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00:01:30 #1 Never shown a bright upon with me to France of old,
00:01:37 #2 to fiery days when ha and friendship
00:01:47 #3 breached its peak with men.
00:01:49 #4 Friends were friends in those brave days.
00:01:58 #5 Stig Fraser, populace and joy a general holiday.
00:02:39 #6 Majesty Louis XIII, king of France,
00:03:03 #7 maintaining his royal authority through the wits of others.
00:03:06 #8 He is himself weak and vain and lives
00:03:09 #9 in the oily smiles of a small circle of favorites.
00:03:14 #10 The court is alive with intrigue.
00:03:16 #11 There are parties within parties, conspiracies beyond conspiracies, plots and counterplots.
00:03:23 #12 His Eminence Monsignor the Cardinal Duke de Richer.
00:03:34 #13 He is the greatest statesman of the day and manipulates the strings which guide the king.
00:03:40 #14 His is the real power, subtle, cunning and often ruthless.
00:03:46 #15 Still no one questions his devotion to the glorious kingdom of France.
00:03:50 #16 On this auspicious morning, the king pays a state visit to his queen.
00:04:01 #17 It is the custom for the sovereign and his courtiers to attend the expectant royal mother until his child is born.
00:04:07 #18 D'Artagnan of the king's musketeers.
00:04:22 #19 Relieved of his duties at court for the day, he hurries to the home of his sweetheart, Constance Buonessier.
00:04:29 #20 Constance is seamstress to the queen and is expected at the palace so she cannot tarry long.
00:04:36 #21 By error can sometimes kiss a miss or miss a kiss.
00:04:54 #22 Rives for Constance.
00:05:15 #23 She carries an infant's lay at an accrocheted basket for the queen.
00:05:19 #24 Swan caress.
00:05:26 #25 A kiss truly is a delicate plant requiring privacy to grow into a tender blossom.
00:06:29 #26 The dream of all lovers.
00:06:32 #27 The Cathedral of Notre Dame remind D'Artagnan of his friend and fellow musketeer,
00:07:36 #28 Arimis.
00:07:37 #29 He might be in danger.
00:07:41 #30 Aramis had threatened to continue his flirtations with the pretty owner of a roving provocative
00:07:47 #31 eye who unfortunately is married to an officer in the Cardinals' guards.
00:07:52 #32 The guardsman naturally resents these attentions from this musketeer, but is restrained.
00:07:58 #33 Has not the Cardinal forbidden these duels with the King's musketeers?
00:08:03 #34 Hoila!
00:08:04 #35 Famous battle cry of the musketeers.
00:08:07 #36 The help comes from the most fearsome steel in the kingdom.
00:08:12 #37 Huge poorthos, brave, strong, a king's musketeer.
00:08:16 #38 And musketeer Athos, gentle Athos.
00:08:19 #39 Yet a deadly swordsman is able to kill with his left hand
00:08:21 #40 as with the right.
00:08:27 #41 D'Artagnan!
00:08:30 #42 The battle is forming.
00:08:32 #43 The Cardinal's Guards.
00:08:34 #44 This is no private fight then, eh?
00:08:36 #45 The musketeers against the Cardinal's Guard
00:08:38 #46 had started before D'Artagnan was born.
00:08:40 #47 What are the odds? One, two, three, four, five, six, ten guards to four, five to two, two and a half to one?
00:08:45 #48 Too simple.
00:08:47 #49 Draw your skewer, Mr. Half-Gardsman. Let's measure half a point.
00:08:53 #50 On guard!
00:08:54 #51 Where's your challenge now? Where's your steel? What's your fear, the law?
00:09:01 #52 Does the Cardinal still ban a friendly fight with a musketeer or two?
00:09:13 #53 Porthos, as always, is thirsty. He has capacity.
00:09:17 #54 Dark Tinian, with his quicker eye, has a more bountiful drinking source.
00:09:22 #55 Both of us can put out a hand and pick up the potty slavers for a
00:09:32 #56 why waste energy walking. Come driver come inside with us.
