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"Come, come," continued the count, "I see you are still the sa, you knoas not I--it was La Carconte; that was proved at the trial, since I was only condealleys"

"Is your time, then, expired, since I find you in a fair way to return there?"

"No, reverend sir; I have been liberated by soreat kindness"

"Ah," said Caderousse, "I had pro your promise!" interrupted Monte Cristo

"Alas, yes!" said Caderousse very uneasily

"A bad relapse, that will lead you, if I mistake not, to the Place de Greve So much the worse, so much the worse--diavolo, as they say in my country"

"Reverend sir, I a"

"Poverty"-"Pshaw!" said Busoni disdainfully; "poverty , steal a loaf of bread at a baker's door, but not cause him to open a secretary in a house supposed to be inhabited And when the jeweller Johannes had just paid you 40,000 francs for the diaet the diamond and the money both, was that also poverty?"

"Pardon, reverend sir," said Caderousse; "you have saved ement"

"Are you alone, reverend sir, or have you there soldiers ready to seize ain have pity on you, and will let you escape, at the risk of the fresh miseries my weakness may lead to, if you tell me the truth"

"Ah, reverend sir," cried Caderousse, clasping his hands, and drawing nearer to Monte Cristo, "I may indeed say you are my deliverer!"

"You mean to say you have been freed from confinement?"

"Yes, that is true, reverend sir"

"Who was your liberator?"

"An Englishman"