VOL XXXI THE PHOENIX. Do~you know why the PHOENIX bicycle is the most popular wheel in Pittsburg? Do you know why it won the Butler-Pittsbugh race, and the Wheeling-Pittsburg? Simply because bearing, chain, tire, frame —all the parts —are made of the best material. Because we build the lightest,easiest running wh e 1 t i it is sife and reliable for the roads. We also make a specialty of an easy running and light lady's wheel, which is equally popular. A guarantee is a good thing in its way. The PHOENIX guarantee cov ers every point, but the best point of all is the fact that repairs or claims tor de fective parts constitute an exceedingly small per centage of our cost of manu facture. For catalogue and other information address, THE STOVER BICYCLE M'f'g. Co. FREEPORT, ILL. or J. E. FORSYTHE, Agent. BDTLEK, PA. WE LEAD IN BARGAINS ALL THE TIME. ThU if tbe time of jear that real GENVINE BAKGA INS are appreci ated. You don't want a bargaio io a wrap, a fine dre** or stylish hat after tbe *e*a- ois over and it is of no great nee or benefit t<> you. But just now when the season has Oily opened up nicely we offer yoa special prices in all tb« different departments (41 .« ■q 1 Y rncu bay 4 ox* tpria< j icltei, 'h very litem style at |flj ft 03* tairl >ff 01 *' pise. Capes, 10 per cent, off on ■II capefl. MILLINERY! MILLINERY! »Ve bare au auractire at »ck i J thin d-p-irtcn.* it, both iu trimmed and no tritamed b*ts. A alc< ■•tyiisb trin a<>l b*t t\»r VBe. A nicn t»t» linh un irimtne-i b»t t>>r 25BitauMful i f.-ruber-t, ribb >us, j<*ti», laces and all tb« aitrelci.H in milliuiry at aptcitl I ># pricjs. Dro.a pri ei tkit vrill iiwMrt v >u. A'l thi 1 ■ n 50; a pur up 1J $8 00 There is no h >u<« ii tb » cur ib« c* Isb > v r> 1 sim tr il i • in laiw curtains at tb'» prices vr 1 off >r tinrn v> v >a. B/ u»li 1 1 1 1 > 1 ot tbe many purcbisiQ* opp >rtu!iui n are able t > sell ti ie curtains at prices heretofore uubea'd >f". We civi af>f Itoll I 1' vII '•»' keep deceitful goods. Our at ». - a shall c >-itain a >l9 *)n*. g> < I * 'l' 1 •!* i » »d «th it ia JUST WHAT IT APPEARS TO BE We a«k tb® favor of a riait to our different deptrtm nits. We do not solicit you to parebftae; bat we do ask a comparison or our values and prices with thaw of other booses. Respectfully, Jennie E. Zimmerman, Successor to Hitter & Ralston. Harness Given Away! There are about 24,000 adults in Butler county, and we want all to know that we are the largest dealers in the State in everything pertaining to a Driving or Team Outfit, and sell cheapest. As an indjeement to have you investigate, we have placed on our show horse a set of Good Harness of our own make, and WILL GIVE THEM TO THE PERSON WHO GUESSES THE HORSE'S WEIGHT OR NEAREST TO IT. ; Every adult person allowed to guess once. You arc not ; ; asked to buy anythi tg. It is free as the air you breathe. : ; All you have to do is to come in, register your name in a : : book we have prepared for that purpose and make your ; : guess in plain figures. 1 Guessing begins Monday June 4, and closes July 20, 1894. .it i > o'clock, noon, at which time the horse will be weighed and the •t i:\uvi3 .jiven to the person guessing his exact weight or nearest to it. Should more than one guess the exact weight or be tied the har ness will be given to the one whose name is first on the register. The horse has never been weighed. We do not know his weight, and will not allow him to be weighed until after the guessing closes. \ll have an equal chance. No one in our employ allowed a guess. R imember, we do not ask you to buy anything to entitle you to a We just want you to see where we keep Buggies, Wagons, Carts, Harness and all parts of Harness, Wheels, Tops, Cushions and Lazybacks, Neck Yokes, Buggy Poles, Singletrees, Harness Oil, Axle Oil, Lap Dusters, Fly Nets, Horse Collars, Brushes, Curry Combs, and verything belonging to a Driving or Team Outfit. S. B. Martincourt & C 0.., 128 East Jefferson Street, BUTLER, ~ PA. S. B, MARTINCOURT, J. M. LIEGHNER. P. S.—No one under 16 years allowed to guess. We wil give them a chance soon as this one closes. THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Ivy Poisoning Eight Years of Suffering Perfect Cure by Hood's Sarsaparilla i "C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: " Dear Sirs: —We havo tried Hood's Sars»pa rllla and find It to lie all you claim for it. My wife was i>oisoued by i\ y when a > oung woman, and for eight years was troubled every season Hood's'P-Cures with the breaking out and terrible itching and burning. I thought hers was as bad a ease as ! anyone ever had. She was In this distressing condition every year until she began to take ; Hood's Sarsaparilla. which lias effected a per fect cure, without leaving any scars, and she has had No Sign of the Poison Since. She is well ami hearty. I have taken Hood'* Sarsaparilla after the grip with gi>od results, and have also given It to our four children. We are all pictures of perfect health and owe it to Sood's Sarsaparilla." J. C. Fin KMAV, Van illa. Illinois. < N. B. If you decide u> take Hood's .sarsapa rilla do not be Induced to buy any other instead. Hood's Pills aro hand made, ai:d perfect In proportion and appearance. 