Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-08-09
The Great
LARAN REBELLION.
CHAPTER Xxx

was Hendricks, who, from his retreat
underground, watched by some In
scrutable process every move that was
made. Gen. WRterson reached Laran
On the Goth OF July. He left New
York Just six hours before the police
began 70 look for him, and he found
that four hundred and fifty Of bis men
had preceded him to the Laran Dur
ing his absence the sanitarium had
been burned to the ground. This took
place on the sth. On the 9th Gen.
Luscomb's party had been attacked in
She The general had been killed
end his men routed. Those that es-
capped got in at Covington end re-
ported the sanitarium burnt and the
gang gone eastward. In the public
mind this appeared to explain the APP
pearance of the regiment in New York
on the 18th
About ten miles east Of the Laran
spugly perched on the side of q wild
glen Is q solitary Swiss cottage. 1t Is
built OF stone and looks down upon q
rugged but beautiful country. It Is
Just three miles from the town Of
Hoxie on q branch of the Tennessee
railroad where there is q post Office
and telegraph station. The people IN
the town understand that an eastern
literary woman who has an enormous
mall has hired the place on account
OF its seclusion and salubrity. She
has q pony and two servants, one
Of whom Is q 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 literdry woman Is Mrs. Hen
dricka 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 On under
ground wire that has been laid with
great a r and expense through the
widest and most unfrequented part
OF the Intervening country and which
enters the ave through an artesian
drill that Is hidden by four feet Of soil.
In q fragment Of q 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 a careful survey In order to
avoid observation. and 1t had to follow
the unfrequented ways and escape the
possible surface water courses, for If 1t
had been barred and discovered my
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 tastefu1ly furnished
and the windows on the inside are pro-
vided with steel blinds. The two Royal
Dane mastiffs that have already been
een at the sanitarium lie at full
length on the rug. They can be de-
pended upon to hear a football on the
mountain side before 1t 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 Yves to the prospects Of a siege.
He could safely and secretly direct the
movements Of q vast organization scat
tered through the country while he
ind his Immediate forces were safe
from molestatton or disturbance while
their supplies lasted.
On or about the esth 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
6uence Of Stocking. Mrs. Hendricks
Raa sure Of 1t. Preparations were then
made at Jennings suggestion to send
her at night under q strong guard to
meet him somewhere on the route,
Svhep they were interfered with by the
49, A. - mil ~
.fotA and Hendricks t~elegraphed
il.fometh1ng Of our secret is discovered
by the government How much, I dc
.UnAed States gunboat anchored IN the
river this q. ~, opposite the bayou {
strong force has been ashore. The
probability Is that this is one feature
lot q general movement and other forces
iere concentrated. It is therefore fool
hardy to send Miss Franklin at thi.
itime.H
It waa Mrs. Hendricks custom to read
IoH these messages to Fenning while
she was at the instrument and b.
WROTE them down with g pencil II
order to be sure Of their meaning
burning them immediately afterward
They never suspected or ever knep
,tha$ they were read by somebody else
But they were, end II Is that curious
tact which enables us to follow tht
details Of his operations
+! IN the interval between the collision
With Gen. Luscomb and the departure
from taran of Mrs. Hendricks ant
fleming, ca1icot had had ample op
lpQrtpnity to cultivate the acquaintanc,
fo4 Miss Laport, whom he knew only O.
bliss Franklin, and as the two young
Fpomen In the place were thrown mucf
together, he saw o good deal of Mis-
iEpdicott The Doctor, who had fount
him q we1l-readman. had become quit.
detached to him and had told him
great deal about Miss Endicott's pc
!cu1iar temperament and condition
The young woman herself entoye<
yCs1icot's society, and he and Miss La
port spent most Of their evenings visit
Ing her. On ope OF these OCCASION
she had lapsed into her trance oond!
ton and the doctor was not present
Something that was learned from ne,
lips made Miss Laport and Calicot con
suit long and carefully. The very mex
So asafa passed mo u Ebno4ma
state, and taHcot, With his eompan
ion'e concurrence, Questioned her; Th'
Doctor was busy elsewherei there We
do fear OF interruption. Miss fapor
got the pocket OF hRlr that she knew Z
tbe Mrs Hendricks, and Ce1icot, witt
tcuHouA Interest listened 10 the girl
Then * Fas that she described th'
sScef1e ID the SWISS cottage end read th'
telegram which Feanipg had writer
down with d pencil hom Mrs, Hen
bricks Lips Caiicot was puzzled. Fl
bad no means 81 finding ouk Yher