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Dantes gifts his friend Jacopo and purchases a small, fast boat from a builder in Genoa, planning to sail alone. He retrieves his hidden treasure from Monte Cristo and returns to Marseilles under the name Count of Monte Cristo, successfully passing customs. Upon arriving, he encounters an old seaman, Nicolas, but remains unrecognized despite his generous offer of money.

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Part 17

Dantes gifts his friend Jacopo and purchases a small, fast boat from a builder in Genoa, planning to sail alone. He retrieves his hidden treasure from Monte Cristo and returns to Marseilles under the name Count of Monte Cristo, successfully passing customs. Upon arriving, he encounters an old seaman, Nicolas, but remains unrecognized despite his generous offer of money.

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Chapter fifteen

At Marseilles

He gave fine presents to all the men. He gave a new ship and some money to his best
friend, Jacopo. After that, he left Livorno and went to Genoa.
In Genoa he saw a boat builder. The man had a beautiful little ship on the water. 'I built
this boat for an Englishman,' the boat builder said.
It was very small. 'I can sail it myself, alone, without help' Dantes thought. 'And it is very
fast. No other ship on the water will catch it.'
Dantes offered a lot of money for the boat and asked the builder for the ship's papers.
'The Englishman will not return for some time,' the boat builder said. 'I am sure that I can
build another boat for him.' So he agreed to sell the boat.
He offered to find seamen for the ship, but Dantes said, 'I don't need anyone. But make
me a hidden place on the ship, near the top of my bed.'
The builder promised to do the work the next day.
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Dantes sailed away from Genoa alone, and arrived at Monte Cristo on the second day.
He took his boat to a different place on the shore. There was nobody on the island, and
the treasure was still there.
Early the next day, he began to carry his treasure on board. By evening it was safely
hidden in the secret place.
One fine morning, a small but beautiful boat sailed into Marseilles. Dantes tied it up near
some steps. 'I left Marseilles just here, many years ago, to go to the Chateau d'If,' he thought.
The customs officers came on board to look at the ship's papers. A soldier stood near the
steps. Even now, Dantes was afraid when he saw a soldier.
Edmond now had a different name - a rich man's name. He showed the officers the ship's
papers.
'This boat is owned by the Count of Monte Cristo,' the papers said.
The customs officers wanted to please the rich ship owner. 'The count can go on shore
now, if he wants to,' they said. 'There is no problem with his papers.'
Old Nicolas, a seaman from the Pharaoh, was one of the first men that he met on shore.
Dantes went straight to Nicolas and asked him a number of questions. He watched the man's face
carefully, but Nicolas did not know him. Dantes gave him some money and turned away. Soon
he heard a shout.

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