Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-25


Il will bring you paper. pens and
ink. replied the wsrder; and prom
Use to give your letters into the Gov
ernors hands"
eve are much obliged to you," said
Sandorf. "If you do that, you do all
you can How shall we reward you7
q" Your thanks are sufficient, gentle
men" said the warder, who could not
conceal his emotion.
He soon brought in the writing mate
rails. The prisoners spent the greater
part of the day in making their last
arrangements. Sandorf said all that a
fathers heart could prompt in his in
structions regarding his Laby girl who
would soon be an orphan Bathory all
that husband and father could
think of in bidding a loving farewell
to his wife and son Zathmar all that
q master could say to an old servant
who remained his only friend.
But during the day, although absorb
ed in their writing, how many times did
they stop to listen How many times
did they seek to discover If some distant
noise was not coming along the corridors
Of the donionl How many times did it
seem to them as though the door of their
cell had opened, and that they were to
he permitted one last embrace of wife.
son or daughter That would have
been some consolation! But, in truth, the
pittiless order deprived them of this
last adieu and spared them the heart
rending scene.
The door did not open. Doubtless
neither Nine. Bathory or her son, nor
the steward, Lendeck, to whose care
Sandorf's daughter had been given, knew
no more where the prisoners were taken
to after their arrest than Borik in his
prison at Trieste. Doubtless also, neither
of them knew of the doom in store for
the conspirators.
Thus passed the earlier hours of the
day. Occasionally Sandsord and his
friends would talk for while. o.
casionally they would be silent for some
time, and then the whole of their lives
would be lived over again in their MEM
Dries with an intensity of impression
quite supernatural It vas not with the
past, as affecting the past that they
were entirely concerned; the recolleo-
tons seemed all to shape themselves with
q view to the present. Was it then. O
prescience of that eternity which was
about to open ON them. of that incom-
prehensible and incommensurate state
Of things which Is called the infinite
Bathory and Zathmar abandoned
themselves without reserve to their rev.
erles, but Sandorf was invincibly domi-
mated by an idea which hadtaken posses
sion of him. He could not doubt but
what there had been treachery in this
mysterious affair. For a man of his
character to die without furnishing the
traitor, whosoever he was, without know
ing even who had betrayed him, was to
die twice over. Who had got hold of
this message to which the police owed
the discovery of the conspiracy and he
arrest of the conspirators? Who had
read IL, who had given it up, who had
sold it perhapsT POndering over this
lnsoluble problem. Sandorf's excited
brain became a prey to sort of fever.
And while his friends wrote on or re-
manned silent and motionless, he strobe
uneasy and agitated, pacing the-foor
OF his cell like wild beast shut up In a
cage.
phenomeon-strange but not unin-
telligibIe in accordance with acoustical
law-came at last to his aid and Whisper
ed the secret he hsd despaired of dis
covering.
Several times he had stopped short as
he turned at the angle which the dividing
wall of the cell made with the main wall
OF the corridor, on to which the different
cells opened. In this angle, Just where
the door was hinged, ne seemed to hear
a mIIrmur of voices, distant and hardly
recognizable. At first he paid no atten-
ton to this, but suddenly q name was
pronounced-his own-and he listened
intently. At once he detected an ac-
oustlcal phenomenon, such as is observ-
able In the interiors of galleries and
domes or under vaults of ellipsoidal
form. The voice travelling from one
point of the ellipse, after following the
contour of the walls without being per-
ceptible at any intermediate point is
plainly heard at the other focus. Such
Is the phenomenon met with in the
crypts of the Pantheon in Paris, in the
interior of the dome of St. Peters at
Rome, and in the whispering gallery at
st. Pauls in London. The faintest
word uttered ut one focus of these curves
Is distinctly heard at the focus opposite.
There could be no doubt that the two
or more persons who were talking either
in the corridor or in cell situated at
the end of the diameter, the vocal point
of which was close to the door of the
cell occupied by Sandorf
By sign he called his companions to
him. The three stood listening.
Fragments of phrases distinctly reach
ed their ears; phrases broken off and
dying away as every now and then the
speaker moved from and towards the
point whose position determined the
phenomenon.
And these are the phrases they heard
at different intervals:
Tomorrow after the execution, You
will be free"
And then Count Sandorfs goods we
share"
Without me you never would have
deciphered that message"
anu WlunOut NEIL mad not taken |
1t from the pigeon you never would have |
got hold of it
Well. no one would suspect that the
police owe"
Even the prisoners have no sus-
pic:on."
Neither relatives nor friends are
coming to see them"
Then the voices were silent, and the |
sound of door being shut was heard.
"Sarcany Silas Toronthal y ex-
Claimed Sandorf. THAT is where it
came from ~
He looked at his friends and was
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