Morris tribune., 1895-01-30

but there is simmer in the air above
the big chimney which tells Of great
volume of heat pouring into the blue
sky. There are servants about the
kitchen and there are two Royal Dane
mastiffs with their heads on their
paws asleep on the steps of the main
entrance.
There is not the slightest indication
IN this quiet hostclry hidden among the
trees and rocks of the great slope OF,
which it stands of the activity under
meath it's foundations.
The moment we arrive in the lower
domain, we find the place lighted as II
with the light of day; the hum of ma
chinery and the murmur of esreach
us. The whole area is encircled with
wooden structures, offices, warerooms
and habitations, some of them Hastily,
though 1imsily, built. In the center
of the area is pavilion and overhead
is q big electric sunlight. On one of
the walls is the terminus of Laport's
railway, with it's suggestion of little
station and iron steps reaching down
to the stone flooring and heavy crane
for landing tools. The coal measure
passage has been dug out evidently by
using the coal. But it is when we
come to the rotunda that we shall be
astonished. This magnificent natural
temple is brilliantly lit and a regiment
of men is being drilled on it's cleared
and almost smooth stone flooring. The
DEVILS Outlet is fenced in by an iron
rail-for one morning Miss Endicott
was caught walking on it's brink and
looking over with horror pictured on
her face. She was rescued and Hen
bricks ordered the place rallied in.
From the implanted railway station
which here is twenty-eight feet above
the solid level, Hendricks and three
men are watching the evolutions OF
the regiment which are in some re-
spects wholly unlike anything ever
before seen in military tactics.
The vast spaces beyond the rotunda
and quite up to the lake itself are
packed high with stores. 1t looks like
a series of endless warerooms or mon
strous depots and smells heavily like
one of those streets where all the COM
modities of man obtrude themselves
upon the sidewalks and impede travel.
If we penetrate to the hog back area
we shall find that in it's passages are
stables and that there are not only
horses but milch cows there and that
the great chasm in the south wall has
been converted into magazine and
has heavy wooden doors across it's en-
trance. The mouth of this chasm, it
will be noticed, owing to turn in the
wall, faces directly north. The benches
of the Laport railway are only two
feet above the tops of the wooden
doors.
Vague rumors were in the air about
the Tennessee sanitariun- The secret
service of the government tFas in pos
session of the facts which set them
searching for the man known as the
captain and they had traced him to the
Mississippi. Vast quantities of gold
had been paid out for goods sent to
Laran. One fact elected another. But
inquiries failed to identify Hendricks
with the description given of Kent as
he appeared on the San Pedro and the
Memphis bank said that he had gold
on deposit there prior to the robbery
of the Corinthian. The moment this
sort of inquiry got into the papers,
facts were elected that could lead to
but one conclusion in the end and
events began to point significantly
toward Laran.
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