Morris tribune., 1895-02-20
ICoPYRIGHT, 1894. ]

mo, cannot hear. Some one is com.
ing into the room"
''Who is it?"
81 feel it is man but cannot see
him.
.Can you not hear what he says?'
81 cannot hear what he says-I can
only hear what the woman says"
what does she say?"
The girls eyes started from her.
sob, there are the soldiers coming.
The air is cold. They have not taken
down the iron railing. gly God-that
is the train. l hear it-fAey will all be
killed" Then with wild shrek, she
throw up her arms and with q shudder
put her hands upon her ears and be-
came 90 all appearances lifeless. But
q little foam oozed from the corner Of
her mouth.
Hendricks was puzzled and annoyed.
There was an uacanny air to the
girls utterances that affected him in q
manner peculiar to himself. He may
be said to have resented the intima
avoided and disliked mysteries. He
did not like to acknowledge to himself
that something was going on above
ground that was suspicious and that
Mrs. Hendricks had him at disad
vantage. He turned the matter over
In his mind and viewed it from every
conceivable point. There seemed only
one way out of the growing uncer-
tainty and it was to take body of
+ho 1yo
the officers prisoners.
Just as he had aoout settled to this
conclusion Mrs. Hendricks summoned
him to the telephone.
Il want to warn you," She said, ''if
my 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. can
not tell if they suspect that these
wires that apparently go 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 omincusly kept silence
about Miss Endicott's disappearance.
Eut / guessed the truth when they
found the horses hoof marks and
brought in the flask which smellcd Of
the captains Medford rum. If you
prccipitate matters now, you may
wreck your ST. Mary's scheme. If Cal
icot knows something about your past
how much I 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 get
away. If you entrap him, there will be
an armed force quartered on us. The
best plan is to keep him here in lux
urious ease by every blandishmentI 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
municatio1 into moments inadver-
tence. lie could not tell il 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. lie gave
her no intimation of his fast maturing
plan. He merely asked questions. The
result YVES that he obtained from her
further Acknowledgements to the fol-
lowing effect:
''Calicot is no ordinary man. I fear
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
self and is staying here to corroborate
it before putting the machinery of law
in operation, or making his plan pub
lie He has shown an unmistakable |
for me. He processes to
have never met a woman whose intel
iectual gifts SO impressed him. But |
cannot tell how far this is his suscepti-
bil;ty or his game. Yesterday he said
my gifts would be of inestimable value
TO the social system if arrayed on the
side of the normal forces of society. I
tried all my art to get him to say how
far he thought they were arrayed
against the conventional order, but |
could not get him to divulge anything.
At smother time he. said: You are in
constant communication with Mr.. Hen
driclxAs But he changed the. subject