00:09:37 #57 The old driver swears his wagon is damaged his master will skin him his horse is loose
00:09:56 #58 he has a terrible wife he has trouble everybody is mean to him he has to be mean too.
00:10:01 #59 Now take your temper out on me good friend.
00:10:09 #60 Now, feel better. Now we can talk.
00:10:12 #61 I'll win you the price of your horse and more.
00:10:14 #62 Come, Guardsman, I challenge you to game.
00:10:16 #63 This is not forbidden, you.
00:10:18 #64 The dice are kind.
00:10:29 #65 Here's 20 times your price.
00:10:31 #66 Luck riding high, the Artanian returns to the dice game.
00:11:19 #67 Laughing and playing a while longer,
00:11:21 #68 he wins hands down from a fat-headed Guardsman
00:11:24 #69 while waiting for the late evening rendezvous with Constance.
00:11:28 #70 with Constance.
00:11:32 #71 Porthos too has women on his mind.
00:11:36 #72 For the musketeers ever lost in fair fight.
00:12:06 #73 Of course it has to be with a fair sex.
00:12:09 #74 The first time in his life a panic-stricken Porthos screams a terrified,
00:12:18 #75 Noila!
00:12:20 #76 Athos hears him.
00:12:23 #77 Aramis springs bravely to the side of his comrades
00:12:26 #78 and they flee together.
00:12:28 #79 But D'Artagnan, he is only the pounding of a lover's heart.
00:12:33 #80 As the flood of battle at last sweeps close to him, he leaps to meet the foe.
00:12:38 #81 Plois is so as. He will fight, yes? No, yes, no, he won't.
00:12:41 #82 Your indeed discretion is the better part of valor.
00:12:45 #83 Caught between the sea devils and the deep blue sea?
00:12:48 #84 They choose the water.
00:12:51 #85 And the city is infirmate.
00:12:54 #86 They choose the water.
00:12:57 #87 The city is infirm.
00:13:25 #88 The pressure beyond the gates is so great that the people are admitted to the courtyard.
00:13:30 #89 A joining the Queen's apartment, Constance prepares the Laet.
00:13:37 #90 She is informed by Father Joseph, the Cardinals' trusted henchman of the imminence of the royal birth.
00:14:24 #91 So a prince is born to France.
00:14:27 #92 One day to become Louis XIV.
00:14:29 #93 My ancient custom, his royal father presents him to the people.
00:14:44 #94 But in the queen's bedroom, another cry is heard.
00:15:02 #95 One of those rare turns of destiny.
00:15:04 #96 And Constance is the first to warn the tired, dozing midwife.
00:15:08 #97 Father Joseph grasps the vast consequences of this extraordinary event.
00:15:43 #98 This news must be conveyed discreetly to Carton and Richelieu before it gets abroad.
00:15:47 #99 He writes a message inside the wrapper of some medicine.
00:15:50 #100 Intense it for the Cardinal's eyes alone.
00:15:53 #101 Your medicine, your eminence.
00:15:55 #102 The Duke de Rochefort, conniving head of the most powerful faction and court,
00:16:00 #103 working always in self-interest against the king and cardinal, pretending loyalty to both.
00:16:13 #104 The necessity for caution on the part of Father Joseph is indeed well founded.
00:16:26 #105 De Rochefort, having many times seen messages thus taken to his eminence, becomes inquisitive.
00:16:31 #106 He resolves by a simple trick to learn the secret pass to the cardinal.
00:16:35 #107 It resolves by a simple trick to learn the secret past of the cardinal.
00:16:42 #108 A substitution of scraps of paper.
00:17:02 #109 Realizes that enemies of the regime can do irreparable damage.
00:17:06 #110 Two heirs to the throne.
00:17:09 #111 Two rival parties of courtiers.
00:17:11 #112 More quarrels, more bloodshed.
00:17:14 #113 Poor France, helpless, torn between two factions.
00:17:20 #114 The secret of the twins must indeed be forever guarded.
00:17:24 #115 The French is to have peace.
