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THE
NEW
CAIN
Juneau's Newest and Fin^'t
Hotel
Rix a with detached thfl.nOup
Room with private Lit -i- jo up
Juneau- Alaska
Whitehorse
Kluane Stage
Line—
The Royal Mail Stage
leaves YY'hitehorse the
fourth of every month
for Kluane and way
points and also on the
seventeenth of every
month for Champaigne
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OFFICE
Regina Hotel :: Whitehor»e, V T
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Dr. Edmonds'
Patient
A Tale of a Haunted
House.
By CLARISSA MACKIB
A severe thunderstorm was raging
when the telephono bell tinkled softly.
Dr. Edmonds' man, Joslah, roused
himself from slumber on tho olllce
sofa and reached apprehensively for
the receiver.
"I don't like techin' telephones no
ways when de lightning's kyootlng
around," muttered Josiali. Ttello,
dar!" he called timidly. "Ya-as, sah,
dis am de doctor's—ya-as, sah. lle'll
como right away."
Joslah hung up the receiver and went
up to the doctor's bedroom 011 the sec
ond door. The doctor came out—a tall,
lithe, red bearded mail, rubbing his
eyes sleepily.
"What is It, Joslah?" he yawned.
"Mr. Dixon got another bad spell V"
Joslah's eyes rolled affrlghtedly.
"So, sali; it was a call from de Ged
ney place."
"Gedney piece! You've made a mis
take. It's been unoccupied for years."
"Dat's what he said. Tell de doctor
he's needed at once at de Gedney place
on de Hollow road.' "
"Humph!" muttered the physician.
"Well, you better go out and harness
Daisy and get out my raincoat."
It was a dreary ride to the Gedney j
place.
Josiah, huddled in one corner or lue !
buggy, was shaking with fear of the i
approaching ordeal. I>r. Edmonds was
puzzling: over the strange summons. I
To his knowledge the Gedney place |
had been unoccupied l'or the past ton i
years. As a family the Gedueys had I
died out. all save one son, tho black |
sheep of his generation. William God- |
ney was serving a life sentence In prls- ,
on. convicted of killing n man in a j
quarrel. The plea was self defense,!
and Gedney had escaped with his life.
The village people had gossiped ever
since the last funeral at the place ten ■.
years ago. It was said that the spirit !
of the murdered man. Tom Collins. '
haunted the rooms of the tine old m in
slon on the IIollow road." Lights had
flickered there at midnight, and men 1
straggling home between midnight and
dawn had declared that u man's dim
form restlessly paced the pine grove
that was growing up around the nog- 1
lceted house. But little credence was :
given to such tales.
"Hero we am, doctor," quavered Jo- !
slalL "I'll jest git out and open do
gate."
The long unused gate creaked open,
and the doctor turned into It. trusting
more to Daisy's Instinct than to any- ,
thing he could see. Joslah did not re
turn to the buggy. He tramped be
side the doctor, muttering charms un
der his breath.
They were In tho protection of the
front porch now*. Dr. Kdtnonds
brought out his electric torch and
found the doorbell. lie pulled it vig- |
orously, and a resonant peal rang
through the house.
There was 110 answer.
Again and again the doctor rang, and
at last he impatiently turned the door
knob. To his amazement It responded
to his pressure.
The door was unlocked!
They entered complete darkness.
"Hello, there!" shouted the doctor,
standing nt the foot of the givat stair
case that wound up into darkness.
"Anybody here?"
In the silence that followed they dis
tinctly heard tho distant striking of the
town clock In the valley below.
It struck the hour of midnight, and
on the heels of the last stroke there
came a sound In the Gedney honse.
It was a cry. a moaning Cry. that I
sent a shudder through the dor-tor's
strong frame.
Josiah almost sank to the floor.
"I>e ghos'!" he gibbered.
I>r. l-;dtnoii<is recovered 11 is nerve,
poked Josiab in the ribs with tfic au
tomatic pistol lie always cm tried at
night and brought the darky to his
senses.
"Some one is upstairs," lie said stern
ly. "Some one who is hurt and needs
j me. Understand! Take my bag and
follow me. If yon try to run away, re
! member. I'm a dead shot!"
Josiah mutely fell into step behind
the doctor as they mounted the stairs.
He would have been more terrified
than ever if he had remotely guessed
■why the doctor had banded him the
medicine case. It was that both his
own hands might be free to grapple
•with any danger that menaced tbeiu in
the deserted house.
The cry had come down from the
tipper regions of the bouse. They
searched the second lloor and found it
untenanted save by spiders and scut
tling mice. Ilere, as in the lower
rooms, the furniture was covered with
dust.
Now the monnlnr* cry was repeated.
It came from the third story under thf
mansard roof.
They reached the narrow upper hall,
went down its carpeted length to tlie
southwest chamber. The door was
ajar. The doctor pushed it open and
raked it with the light of his torch.
The light revealed several startling
facts.
There was a narrow cot on the car
peted floor, a pine bureau littered with
bottles and dishes and crusts of bread,
and a battered tin coffeepot stood oil
n n oil store. There were heavy blan
kets hung before the three windows,
and besides one or two rocking chairs
there was a pile of books from the li
brary downstairs and a man's blnck
ened pipe on the deal table.
Like lightning the doctor's keen eyo
seaix-hed the room and then went back
to the space in frout of the cot. A
man's body lay there inert
"Hold this torch," commanded the
doctor, and, bending down, he lifted
the man's emaciated form to the cot
The ragged coat fell back, revealing a
glimpse of a broadly striped garment
underneath.
