CHAPTER III.

TWO OLD ENEMIES. D'Artagnan reached the Bastille just as it was striking half-past eight. His visit was announced to the governor, who, on hearing that he came from the Cardinal, went to meet him, and received him at top of the great flight of steps outside the door. The governor of the Bastille was Monsieur du Tremblay, the brother of the famous Capuchin Joseph, that fearful favourite of Richelieu's who went by the name of the Gray Cardinal. During the period that the Duc de Bassompierre passed in the Bastille--wh…