Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-06


they were wise.
About o'clock the tramp of a small
troop of horse was heard along the road
Sandorf. who had been out to the gate of
the enclosure, hurriedly reioined his COM
pauion and dragged him into the darkest
corner of the cellar. There they hid
themselves under a heap of brushwood,
and remained motionless.
Half dozen gendarmes, headed by a
sergeant, were coming along the road to-
wards the east. Would they stOp at the
farm? Sandorf snxiously asked. If they
searched the place they could not fail to
find them.
They halted. The sergeant and two Of
the men dlsmounted, while the others re-
NAMED in the saddle, and received orders
to search the country along the canal and
then To return to the farm, where the rest
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 90 back TO The town this
evening, and get the orders for tonight"
said the Sergeant in reply TO one of the
men, "Fhe telegraph may bring us fresh
instructions from Trieste"
The town in question was not Trieste
that was one point of which Count San
dOrf made note.
care you not afraid" said the second
gendarme, "that while we are looking
about here the fugitives may have got
down the Quarnero canalH"
Eyes, that is possible" answered the
first gendarme, 'fOr they might think it
safer than here"
''If they do" said the Sergeant, ''they
none the less risk OF being found, for the
whole coast is being looked after from one
end to the other"
Second tact worth noting: sandorf and
his companion were on the west coast of
lStria, that is to say, near the Adriatic
shore, and not on the banks of the oppO-
site canal which runs out at Fiume.
II think they are having a look round
the salt works at Pirano and Capo dis
tria," said the Sergeant. "They might
hide there easily and get on board vessel
crossing the Adriatic and bound for RI
mini or Venice"
~ t'Fney had much better have waited pa
tiently in their cells" said one of the
gendarmes, phIlosophically.
YES" added the other, ''sooner or later
they'll be caught, if they have not fshed
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 Fol-
ba has been the eXecutioner, and when it
is in food the wretched men could not
have chosen worse road out of the dom
jon 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
imprisoned, tried, and sentenced 1t was
from its dOnjon that they had escaped !
Count Sandort knew this town of PisinO
well! He had at last fixed on this point
which was so important for him to know I;
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
fugitives had learnt all they wished to
know-exeept, perhaps, the name of the
town by the canal on the Adriatic coast.
Soon the sergeant got up, and walked
about the enclosure, W atching if his men
were returning to the farm. Twice or
thrice he entered the ruined house, and
looked into the rooms, rather from profess
siOnal habit than suspicion. He even
came to the door of the cellar, and the flu
gitives would certainly have been dis
covered if the darkness had not been so
great. He even entered II, and tossed
about the brushwoOd in 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 resolved to
sell their liyes dearly If the Sergeant
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 no their minds.
At this moment the sergeant was called
out, and he left the cellar without nOtic-
ing ANYTHING suspicious. The four gen.
darmes sent of TO search had just return
ed to the farm. Despite all they could do
they had not come across any traces Of
the fugitiYes in the district between the
coast and the canal. But they had
not come back alOne--a man accompanied
them.
Hewas Spaniard employed in the salt
works in the neiRhborhOOd. He was re-
turning to the town when the gendarmes
met him. AS he told them that be had
been all over the country between the
town aud the salt works, they resolved to
bring him % the sergeant for him to in
terrogate him. The man had no objection
TO 90 with them.
The sergeant asked him if he had MOTTO
ed any strangers in the salt works.
- NO. sergeant. bhlQ Luc iudu -Dub
this morning, about an hour after / left
tue town, / saw two men who had just
landed at the point along the canal"
1.-TWO men, do you sayI" asked the ser
geant.
Eyes, but as in these parts we thought
the execution at Pisino took place this
morning, aud had heard nothing about the
escape, did not pay much attention to
the men. Now ! know what has occurred
should not be surprised if they we're the
two you want"
From the corner Of the cellar Sandorf
and Bathory could hear every word OF
this conversation which affected them so
nearly. Then when they landed on the
bank they had been seen.
what is your nameY asked the SER
geant.
"Carpena, and am employed at the
salt works"
could you recognize these two men
you saw this m0rningp
Eyes, probably"
dWell, you can come and make de-
claratlon, and put yourself at thedisposal
Of the police"
81 am 40 your orders"
apo you know there is FIVE thousand
forms reward for the discovery OF the flu
gitivesY
Give thousand norlnsw
"And the hulks for him who harbors
them"
''You don't say sou