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"Oh, heavens!"

When daylight dawned I went down again My first visit was to the thicket I hoped to find some traces which had escaped me in the darkness I had turned up the earth over a surface of more than twenty feet square, and a depth of two feet A laborer would not have done in a day what occupiedThen I renewed the search Supposing it had been thrown aside, it would probably be on the path which led to the little gate; but this exa heart I returned to the thicket, which now contained no hope for h to drive you ht," said Villefort; "but that happiness was denied th and my ideas, 'Why,' said I, 'should that man have carried away the corpse?'"

"But you said," replied Madalars, "he would require it as a proof"

"Ah, no, madame, that could not be Dead bodies are not kept a year; they are shown to aof the kind has happened"

"What then?" asked Herfor us--the child was, perhaps, alive, and the assassincry, and, seizing Villefort's hands, exclaimed, "My child was alive?" said she; "you buried my child alive? You were not certain lars had risen, and stood before the procureur, whose hands she wrung in her feeble grasp "I know not; Ielse," replied Villefort with a look so fixed, it indicated that his powerful e of despair and madness "Ah,on her chair, and stifling her sobs in her handkerchief Villefort, beco soathering over his head, he lars with the terror he felt "You understand, then, that if it were so," said he, rising in his turn, and approaching the baroness, to speak to her in a lower tone, "we are lost This child lives, and some one knows it lives--some one is in possession of our secret; and since Monte Cristo speaks before us of a child disinterred, when that child could not be found, it is he who is in possession of our secret"