25c. per box. A Scieul.st claims Hie Root o t Diseases to lis in ihe Clo ;es we Wear. The l>ost Spring remedy for tlie\blues, etc., is to discard your uncom fort able old duds which irri tate the bodv:-leave your measure at ALAND'S for a new suit \v hicli ill fit well, improve the appearance bv re lieving von instanl lv of thai tired I'eel i o\ and making vou cheerful and aclive. The cost of this sure cure is very, moderate TRY IT. •c. \. D. A business that keeps grow ing through a season oi de pression, such as ihe country has experienced, is an evi dence that people realise they save money by trad : ng wi.h us. We know, and always have known, the days of large profits are past. Without question we are giving more for the money than last year. Our stock is larger to select from than last year. CALL AND SEE US. Colbert <5: Dale. Perscriptions m A Specialty. At Redick's Drug Store. fr- We do cot handle anything but pure drugs, next time jou are in need of medicine please give us a call We are headquarters for pure SODA WATER as wo use only pure fruit juices, we also baodle Paris Green, hellebore, insect powder, London purple and other inffct''cideß. Respectfully, J. C; REDICK, Main &t.,next toHotcl Lowry BUTLER, PA. JOHN KEMPER, Manufacturer of Harness, Collars, and Strap Work, and Fly Nets, and Dealer in Whips, Dusters, Trunks and Valises. My Goods are ali new and strict first-c work guaran teed Repairing a Specialty. :o: :o: Opposite Campbell & Templeton's Furniture Store. 342 S. Main St., Butler, Pa. i [COPYBIOHT, 1894.) v A "is THAir CASE KVETiY LIVING SOUL IX THE I.ARAN WOULD BE KJUJiO." CHAPTER XVIIL In.Tune of that year there appeared in several of the Indiana papers the fol lowing advertisement: ••MII.ITAIIY EXCURSION. "Uniformed military companies in Indiana, wishing to Join the excursion battalion to mak< a slimmer visit to New York in July, will pleas# report to Lieut Bidwell at Indianapolis Un usunl inducements are offered toorganized com panies to join this pleasure party. Tho battal ion will be the guest of New York for twe days." This vague announcement of a pro jected excursion did not fail to attract some attention in Xew York. Several of the papers referred to it in para graphs, which briefly stated that the militia of Indiana intended to visit the cit3 - during the summer. ( 0n the Cth of July the superinten dent of police in New York received a formal letter from Indianapolis saying that if the arrangements could he com pleted a regiment of Indiana militia would visit the city on or about the 12th, and asked for the usual right tc parade and a police guard to clear the Streets. At the time of the receipt of the letter every man of the regiment was in New York. The men of the force were so widely and carefully dis tributed that a military organization was invisible. Each man had in his possession a light uniform consisting oj a blue flannel shirt, duck trousers and belt, a thin glazed hat. a knapsack and Spencer rifle with twelve rounds of ball cartridges. This uniform could be put on in a few moments. At half-past five on t': ■ morning oi the 12th the men thus equipped eame to Tompkin'a square from all points of the city. The inhabitants in the neighborhood looked on with the lazy interest that a military parade awakens in the metropolis, but no one knew or cared to inquire whether the regiment had arrived en masse by an early train or had come in the night before. The troops had to wait till nine o'clock for the platoon of mounted police that was to precede them. Gen. Waterson, the colonel commanding', communicated with the sergeant a 1 the squad through his adjutant. They had been invited, he said, to visit Wall street and the sub-treasury. They were then to march to (Jen. Grant's tomb for battalion evolutions. It does not appear that any suspi cions up to this time were awakened in the police, who regarded the con spicuous cartridge belts of the men as a piece of western military nonsense, and it was not within their line of duty to question the visit of the officers to the sub-treasury. If the sub-treasury did not want their western visitors they would shut the doors in their faces. It was twenty minutes past nine when the regiment, preceded by the police, and with the colonel and his staff, dismounted, left the park and it was ten o'clock when it wheeled into Broadway at Eighth street, making a solid and formidable appearance in its homely uniforms and soldierly bear ing. Nothing occurred along the route of consequence to interfere with its prog ress. The inhabitants looked upon it as part of the constantly recurring show of that highway; careless re marks were here ar.d there made about the cheap get-up, but the crowds eyed it carelessly and went on their way. It was just fifteen minutes of eleven by the Trinity clock when the arined force turned into AVall street and five minutes later it had come to a halt in front of the sub-treasury building. The regiment filled all the space on the Wall street side and ex tended around into Nassau and Broad