The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-12-18
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I'm waiting till you are calm, re-
piled Sarcany, very quietly land LII
wait rs long as is necessary"
- +" VIII t does it matter whether / am
calm !? For the last time, what do you.
want %
@"Silas Toronthal,' answered Sarcany.
Il have u. little business to propose to
YOU. >, ..A ~ ss..{
"I do not want to talk business to
you - exclaimed the banker. "Thefe'
is nothing i'll common between You and
me, and only expect to hear that you
are off from Trieste today forever. y
II expect to leave Trieste" answered
Sarcany, tbut do not like to go until
have repaid you what owe!"
You repay me ?--you ?" 80 ar3
Eyes, repay you interest, capital,
without saying anything of the"
Toronthal shrugged his shoulders at
this unexpected proposition. rt.s
1.-The sums / have advanced" he
said care charged to profit and loss and
are written off! | consider we are clear.
want nothing from you, andI am above
such tIifes
And if it pleases me to remain your
debtor?"
"And If it plcases me to remain your
creditor 2"
Then Toronthal AM! Sarcany looked
at each other, and then Sarcany with u
shrug of his shoulders continued
These are only phrases and there is
nothing in phrases. | repeat, [ come
to bring you some very important bust
hess. ISL s rr. t
And suspicious business too, I dare
say"
"Well, it is not the first time that you
have come to me-" .~
Words, nothing but words, said the
banker.
Listen" said Sarcany. "I will be
brief." ..t.
a" And You had better" .-.,....
eff what I am going to tell you does
not suit you, say SO, and I'll 60"
From here Or from Trieste?" .a
''From here and from Trieste"
"Tolnorrow ?"
"This evening""
"Speak, then!'
well, then, this is it, " said Sarcany.
But" added he,. looking around,
"you are sure no one can hear us 2"
You would like our interview to be
secret, then 2" asked the banker ironi-
cally.
Yes, Silas Toronthal, for you and
hold in our hands the lives of important
personages.
"You do perhaps. I do not"
Well, then see. / am on the track
OF conspiracy. What its object is do
not yet know. Bat after what has hap
pened on the plains of Lombardy, after
the business at Sadowa, all that is not
Austrian is against Austria. And I
have some reason to think that move
ment is on foot in favor of Hungary by
which we can profit
Toronthal, as his only reply, con-
tented himself with ayng:
81 have nothing to get out of your
conspiracy"
perhaps not"
But how ?"
"By denouncing it !"
Explain !!
Listen"
And Sarcany told him of all that had
happened in the old cemetery, of the
carrier pigeon, of the intercepted mes
sage-of which he had taken fac-simile
and of how he had found out the BIRDS
destination. He added that for five
days he and Zirone had been Watching
the house how the same people met
there every night, not without great
precautions of other pigeons that had
gone away, and others that had come;
of how the house was guarded by an old
servant, who carefully inspected all who
approached; of how Sarcany and his
companion had been obliged to act with
circumspection to evade the attention of
this old man, and of how, during the
last few days, he had raised suspicious.
Toronthal began to listen more atten-
lively to what Sarcany told him. He
asked himself if it were true, and what
gain he could get out of it. When the
story was told, when Sarcany for the
last time affirmed that there was con-
spiracy against the State and that some
thing could be made out of revealing it's
existence, the banker asked the follow
ing questions:
"Where is the house?"
"No SO Avenue de Acquedotta."
"To whom does it belong?"
"To Hungarian gentleman.
"What is the Hungarian gentleman's
name?"
Count Ladislas Zathmar."
"And who are the people that visit