00:17:26 #116 And if he, the cardinal, is to retain his power.
00:17:29 #117 No pretender this a true prince.
00:17:39 #118 Derochetville sees an opportunity.
00:17:42 #119 Father Joseph is instructed to prepare for a long voyage.
00:17:45 #120 The cardinal has a plan.
00:17:58 #121 He sends a page to summon Derochetville.
00:18:00 #122 The letter Constance shares possession of a great secret.
00:18:22 #123 One so sacred it might well spell the future of France.
00:18:25 #124 The cardinal charges her to keep her lips sealed.
00:18:29 #125 Richelieu entrusts the wily Derochefort with Constance's safety.
00:18:47 #126 She must not be permitted to see anyone until further notice.
00:18:50 #127 The cardinal is not at liberty to tell his reasons,
00:18:53 #128 but Derochefort is making his own plans.
00:18:58 #129 In accordance with the cardinal's command, Father Joseph, accompanied by the midwife,
00:19:07 #130 secretly takes the twin away to the Spanish border.
00:19:12 #131 The child shall be raised as a commoner with no knowledge of his royal birth.
00:19:16 #132 Meanwhile, in the great ballroom, the king holds a reception in honor of his firstborn.
00:19:30 #133 Had he known the cradle should have held two sons, he might have been less self-satisfied
00:19:34 #134 with the Cardinals' congratulations.
00:19:36 #135 To the notorious milledie de Winter, de Rochefort comes to reveal this chance of fate.
00:19:47 #136 The future of France may be in their hands.
00:19:50 #137 He tells her he will turn Constance over to her.
00:19:52 #138 She is to escort Constance to the confant of Saint-Gimel.
00:19:55 #139 They are forced her to tell the whole of the Cardinals' secret and plans.
00:19:59 #140 He will play one against the other, cardinal against king for his own ambition.
00:20:04 #141 One of the chair carriers runs with the news to the musketeers barracks.
00:21:07 #142 Darchanian, wake up!
00:21:09 #143 Constance taken by force!
00:21:11 #144 By Derochev!
00:21:12 #145 Hang the tank!
00:21:37 #146 Illy Cheetahs in no mood to cross steel with this angry Gascon bet on justice.
00:22:01 #147 Thugs are powerless to help.
00:22:24 #148 Constance's abduction by Milady de Winter.
00:24:41 #149 Court reached the well to confront the Duke.
00:24:54 #150 This is that he is indeed played traitor.
00:25:22 #151 The force stripping him of his authority and titles
00:25:29 #152 banished from both court and country forever.
00:25:31 #153 Bearing for the safety of Constance,
00:25:41 #154 the Cardinal speeds in pursuit of Milady de Winter.
00:25:44 #155 He ford dorm the next morning,
00:25:51 #156 the Convent of Saint-Gimel.
00:25:53 #157 Milady de Winter assures the unsuspecting nuns
00:26:08 #158 her prisoner is an enemy of the state.
00:26:10 #159 to be confined to the convent on orders of the Cardinal.
00:26:13 #160 Vanished to Roshfor, smarting under his humiliations,
00:26:23 #161 lingers in Paris.
00:26:25 #162 All is not lost.
00:26:27 #163 He uses the last of his wealth in a desperate gamble
00:26:30 #164 and buys the services of Ruffians.
00:26:33 #165 The Cardinal.
00:26:42 #166 And assassinate him.
00:26:45 #167 Next, find Artanian and his three musketeer friends
00:26:48 #168 and put them to the sword.
00:26:50 #169 The Rochefort still dreams of himself in terms of the most powerful man in France.
00:27:04 #170 The path to power is open.
00:27:07 #171 If Meledie de Winter secures the secret from Constance,
00:27:11 #172 the feds and the honeyed entreaties,
00:27:27 #173 the unscrupulous Meledie de Winter seeks to cajole Constance into telling all she knows.
00:27:32 #174 Bonassieu is not here.
00:27:59 #175 He hears her voice, all for one.
00:28:18 #176 Musketeers take Meledie de Winter to her punishment,
00:30:19 #177 from the mother superior.
