The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-11


 who lay in the course sack; while the dead Faria lay on the ped in pantes's cell, where Edmond had reverently placed him. Dantes had calculated on making his escape when they came to I the burial ground. But the Chateau dIf had no burial ground. The sack was cast from the ellff Into the sea, Then the knife came into play. the sack | was ripped, Dantes rose to the surface and was picked up by some smugglers,
 who asked no questions. This took
 place just fourteen years from the day when the two betrothai feasts in Mar seiiles had been interrupted by annony-
 nous accusations against Edmond Dantes.
 Two years later Gaspard Caderousse.
 keeper of little inn near Marseilles
 much frequented by smugglers. was visited by a grave person calling him self the Abbe Busoni.
 "A penitent of mine" said the Abbe,
 "one Edmond Dantes, charged me on his death bed to seek out three friends of his in Marseilles: Ternand. Cat alan fisherman; Danglars, supercar- so. and yourself"
 "Ah, poor Edmond. He is at last dead. then?" cried Caderousse. But Fer nand and Danglars were curious friends An. M pAbbr, they informed against him to get him cut of the way" And then Caderousse garruiously told
 him what he knew of the plot. add-
 ing: "They tried to get me into 1t, but refused. Danglars wrote the accu- sation and Fernand posted it."
 "Well," said the Abbe. since they
 were, 1t seems, his enemies, this dia-
 mond which Dantes bade me give into
 the possession of all three of them, be-
 longs only to you. Il is worth fifty
 thousand francs" The Abbe departed,
 leaving Caderousse overwhelmed with
 his good fortune The next night he
 and his wife murdered a dealer In
 gems who came to the. lonely inn to
 purchase the gem. desiring in their in-
 satiabIe greed to possess not only the
 purchase money whicn the dealer
 had brought with him. but the diamond
 also. Thus it came about that Cad l erousse was condemned to the galleya
 for life. As 1t had been his shrew of
 wife who struck the fatal blow ne
 escaped the executioner.
 It was eight years after the visit cf
 the Abbe to Caderousse that the Count
 of Monte Cristo appeared and began to
 dazzle Paris by the display of his
 seemingly inexhaustibie wealth. The
 Viscount Albert de Mor0arf introduced
 Monte Cristo to Partisan society. All
 bert and his friend. the Bafon Franz
 d'EpInay, had met the Count at Rome.
 where Monte Cfisto seemed person of
 the hrst importance and had been able
 to render the young men signal serv-
 ices among which whs the rescuihE | of Albert from the hanis of . gang or
 Italian bandits.
 Baron Franz was sure he had seen this strange man before Once, exploE- f ing In saiIboat the shores ana ls-
 lands of Tuscany, he mad landed at
 night on the small and barren Island os
 Monte Cristo, where he had encountered
 a gang of Italian snuggiers. He nad , not been stabbed or robbed, but, i9"
 stead. had received an invitation to ' dinner from c man whom the gang , spoke of as "the chief He had been
 blindfoldsd and led to mystsrlous , cave which he found fitted up with un- paralleIed gorgeousness, where he had 1 been treated to wonderful delicactes- At the end of the feast the Barons host had placed before him small. ele-
 ,gantly chased silver cup. It contained a greenish paste. tials?" said the host. Taste this, and 1 the mines of Golconda are opened to , you. Are you a man of imagination? . Taste, and the boundaries of the pos sible disappear. It is the famous hash
 ish."
 2 Franz tasted and sank into gorgeous dreams and visions when he awoke
 he~-was on the seashore: and thought
 he subsequently visited the island and
 searched for tn maegic cave he search
 cd in vain.
 Monte Cristo was sall and slim, with
 n figure nevertheless of herculean
 strength. He had coal-black hair;
 large, bright. glitterins eyes in which at times an unearthiy Are seemed burn ing; and a gbastly paleness of com The Countess Guiccioli, who saw. him N at the opera--where ne went accom- Y panied by a mysterious Greek girl
 his ward. who was said to be an A.
 banian princess named Haidee, declar-
 cd he was a vampire. Byron believed l in vampires. So when Monte Cristo came to Paris he was well introduced and had a veil of mystery about him
 which eaptivated the society or the
 French capital Besides, he had an \ unlimited letter of credit on that ern- inent banker, the Baron Danglars; and an unlimited letter of credit inspires respect for its possessor Tn any capltal in the world.
 All Paris talked ab0at the splendor of the Counts jewels. He had vial hollowed out of solid emerald of great size in which he kept little pel- let's of a greenish t,age-the famous hashish.
 Every mohning Monte criste furn- ished Paris with some new evidence oi the power of unbounded wealth. Ths Count de Morcert of course, was at- tentive to the man who had rescued
 his son from the bandits. The Count was said to belong to an ancient fam lAy. and had served not only in the French army, but had been the right
 hand man of All Tepeleni. the famous
 Albanian chief.
 Monte Cristo seemed to have 8 strange aversion to meeting the Coun'
 tess de Morcerf. L'' one day Albert insisted on making the presentation. Good heavens. mother! Are you ul9" cried Albert. when Monte CristC made his bow before the Countess, NO, mo-" replied the Countess, striv' tnr to collect herself. Tt Is only tho natural agitation that I feel at seeing for the first time the man to whom ' am indebted for the life of my son Ever after, when the Countess met he Count of Monte Cristo. there wal a strange, frightened look in her eyes Monte Cristo had me house sit ua4od in the Champs Eiysees but h' n,Irs shased another at Auteil. Th' house at Auteil had long been uninhao Come" said the Count to his stew ara one night, come, Bertuccio. WI will inspect our purchase. It is No 9s Due de la Fontains."
 l PertucciO. the Corsican. started as 1 s+ung by an adder; but he accompanie' his master. They went over the hous win A lantern. '7 then Into long forsaken garden Bertdecio becoming more and more nerv 2s st every step AZ tast he could bear it no lonGer, am