Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-10

0feO SnOuSano men N chicago, needing
only a leader. Every available force
OF the government will be in Ten
nessee."
'sAnd I will be in Chicago on the
night of that day virtually Dictator
said Hendricks, eff you have paralvzed
the executive arm at Washington. Gem
tlemen, if you leave here tonight pre-
pared to carry out our work we are
masters of the situation in four days"
Calicot leaned moment against the
wall of the corridor. He appeared to
be faint. Then. as if making a desper-
ate effort, he thrust the pad into his
pocket, and. turning, felt his way
along the passage and came out into
the arena. He cast a hurried look
around. The railway platform was
two hundred feet away, and car was
ready to start with number of men.
He ran across the open space, hailed
the guard, ran up to the train and
climbed aboard. 'Imight as well travel
as do anything else to kill time he said
to the guard. The man looked at him.
care you sick?" he asked. 'sYes,'' re-
piled Calicot. ''The ride will do me
good Let me off at the rotunda. I
want to get drink"
Once there he slipped off in the shad-
! ows, and the car went off. In five min
| utes it backed up and Ca1icot got on
| again. 'Are you going straight back?'
he asked. Eyes" replied the man, last
| trip but one. / wait for the COVER
nors. Some of them are going to the
bayou tonight"
| 1t could not have been more than ten
1 l. IL x~Al -
quarters, and had resumed his place in
the corridor, and was listening.
The consultation was still going OF.
| Hendricks was speaking.
| "You have SEEM" he said, show
every event has justified my plans. Let
us have no mistake now and we are
masters of the situation. This is the
stage of anarchy. We go through it
to victory. have, think, calculated
for every contingency"
| At that moment Calicot pushed the
door open and stood white but calm
before the assembled group.
you have overlooked one factor"
he said, deliberately.
| The astonished circle started into at
titudes of alarm. Hendricks and Fen
ming alone preserved their GOODNESS.
my prisoner" said the former.
''You were listening.'
eyes," replied Calicot. SIT is my duty
to tell you that in your plans you for
| got one important element
| They looked at him with suspicion
of danger in their faces. He appeared
in his almost CHASTITY calmness to be
some kind of incalculable force.
| "What do you mean?" asked Hen
| bricks.
Calicot put his hand upon his breast
and bowed slightly. "You forgot me-"
he said, land your work comes to
naught. 1t was just like you to I'M
derestimate the qualities that would
destroy you. 1 have never heard that
in your diabolism there was any pro-
vision for self-sacrifce. Fortunately
| in my scheme there was. In three
minutes we shall all die together"
In the confusion that followed Hen
bricks shouted: ''Be calm; the man has
been crazed by his confinement"
'sNo," said Calicot, 81 am neither
crazy nor desperate. I have lit the
slow match to your magazine. The
| explosion will kill every human being
| in the Laran. You will be found
here with your secrets divulged. 1
have saved the country. Providence,
| which is on the side of history, sent
me to you, and you accepted the in
strument of your own destruction"