00:31:21 #178 All in concert with her.
00:31:22 #179 The musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis,
00:31:31 #180 enrage, take the law into their own hands
00:31:33 #181 and deliver the murderers to the public executioner.
00:31:35 #182 Don't close in on the Cardinals' truth.
00:32:47 #183 Some distance away, the musketeers
00:32:48 #184 are captured by their deadliest rivals.
00:32:51 #185 The Cardinals' guard formally arrests the musketeers
00:32:53 #186 for continuing to take the law into their own hands.
00:33:00 #187 Disarmed, the musketeers are set against the wall
00:33:02 #188 for execution.
00:33:05 #189 Your guards would take the lives of my friends.
00:33:12 #190 Single-handed they shall have revenge. The cardinal asks a moment to ponder.
00:33:19 #191 Constance dead. A murderous executed.
00:33:23 #192 Enough blood has been shed. Now this strife tricks musketeer and guard shall end.
00:33:40 #193 Dartanian's pleas saves his friends. But there's to be a harsh penalty.
00:33:45 #194 Rishaliu's plan concerns the state and these continuing disputes between his guard and the king's musketeers.
00:33:51 #195 The four musketeers must separate, never to come together again on pain of death.
00:33:56 #196 His judgment, oh, a sorry day.
00:34:00 #197 The musketeers are banished, each to his own province, never to visit Paris again,
00:34:06 #198 nor set foot beyond the bounds of his own fields.
00:34:10 #199 As for you, d'Artagnan, a splendid soldier, reliable, devoted to you,
00:34:24 #200 You henceforth shall be bodyguard of the future king, beloved of France, the nation's one.
00:34:31 #201 That one fell swoop all strife is done.
00:34:35 #202 The musketeers prepare for their banishment.
00:34:41 #203 Godspeed, farewell.
00:34:44 #204 Eternal friendship, it shall not fall.
00:34:55 #205 All for one, and one for all.
00:35:00 #206 Five years have passed. France is at peace.
00:35:23 #207 The infant prince grows to boyhood. Cardinal Richelieu driven hard by the responsibilities of high office lives in semi-retirement.
00:35:32 #208 And a royal father educates his son in courtly etiquette.
00:35:38 #209 In failing health his eminence lives an hourly expectation of death.
00:35:52 #210 Troubled by word that the second twin bears an identical likeness to the heir.
00:35:59 #211 The dangers inherent are obvious and weigh heavily on the Cardinal's mind.
00:36:19 #212 He decides he must protect the Prince somehow.
00:36:22 #213 His eminence provides that the rightful twin may always be identified from the other.
00:36:26 #214 For the aid of the court jeweler he caused a gold doubloon to be broken.
00:36:31 #215 The smaller piece hangs on a chain around the throat of the infant prince.
00:36:37 #216 And its mate, he places about the neck of Captain D'Artagnan.
00:36:47 #217 And so, by joining the pieces, the true heir to the throne of France
00:36:51 #218 and the prince's first guardian are known to one another for all time.
00:36:56 #219 He starts to say,
00:36:58 #220 I hold a secret.
00:37:00 #221 But the chill hand is upon him.
00:37:03 #222 The life spring ebbs.
00:37:05 #223 And the great voice is silenced.
00:37:08 #224 A great statesman passes into history.
00:37:26 #225 The church loses a noble servant.
00:37:29 #226 And the ship of state is without its pilot.
00:37:32 #227 What was this secret that Richelieu in Constance shared?
00:37:39 #228 The other one.
00:37:45 #229 Across the Spanish border, the Prince's twin brother is reared by servants of the late gardener.
00:37:50 #230 The banished to Rochefort living nearby holds the twin under his very eye.
00:37:56 #231 He bides his time.
00:37:58 #232 He is only to wait patiently for the proper day.
00:38:01 #233 Upon the death of Louis XIII, the heir to the throne of the Dauphin, as he was called,
00:38:14 #234 became Francis King Louis XIV.
