The Globe-republican., 1894-11-23

OF whom Is man, and she comes to
town frequently with her pony to
mail her letters, get her papers and
meet an occasional visitor from the
east whom she takes back with her.
This literary woman is Mrs. Hem
bricks. In her pretty little boudoir
on the secoud floor she has q tele-
graph instrument built into the wall,
and she communicates constantly with
Hendricks in the Laran by an under
! ground wire that has been laid with
great care and expense through the
widest and most unfrequented part
OF the intervening country and which
enters the cave through an artesian
drill that is hidden by four feet of soil.
In fragment of preserved letter
OF Hendricks he says: This wire cost
me more trouble and labor than any
thing else. It had to be laid at inter
walls after careful survey in order to
avoid observation. and it had to follow
the unfrequented ways and escape the
possible surface water courses, for if it
had been barred and discovered nv
enemies would have had the iron clew
that ran to the heart of my mystery"
The man servant in this establish
ment is none other than Fenning. The
room in which he and his companion
toll at their mail is tastefully furnished
and the windows on the inside are pro-
7ided with steel blinds The two Royal
Dane mastiffs that have already been
seen at the sanitarium lie at full
length on the rug. They can be de-
pended upon to hear football on the
mountain side before it gets within a
hundred feet of the house.
In this comfortable and secluded re-
treat Mrs. Hendricks is at work during
the latter part Of July. The mails are
kept guardedly down to q correspond
ence of necessity and to the daily pa
pers from the large cities.
We can thus see how Indifferent Hem
bricks was to the prospects of siege.
He could safely and secretly direct the
movements of vast organization scat
tered through the country while he
and his immediate forces were safe
from molestation or disturbance while
their supplies lasted.
On or about the 2sth of July,
fleming succeeded in getting Mrs.
Hendricks to send for Miss La
ports assistance. But that young
woman refused to leave Laran volun-
tarily. Fenning suspected the in
fluence of Stocking. Mrs. Hendricks
was sure of it. Preparations were then
made at Jennings suggestion to send
her at night under 4 strong guard to
meet him somewhere on the route,
when they were interfered with by the
news from Laran. This was on the
3Oth and Hendricks telegraphed;
''Something of our secret is discovered
by the government. How much, do
not know. Watch the papers. A
T~''ed States gunboat anchored in the
river this a. m, opposite the bayou:
strong force has been ashore. The
probability is that this is one feature
of a general movement and other forces
are concentrated. 1t is therefore fool
hardy to send Miss Franklin at this
time"
It was Mrs. Hendricks custom to read
off these messages to Fcnning while
she was at the instrument and he
wrote them down with pencil in
order to be sure OF their meaning,
burning them Immediately afterward.
They never suspected or ever knew
that they were read by somebody else.
But they were, and it is that curious
fact which enables us to follow the
details of his operations.
In the interval between the collision
with Gen. Luscomb and the departure
from Laran of Mrs. Hendricks and
Fenning, Calicot had had ample OPP
portunity to cultivate the acquaintance
of Miss Laport, whom he knew only as
Miss Franklin, and as the two young
women in the place were thrown much |
together, he saw a good deal Of Miss
Endicott. The doctor, who had found |
him a well-read man, had become quite |
attached to him and had told him a |
great deal about Miss Endicott's Pc
culiar temperament and condition.
The young woman herself enjoyed
Calicot's society, and he and Miss La
port spent most of their evenings visit
ing her. On one of these occasions
she had lapsed into her trance condi-
ton and the doctor was not present.
that was learned from her
lips made Miss Laport and Calicot con-
suit long and carefully. The very next
night when they were alone with her,
she again passed into an abnormal
state, and Calicot, with his compan-
ions concurrence, questioned her. The
doctor was busy elsewhere; there was
no fear of interruption. Miss Laport
got the packet of hair that she knew to
be Mrs. Hendricks, and Calicot, with
curious interest, listened to the girl.
Then it was that she described the
scene in the Swiss cottage and read the
telegram which Fenning had written
down with pencil from Mrs. Hen
bricks lips. Calicot was puzzled. He
had no means of finding out where
this place was. Miss Endicott could
only describe what she saw. She had
no ordinations to make, but it sud-