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have created the murderer of Valentine." Villefort and d'Avrigny exchanged looks.

"Yes, yes," continued Morrel; "recall the scene, for the words you thought were only given to silence and solitude fell into my ears. Certainly,

after witnessing the culpable indifference manifested by M. de Villefort toward his own relations, I ought to have denounced him to the authorities; then I should not have been an accomplice to thy death, as I now am, beloved Valentine: but the accomplice shall