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If there wor ‘only some means . core fer you any ox @ fiend, My lava belongs te Edmond Hel Fernand You look like @ rejected lover . , bs it Dantes? + moet my frond, M, nies will win the gill. bbe coptcin, too. . unless t le in this offi. .BUT AS DANGLARS WALKS AWAY, HE DROPS THE LETTER! THE Next DAY at THE VF MARRIAGE FEAST OF MERCEDES AND FOMOND DANTES . IN THE MIDST OF THE FEsTIVITY, THERE IS A LOUD KNOCKING AT 1001[AND HIS ARISTOCRAT BRIDE, RENEE [AT THE PALAIS OF JUSTICH . FF onyone learns the comonts of this lettar or that Norton ts my sm Tout! My would be ruined! A chorge of conspiracy again not @ word of it to anyonat= IN DESPAIR, MERCEDES COMES TO LEARN THE CAUSE ‘OF HER LOVER'S ARREST. INTHE MEANTIME vuLeFoRT PREPARES TO LEAVE FOR PARIS TO SEE THE KING, tous xvi, cot to keep hin Edmond, where are MEANWHILE IN PARIS. . . VILLEFORT HAS BEEN ADMITTED TO THE PRESENCE OF LOUIS_XVil.SUDDENLY, DANTES HEARS A SCRATCHING SOUND COMING FROM THE WALL... ‘AS THE GUARD PASSES, DANTES SHOUTS AND RAVES TO reqs, Yor ee DA, Dan: Wows AT [7 REMOVING THE STONES.HOPE FADES WHEN A LARGE REAM STOPS HIS WES HECTRIFED BY A VOICE FROM THE OTHER SIO uw ‘OF THE Wi Who speaks of THE ABBE'S DESCRIPTION OF HOW HE HAS IMSELF BY MAKING A PEN FROM THI WRITING PAPER FROM MIB JOM HIS BED AND DISHES..SHAME DANTES POR MIS IDLENESS . .Fate must force aur way thvough F.We must wait fer We can get inte hones to help us the gallery, kill the guerd, ond = THe sont or THIS OLD MAN Bt make our escape. ‘, STILL FIGHTING = wie ron maetoM wit Wore Axo Come to my cell ond father of Villefort Now do you vunderstond why he imprisoned you? He JA 1 segrot selving the mystery fof your imprisonmant . . for now you hove vengeance in 7 DANTES LOCKS HIS HATRED WITHIN HIM. HE REGS THE your heart. ABBE TO TEACH HIM MANY LANGUAGES . . THE SCIENCES PHILOSOPHY . . AND HE DELVES DEEPLY IN TO HIS STUDIES, .. y You are becoming) To what end, 1 = highly educoted wonder?THEY BEGIN TO DIG FROM THEIR PASSAGEWAY TO EACH NIGHT THEY THROW AWAY THE EARTH, phe dust. the more dcan_camty_owoy. ‘ONE DAY . . WHEN THE WORK IS NEARLY DONE IN A CUPBOARD BEHIND THE MAN'S COT, DANTES FINDS Aviat lyzed. 1 shall nover ‘escape. The next cttack will Kill me, A GLANCE THROUGH THE bt AND THE GUARD =e on Vshall net leave while you fiBEFORE THE GUARO RETURNS, DANTES CARTS THE BODY TO His OWN CELL. . AND TAKES THE DEAD MAN'S PLACEL EXHAUSTED, HE REACHES » ‘A sHip 1s smasHen [i THE SHORE, JUST AS | AGAINST THE CUFFS BY fi q|_THE FURY_OF THE GALE.| AS THE BODY OF A SAILOR IS WASHED | TOWARD DANTES, HE GRABS IT AND REMOVES THE SHIRT AND CAP. . «“(AT THAT MOMENT ANOTHER VESSEL APPEARS (ON THE HORIZON CUNGING TO THE BROKEN KEEL OF THE WRECKED TO HIS RESCUERS, DANTES REMAINS A SAILOR AND A GOOD PLOT. HE INSPIRES THEIR CONFIDENCE AND LEARNS THAT THEY ARE SMUGGLERS. FOR DAYS THEY SAIL THE MEDITERRANEAN, TRADING THEIR STOLEN cbo0sTW SUDDEN EXCITEMENT, DANTES PLANS A. RUSE TO REMAIN. ON THE ISLAND. AS THEY. ‘ONE DAY THE SHIP HEADS TOWARD A RECOGNIZED SMUGGLERS! TRADING Post THE DESERTED ISLE (OF MONTE cRIsro. DANTES DISEMBARKS WITH THE OTHERS Pr ] Sas Let me take you back 10 the ship. ook..he hes fy follenl Po my Ne, Jacopo, de not move met Leave me here for 8 few days to ras When you rotum, ¥ shelltermed. the {obvious « « the jailers thought SEVERAL DAYS LATER THE SMUGGLERS BETURN Talla, there! Are yeu ready to leave?is 7 AT GENOA DANTES BUYS A BEAUTIFUL YACHT IN THE DISGUISE OF A PRIEST VISITS CADEROUSSE - house, This priceless diamend was te he hho died, Fernond i now the Count de Morcert‘And Mercedes . . wh Where con | find where is she? ‘ the Inspector of, ‘She is now the Countess de Morcert, She maried Fernand two years after Dantes war impsisoned. | appreciate the information you have given me, NEXT, DANTES , . DISGUISED AS A BANKER . The others are wealthy . . They do net noed this VISITS THE INSPECTOR OF PRISONS id. Dantes would have wanted you to have it wish to buy your share in the Pharoon cargo. 