The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-04-16

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separate"
"For few days! Only promise me
you will not destroy yourself during my
absence Get your six meals regularly
and grow! And now clasp me in your
arms or rather pretend to do so as if
you were on the stage, else you will risk
sitting me. We must get used to
little play acting in this world /! Now
embrace me again. and never forget your
! little Point Pescade who will never for
get his big Cape Matifour
Such was the affecting farewell of
these two friends when their separation
came aud Cape Matifou was truly sad
at heart when he returned on board the
Savarena. The same day his companion
took up his quarters in Raguca with
orders not to lose sight of Pierre Bath
DRY. to watch Toronthars house, and to
keep the Doctor informed of all that
went on.
During this time Point Pescade should
have met in the Stradone with the mys-
FERROUS stranger who was evidently ON
similar mission, and doubtless he would
have done SO had not the Moor after
sending off the telegram left Ragusa for
some place farther south, where Sarcany
would Join her. Pescade was not thus
interfered with in his operations and
could carry out his instructions with his
habitual intelligence.
Pierre Bathory never imagined that
he had been so closely watched, nor did
he know for the eyes of the Moor there
had now been substituted those of Point
Pescade. After his conversation with
the Doctor, after the avowal he had
made, he had felt more confident. Why
should he now hide from his mother
what had taken place on board the Sava-
rena? Would she not read it in his look
and even in his soul? Would she not
see that change had taken place in
him and that grief and despair had given
place to hope and happiness
Pierre then told his mother everything.
He told her who the girl WAS that he
loved, and how it was for her that he
had refused to leave Ragusa. His stu
alton was of little consequence ! Had
not Doctor Antekirtt told him to hope?
THAT is why You suffered so much,
my child, answered Madame Bathory.
May heaven help you and bring all the
happiness We have missed up to now !"
Madame Bathory lived in great retire.
nent in her house in the Rue Martinella.
She did not go out of it except to church
with her old servant, for she attended to
her religious duties with all the practical
and austere piety of her race She had
never heard tell of the Toronthals.
Never had she looked at the large man.
sion she passed on her way to the
Church of the Redeemer, which is stu
ated just where the Stradone begins.
She therefore did not know the daughter
Of the old banker of Trieste.
And 80 Pierre had to describe her and
tell what she had said to him when they
first met and how he did not doubt that
his love was returned. And all these
details he gave with an ardor that his
mother was not surprised to find in the
tender passionate soul of her son.
But when Pierre told her of the posi-
ton of the Toronthals, when she found
that the young lady would be one of the
richest heiresses of Ragusa, she could
not conceal her uneasiness. Would the
banker consent to his only child becom-
ing poor mans wife?
But Pierre did not think it necessary
to insist on the GOODNESS and even con-
tempt with which Toronthal had always
received him. He WAS content to repeat
what the Doctor had said to him-how
he had told him that he could, that he
ought even, have confidence in his
fathers friend who felt for him quasi
paternal affection. A fact which Madame
Bathory did not doubt, knowing what
he had wished to do for her and hers.
An in the end, like her son and ike
Borik, who thought it his duty to give
his advice, she did not abandon all hope !;
and there was trihiDg CLEAN of happi-
ness in the humble home in the Rue
Martinella.
On the following Sunday Pierre had
again the happiness of seeing Saya
Toronthal at church. The girls face,
always rather sad in its expression,
lighted up when she caught sight OF
Pierre rs if it had been tranfgured
| They spoke to each other with their
looks, and they understood each other
Aud when Sava returned home she bore
with her a portion of that happiness she
had so clearly read i'll the young mans
countenance
But Pierre had not again seen the
Doctor. He waited for m invitation to
revisit the schooner Some days elapsed,
but no letter came.