![]() ![]() ![]() Eight years later, a morose Edmond hears a tapping noise on his prison wall and discovers that Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner, has tunneled to his cell. De Villefort then has Edmond declared dead, and Mercedes reluctantly marries Mondego. Consequently, when the police arrest Edmond and the elder De Villefort, De Villefort chooses to release his father and send Edmond without trial to an island prison. Unknown to De Villefort, the man to whom Edmond is to give the letter is his own father. To assure his marriage to Mercedes, Mondego helps Raymond De Villefort, Jr., an ambitious Marseilles magistrate, and Danglers to catch Edmond as he passes Leclere's letter. Mercedes' mother, however, disdains Edmond and prefers the aristocratic Fernande de Mondego for her daughter. In Marseilles, Edmond, who has been promoted to captain, is greeted passionately by his beautiful, devoted admirer, Mercedes De Rosas. While Edmond accepts his orders, second mate Danglers listens at the captain's door. Just before dying, Leclere entrusts Edmond Dantes, his first mate, with a letter from Napoleon, which is to be delivered to a messenger in Marseilles. ![]() In 1815, after Napoleon has been exiled to Elba by Louis XVIII, Captain Leclere, a supporter of the former emperor, lies stricken with fever on his storm-rocked ship. ![]()
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