Twenty Years After Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the "idea" of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The action begins during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria (term 1643–1651), with Cardinal Mazarin as First Minister. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of "The Three Musketeers", has for twenty years remained a lieutenant, and seems unlikely to progress despite his ambition and the debt
After Twenty Years a noted criminal, he sent another policeman in plain clothes to arrest him. After Twenty Years "After Twenty Years" is a short story written by O. Henry, first published in his anthology, "The Four Million" in 1906. Jimmy Wells and Bob are the pivotal characters. Both of them were raised in New York and grew up as two brothers. However when Jimmy was 20 years old and Bob was 18 they separated. Bob ventured to the west to make his fortune but Jimmy opted to stay in New York to do the same. For a couple of years the two