Pray, was Danglars acquainted with Fernand ?" "No--yes, he was.

Now I recollect"-- "What ?" "To have seen them both sitting at table together under an arbor at Pere Pamphile's the evening before the day fixed for my wedding.

They were in earnest conversation.

Danglars was joking in a friendly way, but Fernand looked pale and agitated." "Were they alone ?" "There was a third person with them whom I knew perfectly well, and who had, in all probability made their acquaintance; he was a tailor named Caderousse, but he was very drunk.

Stay!--stay!--How strange that it should not have occurred to me before! Now I remember quite well, that on the table round which they were sitting were pens, ink, and paper.
Oh, the heartless, treacherous scoundrels!" exclaimed Dantes, pressing his hand to his throbbing brows.
"Is there anything else I can assist you in discovering, besides the villany of your friends ?" inquired the abbe with a laugh.
"Yes, yes," replied Dantes eagerly; "I would beg of you, who see so completely to the depths of things, and to whom the greatest mystery seems but an easy riddle, to explain to me how it was that I underwent no second examination, was never brought to trial, and, above all, was condemned without ever having had sentence passed on me ?" "That is altogether a different and more serious matter," responded the abbe.