“Thread and Bone” (The Count of Monte Cristo, Chapter 17 – Part 4)

Faria’s genius has no limits—even the thread in his bedsheets is repurposed for escape. In this passage, he explains how he smuggled raveled seams from one prison to another, stitched them back invisibly with a fish-bone needle, and crafted the rope ladder he still keeps hidden, waiting for fate to crack open a door.

But as Dantès listens, a new idea takes root: perhaps Faria could unravel something even more important—his past.

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