Evening star., 1894-03-24
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When he was alone the discovery filed
him with all manner of cOnjectures and
alarms 1t kept him awake all night in an
effort to make correct deduction from the
information furnished. The next day he
cautiously endeavored to test the truth of
Miss Endicotts vision. He met Hendricks
in the rotunda, and. after a polite saluta-
ton, said: 1T is impossible for me to wan
der about in this place and not hear the
men occasionally discussing your affairs.
1 have just heard something that leads me
TO believe that war vessel is watching
the bayou. Is that true?''
Yes" replisd Hendricks. 'She arrived
yesterday morning. l expected her before"
He then walked away as if disinclined TO
talk upon the subject.
So this piece OF information was absolute
ly correct. Calicot saw that the affairs of
Hendricks and his men were now too ur-
gent to leave them much time to think of
him and the women. and he resolved to
improve the opportunity with Miss Endi-
colt. Miss Laport made the task an easy
one, for she brought Miss Endicott into her
apartment, gave her an invalid chair and
admitted CalicOt He observed that the
girl did not suffer in her frances when the
doctor was not present. She even acknowl-
edged that the doctor frightened and panied
her, but volunteered to take the packet of
hair and tried to do what Calicot desired.
She closed her eyes moment, gave way TO
little tremOr and then said: Yes. there
they are. He is reading the papers to her"
Caicot very soon discovered that she
deed, she heard anything at all. Whatever
her special gifts were. they appeared to he
confined to vision. She could read the title
and the type of the paper in Jennings
hands. and she saw his lips move. He was
undoubtedly reading to Mrs Hendricks, and
she was summarizing the intelligence in
dispatches to Hendricks. It was not diff
cult to direct the girls mind to the news in
front of Fenning. and she read it off with
her body bent forward as if straining to
perceive an fndistinct object and speaking
slowly like child coming a lesson.
What was CalicOt's astonishmalt to hear
her, In this manner, convey the import Of
the matter before her strange vision
He learned that the success of che author
tiles in tracking the source of the wide
spread Junta conspiracy 10 western Ten
nessee had led to some curious develop
me1ts. The New York police had succeed i
ed in linking together several mysterious
events which pointed to the fact that the
master spirit of this new hanger to social
order was no less Il perso1aga than the
audacious pirate who had robbed the At
! lantic steamship two years ago. The Unit
ed States government had taken means to
stamp out this sOci1listic rebellion. and the
gunboat ArapahOe had been ordered tn Mem
phis; the sixth United STATES infantry
with battery y and troops \ and f of the
twelfth cavalry, had been ordered TO re-
pcrt at Paducah from Leavenworth; orders
had also been forwarded for two co,nDanies
of the fifth United States regiment at Fort
Benton, Tex, TO proceed to Memphis. Gen
| Harvard Carroll was placed in command Cf
the forces, with his headquarters at Padu-
cab.
Here the girl stopped and Calicot with
allOwab BILE impatience. asked her to so on
| He has laid the paper down." she said: Il
cannot see it, and he has got up He is
looking for something. 1t is writing pad
He sits down beside the woman-he is writ
ing"
Yes, yes 1t is a teleyrap1ic message
Can You read it? 1t comes from Hen
bricks"
She hesitated mOment-thRn she said:
Send cipher dispatch at once to G. c.
at ST. Louis, to NJ. NJ. at Chicago ard c. c.
at Davenport Four Thousand gums at
Leavenworth left unprotected by with
drawal of troops; Kansas Nity or the first
at 9 O'Clock am. impress g. g. with swift
ness; twelve hundred men here how; can
hold everything; get answer from G. c.. at
once; watch Memphis papers for move
mentS of gunboat"