St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-03-09
[CopY YR1GHg, 1924 !

.Can you hear what they say?'
sNo, I cannot hear. Some one is COM
ing into the ROOM
'.Who is it?''
II feel it is man but cannot see
him, 2
ssCan you not hear what he says2''
81 cannot hear what he saysI can
only hear what the woman says. =
What does she say
The girls eyes started from her.
ssOh, there are the soldiers coming.
The air is cold. They have not taken
down the iron railing. My Hod-that
is the train. | hear it-=they will all be
killed. Then with q wild shrek, she
threw up her arms and with shudder
put her hands upon her ears and be-
came to oil appearances lifeless. But
little foam oozed from the corner of
her mouth.
Hendricks was puzzled and annoyed.
There was an uncanny air to the
girls utterances that affected him in a
manner peculiar to himself He may
be said to have resented the intiina-
tion OF prescience. He, as a rule,
avoided and disliked mysteries. He
did not like to acknowledge to himself
thai something was going on above
ground that was suspicious and that
Mrs. Hendricks had him at o disad-
vantage He turned the matter over
In his mind and viewed 1t from every
conceivable point There seemed only
one way out of the growing uncer-
tainty and it was to take a body OF
men, surround the house and make
the officers prisoners.
just as he had about settledeto this
conclusion Mrs. Hendricks summoned
him to the telephone.
II want to warn you, she said, II
| any voice but mine comes through this
instrument not to answer it. They
are all away on the grounds at this
moment and / can talk to you I cam
not tell if they suspect that these
wires that apparently 60 out on the
| poles, lead IN another direction, but
| they are liable to use them at some
| moment. They have already made re.
marks about the chimney and the
mails and have ominously kept silence
about Miss Endicott's disappearance.
But guessed the truth when they
found the horses, hoof marks and
brought in the flask which smelled OF
the captains Medford rum. # you
preeipitate matters now, you may
wreck your ST. Mary's scheme. # Cal
| icot knows something about your past
how much cannot learn. He may
know something OF your future plans.
believe he is the only man who has
put together the threads OF your career.
| In a personal encounter he may gel
away. IL you entrap him. there will be
1 an armed force quartered on us. The
best plan is to keep him here in lux.
urious ease by every Establishment ! can
offer until the St. Mary's affair is over.
He will prefer this place TO the Bayou
| house, If indeed he suspects that place.
| He is a shrewd man but susceptible
one. Leave him in my hands.
Hendricks was not led by this com.
munication into a moments inadver.
tence. He could not tell II it were an
honest conviction or part Of some
scheme of the woman's. He did not
! dare tell her his own conclusions and
thus put her on her guard. He gave
her no intimation Of his fast maturing
plan. He merely asked questions. The
result was that he obtained from hel
further Acknowledgements to the fol
lowing effect:
sGalicot is no ordinary man. feal
him because cannot read him. have
| a growing belief that he has industri
ously put together your whole career
made his own theory kept it TO him
i self and is staying here TO eorroborats
j it before putting the machinery Of Law
i In operation, or making his plan pub
/ Lis. He has shown an unmistakable
admiration for me. He Processes te
have never met d woman whose intel
lectual gifts so impressed him. But
cannot tell how far this is his suscepti
j bility or his game Yesterday he saie
1 i my gifts would be Of inestima Bile vaIus
to the social system ii arrayed on shs
/ side Of the normal forces of society.
tried all my art to get him to say how
far he thought they were arrayee
against the conventional order. but
could not get him to tliiytiIge anything
ASanother time he said: You are ii
/ sonstant commune alton with Mr.. Hen
ssxieks. But he changed the subiec'