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M de Villefort kept the prolars, to endeavor to find out how the Count of Monte Cristo had discovered the history of the house at Auteuil He wrote the same day for the required infor been an inspector of prisons, was proed for two days tiive him full particulars At the end of the second day M de Villefort received the following note:-"The person called the Count of Monte Cristo is an intiner, who is sometimes seen in Paris and who is there at this moment; he is also known to the Abbe Busoni, a Sicilian priest, of high repute in the East, where he has donethe strictest inquiries to bethese two persons; his orders were executed, and the following evening he received these details:-"The abbe, as in Paris only for a month, inhabited a small two-storied house behind Saint-Sulpice; there were two rooms on each floor and he was the only tenant The ter roo-room, with a table, chairs, and side-board of walnut,--and a wainscoted parlor, without ornaments, carpet, or timepiece It was evident that the abbe limited himself to objects of strict necessity He preferred to use the sitting-room upstairs, which was ical books and parchhted to bury hi to his valet de chah a sort of wicket; and if their faces were unknown to him or displeased him, he replied that the abbe was not in Paris, an anshich satisfied reat traveller Besides, whether at home or not, whether in Paris or Cairo, the abbe always left soh this wicket in his master's name The other room near the library was a bedroom A bed without curtains, four arm-chairs, and a couch, covered with yellow Utrecht velvet, composed, with a prie-Dieu, all its furniture Lord Wile He was one of those English tourists who consu He hired the apartment in which he lived furnished, passed only a few hours in the day there, and rarely slept there One of his peculiarities was never to speak a word of French, which he however wrote with great facility"