THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO.
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"Your excellency is the traveling companion of the viscount?"
"I am."
"Your excellency's name 2
"Is the Baron Franz d'Epinay."
The Race
"Then it is to your excellency that this letter is addressed."
"Is there any answer?" inquired Franz, taking the letter from him. "Yes—your friend at least hopes so."
"Come upstairs with me, and I will give it to you."
