The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-04-30
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be done IN secret.
Follow mel" he said to Point Pes
cade anu his companion, as they came to
meet him.
And these three silently crept along
the slope that runs at the foot of the
exterior wall.
After some ten minutes of this work
the Doctor stopped, and pointing to u
breach caused by q recent fall of the wall,
said:
Through! !"
He glided through the breach Point
Pescade and Matifou followed him.
The darkness was profound beneath
the large trees that overshadowed the
tombs, but without hesitation the Doctor
went down one path and then turned off
into another, leaping to the upper part of
the cemetery. Some birds of the night,
disturbed by his presence, flew back
wards and forwards overhead, but not
another living thing lurked round the
gravestones scattered on the turf
Soon the three stood in front of what
looked like small chapel with the gate
left unfastened.
The Doctor pushed back the gate, and
then pressing the button of q small cleo
trio lantern he threw on the light, but
80 that it could not be seen from with
out.
Enter" said lie to Matifou.
Cape Matifou entered and found him
self facing q wall on which were three
marble tablets.
On one of these tablets, the centre one,
he read:
"STEPHEN BATHoRY."
1867.
The tablet TO the left bore no inscrip-
ton that to the right was soon to have
one.
"Take away that rlab, said the Doc
tor.
Cape Matifo,, easily removed the slab,
which had nos yet been fixed down. He
laid it on the ground and bier was
seen OF the bottom of cavity in the
wall.
bring out that coffin" said the Doc
tor.
Cape Matifou pulled out the coffin
without any help from Point Pescade,
heavy though it was, and after lifting it
outside the chapel he laid it on the
ground
"Take this" said the Doctor, hand
ing Pescade screw-driver, "and get
the lid off that coffin"
In few minutes it was DONE
The Doctor moved aside the white
garments with his hand, and placing his
head to the body seemed to listen for the
beating of the heart
Then he rose.
"LiftoAt that body" said he to Cape
MAJ 'beyed, and neither he nor
Pescade jAade the slightest objection,
although such an exhuManation was
against the law.
When the body of Pierre Bathory was
laid on the grass Cape Matifou wrapped
it up again in its winding sheet, and
over it the Doctor threw his mantle.
The coffin was then screwed down and
returned to the cavity, and the tablet
placed over it rs before.
The Doctor broke the current of hi,
electric lantern and the darkness became
profound again.
"Take up that body. said he to Cape
Matifou
Matifou lifted it in his arms MS if it
had been the body of Il child. Then
led by the Doctor and followed by
Point Pescade he regained the cross
path leading to the breach in the wall.
Five minutes later they were through
the breach and on their way to the
shore.
Not word was spoken; but if the
obedient Cape Matifou thought no more
than machine what succession of
ideas crowded through the active brain
OF Point Pescade!
In their journey from the cemetery to
the shore they had met nobody But as
they approached the creek where the
Electric's boat was waiting for them,
they saw II coast guardsman walking
about the rock.
They continued on their way without
troubling themselves about his pres
ence
Again the doctor uttered his peculiar
cry, and the sailor came up from the
boat which remained invisible.
At a sign Cape Matifou went down
behind the rocls and was about to step
into the boat
At this moment the coast-guardsman
hurried MP and just MS they were enter