Porthos and d'Artagnan were practicing their fencing at the garrison while Aramis observed from the table to the side of them with his feet up on the table and leaning his back on the post behind him. Athos had briefly appeared a few moments before Porthos and d'Artagnan started their practice, he simply walked in very purposefully, not even acknowledging his friends who were on the other side of the garrison, all sitting at the table eating breakfast and playing cards. Athos walked up to his horse, tightened the girth of the saddle, untied the reins from the post, mounted and trotted out. After he left, his three friends looked at each other puzzled for a moment but after a glance at each other, they decided to think nothing of it.
After Porthos had won the duel by disarming d'Artagnan and landing him in a pile of hay that was primarily kept for the horses of the regiment but also kept for the situation that d'Artagnan was in, which was, a soft landing from a duel, they both replaced
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