00:38:16 #235 Both he and his twin had grown to manhood.
00:38:20 #236 The brothers are alike as two peas and a pod.
00:38:22 #237 A few years have passed and more, since Richard you bent his iron will to break the bonds that held us for.
00:38:38 #238 But Porthos, Athos, Aramis, I will ride once more.
00:38:43 #239 Once more will he declare in call, of all for one, and one for all.
00:38:49 #240 During the years, D'Roshfor's connivings have brought the exiled twin under his control.
00:39:00 #241 Secretly they have returned to Paris.
00:39:03 #242 Hiroshfor has lavished upon the usurper the trappings of royalty,
00:39:06 #243 teaching him to copy even the handwriting of his brother, the king.
00:39:10 #244 Yet the quality of the spirit so generous in the king is replaced in the brother by
00:39:14 #245 hatred and viciousness. King's valor to Hiroshfor's spy brings
00:39:27 #246 long-awaited news. Within the week, an older dark
00:39:31 #247 tanyin after a lifetime of loyal service will retire and leave the court.
00:39:36 #248 The young king will be without a bodyguard. Every detail of their plan
00:39:40 #249 The map.
00:39:41 #250 The centuries to overpower.
00:39:43 #251 The secret approach to the royal apartment.
00:39:46 #252 The signals.
00:39:48 #253 The Rochefort tells the pretender,
00:39:50 #254 you will be His Majesty Louis XIV King of France.
00:40:15 #255 Louis XIV King of France spends D'Artagnan's last day in fun mangayety.
00:40:20 #256 The king has applied himself to an education in horsemanship,
00:40:24 #257 sportsmanship, and swordsmanship.
00:40:27 #258 No two men were ever closer except they were father and son.
00:40:32 #259 D'Artagnan enters the royal bedchamber to bid the king goodbye.
00:41:08 #260 Tonight he feels happy. His service is done. His king is secure. The state is safe.
00:41:12 #261 But by some odd premonition the coins are matched on this final night of parting.
00:41:18 #262 A delightful evening with the king.
00:41:20 #263 Captain D'Artagnan arrives outside his lodging and is amazed to find himself beset by ruffians.
00:41:59 #264 He's not a man who can be himself beset by roughings.
00:42:01 #265 Angrily, the Gascon plans his battle.
00:42:03 #266 First, he deals with the Dagaman decoy,
00:42:05 #267 sticks him with his own blade,
00:42:07 #268 throws the man's cape to the edge of an open sewer,
00:42:09 #269 places his own cape over the decoy's body
00:42:11 #270 and fires his own pistol.
00:42:15 #271 Hey, oh, spawn to the balcony.
00:42:17 #272 The thoughtful D'Artagnan returns to his lodging.
00:42:44 #273 For a peaceful man to be way-laid on a city street
00:42:47 #274 is something new.
00:42:49 #275 He had spent the evening with his king.
00:42:53 #276 He reflects.
00:42:55 #277 Has the palace discipline been slackling too?
00:42:58 #278 Centuries were not where they should have been.
00:43:01 #279 His soldierly heart is disturbed for the safety of his king.
00:43:05 #280 Rochefort's plan is working without a hitch.
00:43:23 #281 Centuries at the outer gate have been overpowered.
00:43:26 #282 Entry is forced into the inner quadrangle.
00:43:29 #283 The palace is entered through a servant's post
00:43:31 #284 Post and leading to long forgotten sellers.
00:43:35 #285 Success.
00:43:36 #286 No sound.
00:43:37 #287 No word.
00:43:39 #288 No warning.
00:43:40 #289 The pretender waits impatiently below for the deed which will make him king.
00:44:18 #290 In the anti-room to the king's bedchamber,
00:44:20 #291 Derochefort's maggot awaits his master's signal,
00:44:23 #292 ready for the final treachery.
