CHAPTER LVII.

OLIVER CROMWELL. "Have you been to the general?" said Mordaunt to d'Artagnan and Porthos; "you know he sent for you after the action." "We went first to put our prisoners in a safe place," replied d'Artagnan. "Do you know, sir, these gentlemen are each of them worth fifteen hundred pounds?" "Oh! be assured," said Mordaunt, looking at them with an expression he in vain endeavoured to soften, "my soldiers will guard them--and guard them securely, I promise you." "I shall take better care of them myself," answered d'A…