streets. The lines were quietly and quickly but effectually formed and the sub-treasury was, for the time being, cut off from interference. We have in Police Sergeant McGuire'a account and in Gen. Waterson's report sufficient data from which to form some idea of the scene. The sergeant says: "I don't think ten minutes had passed when I found the whole of the broad steps leading up to the building covered with soldiers, leaving only a space of ten feet in the center, and the colonel and his staff followed by an other hundred men were marching up that alleyway into the building. One of the patrolmen, who was as much astonished as I was, asked me what the regiment was going to do in the build ing, and I made some careless answer There was a black" crowd of people down in Broad street looking on and most of the office windows in the neighborhood were crowded with peo ple, but there was no excitement. The men on the steps looked as If thoy were drawn up for a show, but I calcu lated that it would take the whole po lice force of tho city to dislodge them. The first thing that gave me a twinge was that, after the troops went In, none of the people who were doing business Inside came out, and the sol diers wouldn't let anybody go up. In spector Fairchlld, who didn't like the looks of things, turned his badge out, took two men and insisted on going in to see what was being done. We waited over half an hour and they die] not come back, but the company of troop's that had gone in had come out, fallen into line, and another hundred men had been marched in. AVord was then sent to the central office. That was about twelve o'clock. It was three quarters of an hour before the super intendent and another inspector ar rived. They went at once into the building, where they were placed un der guard. We were then ordered back, outside of the lines, by one of the captains." From Gen. Waterson's account we lUTTLER. PA., FRIDAY. JUNE '2*2, learned that there wore about fifty people in the building and they were taken completely by surprise, but sc admirably pre-arranged was the plan that they had no opportunity to give alarm and were all shut up in one room and a guard plaeed over them, after which the invaders had the building to themselves. Everything was done with the utmost expedition and the nicest pervision, and at two o'clock the regi ment was in possession of two million dollars in coin. It was ten minutes past two when the column was set :n motion, and at that time there was the most confused notion in official circles as to what was going on. The idea that an armed regiment had taken pos session of the United States deposits In the heart of the city in the middle of the day appeared to he too incredible at first to be alarming. It was there fore two-thirty o'clock before the first attempt was made at police head quarters to take summary action and call upon the reserves. The rumors spread like wildfire through Wall street and Printing House square, and when the regiment moved, Wall street, Nas sau street and Broadway were choked with people. But Gen. Waterson handled his men with admirable skill and the solid column was not likely to suffer any serious interruption from m- r ly angry or suspicious crowds. Isy the time the newspaper bulletins got the first wave of intelligence, the regi n -nt was at the foot of Courtland street. It had marched through that usually choked thoroughfare with a tactical adaptation to circumstances that was amazing. It marched in force through the two ferry gates; took pos session of two boats; put everybody off but the pilots, and the vessels started just as the first division of the reserves marched into West street, three blocks away. At this point the state line, which was no embarassinent to the soldiers, interposed an invisible barrier to the authorities. New York stared across the river in bewildered astonishment and then re sorted to the telegraph and the utterly futile police boat. Hendricks' close calculation of time was a«°ain shown here. His agents ar rived in Jersey City with fifteen min utes margin, and that was enough to enable them to take possession of a train of ten cars on the Pennsylvania road and get in motion before the or der had arrived to hold all trains. On the ferryboat Gen. Waterson and his officers encountered a number of passengers with large portmanteaus. They were there by prearrangement and brought the change of garments with them. When the boat arrived nt the New Jersey dock the officers were in different apparel and were protest ing most bitterly against the impu dence and insolence of the soldiers. The general and two of his aides are known to have got back to New York on a returning boat. At leastone hun dred men had gone out of their uni forms while on the water. This was easily enough accomplished,seeing that they had but to take off shirt, trousers and hat. These articles of clothing were weighted with their arms, tied to the empty and open knapsacks and flung into the Hudson. On the ar rival of the boat they followed tho troops with the crowd and were unob served. Half an hour later when they were looked for