Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-13


can got of from, not footpath across the
frontier that is free! To go without me IS
to 20 to your death"
"Folow my father" added Maria.
"Whatever happens he will do his duty
and try TO save you"
THAT is 1t, daughter" said terrato.
! at is only my duty. Your brother can
wait for US in the boat. The night is dark.
Before we can be seen we shall be at sea.
| Goodbye, Maria Good-bYeV
But Sandorf and BathOry would not let
| him move. They refused to profit by mis-
| devotion. To leave the house so rs not TO
| compromise the fisherman, yes! But to
| embark under his charge and send him TO
the hulks, no!
Come" said sandorf, "once out OF the
/ house we shall only have 10 fear for our
| selves"
And by the open window they began 10
/ get down into the yard to cross it, when
Luigi rushed in.
The policel' he said.
"Adieuw said Sandorf.
And followed by BathOry he leapt TO the
ground.
Al the same moment the police came
running into the front room.
Carpeno was 81 the head.
"ScOundrelr' said Ferrato.
This IS my answer to your REFUSAL"
replied the Spaniard.
The fisherman was seized and garroted.
In moment the police had seized and
visited every room in the house. The
| window opening on to the yard showed
the road taken by the fugitIyes. They
started in pursuit.
SandOrf and his companion had reached
the hedge which ran along the stream.
SandOrf leaped IL at bound and turned
TO help over Stephen when the report Of a
gun rang out some fifty PAGES OF.
BathOry was hit by the bullet, which
only grazed his shoulder, it is true; but
his arm remained paralyzed ana he could
not let bis companion seize it to help him.
Escape, Matthias" he exclaimed, "es-
cape"
"No, Stephen; no. We will die to-
gether," replied Sandorf, after trying for
the last time to lit his wounded com
panion in his arms
Escape, Matthias" repeated Bsthory,
land live to punish the traitors!"
BathOry's last words were, as it. we're. q
command 10 SandOrf. 70 him there fell
the work of the three-to him alone. The
magnate OF TransylYania, the couspira-
tor OF Trieste, the companion Of stephen
BathoTy and Ladislas Zathmar must give
place to the messenger Of justice.
Al this moment the police had reached
the end Of the yard and thrown them
selves on the wounded man. SandOrt
tated another second.
"Adieu, STEPHEN; adieul" he exclaimed.
With leap he cleared the brook which
ran along by the hedge, and disappeared
Five or six shots were fired after him,
but the bullets missed, and, turning aside
ne ran quickly towards the sea.
The police, however, were on his track
Not being able TO see him IN the darkness
they did not try TO run straight after him.
They dispersed 50 as 10 cut him of not
only from the interior, but from the town
aud from the promOntOry which shelters
the bay OF ROviguo.
A brigade OF geudarmes reinforced them,
and were SO manRuYred as to prevent
him from king any other route than that
towards the sea. But what could he do
there? Could ne possess himself Of
boat and put out to the open sea? He
would not have time. and before he could
get her clear he would be shot. From the
first he saw that his retreat TO the east
was cut of. The noise of the guns, the
shouts Of the police and the gendarmes
as they approached told him that he was
hedged IN on the beach. His only chance
of escape was to the sea and by the sea.
1t was doubtless 10 rush to certain death.
but better to find IL among the waves than
before the firing party in the courtyard
OF the fortress Of PisinO.
SandOrf then ran towards the beach.
In a few bounds he had reached the first
small waves that licked tho sand. He
already felt the police behind him, and
the bullets fired at random whlrled past
his head.
All down this Istrian coast there is a
reef OF isolated rocks just little way out
from the shore. Between these rocks
the sand-some OF them several feet deep,
some of them quite shallow.
1t was the last road that was open, and
although SandOrt thought death was at
the end he did not hesitate to take it.
Behold him, then, clearing the pools,
jumping from rock TO rock, but his profile
thus became more visible against the less
dense darkness OF the horizon. And Inn
mediately the shouts gave the alarm and
the police dashed out after him.
He had resolved not to be taken alive.
If the sea gave him up, it would give up
a corpse.
The difficult chase over the shaking and
slippery rocks, over the yiscOus wracks
and weeds, through the pools where every
step might mean fall, lasted for more
than quarter Of AN hour. The fugitive
was still ahead, but tho solid ground was
soon to fail him.
lie reached the last rocks OF the reef
Two or three police were not more than
ten yards away, the others were about
double as far behind.
Count SandOrf stopped. A last cry es-
capped him-a cry OF farewell thrown TO
Heaven. Then, as discharge Of bullets
rained around him, he precipitated HIM
sell into the sea.
The police came TO the cry edge OF the
rock, and saw nothing but the head of the
fugitive, ike u black point. turned to-
wards the ofiing.
Another Volley battered into the water
round the Count; and, doubtless, one or
two reached him, for be sank under the
waves ana disappeared.
TIL day broke the police kept watch
along the rect and the beach, from the pro-
montOry 10 beyond the fort OF ROvlgn9.
II WAS useless. Nothing showed That
Sandof had again set foot on shore. IL
remained uudoubted, then, that If he
had not been shot he had been drowned.
But though q careful search was made
no body was ever found among the break
ers, nor on the sands, for more than n
couple Of leagues along the coast. But
as the wind WIS of shore and the current
I running % the southwest, there could be
no doubt that the corpse Of the fugitive
had been swept out 10 the open sea.
Count Saud0ri, the Magyar nobleman.
had then found his grave in the waves of
the Adria,ic.
After minute investigation this was
the verdict, very natural one, 10 which
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