of Monte Cristo, I believe?” said he.
“Yes, sir, and I think I have the honor of addressing Count Andrea Cavalcanti?”
“Count Andrea Cavalcanti,” repeated the young man, accompanying his words with a bow.
“You are charged with a letter of introduction addressed to me, are you not?” said the count.
“I did not mention that, because the signature seemed to me so strange.”
“The letter signed ‘Sinbad the Sailor,’ is it not?”
“Exactly so. Now, as I have never known any Sinbad, with the exception of the one celebrated in the Thousand and One Nights —”
“Well, it is one of his descendants, and a great friend of mine; he is a very rich Englishman, eccentric almost to insanity, and