Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-03-26
CHAPTER VIII.
THE MOUTHS oY THE cArrAno.

dominant IA role in the events of this
world, had brought together in Ragasa
the families of Bathory and Toronthal :;
oand brought them not only to the same
<own but 10 the same quarter Of the
I, %own-the Stradone And Sava Toron-
thai and Pierre Bathorv had seen each
other, met each other, loved each other !,
Pierre the son OF a man who had been
betrayed 10 death, and Sava the daugh-
ter of the man who betrayed him
AS soon as the engineer had left the
schooner the doctor might hive been
lsHard to say to himself
And Pierre goes away full Of hope.
hope he never had before hope that |
have just gwen him
Was the doctor the man TO undertake
merciless struggle against his fatality /:
Did he feel himself strong enoagh TO
dispose the affairs of humankind AT his
will: That force, the moral energy.
which must be his if he was to succeed
in fighting destiny, would IL not fail
him;
mo l will fight against it :" he said
"Such love is hateful, criminal That
Pierre Bathory should become the nus
band of Toronthals daughter and one
dav learn the truth would be to deprive
him of all hope of revenge He could
only kill himself in despair. Aud
will tell him all if need be | will tell
him what this family has done TO his.
At I'll costs / will break this thing of. q"
And in truth such union did seem
monsirous 1t will be remembered that
In his conversation with madame Bath
DRY, the doctor had. told her tina: the
three chiefs OF the Trieste conspiracy
had been the victims of an Accountable
.scheme, which had come TO light in the
Fcourse of the trial. and that this had
come TO his knowledge through the
iudiscreton of one of the Pisino war.
dcrs
Aud it will also be remembered that
Madame Bathory for certain reasons
had thought it best to say nothing OF
this treachery to her son Besides she
did not know who were the traitors.
She did not know that one Of them was
wealthy and respected and lived Mt Rag
, usa, "a few yards away from her IN the
Stradone. The doctor had not named
them; Why! Doubtless because the
hour had not yet come for him TO
unmask them But he knew them. He
knew that Silas Toronthal was one OF
the traitors and that Sarcany was the
other. And If he had not taken more
into his confidence and it was because
hereckoned on Pierre assistance, and he
wished to associate the son in the
retributioa with which he was about TO
= visit the murderers Of his father.
And that was why he could not say
more to the son of Stephen Bathory,
without breaking his heart
1T matters little, he repeated ="
shall break off this match
Having made up his mind, what did
he do? Reveal TO Madame Bathory and
'her son the history of the banker OF
Trieste? But did he hold material
proofs of the treachery? No, for
Matthias Sandorf, Stephen Bathory and
Ladislas Zathmar, who alone had these
proofs. were dead. Did he spread
through the town the report of thin
abominable act without first telling
Madame Bathory2 That would prob
ably have been enough to open an
abyss between Pierre and the young
ladv-an ABYSS that could not be bridged.
But if the secret were divulged, would
not Silas Toronthal try to leave Ragusa
But the doctor did not want the
banker to disappear. He wanted the
traitor to remain ready for the execu'
toner when the day of execution
arrived, and were he to disappear events
might turn out differently TO what hs
!. bad imagined.
= After having weighed the pros an,
cons the doctor resolved to proceed
more vigorously against Toronthal
In the frs, place il was necessary to gel
Pierre away from the town where the
honor # his name was in danger. Yes
He would spirit him away so that no on'
could trace him | When he had him IL
his power lac would tell him all he knew
ahou, Toronthal and Sarcany his accom-
plcc and he would associate him in hii
work But he had not day to lose
Ii was with this object that Telegram
from the doctor brought from thu
mouths If the Cattaro, south Of Ragusi
On the Adriatic, one OF the swiftest YES
sells Of hi. fleet. This was one Of thos'
huge launches which served as the fore
runners OF our modern torpedo boats
This long steel tube was about forty-fou
yards in length and seventy tons meas
urement, had neither mast nor funnel
al carried simply al exterior deck ant
.age with lenticular scuttles for tn
stccrsmaD, who could be hermeticall,
Jrnui mp in it when the state of the Sc,
rendered such precautions necessary
She could slip through the water with
ont losing time or distance in following
the undulations of the surge an
having speed excelling that Of all th
torpedo boats Of the Old or New World