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"A garden with two acres of land!"

"And a thousand francs a year"

"Oh, heavens!"

"Come, take them," and Monte Cristo forced the bank-notes into his hand

"What a very difficult"

"But what is it?"

"To repeat these signs" Monte Cristo took a paper frons, with numbers to indicate the order in which they were to be worked

"There, you see it will not take long"

"Yes; but"-"Do this, and you will have nectarines and all the rest" The shot told; red with fever, while the large drops fell from his brow, the iven by the count, in spite of the frightful contortions of the right-hand correspondent, who, not understanding the change, began to think the gardener had gone mad As to the left-hand one, he conscientiously repeated the sanals, which were finally transmitted to the Minister of the Interior "Now you are rich," said Monte Cristo

"Yes," replied the man, "but at what a price!"

"Listen, friend," said Monte Cristo "I do not wish to cause you any remorse; believe ed no man, but on the contrary have benefited mankind" The man looked at the bank-notes, felt them, counted them, turned pale, then red, then rushed into his roolass of water, but he had no ti, and fainted in the ram reached the e, and drove to Danglars' house

"Has your husband any Spanish bonds?" he asked of the baroness

"I think so, indeed! He has six millions' worth"

"He must sell them at whatever price"

"Why?"

"Because Don Carlos has fled froes, and has returned to Spain"

"How do you know?" Debray shrugged his shoulders "The idea of asking how I hear the news," he said The baroness did not wait for a repetition; she ran to her husband, who ient, and ordered hilars sold, the Spanish funds fell directly Danglars lost five hundred thousand francs; but he rid hi the folloas read in Le Messager: "[By telegraph] The king, Don Carlos, has escaped the vigilance of his guardians at Bourges, and has returned to Spain by the Catalonian frontier Barcelona has risen in his favor"

All that evening nothing was spoken of but the foresight of Danglars, who had sold his shares, and of the luck of the stock-jobber, who only lost five hundred thousand francs by such a blow Those who had kept their shares, or bought those of Danglars, looked upon the Le Moniteur contained the following: "It ithout any foundation that Le Messager yesterday announced the flight of Don Carlos and the revolt of Barcelona The king (Don Carlos) has not left Bourges, and the peninsula is in the enjoynal, i, was the cause of this error"