His game appeared infallible.
A fortnight after all we have said had taken place at Calais, the whole troop assembled at the Hague.
Then D'Artagnan perceived that all his men, with remarkable intelligence, had already travestied themselves into sailors, more or less ill-treated by the sea.

D'Artagnan left them to sleep in a den in Newkerke street, whilst he lodged comfortably upon the Grand Canal.

He learned that the king of England had come back to his old ally, William II.

of Nassau, stadtholder of Holland.

He learned also that the refusal of Louis XIV.