The Son Of Monte Cristo Part 87 (1/2)
”Go on!” he said
Presently they stopped before a dark building Not a light was to be seen Benedetto turned to the son of Monte-Cristo
”This is the place to which I agreed to bring you”
”Do you mean that my beloved Jane is in this house?”
”She is here”
”I cannot believe it The whole thing is a plot!”
”Will you kindly tell me, sir,” said Benedetto, ”why I should take the trouble to coether where no human eye could see us, nor hu you then, had my intentions been sinister?”
”That is true; but tell me that you are mistaken--that hter and ribald songs cao in!” cried the Vicomte ”Jane must not stay here one other minute”
”Come, then,” answered Benedetto, ”you shall be satisfied”
He opened the door, but it was as dark within as without Esperance heard the door close; he spoke, but there was no answer He stretched out his arained their peculiar facility of sight He was alone in a small, square rooe
”I have been deceived! The scoundrel!”
But at the sa panels, but in the place of the ere iron bars And through these bars Esperance beheld Jane, but what he saas so terrible that he recoiled and uttered a cry of terror, which was drowned in shrieks of laughter, wild songs and the clatter of glasses
CHAPTER LXII
COUCON
Goutran had entire faith in Carmen, and he was now anxious to communicate with her He called the former Zouave
”Coucon,” he said, ”do you knohere Monsieur Laisangy lives?”
”The great banker? Oh! yes, sir, everybody knows that”
”Then without losing one iven to his daughter at once”
”To Miss Carmen, sir?”
”Precisely; but understand iven into her hands”
”I understand, sir; it shall be done There is nothing I would not do, sir, to repair my own stupidity”
Coucon started off To go to the hotel and ask for Miss Carh, but he took it into his head that it would be better if no one knew that he was there He thought he would examine the premises before he decided on his course of action