Ten Years Later  Alexandre Dumas  Chapter 68 - D'artagnan
Continues His Investigations  At daybreak D'Artagnan saddled
Furet, who had fared sumptuously all night, devouring the
remainder of the oats and hay left by his companions. The
musketeer sifted all he possibly could out of the host, whom he
found cunning, mistrustful, and devoted, body and soul, to M.
Fouquet. In order not to awaken the suspicions of this man, he
carried on his fable of being a probable purchaser of some salt-
mines. To have embarked for Belle-Isle at Roche-Bernard would
have been to expose himself still further to comments which had,
perhaps, been already made, and would be carried to the castle.
Moreover, it was singular that this traveler and his lackey
should have remained a mystery to D'Artagnan, in spite of all
the questions addressed by him to the host, who appeared to know
him perfectly well. The musketeer then made some inquiries
concerning the salt-mines, and took the road to the marshes,
leaving the sea on his right, and pene