Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-07-05

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'1 AN INSTRUCTED, SIR, TO ASK you TO
ORDER YOUR PEoPLE BELOW"
the trucks and cars If the iron work is
supplied?"
"Unquestionably," replied Laport
'"Then the railroad question Is set
tied" said Hendricks. Now the light
ing system. Ny idea is to run the fur
mace chimney through the roof where
the crust is not over ten feet thick and
carry 1t up at the end of the house we
are to build over the entrance. But
you will see what our difficulty Is. We
want light to build the road, and until
the road is built we cannot get our
dynamo and engine into the cave, for
they must come in at the other end"
~ would suggest a temporary light
ing arrangement said Laport The
difficulty of delivering most of the ma,
terial at this end can be overcome"
Eyes, but the difficulty of transpor-
tation at this end cannot be overcome.
We have to haul our stuff from the
nearest railroad and that is only a
poorly equipped branch. 1t is next to
impossible to pull the material over
the run until roads are made and we
have the water almost at our door in
the southwest"
Nevertheless 1t is impossible to get
any heavy material through those pas
sages at present and it is not impossi-
BILE to wheel here from the nearest
point until your road Is completed"
How long will it take to build the
road?-
Laport laughed. ''lt Is q question
of supply of iron and number Of work
men,"
every we'll. we have all winter. I
will furnish you with a gang Of fifty
men. If the road is done by next May
| I shall be satisfied
CHAPTER tx
Eight months elapse. There is an
Office in Memphis whose sign reads:
"Charles Fenning, Real Estate. Office
of the Laran Sanatarium."
1t has long been remarked hat Mr..
| Jennings mails are mormon He
gets sometimes as many Ave hundred
letters in a day. It Is not known that
most If not all Of these go to Laran.
But it Is known to a few persons In
| Memphis hat he has a private wire to
one branch of the Laran establishment
and that he ships great quantities Of
| goods in boxes and carts and barrels.
The fact Is, Mr. Charles Fenning IL
Hendricks most confidential ~1feuten.
ant, and under the simple guise Of real
estate operations and an agency for
the furnishing Of information about
the Laran s~anatarium, stands as 6
close connecting link between bis hid
den principal and the world with which
that principal Is carrying on active
operations.
His business Is 50 pressing that he
works late at night In his Office. He
has two assistants; one is a messenger
and office runner; the other is a con
fdential secretary. assistant and tel
egraph operator. She Is q very pretty
young lady and her name is Cornelis
Aaport
Fenning has three rooms on tn.
ground floor, one Is a public office; an
other Is a smaller and private Office; thu
third room connecting with a sid,
street Is a shipping room and Is wei
filled at this time with goods waiting
1 " OS C1O u LIZ oSpob OA ChC do
bayou.
One night in April, the door to Mr.
Jennings public office was opened,
woman steppedi in quickly and, shutting
It after her, glided across the room il
the direction of the private office
merely saying in a low tone: "Mr. Fen
ming"
Mr.. Fenning vas sitting at his desl
and Miss Laport, not ten feet away
was seated at another sorting a bundl
of letters.
Without a moments hesitation MI
Fenning followed the woman into tn
private Office and closed the door.
They stood FACE to ace and the WON
an said Immediately, with every ind
cation that she had been walking raj
idly:
81 have been followed from Ne,
York. 1 must get to the bayou te
night"
Fenning showed no signs of alarm
He offered her q chair. do you thin
anyone saw you come in here?" h
asked
81 think not, but I cannot be Gel
tain"
"Pray be seated" said Fennine
= 1Ou surprise mo. why S1OuIu anyOn
| suspect your"
!, Zone or more of my letters have bee
intercepted"
fleming looked grave. "Ah!" h
{ said, as they sat down, do you n
+ member the c~ontents?"
! CLEARLY"
, ITO whom were they addressed?'
, ITO Hendricks, In Washington. Ca
/ you get me to the bayou tonight"
. Fenning shook his head. at ca
get you on the way" he said. "It
, thirty miles to Upton county. mu
say that l am surprised at your comm
a here. There is nothing at all ca
3 be proved against you and you run Il
. risl. of connecting this Office in ii
chain of suspicious, whatever they are
!: "But," said the woman, lit is impe
atively necessary to all interests TIN
4 l get to Laran."
y "What have you got about your pc
son?"
''Papers and money!" she reptile
. Immediately taking a packet from h
/ bosom and handing it to Fenning al
pulling a roll of bills from her satchs
4 He placed both in a large envelo,
E and put tin an inner breast poeket,