CHAPTER L.

THE INTERVIEW WITH THE QUEEN. That morning d'Artagnan was sleeping in Porthos's chamber. It was a custom that the two friends had adopted since the disturbances. Their swords were under the bolster, and their pistols were on a table within reach of their hands. D'Artagnan was still asleep, and dreaming that the sky was covered by a yellow cloud, that a shower of gold was falling from this cloud, and that he was holding his hat under a rain-spout. As for Porthos, he dreamed that the panels of his carriage had not su…