Edmond Dantes:
Is this your semaphore station?
Semaphore Station Worker:
Mine? I work it. I've done for many years, but I never have any visitors.
Edmond Dantes:
How does it work?
Semaphore Station Worker:
There is another one on the far horizon. That's my right hand correspondent. And there is my left hand. When I receive a message...
[pantomiming with his arms]
Semaphore Station Worker:
...from right, I transmit it to left. Thus, our messages from Spain transmitted all the way to Paris in a matter of hours.
Edmond Dantes:
A modern miracle.
[offering him money and a piece of paper]
Edmond Dantes:
3,000 francs. Five years' pay if you relay this message to Paris.
Semaphore Station Worker:
[reading it]
But this is... not official.
[Edmond offers him the money again]
Semaphore Station Worker:
You insult me, sir.
[taking it]
Semaphore Station Worker:
It is an insult...
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