St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-01

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enough to restore her to any recollection Of
the past.
Madame Bathory rose; her eyes were bag
gard, but still they were alive. Then, with
out seeing anything, without uttering
single word. she entered the marabout, and
Maria. at a sign from the doctor, followed
her in.
Pierre remained at the door without dar-
ing, without being able to move.
With the doctors help Borik began 10 re-
gain his consciousness.
ssYou, Mr.. Pierre You! Alive!
s'Yes!' answered Pierre. eyes! alive!
Though it would be better if I Were deadr'
In a few words the doctor informed B0rlK
OF what had taken place at Ragusa. Iheh
the old servant told him the story OF those
two months of misery.
''But," asked the doctor at the outset
was Their sons death that caused Madame
Bathory to lose her reason"
mo, sir, mop answered Borlk.
And this is what he said.
Madame Bathory, being left alone in the
world, had left Ragusa and gone to live at
the little village of Vinticello, where she
had few relatives, and while there she had
been planning how to dispose of her house,
as she had no further intention of inhabiting
it.
Six weeks afterwards, accompanied by
Borik. she had returned to Ragusa to ar
range all these matters, and when she
reached the house in the Rue Marineila she
found that letter had been dropped into the
box.
Having read the letter. and the reading
seemed to have given her mind its first
shock, Madame Bathory screamed, and ran
into the road. and down into the Stradone,
and knocked at ToronthaPs doors, which
opened Immediately.
''ToronthaFs?" exclaimed Pierre.
eyes," answered Borik; land when l
came up to Madame Bathory she did not
recognize me. She was"
'.But why did my mother 90 to Toron-
thars? Yes! Why?" asked Pierre, looking
at the old servant as if he were quite mysti-
fled.
.'She probably desired to speak with Mr..
Toronthal.n answered Borik. land two days
before MI. Toronthal had left his house
with his daughter, and no one knew where
he had gone"
'.And this letter? this letter."
ST have not been able to find it, Mr..
Pierre" answered the old man. Madame
Bathory must have lost it or destroyed 1t,
or had it taken from her, and l do not know
what it was about.
There was some mystery here. The doc
tor who had listened without saying word
conld see no reason for this act of Madame
Bathory. What imperious motive had
urged her to the house in the Stradone,
which everything would have made her
avoid, and why, when she learned that
Toronthal had disappeared, had she received
so violent a shock as to drive her mad?
Borik's story only took few minutes
He succeeded in keeping Madame Bathory's
mental state secret, and busted himself in
realizing her property. The calm, gentle
mania of the unhappy widow allowed him
| to act without suspicion. His only object,
then, was TO leave Ragusa. and obtain shell
ter in some distant town, it mattered not
where, provided it was far away from that
! accursed place. A few days afterwards he
| took Madame Bathory on board one OF the
steamers that trade with the Mediterranean
coast, and arrived at Tunis, OF rather La
Goulette. There he resolved to stop.
And then, in this deserted marabout, he
devoted himself entirely to the care of
| Madame Bathory, who seemed to have lost
| her speech as well as her senses. But his
resources were so slight that he could see the
| time coming when they would both be re-
duced to the last misery.
1t was then that the old servant thought
| of DR.. Antekirtt. of the interest he had al
WAYS taken in the Bathory family. But
Borik did not know his usual residence. He,
however, wrote, and the letter he trusted in
| despair, to Providence, and it appeared that
Providence had brought the letter into the
doctors hands.
There could be no doubt what was next
70 ha Madonna Potb without NV
resistance on her part, was placed in the
carriage with Borik and Pierre and Maria,
who was ordered to be constantly with her.
And then the doctor and Luigi walked back
by the way of the beach, while the carriage
returned along the road to La Goulette.
An hour afterwards they all embarked on
the yacht, which was under steam. The
| anchor was Immediately weighed, and as
soon as she had doubled Cape Bon the Fer
ratio steered so as to sight the lights of
| Pantelanion. The day after the next, in the
early morning, she ran into harbor at Ante
kirtta.
Madame Bathory at once was taken
ashore. led to Artenak, and installed in one
| of the rooms at the Stadthaus.
Another sorrow for Pierre Bathory! His
mother, deprived of reason, became mad IN
main ineXplicable If the cause of this
madness could be asccrtained, some salutary
reaction might have been provoked, but
nothing about it was known and nothing
could be known.
''She must be curedl Yes! she must!"
said the DOCTOR who entirely devoted him
self to the task.
And the task was difficult one, for
Madame Bathory remained quite uncon-
scious of her actions. and not a remembrance
of her past life did she display.
Could the power of suggestion that the
doctor possessed in so high a degree, as had
already been frequently shown, be en-
ployed to change the mental state Of the
! patient? Could she by magnetic influence
be recalled to reason and kept in that state
until the reaction took place?
Pierre adiured the doctor to try even the
| impossible to cure his mother.
s'No!' answered the doctor. THAT
would not do Mad people are the most
refractory subjects for the purpose! For the
| influence to act, your mother must have a
will of her own, for which | can substitute
| mine! And l assure you l should have no
| influence over her."
ssNo! I will not admit itr' said Pierre
| who would not be convinced. II will not
admit that we shall not see the day when
my mother will recognize me-her son she
believes to be dead"
Eyes! That she believes to be dead!
answered the doctor. But perhaps if she
believed you to be alive, or if she saw you
coming out of the grave, if she saw you ap-
pear"
The doctor paused at the thought. Why
should not sudden shock. provoked under
favorable conditions, have some effect on
Madame Bathory?
81 will try it!' he exclaimed.
| And when he explained. the experiment
| on which he based his hope of curing his
| !, ;n+o +bo Il