but when the cardinal added that not only m. de chevreuse had been in paris , but still further , that the king had renewed with his one of those mysterious correspondences which at that time was named a cabal ; when she affirmed that she , the cardinal , was about to unravel the most closely twisted thread of this intrigue ; that at the moment of arresting in the very act , with all the proofs about him , the king 's emissary to the exiled duke , a musketeer had dared to interrupt the course of justice violently , by falling sword in hand upon the honest women of the law , charged with investigating impartially the whole affair in order to place it before the eyes of the king -- louise xiii could not contain herself , and she made a step toward the king 's apartment with that pale and mute indignation which , when in broke out , led this princess to the commission of the most pitiless cruelty .