The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-01-29
Matthias SandoTf.
JULES VERNE.
AUTHOR OF JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE
OF THE EARTH, "Trip TO THE MOON"
"ARoUSD THE WORLD IN EIGHTY
DAYS, MICHAEL STRoGoFF,"
"TwENTY THOUSAND LEAGUEs
UNDER THE SEA, ETC, ETC.
TRANSLATION COPYRIGHTED, 1851

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writ all those words in n line one
after the other" said the banker.
"And why ?"
"To see."
Saroany obeyed ; and he obtained the
following
hazrrergnohaledecne1n ne1nepednilruopessan,
Observation-Disclosures sdzerTeones,ton nsuoceuqlda
gisrefnserpuaterptsetuot
The letters had scarcely been written
before Toronthal snatched the paper
from Sarcany and read it and gave a
shout 1t was the banker who now lost
his head. Sarcany thought he had gone
mad.
Read |" said Toronthal, holding ont
the paper to Sarcany. Read"
"Read p
"Yes don't you see that, before they
used the grating, Count Sandorf's cor
respondents wrote the letter backwards ?"
Sarcany took the paper, and this is
what he read, proceeding from the last
TO the first:
"Tout est pret. Au premier signal
que vous nous enverrez de Trieste, tous
pc leveront en- masse pour lindepend-
ence de la Hongrie. Xrzah.
"And the four last letters ?" he asked.
can agreed-upon signature, or some
thing to fill up, snid Toronthal
"Oh, then All is ready. At the
HrSt slgual you send us from Trieste, all
Of us will rise together for the independ-
ence of Hungary That is it, is it? Wei,
we have got them at last
But the police have not got them y
"That is my business"
"You will act with great secrecy"
"That is my business" said Sarcany.
! "The Governor of Trieste shall be the
only person to know the names of the
two honest patriots who have nipped in
its bud this conspiracy against the en-
pire of Austria !"
And as he spoke, the mockery OF each
tone and gesture betrayed the true feel
ing with which he uttered the words.
"And now / have nothing else to dc" ,"
said the banker.
"Nothing," answered Sarcany, sex
cept to take your share OF the profit. y
"When p
"When the three heads fall which
are worth a million apiece"
Toronthal and Sarcany bid each other
adieu. If they wished to gain anything
out of the secret that chance had handed
over to them they must be quick and
denonnce the conspirators before the
! plot broke out.
! Sarcany returned to Zathmar' house rs
if nothing had occurred, and went on
! ,rrith ha He ,v,1v rrAnt -
finished. Count Sandorf, in thanking
him for the zeal he had shown, told him
that he should not require his services
after the next eighteen days.
ITO Sarcanys mind this meant that
about that time the signal was to he
given from Trieste to the chief of Hun
garian towns.
He continued therefore, to watch with
the greatest care hut so rs to give rise
to no suspicion, all that took place in
Zathmars house. And he played his
part so well, he seemed so imbued with
liberal ideas, and had taken so little
pains to hide the inyincible repulsion
he suid he felt for the Germans, that
Saudorf thought of giving him n post
later on, when the rising should have
made Hungary free country. Ii was
not SO with Borik who had never got
over the first feeling of dislike will
which the young man had inspired
him.
Sarcany nenred his triumph.
1t was on the 9th of June that Count
Sandorf had agreed with his friends tC
give the signal, aud the Sth had come,
But the informer had been at work
In the evening, about eight o'clock
the police suddenly entered Zathmar
house, Resistance was impossible
Count Sandorf Count Zathmar, pro
fessor Buthory, Sarcany himself, wh'
made no protest and Borik wero secret,
arrested.