ith his fist

"There have been used in this cage," continued the other, "two hundred and twenty great bolts of iron, of nine feet, and of eight, the rest of th, with the rowels, caps and counterbands appertaining to the said bolts; weighing, the said iron in all, three thousand, seven hundred and thirty-five pounds; beside eight great squares of iron, serving to attach the said cage in place with clahteen pounds, not reckoning the iron of the trellises for the s of the chae hath been placed, the bars of iron for the door of the cage and other things"

"'Tis a great deal of iron," said the king, "to contain the light of a spirit"

"The whole amounts to three hundred and seventeen livres, five sols, seven deniers"

"~Pasque-Dieu~!" exclai

At this oath, which was the favorite of Louis XI, soe; the sound of chains was heard, grating on the floor, and a feeble voice, which seemed to issue from the tomb was uplifted "Sire! sire! mercy!" The one who spoke thus could not be seen

"Three hundred and seventeen livres, five sols, seven deniers," repeated Louis XI

The lae had frozen all present, even Master Olivier hi heard At his order, Master Olivier resu, and his e

"In addition to this there hath been paid to a s of the s, and the floor of the chae is, because that floor could not support this cage by reason of its weight, twenty-seven livres fourteen sols parisis"