St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-15
bowed his head, and instinctively avoided
!, Of hic old rlnn

LIle VI ulo Olu oCCOliPiiSO.
Sarcany had only one feeling-he was
furious at having fallen into the hands Of
this DR.. Antekirtt.
Luigi advanced towards the judges, and
began by addressing the Spaniard.
sCarpena." said he, Il am Luigi Ferrato,
the son of the fisherman of R0vigno, whom
YOU informed against and sent to prison at
Stein, where he died"
Carpena drew himself up for an instant
A paroXysm of anger sent the blood to his
eyes. Then it was indeed Maria whom ne
had recognized in the lanes of Manderagglo,
| and it was her brother Luigi who thus &C
cused him.
Pierre then advanced, and at first point
ing to the banker, he said,-
''Silas TOronthal, | am Pierre Bathory,
the son OF Stephen Bathory, the Hungarian
patriot, whom you, with your accompllce
Sarcany, most shamefully betrayed to the
Austrian police at Trieste, and sent to
DEATH
Then to Sarcany he said,-
Il am Pierre Bathory. whom you tried to
assasslnate in the road at Ragusa. / am
the Intended husband of Sava. the daughter
of Count Matthias Sandorf, whom you stole
fifteen years ago from the castle of Arte-
nak!'
Neither Toronthol nor Sarcany said
word in reply. And what could they say to
their victim, who seemed to have risen
from the tomb to accuse them?
But it was quite another thing when
DR.. Antekirtt rose in his turn, and said in
grave voice.
And L, am the companion of Ladislas
Zathmar and Stephen Bathory, whom your
treachery caused to be shot in the donjon of
Dicip II fot nf w
you stole to get possession of her fortune!
| am Count Matthias Sandorfp'
This time the effect of the declaration
was such that tire knees Of Silas Toronthal
bent to the ground, while Sarcany crouched
as if he would sink into himself.
Then the three accused were examined
one after the other. Their crimes they
could not deny, and for their crimes no par
don was possible. The chief magistrate re-
minded Sarcany that the attack on the
island, undertaken in his own personal in
| terest, had made many victims whose blood
cried out for vengeance. Then having
given the accused full liberty to reply, he
gave sentence conformably to the right
given him by this regularly-constituted
jurisdiction.
''Silas Toronthal, Sarcany and Carpena
you have caused the deaths of Stephen Ba-
thory, Lad;slas Zathmar and Andrea Fer
rato You are sentenced to deathp'
'Whenever you like!" replied Sarcany,
| whose impudence again asserted itself.
''Pardon!'' cried Carpena.
Toronthal had not the strength to speak.
The three were taken away to the case
mates and there kept under guard.
How were these scoundrels to die? Were
they to be shot in some corner of the island?
That would be to defile the soil of Ante
kirtta with the blood Of traitors! And it
was decided that the execution should take
place at Kencraf.
That evening one of the Electrics, COM
manded by Luigi Ferrato, took the prison
erS on board and bore them off to the
island. where they were to wait till sunrise
for the firing party.
Sarcany, Toronthal and Carpena saw that
their time had come; and when they had
been landed Sarcany went up to Luigi and
| asked him:
rs it to be this EVENING""
Luigi made no reply. The three doomed
men were left there all alone. and night had
| fallen when the Electric returned to Ante
kirtta
The island was now free from the trait
ors. That they could escape from Kencraf,
which was twenty miles away from the
| mainland, was impossible.
Before Tomorrow" said Point Pescade,
''they will have eaten each other!'
''Pouah!" said Cape Matifou in disgust.
| That night Count Sandorf had not a mo-
ment's repose. Locked in his room he did
not leave it until 4 o'clock in the morning,
| when ne descended to the hall to meet
| Pierre and Luigi, who were Immediately
| summoned.
1no of tio ~, fha ri
| yard of the Stadhaus under orders to EN-
| bark for Kencraf.
'.Piere Bathory. Luigi Ferrato," said
Count Sandorf. Have these traitors been
| justly condemned to die?"
''Yes, they deserve it," answered Pierre.
YES" replied Luigi" and the scoun-
drels deserve no mercy"
''Then let justice be done, and may God
| give the pardon that man cannot"
| He had scarcely finished speaking when
| a fearful explosion shook the StadhauS and
| the whole of the island as if an earthquake
| had taken place.
| Count Sandorf and his companions rushed
out. and the whole population in terror
| came streaming into the streets of Artenak.
An immense sheaf of flame, with enor
| nous masses of rock and showers of stones
was blazing to a prodigious height towards
the sky. Then the masses fell black round
the islet, raising huge waves il the sea,
| and thick cloud remained suspended in
space.
Not trace was left of the islet of Ken
Graf, nor of the three men whom the eXplo-
sion hao annihilated.
What. then, had happened?
| It will not have been forgotten that the
| island had been mined in preparation for
fbo lon IF tha cictc bat in,
| case the submarine cable which united it to
| Antekirtta was put out of action, certain
| electrical batteries had been buried in the
| ground, so that the wires had only to be
pressed by the feet to be brought in contact
| and fire the fougasses of panclastite.
! What had happened was this. By chance
one of the doomed men had tr0dden on
these wires. And hence the complete and
| instantaneous destruction OF the islet.
Heaven has spared US the horrors of an
execution" said Count SaEdorf.
|
Three days afterwards the marriage of
Pierre and Sava was duly celebrated at the
church at Artenak. On that occasion Dr.
Antekirtt signed his real name of Matthias
| Sandorf, which he would never again lay
down now justice had been done.
| A few words will suffice us to finish our
| story.
Three weeks afterwards Sava Bathory
was recognized as the heiress of the San
dorf property. The letter from Madam
| Toronthal and declaration obtained from
| the banker, in which the circumstances and
| the object of her being stolen were duly set
| forth. proved sufficient to establish her
| identity. AS Sava was not Is all that re-
| manned Of the Carpathian estates in Tran
| sylvania came back to her.
| Count Sandorf himself conld if he had
chosen have entered into possession of this
property under an amnesty which had been
issued in favor of political prisoners. But
| IL ha cd % ra,lhlia lifo Nnthinc