Thus Dantès, who just three months earlier had wanted nothing but freedom, now found freedom insufficient and hungered for wealth. The fault wasn't in Dantès himself, but in providence, which limits human power while filling humans with boundless desires.
Meanwhile, through a crack between two rock walls, following a path carved by rushing water that no human foot had probably ever trod before, Dantès approached the spot where he believed the caves must exist. Moving along the shore and examining every tiny detail with serious attention, he thought he could make out marks made by human hands on certain rocks.