Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-06-22

state. and Calicot. with his conpan
ions concurrence. questioned her. The
doctor was busy elsewhere: there was
no fear Of interruption. Miss Laport
got the packet of hair that she knew tC
be Mrs. Hendricks. and Calicot. with
curious interest, listened to the girl
Then it was that she described Tho
scene in the Swiss cottage and read the
telegram which Fenning had written
down with a pencil from Mrs. Hen
bricks lips. Calicot was puzzled. He
had no means of finding out wher,
this place was. Miss Endicott could
only describe what She saw. She had
no explanations 10 make, but it sud
denly dawned upon him that he had in
this young woman n complete offset
to Hendricks secret advantages Miss
Laport acknowledged to him, in corrob-
Grafton of what he had heard, that she
had refused to go away without her
father, and now that she had learned
of the preparations to send her to Fen
ming, she was visibly alarmed. Calicot
encouraged her by every means in his
power. He pointed out to her how
great an advantage their discovery
gave them She listened to him help
lessly; but they became confidential
confederates. He cautioned her to say
nothing to Stocking at present and got
her to use her woman's influence with
the girl to carry on the experiments.
When he was alone the discovery
filed him with all manner ef con.
lectures and alarms. 1t kept him
awake all night in an effort to make q
correct deduction from the informa
tion furnished. The next day he
cautiously endeavored to test the truth
of Miss Endicott's vision. He met
Hendricks in the rotunda. and after a
polite salutation said: 1T is impossible
for me to wander about in this place
and not hear the men occasionally dis
cussipg your affairs. have just heard
something that leads me to believe
that war vessel is watching the
bayou. Is that true?"
Yes" replied Hendricks. "She ar
rived yesterday morning. | expected
her before
He then walked away as if disin-
clined to talk further upon the sub
ject.
So this piece of information was alb
solutely correct. Calicot saw that the
affairs of Hendricks and his men were
now too urgent to leave them much
time to think of him and the women,
and he resolved to improve the oppor-
tunity with Miss Endicott. Miss La
port made the task an easy one, for she
brought Miss Endicott into her apart
ment, gave her an invalid chair and
admitted Calicot. He observed that the
girl did not suffer in her frances when
the doctor was not present. She even
acknowledged that the doctor fright
ened and panied her, but volunteered
to take the packet of hair and tried to
do what Calicot desired. She closed
her eyes moment, gave way to little
tremor and then said: "Yes, there
they are. He is reading the papers to
her" Calicot very soon discovered
that she could not repeat what she
heard, If, indeed, she heard anything
at all. Whatever her special gifts
were they appeared to be confined to
vision. She could read the title and
the type of the paper in Jennings
hands and she saw his lips move. He
was undoubtedly reading to Mrs.
Hendricks, and she was summarizing
the intelligence in dispatches to
Hendricks. 1t was not difficult to
direct the girls mind to the news In
front of Fenning, and she read it OF
with her body bent forward as II
straining to perceive an indistinct
object and speaking slowly like child
coming lesson.
What was Calicot's astonishment to
hear her, in this manner, convey the
import of the matter before her strange
vision.
he learned that the success of the
authorities in tracking the source of
the widespread Junta conspiracy to
western Tennessee, had led to some
curious developments. The New York
police had succeeded in linking to-
gether several mysterious events which
pointed to the fact that the master
spirit of this new danger to social
order was no less parsonage than
the audacious pirate who had robbed
the Atlantic steamship two years ago.
The United States government had
taken means to stamp out this social
istic rebellion and the gunboat
Arapahoe had been ordered to
Memphis; the Sixth United States in
fantry, with battery A and troops A
and + of the Twelfth cavalry, had
been ordered to report at Paducah
from Leavenworth; orders had also
been forwarded for two companies OF
the Fifth United States regiment at
Fort Benton, Tex, to proceed to
Memphis. Gen. Harvard Carroll was
placed in command of the forces with
his headquarters at Paducah.
Here the girl stopped, and Calicot
with allowable irnpatience asked her
to go on: ''He has laid the papef
down." she said; Il cannot see it and
he hns got up. He is looking for some-
thing. 1t is a writing-pad. He sits
down beside the woman-he is writing"
Eyes, yes 1t is telegraphic mess
age. Can you read it? 1t comes from
Hendricks"
She hesitated moment-then she
said:
''Send cipher dispatch at once to
G.. G. at st. LOUIS, to NJ. NJ. at Chicago
and G. c. at Davenport. Four thop-
sand guns at Leavenworth left unpro-
tected by a withdrawal of troops;
Kansas City on the first at nine O'Clock
a. M; impress G. G. with swiftnessl
twelve hundred men here now can
hold everything; get answer from G. q:
at once; watch Memphis papers for
of gunboat."
Here the young woman made another
pause. In his impatience, Calicot got
up impulsively and strobe about the
little room. He wse shut up helplessly
in living tomb and events, In what.
now seemed like another world, were
hurrying on to some kind of disaster
He calmed himself by a powerful n1ep'
tai effort 'tWell," he said, ''what do
you see now?"
''They are close together at the in
strument. They are sending a dis'
patch"
After some delay, there was evidently
an answer received from Hendricks,
for the girl began again, slowly
reading from the written page what
to be instructions. Very it.
tie OF it was ineligible to Calicot, bpt
blind as 1t was he tried to impress II
upon his memory for after reflection.
He heard her saying: "Will take gun
boat and seize arms; council here on
the 25th; make all instructions con-
form to that date"
Day after day, as the girl revealed ip
broken sentences the communications
that were made from the cave to the
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