1 still believe she'll reach This of mine? Thank you, holy fother, thanke you! 1M soll, glad WHILE THE AND FINDS THEE ‘ =~ INSPECTOR 15 FATAL WORDS - s An ines Ur OF THE NOTHING CAN BE aka! ROOM To PREPARE THE BILL OF SALE, DANTES kasmuy SEARCHES THE PRISON RECORDS, CONTINUING HIS INQUIRIES, DANTES FINDS THAT HIS OLD FRIEND AND EMPLOYER, MORREL, FACES BANKRUPTCY. SIGNING HMSELF AS "'SINBAD THE SAILOR," HE LAVISHES GREAT WEALTH UPON THE FAMILY TO THE ETERNAL GRATITUDE OF MORREL'S CHILOREN, MAXIMILIAN AND JULIE, . AND THEN DISAPPEARS FROM MARSEILLES Swe SalaAT THIS TIME, TWO YOUNG NOBLEMEN FROM PARIS, SET (OUT ON PLEASURE TRIPS. ONE TRAVELS TO VENICE . . THE OTHER SAILS TOWARD THE MEDITERRANEAN . . BUT THEY HAVE PROMISED TO MEET IN ROME TO SEE THE WORLD. FAMED CARNIVAL, THE YOUNG MEN. ARE company for dinner. This is tke @ scane Lwill leod you te {rom the Arabian Nights!did mot osk your nome. You may coll me “Sinbad ‘THE SERVANT MAKES. A DINING ROOM. cut out cannot speck. ‘ALI CONTINUES: TO SERVE SUMPTUOUS AND INTERESTING ‘guessed corcecly! Revenge! But look! fe this not tempting? WHEN FRANZ AWAKENS NEXT MORNING, HE IS OUTSIDE THE CAVE PALACE OF SINBAD THE SAILOR.Whe is thot lovely creature Greek costume ond thet pol mon with her? T have goed news. ‘The Count of Monte who is @ guest Tell tho Count thet we oll Yellow contains! He CalIN PARIS, THREE MONTHS LATER ALBERT AND HIS Guests walr CURIOUSLY. « " ANXIOUSLY ~ a Welcome, Mensiewt, Ye four son lifet We wos nothing, ‘my mother « . The Countess Good heavens! Are you, i, me W this man i your friend, toke sre!Bertucci, what is the mater? You Hightened, ROTHER — | perury 0TOOK THE ChLD TO my sIsTEN WHO RAISED MW TO We HER OWN, sME_NAMtD Me teneoirro SHE COULD NOT CONTROL BENEDITIO, HE ROBBED HER, SET FIRE TO HER HOUSE. . AND RAN AWAY . . * SOME TIME LATER, 1 WAS SHIPWRECKED WHILE SMUGGLING, AND LANDED NEAR AN INN OWNED. BY A MAN NAMER CADEROUSSE ISSE ESCAPED CAUGHT ME INSTEAD ‘BUT THE POUCE PASSED THE OPEN DOOR, | SAW CADEROUSSE KILL AND ROB A GUEST AT THE INN... WHEN HIS WIFE PROTESTED, HE KILLED HER TOO Thot was when you Tinelevs your story, Bertuccio But don't you know that Villefort still stepped in ond saved me from the‘UPON HIS RETURN TO PARIS. MONTE CRISTO FINDS] AS ANOTHER MIS “MYSTERIOUS GREEK LADY” WAITING MOVE INTHE mi) ACT OF Ferg Welcome te Pers ‘VENGEANCE, te open on count with you orem Donglors, 1 MONTE CRISTO CALLS UPON. BARON DANGLARS, THE BANKER, TO cory @ million..@ tiNe with me. 1 expect six 7 millon on demand. My letters of credit bear three famour banking signatures, credit . . Unlimived is 0 dangerous word. CASUAL CONVERSATION FOLLOWS THE INTRODUCTION TO THE BARONESS ‘An idea! | sholl arrange te have the horses un away. The rescue will make the wife ef M, Villefort my friend, You soy you own The most spirited horses in Parist My friend, Me Villefor, 1 borre horses, modems?To whom om indebted for MONTE CRISTO REVIVES THE BOY, WHO ASKS TO PLAY WITH THE PHIALS IN THE MEDICINE BAG THE NEXT DAY Tow cH sor hp toy toy All hos gone eccerding 10 my wishes wont AN HOUR, ALL OF Paris SOCIETY 15 im excited ABOUT THE THRILLING RESCUESTEP BY STEP, MONTE CRISTO. MOVES RELENTLESSLY SPINNING HIS WER. (OF REVENGE. ONE EVENING AT THE OPERA, HE AGAIN MEETS. THE MORCERES. IN THE BOX OF BARONESS DANGLARS AM Pos ie cutious ‘bout the beautiful Yes. owe my fortune