CHAPTER XV.

ATHOS'S DIPLOMACY. D'Artagnan went to bed, not to sleep, but to think over all that he had heard that night. As he was good-hearted, and had once had for Athos a liking, which had grown into a sincere friendship, he was delighted at thus meeting a man of high intelligence and of great moral strength, instead of a weak and debased drunkard. He admitted, without annoyance, the continued superiority of Athos over himself, devoid as he was of that jealousy which might have saddened a less generous disposition: he was d…