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How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat His Peaches

           ]Theking,DonCarlos,hasescapedthevigilanceofhisguardiansatBourges,andhasreturnedtoSpainbytheCatalonianfrontier.Barcelonahasriseninhisfavor."

           AllthateveningnothingwasspokenofbuttheforesightofDanglars,whohadsoldhisshares,andoftheluckofthestock-jobber,whoonlylostfivehundredthousandfrancsbysuchablow.Thosewhohadkepttheirshares,orboughtthoseofDanglars,lookeduponthemselvesasruined,andpassedaverybadnight.NextmorningLeMoniteurcontainedthefollowing:

           "ItwaswithoutanyfoundationthatLeMessageryesterdayannouncedtheflightofDonCarlosandtherevoltofBarcelona.Theking(DonCarlos)hasnotleftBourges,andthepeninsulaisintheenjoymentofprofoundpeace.Atelegraphicsignal,improperlyinterpreted,owingtothefog,wasthecauseofthiserror."

           Thefundsroseonepercenthigherthanbeforetheyhadfallen.This,reckoninghisloss,andwhathehadmissedgaining,madethedifferenceofamilliontoDanglars."Good,"saidMonteCristotoMorrel,whowasathishousewhenthenewsarrivedofthestrangereverseoffortuneofwhichDanglarshadbeenthevictim,"Ihavejustmadeadiscoveryfortwenty-fivethousandfrancs,forwhichIwouldhavepaidahundredthousand."

           "Whathaveyoudiscovered?"askedMorrel.

           "Ihavejustdiscoveredhowagardenermaygetridofthedormicethateathispeaches."

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