Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-05-25

Not much. The principal is very
adroit man. By some of his attempts
TO draw me out unawares fancy he
has some evidence about the Corin-
THAN affair"
ASK her" said Fenning, 1T Miss
Laport is trying to find out how much
the other one knows"
Hendricks did not ask that question.
What he said was:
Does Miss Laport understand her
fathers danger?"
"Calicot asked me yesterday" was
the answer. when she was going
away. She had told Stocking she was
going away in a week or two"
Send her down here tonight Her
father wishes to see her Do these Of
icers suspect the Bayou house,"
81 don't think they know of It.
Their impression appears TO be that
you are away and will come back un-
suspectingly and fall into their arms on
the front lawn"
Another day passed. Miss Laport
had not been heard from and 1t was
not till late the next night that the
doctor called up Hendricks.
''I don't like the situation here" he
said. THE ladies, If you will permit
me to say 1t, do not appear Is be In .
hurry to get rid of our guests. feel
as if were in the way. Calicot Is com
municating in some way with the au-
thorities, am sure"
Hendricks stopped him. Come
down." he said. Immediately. can't
talk to you through this thing"
1T is not safe to leave this part OF
the establishment to the women. You
want a man here. heard Calicot
walking through the upper hall last
night when everybody was asleep but
myself. don't know what he was do
ing. asked him this morning what
disturbed him, and he said the room
was so close il was like sleeping in q
cave. This may have been an acci-
dental speech, but thought he said II
with peculiar significance
Have you ever slept in q cave?'
asked
mo he replied. looking me in the
eye Have your
this man Is not an officer. Wait, Ihear
footsteps overhead"
Hendricks waited some time and no
fresh signal coming, he went to bed.
1t was half-past twelve. He slept
soundly until four o'clock, when he
got up, washed himself and went into
Jennings apartment to wake him and
was surprised to see him sitting up In
a rocker smoking q pipe, in his shirt
sleeves
HALO" he said, couldn't you
sleep?"
NO" replied Fenning. IF / don't
get some sunshine, I shall have per
manent insomnia"
"Give me one of your cigars. have
ordered Sam to have breakfast at five.
Well get some coffee and go down to
the Bayou house and take a dash out
doors 1t will do You good and want
to talk to you"
When he had LIT his cigar he sat
down and said:
"Fenning, you're the coolest man I've
got Let me have your bottom
thought"
I'm afraid of Mrs Hendricks" said
Fenning, land the idea of being sealed
up here makes me restive."
"ThankS for your frankness," replied
Hendricks. Dismiss the idea of
treachery. AS to the sealing up, 1t Is
impossible. Come and get some strong
coffee into you and then well try to get
some sunshine. I don't intend you
shall be sealed up"
Half an hour later . car was ready
and they got aboard to go to the west
ern entrance. The ride was peculiar
ly ghostly one at this hour. Here and
there an incandescent burner lit up the
immediate spaces and left great CULTS
black and foreboding. No one was
astir and it was a half hours ride
through gigantic shadows and success
sive strata of odors that betokened the
the stores and the stables When they
arrived at the bayou shaft, the sleepy