"The first prisoner is considered a dangerous man." The prison director replied, "He is a prisoner of the king's followers, we have orders to isolate him completely from the rest
prisoners."
"- How long has he been a prisoner?" asked the prison director - "He spent almost a year. The jailer threatened to kill and became unable to control his actions, so we put him in a cell by himself." The guard replied." - This is better for him, he will not harm himself and others. "The prison director answered him." - You are right, sir, the guard told him
"We also have a prisoner under this cell about ten meters away, an old priest. He was brought in twenty years before him, and after three years of imprisonment he became completely insane "The guard asked him
". Would you like to see him?"
"I will see them together." The prison director replied
Reluctantly, this did not bother memorizing the names of the prisoners. So the young prisoner called out the number 34.
Dantes demanded that he be imprisoned with the priest, so that he would not be left alone, but the prison administration refused the request and even discussed it, the matter is indisputable, Edmond Dantes must remain isolated and alone . Months and years passed and one day Dantes decided to get rid of his existence, so he tried to commit suicide.. After that, he refrained from eating for days in order to die of starvation, and his strength collapsed and he could no longer see, hear or move. The jailer thought that Dantes had fallen ill with a fatal disease, but Dantes feels that at best, His desire for food and drink ceased, and he began to feel a strange lightness and a delicious numbness, as if he were crossing to the other world lightly, winged, from his bitter suffering. Dantes spent days like this and one evening، At about nine o'clock at night, he heard a strange noise coming from somewhere, whose source he did not know at first, but after careful listening he noticed that it was coming from the wall. Three hours later, the dirt started falling apart. But at this very time the guard came and entered suddenly, so Dantes pretended to be sick and in pain, and in order to hide the sound of the noise coming from behind the wall he shouted several screams that spread panic in the guard He put a plate of food and left quickly. The noise continued, and Dantes realized that a prisoner nearby was digging the wall. Eat reluctantly and try to eat slowly so as not to get sick, Because he no longer wanted to die. After a few moments, he felt that he had regained his strength little by little. So he advanced from the wall and knocked on it with stones several times, and the sound of drilling stopped from the other side and did not resume after that. Three days passed and Dantes looked at the wall for a new noise, but to no avail..
One evening, immediately after dinner, the digging noise returned, but with less force. Dantes dna from the scene and listened carefully to the source of the sound. He moved the bed and thought to dig in turn, but with what? He hit a glass of water and it broke. Digging with shrapnel, but it was not useful to dig. He put the bed back in place and waited for the sunrise. During the night the other prisoner was heard digging from his side until Daybreak.
When the guard returned, he claimed that he had broken the glass of water, so that he would not be aware of the matter. The jailer brought a new glass. and left indifferently. And as soon as the jailer disappeared, Until Dantes returned to the pits again. The wall crumbled into small pieces. Dantes had a bright and tickling idea. If he had begun digging six years ago, he would have dug several meters by day and might have fled long ago.
He took three days to be able to clean the crumbling dirt, and the pieces of the cup were breaking one by one, he thought he needed a tool to dig. And remember that the jailer makes soup in an iron pot، Its handle can be used for drilling. The next day, when the jailer brought a pot of stew and came back to take it, Dantes placed it between the door and the wall, And when the jailer entered, he trampled on it and broke it, and wanted to take it back with him, but Dantes intervened and said to the jailer; "Leave it as long as it is broken until tomorrow morning."
He thought about leaving his name Dantes and looking for a new name for him, but he found nothing. The name Dantes suggested to him that he would be imprisoned forever if he did not change it.
And he was not a lazy jailer but he accepted the opinion of Dantes, left the broken fate and went away. Dantes was overjoyed, so Dantes hurried to bed, budged him, and went back to digging with the handle of the pot.. After an hour, he was able to dull the large stone and remove it from its place, revealing a large hole. Then he gathered the dirt on the sides and hid it between the cracks of the cell, Then keep digging. And before morning he put the stone back and the bed back to its place, and slept rejoicing. The guard returned and put down the piece of bread. Dantes asked him:
- "Won't you bring me another cup?"
The guard replied, "No, I will leave fate to you, because you will not be able to break it." Dantes prayed and thanked his Lord, and continued digging as soon as the guard left, determined to pass to the other cell. After he finished digging a new part, he said insistently:
«If he cannot pass by me, then I will pass by him." After Dantes worked hard and carefully for two or three days. He hit a wooden barrier in the wall. Confused and frustrated eloquent
"Oh, my God," he shouted, "Oh, my God, I thought you'd hear me. Don't let me die. Give me hope." - Who speaks of the Lord and hope. A voice came from below
Like a person coming back from the dead.
Edmund fell to his knees in panic, not believing that someone
talk to him.