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"What has happened?"

"A great misfortune,of you, but lend me a horse"

"My stables are at your co on horseback Take a post-chaise or a carriage"

"No, it would delay ood" Albert reeled as if he had been shot, and fell on a chair near the door Monte Cristo did not see this second manifestation of physical exhaustion; he was at the , calling, "Ali, a horse for M de Morcerf--quick! he is in a hurry!" These words restored Albert; he darted from the roo himself on his horse "Return as soon as you can, Florentin Must I use any password to procure a horse?"

"Only dismount; another will be immediately saddled" Albert hesitated a e and foolish," said the young raph in a newspaper one, that you er"

While the count picked up the paper he put spurs to his horse, which leaped in astonishment at such an unusual stimulus, and shot aith the rapidity of an arrow The count watched hi of compassion, and when he had completely disappeared, read as follows:-"The French officer in the service of Ali Pasha of Yanina alluded to three weeks since in the Impartial, who not only surrendered the castle of Yanina, but sold his benefactor to the Turks, styled himself truly at that time Fernand, as our esteemed contemporary states; but he has since added to his Christian name a title of nobility and a family na the peers"

Thus the terrible secret, which Beauchaain like an ar its information from some malicious source, had published two days after Albert's departure for Nor man almost crazy