The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-04-23

her eighteenth wear, Ii the child died
before then her share was to revert 10
the estate
The two quarters given TO the inform
ers amounted to little over l. 800 900
dorins, and with this hue sum they
could do as they pleased
At the outset the accomplices made
up their minds to separate Sarcany
did not care to remain with Toronthal,
and the banker had no wish to continue
his business relations with him. And so
Sarcany left Trieste with Zirone, who
not having left him. in adv, rsity, was
not the man to leave him in prosperity.
Both disappeared and the banker heard
nothing about them for some time.
Where had they gone? Probably to
some large European city, where people
do not bother themselves about mans
origin, providing he was rich, and
cared nothing of how a man had gained
his wealth, providing he spent it among
them.
The banker breathed more freely when
they left him. He thought he had no
more fear from n man who to certain
extent held him in his power. Never
theless, although Sarcany was rich it
WAS never safe to trust to prodigals Of
his species, and if he ran through his
money what was to prevent him coming
back to his old accomplice?
Six months afterwards Toronthal,
having cleared Off his difficulties, sold
his business and definately abandoned
Trieste for Ragusa. Although there
was nothing to fear from the indiscre-
ton of the governor, who was the only
person that knew the part he had played
i'll the discovery of the conspiracy, this
seemed the safest course for man who
did not wish to lose reputation, and
whom an ample fortune assured an easy
life wherever he went
This resolution to leave Trieste was
probably further encouraged by pecu-
liar c;rcumstance-which will be men
toned later on. This circumstance was
known only to himself and his wife,
and had but one occasion only brought
him into connection with Nam,r, whom
we have seen as acquainted with Sar-
cany.
1t was at Ragusa that the banker had
settled down. He had left it very
young without friends or relatives. He
had quite dropped out of recollection,
and it was as stranger that he returned
to the town which he had not revisited
for forty years
To q rich man appearing under suoh
circumstances Ragusan society gave
hearty welcome. Only one thing was
known about him and that was that he
had held high position at Trieste.
The banker sought and found mansion
i'll the most aristocratic quarter of the
town. He started Il large establishment,
and engaged fresh staff of servants to
what he had at Trieste. He visited and
was visited. AS no one knew anything of
his past life. WAS he not one of those
privileged beings who in this world are
called happy?
Toronthal did not suffer much from
remorse. Had it not been for the fear
that some day his abominable treachery
would be discovered. there would appar-
emily have been nothing to trouble his
existence-except his wife who remained
q silent but living reproaoh to him.
For that unhappy woman. honest and
straightforward us she was, knew of the
hateful scheme that had sent the three
patriots to their deaths. A word escaped
from her husband when his affairs were
in jeopardy, a hope imprudentH
expressed that some of Sandorfs money
might help him out of his difficulties,
some signatures he had had to obtain
from his wife had drawn from him the
confession of his share in the Trieste
conspiracy.
An lnsurmountable aversion for the
man who was bound to her was the
feeling she thereupon experienced
and the feeling was all the keener from
her being of Hungarian birth. But as
we have said, she was q woman of no
moral energy. The blow fell on her.
and she could not recover from it
Hencefurth ut Trieste and afterwards at
Ragusa she lived apart from her hus-
band, as much as her position per-
mitted She appeared at the receptions
in the house in the Stradone it was
necessary for her to do so, and her hus-
band insisted on it; but when she had
played her part as woman of the
world she retired to her apartments.
There she devoted herself entirely to the
education of her daughter, on whom
she had concentrated all her affection,
and endeavored to forget what she knew.
To forget, when the man who had acted
in this way was living under the same
roof with her!