Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-24

Pierre then advanced, and at frst point
ing TO the banker he said
"Silss Toronthal, l am Pierre Bathory,
the son OF stephen Bathory, the Hun
garian patriot, whom you, with your &C
eomplice Sarcany, most shamefully be-
trayed TO the Austrian police at Trieste,
and sent to deathD
Then TO Sarcany he said
81 am Pierre BathOry whom you tried
/ TO assassinate in the road at Ragusa. l
am the intended husband of sara, the
daughter OF Count Matthias Sandorf,
waom you stole fifteen years ago from
/ the Castle of Arteuak!p
Neither TOronthal nor Sarcany said a
word in reply. And what could they say
/ TO their victim, who seemed 10 have risen
/ from the tomb 10 accuse them?
! But ii was quite another thing when
! Dr.. Antekirtt rose in his turn, and said
in grave voice
And |, ! am the companion Of Ladslas
| Zathmar and stephen Bathory, whom
| your treachery caused TO be shot IN the
/ dOniOn Of PislnO, ] am the father OF
Sara, whom you stole to get possession
Of her f.rtune. / am Count Matthias
| SandorfV
This time the effect OF the declaration
! was such that the knees Of Siias ToroD-
/ thai bent to the ground, while Sarcany
| crouChed as if he would sink into himself.
Then the three accused were examined
/ one after the other. Their cr:Ries they
could not deny, and for their crime no
| pardon was possible. The chief magis-
| trate reminded SarcaBy that the attack
on the island, undertaken in his own per-
! sOnal interest. had made many victims
| whose blood cried out for vengeance.
Then having given the accused full liber-
/ ty to reply, ne gave sentence cOnformably
90 toe right given him by his regularly
! constituted jurisdiction.
''Silas TerOntbal, Sarcany, and Carpe-
ma, you have caused the deaths Of Ste
! phen Bathory, Ladislas Zathmar, and
Andrea Ferrato. You are sentenced to
death"
Whenever you like" replied Sar-
caRy, whose impudence again asserted
tself.
'Pardonw cried Carpena.
Toronthal had not the strength to
speak.
The three were taken away to the case
mates and there kept under guard.
How were these ScOuudTelS TO die!
Were they TO be SHOT in some corner 1.-THE
island? That would be to deiile the soil
Of AntekiTtta with the blood of traitors.
And it was decided that the execution
should take place at Kencraf
That evening Que Of the Electrics, COM
manded by Luigi Ferrat0, took the pris-
oners or board, and bore them of to the
island, where they We're to wait TIL sun
rise for the firing party.
carcauy, IOrOnthal, and Carpena saw
that their time had comes and when they
had been landed, Sarcany went up 10 Lu-
igi, and asked him:
is it to he this EVENING"
Luigi made no reply. The three doomed
men We're left there all alone, and night
had fallen when the Electric returned to
Antekirtta.
The island was now free from the
presence Of the traitors. That they could
escape from KenCraf, which was twenty
miles away from the mainland, was i'm
possible.
Before Tomorrow" said Point Pes
cade, "they VIII have eaten each other"
"Pouah!" said Cape MatifOu, in dis
gust.
That night Count Sandorf had not mo-
ments repose. Locked in his room, he
did not leave il until 4 O'Clock In the morn
ing, when be descended to the hall to
meet Pierre and Luigi, who were immedi-
ately summoned.
A file Of militia was waiting IN the
courtyard of the Stadthaus under orders
to embark for kenoraf.
pierre BathOry. Luigi FeTratO," said
Count Sandort. 'Have these traitors been
justly condemned to die?"
Yes, they deserve it," answered
Pierre.
YES" replied Luigi, land the scoun-
drels deserve no mercy"
Then let justice be done, and may
God give the pardon that man can
not"
He had scarcely finished speaking when
a fearful explosion shook the Stadthaus,
and the whole OF the island as if an earth
quake had taken place,
Count Sandorf and his companions
rushed out, and the whole population In
terror came streaming into the streets Of
Artenak.
An immense skeat of flame, with enor-
nous masses of rock and showers of
stones, was blazing to a prOdigious height
towards the sky. Then the masses fell
back round the islet, raining huge waves
in the sea; and thick cloud remained
suspended ia space.
Not a trace was left OF the islet of Ken
Graf, nor Of the three men whom the ex-
plosion had annihilated.
What, then, had happened?
1t will not have been forgotten that the
island had been mined in preparation for
the landing OF the SenOusists. and that in
case the submarine cable which united it
to Antekirtta WAS put out Of action, GER
tain electrical batteries had been buried
ia the ground, so that the wires had
only to be pressed by the feet to be brought
in contact aud fire the fougasses Of pam
elastic.
What had happened was this. BY
chance one Of the doomed men had trod-
den on these wires. And hence the COM
plete and instantaneous destruction Of the
islet.
Heaven has spared us the horrors OF
an execution" said Count Sandorf
Three days afterwards the marriage Of
Pierre and sara was duly celebrated al
the church at Artenak. On that occasion
DR.. Antekiytt signed his real name OF
Matthias Saudori; which he would
never again lay down now justice HAD
been done.
A few words will suffice US to finish our
story.
Three weeks afterwards Sara Bathory
was recognized as the heiress OF the San
dorf property. The letter from Madam
Toronthal and declaration obtained from
the banker, in which the circumstances
and the object OF her being stolen were
duly sci forth, proved sufficient 70 estab-
hsh her identity. As sara Was not yet
eighteen all that remained OF the Carpa-
thian estates in Pennsylvania came back
70 her.
Count Sandorf himself could II be had
chosen have entered into possession Of
this property under an amnesty which
had been issued in favor Of political prl-
gouara But If no returned to puhlic life a