Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-06

the terrato, very many boats came on 10
her.
All this excitement was evidently part
Of the Doctors plan. bis celebrity was
! 10 be brought in to help mis- enterprise.
Pierre and he did nothing 70 restrain the
public enthusiasm. An open carriage
obtained from the chief hotel enabled
them TO visit the town with its narrow
streets OF gloomy houses de-
stitute OF character and color,
and its little squares with sickly, dusty
! trees shading some miserable inn or one
Z or two official buildings. In word
/ there was nothing original to be seen eN-
/ cept, perhaps, in the Moorish quarter,
I where color mad not entirely disap-
/ peared.
About O'Clock the doctor requested to
I be taken TO the Governor Of Ceuta, whom
! be wished to visit--an act OF courtesy
! quite natural on the part OF stranger OF
! distinction.
/ Ii need scarcely be said that the Gov
! ernOr was not a civil iunctionary. Ceuta
/ is above all things a military colony. IL
/ contains about 10000 people, officers and
| soldiers, merchants, fishermen or coast
/ ing sailors housed in the town and along
| the strip OF land whose prolongation
! towards the east completes the Spanish
! possession.
! Ceuta was then administered by Col.
| Guy ARE. He had under his orders three
! battalions Of infantry detached from the
continental army who had to serve their
/ time in Africa, one regiment permanently
! quartered in the colony, two batteries OF
| artillery, company of engineers, and
/ company OF MOOrs whose families occu-
! pied special quarters. The convicts
| am united to nearly , 600.
! To reach the governors house the car
| riage bad to traverse a macadamized road
| outside the town which ran through the
colony to its eastern end. On each side
OF the road narrow band between she
foot of the hills and the waste along the
beach is well titled. thanks to the assidu-
GUS labor of the inhabitants, who have
| hard struggle against the poverty of the
soil. Vegetables of all sorts and even
trees are there to be fOund-and the la
bOrers are many.
For the cOnvicts are sentenced to vari-
GUS periods ranging from iwenty years TO
deten zion for life, and are set to work in
various ways under conditions determined
by the government. They are not only
employed by the State in special work
shops, on the Notifications, and the roads,
which require constant repair, but fulfil
the duties of urban police when their good
conduct permits.
During his visit to Ceuta, the doctor
met several of these moving about freely
in the streets OF the town, and even en-
gagged in domestic work, but he saw a
much larger number outside the fortif-
cations, employed on the roads and in the
fields.
To which class Carpena belonged it
was important be should know, as
his scheme would have TO be modified TO
suit his being at work under guard or
at liberty, or for the State or private in
dividual.
But" said he to Pierre, "as his con-
victiou is so recent, it is unlikely that he
would have obtained the advantages ac-
corded to old-stagers for good conduct"
But If he is under lock and keyY asked
Pierre.
Then his capture will be more difficult
bnt it must be managed"
The carriage rolled slowly along the
1 road. AT a couple of hundred yards be-
/ yond the Notifications a certain number
! of conyicts under a guard were working
at macadamizing the road. They were
| about fifty, some breaking the stones, 9TH
ers spreading them, and some rolling
! them in. The carriage had to proceed
! slowly along the side where the repairs
! had not been commenced.
Suddenly the doctor touched Pierre's
/ arm.
"There be isi'' said be, in low voice.
a man was resting on the handle of his
pickaxe, about twenty PAGES in front of
his companions.
| 1t was Carpena.
The doctor, after fifteen years, recog-
! nized the salt-marsh worker Of Istria in
! bis convict gaTb, as Maria Ferrato had
| recognized him in his Maltese dress In the
lanes Of the MandeTaggio. he was even
then only pretending to work. Unfit
for any trade, he could not be en-
ployed in any of the workshops. and
was not even able to break stones on the
road.
Although the doctor had recognized
him, Carpena had not recognized Count
| Matthias Sandorf. He had only seen
him for 80 short time on the banks of
The canal and In the house of Ferrato, the
fisherman, when he brought in the police.
But like every body else he had heard that
| DR.. Antekirtt had arrived at Ceuta: and
! Or. Antekirtt, he remembered, was the
parsonage of whom Zirone had spoken to
him during their interview near the grot-
10 of POlyphemus on the coast of Sicily.
| lie was the man whom Sarcany had warn
ed them ~ beware of, he was the mil
lionaire over whom Zirone's band had
met their destruction at the Casa degli
! lnglesi.
What passed in Carpeua's brain when
he found himself so unexpectedly in the
DOCTORS presenceS Did ne receive an inn
preston with that lnstantaneousness
which characterizes certain photograp hic
processes? 1t would be difficult to saw.
But he did feel that the doctor had taken
possession of him by a sort OF moral as
tendency, that his personality had been
annihilated that strange will had taken
the place OF his own will. In vain he
would have resisted; he had to yield to
the domination.
The carriage stopped, and the doctor
continued to gaze into his eyes with pene-
trating ixity. The brllliancy of those
eyes produced In Carpena's brain a
strange and Irresistible effect. Gradually
the Spaniard's senses faded away. His
eyelids blinked, and closed, and retained
only a pickering vibration. Then the
anasthesia became complete, and he fell
1 by the side of the road without his CON-
! panions seeing anything OF what had pass.
ed; All then he slept IN a magnetic
sleep from which not one Of them could
/ rouse him.
Then the doctor gave orders for the
c0acnman TO drive on 10 the governors
\ house. The scene had not occupied
more than half minute. No one had
| noticed what passed between the
| Spaniard-no one except Pierre Bathory.
"NOw, that man is mne," said
the doctor, land ! can do what like
/ with him.'
"shall we find out all he knowsS'' asked
| Pierre.
mo, but he viii do all that ] require,
and that unconsciously. Al the first
/ uiuupn 1 raxa ~ tho eanunHrnf I