Welcome. Welcome back, everyone, to the Count of Monte Cristo, chapter 14, in the dungeons.

A brief summary, the Inspector General of Prisons visits the Chateau d'Eif, where Dantes begs him for a fair trial.

The inspector is moved by Dantes' pleas and promises to look into his case.

When he examines the register, he sees that Villefort wrote that Dantes took an active part in Napoleon's return from Elba.

The inspector has to make a decision.

And now, chapter 14,

in the dungeons. A year after Louis XVI's restoration, a visit was made by the Inspector General of Prisons. Dantes in his cell heard the noise of preparation. Sounds that at the depth where he lay would have been inaudible to any but the ear of a prisoner who could hear the splash of a drop of water that every hour fell from the roof of his dungeon.

He guessed something uncommon was passing among the living, but he had so long ceased to have any intercourse with the world that he looked upon himself as dead.

The inspector visited, one after another, the cells and dungeons of several of the prisoners,

whose good behavior or stupidity recommended them to the clemency of the government.

He inquired how they were fed, and if they had any request to make.

The universal response was that the fair was detestable and that they wanted to be set free.

The inspector asked if they had anything else to ask for.

They shook their heads.

What could they desire beyond their liberty?

The inspector turned smilingly to the governor.

I do not know what reason government can assign for these useless visits. When you see one

prisoner, you see them all. Always the same thing, ill-fed and innocent. Are there any others?

Yes, the dangerous and mad prisoners are in the dungeons. LetLet us visit them,' said the inspector, with an air of fatigue.

"'We must play the farce to the end. Let us see the dungeons.'

"'Let us first send for two soldiers,' said the governor.

"'The prisoner sometimes, through mere uneasiness of life,

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