text:  D'Artagnan whose enterprising character and Gascon acuteness qualify him admirably to take a part in the court intrigues of the time soon finds himself almost at open war with the Cardinal and engaged in serving the interests of Louis the Thirteenth's unhappy queen Anne of Austria who by rejecting the suit of the scarlet duke--as the mousquetaires irreverently style the Cardinal Duke of Richelieu--has drawn upon herself the deadly hatred of that omnipotent personage