they had disappeared, most of them returning to New York by various routes Gen. Waterson, we know by his own pccount, put up at an obscure down town hotel where lie registered as John Fielding, of Newark, and that same night reached an up-towu ren dezvous where he freed himself from the gold and then gave himself with curious zest to watching the course of events and of public opinion in the city. CHAPTER XIX. The regiment left Jersey City at half past three with tight hundred and seventy-five men on board. It had not crossed the Jersey flats when the en gineer was locked up in a closet and the engine taken in charge by one of the general's own men. The first act was to cut the telegraph wires when ten miles out at a secluded spot, and here twenty-five more men were dropped. The train was then run with a view to land the men at the best point and to keep ahead of the special that it was believed would be on its heels. Gen. Waterson's report leaves us in no doubt as to how his plan dis posed of the forces. Fifty got off at or near Newark. Twenty-five were dropped at Waverly and twenty-five at Elizabeth. Fifty were disposed of at Rahway and one hundred before reach ing New Brunswick. Between Deans and Monmouth Junction another hun dred left and at Princeton Junction, at the suburbs of Trenton, four hundred more disappeared. Fifteen miles out of Bristol the remaining hundred dropped from the cars. The engine was then reversed and the train started spinning backwards to meet the special. Most of these men adopted the plan that had been tried at St. Mary's. They started at once in diverging lines and disappeared in the surrounding eountrv. The excitement in New York over the affair was widespread, and was fanned into a flame before evening by the news that came from Philadelphia that the United States mint had been similarly robbed by another regiment that had seized a train and gone to Lancaster. The next morning full details of the i Mi iipigiiii PTMWI was no doubt tuat tlicy v.vrj parts of one plan. Hut no one apjH-ar to have suspected the exact method of the repitnents or their plan of subse quent disintegration. The popular imagination planted au armed force iu the field somewhere and added un told resources of men out of its own terrors. Something of this feeling wa reflected by the press and the action of the secretary of the treastur, for all the endeavors were directed to the in terception and capture of an armed force which as the reader knows did cot exist. New York now recalled the St. Mary's alTair which it had formerly treated as a western practical joke, and the Louisville papers were rathei exultant at what they called an eastern dose of the joke. Hut it mu6t not be supposed that the central police-office at Sow York had been entirely led astray by these events. It had quietly arrested six men whom its sharp-eyed detectives had recognized as being in the ranks of the visiting regiment, and on one of them was found five hundred dollars in gold. The superintendent, who saw underneath the surface what he con ceived to be a vast and brainy con spiracy, summoned his best men: pjit himself in communication with the secret service bureau at Washington, and very .soon began to formulate some of the inevitable deductions. In this he was fortunately aided by one or two circumstances, lie obtained from the Washington bureau the photographs of the men who had boarded the Corin thian. which photographs had been forwarded from England. One of the persons in the group was discovered to be Fenning. The other circumstance was that the Washington bureau had sent two men west on his trail and they had disappeared in Tennessee. With these facts before him. it did not take the superintendent very long to focus his suspicions upon western Tennessee. CHAPTKR XX The one man who seemed to have the clearest comprehension of all this was Hendricks, who, from his retreat underground, watched by some in scrutable process every move that was made. Gen. Waterson reached I.aran on the 20th of July. lie left New York just six hours before the police began to look for him, and he found that four hundred and fifty of his men had preceded him to the Laran. Dur ing his absence the sanitarium had been burned to the ground. This took place on the Bth. On the !»th (Jon. Luscomb's party had been attacked in the rear. The general had been killed and his men routed. Those that es caped got in at Covingtou and re ported the sanitarium burnt and the gang gone eastward. Iu the public mind this appeared to explain the ap pearance of the regiment in New York on the 12th. About ten milt* east of the Laran snugly perched on the side of a wild glen is a solitary Swiss cottage. It is built of stone and looks down upon a rugged but beautiful country. It is just three miles from the town of Hoxie on a branch of the Tennessee railroad where there is a post office and telegraph station. The people in the town understand that an eastern literary woman who has an enormous mail has hired the place on account of its seclusion and salubrity. She lias a pony and two servants, one if whom is a man, and she coines