hanged and the other half were shot.”
“Well, I,” said D’Artagnan “I answer that while there remains a drop of blood in my veins you will be neither hanged nor shot. Sang Diou! let them come on! Besides — do you see that door, Athos?”
“Yes; what then?”
“Well, you can go out by that door whenever you please; for from this moment you are free as the air.”
“I recognize you there, my brave D’Artagnan,” replied Athos; “but you are no longer our masters.
That door is guarded, D’Artagnan; you know that.”
“Very well, you will force it,” said