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THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
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At the expiration of a year the governor was changed; he had obtained the government of Ham. He took with him several of his subordinates, and amongst them Dantès' jailer. A fresh governor arrived. It would have been too tedious to acquire the names of the prisoners; he learned their numbers instead. This horrible boarding-house consisted of fifty chambers; their inhabitants were designated by the number of their chamber; and the unhappy young man was no longer called Edmond Dantès, — he was now No. 34.