00:44:25 #293 And a little after 11 o'clock on this fateful night,
00:44:52 #294 night. In one tragic moment, France loses her rightful king. Uncertain if he dreams or not,
00:45:25 #295 King Louis XIV surrounded by strangers looks unbelievably at a venomously mirrored likeness
00:45:30 #296 of himself. The usurper watches his royal brother with a lifetime of hate. The Rochefort's
00:45:43 #297 plans have been cleverly checked and double checked. He means to hold the true king
00:45:47 #298 of prisoner as a threat over the head of the usurper should he rebel against his
00:45:51 #299 commands. At Derochefort's order, his cohorts stripped the king of his night attire and in
00:45:58 #300 exchange, dress him in the usurpers' clothes. Into the palace cellars, the messenger reports
00:46:17 #301 breathlessly. D'Artagnan is dead. His body thrown in the river. Complete triumph at last.
00:46:36 #302 Iron Mask. An invention of the devil. An iron mask, a prison within a prison, is
00:46:42 #303 placed over the head of the rightful King Louis XIV
00:46:45 #304 and locked at the neck, his countenance concealed from all men.
00:46:51 #305 The true king is led away.
00:47:11 #306 In the quiet of the royal apartments,
00:47:13 #307 the true king's bed is occupied by the usurper.
00:47:16 #308 Trusted servitors have been spirited away.
00:47:19 #309 The twins' lackeys have replaced them.
00:47:21 #310 Tarochefort's plan is complete.
00:47:29 #311 Poor France.
00:47:34 #312 ruled by a youth driven near to lunacy by a solitary childhood
00:47:37 #313 by De Rochefort's lies by his own poisoned dreams.
00:47:41 #314 Truly a madman.
00:47:49 #315 Suffering in human life is proportioned to human strength.
00:47:53 #316 When the young king's stupefied and crushed found himself
00:47:56 #317 led a prisoner to a cell in the Chateau Saint Marguerite
00:47:59 #318 in the south of France, he fancied at first
00:48:02 #319 that death is like sleep and has its dreams.
00:48:06 #320 He believed himself to be a spectator, a palpable phantom of his own suffering.
00:48:12 #321 A torture the more terrible since it might be eternal.
00:48:16 #322 Eternal death.
00:48:19 #323 How can I have died?
00:48:21 #324 I am a king, yet not a king, enthroned upon a funerial couch.
00:48:26 #325 No.
00:48:27 #326 No, dear God, do not punish me, you've done nothing.
00:48:31 #327 Why am I thus punished?
00:48:32 #328 like a cloak that shield of the dungeon falls upon his shoulders.
00:48:39 #329 So dwells the real Louis XIV in the living hell to remain thus the rest of his days.
00:48:47 #330 All was restricted, prevented from seeing her son, determined finally to pay him a visit.
00:49:02 #331 In place of the affectionate and courtly Louis XIV, to her horror she finds herself repulsed.
00:49:15 #332 Doubts. Again doubts.
00:49:19 #333 What strange melody besets my son.
00:49:23 #334 She thinks again of the other one.
00:49:27 #335 The Rochefort hurries to the king's apartment, fearful that a mother's heart has sensed the truth.
00:49:33 #336 In pretensive humility, he asks the queen mother to leave.
00:49:37 #337 Affairs of state.
00:49:41 #338 Push-Four is determined.
00:50:00 #339 This shall not happen again, and whispers death.
00:50:05 #340 Day by day, night upon night, the prisoner prays for some way to get word to D'Artagnan.
00:50:18 #341 The Heavens sent fisherman hoves too.
00:50:21 #342 He finishes scratching a message into Pewter,
00:50:35 #343 and as all good prayers must be, his prayer is answered.
00:50:39 #344 Millet and Mackerel are running, and then a catch, apparently from heaven.
00:50:51 #345 The fisherman reads the name of D'Artagnan, the idol of the nation, a written word, a beloved name, an urgent message.
00:51:06 #346 He, a patriot, needs no urgent.
00:51:09 #347 Paris goes about its daily affairs, unaware that its rightful king languishes in prison,
00:51:28 #348 and the Queen Mother herself faces death as the humble fisherman hastens to D'Artagnan's home.
