Summary of Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo (Chapter 9 - 14)

Chapter 9

Mysterious Death

Danglars became a rich man now because he owned a bank of his own. Dantes had a plan to set and trick him up for revenge. He pretended to be a rich guy who borrowed a lot of money from Danglars’s bank with a purpose to make him bankrupt. One day Dantes met Villefort’s abandoned son named Benedetto who became a criminal. Dantes had a plan for Benedetto to be a part of his tool to take a revenge on his enemies. Dantes gave him moneys and made him became a rich man named Andrea Calvacanti. He met with his old friends Caderousse. Caderousse was surprised because his friends became a rich man now. Caderousse said he had already sold the diamond which Dantes gave to him. After a while, Andrea would marry Danglar’s daughter, Eugenie. One morning, the Marquise, Valentine’s grandmother was worried because she wanted to give the money and legacy to Valentine. Meanwhile she was died because somebody poisoned her. Wedding ought to go on, Franz came to see his future wife but unfortunately he realized that Valentine’s grandfather was the one who killed Franz’s dad. It was a chance for Maximilian to marry valentine, but Valentine’s servant was poisoned to death too. They suspect there was a murder on their house. The doctor said that Valentine who did that but Villefort refused it.

Chapter 10

Blinded by Greed

Time passed Caderousse needed more money to fulfil his need. He asked Benedetto to give him more money but Benedetto refused it because he thought that giving money to Caderousse was never enough. Caderousse told Benedetto about his plan to steal money from Dantes. Benedetto came to Dantes about his enemy plan and he prepared for everything. One time when Caderousse broke Dante’s house inside he saw a priest who gave him a diamond which was actually Dantes pretended to be a priest. He pretend to ask Caderousse about who gave him an advice and plan how to break in his house. Caderousse said he was told by a criminal named Andrea Calvacanti which was Benedetto. He said that he would prevent the Andrea to marry Eugenie. Afterwards, Caderousse tried to kill him but Dantes failed it. He forced Caderousse to write everything about who was actually Benedetto to Danglars. Dantes let him go but one moment Benedetto killed him instead. Dantes revealed himself as real Edmond Dantes who Cadereousse betrayed years ago. Finally, Caderousse died and Benedetto ran away.

Chapter 11

Web of Revenge

One by one Dantes’s enemy went down. This was the turn for Fernand to pay what he did. Dantes made an accusation about Fernand betrayed a Greek leader named Ali Pasha. Haydee a young girl who lived with Dantes said that she was the daughter of Ali Pasha. She came to the court so she can give a testimony about it. The court proofed that Fernand was guilty. Albert son of Fernand was mad and check out that Dantes was the writer of the accusation and asked to fight him. So, Mercedes begged Dantes to not kill him. Mercedes claimed it was her fault because she wouldn’t wait Dantes. Dantes promised himself that he wouldn’t kill Albert no matter what. After all, they met up but instead of fighting, they were shaking hands each other and Albert understood everything. One day Fernand met Dantes and asked him what did he do to him. Dantes revealed himself once again and Fernand was shocked because recently he reaped what he sowed. After went home, Fernand was left by his family and he chose to kill himself. When the wedding of Andrea and Eugenia began, polices came up to them and caught Andrea and arrested him because he was a true criminal. Dantes kept taking the money of Danglars bank and made him bankrupt. He was so depressed and tried to go overseas. Dantes met Valentine and told her the way to show the murderer. He gave Valentine a pill to make her sleep looks like death even though she was buried inside a tomb. Everyone thought that she was really died. Then, everyone knew that the murderer was Heloise. While investigating Benedetto, Villefort felt so guilty and wanted to make everything right. When he got home he found Heloise and his lovely son died because they committed to suicide. One more time The Count revealed himself as Edmond Dantes. Villefort went crazy. Meanwhile, Dantes felt so bad because he took the revenge thing too far.

Chapter 12
The Power of Love

The revenge was totally completed and he took Maximilian to go with him to go back at their hometown. He met Mercedes one more time and they were crying and weeping because his son Albert joined the army. But Mercedes would be just holding on. He went to the place when he was locked on prison for really long time and realized it didn’t look like a prisoner anymore. He visited Roma and visited Danglers one more. He was a prisoner of a bandit called Luigi Vampa. They said that Danglers was so greedy even though for his own meal. Dantes revealed himself to Danglers that he was the guy who Danglers brought to prison. Danglers said he was sorry about everything. Afterwards, Dantes met Maximilian at the Isle of Monte Cristo. Dantes made Maximilian to drink a pill which was the same pill Dantes gave to Valentine. After Maximilian woke up he met the love of his life, Valentine. They were so happy meeting each other. At first, Dantes wanted Haydee to stay with Valentine but because Haydee insisted Dantes to stay with him, Dantes didn’t have a choice but to bring Haydee with him. The last time, Dantes left a note for Maximilian that Dantes left his riches and gave it to him. Dantes and Haydee were gone somewhere.