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M D'Avrigny soon restored the istrate to consciousness, who had looked like a second corpse in that chamber of death "Oh, death is in my house!" cried Villefort

"Say, rather, criny," cried Villefort, "I cannot tell you all I feel at this ny, with an i calmness, "but I think it is now time to act I think it is tier bear to be in possession of these secrets without the hope of seeing the victiloomy look around hiistrate," said M d'Avrigny, "show yourself a man; as an interpreter of the law, do honor to your profession by sacrificing your selfish interests to it"

"You make me shudder, doctor Do you talk of a sacrifice?"

"I do"

"Do you then suspect any one?"

"I suspect no one; death raps at your door--it enters--it goes, not blindfolded, but circumspectly, froe; I adopt the wisdom of the ancients, and feel my way, for my friendship for your fae over e"

"Well, sir, you have in your establishhtful monstrosities of which each century produces only one Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, were an exception, and proved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roonde were the results of the painful struggle of civilization in its infancy, whento control mind, were it even by an emissary from the realms of darkness All these women had been, or were, beautiful The same flower of innocence had flourished, or was still flourishing, on their brow, that is seen on the brow of the culprit in your house" Villefort shrieked, clasped his hands, and looked at the doctor with a supplicating air But the latter went on without pity:-"'Seek whom the crime will profit,' says an axiom of jurisprudence"

"Doctor," cried Villefort, "alas, doctor, how often has man's justice been deceived by those fatal words I know not why, but I feel that this crie, then, the existence of the crime?"

"Yes, I see too plainly that it does exist But it seems that it is intended to affect me personally I fear an attack myself, after all these disasters"