33

III. THE INTRUDER IN THE CONVENT GARDEN 45

IV. A STORMY INTERVIEW 57

V. ANNUNZIATA SOLARA 69

VI. THE POWER OF A NAME 81

VII. IN THE PEASANT'S HUT 91

VIII. A SYLVAN IDYL 101

IX. THE ABDUCTION 112

X. THE COUNTESS OF MONTE-CRISTO 130

XI. THE BEGGAR AND HIS MATES 142

XII. FATHER AND DAUGHTER 156

XIII. MORCERF'S ADVENTURE 166

XIV. ZULEIKA AND MME. MORREL 183

XV. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING 195

XVI. AMID THE COLOSSEUM'S RUINS 206

XVII. PEPPINO'S STORY 218

XVIII. MORE OF PEPPINO'S STORY 228

XIX. THE MANIAC OF THE COLOSSEUM 238

XX. THE ISLE OF MONTE-CRISTO 248

XXI. ZULEIKA LEARNS THE TRUTH 264

XXII. THE WONDROUS PHYSICIAN 274

XXIII. A MODERN MIRACLE 285

XXIV. A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER 296

XXV. A VISIT TO THE REFUGE 306

XXVI. VAMPA AND MONTE-CRISTO 316

XXVII. THE BANDITS' REPRISALS 326

XXVIII. THE RAID ON THE BANDITS 336

XXIX. VAMPA'S TRIAL 346

XXX. JOY UNBOUNDED 363

MONTE-CRISTO'S DAUGHTER.

_SEQUEL TO ALEXANDER DUMAS' GREAT NOVEL, "THE COUNT OF
MONTE-CRISTO," AND CONTINUATION AND CONCLUSION OF "EDMOND DANTES."_

CHAPTER I.

MONTE-CRISTO AND THE PRIMA DONNA.

The Count of Monte-Cristo was in Rome. He had hired one of the numerous
private palaces, the Palazzo Costi, situated on a broad thoroughfare
near the point where the Ponte St. Angelo connects Rome proper with that
transtiberine suburb known as the Leonine City or Trastavere. The
impecunious Roman nobility were ever ready to let their palaces to
titled foreigners of wealth, and Ali, acting for the Count, had
experienced no difficulty in procuring for his master an abode that even
a potentate might have envied him. It was a lofty, commodious edifice,
built of white marble in antique architectural design, and commanded
from its ample balconies a fine view of the Tiber and its western shore,
upon which loomed up tha