CHAPTER LXXXIX.

THE PEN MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD. D'Artagnan knew his part well; he was aware that opportunity has a forelock only for him who will take it, and he was not a man to let it go by without seizing it. He soon arranged a prompt and certain manner of travelling, by sending relays of horses to Chantilly, so that he could be in Paris in five or six hours. Nothing was known at Saint Germain about Mazarin's disappearance, except by the queen, who concealed, to her friends even, her uneasiness. She had heard all about the two…