whose antecedents nothing seemed to be
known.

The Count de Morcerf was tried for his betrayal of Ali, and seemed
likely to be acquitted, when a veiled woman was brought to the place of
trial, and testified before the committee that she was the daughter of
Ali Pasha, and that Morcerf had not only betrayed her father to the
Turks, but had sold her and her mother into slavery. The veiled woman
was Haidee, the ward of Monte Cristo. The count was now a ruined man,
and when his son Albert discovered the part that Monte Cristo had
played, he publicly insulted the count at the opera.

A duel was averted, for Albert publicly apologised to the count when he
learned the reasons for his actions. Furious that he had not been
avenged by his son, Morcerf rushed to the house of Monte Cristo.

"I came to tell you," said Morcerf, "that as the young people of the
present day will not fight, it remains for us to do it."

"So much the better," said Monte Cristo. "Are you prepared?"

"Yes, sir; and witnesses are unnecessary, as we know each other so
little."

"Truly they are unnecessary," said Monte Cristo, "but for the reason
that we know each other well. Are you not the soldier Fernand who
deserted on the eve of Waterloo? Are you not the Lieutenant Fernand who
served as guide and spy to the French army in Spain? Are you not the
Captain Fernand who betrayed, sold, and murdered his benefactor, Ali?"

"Oh," cried the general, "wretch, to reproach me with my shame! Tell me
your real name that I may pronounce it when I plunge my sword through
your heart."

At this Monte Cristo, bounding to a dressing room near, quickly pulled
off his coat, and waistcoat, and, donning a sailor's jacket and hat, was
back in an instant.

Gazing for a moment in terror at this man who seemed to have risen from
the dead to avenge his wrongs, Morcerf turned, seeking the wall to
support him, and went out by the door uttering the cry--"Edmond Dantes!"

Events marched rapidly now, and Paris had scarcely ceased talking of the
suicide of the Count de Morcerf, when Cavalcanti, identified as a former
galley-slave named Benedetto, was arrested for the murder of a fellow-
convict.

Danglars fled from France, his great business in ruin. With him he took
a large sum of money belonging to Paris hospitals, which, however, was
taken from him near Rome by brigands controlled by Monte Cristo.

_IV.--Vengeance is Complete_

In the household of Villefort, Monte Cr