"Well?" said he to Monte-Cristo. "The Jew has failed, of course!"
"He has succeeded!" replied the Count, with a smile of triumph.
"You do not mean to tell me that the patient is restored to reason!" exclaimed the director.
"That is exactly what I do mean to tell you!" retorted Monte-Cristo, sharply.
"Humph! there is some cunning trick about this!" cried the official, returning to his office and abruptly closing the door behind him.
The Italian physician resumed charge of the Viscount Massetti, Zuleika and Valentine nursing him by turns. In two weeks the young man quitted the asylum as fully restored in body as he was in mind.