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The day following this scene, at the hour the banker usually chose to pay a visit to Madalars on his way to his office, his coupe did not appear At this tilars ordered her carriage, and went out Danglars, hidden behind a curtain, watched the departure he had been waiting for He gave orders that he should be inforlars appeared; but at two o'clock she had not returned He then called for his horses, drove to the Chaet Frolars had re ure, and receiving, a other visits, one from Major Cavalcanti, who, as stiff and exact as ever, presented hiht before, to ter the Chaitation during the sitting, and been ainst the e, and told the coachman to drive to the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, No 30

Monte Cristo was at holars to wait for ain the anteroom, the door opened, and a man dressed as an abbe and doubtless more familiar with the house than he was, ca, merely bowed, passed on to the farther apartments, and disappeared A minute after the door by which the priest had entered reopened, and Monte Cristo appeared "Pardon me," said he, "my dear baron, but one of my friends, the Abbe Busoni, whom you perhaps saw pass by, has just arrived in Paris; not having seen hi time, I could not make up my mind to leave him sooner, so I hope this will be sufficient reason for lars, "it istime, and will retire"

"Not at all; on the contrary, be seated; but what is the matter with you? You look careworn; really, you alarm me Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a coes some misfortune to the world"

"I have been in ill-luck for several days," said Danglars, "and I have heard nothing but bad news"

"Ah, indeed?" said Monte Cristo "Have you had another fall at the Bourse?"

"No; I am safe for a few days at least I am only annoyed about a bankrupt of Trieste"