The Quest for Love

In these chapters d'Artagnan goes on a mission to Paris for his love. Well kind of, it is really for the Queen but his love askes him to do it so of course he does. The quest is to go to London to get the Queen's diamond tags back from her lover, the Duke of Buckingham. It is of great importance because the King is giving her a ball and the Cardinal told him to ask her to wear them to get out the Queen and Dukes secret love. So d'Artagnan and his 3 musketeer friends race off to get to Paris in time to get them for the Queen to wear. Along the way they have a few problems. First Porthos gets in a fight(big surprise) and has to stay where he was hurt. Then Aramis prevokes some rode works and gets shot in the sholder and has to be left at the closest tow. Then Athos steps into a trap laid by the Cardinal to stop them and so the only one to make it to England is d'Artagnan and his servant. But there is still farther to get to Londan and the Duke. D'Artagnan has to fight a man (the Cadinal's cousin) to get a pass to London. Then he meets with the Duke, gets the tags back, hurries back to Paris and saves the day/ball. But to soon after that his love is kidnapped once again and he does as much as he can to save her then leaves Paris to escape the wrath of the Cadinal and to see how his friends are. He finds them all alive but somewhat wounded. And he gets to hear Athos's drunken confesion of his really really bad marriage, which is the reason he does not believe in love anymore.

I thkought that these chapters were filled with action. It was cool to see him save the day and get to be the hero. I wish his "girlfriend" would quit getting in truble. And what is up with her husband helpping to kidnap her. That man is wipped by the Cardinal. I was very relieved to find out that all of the musketeers where safe and cannot wait to see how they rescue d'Artagnan's girlfriend.