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Old Massetti gave a start and the muscles of his face twitched nervously, but he managed to control himself and said: "Indeed! Permit me to inquire what relations the young man sustained towards the daughter of the Count of Monte-Cristo." "She is or rather was betrothed to him." "My God! Another victim! Does the girl love him?" "She does, with all her soul!"
He gazed at her for an instant and then at the approaching men and nuns, who were now very near. The girl clasped her hands supplicatingly, then mutely pointed to the wall. "It is your wish?" asked Massetti, hurriedly. Zuleika nodded her head affirmatively, and still more imperatively pointed to the wall. "I will obey you," whispered the young Italian, "and I will 'wait and hope!"
Well, what of this Zuleika?" He stood as if waiting for some Arabian romance to be unfolded to him, with parted lips and a vacant smile sorrowful to see. Since his interview with the old Count Massetti Maximilian's hope for the success of his difficult mission had been but a very slender thread.
The young man replied, in a low, discordant voice: "Who is it mentions Giovanni Massetti? There was once a man who bore that name, but he is dead, dead to the world!" "I have told you I am a friend," resumed M. Morrel. "I have come to save you!"
It was decided that the ill-fated girl should be passed over to Vampa at the first opportunity, and that opportunity came when the Viscount Massetti and your son Espérance were domiciled at the isolated cabin in the forest.
Valentine hastily beckoned to her husband; he hurried to her and she whispered in his ear: "Send one of the guides for a coupé. We must not lose a single moment. Poor Massetti will follow me as a dog follows its master! While he is under my influence it is imperative that he be removed to an asylum where he can be properly looked after and if possible cured.
Cardinal Monti then turned to his associates on the judicial bench and a brief conference ensued, after which he arose and facing Vampa said, solemnly: "Luigi Vampa, prisoner at the bar, the judgment of the Papal Court is that you are guilty, first of the murder of Lorenzo Solara, though as he attacked you the crime has been placed in the second degree, second of the abduction of Annunziata Solara, and third of conspiracy to indelibly blacken the character of a worthy Roman nobleman, the Viscount Giovanni Massetti.
"Yes, but not the whole truth. What has he kept back?" Espérance shook his head. "He has told the truth!" he repeated. "Did the Viscount Massetti administer the oath of silence to you?" "He did." "Then who administered that oath to Giovanni?" The young man did not answer.
Monte-Cristo and Massetti half arose in their seats; they were near enough to grasp the purport of what the shepherd had said and its effect upon them was absolutely overwhelming; they had expected that Pasquale would either tell a cunningly fabricated tale calculated to shield Vampa or take refuge in stony, stubborn silence, but instead he was going to make a clean breast of the whole terrible crime!
I will get letters of introduction to the Viscount Massetti and, once acquainted with him, the rest will be easy." Later that night Zuleika told Mme. Morrel everything without reserve, even giving her a little note to Giovanni which stated that Valentine and Maximilian were her dearest friends and had come to Rome expressly to aid him in his troubles.
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