Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-01
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER !, 1885.
ssThree hours elapsed and day broke.

was for another twenty hours II the
steamer was going to call al Brindis or
OtrRnto. What l should have TO suffer
most from would be Lunger and thirst.
The important thi: for me was that
| could not be seen from the deck nor even
from the boat hung by the stern davis
| Some vessel meeting us might, it is true,
see me and signal me. But very few ships
met as that day, and they passed too far
! OF for them 10 notice q man hanging TO
| the rudder-chains.
! "a scorching sun soon dried my clothes.
! Andrea Ferrato's three hundred 1Orin5
| We're 10 my belt; they made me feel safe
! once | got TO land. There l should have
! nothing to fear. In a foreign country
! Count Matthias Sandorf would have moth
! ing TO fear from the Austrian police.
! There is no eXtradition for political ref
| ugees. But 1t was not enough that they
should think my life was saved.
| wished them TO think | was dead. No
one should know that the last fugitive
! from the donjon Of Pisino had sci foot on
! Italian soil.
What l wished happened, The day
passed without adventure. Night came.
! About 10 O'Clock in the evening saw =
J light at regular intervals away to the
/ southwest. II was the lighthouse at
! Brindisi. Two hours afterwards the
| steamer was just outside the harbOr.
! "But then before the pIlotcame "a board,
| when We were about mile from the land,
| after making parcel Of my clothes and
| tying them to my neck I slipped off the
| rudder-chain into the sea.
! "a minute afterwards had lost sight OF
! the steamer, whose steam whistle had be-
| gun it's shrieking. In half an hour had
/ reached the shore, hidden among the
/ rocks, resumed my clothes, and on bed
| OF seaweed had fallen asleep. In the
morning | entered Brindisi, found one of
the humblest hotels in the place, and there
awaited events before settling on the plan
| Of an entirely new life.
| "TwO days afterwards, Pierre, the
newspapers informed me that the con-
| spiracy Of Trieste was at an end. They
| said that the search for Count SandOrfs
| body had been frultless. l was held to be
! dead--as dead as il had fallen with my
TWO companions, LadIsas Zathmar and
YOUR fatker, stephen BathOry, in the dom
| jon of PlsinO.
81, dead NO, Pierre-and they shall
! see that l am living"
! Pierre had listened greedily to the doc
| tors story. He was as deeply moved by
| il as if the story had been told him from
| the tomb. Yes, it was Count Matthias
/ sandOrf who thus had spoken. In the
! presence of him, the living portrait OF bis
| father, the DOCTORS habitual GOODNESS had
| gradually abandoned him, he had re-
! yealed his real character, ne had shown
| himself as be really was, after years Of
! disguise. What he had said about his
audacious voyage across the Adriatic was
! true in the mlnuteSt detail. 1t was
! thus that he arrived at Brindisi, where
! Matthias SandOrf remained dead to the
| world.
| But be had to leave BrIndisi without
! delay. The town is only transfer sta
! ton. People come TO 1t merely to embark
| for India or land for Europe. 1t is gen.
/ orally empty except Oh the two days of
/ the week when the P. and O. boats come in
The doctor had no further fear for his
| life, butt was important that his death
should ne believed in. Thus ran his
thoughts on the morning after his arrival as
ne " as walking at the foot ct the terrace
Wh ich OverioOks the column of Cleopatra
at the very spot where the old Appjan
| Way begins. Already he had formed his
plans. He would go to the East in search
of wealth and power. But to embark on
one of the steamboats, trading 10 Asia
Minor among a crowd Of passengers of
all nations would not be wise. He
wanted some more secret means of tran
sport than he could ind at Brindisi.
Ana that evening he took the train for
0trantO.
In an hour and a half the train reached
that town, which is situated
almost at the end of the
heel of the Italian boot. There in the
almost abandoned port the doctor agreed
with the captain of a xebec departing for
smyrna. In the morning the xebec sailed
and the doctor saw the lighthouse of
| Punta di Luca, the extreme point of Italy,
| sink beneath the horizon, while on the op-
posite coast the Acroceraunian noun
tains we're hidden in the mist. A few
days afterwards, after a voyage without
incident, Cape Matapan at the extremity
OF Southern Greece was doubled and
Smyrna safely reached.
The doctor had succinctly related to
Pierre this part OF mis- voyage and also
how he had learned from the newspapers Of
| Jne uueXp cted deash Of his daughter,
leaving him alone in the world.
AT last" he said, 81 was in the land of
Asia Minor where for so many years
was TO live unknown. 1t was in studies
of medicine, chemistry, natural science,
that had delighted during my youth at
the schools and universities of Hun
| gary--where your father gained his
renOwn-and it was TO these studies
| that l was to trust for my means OF liveli-
hood.
II was fortunate enough to succeed and
NOR promptly than | had hoped. set
| tied first at Smyrna, where for seven or
eight years obtained great reputation as
physician. Some unexpected cures
brought me into connection with the
chest people Of those countries in
| which the medical art is still in a
rudimentary state | then made up my
mind to leave the town. And like the
doctors Of the DAYS gone by, healing at the
] same time az L taught the art OF healing,
studying the almost unknown therapeu-
ties Of the talebs Of Asia Minor and the
! pundits OF India, travelled through the
whole Of those provinces, stopping here a
! tew weeks, there a few months, chilled to
/ Karahissar, Binder. Adana, Haleb, Trip
| oil, Damas, ever preceded by a renOWn
/ which increased without ceasing and
| brought me fortune that increased with
my renOwn.
But that was not enough. What /
wanted was unbounded power, such as
that possessed by the wealthy rajahs OF
India, whose knowledge IS equal TO their
wealth.
my opportunity came.
"There was At Hons in Northern Syria
a man dying OF slow disease. No phy.
stefan had been able 10 tell what was the
matter with him. Hence none OF them
knew how 10 treat him. Tne man WAS
| Faz-Rhat, and he had occupied very high
| posts ia tue Turkish empire. He was
then 40 years OF age AMI an immense COr-
/ Tune allowed him IN pniov all tina ploaa