The Count of Monte Cristo

Caderousse’s Capture

While the narrator awaits his postponed trial, Caderousse is apprehended in a distant country and extradited back to France. He makes a full confession to the jeweller’s murder, refusing to use his wife La Carconte’s role in suggesting and arranging the crime as an excuse for his own guilt.

Release and Vindication

Caderousse is sentenced to life in the galleys for the murder, and the narrator is immediately released from prison, fully exonerated of all charges related to the jeweller’s death.

第四十五章 The Rain of Blood

Bertuccio continues his confession to the Count of Monte Cristo, recounting how he obtained his position through an abbé’s recommendation and then returning to Corsica to find his sister Assunta murdered by his adopted son Benedetto, who, aided by two accomplices, tortured her over a brazier to force her to reveal her money; she died of her burns after they locked the house and fled with the stolen cash, never to be seen again. The Count absolves Bertuccio but reminds him that his true guilt lay in failing to restore the Villefort infant to its mother, then dismisses him to wander the garden alone, murmuring over the very spot where the child’s grave was dug. The party returns to Paris, where the Count surveys his new Champs-Élysées residence with an uncanny familiarity, instructs Ali to keep his Greek and French attendants strictly separate, and welcomes the beautiful Haydée, who is escorted by a tapestried passage to a concealed suite within the house.

The Smuggler’s Second Chance

The Smuggler’s Second Chance Bertuccio recounts how an Abbé intervened to redirect him from a life of smuggling, securing him a position as a confidential servant through a letter of introduction. The Count confirms that Bertuccio has served him faithfully, but notes his failure to confide in him regarding his sister and adopted son.