Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-18

CHAPTER VIlI.-CONTIEUED.
He asked G sailor VINO was walking on
the quay what had become Of DR.. Ante
kirtt's yacht.
The Savarena had sailed the night be-
fore, he replied, and he no more knew
where she had gone than where she mad
come from.
The schooner gonel The doctor had
disappeared as mysleriOusly as he had ar
rived.
Pierre went back to Ragusa in greater
despair than ever.
Had an accident revealed TO the young
man that the schooner mad left for Cat
taro, be would not have hesitated TO fol-
low her. But his jOurneysawo2ld have
been useless. The SavarenG reached The
mouths, but did not enter them. The
doctor accompanied by Matifou went on
shore in one Of her boats, and the yacht
departed for some unknown destna-
tiOn.
There is no more curious spot in Europe
and perhaps in the Old World that tnls
geographic and photographic curiosity
known as the mouth OF CattarO. Cattaro
is not a river as any one might be tempted
70 think; IL IS a town, the seat Of q
bishop, and the capital of a Circle.
The mouths are six bays side by side CON-
muncating with eacn other by narrow
channels which can be sailed through In
six hours. OF this string of lakes which
stretch along in front Of the mountains
q the coast, the last, situated at the foot
Of Mount NOrri, marks the limit Of the
Austrian Empire, Beyond that is the
Ottoman Empire.
1t was at the entrance OF the mouths
hat the doctor landed, after a rapid pas
sage. There one OF the swift electric
boats vas in waiting to take him 70 the
last OF the bays. Alter doubling the
point OF Ostro, passing before Castel
Nuova, betwte en- the two panOramas Of
towns and cnapels. before StolivO, before
PerastO, a celebrated pace Of pilgrimage
before kisanO, where the Dalmatian cost
tunes begin TO ming with Turk so aud,
Albanian, be arrived from lake TO lake at
the last blight at the bottom of which is
built CattarO.
Electric No. was moored few cable
JengtDs from the town on the sleepy
gloomy waters which not a breath
at air troubled on this fine night in
June.
But it was not on board Of her that the
Doctor Intended to take up his quarters.
For the purposes Of his ulleriOr projects
he did not WISH II 10 be known that this
swift vessel belonged to him; and he
landed at Cattaro itself and with Cape
one OF the hotels 10 the town.
The boat that had brought them was
soon lost in the darkness to the right of
the harhor up small creek where it
could remain invisible. There, at Cat
taro, the doctor could be as unknown as
II he had taken refuge in the most obs
cure Of the worlds corners. The
bocchais, the inhabitants OF this rich
district OF Dalmatia. who are of Sclavish
fuf har -.
OF u stranger amongst them.
From the bay lt looks as though Cat
tarO were built in hollOws on the side of
Mount NOrri. The first houses border on
quay, an esp!auade won from the sea AT
the apex OF the acute angle OF a small
lake which runs deep into the mountain
mass. II is at the extremity of this fun.
mel with its splendid trees and back.
ground Of verdure that the Lloyd mail
boats, and large coasters of the Adriatlc,
run in 10 unload.
The doctor was busy in search Of a
lodging. Cape Matifou had followed him
without even asking where they had
landed. II might be In Dalmatia, or il
might be in China, but it mattered little
20 him. Like faithful dog he followed
his master, he was only tool perhaps, a
machine, machine TO turn, to bore,
20 pierce, which the doctor kept
iii be thought the time had come TO use
1t.
Having left the oulncunxes OF the
quay they entered the Notifications of
Cattaro, then they passed along a series
OF narrow billy roads q which is crowded
20, ulation OF four or dive thousand. II
was just as they were closing the Marine
9ate--a gate which remains open only
TIL ; O'Clock at night except on the ar.
rive OF the mail boats.
The doctor soon discovered that there
was not single hotel in the town. and
he has to look about for lodgings. AT
last be found a house, and obtained a
room on the ground floor in asunioientlV
respectable 8 rect. At FIRST 10 was ar.
ranged thai Cape Matifou should be
boarded by the proprietor, and although
The price charged was enormous on &C.
count Of his enormous proportions, the
matter was soon satisfactory settled. DR.
Antekirtt reserved the right OF taking his
meals elsewhere ~ the town.
In the morning after leaving Cane
Matiiou 20 employ his time as be pleased
The doctor walked TO the post-ofice fOi
any letters or kilograms that might bC
waiting for him. There was NOTHING
there, and then he went for stroll out
OF the town. He soon found restaurant
patronized by the better class OF the in
habitants, aud Austrian officers and
ofhcials who looked upon being quart
cred here as equivalent 10 exile, or even
20 being ia prison.
Now the doctor was only waiting for
the moment TO act; and this was bis plan
he bad decided TO kidnap Pierre Bathory
But 10 take him away on board tue
schooner while she lay at Ragusa would
nave been dfhcult. The young engineer
was well known at Gravosa. aud as
!. public attention had been attracted d
me sayarena, the affair even II 10 sue
TTeeo,u would be very much nOised about
Further the yacht being only a Saline
vessel. any steamer went after her from
20 be caught.
AZ Cattsro, on the contrary, Pierre
could be spirited Of much more quietly
hotnlng would be easier than to get HIN