Page:The Count of Monte-Cristo (1887 Volume 2).djvu/247

Rh only, I trust, relate the little I do know, but also a great deal I do not know."

"It seems to me," returned the count, smiling, "that you played a sufficiently important part to know, as well as myself, what happened."

"Well, you promise me, if I tell all I know, to relate, in your turn, all that I do not know?"

"That is but fair," replied Monte-Cristo.

"Well," said Morcerf, "even if my conceit suffer by the confession, for three days I believed myself the object of the attentions of a mask,