to the of my chief, Ali Pashe. Patho, did you ever see e costume, loveliee than the one sworn by the That men who wos stanng at me 1 could swear he wat the captain who sold my Fether 45 thy A FEW DAYS LATER IN. THE iuerorT Tell me thet you GARDEN, will not worry (MAXINILUAN Franz D'épinay. MOREL 15 DECLARING His Love For VALENTINE, viteronr’s DAUGHTER BY HIS Deceasen WIFE, RENEE DE SAINT MERANVALENTINE APPEARS BRIEFLY AND DEPARTS charming OT?” reo Be sil, Edward Madame, do tet _me send you ene of my THAT EVENING Aunent pe Moncens | | Why ore you marrying CALLS UPON Eugenie Danglare if you SHTES canto abject to her? (lt father and my fethar ere eld NY trends MME. VILLEFORT CONTINUES THE DISCUSSION OF POISONS Yes, | acquired in The liquid you gave Edward the ether day brought’ Ige of auch ta him very quickly smistures in the Now | am her * friend in truth! Thi will be fruitful soil Te gein your mother's esteem wil >witor 19 Count Danglare Although my ‘nvwtahions will include you. you must find @ ronson THE NEXT STEP IN MONTE CRISTO'S CAREFULLY LAID PLAN FITS SMOOTHLY INTO PLACE! HE ARRANGES FOR DANGLARS TO RECEIVE ALL FINANCIAL MESSAGES FOR HIM, FEELING CERTAIN THAT DANGLARS WILL STEAM THE LETTERS OPEN TO LEARN MONTE CRISTO'S FINANCIAL SECRETS. MONTE CRISTO SENDS A TELEGRAM TO HIMSELF AT DANOLARS’ ADDRESS ADVISING THE HEAVY PURCHASE OF ANGLO. SPANISH BONDS. THE RUSE WORKS AND DANGLARS. INVESTS MOST OF HIS FORTUNE IN THIS WORTHLESS STOCKMA. NORTIER SIGNIFIES HIS OPPOSITION 10 VALENTINE'S MARRIAGE TO FRANZ, Ime te. get © notery? To mote what? 7 4 iow {learn that my Wy bs YE cive up your stopmether oppores my martiage to 0 fone. She has hopes snot Franz D'Epinay the son of. General ds Quesnel who was assassinated by the Bonapartets, of whe JA. Nontier was ene? Yes.sthot ie why | wish Valentine to merry the son, It will fend the FeudRNG < fot ta AUTEUIL HOME Che mirrooues ™. Villefon, os Chiot Wy Imagine « body Prosecutor, you should buried here! ga Villefort hore? The young Caveleanti is theGuick, Ali. — get m wig and lay out my clothes. . ond hove Sir, Ie true that you have suffered deaply? Wes it woman? ‘Pardon me, mother. M. Villefort Js here lacking for Valentine, Her grandfather ..M. de Saint GX Meran, has died very suddenly VILLEFORT 15 PROMPT IN CALLING ON THE “LORD WIMORE”, MERCEDES, TOO, IS TROUBLED . . SEVERAL WEEKS LATER AT THE MORCERF'S BALL tt wos hortible . He took +s unered o Wiffened . . ondphantom in whi removed: my gloss. It is" ‘worning of death, Moke How can | resist my PI srondmother’s lost ish? Ja promise! love you 100 : —— ‘MME, DE SAINT MERAN DIES BEFORE D'EPINAY ARRIVES AS THE DOCTOR IS LEAVING, MAXIMILLIAN OVERHEARS A-FRIGHTFUL SECRET 1M, Villefort, | most tell you thot both deaths ware couse by peison « Brucine, perhaps! You aro a magitiate, De es you wil, but be on | beseech you, os © friend . . Keep this « secrets. W wouldABTER THE FUNERAL, FRANZ DEPINAY. weTURNS wir THE ‘VILEFORTS: TO SIGN THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT, ‘ON M, NORTIERS BED 1S A LARGE ENVELOPE ADDRESSED. TO FRANZ D'EPINAY. HE BREAKS THE SEAL, ANDTHE Next AY, IN GREAT AGITATION, AUBERT APPEARS AT THE HOUSE OFMy grandfather consents that | keep suovemy, ¥f my promise 10 you. MEANWHILE, ANEW TRAGEDY ARISES ONE DAY maximuan FY AND VALENTINE ARE AT M. Norrier’s BEDSIDE What 1s i, Barait? You look hot. Here, drink my lemonode No, nol Do not moke me send my doughter 49 the scofeld! iSpare me! Where is you! sccamplic, Benedinta?7 vre"eaitor” Fernond, wes your Father! is the prooft ers ge te the secshore, Alber, U need a change. M. VillTHE EXAMINERS LISTEN GRIMLY, INTENTLY Vow at ween coor si cad - 42 Marat ey aaend al Pmataner yoo see on You om tho D Vist cee Te Scott raat "Yes, Maximilian. Wis the only way | cam moke his father suffer for hie wrongs NE 3 3Lbecause of his early ‘oachery toward | offer you my apologies, Will you is jou ready, gentlemen? There ¢f will be no duel! Monte Cristo hes sent money . . your Hf wedding dowey fi years ago. He | Pap Will the fotes that it belongs to you, g Se/ permit me to love ia agein? 