The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-03-14

ing eyes. l proceeded to say that |
did not know that there was any harm
in being there, that was only watch
ing the effect of the lights on the river
all this IN bad German. which was
just nervous enough to make worse
than usual meant to say that l was
a stranger in the city, but I said, Gun
f1emden a strangers" as if / were a
host by myself, which struck the officer
SO comically that he roared with laugh
ter and laughed himself into good hu-
NOR when he replied, still laughing ::
| ia 7iohX 7peNn sic send Elm f1emden
sic mass in ahaus blel6eu" (When
you are stranger, stay in the house,,
GOT OFF EASILY AT LAST.
He asked me what hotel | stopped
in and showed me the way there, adj
ding: "Don't let the police catch you
out, for they won't let you off as easily
as l have" and he went his way, glad
at his heart, I do not doubt, to have
been able to shirk bit of police work,
which the officers of the Austrian army
generally hate. They are (and 1 have
seen a good deal of them in later years.
almost without exception gentlemen,
courteous, refined and averse to the
brutality for which the Austrian police
has long been famous. found
them very dull and slow-witted, not to
be feared by any clever conspirator, l
should say.
| went back to my hotel, took out
my dispatches from their hiding place,
wrapped the two slips separately in
gutta percha again, and, having a bit
of shoemaker's wax, stuck them I'M
der my hair at the back of my head,
having allowed my hair to grow long
for that purpose.
| Having no ostensible occupation,
and Pesth being peculiarly dull place,
l found it necessary to give new assur
ances to the police authorities, SO I
took to my bed and had a Hungarian
doctor called in. DR.. Orzovensky had
been chief OF medical staff in the Hun
garian army during the rebellion, but
had been pardoned as a non-comba-
tant. | found he was, however, no
friend to the revolution, and so l could
get no help through him except that
of enabling me to stay in Pesth free
from police inquisition. And kept
my bed as long as l could without
coming under suspicion from that
cause, and then l became GONZALES.
cent and went out to make acquain-
tances, went to the doctors house to
dine and take tea.
| I remained month in Pesth, and,
| finding that kossuth, in spite of my
urgent appeals to find some way out Of
the deadlock. paid no further attention
to the matter, l began to study where
l might secrete the dispatches, as my
: remaining in Pesth any longer without
some reasonable pretext was impos-
sible. | could find no safe hiding
place indication of which could be
given to another person in writing, and
| finally decided to risk the Doctor.
So one evening told him my business
and asked him if l could hide the de
spatches in some convenient place
which he could indicate to some one
who should come after me. The look
Of dismay he turned on me gave me
the first beginning of panic | had felt
NOT THAT SORT OF A DOCTOR.
"Not only will 1 accept no charge
, of this kind" said he, "but were it tc
be known that you had communicated
this to ME and l were not to delive
f you up to the police, should be i'm
prisoned and ruined, my family as wei
as myself" The fright of the poo
man was contagious, and for the frs
t time in my life 1 knew the meaning O
Virgils 7or haeSH IN faucibns, for m,
tongue became instantly as dry as dea(
wood. $50 away he urged, "yo'
don't know what dangers you run, ant
, | too, knowing what you are and no
giving you up to the police"
1t was not new apprehension whicl
struck me. l had thought over all thu
police dangers and the chance of
military execution at early dayligh
which my cipher dispatches would in
sure, written as they were in Kossuth'
, own hand as we'll as his letters whicI
: came by post and were to be seen an
+ read of all the postoffice detectives
The contagion of the good doctor
fright, coming in moment and fror
: a direction in which l least looked fc
: it, swept ME away. | got frightened
l l threw my dispatches down the sin
e and started tor n5land the next day
e l only thought he tells
When l reported to Kossuth h
threw up his hand with a gesture of pal
: and said: ooh, three months lost
| and then added: "But you will com
S with us when we fight" and that wa
e all. Zsemere, when he learned thu
Kossuth had on foot an expedition t
r recover the jewels, gave the informs
r ton to the Austrian Government
e which led to their recovery-the If
n surrection broke out at Milan and tn
+ Door Hungarians there obeyed 10:
n suth, and were decimated and sent t
!, keep down the Croats, whom the
e hate, but Kossuth's revolution neve
I ru,itaI ~, D,ric for II ill II,