Dantès Resolves to Help
Dantès Resolves to Help Encouraged, Edmond determines to assist the worker. He searches his meager furnishings—a bed, chair, table, pail, and jug—for any tool capable of piercing the wall, but finds nothing suitable.
Breaking the Jug
Breaking the Jug Having no knife or implement, Dantès smashes his jug and hides the sharpest shards in his bed, intending to use one to dig at the wall. He tells the jailer the jug simply fell from his hands, and the careless jailer brings a replacement without removing the fragments.
第十五章 Number 34 and Number 27
Chapter 15, “Number 34 and Number 27,” continues Edmond Dantès’ efforts to escape from the Château d’If. After realizing he had been attacking stone rather than removing the surrounding plaster, Dantès adapts his approach, cleverly obtains a saucepan handle to use as a lever, and makes significant progress excavating his cell wall. His work is interrupted when he encounters a blocking beam, leading to a moment of despair. The chapter’s pivotal event occurs when Dantès hears a voice from beneath the earth—Prisoner No. 27, an older inmate who has been digging his own tunnel. After exchanging information and pledging mutual trust, No. 27 reveals he took a wrong angle in his excavation, coming up fifteen feet short of the outer wall. Despite this setback, the two prisoners agree to collaborate, and No. 27 finally enters Dantès’ cell, ending the young man’s years of solitary confinement.
Dantès Discovers Excavation Error
Dantès realizes upon examining his cell by faint light that he labored uselessly the previous evening. Instead of removing the plaster that surrounded the stone, he attacked the stone itself, wasting his efforts on the wrong material.
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