The Three Musketeers Ch. 27-The End

...The three musketeers are enlisted to be the Cardinals personal body guards, after running into him at dinner in an inn. They wait for him while he enters a meeting, and then Athos realizes he can hear what is being said. He hears Milady's voice also and the Cardinal telling her to go find the Duke of Buckingham and tell him to either desist in his war against France or the Cardinal was going to expose his affair with the Queen.
Athos tells his friends he has to leave, and for them to tell the Cardinal that he has gone on ahead. He then goes and confronts Milady. Confused and unsure of why Athos is there, Milady becomes as pale as a ghost. When Milady asks Athos why he is there, he pulls out a pistol points it at her head, and demands that she turn over the order the Cardinal signed for her. This order said that anything she did was does with the Cardinals promotion. Knowing he would kill her she pulled out the order and gave it to him.
...Athos tells his three friends what he has done. They then decided to send two letters, one to Lord de Winter telling him of Milady's plan, and of her criminal past, and a second to Aramis's mysterious mistress, a close friend of the Queens warning her of the plot against the Duke. The three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight many more times and the Cardinal hears of their bravery and goes to Monsieur de Treville congratulating him on his great solders and tells him he must make d'Artagnan a musketeer, so he does.
...When Milady arrives in England she is taken to jail, where Lord de Winter informs her that he knows everything and that it was his doing, and she is to be banished to an island far far away. Mean while the musketeers have received a letter from Aramis's mistress saying that the Queen has figured that Madame Bonacieux is being kept in a Carmelite Convent in Bethune.
...Milady tells John Felton, Lord de Winter's right hand man, a fake story about her life in hopes that he will find some sympathy for her and let her free. And it works. Milady and John Felton go to where the Duke of Buckingham is and demands that he sign Milady's release, but when he refuses John Felton stabs him fatally. Right before the Duke dies a messenger from the Queen arrives begging him to call off his war, and that she still loves him.
...Before the musketeers can get to the place where Madame Bonacieux is being kept, Milady arrives. She then befriends Madame Bonacieux. Milady then tells Madame Bonacieux that the Cardinalist agents have come to get her and that they have to go. But because she is so scared, Madame Bonacieux freezes and can not move. Frustrated Milady gives her poisoned wine and leaves. Just as the poison is started to work, the musketeers arrive. Madame Bonacieux tells them that her "good friend" Milady has just left, and that's when they realize what's happened. The shortly Madame Bonacieux died in d'Artagnan's arms. The men then went after Milady. It didn't take long for them to find her. They then all convicted her of all the crimes she had committed over her lifetime and agreed she should be executed. So she was executed with out a real trial. Then d'Artagnan is arrested by the Cardinal and again has to talk to him alone. The Cardinal proceeded to tell d'Artagnan of the crimes he has committed, but before he can finish d'Artagnan cuts him off. He then goes on to tell the Cardinal that the women who accused him of these things is a criminal herself and is not dead. He then tells the Cardinal Milady's whole life story and presents the order that the Cardinal had signed. And even though the Cardinal could have over ruled what he had signed he didn't and told d'Artagnan to consider himself one of the Cardinal's friends.
...D'Artagnan get promoted to become the head of the musketeers, while Porthos is getting married, Aramis is joining the Church, and Athos remained a Musketeer under d'Artagnan's leadership but then soon retierd.