Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-20

Oy the gOvcrn.lcHt. HOW MUCH. 60
not know. Watch the papers. A
United States gunboat anchored in tho
river tt:s q. M, opposite the bayou: .
strong force has been ashore. The
probability is that this is one feature
of a general movement and other forces
are concentrated. It is therefore fool
hardy to send Miss franklin at this
tire"
It was Mrs. Hendricks custom to read
off these messages to Fenning while
she was at the instrument and he
wrote them down with q pencil in
order to be sure Of their meaning,
burning them Immediately afterward.
They never suspected or ever knew
that they were read by somebody else.
But they were, and it is that curious
fact which enables us to follow the
details Of his operations.
In the interval between the collision
with Gen. Luscomb and the departure
from Laran of Mrs. Hendricks and
Fenning, Calicot had had ample OPP
portunity to cultivate the acquaintance
of Miss Laport, whom he knew only as
Miss Franklin, and as the two young
women in the place were thrown much
together, he saw a good deal of Miss
Endicott The doctor, who had found
him we1l-read man, had become quite
attached to him and had told him a
great deal about Miss Endicott's Pc
culiar temperament and condition.
The young woman herself enjoyed
Calicot's society, and he and Miss La
port spent most of their evenings visit
ing her. On one of these occasions
she had lapsed into her trance condi-
ton and the doctor was not present.
Something that was learned from her
lips made Miss Laport and Calicot con-
suit long and carefully. The very next
night when they were alone with her,
she again passed into an abnormal
state, and Calicot, with his compan
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 to
be Mrs. Hendricks, and Calicot, with
curious interest, listened to the girl.
Then it was that she described the
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 where
this place was. Miss Endicott could
only describe what she saw. She had
no explanations to make, but it sud
denly dawned upon him that he had in
this young woman 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 of con.
lectures and alarms. It kept him
awake all night in an effort to make a
correct deduction from the informa-
ton furnished. The next day he
cautiously endeavored to test the truth
of Miss Endicott's vision. He met
Hendricks in the rotunda, and after q
polite salutation said: ''It is impossible
for me to wander about in this place
and not hear the men occasionally dis
cussing your affairs. have just heard
something that leads me to believe
that war vessel is watching the
bayou. Is that true?"
EYES," 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: Eyes, 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 off
with her body bent forward as if
straining to perceive an indistinct
object and speaking slowly like child
coming a lesson.
What was CaIicot's establishment 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 a parsonage than