Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-11-03

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America as in Russia" he said. but
have organized the nucleus of a
standing army the touch of which will
convert your struggling materials into
soldiers. We are now prepared to
strike the first blow. We have all
worked patiently to this point In
three days we must be prepared to take
the field.
Everything depends upon instant
and accurate cooperation. II we are
a unit in our work we are invinci-
bic, for it will take month for the
opposing elements to consolidate
against us and then they will be too
late. Now let us see what our pro-
gramme is. On the morning after to-
morrow, Chicago will be in flames and
the executive and his cabinet at Wash
ington will be destroyed. Dynamite and
the torch are the signals for the grand
movement of our scattered forces to the
two centers, and at the same time |
appear in the field with a trained army
and invite the people to save them
selves by coming to the peoples ban
ner. There is no doubt in your minds
of the accomplishment of this. You
hold tho signal, Garvoux for the
work in Washington. | believe you
have made failure impossible if you
get back there"
'NIy part of the work is certain"
said Garvoux, 81 have four agents in
the white house"
"And l." said n white-haired man,
with vehemence, twill have one hum
dred thousand men in Chicago, needing
only leader Every available force
of the government will be in Ten
nessee."
"And will be in Chicago on the
night of that day virtually dictator, +"
said Hendricks, "if youhave paralyzed
the executivearma at Washington, Sem
tlemen, if you leave here. tonight pre-
pared to carry out our work we are
masters of the situation in four days"
Calicot leaned a moment against the
wall of the corridor He appeared to
be faint. Then, as if making desper-
ate effort, he thrust the pad into his
pocket, and, turning, felt his way
along the passage and came out into
the arena. He cast a hurried look
around. The railway platform was
two hundred feet away and a car was
ready to start with a number of men.
He ran across the open space, hailed
the guard, ran up to the train and
climbed aboard "Imight as well travel
as do anything else to kill time" he said
to the guard. The man looked at him.
care you scl?" he asked. EYES," re-
piled Calicot "The ride will do me
good. Let me off at the rotunda. I
want to get drink"
Once there he slipped of in the shad-
ows, and the car went off. In five min
utes it backed up and Calicot got on
again. "Aro you going straight back?'
he asked. eyes, replied the man, last
trip but one. wait for the COVER
nors. Some of them are going to the
bayou tonight"
1t could not have been more than ten
minutes when Calicot was back at his
/ quarters, and had resumed his place in
the corridor, and was listening.
The consultation was still going on.
Hendricks was speaking.
"You have seem" he said, chow
every event has justified my plans. Let
us have no mistake now and we are
masters of the situation. This is the
stage of anarchy. We go through il
to victory. Ihave, l think, calculated
for every contingency"
At that moment Calicot pushed the
door open and stood white but calm
before the assembled group.
"You have overlooked one factor,
he said, deliberately.
The astonished circle started into at
titudes of alarm. Hendricks and Fen.
ming alone preserved their GOODNESS.
MY prisoner" said the former
you were listening"
"Yes, replied Calicot, 'it is my duty
to tell you that in your plans you for
got one important element"
They looked at him with a suspicion
of danger in their faces. lie appeared
in his almost ghastly calmness to be
some kind of incalculable force.
'What do you mean?" asked Hen
bricks.
Calicot put his hand upon his breast
and bowed slightly. "YGu forgot me,
he said, "and your work comes t.
naught. 1t was just like you to un
derestimate the qualities that woulC
destroy you. I have never heard thai
in your diabolism there was any pro
vision for self-sacrifce. Fortunately
in my scheme there was. In three
minutes we shall all die together"
In the confusion that followed Hen
bricks shouted: "Be calm; the man ha.
been crazed by his confinement"
No" said Calicot, Il am neither
crazy nor desperate. have lit tn,
slow match to your magazine. III,
explosion will kill every human being
in the Laran. You win be founC
here with your secrets divulged.
have saved the country. Providence
which is on the side Of history, sen
me TO you, and you accepted the in
strument of your own distinctions
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CHAPTER XXIv, A. .a
Lieut. Stocking, the moment he wa
in the Wash bayou and feH the elatioi
of freedom, met with a new blow.
81 cannot go TO Memphis with m,
father" she said. There are reason
. that ] cannot tell you now. We mus
. get a boat, cross the Mississippi an,
{ disappear.
! 10 was in vain that Stockinr nlenacl