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

best guarantee for Indecipherabihty is
afforded by these gratings, or by ciph-
cred ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, that is to say,
or vocabulGries in which certain words
represent fully formed sentences indi-
Gated by the page number. But both
these systems have one grave drawback;
they require absolute secrecy ON the
part Of those that use them, and the
greatest care that the books or apparatus
should never get into undesirable hands.
Without the grating, or the code, the
I message Will remain unread but once
these are obtained the mystery vanishes.
II was then by means of a grating
that Is to say piece of card cut out In
/ certai n places-that the correspondence
between Sandorf and his accomplices
was carried on, but as an extra pre-
caution, III case the graings should be
lost or stolen, every despatch after being
/ deciphered was destroyed There thus
I remained no trace of this conspiracy in
/ which the greatest noblemen and mag
/ mates Of Hungary were risking their
/ lives in conjunction with the represents
I tive of the middle class and the bulk of
\ the people.
Zathmar had Just burned his last de-
/ spatch when there came quiet knock
mt the study door.
1t was Borik introducing Count Ma
thias Sandorf, who had walked up from
the nearest railway station.
Zathmar Immediately rose to greet
/ him.
Your journey. Matthias ?" asked he
with the eagerness of man who wished
ut the outset to find that all was well.
1t was success, Zathmar," an
! swered Sandorf. 81 have no doubt of
my Transylvanian friends and we are
certain of their assistance"
You let them have the despatch
which came from Pesth three days ago?"
asked Bathory.
yes" said Sandorf. Eyes, they
have all been cautioned. and they are
all ready. They will rise at the first
/ signal. In two hours we shall be mas
tiers of Buda and Pesth, in half day we
/ shall get the chief comitats on both
sides of the Thesis, and before the day
is out we shall have Transylvania and
the rest And then eight millions of
Hungarians will have regained their in
dependence :"
i AUu tic OiebE dSkeQ bdI0OrY.
"Our supporters from the majority"
answered Sandorf. They will also
form the new Government, to take the
direction of affairs All will go regularly
and easily, for the comitats, as far as
their administration goes, depend very
little on the crown, and their chiefs have
the police with them.
"But the Council Of the Lieutenancy
OF the Kingdom that the palatine pre-
sides over at Buda?" continued Zath-
mar
1.-THE palatine and the councilat Buda
will Immediately be SO placed as to be
unable to 10 anything"
And unable to correspond with the
Hnnunrian cianc-ry at Vienna?"
Success - said BathOry.
ayes, SUGGEST answered Count San
dorf "In the army all of our blood. of
Hungarian blood. are for us Where is
the descendant Of the ancient Magyars
whose heart viii not beat Mt the sight of
the banner of Rudolph and Corvinus ?"
And Sandorf uttered the words in q
tone of the purest patriotism.
But" continued he, neglect moth
ing that will prevent suspicionl Be
prudent, we cannot be too strongl You
have heard of nothing suspicious ut
Trieste2"
mo" replied Zathmar Nothing
is spoken of but the works at Pola, for
which the greater part of the workmen
have been engaged"
In fact for fifteen years the Austrian
Government with view of the possible
loss of Venetia-a loss now realized
had been thinking of founding ut Pola,
at the southern extremity of theIstrian
peninsula, an immense arsenal and dock
/ yard, SO as TO command all that end of
the Adriatic. In spite of the protests of
| Trieste, whose maritime importance
would thereby be lessened, the works
We're being pushed on with feverish
ardor. Sandorf and his friends had
thus some justification for their opinion
that Trieste would join them in the
event of q separatist movement being
started in the city.
Up to the present the secret of the
conspiracy in favor of Hungarian anton
omy had been well kept Nothing had
occurred to cause the police to suspect
that the chief conspirators were then as
sembled at the unpretending house in
the AcquedOtto.
Everything seemed to have been done
TO make the enterprise a success and
all that remained was to wait for the
moment of action. The cipher CORES
/ pondence between Trieste and the prin-
cipal cities of Hungary and Pennsylvania
had almost ceased There were now
] few messages for the pigeons to carry.
because the last message had been
taken. As money is the soul of war, so
| 1t Is of conspiracies. 1t Is important
that conspirators have ample funds when
the signal of uprising is given. And on
this occasion the supply would not fail
them
We are aware that, although Zathmar
and Bathory could sacrifice their lives
for their country, they could not sacri-
flee their fortunes, inasmuch as their
| pecunlary resources were but meagre.
But Count Sandorf was immensely rich,
and, in addition to his life, he had
brought his whole fortune to the help of
the cause. For many months, through
the agency OF his steward, Lendeck, he
had mortgaged his estates, and thereby
raised considerable sum-more than
1000, 600 of forins.
But it was necessary that this money
should always be at call, and that he
could draw 1t at any moment And so
he had deposited it In his own name in
one of the banks of Trieste, whose char
acter was above suspicion. This bank
was Toronthars, of which Sarcany and
Zirone had been talking in the cemetery
on the hill
This circumstance was fraught with
the gravest consequences, as will be
seen IN the course of this history.
Something was said about this money at
Sandorf's last interview with Zothmar
and Bathory. He told them that il was