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The Three Musketeers 45 at Prostate Health
I am fully grateful for such unparalleled conduct, and
if, as I told you, I can be of any service to you--"
"I believe you, monsieur, I believe you; and as I was about to
say, by the word of Bonacieux, I have confidence in you."
"Finish, then, what you were about to say."
The citizen took a paper from his pocket, and presented it to
dArtagnan.
"A letter?" said the young man.
"Which I received this morning."
DArtagnan opened it, and as the day was beginning to decline, he
approached the window to read it. The citizen followed him.
"Do not seek your wife," read dArtagnan; "she will be
restored to you when there is no longer occasion for her. If you
make a single step to find her you are lost.
"Thats pretty positive," continued dArtagnan; "but after all,
it is but a menace."
"Yes; but that menace terrifies me. I am not a fighting man at
all, monsieur, and I am afraid of the Bastille."
"Hum!" said dArtagnan. "I have no greater regard for the
Bastille than you. If it were nothing but a sword thrust, why
then--"
"I have counted upon you on this occasion, monsieur."
"Yes?"
"Seeing you constantly surrounded by Musketeers of a very superb
appearance, and knowing that these Musketeers belong to Monsieur
de Treville, and were consequently enemies of the cardinal, I
thought that you and your friends, while rendering justice to
your poor queen, would be pleased to play his Eminence an ill
turn."
"Without doubt."
"And then I have thought that considering three months lodging,
about which I have said nothing--"
"Yes, yes; you have already given me that reason, and I find it
excellent."
"Reckoning still further, that as long as you do me the honor to
remain in my house I shall never speak to you about rent--"
"Very kind!"
"And adding to this, if there be need of it, meaning to offer you
fifty pistoles, if, against all probability, you should be short
at the present moment."
"Admirable! You are rich then, my dear Monsieur Bonacieux?"
"I am comfortably off, monsieur, thats all; I have scraped
together some such thing as an income of two or three thousand
crown in the haberdashery business, but more particularly in
venturing some funds in the last voyage of the celebrated
navigator Jean Moquet; so that you understand, monsieur--But"
cried the citizen.
"What!" demanded dArtagnan.
"Whom do I see yonder?"
"Where?"
"In the street, facing your window, in the embrasure of that
door--a man wrapped in a cloak."
"It is he!" cried dArtagnan and the citizen at the same time,
each having recognized his man.
"Ah, this time," cried dArtagnan, springing to his sword, "this
time he will not escape me!"
Drawing his sword from its scabbard, he rushed out of the
apartment. On the staircase he met Athos and Porthos, who were
coming to see him. They separated, and dArtagnan rushed between
them like a dart.
"Pah! Where are you going?" cried the two Musketeers in a breath.
"The man of Meung!" replied dArtagnan, and disappeared.
DArtagnan had more than once related to his friends his
adventure with the stranger, as well as the apparition of the
beautiful foreigner, to whom this man had confided some important
missive.
The opinion of Athos was that dArtagnan had lost his letter in
the skirmish. A gentleman, in his opinion--and according to
dArtagnans portrait of him, the stranger must be a gentleman--
would be incapable of the baseness of stealing a letter.
Porthos saw nothing in all this but a love meeting, given by a
lady to a cavalier, or by a cavalier to a lady, which had been
disturbed by the presence of dArtagnan and his yellow horse.
Aramis said that as these sorts of affairs were mysterious, it
was better not to fathom them.
They understood, then, from the few words which escaped from
dArtagnan, what affair was in hand, and as they thought that
overtaking his man, or losing sight of him, dArtagnan would
return to his rooms, they kept on their way.
When they entered dArtagnans chamber, it was empty; the
landlord, dreading the consequences of the encounter which was
doubtless about to take place between the young man and the
stranger, had, consistent with the character he had given
himself, judged it prudent to decamp.
9 DARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
As Athos and Porthos had foreseen, at the expiration of a half
hour, dArtagnan returned. He had again missed his man, who had
disappeared as if by enchantment. DArtagnan had run, sword in
hand, through all the neighboring streets, but had found nobody
resembling the man
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