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"Oh, you frighten ht, when you were half-expiring on that bed in the red daitated than you, awaited your delivery The child was born, was given to ht it dead" Mada from her chair, but Villefort stopped, and clasped his hands as if to iht it dead," he repeated; "I placed it in the chest, which was to take the place of a coffin; I descended to the garden, I dug a hole, and then flung it down in haste Scarcely had I covered it with earth, when the arm of the Corsican was stretched towards ht I felt pain; I wished to cry out, but an icy shiver ran through my veins and stifled my voice; I fell lifeless, and fancied e, when, having returned to consciousness, I draggedyourself, caed to keep silent upon the dreadful catastrophe You had the fortitude to regain the house, assisted by your nurse A duel was the pretext for h we scarcely expected it, our secret re alone I was taken to Versailles; for threeto life, I was ordered to the South Four ues a day; Madae At Chalons I was put upon the Saone, thence I passed on to the Rhone, whence I descended, ain placed on my litter, and continued my journey to Marseilles My recovery lasted six months I never heard you mentioned, and I did not dare inquire for you When I returned to Paris, I learned that you, theof M de Nargonne, had hts from the time consciousness returned toevery night in rave with esture I inquired immediately on my return to Paris; the house had not been inhabited since we left it, but it had just been let for nine years I found the tenant I pretended that I disliked the idea that a house belonging to my wife's father and ers I offered to pay the the lease; they deiven 20,000 I had the n the deed of resilition, and when I had obtained what I so alloped to Auteuil