Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-04-23
doctor must not fall.


Why did the arrival of Sarcany Mt
Ragusa prevent my snatching him
from that accursed town. But I'll save
him. In the time to come Pierre Bath
DRY will be Matthias Sandorf's right
hand"
And for fifteen years to punish and
reward had been the Constant thought
of Doctor Antekirtt. He had neDsr for
gotten what he owed 10 his companions,
Stephen Bathory and Ladslas Zathmar.
The time has come now TO act, and that
was why the Savarena had gone to
Ragusa
During these long years the Doctor
had so altered i'll appearance that it was
impossible to recognize him His hair,
worn short, had become white, and his
complexion had turned deadly pale.
He was one of those men of fifty who
have kept the strength OF their youth
and acquired the GOODNESS and calm Of
ripe old age. The bushy hair. full
complexion, and Venitian moustache
OF the young Count Sandorf, would
never recur to those who looked Mt Doctor
Antekirtt But more rigidly refined and
more highly tempered. he remained one
OF those natures of iron of whom it can
be said that with them the magnet
swings only as they near it. OF Stephen
Bathory's son he wished to make what
he had made of himself
For long time Doctor Antekirtt had
been the sole representative of the great
family of Sandorfs. twill be remem-
bered that he had child, a daughter,
who after his arrest had been intrusted
to the care of the wife of Landeck, the
steward of the Castle of Artenak This
little daughter, then only two years old,
had been the Counts sole heiress. To
her when she was eighteen was to come
the half OF her fathers goods. in accord
ance with the sentence which enjoined
the contiscation and the death penalty.
The steward Landeck had been retained
as manager of that part of the Transyl-
yanian domain put under sequestration,
and his wife and he remained at the
castle with the child intending to
devote their lives 10 her. But it
seemed as though some fate pursued
the Sandorf family, now reduced
to this one small individual. A few
months after the conviction of the
Trieste conspirators, and the events
which succeeded, the child had disap-
peared and it had proved impossible to
find her. Her hat had been found on
the bank of one of the numerous rivulets
that run through the park. 1t was only
too obvious that the little girl had fallen
into one Of the ravines into which run
the torrents of tho Carpathians and not
a vestige of her could be found. Rosina
Landeck, the stewards wife, took the
loss so much to heart that she died
few weeks afterwards. The government
made no change in the arrangements
entered into at the time OF the sentence.
The sequestration was maintained, and
the possession of Count Sandorf would
return to the state if the heiress, whose
death had not been legally proved, did
not reappear to claim them.
Such was the last blow that had
reached the Sandorf race, now doomed
to extinction by the disappearance of
the last representative of the family.
Time was gradually accomplishing its
work, and oblivion was throwing its
shade over this event, rs we'll as over all
the other facts Of the conspiracy
Of Trieste
1t was at Otranto, where he was hv-
ing in the strictest incognito, that San
dorf heard Of his childs death. With
his little daughter there disappeared all
that remained TO him of the Countess
Rena, who had died so soon, and whom
he had loved so much Then he left
Otranto, as unknown as when he arrived
there, and no one could tell where he
began his lie anew.
Fifteen years later. " en- Sandorf had
reappeared Oh the scene, no one sus-
pected that he was playing the part OF
Doctor Antekirtt. Thenceforth Sandorf
could devote himself entirely to his work.
Now he was alone in the world with q
task to perform. A task regarded as
sacred. Many years after he had left
Otranto, powerful by all the power that
immense wealth gives, acquired under
circumstances which will soon be ascer-
tanned, forgotten and concealed by his
incognito, he had put himself Oh the
and reward. Already in his thoughts
Pierre Bathory had been associated in
the work of justice. Agents were
stationed in the different coast towns of
the Mediterranean Well paid and
sworn TO secrecy, they coresponded only
with the Doctor either 10y the swift
launches we know of, or the submarine
cable which joined Antekirtta to Malta,
and Malta 10 Europe.
1t was in verifying the statement Of
his agents that the Doctor had dis
covered the traces of all those who
directly or indirectly had been mixed
up in Sandorfs conspiracy. He could
then watch them from affair." and let them
have their run, as it were uninterfered
with for four or five years Silas Tor
onthal he knew had left Trieste and
settled at Ragusa with his wife and
daughter. Sarcany he traced to the
principal cities of Europe where he
wasted his fortune, and then to Sicily,
to the eastern provinces where he and
his companion Zirone were meditating
some new scheme to again put them in
funds. Carpena he learnt had left
Rovigno and Istria, TO do nothing in
Italy or Austria forms he had
gained by his information permitting
him to live in idleness.
Andrea Ferrato he would have helped
to escape from the prison of Stein in the
Tyrol-where he was expiating his gen.
erous conduct toward the fugitives of