“I shall do the same.”

“Apropos, are we to speak of your friends also, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis?

or have you forgotten them?”

“Almost.”

“What has become of them?”

“I don’t know; we separated, as you know. They are alive, that’s all that I can say about them; from time to time I hear of them indirectly, but in what part of the world they are, devil take me if I know, No, on my honor, I have not a friend in the world but you, Rochefort.”

“And the illustrious — what’s the name of the lad whom I made a sergeant in Piedmont’s regiment?”