The Count of Monte Cristo - Chapter 28 – The Prison Register

Disguised as an English banker, the mysterious stranger arrives in Marseilles to “settle accounts.” Posing as the representative of Thomson & French, he buys a large debt owed by the desperate inspector of prisons—paying in full, without hesitation. But his true purpose lies elsewhere. With the prison registers before him, he uncovers the fates of Abbé Faria and Edmond Dantès, confirming one’s death and another’s supposed drowning. In secret, he takes the very document that condemned Dantès and verifies Villefort’s betrayal in his own handwriting. Vengeance, long in the making, now has proof—and a name.