The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-09-12
ATLANTA. CA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER -, 1898.
that Il terrible revolution is imminent. Your

that q terrible revolution is imminent. Your
life would be i'll danger here. am.
she glanced up at me started. oh,
| think these runors must be unfounded,
she said hastily The revolutions are so
cruel. In case there is one, you will help
the government, of courseT
She had placed her gloved hand on my
arm in her agitation and was bending
for an instinct told me that l was saving
Just what she desired me to say NO,
| will not. The government is too cruel
l am with the revolutionists-the people.
"Her gloved hand frightened on my arm.
her eyes sparkled, her breath came faster
for her excitement.
by heaven said Lieutenant Card
grove excitedy, striking his knee with his
ciinchnd FIST. couldn't YOU tell that she was
a revolutionary He had been intensely in
terested and Harding appreciated his out
break. although the lieutenant had over
looked the finer points of the story.
oh. can trust You. know, she said
half passionately, continued Harding. Il
knew it from the hour | first met you in
New York; | know it now. l am so glad
you are here. Perhaps you may help us:
perhaps you may advise father. Her voice
lowered to a whisper as she glanced over
her shoulder, and bending forward until
her warm breath went against my cheek.
she said: Yes there is to be Il revolution
and a bloody one | fear. Father is the
leader. He has sore grievances, for he
has been thrown out OF power by Il revolt;
and then he is the champion of prin-
ciple. Just rs soon rs the plans mature
the instruction will come.
For some reason her disclosure did not
surprise me. Our previous conversation
had somehow prepared me for this. l SAID
nothing. but, growing more and more Hnl-
mated as she talked. she laid the whole
plan of the uprising before me. She trusted
me implicitly, even 10 giving me the names
of the leaders and the date when the out
break was expected to come. AS | listened
to her the conviction grew in my mind that
and causeess rebellion. No higher motives
than those of revenge and power TO be
gained impeled him onward. And yet she
believed in the righteousness and justice
in his cause with all her heart.
DARKNESS was falling when | lett her
| felt thrill of triumph i'll the consciousness
that i had in my possession the entire plot
of the rcvoutonsts | was sure that none
of my rivals had such information. -; As
| started to go Miss yiliers said: Tins
is whore | live. Come out to see me to-
morrow | am glad to have some one
here whom I can trust as a friend.
Il went to my room ANA wrote out the
story. | gave every detail, mentioned er-
cry name | could remember ard made 1t
rs picturesque as possible. Miss NlherS
figured in if in a very romantic way |
gave what she had told me as near word
for word as | could recall II and de-
many New Workers would remember, not
as the daughter of revolutionlSt, but
as n charming young woman just out or
school. 1t was far into tho night when |
finished and rs ! read it over / felt the
deep sense of satisfaction that comes 10
those who realize that they have done their
best. My story was Sketcy, yet graphic
and dra matte. | felt that it was good i.
yhc next morning ] fied j. wit, a priv at e
message to the managing editor that it
was to be used only on the eve Of the
outbreak.
THE next day l spent lcisurly while the
other newspaper men We're running their
legs off trying to scent rebellion.
| saw Miss Nicrs often during the few
days that followed. The day after | sent
my story ! called on her. She was expect
ing me: her Dress her manner betrayed
it, ami the greeting ! received was even
more cordial than that of our first meeting
she became more and more confidential
each time | called. and it was plain to me
that she was beginning To regard me as an
ally She Cyincrd Il marked degree OF pleas
ure ut the interest | displayed i'll what she
told me. and could not believe otherwise
than that she looked forward to my visits
with a feeling akin to cagerness. She was
an enthusiastic believer in the justice OF her
fathers cause, and often her warm and
vigorous words elected just as strong sen
timcnts from me. | always regretted such
remarks after | made them.
1T was the morning OF the fourth day
after my arrival in Honduras that | found
my fellow correspondents grouped together
gravcy discussing some question. serious
ness ma rllcd Oh every face. There Hard
ing now exclaimed Newton, who repre-
scented two papers. | walked up to them
Ilave YOU discovered a single germ oil the
alleged reyolutionE | asked, with the easy