CHAPTER LXXIII.

IN THE OPEN BOAT. D'Artagnan, as may be imagined, heard all these details with increasing interest. He awoke Aramis, Athos, and Porthos; and then, stretching out his arms, and closing them again, the Gascon collected in one small circle the three heads of his friends, so near as almost to touch each other. He then explained to them under whose command the vessel was in which they were sailing that night; that they had Groslow their captain, and Mordaunt acting under him as his lieutenant. Something more deathlike t…