But the royal attendants did not heed the animal's ill temper.
The assassin was at once killed by the attendants who rushed in, and Henry died early on the following day.
We caught up to the ambulance at the emergency room entrance just as attendants were removing a stretcher.
They were taking fifty-four hounds, with six hunt attendants and whippers-in.
The attendants then withdrew, and while Henry was reading the letters Clement mortally wounded him with a dagger which had been concealed beneath his cloak.