Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-11


brief"
"And you had better"
+" If what 1 am going to tell you does
not suit you say so. and I'll go"
From here or from Trieste?"
"From here and from Trieste"
" Tomorrow 2"
"This EVENING""
"Speak, then -
"Well, then, this is it." said Sarcany.
But" added he, looking around,
"you are sure no one can hear us ?"
You would like our interview to be
secret, then ?" asked the banker ironi-
cally.
Yes, Silas Toronthal, for you and
hold in our hands the lives of important
personages."
You do, perhaps. / do not!"
Well, then, see. am on the track
of conspiracy. What its object is do
not yet know But after what lsas hap
pened on the plains of Lombardy, after
the business at Sadowa, all that is not
Austrian is against Austria. And I
have some reason to think that move
ment is on foot in favor of Hungary by
which we can profit.
Toronthal, as his only reply, con.
tented himself with saying:
AZ have nothing to get out Of your
conspiracy"
Perhaps not"
"But how ?"
"By denOuncing it |"
Explain -
Listen"
And Sarcany told him of all that had
happened in the old cemetery, of the
carrier pigeon, of the intercepted mes
sage-of which he had taken fac-simile
and of how he had found out the birds
destination. He added that for five
days he and Zirone had been watching
the house how the same people met
there every night, not without great
precautions of other pigeons that had
gone away, and others that had come !;
OF how the house was guarded by an old
servant, who carefully inspected all who
approached; of how Sarcany and his
companion had been obliged to act with
circumspection to evade the attention of
this old man, and of how, during the
last few days, he had raised suspicious.
Toronthal began to listen more atten.
lively to what Sarcany told him. He
asked himself if it were true, and what
gain he could get out of it. When the
story was told, when Sarcany for the
last time affirmed that there was a con-
spiracy against the State and that some
thing could be made out of revealing its
existence, the banker asked the follow
ing questions:
Where is the house ?"
"No 80 Avenue lie Acquedotta."
"To whom does it belong?"
"To Hungarian gentleman.
"What is the Hungarian gentleman's
manner"
Count Ladislas Zathmar."
"And who are the people that visit
him?"
1.-TWO chiefly; two Of Hungarian
birth"
Zone is-!"
GA professor of this town, His name
is Stephen Bathory."
"The other is-?"
Count Matthias Sandorf."
Toronthal made q start of surprise,
which did not escape Sarcany. He had
easily found the three names by follow
ing Bathory to the Corsa Stadion and
Sandorf to the Hotel Delorme
"You see, Toronthal." continued Sar-
eany, these are the names have no
hesitation In giving you. You see I am
not playing with you"
"An that is very vague!" replied the
banker. who evidently wished to know
more before committing himself.
Wagner" said Saroany.
"Yssl To begin with, you have no
material proof"
''And what is this then"
The copy OF the message was placed In
Toronthal's hands The banker ex-
anined it, not without curiosity. But
its cryptographio words gave no sign Of
sense to him, and there was nothing to
prove that they were of the importance
that Sarcany asserted. If he had any
interest Ia the affair it was merely so far
a. 1t affected his customer. Count San
derf, and with him nothing could occur
to make him uneasy, unless il came to
pass that he desired to draw ont at short
notice the funds deposited in the bank.
WELL" said he at length, "my
opinion still is that tits very vague.
Nothing seems clearer to me, on the
contrary" answered Sarcany. whom the
bankers attitude In no way smayed.
Have you been able TO deciphsr this
letter ?"
"No, but 1 know how to do so when
the time comes"
"And how ?"
AZ have had something to do with
such matters before" said Sarcauy,
land good many ciphered dispatches
have passed through my hands From
careful examination of that one see
that its key does not depend ON num-
Der or conventional alphabet which
attributes to a letter different mean
ing to its real meaning. In this letter
an Is an .. p is a p; but the letters
are arranged In O certain order. which
order can be discovered by grating"
Sarcany, as We know, was right. That
was the system that had been used for
the correspondence. We also know that
1t was the most indecipherable one that
could bs found.
BE ii 90, said the banker, 81 do
not deny but what you are right; but
without the grating you cannot read the
message"
Evidently"
Ind ow win you.get the gratingy-
al do not know vet" answered Sar-
cany; "but rest assured snail get it. !"
"Really Well. if 1 were i'll your
place. Sarcany. I should give myself q
good deal of trouble to do sol''
Il shall take the trouble that is nee
essary."
ITO what endi I should content
myself with going to the police and
handing them the message"
II viii dosa, replied Sarcany. coldly,
''but not with these simple presump-
tons What / want before speak are
material. unden able proofs. intend
to become master of this conspiracy
yesi absolute master of II. Il, Gain al