'Will you help me?'begged Monsieur Bonacieux.'You are always with the Musketeers,who are enemies of the Cardinal.I thought you and your friends,while helping the Queen,would be glad to spoil his plans.'
'I will do what I can,'D'Artagnan agreed.'And if the man who carried off your wife is the man I thind he is,I will be revenged for what happened to me at Meung!'
D'Artagnan lost no time in telling Athos,Porthos and Aramis of the disappearance of Constance Bonacieux.
'This woman is in trouble because of her loyalty,'he told them.'I am also anxious about the Queen's safely.'
'I have heard people say she loves our enemies,the Spanish and the English,'said Athos.
'Spain is her own country,'D'Artagnan reminded him.'It is only natural that she should love the Spanish.As for the English-only one Englishman is involved,Buckingham,the King of England's chief minister.Now the Cardinal and his men seem to be using his admiration for his the Queen in some wicked plot.'
The Cardinal was their true enemy,the friends agreed.If they could spoil his plans,it would be worth risking their heads.The missing Constance Bonacieux was the key to the whole intrigue.She must be found,and they would do it together.
The four men stretched out their hands and shouted in one voice:
'All for one,and one for all!'
D'Artagnans task was to keep watch on Monsieur Bonacieux's apartments from his own room on the upper floor.Monsieur Bonacieux had been arrested,and the Cardinal's Guards were using his house as a trap.Anyone arriving there was taken away for questioning to see what they knew of the Queen's affairs.
Late one night,D'Artagnan heard cries from downstairs.Realising it was a woman's voice,he drew his sword and rushed to the rescue.The woman was Constance Bonacieux herself!She had escaped,and returned home.The Cardinal's men had followed her,but surprised by D'Artagnan's attack,they ran away.