1 suppose he is right y mnorable money.BT He is no coward! ‘You think my son, g nn id you came here Albert, a coward? Wel have come to wil that | have always instinctively looked upon you as my onemy, M, le Count, choose your weapons! Ferman 1 show you 2 face thot ve makes youn 7 SS > ns at “AT VALENTINES WORDS, A WHINPERING SOUND ARISES FROM THE ENFEEBLED OLD MAN Z ‘your grandfather is BP vvying to soy something. He seams olarmed,| love Volentine He ‘What je it this rime? Usually you semmon, ime too late Why must you fembroll yourelf IN DESPAM, MAXINILLIAN RUSHES TO. ‘MONTE Risto FoR PAS Valentine, | have been wotching ro abaea over you avery setond. 1 amptied Bone your glass and gave “Sh wholesome draught Boer drank your medicine, Visitor aT THE Viuerort MANSION,That is @ cowards woytANDSOMONTE | My wife and doughter hove Beto men a ih a yo CRISTO'S NET | left me. | brought eiegraco ought to be easily consoled 7 OF HATRED ‘upon them! HAS BEEN DRAWING TIGHTER ‘AROUND DANGLARS, SEVERAL DAYS ARTER THE ‘ARREST OF Jcavatcanti Yeut Thot is sol Look at these date!count DANGIARS, ‘ALONE IN His HOUSE, MAKES, PLANS IN THE MEANTIME, BERTUCCIO, MONTE cRISTO’S SERVANT, Visits //Whot o scoundrel CAVALCANTI IN PRISON you heve tuined1 imust save my wifel Sho bocaine © esiminal by‘A FEW WEEKS| LATER, MONTE cristo TAKES MAXIMILIAN, WITH Him TO. MARSEILLES. The month colmost vp AT THE WHARF IN MARSEILLES. . [Ant Albort and his looks mather! He Mercedes, do you hote me for the misery | have caused you? [AS MONTE CRISTO BOARDS HIS revenge . . and YACHT TO SAIL be TO His ISLAND REFUGE, ONE last THOUGHT (OF VENGEANCE PERSISTS: . my soul willIMPORTANT MILESTONES IN THE LIFE OF NAPOLEONto present an even partially com plete portrait of Alexandre Dumas jn this short space would be im- possible, This wanderings through France, Germany, Spain, Russia, ‘and Africa wece meticulously fol- owed, if bis quarrels, affairs and the slanders that sprung up aboot nim aeora recounted, iv would be Fr subject for a giant among bi- ographies. He was ¢o fll of the zest of life, 30 great_a giant among giants, so completely syn fonomous with that type of living which we have come to associate with Fronee, that Vietor Hugo fence said that Dumas typified the French spirit. ‘Dusnas’ literary career covered a period of forty years, In this ‘ime he was'eredited with the production of sixty-seven plays, ninety-two novels, and thieny-two historical works—a total of three unsred volumes, Writing was a veritable industry fer him. Not only was he accatsed of plaziarisen Ue hag, ke Shakespeare before fim, used elt outlines of many Fully known tales) but, his cole Taboration with other writers be ‘came known as, “The Novel Fae- ory: The House of Dumas & Co." The "& Co." was primary an obscure professor named Maquet. Bur Maquet was only one of many. They supplied the tremendously successhil novels that we know teday: They gave him brass. and shining gold was fashioned frem it He lived a full a Wife as one could. wash. He was 2 soldier, a pelnicath, a revolutionise “(not that he Believed im ie toe greatly) 1 lover, a houlevardier and above ah a uma being with a pase Fonne desice t0 participate ia everything ae was going on bout en Tin the revolution of 1880, he had na mote reasca for proctain- “soa himastt » Republican haa the ase chat bie Catier had been one S netoce thm. Ae a matter of fact, he wae stacting out on lis haney- broke aut. He telt, ‘eas feom which he wrote the ‘a prosaic event at best, and that it could wait, bue a revolution without him would be artistically incomplete. 