00:51:34 #349 D'Artagnan stays on in Paris and to his hurt amazement continually finds himself barred from the court.
00:51:41 #350 Day by day, week by week, audience with the king has been refused.
00:51:46 #351 The fisherman blurt's his weird news.
00:51:49 #352 A story hard to believe.
00:51:51 #353 A lonely castle which D'Artagnan knows like the palm of his hand.
00:51:54 #354 A prisoner in an iron mask behind his bars.
00:51:58 #355 But the signature.
00:52:00 #356 an etching of a coin that fits his own exactly.
00:52:19 #357 Come friend, eat and drink.
00:52:20 #358 There is business at last for me at the palace.
00:52:23 #359 Threading his way through the perfumed route of the court's chattering idlers,
00:52:50 #360 D'Artagnan finds himself a stranger in a strange atmosphere.
00:52:54 #361 And there is reason he thinks for this curious tension.
00:52:58 #362 To Rochefort and the King.
00:53:01 #363 This cannot be the boy I helped nurture into manhood.
00:53:04 #364 This is not the face of my king.
00:53:06 #365 Those are not his hands.
00:53:07 #366 That wrist neither parried steel nor engaged a point.
00:53:11 #367 What's been happening at court?
00:53:13 #368 Doroshvore's back in favor of disgraced exile
00:53:16 #369 once more sporting about the throne room in the king's presence?
00:53:19 #370 Tartanian is amazed and shocked.
00:53:22 #371 But a further shock is in store.
00:53:26 #372 A chain and coin has passed to Doroshvore.
00:53:29 #373 If he can believe his eyes in all the years he served the king,
00:53:32 #374 they never left his royal person.
00:53:35 #375 He overhears a snatch of conversation.
00:53:38 #376 The other one.
00:53:40 #377 And suddenly he hears the dying voice of Constance.
00:53:44 #378 The other one.
00:53:48 #379 What did she mean?
00:53:59 #380 A message signed by the royal coin.
00:54:02 #381 A king, not a king.
00:54:04 #382 And a court alive with known traitors.
00:54:07 #383 D'Artagnan smells a rat.
00:54:09 #384 But a rat has seen him and gives warning.
00:54:12 #385 The palace guards are alerted.
00:54:14 #386 All exits barred.
00:54:19 #387 Musketeer.
00:54:40 #388 D'Artagnan orders a king's loyal troop to be hurried to meet him at the Chateau Saint Marguerite.
00:54:53 #389 Couriers are to be dispatched to his old friends the three Musketeers.
00:54:59 #390 Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
00:55:02 #391 Two arms, Musketeers!
00:55:04 #392 Your king has need of you.
00:55:06 #393 One for all.
00:55:08 #394 And all for one.
00:55:10 #395 The jig is up.
00:55:14 #396 D'Artagnan lives and knows this puter plate. Perhaps even now he has reached the prison gate.
00:55:21 #397 The Roshfor cannot believe his future lies in a common plate. Quickly he resolves to end all doubts.
00:55:41 #398 He decides to ride at the head of his troops to prevent any attempt to free the king.
00:55:45 #399 The puzzle D'Artagnan has reached the Chateau Saint-Marguerite.
00:55:59 #400 Certain that his comrades will join him. He rose to the grotto beneath the castle.
00:56:08 #401 beneath the castle.
00:56:10 #402 Many a time as a young officer,
00:56:11 #403 he had patrolled his grotto passage.
00:56:15 #404 He led he new to the arsenal, beyond that, the armory.
00:56:18 #405 Then the main hall and staircase to the tower itself.
00:56:21 #406 Up there is the man in the iron mask,
00:56:24 #407 the writer of the message.
00:56:36 #408 It was his astonishment,
00:56:37 #409 D'Artagnan finds the entrance to the arsenal
00:56:39 #410 as newly walled.
00:57:03 #411 With the hazard it alone is necessary
00:57:17 #412 to the opposite bank to await the arrival of help.
00:57:34 #413 Porthos.
