Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-10-13

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power. lie pointed out to her how |
great an advantage their discovery |
gave them. She listened to him help |
lessly; but they became confidential
confederates. lie cautioned her to say
nothing to Stocking at present and got |
her to use her woman's influence with
the girl to carry on the experiments,
When he was alone the discovery
filled him with all manner of con-
lectures and alarms. It kept him
awake all night in an effort to make
correct deduction from the informa-
tion furnished. The next day he
cautiously endeavored to test the truth
of Miss Endicott's vision. He met
Hendricks in the rotunda, and after a
polite salutation said: "It is impossible
for me to wander about in this place
and not hear the men occasionally dis
cussing your affairs have just heard
something that leads me to believe
that war vessel is watching the
bayou Is that true?"
"Yes," replied Hendricks. "She ar
rived yesterday morning. expected
her before"
He then walked away as II disin-
clined to talk further upon the sub
ject
So this piece of information was abb
solutely correct. Calicot saw that the
affairs Of Hendricks and his men were
now too urgent to leave them much
time to think of him and the women,
and he resolved to improve the oppor-
tunity with Miss Endicott. Miss La
port made the task an easy one, for she
brought Miss Endicott into her apart
ment, gave her an invalid chair and
admitted Calicot. He observed that the
girl did not suffer In her frances when
the doctor was not present. She even
acknowledged that the doctor fright
ened and panied her, but volunteered
to take the packet of hair and tried to
do what Calicot desired. She closed
her eyes a moment, gave way to little
tremor and then said: Eyes, there
they are. He is reading the papers to
| her" Calicot very soon discovered
that she could not repeat what she
heard, if, indeed, she heard anything
at all. Whatever her special gifts
were they appeared to be confined to
vision. She could read the title and
the type of the paper in Jennings
hands and she saw his lips move. He
was undoubtedly reading to Mrs.
Hendricks, and she was summarizing
the intelligence in dispatches to
Hendricks. 1t was not difficult to
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front of Fenning, and she read it off
with her body bent forward as if
straining to perceive an indistinct
object and speaking slowly hike child
coming a lesson.
What was Calicot's astonishment to
hear her, in this manner, convey the
import of the matter before her strange
vision.
He learned that the success of the
authorities in tracking the source of
the widespread Junta conspiracy to
western Tennessee, had led to some
curious developments. The New York
police had succeeded in linking to-
gether several mysterious events which
pointed to the fact that the master
spirit of this new danger to social
order was no less a parsonage than
the audacious pirate who had robbed
the Atlantic steamship two years ago.
The United States government had
taken means to stamp out this social
istic rebellion and the gunboat
Arapahoe had been ordered to
Memphis; the Sixth United States in
fantry, with battery A and troops A
and f of the Twelfth cavalry, had
been ordered to report at Paducah
from Leavenworth; orders had also
been forwarded for two companies OF
the Fifth United States regiment at
Fort Benton, Tex, to proceed to
Memphis. Gen. Harvard Carroll was
placed in command of the forces with
his headquarters at Paducah.
Here the girl stopped, and Calicot
with allowable impatience asked her
to go on: "He has laid the paper
down" She said; 81 cannot see it and
he has got up, He is looking for some
thing. 1t is a writing-pad. lie sit:
! down beside the woman-he is writing.
Eyes, yes. 1t is a telegraphic mess
age. Can you read it? 1t comes from
Hendricks"