Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-18

trouble ms eXlstence-eXcept his Wiie
who remained silent but living reproach
TO hin.
For that unhappy woman, honest and
straightforward as she was, knew OF the
hateful scheme that had sent the three
patriots TO their deaths. \ word escaped
from her husband when his affairs were
IN jeopardy. hope imprudently eX-
pressed that some Of SandOr's money
might help him out OF his difficulties,
some signatures ne had had TO obtain
rom his wife, had drawn from him the
confession Of his share in the Trieste con-
spiracy.
An insurmOuntable aversion for the
man who was bound to her was the feel.
ing she thereup n experienced-and the
feeling was all the keeuer from her being
Of hungarian birth. But as we have
said she wasa woman OF no moral energy.
Ine blow fell on her, and she could not
recover from it. Henceiorth at Trieste
and afterwards at Ragusa she lived apart
from her husband, as much as her posi-
ton permitted. She appeared at the re-
ceptiOns IN the house IN the StradOne, II
was necessary for her 20 do 50, and her
husband Insisted on it; but when she had
played her part as a woman Of the
/ world she retired to her apartments.
There she devoted herself entirely to the
education OF her daughter, on whom she
had concentrated all her affection
/ and endeavOred to forget what she knew.
To forget, when the man who had acted
in this way was living under the same
roo with her.
Two years after their removal to Ragu-
sa, the state Of things became still more
/ complicated. And il the complication
was an annoyance 10 the banker il was
subject Of further grief to his wife.
Madame Bathory, her son and Borik
had also left Trieste to take up their quar-
ters at Ragusa, where they had few rel
atives stephen Bathory's widow knew
nothing of ollas TOrOutaal; she did not
even know that he and Count Sandorf had
| ever had business toRe ner
But IT Madame BatnOry did not know
the banker, he knew her. TO find him.
self in the same town, o meet her as be
passed by, poor, working 10 educate her
child, was any hing but agreeable to him.
Had Madame Bathory come 10 Raguss
before he mad made up his mind to live
there, he would probably have chosen
otherwise. But Wien tine widow came to
live at her humble house in the Rue Ma
rlnella his mansion mad already been
bought, he had occupied it., and the posi-
ton had been definitely accepted. 1t
uld not have done TO change his resi-
dence for the third time.
1--WE get accustomed to eyerything"
be said TO himself. And he resolved to
shut his eyes TO this permanent witness
of his treacaery.
But what was only an unpleasantness
for the banker was an iuCessant cause of
grief and remOrse TO Madame Toronthal.
Secretly on several coca ions she had tried
% send help to this widow who had no
other wealth than her work; but the help
was always refused, like that Of other I'M
known friends.
Then the position became almost insup-
"a 49, .Ua-a.
unforeseen, almost improbable, and even
terrible by the complications it might
bring about.
Madame TorOnthal had concentrated all
her affections on her daughter, who was
two and half years old when, at the end
Of 1867, her husband came TO live at Ra-
gusa.
Sara was now liza beautiful girl, more
of the Hungarian than the Dalmatian
type. With her dark, abundant hair, and
bright, glowing eyes set deep beneath a
somewhatlofty forehead of psychic form"
If we can appropriately use the term
that chirognomists apply more particu-
larly to the hand--with her well-curved
mouth, and sweet complexion and her
graceful hgure rather above the middle
height, she was at least certain of never
being passed by with Indifference.
But that which was most striking about
her was the pensiye, serious mien that
seemed to show she was ever in search of
some long-faded remembrance Of some
thing, she knew not what, that at once
allured and saddened her. On this ac-
count it was that she treated with eX-
IRENE reserve all those whom she met
ia her fathers house, or out Of doors.
She was supposed to be the heiress of
an enormous fortune which one day
would be entirely her own, and was, OF
course, much sou INT after. But al
though many eligible individuals were in
trOduced in which all the social prOprie-
ties were duly found, she had always re-
fused under her mothers advice to give
them the slightest reimbursement. To-
Tonthal himselfhad never alluded to the
subject OF her marriage. Probably the
sOn-in-iaw he Wauted-mOre for him.
self than sara-had not yet come for
ward.
To dnish this portrait Of Sara Toronthal
we should note very marked tendency
to admire such acts of virtue or courage
as were due 20 patriotism. Not that she
tpok mucn interest in politics, but ia the
recital OF all that affected her country, in
the sacrifices made for it, and in recent
pies by which its history had been
made lllu-trious, she took deep interest.
And these sentiments were hardly owing
10 the accident of Ger birth-tOr a-surediy
she did not inherit them from Silas To
, rOnthal--but seemed to have arisen spon-
taneously IL her own noble generous
, ueart.
Would that explain the sympathetic
attraction between her aud Pierre? Yes
A stroke OF ill-luck had interviewed in the
bankers game, and brought these two
young people together. sara was 0nly -
years Old when one day somebody had
said In her presence:
There gees the son OF man who died
for Hungary ~ And that was never et-
faced from her memory.
Both grew up. sara thought Of Pierre
! long before he mad noticed her. She saw
him looking so serious, so thoughtful
But II he was poor he could at
least work 10 be worthy Of his fathers
name--and she did not know the whole
story.
; We know the rest; we know how Pierre
BathOry was IN his turn attracted and
won by nature which sympathlzed COM
pleteiy with his own, and how wnen the
girl knew not her real feelings towards
hun, the young man already loved her
, with a profound affection tnat she was
soon TO share. All that concerns Sara
VIII have been said when we have de-
scribed her position in the family.
Towards her father she had always been
most reserved. Never had the banker be-
travcd the slightest feeling % kindness
towards her, never had he greeted hts
daughter with a caress. The GOODNESS be-
I tween them arose from complete want