The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-01-15

About five o'clock the tramp of small
troop of horse was heard along the road.
Sandorf, who had been out to the gate
of the enclosure, hurriedly rejoined lia
companion and dragged him into thH
darkest corner of the cellar. There they
hid themselves under heap of brush
wool and remained motiouless
1ait Il dozen gentiarmes headed by .
sergeant were coming alcng the road
towards the east. v ould they stop aE
the farm? Sandorf anxiously asked. IT.
they searched the place they could not
foil to ind them.
They halted. The sergeant and two or
the neil dismounted, while the othecS
remained in the saddle and received on
ders to search the country along the
canal and tLen return to the farm,
where the rest would meet then at seven
o'clock.
The four gen,inrmes moved off imme-
diately. The sergeant and the two othersS
picketed their horses and sat down TO
talk. From the corner of the cellar the
fug tives could hear all that passed.
eyes, we shall go back to the town
this evening and get the orders for to-
night, said the sergeant in reply to one
of the men. '"rhe telegraph may bring
us fresh instructions from Trieste.
The town i'll question was not Trieste;
that was one point of which Count Sam
dorf made note.
Are you not afraid" said the second
gendarme. "that while we are looking
about here that tue fugitives may have
got down the Quarnero Canal?"
eyes, that is possible" said the first
gendarme. "for they might think it
safer than here"
eff they do, said the sergeant, they
none the less risk being found, for the
whole coast is being looked after from
one end to the other"
Second fact worth noting. SandorR
and his companion were on the wesb
coast of Istria, that is to say, near the
Adriatic shore, and not on the banks Oh
the opposite canal which runs out att
Fiume.
II think they are having look round
the salt works at Pirano and Capo
d'Istria," said the sergeant. "They
might hide there easily and get on board
a vessel crossing he Adrlatic and bound
for Rimini or Venice"
"They had much better have waited
patiently in their cell, said one of tho
gentlarmes philosophically.
Yes" added the other, ''sooner or
later they'll be caught, if they have not
fshei them ND out of the Buco Thab
would finish it, though, and we should
not have TO trot about the country ia
all this heat"
and who says it hasn't finished it p
replied the sergeant. Perhaps the
Foba has been the exe,utioner, and
while it is in food, the wretcied men
coull not have chosen Il worse road out
OF the dAnjon OF Pisno:" ~..
The Foiba then WAS the name of the
river which had carried off Count San
dorf and his companion. It was the
fortress of Pislno to which they had
been AIKEN after their arrest and there
they had been imprisoned, tried and
sent need Tt was from it's donjon they
had escaped, Count Sandorf knew this
town of Pisino we'll He had at last
fixed Oh this point which was so impor-
tant for him to know, and it would no
LONGER baby challc. that he would cross
the lstri.an paninNla, if fight WAS still
possible.
The conversation of the gendarmes
did not stop here; bu in these few words
the fugitivcs hal learned all they wished
to knoW-exceot, perhaps, the name
OF the town by the canal on the Adriatie
coast.
Soon the sergeant got up and walked
about the enclosure, Watching ifhis men
We're returning to the farm Twice or
thrice he entered the ruinel house and
looked into the rooms, rather from pro-
fes~ional habit than suspicion. He even
came 10 the door of the cellar, and the
fu ritivts would certainly have been
discovered if the darkness hal not been
so great. He even entered it, and tossed
about the brushwood i'll the corner
with his scabbar,l, but without reaching
those beneath. At this moment San
dorf and Bathory passed through almost
the whole gamut of anguish. They had
resolved to sell their yes dearly if the
sergeant reached them. To throw
themselves on him, profit by his sur
prise to deprive him of his arms, to at
tack him two 10 one, to kill him or
make him kill himself, they had fully
made up their minds.
At this moment the sergeant was
called out, and he left the cellar without
noticing anything suspicious. The four
gendarmes sent off to search had just