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Updated: May 15, 2025
I am prepared to give an ordonnance de non-lieu in your favour which will have the effect of at once setting you free if you will restore to this gentleman here the Mont de Piété receipt which you appear to have stolen." "Sir," I said with consummate dignity in the face of this reiterated taunt, "I have stolen nothing " M. le Juge's hand was already on the bell-pull.
As he concluded the Juge d' Instruction glanced at the Deputy Procureur, who nodded assent. The magistrate touched a bell that stood on his desk and said to the gardien de la paix who answered the summons: "Bring in the prisoners." Monte-Cristo and the Deputy retired from the platform, seating themselves in a couple of fauteuils placed at a table immediately in front of the Juge's desk.
"Name it, M. the Count," said the Juge d' Instruction, blandly. "We shall be happy to grant it if it lies within our power to do so." "Well, messieurs," said the Count of Monte-Cristo, stepping upon the platform and leaning on the Juge's desk, "it is simply this. The prisoner calling himself Peppino is in possession of certain details to which I attach considerable importance.
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