The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-04-09
Matifou ?"

DO YOU KNOW WIlib L Ullluh uUOuG
Doctor Antekirtt."
mo, but yell me. and that will help
m e TO answer You. "
"Well, that in his past life there have
been thinoe-things Look at his
eyes which every now and then give
glance that almost blinds you like the
lightning! And when the thunder
rolls"
1T makes noise"
EXACTLY, Cape Matifou noise ."
And fancy we shall come in useful OF
that game =
1t was not without reason that Point
Pescade spoke in this way. Although
the most complete calm reigned on
board the schooner, the intelligent little
fellow could not help noticing certain
things which set him thinking.
Nothing could be more evident than
that the Doctor was not o simple tourist
on yacht cruise in the Mediterranean.
The Savarena was the centre of u web
of many threads whose ends were held
in the hands of her mysterious owner
Letters and dispatches seemed to
arrive from every corner of the mighty
sea whose waters battle the shores of
so many different countries. They came
from the French coast, the Spanish
coast, the coast of Morocco, of Algiers
and Tripoli. Who sent them? Evil
IDENTIFY correspondents occupied on GER
tain matters the gravity of which could
not be mistaken-unless they were
patients consulting the celebrated Doc
tor by correspondence, which did not
seem to be probable.
In the telegraph Office at Ragusa the
meaning of these messages was a mys-
terry, for they were in an unknown
tongue of which the Doctor alone
seemed to know the secret. And even
when the language was ineligible what
sense could be made out of such phrases
as:
"Almeira. They thought they were on
the track of z. r. False trial now
abandoned.
Recovered the correspondent of
II. V. 5. - Connected with troop X.
8 between Catania and Syracuse. 10
follow"
I'm the Manderaggio, La Valetta.
Malta, have verified the passage L. R. T."
"Cyrene. Wait fresh orders. Elotilla
of Antek-ready. Electric No. 3 under
pressure day and night"
"R. o. 3. Since death. Both disap-
peared"
And this other telegram containing
some special news by means of an agreed
upon number
''2,117. Sarc. Formerly q broker.
Service Toronth. Ceased connection
Tripeli of Africa
And to nearly all these dispatches
there was sent from the Savarena
LET the search proceed. Spare
neither trouble nor money. Send new
papers"
Here WAS an exchange of incompre-
hcnsible correspondence that seemed
to embrace the whole circuit of the Med
iterranean. The Doctor was not as much
at leisure us he wished to appear. Not
withstanding the professional secrecy, it
was difficult to prevent the fact of this
interchange of mysterious kilograms
from becoming known to the public,
and hence redoubling of the curiosity
about this enigmatic individual.
In the upper circles of Ragusa, Silas
Toronthal was perhaps the most per-
picked of men. On the quay at Gravosa
he had met the Doctor a few minutes
after the Savarena had arrived. During
this meeting he had experienced in the
first place n strong feeling of repulsion,
and in the second an equally strong
feeling of curiosity, which up to the
present circumstances had not allowed
the banker to crafty.
To tell the truth, the Doctors presence
had had a disturbing influence on Tor
onthal which he could not explain.
By preserving the incognito at Ragusa,
and continuing the difficulty of access,
the bankers desire to see him again
had been greatly increased and several
times he had gone to Gravosa There
he had stood on the quay, looking at the
schooner and burning with envy to get
on board. One day even he had been
rowed out to he, and received the
invariable reply:
Doctor Antekirtt does not see any
body"
The result of all this was that Toron-
thai felt a sort of chronic irritation in
face of an obstacle he could not over
come. And so, at his own expense, he
sets detective to watch, if the mysteri-
GUS stranger made any visits in Gravosa
the neighborhood.
We may Judge, therefore, of the
uneasiness with which the banker heard