His paid performance done, the old impostor returns to the gaming-tables of Lucca, leaving Andrea the forged papers that prove his 'noble' birth.
Having played the majestic, solemn father to perfection at the count's dinner, Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti quietly quits the stage: he returns 'to his service'—not the Emperor of Austria's army but the gaming-tables at the baths of Lucca, one of their most assiduous courtiers—having spent every farthing of his travel-reward. At his departure he leaves Andrea Cavalcanti all the papers proving him son of the Marquis Bartolomeo and Marchioness Oliva Corsinari, the forged pedigree on which the young man's whole Parisian standing now rests. A threadbare, venal old Italian hired by the Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantès) as 'Abbé Busoni,' he vanishes from the scheme having done exactly what he was paid for.
A shabby-genteel Italian of about fifty-two with a small angular head, white hair and thick gray moustaches, in a dated green frogged surtout and striped cravat like a halter.
The Count's hired false father, his performance finished, gone back to the gaming-tables.