Lakhasly

Dantes returned to Faria's room . Faria looked a little better . He showed Dantes a small piece of paper . Half of it was burnt away . Edmond said , ' I can't see anything except broken lines and words . ' I know what the words mean , ' said Faria . ' But first I will tell you the story of this paper . I was the friend and helper of Prince Spada , the last of the princes of that name . I was very happy with him . A long time ago , his family was very rich people often say , " as rich as a Spada " - but my friend , Prince Spada , had very little money . He told me about another Spada ; this man lived and died at the time of Cesare Borgia . ' Cesare Borgia needed money for his wars , but the country was very poor . Finally he thought of a plan . He asked two famous rich men , Rospigliosi and Spada , to dinner . Rospigliosi was very pleased , but Spada was a wise man . " Cesare Borgia wants my money , " he thought . " He will kill me . " He wrote a note , then he went to the dinner . There was death in the glass of wine in front of him . " If I don't drink the wine , Borgia will kill me in another way , " he thought . So Spada drank- and died . ' Cesare Borgia took all the dead man's papers , and the last letter that Spada wrote before the dinner . This said : I give everything to my brother's child - all my money and all my books . Tell him to keep the prayer book with the gold comers carefully . It will help him to remember his uncle . ' Cesare looked everywhere . There were some gold cups and a little money - very little and he took those . But he could not find the treasure of the Spadas .. ' Years passed . The famous prayer book stayed in the family , and my friend , the Prince , now owned it . Like many people before me , I looked through all the family papers through rooms full of papers . Where was the treasure of the Spadas ? I found nothing . I read the history of the Borgia family . Cesare Borgia took all the Rospigliosis ' money true but I found no information about the Spada treasure . I was sure that the treasure was still hidden somewhere .. ' My friend died and left everything to me . He asked me to write a history of the Spada family . In 1807 , a month before I became a prisoner , I was reading some papers . I fell asleep . It was evening when I woke up . The only light was from the fire . I felt for a piece of paper . I wanted to get a light for the lamp from the fire I didn't want to burn any important papers , but I remembered piece of plain white paper in the prayer book . I took it and put a corner in the fire . The fire began to burn the paper . Suddenly , I saw yellow writing ! I quickly put out the fire , and looked at the paper Dantes looked again at the yellow writing . ' And now , ' said Faria , ' look at this . ' He gave Dantes a second piece of paper with broken lines of writing on it . ' Put the two pieces together . ' ' Yes , ' Dantes said . ' I understand . But the writing on the second piece is different . ' ' It is my writing , ' said Faria . ' I thought about it and completed the old paper . When I understood the words , I left immediately . But the government was afraid of me . When I went on board the ship , soldiers took me prisoner . ' Faria looked at Dantes . ' And now , my dear man , ' he said , ' you know as much as I do . If we ever escape together , half this treasure is yours . If I die here , all of the treasure is yours . You are my son . You were born to me in this prison . God sent you to help a sad old prisoner . Thank you , ' said the young man to Faria . ' But we will never have the treasure , because we won't leave this prison . My real treasure is your teaching and your wise words