Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-08-16

ming atfst!c IItHeTNC'i t-jSiT cOoIiittS-
''5Iy prisoner" said THO former.
''You were listening"
Yes" replied Calicot, 1T is my duty
to tell you that in Your plans you for
got one important clement"
Thoy looked at hia with a suspicion
of danger in their faces. lie appeared
some kind OF i~acalculallc force.
'tWhat do You mean" asked Her
dric!5s,
Calicot put his hand upon his breast
aisd bowed slightly. "Iou forgot me-"
lac said, land your york cor1cs tc
nau-ht. 1t was just like o to IN
dcrcst;i1itc tic qualities that would
destroy YOU. | have ncvcr heard that
in your Giabolisln there was any pro-
vision f.r sclf-aacriiice. Fortunately
in my scheme there was. In three
minutes VIC shall all die together"
In the confusion that followed lien
dric!1s shouted; BE calm; the man has
been crazcd by his confinement"
No" said Calicot, Il am neither
crazy desperate. | have lit the
slow match 10 your magazine. Tho
explosion will kill every human being
In the Laran. You will be found
here with your secrets divulged. I
have saved the country. Providence,
which is on the side of history, sent
rlc to you, and you accepted the in
strunlcnt Of your own destruction
CHAPTER XIV.
Lieut.. Stocking, the moment he W as
In the Wash bayou md felt the citation
OF freedom, met with 4 new blow.
81 cannot go to Memphis with my
father" she said. There arc reasons
that l cannot tell you now. We must
get q boat, cross the Mississippi and
disappear"
1t vas in vain that Stocking pleaded
and argued. "1ou do not know nll,"
she said, "all l must save my fathers
life. There is a s!1iff in the woods two
miles above the bayou. Take us to
that, get us across aud leave us to find
our way in Texas to the coast. You
must go back to your friend, and will
write you when we arc all safe, if You
give me an address"
Nainly Lieut.. Stoc'ing pleaded with
her On this point SIC was firm. The
guard tooL tlam two or three miles up
the Mississippi and there the party
crossed the river, the lieutenant nc
co;1panyilg thcm I'VE or three miles
into the interior. until he believed
they were safe from pur3uit, wien he
babe the1a frrcwelI and returned.
The Journey had consumed n Gay. and
when he reached the ca tern shore OF
the Mississippi he encountered the
picllets of L government force, was
promptly arrested and tn'-cu to the
camp about u mile FRI tie Laran
portal, where he found two regiments
of troops. 1t wa not difficult for him
to establish his identity. as lie found
several acquaintanccS among the Off
GERS, and II them he told the whole
=. stor.y of his capture and incarceration.
1t was al incredible aa1 startling rev.
citation, and lei the commanding oil
ccr It once to o III, camp to = new
elevation ut some Gi&t1ncc FROM TIC
Laran AID to take cver.y prccaution
against an att3:ck il the rlar. On t,e
rlorning of the Thrill day Stocking SCI
] ont with q picked guard an several OF
tie officers to Inspect t,lc entrance OF
! the cave.
1t was not -di4.icul5 to find the por
tai, for to their ast31ishraent the
whole Of the iron lit was discovered
lying Oh the rains CT the saaitlriau
adjacent to the ~uncovcrtJ shaft, from
which iSsaeI q waveriag thia blu;
smoke.
SuGpect;ng some ti:nl of trcac,ery
Stocking proposed to - down alone
and after some delay III getting rope:
he was lowered into the hole. Finding
everything developed in darkness an,
silence at the bottom OF the shaft. III
had to come back for assistance ant
lanterns, and thus provided and &C
companicd by "a oGiccr he relic
Scendcl with the growing conviction
that Hendricks had Withdrawn nU hi
forces from the cave and abandoned ii
The moment he arrived ct tn,
mouth of h arena paosage a-l HEX
up the lantern he perceived that some
thing extraordinary had taken place
Ca either side of Tie entrances to tn
Chaft were the bodies Of lnen--tyo O
them had apparently been hurle'
against the wall of the arena with tc1
rifle force, for their b.rlics were lis1c
Gated and their skulls fractured. an,
| they were covered with n blue moul,
that made their faces in.li ,tia3uish
abla- A few seconds later the cond.
ton of the arena di.c1o@cItlc Gestrue
ton hat had taken piace. The res
dcnccS on the western wall wcrc She
tered and II rains. The machinery {
the great dynamo stool out gaunt an
awry like the bones of q corpse ftol
! which the flesh hal been Guddeal
tori away. Not a sound was heart
Here and there bodies lay expose
upon the floor of the arena with th
clothes torn from them.
Word "a immediately sent abov
for men and li.hts. apd etropy. 1s31.