Volume I Part 46 (1/2)
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”Tell me what you think of the capture of Abd-el-Kader Are you now of opinion that Algiers will be pacified?”
”Oh, no; either early or late there will probably be found another leader who, under pretence of avenging Abd-el-Kader, will renew the combat, for the Bedouins never submit”
”Your views tally exactly with ht The leader whose appearance you expect is already announced!”
”You joke--should I be such a good prophet? But what is the reason that theof his existence?”
”Oh, a ministry fares in this respect the same as the husband of a frivolous woman: all others know more of what concerns hiht What is the name of the new Bedouin leader?”
”Mohae to me Are you not, perhaps, mistaken?”
”No,” replied Monte-Cristo, coolly, ”I knohat I a about
The man whose name I mentioned has sworn to accept the bloody heirloom of Abd-el-Kader and before four weeks have elapsed the revolutionary flag will again wave throughout all parts of the desert”
”Well, I shall not doubt any further; but tellof the Kabyles stand with the disappearance of Albert?”
”Who is able to tell, Monsieur Beauchamp? But now I come to the chief point of my visit You have influence in Paris?”
”Oh, dear count, had you only so to ask!”
”Perhaps I have I should like to obtain an indefinite furlough for the Zouave Coucou”
”That shall be granted to you, you may rest assured”
”Thanks, more I do not want”
”But it is hardly worth while your applying to one who am in power for the moatelle Consider, youelse”
”Yes, and have al, while he tore a leaf from his pocketbook and quickly wrote a feords
”So,” turning to Beauchamp, ”permit me to hand you a small contribution for the poor of Paris--”
”Dear count,” interrupted the journalist, quite moved, ”if you consider a million francs a se ones”
”My dear friend,” said the count, alreat wealth? The sun of a poor person overweighs ift a thousandfold”
”Are you indeed so very rich?”
”So rich that in this respect I envy those who have yet anything to wish for”
”Well, who knohether you may not one day find somebody richer than you In the -women, for while the men in the service of the Republic sacrifice their tied to suffer”