CHAP 4 Rumors

A few months later

A young Spanish cadet was watching a very pale weak looking boy with blonde hair.

There were all kinds of rumors about who this boy was. Ramon never put much faith in rumors. He figured the boy would tell the others about his past if he wanted to. If he decided not to tell anyone then that was his decision. Ramon was glad everyone stopped talking about him.

Since the boy named Siroc and the son of the Legend arrived. The rumors were growing with great speed. The two new cadets were very unhappy about all the questions the others were asking them.

Especially the son of the Legend another cadet was asking so many questions about his father he punched him. The boy had to clean the dungeons for a week as his punishment.

Most of the other cadets were surprised that he punched the other cadet. But even Ramon knew that when someone tells you to stop talking to them then that's what you do.

The other boy is very quiet he never talks to anyone except the Captain. Cadets keep asking him questions but he just sets there quietly. There were rumors that he didn't know how to talk but they didn't last long.

Ramon was thinking about something his Uncle told him. "You don't have to know everything about someone. Sometimes it takes time to get to know the real person not the person they want you to know."

Just at that moment the door of the Captains office swung open the Captain poked his head out and yelled. " D'Artagnan, Ramon, and Siroc I want you in my office now!"

All three boys stood up and went into the office. All three were the youngest recruits the musketeers have allowed, all for very different reasons.

Duval looked at these three boys with a determined look. "Each of you has something another is lacking. I am going to have the three of you work together from now on."

D'Artagnan started to speak but the Captain gave him a stern look. "That's my order cadet!"

"First D'Artagnan I want you to show Siroc and Ramon the best places in Paris."

"Ramon I want you to teach Siroc how to duel I want you to help too D'Artagnan."

"Ramon and Siroc I want you two to help D'Artagnan control this temper."

D'Artagnan, spoke up at that point "I don't have a temper!" and stomped his foot on the floor in a show of frustration. (He was still upset about the death of his mother.)

Ramon and Siroc looked at each other and just stated laughing neither of them knew why it just looked funny to see the young cadet behaving that way.

D'Artagnan looked shocked to see the others laughing at him and started to laugh with them. He had never met any one like them. They didn't seem to care who his father was and who he was.

All three boys finally stopped laughing and agreed with what their Captain had proposed.

The captain dismissed the boys as he watched them leave. He thought this plan was going to work. All three boys needed someone to lean on whom better than each other they all had difficult pasts and who better than each other to help.

He thought of the motto D'Artagnan's father made famous "All for One and One for All"

On the Roget farm

Jacqueline and her mother were making a pie for their picnic .They have it every spring when it gets nice outside.

Her mother looked at her and laughed. The girl was covered in flour. She looked up at he mother. "I don't think I will ever make pies like you do mama."

Her mother looked at her and smiled "As with anything you do in your life. I want you to Listen to your heart it will tell you the difference between right and wrong."

She looked up at her mother with a puzzled look on her face. "What does that mean mama?"

Her mother looked at her with her eyes shining of love for her daughter. "That is the very same thing my mother told me at your age. I asked the very same question you did. Some day I know you will figure it out just like I did."