to town frequently with her pony to Bail her letters, get her papers and meet an occasional visitor from the 2ast whom she takes back with her. This literary woman is Mrs. Hen dricks. In her pretty little boudoir on the secoud floor she has a tele graph instrument built into the wall, and she communicates constantly with Hendricks in the Laran by an under ground wire that has been laid with great care and expense through the wildest and most unfrequented part of the intervening country and which enters the cave through an artesian drill that is hidden by four feet of soil. In a fragment of a preserved letter of Hendricks he says: "This wire cost me more trouble and labor than any thing else. It had to be laid at inter vals after a careful survey in order to avoid observation, and it had to follow the unfrequented ways and escape the possible surface water courses, for if it had been bared and discovered my enemies would have had the iron clew that ran to the heart of my mystery." The man servant in this establish ment is none other than Penning. The room in which he and his companion toil at their mail is tastefully furnished and the windows on the inside are pro vided with steel blinds. The two Royal Dane mastiffs that have already been seen at the sanitarium lie at full length on the rug. They can be de pended upon to hear a footfall on the mountain side before it gets within a hundred feet'of the hous*. In this comfortable and secluded re treat Mrs. I lendrickf is at work during the latter part of .Tuly. The mails are kept guardedly down to a correspond ence of necessity and to the daily pa pers from the large cities. We can thus see how indifferent Hen dricks was to the prospects of a siege. He could safely and secretly direct the movements of a vast organization scat tered through the country while he and his immediate forces were safe from molestation or disturbance while their supplies lasted. On or about the 28th of July, Penning succeeded in getting Mrs. Hendricks to send for Miss La port's assistance. But that young woman refused to leave Laran volun tarily. Kenning suspected the in fluence of Stocking. Mrs. Hendrick* was sure of it. Preparations were then made at Fenning's suggestion to send her at night under a strong guard to meet him somewhere on the route, when they were interfered with by the news from Laran. This was on the 80th and Hendricks telegraphed; "Something of our secret is discovered by the government-. How much, I do not know. Watch the papers. A United States gunboat anchored in the river this a. m.. opposite the luvyou: a strong force has been ashore. The probability is that this is one feature of a general movement and other forces are concentrated. It is therefore fool hardy to send Miss Franklin at this time." It was Mrs. Hendricks custom to read ; off these messages to Penning while J she was at the instrument and he j wrote them down with a pencil in order to be sure of their meaning, I burning them immediately afterward, j They never suspected or ever j that they were read by somebody else But they were, and it is tbat eurlouJ fact which enables us to follow tlif details of his operations. In the interval between the collision with Oen. Luscomb and the departure from Larau of Mrs. Hendricks and Penning, Calicot had had ample op- ! portunity to cultivate the acquaintance j of Miss Laport, whom lie knew only as Miss Franklin, and-as the two young women in the place were thrown mi)ch together, he saw a good deal of Miss j Endicott. The doctor, who had found him a well-read man. had become quite attached to him and had told him a great deal about Miss Endicott's pe- ! culiar temperament and condition. The young woman herself enjoyed Calicot's society, and he and Miss La port spenj most of their evenings visit ing her. On one of these occasions she had lapsed into her trance condi tion and the doctor was not present. Something that was learned from her lios made Miss Lajjort and t'alieot con- J suit toug and ear. fully. The Tory :.t night when they were alone with her she again passed into an abnormal : tate. and t'alieot, with his eoinpan ion's concurrence, questioned her. Th<; doctor was busy elsewhere: then* wa-« no fear of interruption. Mist, l.uport got the packet of hair that she knew t< bo Mrs. Hendricks*, and Calieot. with curious interest, to the girl. Then it was that she des< rfbed the scene in the Swi-s cottage and rvad th« telegram which Fenning ha.l v.rittei down with a pencil from Mrs. Hen dricks' lips. Calieot was puzzled. lit had no means of finding out when this place was. Miss Endicott could only describe what she saw. She no explanations to make, but it slid denly dawned upon him that he had in this young woman a complete offset to Hendricks'secret advantages. Mis> I. a port acknowledged to him. in corrob oration of what he had heard, that she had refused to go away without her father, and now that she had learned of the preparations to send her to Fen ning, she was visibly alarmed, t'alieot encouraged her by every means in hit power. He pointed out to her how great an advantage their discovery gave them She