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"And are you going there?"

"I a? that of the home department, or of the observatory?"

"Oh, no; I should find there people ould force norant, and ould try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand Ma foi, I should wish to keep h to have those dissipated which I had formed of my fellow-creatures I shall, therefore, not visit either of these telegraphs, but one in the open country where I shall find a good-natured simpleton, who knows no more than the ular man," said Villefort

"What line would you advise me to study?"

"The one that is most in use just at this time"

"The Spanish one, you mean, I suppose?"

"Yes; should you like a letter to the ht explain to you"-"No," said Monte Cristo; "since, as I told you before, I do not wish to coer exist a telegraph for n from M Duchatel, or from M Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, raphein It is the insect with black claws, and the ahich I wish to retain in ination in all its purity and all its importance"

"Go then; for in the course of two hours it will be dark, and you will not be able to see anything"

"Ma foi, you frighten me Which is the nearest way? Bayonne?"

"Yes; the road to Bayonne"

"And afterwards the road to Chatillon?"

"Yes"

"By the tower of Montlhery, you mean?"

"Yes"

"Thank you Good-by On Saturday I will tell you raph" At the door the count was met by the two notaries, who had just completed the act which was to disinherit Valentine, and ere leaving under the conviction of having done a thing which could not fail of redounding considerably to their credit