Chapter 19

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The Third Attack.
Now that this treasure, which had so long been the object of the abbe's meditations, could insure the future happiness of him whom Faria really loved as a son, it had doubled its value in his eyes, and every day he expatiated on the amount, explaining to Dantes all the good which, with thirteen or fourteen millions of francs, a man could do in these days to his friends; and then Dantes' countenance became gloomy, for the oath of vengeance he had taken recurred to his memory, and he reflected how much ill, in these times, a man with thirteen or fourteen millions could do to his enemies.
The abbe did not know the Island of Monte Cristo; but Dantes knew it, and had often passed it, situated twenty-five miles from Pianosa, between Corsica and the Island of Elba, and had once touched there.

This island was, always had been, and still is, completely deserted.

It is a rock of almost conical form, which looks as though it had been thrust up by volcanic force from the depth to the surface of the ocean.

Dantes drew a plan of the island for Faria, and Faria gave Dantes advice as to the means he should employ to recover the treasure.