Morris tribune., 1895-02-20

ne Knew IL. his Will snow you Cnas
| If he stays here it is only question OF
time when he discovers our means of
intercourse and how necessary it Is
that | should sparingly use it. You
know me too well to think for mo-
ment that am superstitious or vision
ary, but this cool, plausible, mysterious
man somehow stands in my instructive
feelings for the slow, inevitable, dis
passionate, solidarity of man that we
have raised our hands against. ! have
exhausted all my woman's ingenuity
in trying to discover the weak spot in
his nature. He has, so far, baflled me-
cannot tell If he has a weak spot or
is only the clevercst man ever met in
hiding it. 1t would be a supreme tri-
rmph to outwit such representative
agent intellectually. It cannot be done
in your way. You must handle events.
Leave me to deal with motives. In
any case, trust me-"
The result of this was just what we
might expect in q man of Hendricks
unplastic will and aggressive nature.
He was not convinced. He did not
something august and invincible in
the social order. He saw nothing in
the statements and arguments that
might not be put forward as part of a
subtitle scheme to gain time and to
keep him helplessly out of the way till
her own security was attained. He
did not however confer with his asso-
ciates, but went to the Office and
plunged into deep consultation with
the general and Fenning upon the
topography of the country around st.
Mary's. They had county and town
ship maps with every road and house
marked upon them and they were en-
crossed in the details of military
campaign. But that morning the
doctor had said that there were six of
the men who had demanded to be let
out for few hours. They had
pledged themselves to keep away from
the roads and merely go into the bush
to hunt squirrels and would be back at
night. The doctor advised their re-
lease for time and as taeu Eece c1en
in whom the general had every con-
fdence, the permission was given with
a warning.
These six men went immediately
north, hung about the grounds of the
Laran house, encountered the two
deputies who were in the woods and
killed them. They then returned at
night feeling assured that they had re-
moved the obstacles to their liberty.
Hendricks heard of it first from Mrs.
Hendricks.
1.-THE two deputies" she said, shave
been killed at the edge of the blue
grass opening on the Smoky Hill
stretch. They were killed by your men
yesterday afternoon. Calicot sent their
bodies on to Clinton in a wagon, and
Lieut.. Stocking has gone with them.
They had not been gone an hour when
four mounted men arrived to take their
place. saw them from my chamber
window. It had peculiar effect upon
me. They seemed to be the advance
guard of the race. Calicot is as suavc
and uneoncerned as ever. We ate
breakfast together. l expressed the
greatest amount of concern and
womanly horror at the deed. He
merely remarked that it was an Incl
dent calculable and of small weight in
estimating ultimate results. "A mere
Then he changed the con-
to a trifing subject. We shall
now have six men instead of four
Something tells me that if you succeed
in getting rid of these men, twelve more
will take their place. It's like fighting
an incalculable machine
Hendricks plans were decided upon
in five minutes after this colnmunica-
ton. He called in the general and ex-
planned the situation to h3nI ''We
must take this bull by the horns. Pick
twenty-five of the best roen; stock them
with the best horses re have got. They
are to be timed to arrive at the Laran
house at nine-thirty tomorrow morn |
ing. Have twenty-five more men at |
this shaft There is no telling what |
Stocking will bring back with him. /
will go up and meet Calicot at that
hour. l don't want him killed We /
must make him cur prisoner. AS for
the rest, let them take the chances. I
shall probably hear from Mrs. Hen
tricks tonight, but shall not tell her
IF my plan. We cannot use fleming,
Tor he must go to st. Mary's. Have
you got the stuff off?'
"Yes," said the general. ''the last
boxes went last night