St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23


would meet them at o'clock.
The four gendarmes moved off immedi-
ately. The sergeant and the two others
picketed their horses, and sat down to talk.
From the corner of the cellar the fugitives
could hear all that passed.
Yes. we shall go back to the town this
evening and get the orders for tonight. +"
said the sergeant in reply to one of the
men. The telegraph may bring us fresh
instructions from Trieste"
The town in question was not Trieste;
that was one point of which Count Sandorf
made note.
''Are you not afraid" said the second
gendarme, THAT while we are looking about
here the fugitives may have got down the
Quamero canal?"
Yes that is possible. 4" answered the first
gendarme. ''for they might think it safer
than here"
IF they do said the sergeant, ''they
none the less risk being found, for the whole
coast is being looked after from one end TO
the other"
Second fact worth noting: Sandorf and
his companion were on the west coast of
Istria, that is TO say, near the Adriatic
shore. and not on the banks Of the opposite
canal which runs out at Fiume.
Il think they are having a look round
the salt works at PiranO and Capo d'Istria, +"
said the sergeant. ''They might hide there
easily and get on board vessel crossing
the AGriatic and bound for Rimini or
Venice"
They had much better have waited
patiently in their cell" said one of the gen
dames philosophically.
Yes, added the other. ''sOOner or later
lao 4s..I. 4
them up out of the Buco! That would
finish it, though. and we should not have to
trot about the country in all this heat"
And who says it hasn't finished it?"
replied the sergeant. Perhaps the Foiba
has been the eXecutioner, and when it is in
flood the wretched men could not have
chosen worse road out of the dOnjOn of
Pisino."
The Foiba then was the name of the
river which had carried OFF Count Sandorf
and his companion. 1t was the fortress OF
PiSino to which they had been taken after
their arrest, and there they had been i'm
prlsoned, tried and sentenced 1t was
from its dOnjOn that they had escaped!
Count Sandorf knew this town of PisinO
well! He had at last fixed on this point
which was so important for him to know;
and it would no longer be by chance that he
would cross the IStrian peninsula, if flight
was still possible.
The conversation of the gendarmeS did
not stop here; but in these few words the
fugltiyes had learnt all they wished to
know-eXcept, perhaps, the name of the
town by the canal On the Adriatic coast.
Soon the brigadier got up and walked
about the enclosure, watching if his men
were returning to the farm. Twice or
thrice he entered the ruined house. and
looked into the rooms. rather from profess
Slonal habit than suspicion. He even came
to the door of the cellar, and the fugitives
would certainly have been discovered if the
darkness had not been so great. He even
entered it and tossed about the bruShwOod
III the corner with his scabbard. but without
reaching those beneath. AT this moment
Sandorf and BathOry passed through almost
the whole gamut of anguish. They had re-
solved to sell their lives dearly if the ser
geant reached them. To throw themselves
on him, profit by his surprise to deprive him
of his arms, to attack him two TO one. TO
kill him or make him kill himself, they had
fully made up their minds.
At this momentthe sergeant was called
out, and he left the cellar without noticing
anything suspicious. The four gendarmes
farm. Despite all they could do they had
not come across any traces of the fugitives
in the district between the coast and the
canal But they had not come back alone
a man accompanied them.
He was q Spaniard employed in the salt
works in the neighborhOod. lie was re-
turning to town when the gendarmes met
him. As he told them he had been all over
the country between the town and the salt
works, they resolved to bring him to the
sergeant for him TO interrogate him. The
man had no objection TO go with them.
The sergeant asked him if he had noticed
any strangers in the saltworks.
mo, sergeant, said the man: ''but this
about an hour after left the town.
| saw two men who had just landed at the
point along the canal"
1.-TWO men, did you say?" asked the
sergeant.
Eyes, but as in these parts we thought
the execution at PisinO took place this
and had heard nothing about this
escape, / did not pay much attention TO the
men. Now know what has occurred |
should not be surprised if they were the two
you want"
From the corner OF the cellar Sandorf
and Bathory could hear every word of this
which affected them so nearly.
Then when they landed on the bank they
had been seen.
What is you name?" asked the ser
geant.
''Carpena, and L am employed at the
Gould you recognize these two men you
saw this moTning?'
Eyes, probably"
'Well, yen can come and make a decla-
ration, and put yourself at the disposal of
the police"
Il am at your orders"
do 20 know there is 5000 forms
reward for the discovery of the fugitives?-
Five thousand florins?"
And the hunks for him who harbors
them"
''You don't say SOP
SEQ" said the sergeant.
The Spaniard's news had the effect of
sending off the gendarmes. The sergeant
ordered his men TO mount. and as night had
fallen he started for the town, after having
searched the banks OF the canal.
Carpena at the same time set out. con-
graduating himself that the capture of
the fugitiyeS would be worth so much To
him.
Sandorf and Bathory remained in hiding
for some time before they left the cellar
which had served them for a refuge. Their
thoughts ran as follows: AS the gendar-
merle were on THEN traces, as they had
been seen and were likely to be recognized.
the Istrian provinces We're no longer safe
for them, and they must leave the country
as soon as possible either for Italy on the
other side of the Adriatic, or across Dali
malta and the military frontier.
The first plan offered the best chances of
providing they could possess them
selves of vessel, or prevail on some fish
eman to land them on the Italian coast.
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