CHAPTER LXXVIII.

THE GENERALISSIMO'S THREE LIEUTENANTS. According to arrangement, Athos and Aramis, on leaving the Hôtel du Grand Charlemagne, proceeded to the Duc de Bouillon's hotel. The night was dark, and the town still resounded with all those noises which disclose a city in a state of siege. Athos and Aramis did not proceed a hundred steps without being stopped by sentinels placed before the barricades, who asked them the password; and on their saying that they were going to Monsieur de Bouillon on a mission of importance, a …