00:57:35 #414 A few years older, a little more grizzled,
00:57:37 #415 the same brave companion as of old,
00:57:39 #416 ready and willing for any gambit.
00:58:43 #417 No time to wait for old Porthos,
00:58:45 #418 no time for explanations.
00:58:47 #419 There's a job to be done.
00:58:49 #420 Forward!
00:58:55 #421 A mix of gunpowder barrels to the main hall
00:58:57 #422 and the tower's staircase itself.
00:59:27 #423 Routed villain.
01:00:06 #424 And you know the voice.
01:00:08 #425 This is true and rightful king, Louis XIV, King of France.
01:00:12 #426 The castle guards, the challenge is met.
01:02:02 #427 Count and thirsty as much for the sight of his companions
01:02:04 #428 as for a little drop of blood.
01:02:07 #429 Of the approach of enemies, price of all,
01:05:20 #430 Athos joins his comrades.
01:05:22 #431 In his own peril, the half-wit half-king
01:05:32 #432 entertains his royal mother at a palace luncheon.
01:05:35 #433 May he says, a private matter.
01:06:08 #434 friends or four.
01:06:13 #435 Tartanian breathes relief.
01:06:15 #436 The king is safe.
01:06:17 #437 God save the king.
01:06:20 #438 The king mother suspects this attempt on her life.
01:06:50 #439 The witches brew.
01:06:53 #440 A subtle poison already responsible
01:06:55 #441 for many an agonizing death.
01:06:58 #442 Raise your glass, madam.
01:07:00 #443 Drink to your king, to your country,
01:07:02 #444 and its illustrious people.
01:07:05 #445 Come, I give you France.
01:07:08 #446 Dare she refuse?
01:07:10 #447 It is the edict of her son, the king.
01:07:13 #448 A warning cry.
01:07:22 #449 Theerper finally gets his rightful crown.
01:07:51 #450 To rush for his own damnable invention.
01:07:54 #451 The iron mask.
01:07:56 #452 His to the end of his days.
01:07:59 #453 As D'Artagnan pours away the poisoned wine,
01:08:15 #454 the usurper takes swift revenge.
01:08:18 #455 D'Artagnan knows himself mortally wounded,
01:08:46 #456 wounded, but allows no sign to mar the happiness of his king.
01:09:10 #457 The weapon of the murderer with crimson evidence on the blade.
01:09:24 #458 Grateful Louis looks for Captain D'Artagnan
01:09:26 #459 to honor him with a baton of a marshal of France.
01:09:33 #460 But where is the musketeer?
01:09:45 #461 The court resounds with the king's commands
01:09:47 #462 and his cry to find his friend and mentor.
01:09:53 #463 What a man may think when he knows of the approach
01:09:55 #464 of death is secret between himself and his maker.
01:10:00 #465 Perhaps the gallant musketeer thinks most of his lost love
01:10:03 #466 of Constance, and of all the tender lonely years
01:10:07 #467 kept warm by her memory.
01:10:09 #468 He dies in hope of faith that she might welcome him,
01:10:13 #469 that once again they might be one.
01:10:16 #470 How can they die these bright ones?
01:10:20 #471 How may such energy once released be
01:10:22 #472 Prisons by earth or stone or grave.
01:10:26 #473 We die as we lived, say they, with life.
01:10:29 #474 And with life, how can there be death?
01:10:32 #475 Only remember us.
01:10:36 #476 Only open a little book and we shall always be with you.
01:10:39 #477 To ride a fine horse or to cross a sharp blade or carouse
01:10:43 #478 with a barrel or dally with a maid, come one, come all.
01:10:58 #479 and so passed a brave and glorious man in honor.
01:11:04 #480 Only think and we live again.
01:11:06 #481 We live forever, for with us now as ever,
01:11:10 #482 it's one for all and all for one.
01:11:15 #483 And thus it was in France of old and fiery days
01:11:18 #484 when hearts beat high, when blood was young
01:11:21 #485 and hate was bold and sword crossed sword
01:11:23 #486 to do or die for love and honor, glory then,
01:11:26 #487 when life was life and men were men.