Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-07-12

1Of CneY were bn1ppcu III plcCCS 81 ID.
tervals~ and put together in the Laran
works. The other item was-"fve
hundred polished nickel steel plates"
made to order ~ the Corinth Steel
company and consigned to Bradshaw
4 Fenning, Memphis, Tenn" These
plates figured In the mysterious Laport
gun which afterwards caused such
CONSERVATION.
Hendricks, during these eight
months, had evidently calculated to
Offset the increased probabilities of
exposure In making such vast pur-
chases by the increased security af-
forded when he got his material into
his fortress-and this alone would
show that he had other and vaster
schemes in allegiance, and that, after
all, the fitting out of the Laran cave
was. only a provisional step to some
thing else.
Our imaginary visit, therefore, at
this time discloses at Laran an entirely
different condition of affairs. Tho
~sanitarium looks like a rural hotel.
There are several persons on the broad
balcony, but they exhibit only the in
'dolence of country boarders. The
warm sun lies peacefully on h lawns,
but there is q simmer in the air above
the big chimney which tells Of q great
volume Of heat pouring into the blue
sky. There are servants about the
kitchen and there are two Royal Dane
mastifPs with their heads on their
paws asleep on the steps Of the main
entrance.
: There is not the slightest indication
in this quiet hostelry hidden among the
trees and rocks of the great slope on
| which 1t stands Of the activity under
| meath its foundations.
r The moment we arrive in the lower
domain, we find the place lighted as II
with the light of day; the hum of ma
chinerv and the murmur of voices reach
us. The whole area Is encircled with
wooden structures, offices, warerooms
and h~abitations, some of them Hastily,
though fimsily, built. In the center
of the area Is q pavilion and overhead
is a big electric sunlight. On one OF
the walls Is the terminus OF Laport's
railway, with its suggestion Of a little
station and iron steps reaching down
| to the stone flooring and a heavy crane
for landing tools. The coal measure
passage has been dug out evidently by
using the coal. But 1t Is when we
Come to the rotunda that we shall be
astonished. This magnificent natural
temple is brilliantly lit and a regiment
| Of men is being drilled on its cleared
and almost smooth stone flooring. The
| Devils Outlet Is fenced in by an Iron
rail-for one morning Miss Endicott
was caught walking on its brink and
looking over with horror pictured or
her face. She was rescued and Hen
bricks ordered tho place rallied In.
From the implanted railway station
which here is twenty-eight feet above
the solid level, Hendricks and three
men are watching the e%volutions OF
the regiment which are in some re
spects wholly unlike anything eve
before seen in military tactics.
The vast spaces beyond the rotunda
and quite up to the lake itself arr
packed high with stores. 1t looks like
q series of endless warerooms or mon
strous depots and smells heavily like
one Of those streets where all the com
modities of man obtrude themselve.
upon the sidewalks and impede travel
II we penetrate to the hog back ares
we shall find that in its passages are
stables and that there are not only
| uOIbCS Dut III SOWS UhCIC liz
the great chasm In the south wall ha.
been converted into a magazine and
has heavy>wooden doors across its en-
trance. The mouth of this chasm, II
will be noticed, owing to q turn in the
wall, faces directly north. The benche.
Of the Laport railway are only two
feet above the tops Of the woodeI
doors.
On~nA ~,vr,orS ~vor0 In tia mir O hon.
the Tennessee sanitarium. The secrc'
service of the government was In pos
session OF the facts which set then
searching for the man known as thu
captain and they had traced him to thu
Mississippi. Vast quantities of golt
had been paid out for goods sent t.
Laran. One fact elected another. Blu
inquiries failed to identify Hendrick
with the description given of Kent a
he appeared on the San Pedro and tn
Memphis bank said hat he had golt
on deposit there prior to the robber.
of the C~orinthian. The moment thi
sort Of inquiry got into the papers
facts were elected that could lead t
but one conclusion in the end an
events began to point significant,
toward Laran.
No one followed the slow develop
ment Of public suspicion SO carefull
as Hendricks. He had the papers fol
warded to him under various addresse
by fleming, but it was not till tn
expiration of the year n a half tina
he closed the Memphis Office and Gale
in Fenning and Miss Laport, betwee
whom appears to have grown up yer
strong attachment. Hendricks was to
shrewd not to know hat the Memph]