listened to him help lessly: but they became confidential confederates. He 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 disoOven filled him with all manner of con jectures and alarms. It kept hiix awake all night in an effort to make ( correct deduction from the informa tion furnished. The next day h< cautiously endeavored to tost the trutl of Miss Endicott's vision. He me Hendricks in the rotunda, and after t polite salutation said: "It is impossibli for me to wander about in this placi and not hear the men occasionally dis cussing your affairs. I have just heart something that leads mc to believi that a wnr vessel is watching th« bayou. Is that true?" "Yes," replied Hendricks. "She ar rived yesterday morning. I expected her before." He then walked away as if disin clined to talk further upon the sub ject. So this piece of information was ab 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. lie observed that the girl did not suffer in her trances when the doctor was not present. She even acknowleged that the doctor fright ened and pained 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 a little tremor and then said: "Yes, there they are. He is reading the papers tc 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 t>e confined tc vision. She could read the title and the type of the paper in Fenning'e hands and she saw his lips move. He was undoubtedly reading to Mrs. Hendricks, und she was summarizing the intelligence in dispatches tc Hendricks. It was not difficult tc direct the girl's mind to the news in front of Penning, and she read it ofl with her body bent forward as lj straining to perceive au indistinct object and speaking slowly like a child conning a lesson. What was Calicot's astonishment tc 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 ol the widespread Junta conspiracy tc western Tennessee, had led to sonjc curious developments. The New York police had succeeded in linking to gether several mysterious events whict pointed to the fact that the mastei spirit of this new dangur to socia! order war, no less a personage thai the audacious pirate who had robbec the Atlantic steamship two years ago The United States government ha< taken means to stamp out thin 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 alsc been for varded for two companies ol the Fifth United States regiment at Fort Benton. Tex., to proceed to Memphis. Gen. Harvard Carroll wat placed in command of the forces with his headquarters at Paducah. Here the girl stopped, and Caljcol with allowable impatience asked liej to go on: "He has laid the papet down," she said; "I cannot see it ana he lias got up. He is looking for some thing. It is a writing-pad. lie sits down beside the woman —he is writing. "Yes, yes. It is a telegraphic mess age. Can you read it? It comes irotD Hendricks." She hesitated a moment —then she said: "Send cipher dispatch at once to G. G. at St. Louis, to M. M. at Chicago and C. C. at Davenport. Four thou sand gnus at Leavenworth left unpro tected by a withdrawal of troops) Kansas City on the first at nine o'clock a. m.; impress G. (5. with swiftnessi twelve hundred men here now; cati hold everything; getanswer from G. 0. at once; watch Memphis papers tcH movements of gunboat." Here the young woman made anothei pause. In his impatience, Calicot £ot up impulsively and strode about tbd little rporn. fie was shut up helplessly in a living tomb and events, in wnftj now seemed like another world, weri hurrying on to some kind of disast<;f. He calmed himself by a powerful men' tal effort. "Well," he said, "what aO you see now?" "They are close together at the In strument. They are sending A ais' patch."' Aft«r some delay, there was evidently an answer received from Ilendrickj, for the girl began again, slowly reading from the written pags appeared to be instructions. Verjf lltj tie or it was intelligible to Calicot, out blind as it was he tried to imprest H upon his memory for after reflection- He heard her saying: "Will take gun boat and seiae arms; council the £3th; all instructions COfi* form to that date." Day after da?', as the girl revealed in broken sentences the communications that were made from the cave io the cottage, the bulk of the Information began to arrange itself in his mind around certain well-defined points. The conspiracy, lie now saw,extended over the whole L'nited States! It had taken in men in official positions. Its agents were in the government employ, in the railway service and in the tel egraph offices. It must have vast forces all ready to mass and the brain of the movement was hidden away safely un derground. As the magnitude and method of the plan were slowly com prehended, lie asked himself: What is the government doing? Can it be pos sible that the world has not yet dis covered the two exits to this strong hold?—and then he tried to forecast the result when the exits were discov ered. Hendricks cannot be dislodged, he said, even by engineers, who would have to tunnel a -->ount:un. He can only K* m: '• 1 .: : • UrwJ toucath. and in any such attempt what unknown exit.-- mar he not have. He recalled the my