South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-10-22

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His conscience was .is.r. ne IA
violated no laws. Nct tn. nezt nlest
ne was In cell in che gloomy Chat
eau d n. p fortress pu hare roct
Off Marseilles And "A years were
10 pass before be- Grod ae 90 iu tho
sunlight
Three men had wrought his ruin
Danglars en-ied Edmond rapid
promotion FeTuan5 va- cr1zed
with love for Mercedee. Edmond
beloved DanElars wrote that For
nand dispatched a letter warnlur
the authorities TO intercept tho mis-
sive Edmond was bearing to Paris
Chance decreed that this warming
addressed 20 ViUcforts father fen
into the hands OF the INSCRIPTIONS
Villefort himself.
OF this dark intrigue Edmond
knew nothing At his captains dy-
ing request. ne had called at Elha
where he had seen the captive VA
poleon and been intrusted with "a
sealed letter VilIefOrt. turucOat
devoted 20 the aristocracy had
changed his name 20 make men
forget that his father was Bona
partist. He destroyed the ncrim-
mating letter before Edmond's eyes
and promised that the lad should
soon be free Even as be spoke the
words he knew that in the disap-
pearance OF this youth lay his own
security
Thus II happened that while tho
Corsican came out Of Elba by
stealth and rode 10 Paris amid tum-
uloUs cheers. Edmond lay i'm "a dun
geon The thunder of the guns at
Waterloo did not penetrate the
walls or the Chateau DIFF Napo-
leon was borne away 10 ST Helena.
the Hundred DAYS were over And
Dantes knew naught Of these
things. He ate out his heart i'm
thoughts OF Mercedes and wondered
what mad freak OF fortune had
thrust him away from the world of
men.
Days dragged into years. lie.
lost track OF time. confined i'm
black and Shiny dungeon. he saw
only his jailer. There were mo-
ments when he hoped. hours when
he despaired. weeks when he rayed
in impotent anger. Four years roll
past He was starving himself to
death Then ne heard a rasping.
scratching noise The spark of
human hope burned anew He
swallowed his broth. ne must win
back his strength. Somewhere near
him was q human mole. burrow-
ing stealthily worming toward free
dom.
-Four days later section of floor
ing fell in and out of q dark tunnel
sprang an old man. He was the
Abbe Faria, prisoner for eight
years. His tunnel due with ardu-
GUS toll. had failed 10 reach the
sunlight but II led To fellowship
unsupported by their iailers. the
two men met daily and studied UNI
weariedly out of his ripe wisdom
and his prOdigious memory. the
Able taught Emond mathematics
history and languages.
Less EuiIeIess than Edmond ne
was able 90 prove from the Youths
own story. that Dauelars. F'ernar6
and VilleIort were fesponsiblc fot
his living death s. edmond hao
new incentive for freedom He
sought revenge The Able reveal
ed too the secret of the great treas
ure of gold and jewels mar lIy IN
"a cave ON Monte Cristo ana amin
habited island of Italy.
The years rolled on. Another att
tempt go escape was frustrated los
the paralysis of Abbe's right side
Edmond refused TO leave him He
was very different man from the
cIrefi-e sailor who had been 80
suddenly jerked from the gayety of
marriage feast to the gloom oI
dungeon. He was a man of the
world. cynical
one night he heard "a cry of an
guish. Hurriedly he rolled asid.
the great stone tina, concealed tn,
tunnel opeuin-. crawled .uiftIy t,
his neighbor's cclL Ic -.guc ~
vrithing in agony Az dawn no ~.
dead
That night Edmond carried On
corpse 90 his own cell and land
ou his own bed. face 10 the vail
that the jauer would think ID r..
moud asleep. Secreting "a crud
knife with which TO eGec. AN cs-
cape. he then seved himself in,.
the coarse sack I'M which the Jail
ers had put the body Two me.
later bore out the supposed corps
weighted The less with 90 great iro
BAH and swunE the sack powerful