Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-04-02
Doctor Antekirtt.
A SEQUEL TO MATTHIAS SANDORF.
by jules Verne,
AUTHOR or JOURNEY TO THR CENTRE
OF THE EARTH. TRIP TO THE MOON,
ABOUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY
DAYS. MICHAEL sTROGOFF,
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES
UNDER THE SEA, ETC, ITO
,ranla,.O,. copyrighted BY G. W. Hama. Isns
CHAPTER NIlI-CONrINUFp.

The Doctor soon discovered that
there was not a single hotel in the town.
and he had TO look about for lodgings
At last he found house and obtained
O room on the ground floor in sTIfh.
GENTLY respectable street. At first i.
was arranged that Cape Matifou should
be boarded 10y the proprietor, and
nous on account of his enormous pro-
portions the matter was soon satisfac-
torily settled. Doctor Antekirtt
reserved the right Of taking his meals
elsewhere in the town.
In the morning after leaving Cape
Nation TO employ his time as he
pleased. the Doctor walked to tho post
Office for any letters or kilograms that
might be waiting for him. There was
nothing there, and then he went for
stroll out of the town. He soon found
restaurant patronized by the better
class of the inhabitants and Austnan
officers and officials who looked upon
being quartered here as equivelant to
exile, or even to being in prison.
Now, the Doctor was only waiting for
the moment II act aud this was his
plan He had decided to l,iinap Pierre
Bathory. But TO take him away on
board the schooner while she lay ut
Ragusa would have been difficult. The
Young engineer was well known at Gra-
vosa, and rs public attention had been
attracted TO the Savarepa the affair
even if il succeeded would be very much
noised about. Further, the yacht
being only sailing vessel, If any
steamer went alter her from the
harbor she would almost be certain 10
be caught.
At Cattaro. on the contrary, Pierre
could be- spirited off much more quietly.
Nothing would he easier than 20 get
him therl At word seut from the
Doctor there was no doubt but that he
would start Immediately. He WAS as
unknown at Cattaro as the Doctor him.
self, and once he was on board the
Electric could speed off 10 sea, where no
could be told the past lie of Silas Tor
, onthal and Saya's image become effaced
by the remembrance of his fathers
wrongs
Such was the Doctors very simple
plan of campaign. Two or three days
more and the work would be accom-
plished Pierre won be se arated for
ever from Sava Toronthal.
Next day, the 9th of June, arrived o
letter from Point Pescade II reported
that there was nothing new Mt the house
in the Stradone, AMI thu. Point escade
had seen uo;h!ns oi Pierre since the day
lac mad gone to Gravosa, twelve hours
after the schooner sailed. He had not
left Ragusa, and remained Mt home with
his mother. Point Pescade supposed
and he was not wrong i'll doing so-that
the departure of the Savarena had
brought about tins change in his habits,
for as soon rs he had found her gone he
had gone home. looking the picture Of
despair.
The Doctor decided to write and invite
Pierre Bathory to join him Immediately
at Cattaro.
But something very unexpected hap
pened TO change his plans and allow
chance 10 intervene and lead to the same
end.
About eight O'Clock in the evening the
Doctor WAS ON the wharf at Cattaro
when the mail steamer Saxonia was
signalled.
The Saxonia came from Brindisi,
where she had pu. in to take on few
passengers. She was hound for Trieste,
calling at Cattaro. Ragusa and cara.
and the other ports on the Austrian
coast of the Adriatic.
The Doctor was standing near the
gangway along which the people came
ashore when in the twilight his atten-
ton was monopolized by one of tho
travellers whose luggage was being
brought off TO the wharf.
The man was abont forty. of naughty
even impudent bearing He gave his
orders loudly and WAS evidently one Of
those persons who even when polished
show that they have been badly brought
up.
THAT fellow Here at Cattaro?"
The passenger was Sarcany. Fifteen
years had elapsed since he had acted as
accountant in Zathmar's house With
the exception of his clothes he was still
the adventurer we saw in the streets OF
Trieste at the beginning Of this story
He wore an elegant travelling suit with a
dust coat Of the latest fashion, and his
trunks with their many mountings
shovel that the old Tripoltan broker
was accustomed to make himself CON-
Portable
For fifteen years Sarcanv lived n life
OF pleasure and luxury, thanks to the
fortune he had acquired from his share
of Count Sandorfs wealth. How much
was there LETT of it, His best friends, il
he had any, would have beca puzzled TO
say. He lad q iook II pr r'cupation,
Of anxiety even tilr cause 90 which was
difficult to discover behind the mask
with which he concealed his true dis
position.
Where does he come srom' Where
is he going ?" asked the Doctor who did
not lose sight Of him