Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-08

They halted. The sergeant and two OF
the men dismounted, while the others
remained in the saddle and received or
ders 10 search the country along the
canal and then return to the farm,
where the rest would meet then ut seven
o'clock
The four gendarmes moved of imme-
diately. The sergeant and the two others
picketed their horses and sat down to
talk. From the corner of the cellar the
fugitives could hear all that passed.
Eyes, we shall go back TO the town
this evening and get the orders for to-
night, said the sergeant in reply to one
Of the men. The telegraph may bring
us fresh instructions from Trieste"
The town in question was not Trieste;
that was one point of which Count San
dorf made a note.
"Are you not afraid, " said the second
gendarme, "that while we are looking
about here that the fugitives may have
got down the Quarnero Canal2"
YES, that is possible, said the first
gendarme. "for they might think it
safer than here.
eff they do" said the sergeant, they
none the less risk being found, for the
whole coast is being looked after from
one end to the other"
Second fact worth noting. Sandorf
and his companion were on the west
coast Of Istria, that is 10 say, near the
Adriatic shore, and not on the banks of
the opposite canal which runs out at
Fiume
Il think they are having look round
the salt works at Pirano and Capo
dIstria," said the sergeant "They
might hide there easily and get on board
o vessel crossing the Adriatio and bound
for Rimini or Venice.
They had much better have waited
patiently in their cell, said one Of the
gendarmes philosophically.
"Yes," added the other, "sooner or
later they'll be caught II they have not
flshed them up out of the Bucol That
would finish it, though, and we should
not have TO trot about the country In
all this heat"
"And who says it hasn't finished il ?"
replied the sergeant Perhaps the
Foiba has been the executioner. and
while il Is in food, the wretched men
could not have chosen a worse road out
of the donion Of Pisino."
The Foiba then was tho name OF the
river which had carried of Count San
dorf and his companion. 1t was the
fortress of Pisino to which they had
been taken after their arrest, and there
they had been imprisoned, tried and
sentenced. 1t was from it's donjon they
had escaped. Count Sandorf knew this
town of Pisino we'll He had at last
fixed on this point which was so impor-
tant for him to know, and il would no
longer be by chance that he would cross
the Istrian peninsula, If flight was still
possible.
The conversation Of the gendarmes
did not stop here; but in these few words
the fugitives had learned all they wished
10 know-eKcept. perhaps, the name
OF the town by the canal on the Adriatio
coast
Soon the sergeant got up and walked
about the enclosure, watching ifhis men
were returning TO the farm. Twice or
thrice he entered the ruined house and
looked into the rooms, rather from pro-
fessional habit than suspicion. He even
came to the door of the cellar, and the
fugitives would certainly have been
discovered IL the darkness had not been
so great He even entered ii, and tossed
about the brushwood in the corner
with his scabbard, but without reaching
those beneath. At this moment San
dorf and Bathory passed through almost
the whole gamut of anguish. They had
resolved 10 sell their lives dearly If the
sergeant reached them. To throw
themselves on him, profit by his sur
prise TO deprive him OF his arms, to at
tack him two TO one, to kill him or
make him kill himself, they had fully
made up their minds.
. At this moment the sergeant was
called out, and he left the cellar without
noticing anything suspicious. The four
gendarmes sent off to- search had Just
returned to the farm. Despite all they
could do they did not come across any
traces of the fugitives in the district be-
tween the coast and the canal But
they had not come back alone-a man
accompanied them.
BE was Spaniard employed in the
salt works in the neighborhood. He
was returning to the town when the
gendarmes met him. As he told them
that he had been all over the country
between the town and the salt works
they resolved to bring him to the ser
geant for him to interrogate him. The
man ba1 M nl,,a,k,o,, - - Al.
The sergeant asked him if he had
noticed any strangers in the salt works.
No, sergeant, said the man; "but
this morning, about an hour after 1
left the town, saw two men who had
Just landed atthe point along the canal 4"
1.-Two men, do you say6" asked the
sergeant
Yes, but rs in these parts we thought
the execution at Pisino took place this
morning, and had heard nothing about
the escape, l did not pay much attention
to the men. Now know what has 90
CURED / should not be surprised il
they were the two you want
From the corner of the cellar Sandorf
and Bathory could hear every word Of
this conversation which affected them
10 nearly. Then when they landed on
the bank they had been seen.
What is your name ?" asked the SER
geant
"Carpena, and I am employed at the
salt works"
Gould You recognize these two men
you saw this morningl"
Yes. probably T.
well, you can come and make de-
claration, and put yourself at the dis
posal Of the police"
81 am at your orders"
do you know there is a five thou
sand horins reward for the discovery Of
the fugitivesg"
Five thousand fiorinsl"
And the hulks to him who harbors
them Z"
"You don't say sol"
Co." said the sergeant
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