'No better incident can best de- scribe his lair for doing things fn the inimitable Durmas manner ‘speech he made while a candicatefer Parliament, Theersx (of his argument was thae because fof hie tremendous success, “in Paris aJone, six hundred ninety people srere kept in constant ere ployment, my drarssu gave three hundred forty-seven people em- ployment for ten years, Multiply this by three for the provinces and you. will find that one thou sand forty-one people have be constantly at worle through me. ‘Add to these che women whe shave playgaers ta their seats, the leaders of the claques and the cabmen—a total of one thousand four hundred Sfty-cight..." owas magnificent, aud Dumas not see any humor inthe sits ation, But his opponent did and went him ane better. He mimicked him pualiely hy stating, "No traveler comes to Paris without making a note that he must not forget to stare at me at the hour at which Iam to be seen logking ‘out af my window a¢ the coconut venders". He mocked Dumas un- mercifully: He told how each traveler spent six sous en the bus and kept bosme at work. "Three ‘kousand women have asked for my picture and thar kepe hun. dreds of portraitists. working!” Tis keen butfeonery ruined Du- mas! chances. ‘Dumas moved in the be ci cles. Tt was the friendship of Prince Jerome Bonapart that Jed to the writing of "The Count of Monte Cristo". Prince Jerome had asked Dumas to take charge of Iiis son, the young Napoleon. ‘Dumas was doubtful, What could hhe do with the Prince? ‘Teach him about France—and ‘oke lnim for some trips through iealy", said Prince Jerome. Twill take hum ro Elba Ue is fang that che nephew of the | Highlights in the Life of Alexandré Dumas | Acc ahe ousser, tet ue say that however, that a honeymoon was Emperor should terminate is studies by an hlstorical pilgrim age" ‘The tour of the island was ace complished ia excellent style— after 2 voyage in which a furious storm arase, Domes worried about the safety of his royal hargé, but shar person dide'e He was deatily seasick While hunting on Elba, Duras noticed 3 peculiarly shaped roel furring into the air on a distant island, If you wens over. there”, the auide-sid, “you would find exeel- Tent Shooting. Ie is overrun with wild goats, bat otherwise de- erred” "and he name?” They call she Tele de Monte Crisro” Dusias never set foot on che {sland for it was supposed to have een contaminated, but they rowed around it. One ean Imag. fine Dumas’ whetted curlosity at the sight of sch savage scenery, the mournfal silence broken by the bleatings of wild goats. His Teasite fmaginntion wat working overtime. “There might be a hid den cave-—a cave fled with jewels ‘Was there 2 ruined monastery? A mysterious Monk ronning his Bngers through heane of jewels and golé? What an excellent rpame it would make for a novel” ‘There is ne doubt that Dumas ‘saw himeelf this time ae Monte Cristo just as he had seen hiraseld having some of the qualities of teach of rho Musketeers, Monte Criste's fine clothes, Iie'love of travel, his romantic| mysterions- ness, his Hberality, “I carry @ raillion with me, a trifle” and Monte Cristo's supreme egotism, were reflections of Duras” any This Iwsty, exotic man tived as few had before him, His eh. tau, Mente Crisco, fed four and five ‘huniired people at 2 time. Rive it-tvended om December 8, 1870, The sword of D'Artagnan was broken at last. Dumas passed