The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-18
(Conunued.) CHAPTER 1T.

CHAPTER 1T.
 Tho Antsehambsr of N. dc Trsvilis. RRYE must remember that F crowns was just the amount that was left in DArta-
 gnAn's purse.
 The hoet had ,reckoned upon eleven dayU of confinement at crown . day, but he ,had reckoned without his guest. On the following morning at o'clock D,Artssnan arose, and. descending to the Kitchen, composed his mothers babam, with which he anointed his numerous wounds, replacing his ban dages himself and positively refusing the aasistance of any doctor. He was almost cured by the morrow.
 But when the time came to pay hds reckoning D'Artagnan found nothing in his pocket but his little old velvet pure with the IF crowns it contained. Al to the letter addressed to M. de Treville, 1t had disappeared.
 The young man commenced his search for tho letter with the greatest patience, but when he had come to the conviction that the letter was not to be found he flew into a rage and fhreatensd to destroy everything in the establishment if his letter were not 1ound
 s1Ey letter of reeommendationr' cried D,ArtAgnan My letter of recommen- datien. or will spit you all like 50 many crtoaansr'
 Unfortunately there was one circum- stAnce which created . powerful ob- st1cle to the accomplishment of this threaE Which was. - we have re.1 lated that his sword had been in his nfBt confict broken in two and which he had perfectly forgotten.
 'sWhere b this letterT' cried he. .T wan yes that that letter Is for M. de Treville. and 1t must be found. If 1t be not quickly found he will know how to cause 1t to be found. I'll an- swer for itr,
 This threat int1midated the host After the king and the cardinal M. de TreviIle was the man whose name was perhaps most frequently repeated by the military and even by citizens. He commenced an earnest search for ' the lost letter
 Docs the letter contain anything valulble!' demanded the host after q few minutes of useless investigation.
 ''Zounds! I think 1t does indeed!" cried the Gascon, who reckoned upon this letter for making his way at court 'It contained my fortune I would fathef have lost thousand pis- toles than have lost it."
 A ray of. light all at once broke upon the mind of the host, as he was giving himself to the devil upon flnd- ing nothing
 That letter is not lostr" cried he. '.It has been stolen"
 ''Stolen! By whom4"
 @By the gentleman who was here yesterday. He came down into the kitchen, where your doublet was. He remained there some lime alone"
 'sThen that's the man that has rob- bed me-" replied D'Artagnan. 'T will complain to M. de Treville, and M. de Treville will complain to the king" He then drew 2 crowns majestically from his purse, gave them to the host and remounted his yellow horse, which bore him without any further accident to the gate of St. Antoine at Paris, where his owner sold him for . crowns
 Thus DArtagnan entered Paris on foot, carrying his little packet under his arm, and walked about till he found m apartment to be let on terms suited to the scantiness of his means This chamber was a sort of garret situated in the Rue des Fossoyeurs, near the Luxembourg.
 As soon as the earnest penny was paid D'Artagnan went to the Quai de Ferraille to have a new blade put to his sword and then returned toward the Louvre, inquiring of the first mus keteef he met with for the situation of the hotel of M. de TrevilIe.
 M- de Troisville, as his family was stin called in Gascony, or M. de Trevi1le, as he had ended by styling himself in Paris, had really commenc- cd life as DArtagnan now aid, with out . sou in his pocket, but with a fund of courage, shrewdness and intel ligence that makes the poorest Gascon gentleman often derive more in his hope from the paternal inheritance than the richest Pengordian or Ser richan gentleman derives in reality from his. His insolent bravery, his sun more insolent success at a time when blows poured down like hail, had borne him to the top of that lad der called court favor, which he had climbed four steps at time.
 Louis XIII. had real liking for Ire vile, royal liking, selfish liking, it is true, but which was still a liking. At that unhappy period it was an i'm portnnt consideration to be surrounded by such men as De Treville. Many might take for their device the epithet af stxQ1e. which formed -he second