Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-27

I est you take IN my meg
''fhe interest, madame, that man
must feel for the widow Of a Magyar who
did not hesitate to risk his life for the in
dependence of his country
| did YOU know Professor Bathory ~
asked the widow In a Quivering voice.
81 knew him, loved him, and l reVer-
ence all who bear his name"
Are you then native Of the country
| Tor which he dIed!'
| 81 am OF no country, madame"
VINO are you thenY'
"a dead man not yet gone to his
/ grave" answered the doctor cOldly.
Madame BathOry and Borik started at
this unexpected reply; but the doctor i'm
medately continued
However, madame, 1t is necessary that
the story that / asked you not to tell
should be told by me, for If there are cir
| cumstances about ii that you know
there are others that you do not know, and
OF THESE you will not be Ignorant much
| longer
''Be it 50, am listening"
madame" began the doctor, Fifteen
years ago three Hungarian mobiles be-
came the chiefs Of a conspiracy the OBJ
! ject of which was to give Hungary her
ancient independence. These men
were Count Matthias Sandorf Pro-
fessOr Stephen Bathory, and Count Ladis-
las Zathmar, three friends united tor
years In the same hope, three living be-
! ings with but one heart.
ION the Sth OF June, 1867, the evening
! before the day on which the signal of the
rising was to be given which was 10 ex-
| teud through Hungary to Pennsylvania,
| Count Zathmars house at Trieste was
entered by the Austrian police. Count
SaGdort and his two companions were
| seized, taken away and thrown into prison
that very night in the dOnjon of PisinO,
and week or TWO afterwards were con-
| demned 10 death.
"a young accountant named Sarcany
| was arrested at the same tune in Count
ZathmAr's house; ne was a perfect
stranger to tie plot, and ne was set at
| liberty after the affair was over.
tine night before the execution an at
tempt at escape was made by the prison
ers who were left together in the same
cell. Count SandOrt and stephen BathOry
availed themselves of the lightning con-
ductor and got out Ofthe dOnjOn of Pisino.
| Tney fell into the torrent of the FOiba at
/ the moment when LadiSlas Zathmar was
! seized by the warders and prevented from
! following them.
Although the fugitives had very little
! chance OF escaping death, for a subter-
| ranean stream bore them through the
center OF country they did not even
| know, they succeeded in reaching the
| banks Of the Lem6 Canal, near the town
of ROvignO, and ri RovignO they found
shelter in the house Of fisherman, An
drea FerratO.
This tisherman-a brave fellOw-had
made all preparations to take them across
the Adriatic, when out OF pure personal
| revenge, a Spaniard named Carpena, who
had discovered the secret of their retreat,
gave information to the police OF Royigno.
Ihey tried 10 escape second time. But
! stephen Bath0ry was wounded and re-
captured, while Matthias SandOrf was
/ pursued to the beach, and fell under a
shower of bullets, the Adriatic never CIV
ing up his corpse.
"The day after Stephen Bathory and
LadiSlas Zathmar were shot in the for
! tress OF P'Sino. Then, for having given
them shelter, the fisherman Andrea Fer
ratio was sentenced to Imprisonment for
! life, and sent TO STEM"
Madame Bathory bowed her head. Sad
at heart she had listened without word
to the DOCTORS story.
"You knew all these details, madame ~
asked he.
Eyes, as you do probably, from the
newspapers"
"Yes, from the newspapers" was the
reply. "But one thing which the news
papers did not tell the public because the
matter was conducted in secret, | hap
pened to learn owing to the indiscretion OF
one OF the warders OF the fortress, and that
l will now tell you.'
proceed"
Count Matthias sandorf and Stephen
Bathory were found in FerratO's house
Carpena, the Spaniard. And they were
arrested three weeks before in the
house at Trieste owing to traitors having
informed against them to the Austrian
| police"
Traitors exclaimed Madame Bath.
DRY.
eyes, madame, and the proof of the
treason was produced at the trial. In the
first place these traitors had intercepted
a letter addressed to Count Sandors which
they had found on carrier pigeon and
copied; and in the second place they had
managed to obtain tracing of the graf
ing which enabled them to read the des
patch. Then when they had read the
message they handed it over to the
Governor OF Trieste. And, doubtless, a
share of Count Sandorrs wealth was their
reward"
'sThe wretches Are they known %
asked Madame BathOry in voice trembl-
ing with emotion.
"NO, madame" answered the doctor
"But perhaps the three prisoners knew
them, and would have said VINO they were
had they been able 10 see their families be-
fore they died.
1t Will DO remembered that neither Ma
dame Bathory, then away with her son
nor Borik who was in prison at Trieste,
had been able to visit the prisoners in theiI
last hours.
"Shall we never know the names o.
these wretchesY asked Madame Bathory
Madame" answered the doctor, >
traitors always end by betraytng them
selves. But this is what l have 10 say tC
complete my story
"You remained a widow with boy Of
eight, almost pennilcss. Borik, The
servant Of Count Zathmar, would not
leave you after his masters death; but he
WAS poor and had only his devotion to
offer YOU.
"Then, madame, you left Trieste for this
humble dwelling at Ragusa, You have
worked, worked with your hands to carr
sufficient for your material as we'll a,
your mental needs. You wished in fac
that your son should follow In science tn,
path that his father had made illustri0us
But what an incessant struggle il was
what misery you had so brayely TO sub
NIT tol And with what respect / now
bend TO the noble woman who has shOwf
such energy as a mother, and made Of hel
son-a manl'
And as he spoke the doctor rose, and {
shade OF emotion just made itself visible
I daanitn his hubifnaI paaarva