The Count of Monte Cristo

Caderousse Ordered to Exit via Bedroom Window

The “abbé” orders Caderousse to leave by the same window he entered from, refusing to allow him out through the door for fear of waking the porter. Caderousse, trembling and suspicious, complies and begins to descend the ladder while the Count holds a light to the window—then Caderousse blows it out before continuing down.

Ambush of Caderousse After Exiting the Estate

The Count watches from his bedroom as Caderousse fixes the ladder against a different part of the wall, and sees a shadowy man who had been waiting run to the spot where Caderousse will come over. As Caderousse slides down the stanchions, the hidden assailant strikes him violently in the back, then a second blow in the side, and a third in the chest, leaving him wounded on the ground.

Caderousse’s Dying Call for Help

The assassin, believing Caderousse dead, drops his head and disappears. Caderousse raises himself on his elbow and with a dying voice cries out, “Murder! I am dying! Help, reverend sir,—help!” His mournful appeal pierces the darkness, and the back-staircase door and garden gate open as Ali and his master arrive on the spot with lights.

第八十三章 The Hand of God

Chapter 83 depicts the grim culmination of one thread of the Count of Monte Cristo’s long-planned vengeance. Caderousse, wounded and dying, encounters the Count—disguised as the Abbé Busoni—in a sequence that exposes the spiritual and moral dimensions of Monte Cristo’s justice. The chapter moves from desperate physical survival to theological confrontation, culminating in Caderousse’s deathbed recognition of the Count and his final, agonized repentance.