The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-04-30
Translation copyrighted by G. ". Hanna. 1885.
CHAPTER TX. Continued

banker betrayed the slightest feeling of
kindness towards her, never had he
greeted his daughter with q caress.
This GOODNESS between them arose from
complete want of accord on every sub
1ect. Sava had for Toronthal the
respect daughter should have for her
father-nothing more He let her do as
she liked, he did not interfere with any
OF her tastes, he placed no limit on her
works of charity which his natural osten-
tation willingly encouraged. In short,
on his part there was Indifference on
hers there was, it must be confessed,
antipathy or rather aversion.
For Madame Toronthal, Sava had
quite different feeling. The bankers
wife submitted to her husbands control,
although he showed her but little defer
ence, but she was kind and good and
worth thousand times more in the
honesty of her life and the care of her
personal dignity. She was very fond of
Sava. Beneath the young girls shy
ness she had discovered her real worth,
but the affection she felt for her was
rather artificial and modified by q kind
OF admiration, of respect and even of
fear. The elevation of Saws character,
her straightforwardness, and at certain
times her inhexibility might perhaps
explain this strange form of maternal
love. However, the girl returned love
for love, and even without the ties of
relationship the two would have been
deeply attached to each other
There is therefore nothing to be aston
lshed at in Madame Toronthal being the
first to discover what was passing in the
mind and heart of Sava Frequently
had tie girl spoken of Pierre Bathory
and his family without noticing the sor-
rowful impress ion that the name made
on her mother. And when Madame
Toronthal discovered that Sava was in
love with the young maui
Heaven wills it them was all she
, mnrmured.
We may imagine what these words
meant, but it is somewhat difficult to
understand how the love of Sava for
Pierre could make amends for the injury
done to the Btthnry family.
Madame Toronthal having, however,
satisfied herself that it was ali in accord
ance with the designs of Providence,
had brought herself to think in her pious.
trustful heart that her husband would
consent to this union of the families,
and SO without saying anything to Sava
she resolved to consult i'm on the
subject
At the first words his wife uttered
Toronthal flew into a towering rage
which he made no effort to control, and
she had to retreat to her apartment with
the following threat ringing in her ears.
"Take care, madame If ever you
dare speak to me again on that subject
will make you rereut it"
And so what Siias Toronthal called
"destinX" had not only brought the
Bathory family to live in the same town,
but had even brought Sava and Pierre
to meet and love one another.
Why. it may be asked, so much irrita-
ton on the bankers part? Had he
formed any secret designs on Sava, on
her future, that We're prejudicsd by this
complication In the event of his
treachery being one day exposed, was it
not to his interest that the consequences
should be atoned for as much as possible?
What would Pierre say when he had
become Sava Toronthal's husband?
What could Madame Bathorv do?
Assuredly it would be horrible stu
alton, the victims son married to the
murderers daughter, but it would be
horrible for them, not for him, Silas
Toronthal
Yes but there was Sarcany, of whom
there was no news, but whose return
was always possible. a return that might
lead to further engagements between
the accomplices. He was not the man
to forget if fortune turned against him.
Toronthal was, it need scarcely be
said, not without anxiety at what was to
become of his old Tripolitan agent. He
had had no news from him since he left
Trieste, fifteen years ago. Even in
Sicily where Sarcary was most likely to
be heard of all inquiries had proved in
vain. But he might come back any day,
and hence constant state of terror for
the banker until the adventurer was
dead. And the news of his death Toron-
thai would have received with easily
Ineligible satisfaction. Perhaps then
he would have looked upon the posi-
bility of a marriage with Pierre in o
somewhat different light but ut pres