The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-01

which M. de Trev1lle arrived at the palace. As captain of the musketeers, M. de Treville had the right of entree at all times.
 1t is we'll known how violent the kings prcjudices were against, the queen and how carefully these preju- dices were kept up by the cardinal, who in affairs of intrigue mistrusted women much more than men. One of the principal causes of this prejudice was the friendship of Anne of Austria for Mime. de Chevreuse. In his eyes and to his perfect conviction Mime. de Chevreuse not only served the queen in her political intrigues, but. which troubled him still more, in her love affairs.
 At the first word the cardinal spoke of Mime. de Chevreuse, who, though exiled to Tours and who was believed to be in that city, had been at Paris, , remained there five days and had out witted the police, the king flew into a furious passion Although capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Faithful
 But when the cardinal added that not only Mime. de Chevreuse had been in Paris, but, still further, that the queen had corresponded with her; when he affirmed that he, the cardinal, was about to unravel the most closely twisted thread of this intrigue; when as the moment of arresting in the fact with all the proofs about her, the queens emissary to the exiled duchess musketeer had dared to interrupt the course of justice violently by falling, sword in hand, upon the honest men Of the law charged with Investigating Impartially the whole affair in order to place it before the eyes of the king, Louis XIII could not contain himself, and he made step toward the queens apartment with that pale and mute in dignation which when it broke out led this prince to the commission of the coldest cruelty.
 And yet in all this the cardinal had not yet said word about the Duke of Buckingham.
 At this instant M. de Treville entered, cold, polite and in irreproachable cos tune. Rendered aware of what had passed by the presence of the cardinal and the alterati ton in the kings counte nance, M. de Treville felt himself some thing like Samson before the, Philis. tines.
 'Ycu arrive in good time, monsieur" said the king, who, when his passions were raised to certain point, could not >dissemble; "I have learned some pretty things concerning your musket- eers."
 "And l." said M. de Treville, coldly, 'T have some pretty things to inform your majesty of concerning these men of the robe. have the honor to in- form your majesty that party of DO lice have taken upon themselves to throw into the Fort PEveque, all upon an order which they have refused to show me, one of my, or rather your musketeers, sire, of irreproachable con- duct, M. Athos.
 I'M Athos went to pay visit to one of his friends, at the time absent, to a young Bearnais, cadet in his ma jesty's guards, the company of M. Des- sessart, but scarcely had he arrived at his friends and taken up a book while waiting his return when crowd of bailiffs and soldiers mixed, came and laid siege to the house and broke open several dOors"-
 ooh, we all know that!'' interrupted the king; flor all that was done sfor our service"
 "Then," said Treville, 'it was for your majesty's service that one of my musketeers, who was innocent, has been paraded through the midst of an insolent populace."
 '..Bahv' said the king, who began to be shaken, twas it managed SOP"
 ''M. de Treville," said the cardinal, with the greatest phlegm, "does not tell your majesty that this innocent musketeer, this gallant man, had only an hour before attacked, sword in hand, four commissaries of inquiry, who were delegated by me to examine into an affair of the highest impor- tance.''
 s1 defy your eminence to prove it, cried M. de.Treville. with his Gascon freedom and military roughness, "for one hour before M. Athos, who, I will confide it to your majesty, is really a man of the highest quality, did me the honor, after having dined with me, to be conversing in the salon of my hotel with M. the Duke de Ia Ire mouille and M. le Comte de Chalus. who happened to be there."
 The king looked at the cardinal.
 "A proces verbal attests it," said the cardinal.
 "And, sire, is this proces verbal of men of the robe to be placed in com parison with the word of honor of a man of the sword?' replied Trevil1e haughtily ''If his eminence entertains any suspicion against one of my mus keteers the justice of M. the Cardinal is sufficiently well known to induce me, myself, to demand an inquiry"
 'In the house in which this judicial inquiry was made" continued the i'm passable cardinal, there lodges, be- lieve, young Bearnais, friend of the musketeers. M. d'Artagnan."
 ''Yes, your eminence.''
 "Do you not suspect this young man of having given bad advice"-
 Gro Be Continued.)