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The commissary of police, as he traversed the ante-chaendarht and the other on his left A door that communicated with the Palais de Justice was opened, and they went through a long range of glooht have made even the boldest shudder The Palais de Justice corated s looks on the clock-tower of the Accoules After nus, Dantes saw a door with an iron wicket The commissary took up an ironto Dantes as if struck on his heart The door opened, the two gendarently pushed him forward, and the door closed with a loud sound behind hier pure, but thick and mephitic,--he was in prison He was conducted to a tolerably neat charated and barred, and its appearance, therefore, did not greatly alarm him; besides, the words of Villefort, who seemed to interest himself so much, resounded still in his ears like a promise of freedom It was four o'clock when Dantes was placed in this chamber It was, as we have said, the 1st of March, and the prisoner was soon buried in darkness The obscurity aughtest sound he rose and hastened to the door, convinced they were about to liberate hiain into his seat At last, about ten o'clock, and just as Dantes began to despair, steps were heard in the corridor, a key turned in the lock, the bolts creaked, the ht froht Dantes saw the glittering sabres and carbines of four gendarht of this display of force

"Are you coendarme

"By the orders of the deputy procureur?"

"I believe so" The conviction that they came from M de Villefort relieved all Dantes' apprehensions; he advanced cale waited at the door, the coachman was on the box, and a police officer sat beside hie for endared forward, and having neither the power nor the intention to resist, he mounted the steps, and was in an instant seated inside between two gendarmes; the two others took their places opposite, and the carriage rolled heavily over the stones