The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21

1oO Will get me out IT they put me there," said D'Artagnan.
 "To be sure we will," replied Aramis ard Porthos, with admirable prompt ness and decision, as if that were the simplest thing in the world.
 'sLet us do better than that" said Athos. "Do not let us leave him dur ing the whole evening. Let each of us wait at a gate of the palace with musketeer behind him. If we see any carriage with closed windows and of at all suspicious appearance come out, let us fall upon it. It is long time since we have had skirmfsh with the guards of M. le Cardinal. M. de Ire vile must think us dead"
 "Admirabler'' said the young men in chorus.
 Well" said Porthos, '.I will run to the hotel and engage our comrades to hold themselves in readiness by 8 o'clock, the rendezvous the Place du Palais Cardinal. In the meantime you see that the lackeys saddle the horses"
 A quarter of an hour afterward Por. thos appeared at the end of the Rue Ferou, mounted upon a very hand some horse, the gift of Mime. Coque- snard. Mousqueton followed him upon an Auvergne horse, small, but very good looking. Porthos was resplend- ent with joy and pride.
 At the same time Aramis made his appearance at the other end of the street upon superb English charger; Bazin followed him upon a roan.
 The two musketeers met at the gate, Athos and D'Artasnan watching their apprnach from the 9oysa ase;l s.,.
 UArtaenan a1i7| xflsos $ csne .s;l us,s down got Into their sasdies and an four set forward -Athos upon, a horse he owed to 2 woman, Aranis on a horse he owed to his mistress, Porthosf on a horse he owed to the lawyers wife and D'Artagnan on 8. horse which he had purchased and which he owed to his good fortune, the best mistress pos sible. The lackeys followed.
 A short gallop brought them to. the road of Chaillot; the: day began to de- cline, carriages were passing and re. passing. D'Artagnan, keeping at some distance from his friends, darted a scrutinizing glance into every carriage that appeared, but saw no face with which he was acquainted.
 At length, after waiting quarter of an hour and just as twilight was be ginning to thicken, a carriage appear ed coming at quick pace on the road of Sevres. A presentiment instantly told D'Artagnan that this carriage con- tained the person who had appointed the rendezvous; the young man was himself astonished to find his heart beat so violently. Almost instantly a female head was put out at the win dow, with two fingers placed upon her mouth, either to enjoin silence or to send him a kiss. D'Artagnan uttered a slight cry of joy. This woman, or, rather, this apparition, for the car- riage passed with the rapidity Of a vision, was Mime. Bonacieux
 By an involuntary movement and in spite of the injunction given D'krta- Gnan put his horse into gallop and in a few strides overlook the carriage. but the window was close shut; the vision had disappeared.
 D'Artagnan then remembered the in- junction, If you value your own life or that of those who love you remain motionless and as if you had seen nothing"
 He stopped, therefore, trembling, not for himself, but for the poor woman who had evidently exposed herself to < great danger by appointing this ren- X dezvous.
 E The carriage pursued it's way, still going at a great pace, till 1t dashed into Paris and disappeared.
 They reached the Rue St. Honore, and in the Place du Palais Cardinal they found the twelve convoked mus keteers walking about in expectation of their comrades. There only they made them acquainted with the mat ter in question.
 Athos divided them into three groups, assumed the command of one, gave the second to Aramis and the third to Porthos, and then each group went and took a position for watching near an entrance.
 D'Artagnan on his part entered at the front gate. "
 eff De Wardes has, related all our affair to the cardinal, which is not to be doubted and If he has recognized me, which Is probable, may consider myself almost as a condemned man, said he to himself, shaking his head But why has he waited till now Humph! That's all plain enough .Milady has laid her complaint against me with that hypocritical grief which renders her so interesting, and this last offense has made the cup over. flow. D'Artagnan. my friend, you are brave, you are prudent, you have ex' cellent qualities, but the women will ruin you"
 In this waiting room were five ol six of the cardinals guards, who rec agnized D'Artagnan. and. kn0Ninr