Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-30

CHAPTER XV-CoNTINUED.

Did Toronthal listen TO this advice
absurd rs is all advice connected with
ynmes OF chance? No! He was over
whelmed, and he had then but one idea
to escape from this domination of Sar-
:any, to get away, and to get away so
ar that his conscience could not
.eproach him, But such fit of rsso-
luton could not last long IN his ener-
rated, helpless nature. Besides, he was
watched by his accomplish. Before he
left him to himself Sarcany wanted him
an.il his marriage had taken place with
Sava Then he would get rid of Silas
Toronthnl, he would forget him, and he
would not even remember that that
feeble individual had ever existed. or
that he had ever been associated with
him in any enterprise whatever! Until
hen, it was necessary for the banker to
remain under his thumb!
"Silas," continued Snrcany, I've
have been unfortunate 10 day; chance
was against us. Tomorrow it will be
Tor u.s.
"And if I lose the little that is left ~
answered Toronthal, who struggled in
vain against these deplorable sugges-
lions.
There is still Sava, Toronthal y
answered Sarcany, quickly; "she is an
ice of trumps, and you cannot over
trump her.
Yes! Tomorrow! tomorrow !"
said the banker, who was just in that
mental condition in which a gambler
would risk his head.
The two then entered their hotel,
which was situated halfway down the
road from Monte Carlo to La Conda-
nine
The port of Monaco lies between
Point Focinana and Fort Antoine, and
s an open bay exposed TO the north
EAST and southeast winds. 1t rounds
,ff between the rock on which stands
he capital and the plateau on which
IRE the hotels and villas, at the foot OF
he superb Mont Agel, whose summit
rising to $500 feet towers boldly above
The picturesque panorama OF the Ligu-
nan coast The town has popula ton
Of some one thousand two hundred
inhabitants, and is situated on the rock
Of Monaco, surrounded on three of its
yides by the sea. II lies hidden beneath
he never-fading verdure of palms, pome-
granates, sycamores, pear-trees, orange
.rees. citron.trees, eucalyptuses and
trborescent bushes Of geraniums, aloes,
nyrtles, lentisks and palma christies,
heaped all over the place in m arvelous
confusion.
A Al 80, l. 81 AL. hor MNy,ta
Carlo faces the tiny capital with its curl
,us pile ofhouses bnilt on all the lodges,
is zig-zags Of narrow climbing roads
running up to the Corniche, suspending
in mid-mountain its chessboard of gar
iens in perpetual bloom, its panorama
Of cottages of every shape, its villas of
every style, of which some seem actually
10 hang over the limpid waters OF this
Mediterranean Bay.
Between Monaco and Monte Carlo
at the back of the harbor. from the
beach up to the throat of the winding
valley which divides the group of noun
tains is third city La Condamine.
Above to the right rises a large noun
tain, whose profile turned to the sea has
gained it the name of the Dogs Head.
On this head there is now fort which
Is sad to be impregnable, and which
has the honor to be French for it marks
the limits on that side OF the Plinci-
pality Of Monaco.
From La Condamine TO Monte Carlo
vehicles have to ascend superb hill, at
the upper end of which are the private
houses and the hotels, in one OF which
there were now staying Toronthal and
Sarcany. From the windows of their
apartment the view extended from La
Condamine to beyond Monaco, and was
only stopped by the Dogs Head. which
seemed to he interrogating the Mediter-
ranean as the Sphinx does the Lybian
desert.
Sarcany and Toronthal had retired to
their rooms. There they examined the
situation. each from his own point Of
view. Had the vicissitudes of fortune
broken the community of interests
which for fifteen years had bound them
so closely together?
Sarcany when he entered had found
letter addressed to him. II came from
Tetuan, and he hastily tore 1t open.
In q few lines Nsmir told him of the
two things that interested him deeply.
The first was the death of Csrpena.
drowned in the harbor of Ceuta under
such extraordinary circumstances the
second was the appearance OF Doctor