Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-11-24

NEW of no with red blood In our
veins ever lose our interest in
deeds of valor and adventure,
and Dumas is a master in his delinea-
ton of soldiers Of fortune-their fatal
craftsmanship, their matchless WELD
Ing of sword and rapier, and their
hairbreadth escapes.
In "Twenty Years After" he pre-
sents his "Three Musketeers" some
what more matured and not as rollick-
ing as when we met them in their early
manhood, but just as ready to cham
pion the needy and unfortunate. IN
Louis XIII Of France is dead. His
son, the king, is but ten years of age,
The mighty Richelieu is in his grave.
Mazarin is cardinal, and though but a
ghost of his illuStriOus predecessor, he
holds almost absolute control over the
Queen-Anne of Austria.
The conditions are opportune for a
story of personal daring and bloody en-
counter.
Mazarin is an Italian and is uni
versally hated. Paris is leagued
against the ministry, and the soldiers
of the royal guard are attacked and
their lieutenant = Cummings is
wounded. Everywhere there are fore
bodings and cries of "DoYn with MAJ
arin." The cardinal DISCUSSES himself
and inspects the city. He finds the
"Frondeurs"-the insurrectiOnists-
full sway. Somehow he must secure
trusty servants or downfall awaits
him. D'Artagnan, the lieutenant Of
the musketeers, is recommended, to-
gether with his three sturdy col
leagues. Count de Rochefort is brought
from confinement in the Bastile to tes-
tify to D'Artagnan's allegiance, and
is freed by the mob while being taken
back to prison. Mazarin is in despair
and tells the queen that ..the whole
world conspires to break their bonds"
and D'Artagnan is directed to find his
three friends and attach them to the
royal service. Aramis-Abbe D'Her-
blay-is an Scclesiastic in love with
Madame de Longueville. He hates the
cardinal and refuses.
Porthos--the giant-living in lux
ury as Monsieur de Valon de Bracieux
de Pierrefonds. desires above all else
to be a baron. He enlists.
Athos- Monsieur de la Fere-re-
formed from drink and devoted to
young ward-viscount de Bragelonne
lis still, as Of old, noble-minded
lover Of the people, and will not serve
the cardinal.
Two for and two against Mazarin,
therefore the musketeers make their
way to Paris, where there is great
excitement because Of a prophecy that
Due de Beaufort-the grandson on
Henry ~ and the idol of the populace
will escape from the dungeon Of Vim
cennes before Whitsuntide. Beaufort
hates Mazarin and uses ingenious
means Of ridiculing him. Grimaud, a
Of Athos, is set to guard him,
and he, with Count de Rochefort, eff
tect his escapei and D'Artagnan and
Porthos, seeking to recapture him,
have an encounter in which they are
taken prisoner by Athos and Aramis,
but are SET free and the four pledge
mutual friendship. Meanwhile the
for Instruction are in
tensified and a new ally Of the popu-
ace cause Is found In Able Scarron
-''the queens invalid" who Is In con-
.rol Of the mendicants Of Paris and
whose pension has been cut on BY
Another important charac-
.er Is also introduced at this juncture
"a wounded soldier calls for a priest, |
ind he who responds proves to be the |
Monk Mordaunt. a desperate charac-
.er whose sole aim Is to ayenge the
ieath OF his mother. IN which the |
Three Musketeers" participated. |
Learning from the man to whom he
ninistered that be had been the ex-
lcationer Of Miladg Mordaunt stahs