The four musketeers rescue Louis XIV twin - The Man in the Iron Mask

1. Chateau D’If – 2017
The 8th
‘Bayko Baron’ Musketeer adventure

2. • Queen Anne’s Regency is about to end – she fears for the future and has
summoned the Four Musketeers

3. • The gallant four find quarters at the Debarry Inn, from where they
can catch a glimpse of their distant objective

4. • Chateau D’If, once guardian of Marseilles, now guardian of a single prisoner

5. • Re-supplied only twice a year the fort is completely isolated

6. • Inside its impregnable walls the prisoner is denied all human
contact and trapped in a savage device

7. • He is known only as – ‘The Man in the Copper Bottomed Underpants’

8. • An abandoned cask attracts no attention – but merely confirms the
musketeers worst fears

9. • The only ray of hope is that once a day the prisoner is allowed out to
take his solitary exercise

10. • The Musketeers retire to the Debarry Inn to drown their sorrows

11. • Where they are accosted by Cyrano De Bergerac, failed lover and
adventurer. His latest project is a ‘lune boat’ which he has built in
the Debarry barn, but the inn-keeper has now taken his clothes for
non-payment before he can train the geese to pull it.

12. Intrigued despite themselves the four accompany De Bergerac to the
barn and find themselves starring at the answer to their prayers

13. • Thus it is that a few days later the freighter La Jolie bears down on the fortress

14. A warning shot is fired and the guard ordered out to repel boarders –
only to be hustled back in as the true nature of the threat becomes

15. • La Jolie is carrying a cargo of ‘seamstresses’ who have swung by to
see if any of the lonely, isolated soldiers need their nightshirts repaired

16. • Meanwhile the ‘lune boat’ slides silently down the North Wind

17. A ladder is lowered and the prisoner clambers aboard

18. • While beyond the eastern wall…..

19. • Unseen and unheard the fantastic vessel sails on into the clear blue

20. • Task accomplished La Jolie also heads for home

21. • Leaving the garrison commander to discover his loss and
launch an enquiry into the parentage of the duty officer