<P> After six years of imprisonment in the Château d'If, Dantès is on the verge of suicide when he befriends the Abbé Faria ("The Mad Priest"), a fellow prisoner who had dug an escape tunnel that ended up in Dantès' cell . Over the next eight years, Faria gives Dantès an extensive education in language, culture, and science . Knowing himself to be close to death, Faria tells Dantès the location of a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo . When Faria dies, Dantès takes his place in the burial sack . When the guards throw the sack into the sea, Dantès breaks through and swims to a nearby island . He is rescued by a smuggling ship that stops at Monte Cristo . After recovering the treasure, Dantès returns to Marseille . He later purchases the island of Monte Cristo and the title of Count from the Tuscan government . </P> <P> Traveling as the Abbé Busoni, Dantès meets Caderousse, now living in poverty, who regrets not intervening and possibly saving Dantès from prison . He gives Caderousse a diamond that can be either a chance to redeem himself or a trap that will lead to his ruin . Learning that his old employer Morrel is on the verge of bankruptcy, Dantès buys Morrel's debts and gives Morrel three months to fulfill his obligations . At the end of the three months and with no way to repay his debts, Morrel is about to commit suicide when he learns that his debts have been mysteriously paid and that one of his lost ships has returned with a full cargo, secretly rebuilt and laden by Dantès . </P> <P> Reappearing as the rich Count of Monte Cristo, Dantès begins his revenge on the three men responsible for his unjust imprisonment: Fernand, now Count de Morcerf and Mercédès' husband; Danglars, now a baron and a wealthy banker; and Villefort, now procureur du roi . The Count appears first in Rome, where he becomes acquainted with the Baron Franz d'Épinay, and Viscount Albert de Morcerf, the son of Mercédès and Fernand . Dantès arranges for the young Morcerf to be captured by the bandit Luigi Vampa and then seemingly rescues him from Vampa's gang . The Count then moves to Paris and dazzles Danglars with his wealth, persuading him to extend him a credit of six million francs . The Count manipulates the bond market and quickly destroys a large portion of Danglars' fortune . The rest of it begins to rapidly disappear through mysterious bankruptcies, suspensions of payment, and more bad luck in the Stock Exchange . </P> <P> Villefort had once conducted an affair with Madame Danglars . She became pregnant and delivered the child in the house that the Count has now purchased . To cover up the affair, Villefort told Madame Danglars that the infant was stillborn, smothered the child, and thinking him to be dead, buried him in the garden . While Villefort was burying the child, he was stabbed by the smuggler Bertuccio, who unearthed the child and resuscitated him . Bertuccio's sister - in - law brought the child up, giving him the name "Benedetto ." Benedetto takes up a life of crime as he grows into adolescence . He robs his adoptive mother (Bertuccio's sister - in - law) and ends up killing her, then runs away . Bertuccio later becomes the Count's servant and informs him of this history . </P>

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