It did not need this betraying glimpse
of the convict stripes for the physician
to recognize in the man William Ged
ney!
The room revealed that It had long
been the habitation of some recluse.
Who was it? Hardly Gedney, for be
was still in prison.
The doctor made a brief examination
and found that the man had been stab
bed in the right shoulder. An ugly
wound, but not necessarily dniigerous.
Josiafr, relieved at this practical lay
ing of the Gedney ghost, waited upon
his master with unusual intelligence,
lit heated water on the oil stove,
found a lamp and lighted it and held
it, together with the torch, while the
doctor skillfully washed and dressed
the wound. When it was bound and
a pillow placed under the injured
man's back the doctor administered a
strong stimulant aud presently Wil
liam Gedney opened his wild, dark
eyes and searched the physician's
countenance.
"Edmonds!" he gasped. "You? How
did you come here?"
"A telephone message," said the doc
tor quickly.. "And you, William, you
have escaped?"
Cedney nodded wearily. "Sit down,
nnd I will tell you all," be said.
Ills story was brief and to the point
He declared that he had been Innocent
of the crime charged against him. Al
though there had been a tight and a
shot had beeu Ured, he swore that he
had not hold the weapon. Ilis com
panions had scattered, leaving him
with tiie body of Tom Collins—to be
tlie scapegoat.
Circumstantial evidence was against
him, and to save his client Gedney's
lawyer had pleaded self defense; hence
the life senteuce.
"I've always intended to escape,"
muttered Gedney, "and at last camo
the opportunity. I grasped It. My
first thought was to come home here.
I arrived this evening at dusk. The
place was home to me. although there
remained none of my dear ones to
welcome me. the black sheep of the
family. Doctor, I may have been wild
and foolish, but ray hands are Innocent
of blood.
"I came afoot—I had traveled by
iiight—and at lout I reachcd here, gain
ed an entrance thivmgh the pantry win
dow and went up to my mother's room.
I—1 was going to pray there and ask
their forgiveness—you understand," he
ended brokenly.
"I had reached the upper hall when
I met a man; it was Tom Collins'
brother! He was carrying a candle,
and he looked old and ragged and un
kempt. When lie saw me he gave
cliase. screaming madly that be would
kill me. 1 was unarmed, and 1 was
weak from lack of food. He pursued
mo up the attic stairs to this room, nnd
there he stabbed me, leaving me for
dead on the floor, it was n welcome
sound indeed to hear your ring at the
door! I suppose 1 must go back to
prison, but I think I have solved the
mystery. Jim Collins killed his broth
er. That is why lie lias hidden away
here, a prey to his own guilty con
science. He must have lived a hermit
life for several years. A fellow pris
oner told uic that Jim had disappear
ed from his usual haunts. I hope—1
pray that he has left a confession of
some kind that will clear my name!"
Leaving Josiah in care of the sick
man, Dr. Edmonds went back to his
horse and drove rapidly in the direc
tion of the railroad station. He sus
pected that the fleeing Collins had in
a moment of contrition telephoned from
some pay station to the doctor's house
so that Gedney's wound uiight be at
tended lo.
Dr. Edmonds found a strange situa
tion at the little railroad station.
A strange man had found shelter
there during the thunderstorm. He
was a rawed looking tramp, lie had
entered the wire cage where the pub
lie telephone was placed and had used
the telephone. As he finished speak
ing there came a crackling hiss, and
a bolt of lightning ruined the Instru
ment and sent the man senseless to
the floor.
The station agent had vainly tried
to reach Dr. Edmonds, and his appear
ance now was taken as a matter of
fact
There was little he could do for Jim
Collins save to take his dying state
ment and confession that he was his
brother's murderer. lie had heard
that the Cednc.v place was deserted,
and he resolved to conceal himself
there with his gnawing remorse. By
night he stole out and bought food and
to.baceo, tramping many miles to the
next village.
When the sun rose over the rain
swept mountains Jim Collins breathed
his last.
Dr. Edmonds went back to the man
In the Gedney bouse with freedom in
bis hands.
William Gedney, exonerated of the
charge, took possession of his proper
ty and in the course of time married.
Children play around the iiieasum
lawns, for the pine grovo has been cut
down, and sunshine enters every nook
and cranny of the old house and
grouuds.
But nothing can give back to Wil
liam Gedney tho lost years spent be
hind prison bars.
■INDDEPENCENGE
MINE IS m
S'.ward Gateway: With only a
broKtn clown two-stamp mill operat
ing the Independenc mine at Willow
creek produced one hundred ounces
of tjoid • recently in tea days. This
does not, however, indicate the val
ue of the ore which is said "by re
cent arrivals to be exceedingly rich.
The general opinion is that when
the proper sort of machinery has
been installed ' the output will as
tonish people who are not fully ac
quainted with the district. -T. W.
Hawkins of Seward, is the presi
dent of the Independence company.
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AT RUPERT DIIYDOCK
Prince Rupert Empire: Earlier
iu tlie summer, it was reported that
the Japanese warship Asama, which
was disabled in Turtle Bay, Mexico,
might come north to be repaired in
the dry dock at Prince Rupert.
Nothing defiuite could be learned as
to Che story. '
Now comes a persistent rumor
that II. M. S. Kent, now at Esqui
mau, will be berthed hero as soon
as the local dry dock is ready
which should not be later than
August. ■ The dock at Esquimau
is not long enough to accomodate
the cruiser, but there will be
ample space here.
The Kent was damaged to some
extent, during engagements with
the enemy in southern waters. It
is said recent arrivals from Victoria
biing word that there is every rea
son for expecting the -warship to
come to Prince Rupert for repairs.
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