The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-12-18

COIu0. OQ The OQ Oh Nlay OF Jl1IS y0lfS
1867, he had. embraced his little adaugh.-
ter, whom he had left to tile tender cares
of R0seua Lendeek, and leav ng his
castle Of Atenak haase out for Pesth,
where he had put himself in communi-
cation with his friends and partisans,
and made, certain5 preliminary arrange4
ments Then few hours later he had
gone to Trieste to wait for events.
There he became the chief centre of
the conspiracy thence radiated all its
threads coIected in Sandorfs hands
In this town the chiefs of the conspiracy
could act with more safety and more
freedom in bringing the patriotic work
to an end. Ill 8 n
At Trieste lived two of Sandorfs most
intimate friends. Animated by the
same spirit they were resolved to follow
the enterprise to its conclusion. Count
Ladislas Zathmar and Professor Stephen
Bathory were Magyars OF good birth.
Both we're a dozen years older than
Sandorf, but were almost without for
from small estate in the County of
Lipto belonging to circle beyond the
Danube : the other was Professor of
! Physical, Science at Trieste, and his only
income came from the fees from his
lectures - Et& &se
.. Lalislas Zathmar lived in the house
discovered on the Acquedotto by Sarcany
and zirone-an unpretending place,
which he had put at the disposition of
Matthias Sandorf during the time he was
away from Artenak-t that is to say, till the
end of the projected movement, when
ever it mightbe. A Hungarian, Borilz,
aged about tifty-tiye, represented the
whole staff of the house.. Borilz was rs
much devoted to his master as Lendecll
was to his. 4F.
Stephen Bathory occupied no less
unpretending dwelling on the .Corso
Stadion, not far from Count Zathmar
Here his whole life was wrapped up in
his wife and his son Peter, then eight
years old.
Stephen Bathory belonged, Instantly
but ALPHABETICALLY, to the line of those
Magyar princes who in the sixteenth
century occupied the throne of Tram
S. lvania. The family had been divided
and lost i'll its numberless qualifications
since then, and people may perhaps
think it as onishing that one of its last
descendants should exist as % simple
professor of the Academy at Presburg.
Whatever lie might be. Stephen Bathory
was scientist OF the first Ia k-one OF
those who live Ill retirement, but whose
work renders them famous. "Inclusrm
labor illustrat," the motto of the silk
worm, might have been his. One day
his political ideas, which he took no
pains to conceal, rendered it necessary
fOr him to resign, and then he came to
live at Trieste as professor unattached.
1t was in Zathmars house that the
three friends had met since the arrival
of Count Sandorf although the latter
ostensibly occupied au apartment on the
Palazzo ModelIo on the Piazza Grande.
The police had no suspicion that the
house on the Acquedotto was the centre
of a conspiracy which counted numbers
of partisans in all the principal towns of
the kingdom.
Zathmar and Bathory were Sandorf's
most devoted au1iliaries. Like him,
they had seen that circumstances were
favorable to IL movement which might
restore Hungary to the place she desired
i'll Europe. They risked their lives,
they knew, but that they cared little
about. The house in the Acquedotto
had thus become the rendezvous of the
chiefs of the conspiracy. Numbers of
partisans, summoned from different
points of the kingdom, came there to
take their measures and receive their
orders. A service of carrier pigeons was
organized, and established rapid and
safe communication between Trieste and
the chief towns of Hungary and Tran
sylvania when it was necessary to send
what could not we'll be confded to the
post or telegraph. In short, every pre-
caution had been taken, and the con-
spirators had not as yet raised the least
breath of suspicion. Besides, as we
know, the correspondence was carried
on in cipher, and on such q plan that
unless the secret was known absolute
security was obtained.
Three days after the arrival of the
carrier pigeon whose message had been
intercepted by Sarcany on the 21st of
May, about eight O'clock III the evening,
Zathmar and Bathory We're in the study,
waiting the return of Matthias Sandorf
His private aflairs had recently COM
PEELED the Count to return into Transyl-
vania and to Artcnak but he had taken
the opportunity of consulting with his
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