St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-30
JULES VERNE.
An Absorbing Story by the Greatest
Of French Authors,
MATTHIAS SANDORF.
TRANSMISSION Copyrighted by G. W. Hanna.
PART
ENTITLED:
CHAPTER XIV.

forgotten the fugitives for whom, up 10
then. he had risked so much. He thought
only of the Spaniard, he saw only Car
pena!
1.-The scomdrel, The scoundrel" he
murmured. at length. Yes! He knows
all! We are at his mercy! L ought to have
understood"
Sandorf and Bathory looked anXiously
nj the fisherman. They waited for what
he was going to say, what he was going to
do. There was not an instant to lose.
The informer had, perhaps, already done
his work.
Count" said Andrea, ''the police may
enter my house at any moment That
begger knows or supposes you are here!
He came to bargain with me! My daugh-
ter was to be the price Of his silence! he
would ruin you to be reyenged on me! If
the police come YOU cannot escape, and you
will be discovered. Yes! You must go at
oncew
'sYou are right Ferrato." answered
Count Sandorf, ''but before we separate
let me thank you for all you have done, and
all you intended to do"
'sWhat | intended to do L shall still dOr'
said ANDREA seriously.
1--WE refuser' said Bathory.
eyes. we refuse" added Sandorf. '1ou
are already too deeply compromised as it Is.
If they find us in your house they will send
you to the hulls. Come, Stephen, let us
leave this house before We bring ruin and
misfortune on it! Escape, but escape
Rlone!"
Ferrato seized Sandorfs hand.
''Where will you go?" said he. The
country is all watched by the authorities
the police are patrolling it night and day,
there is not a spot on the coast that you can
get off from, not footpath across the from
tier that is free! To go without me is to go
to your DEATH"
F:Follow my father" added Maria.
''Whatever happens he will do his duty and
try to save you"
THAT is it, daughter" said Ferrato. at
is my only duty Your brother can wait
for us in the boat. The night is dark. Be
fore we can be see. we shall be at sea. Good
bye, Maria. Good-bye"
But Sandorf and Bathory would not let
him come. They refused to profit by his
devotion. To leave the house so as not to
compromise the fisherman, yes! But TO en-
bark under his charge and send him to the
hulks, no!
Come" said Sandorf. ''once out of the
house we shall only have to fear for our
selves"
And by the open window they began to
get down into the yard to cross it and es-
cape, when Luigi rushed in.
1.-THE policev he said.
''Adieur' said Sandorf.
And followed by Bathory he leapt to the
ground.
At the same moment the police came
running into the front room.
Carpena was at their head.
''ScOmdrelr' said Ferrata.
''This is my answer to your refusal"
said the Spaniard.
The fisherman was seized and garroted.
In moment the police had seized and Wis
tied every room in the house. The win
dow opening on to the yard showed the
road taken by the fugitives. They started
in pursuit
Sandorf and his companion had reached
the hedge which ran along the stream.
Sandorf leaped it at bound and turned to
help over Stephen, when the report of a
gun rang out some fifty PAGES off.
BathOry was hit by the bullet, which
only grazed his shoulder, it is true; but his
arm remained paralyzed and he could not
let his companion seize it to help him.
Escape, Mathiasw he exclaimed. ''Es-
cape!"
mo, Stephen, no. We will die to-
gether," replied SandOrf, after trying for
the last time to lift his wounded compan-
ion in his arms.
Escape, Mathias!" repeated BathOry.
''And live to punish the traitors!''
BathOry's last words were, as it were, a
command to Sandorf. TO him there fell
the work of the three-tO him alone. The
magnate of Pennsylvania, the conspirator Of
Trieste the companion of Stephen Bathory
and Ladislas Zathmar must give place to the
execution.
AT this moment the police had reached
the end of the yard and thrown themselves
on the wounded man. Sandorf would fall
into their hands if he hesitated another
second.
''Adieu. Stephen, adieur' he exclaimed.
With a 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 him, and farming
aside he 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 so as TO cut him off not only
from the interior, but from the town and
from the promontOry which shelters the
Bay of Rovigno.
n brigade of gendarmeS reinforced them.
and were so man9uvred as to prevent him
from taking any other route than that
towards the sea. But what could ne do
there? Could he 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 off
The noise of the guns, the shouts of the
police and the gendarmes as they APP
preached 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 doubt
less to rush to certain death: but better TO
find it among the waves than before the
firing party in the courtyard of the fortress
of PisinO.
SandOrf then ran towards the beach, In
few short bounds he had reached the first
small waves that rolled up on to the sand
He already felt the police behind him, and
the bullets fired at random whistled past
his head.
All down this Istrian coast there is a reef
OF isolated rocks just little way out from
shore. Between these rocks there are sew
eral pools filling the depressions in the sand
some OF them several feet deep, some of
them quite shallow
1t was the last road that was open. and
although Sandorf thought death was at the
end, he did not hesitate to take it.
Behold him then clearing the pools iump-
ing from rock TO rock; but his profile be-
came more visible against the less dense
darkness OF the horizon. And Immediately
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 ViScOus WFacks and
weeds, through the pools where every step
might mean fail, lasted for more than a