CHAPTER XXIV.

D'ARTAGNAN ARRIVES AT THE RIGHT MOMENT. At Blois, d'Artagnan received the money paid to him by Mazarin for any future services he might render the Cardinal. From Blois to Paris was a journey of four days for ordinary travellers, but d'Artagnan arrived on the third day at the Barrière Saint Denis. In turning the corner of the Rue Montmarre, in order to reach the Rue Tiquetonne and the Hôtel de la Chevrette, where he had requested Porthos to meet him, he saw at one of the windows of the hotel, his friend Porthos, dre…