Twenty Years After his own service to Mazarin, he refuses to watch over the Duc de Beaufort, who is imprisoned at the time, and soon learns that, in consequence, he is to be returned to the Bastille, though this does not deter him from speaking highly of the achievements of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. Having determined that d'Artagnan is the man he seeks, Mazarin enters the chambers of the Queen to let her know that he has enlisted the man who had served her so well twenty years earlier. The Queen, feeling guilty for having forgotten d'Artagnan's service, gives Mazarin a diamond
After Twenty Years 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 friends communicated between themselves but subsequently they lost track of each other. Bob