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Rh return to the port for the purpose of gleaning fresh tidings of Dantès from the deputy Procureur du Roi, M. de Villefort, whom he knew slightly. "Could you have believed such a thing possible?"

"Why, you know I told you," replied Danglars, "that I considered

the circumstance of his having anchored in the isle of Elba as a very suspicious circumstance."

"And did you mention these suspicions to any person beside myself?"

"Certainly not!" returned Danglars; then added, in a low whisper,