The Count of Monte Cristo

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with which Julie looked at him. "An Englishman you say?"

"Yes," replied Maximilian, "an Englishman, who represented himself as
the confidential clerk of the house of Thomson & French, at Rome. It was
this that made me start when you said the other day, at M. de Morcerf's,
that Messrs. Thomson & French were your bankers. That happened, as
I told you, in 1829. For God's sake, tell me, did you know this
Englishman?"

"But you tell me, also, that the house of Thomson & French have
constantly denied having rendered you this service?"

"Yes."

"Then is it not probable that this Englishman may be some one who,
grateful for a kindness your father had shown him, and which he himself
had forgotten, has taken this method of requiting the obligation?"