Part III. MATHIAS SANDORF. was turned in the lock while the girl's fate was being decided. . & b lier iddënd PeSCade had thl'°Wn °S the Cai'Pet and was " Come!" said he. ¦ As the lock was inside the room, to unscrew it by means of his knife was neither a long, a difficult, nor a noisy job. •> As soon as the door was opened, and then shut behind them Pescade led the way along the gallery around the court-yard wall. J It was about half past eleven. A few beams of light filtered through the skifa's bays. Pescade avoided cross- ing them on his way to the passage that led to the first eourt-yard. They reached the passage aud went along it; but when they were only a few yards from the minaret staircase Pescade suddenly stopped, and held back Sava, whose hand his had never left. Three men were talking in this first court-yard bv the side of the water. One of them—it was Sidi lďazam—was giving orders to the others. Almost immediately they dis- appeared up the minaret staircase, while the moquaddem went into one of the lateral chambers. Pescade perceived that Sidi Hazam had sent the men to watch the neighbor- hood, and that wheu he and the girl appeared on the ter- race, it would be occupied and guarded. " We must risk it, however," said Point Pescade. "Yes. Everything!" replied Sava. Then they crossed the gallery and reached the staircase, which they mounted with extreme care. Then when Point Pescade had reached the upper landing he stopped. No sound on the terrace, not even a sentinel's step' Point Pescade quietly opened the door, and followed by Sava he glided along the battlements. Suddenly a shout came from the minaret above from one of the men on guard. At the same moment the other jumped on Pescade, while Namir rushed on tothe terrace, and the whole household came hurrying across the court- yard. Would Sava allow herself to be retaken? No! To be retaken by Sarcany was to be lost! A hundred times would she prefer death! With a prayer to God the brave girl ran to the parapet, and, without hesitation, leaped from the terrace. Pescade bad not even time to interfere; but throwing off the man that held him, he caught hold of the rope and in a second was at the foot of the wall. "Sava! Sava!" he shouted. "Here is the young lady!" said a familiar voice, "and no bones broken! I was just in the way—" A shout of fury, followed by a heavy thud, cut short Cape Matifou's speech. Namir, in a moment of rage, unwilling to abandon the prey that was escaping her, would have been smashed to pieces if two strong arms had not caught her as she fell. Dr. Antekirtt, Pierre and Luigi had rejoined Cape Mati- fou and Point Pescade, who were running toward the shore. Although Sava had fainted, she weighed almost nothing in the arms of her rescuer.- A few minutes afterward Sarcany, with a score of armed men, came out in pursuit of the fugitives. When he reached the creek where the "Electric" had been waiting, the doctor and his companions were already on board, and in a few turns of the screw the swift vessel Was out of range. Sava, alone with the doctor and Pierre, soon regained her consciousness. She learned that she was the daughter of Count Mathias Sandorf! She was in her father's arms! CHAPTER XXV. ANTEKIKTTA. Fifteen hours after leaving the coast of Tripoli the "Electric" was signaled by the lookout at Antekirtta, and in the afternoon she came into harbor. We can easily imagine the reception given to the doc- tor and his companions. Now that Sava was out of danger, it was decided to still keep secret her relationship to "Dr. Antekirtt. Count Mathias wished to remain unknown until the ac- complishment of his work. But it was enough that 53 fe!!0"?)6 had ma..e his son' was tbe betrothed of Ď.I.' fmd J°Li]gUS °f rel°leing to be shown on all sides m the Stadthaus as well as in the town of Artenak We may judge what were Mme. Bathory's feeling when Sava was given back to her after so many trials! And bava herself soon recovered her health—a few days mentPPineSS Wei'e sufficient for its complete re-establisli- nnďlf0^ ^eSCa.de had riske(] his life there could be bin., a «Î aS S6emed t0 thhlk jt <3Uite a nat°™l thing to do there was no possibility of rewarding him— except with a few simple words. Pierre Bathory had clasped him to his breast, and the doctor had given him such a look of gratitude that he would hear of no other l™ZV?iT f C(Tding ^ his custom, he gave the whole credit of the adventure to Cape Matifou «n^.Aďfi'T n'n sh°,"1(_ be thank«V' he said. He did it all! If old Capo had not been so clever with that pole I should never have been able to jump into Sidi Hazam s houses and Sava Sandorf would have been killed by her fall if Cape Matifou had not been below to receive her in his arms!" "Look here! Look here!" answered Cape Matifou ďou are going too far, and the idea of—" "Be quiet!" continued Pescade. "I am not strong enough to receive compliments of that caliber, while you— Oome, let us look after the garden!" And Cape Matifou held his peace, and returned to his pleasant villa, and finally accepted the felicitations that were thrust upon him "so as not to disoblige his little Pescade." Itwas arranged that the wedding of Pierre and Sava should took place on the 9th of December. When Pierre was Sava's husband he could claim his wife's rights in the inheritance of Count Sandford. Mme. Toronthal's letter left no doubt as to the gjrl's birth, and if necessary thev could obtain a formal statement from the banker. And this statement would be obtained in time, for Sava had not yet reached the age at which she would enter her rights. She would not be eighteen until six months later. It should be added that in the fifteen years a political change had taken place favorable to the Hungarian ques- tion, and this had considerably ameliorated the situation— particularly with regard to the conspiracy of Trieste. It was not intended to come to anv decision as to the fate of Carpena and Toronthal until Sarcany had joined them m the casemates of Antekirtta. Then, and not till then, would tbe work of justice be completed. But_while the doctor was still scheming how to attain his object, it was absolutely necessary that he should pro- vide for the safety of the colony. Hi's agents in the Cyre- naic and Tripoli had informed him that the Senousist movement was attaining great importance, particularly in , the vilayet of Ben Ghazi, which is the nearest to the island. Special messengers were continually on the move to the minor chiefs of the province from Jerboub, "the new pole of the Islamic world," as Dr. Duveyrier calls it, the metropolitan Mecca, where lived Sidi Mohammed El- Mahdi, grand master of the order, and as the Senousists are the worthy descendants of the old Barbary pirates and bear a mortal hate to everything European, the doctor' had to take steps to be very carefully on his guard. In fact, is it not to the Senousists'that we can attribute the massacres in African necrology during the last twenty years? The sanguinary brotherhood has put in practice the Senousistic doctrines against our explorers, and we have seeu Beurman killed at Kanem in 1863; Vonder, Decken and his companions on the Djonba River, in 1865; Mme. Alexine Tinneand her people in Wady Abed- jouch, in 1865; Dournaux-Dupeire and Joubert," at the wells of In-Azhar, in 1874; Fathers Panlmier Bouchard and Menoret beyond the In-Calah, in 1876; Fathers Richard Morat and Poupiard, of the Ghadames mission, in the north of Adzjer; Colonel Flattore, Captains Masson and Dianous, Dr. Guiard, and Engineers Beringer and Roone on the road to Wargia, in 1881. On this subject the doctor often talked with Pierre Bathory, Luigi Ferrato, the captains of the flotilla, the chiefs of the militia, and the principal notables of the island. Could Antekirtta resist an attack from the pirates? Yes, doubtless, although the fortifications were not complete, but on condition that the number of assail- ants was not too great. On the other hand, had the