320

XLVIII. A THUNDER CLAP 332

XLIX. HOW AND WHERE 338

L. CATASTROPHES 345

LI. A SHOT FROM A REVOLVER 353

LII. "WILL JANE ZELD LIVE?" 357

LIII. JANE ZELD'S SECRET 361

LIV. CARMEN 382

LV. THE BANKER 390

LVI. ESPERANCE, MONTE-CRISTO'S SON 397

LVII. THEY MUST BE SAVED 402

LVIII. GOUTRAN AND CARMEN 412

LIX. UPON THE TRACK 422

LX. ESPERANCE IN DESPAIR 428

LXI. ESPERANCE GOES TO COURBERRIE 430

LXII. COUCON 435

LXIII. CARMEN KEEPS HER WORD 438

LXIV. THE PLOT 447

LXV. THE MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS 451

LXVI. UNITED IN DEATH 456

LXVII. THE SPECTRE 462

LXVIII. MONTE-CRISTO, THE MARTYR 468

LXIX. EPILOGUE 471

THE

SON OF MONTE-CRISTO.

SEQUEL TO

THE WIFE OF MONTE-CRISTO.

CHAPTER I.

ESPERANCE, THE SON OF MONTE-CRISTO.

Esperance, the son of Monte-Cristo, lay sleeping in the comfortable bed
provided for him in the house of Fanfar, the French colonist, as related
at the close of the preceding volume, "The Wife of Monte-Cristo." The
prostration and exhaustion brought on by the excitement and fatigue of
his terrible adventure with the remorseless Khouans rendered his sleep
as leaden as the sleep of death; indeed, had it not been for his heavy
respiration, he might have been mistaken for a corpse. But ordinary
difficulties were not to conquer the heroic son of Monte-Cristo, who
seemed to have inherited all the marvelous power and energy of his noble
father, and as he lay there in the hot Algerian night, amid the balmy
perfume of the luxuriant tropical flowers, a mysterious smile hovered
about the corners of his sharply cut lips that told unmistakably of a
fearless nature and a firm desire to promote the success of the good and
the true. Esperance slept, and the lion in him was dormant; it was,
however, destined soon to be aroused.

In another room, around the family table, Fanfar and his guests we