Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-17
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soing?'' N''e -
| Hiss NE"
| L-ieutenant--Why DO .-ou not seize the
| OPPORTUNITY and so with herr
| Miss Ii must stay here g little longer
/ cannot tell you why
Two days after this eonyersation Miss
/ Laport and Mrs. Hendricks We're down in
| the Laran. and, with Miss Endicutt and
| the negro servant, this made -four women
/ now In the underground, gomMuuIty.
/ The hUrly-buriy OF Preparation and ex-
J time from the rotunsa for at least two
| miles and flied all thx echoing spaces far
/ beyond the lake. A T.tle community was
arena. The fragile cottages .Iiat encircIed
! the space looked like Dore picture under
/ the central light. and. dried branches that
/ profussiy ornamented h column in The GEN.
! ter space frettet the around with sharply
/ outlined shadows. 1t was eternal night
here, but man had rotbed ii of most 81 il s
/ noAious terrors and "oman hal left the
traces of her presence round the ioorWays
/ of some of the habitati3ns. IN front of one
/ cottage there was a stand of strange plants
/ curious crytosenOus giowths that had been
gathered in the recessas Of tue place and
J arranged in symmetrical order wera crys-
( tails OF carbonate Of Ii ne, symmetrical ard
7 translucent stalactites and fos slls dug from
4 the walls of the distaat PASSAGES.
! 1t was Stockings amusement to gather
! these curiosit.es i'll his moody ramblas and it
was Miss L2port's melancholy delight to ar
range them where the electric light played
fantastic tricks with .then at all hours.
Under the awning viii, IA on one side OF the
/ little house offered d >oroIecIlou from the
/ light sat Miss Laport and Lieut. Stocking
4 AT snort distance on. tle same SIDE we're
/ two other and similar stodes, one Of W hich
/ was given over to the silCutenant and Cali
cot; the other, connecting with Miss La
ports by u latticed ale! way, WAS in pos
session of the doctor, -eI:,s Endicott having
room in Miss Laport:s establishment
Now that you have: Told me about \ our
father. Miss Franklin - said Lieut. Stoca,ns
and there is nothing 80; prevent You 10th
from leaving this place Why do you not
urge him To go at once Mr.. Calicot ask ed
me 10 speak to you seriously about DC. and
impress you with the urgency OK it,"
=" ny should he be Anxious about. it?''
asked the girl
He has made up his mind about the re-
suit of the conflict. and fears il you de-
lay much longer you Will not be able to get
away at all
And you?" said the girl with real sclici-
tude.
I'm in Cancors hands. suppose we
shall be liberated at some time. He seems
to think So
You appear to admire and trust him very
much"
Yes. I wish 1 could get you to trust him.
He says you ought 10 90 away at once.
shall 1 tell you what he said to me?'
Yes. Do
1T was this: Stocking he said, you San
get Hendricks permission to take The old
man and his daughter out IL you will give
your word OF honor not TO Detrdy his re-
treat and to return. You could then put
them in a boat and help them TO cross the
Mississippi
why asked, are you SO anxious to
get them out?'
! want 10 save them he said
But you do not car to save me- 20
iecte1.
Yes ne said. If yot follow my piar. it
will save you
q Then i am not to return? !
:" y YOU You must come bptk
But it VIII take You two lays I
To come back here IS not TO be savesl
said. You Will have to explain yofr-
Yes" saia the girl, TS;tt interest. "sl1
NO. He merely said, i wish you would
ktake my advice
You are frank with ne / exclaimed
- If You will do as hd you. ne replied,
everything will explain itself, and we shall
all be released"
Then why not do 1t? ''.aSke1 Miss Laport.
| because j have to pls1Se myself 10 give
up liberty and YOU and come back to this
/ tomb and be buried alive. DO You think
| that an easy natter"
4 And yet you say YOU trust your friend.
Now / would obey him Implicitly, ard trust
him II / knew him vel as you do"
] Yes" said the lieutenant 1T is char
acteriSttc Of a woman. But | am a mana
I helpless one
| Twenty minutes later these two young
people mad taken the train and got off at
the platform in the rOtuula. 1t was Miss
LaD0rt who first discovered CalIcOt stand
I Ing in a pensive attitude, and with d sud
den burst of Unselhshnc5s. she said: There
. is your friend now. Why not go to him and
prove that YOU trust him? / am going to
leave you together and so back with the
doctor"
! Stocking was disinclineI to accede to this
request, but Miss LaDor- was pleasantly
firm, and few moments later he had
Joined Calicot. The first thing he said.
rather grimiy. was:
There IS murder going On overhead"
Yes replied CaIiro:. That Is the
name for war when We are not in it,
( The two men walked side by side through
the exit of the rotunla until they came to
natural bench Of So tin spar, very pure and
beautiful in the electric highland here
they sat down.
{ ''Cahcot." said Stocking, II give you
credit for TOO much maniine5s to lose your
( win 3ictiyensss under pleasant treatment
and for too much good sense to be over
thrown by the mGgniJCauCe Of a sophism
when il Is put into execution"
quite right replied CaicOt. "Y0u will
/ live to see that my opposition to Hendricks
/ and his conspiracy is much deeper and
broader than yours With you it is an i'm
. pulse with me IT IS cool conviction
I Your impulse prevents you from adlGiri.l;
. his skill My conviction will enable me to
i thWdrt his purpoEe."
+ traitor to your conscience. would place
myself under your orders aud aSl, II, a,.es-
I tons" said Stocking.
{ Il was going TO ask you to DO hat"
There is only one reason why should"
/ Stocking said.
/ What is that2
! Miss Franklin has asked me o."