Volume II Part 77 (1/2)

The second in whose way Edlars An officer on board the Pharaon, he had hoped to obtain the position of captain Now he had become one of the principal bankers of the capital

The third, Caderousse, an envious tailor, had allowed hi to the notice of the authorities the denunciation against the young sailor which Danglars had dictated and Mondego written down

His worst enemy was Villefort, who had now become the procureur du roi at Paris

Was Edmond Dantes to be blamed if he, after he had discovered all this, took the law in his own hands and began to execute his vengeance?

Danglars was his first victier which Edo, Count de Morcerf, was the second At first Dantes, who now called himself the Count of Monte-Cristo, wanted to kill Fernand's son, Albert de Morcerf, but he spared the young o's past history The latter had risen to power through crime and treachery He had betrayed Ali Tebelen, Pasha of Yanina, and sold the latter's wife Vassiliki and daughter Haydee into slavery Haydee herself denounced De Morcerf's infamy in the Cha the blow caht to pick a quarrel with the latter But the count, glancing him full in the face, said:

”Look at me well, Fernand, and you will understand it all I am Edmond Dantes”

Then De Morcerf fled, and an hour afterward blew out his brains

De Villefort's turn was next Monte-Cristo discovered that he had buried alive a child of Madalars and himself Bertuccio the Corsican had saved the child and reared it to manhood The boy had becoalleys at Toulon He aided in his escape, and Benedetto assassinated Caderousse Tried for this murder, Benedetto found himself confronted with his father, the procureur du roi He boldly announced his relationshi+p, and de Villefort fled fro home that his wife had poisoned herself and her son In that ony Monte-Cristo appeared before him and told him that he was Edmond Dantes The blow struck hoeance was now accomplished Monte-Cristo was rich and all-powerful He married Haydee, and they had a son, Spero Now, alas!

Haydee was dead! Spero was dead!

It was ten years since Monte-Cristo, on that fearful night, bore off the corpse of his only son

Again he stood alone on the rock on the island of Monte-Cristo He had lived on this rock for ten years He saw no one, heard no one, except when occasionally men ca thehter

But the rumor that the island was haunted spread around, and the superstitious Italians claimed that it was inhabited by a spirit whom they called the Abbe of Monte-Cristo

All these years Monte-Cristo had lived on herbs and roots He had sworn never to touch ht Monte-Cristo entered the subterranean cave where the us of his son was: