Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-07-25
A Night OF Terror.

Howard Weldon, native of St.
Louis, having taken his DOCTORS de-
gree at one of the most foremost med
TcaI schools in Philadelphia, and hav-
ing money, time and the inclination,
decided to spend some years "walk-
fHg'' the best hospitals of London,
Paris and Vienna.
He had a friend in London with
whom he was going to lodge during
his stay, but as it was midnight, and
raining at that, when he reached the
worlds metropolis, he made up his
Haind to spend the night in some quiet
hotel not far from his friends resi-
dence.
Outside Euston station he accosted
eEe of a hundred waiting cabmen, or
<fcabbies," as they are called, and
asked him if he knew of any public
house in the vicinity of ST. Johns
Wood.
The man touched his hat and replied
that he,knew every public house in
the city and that he was particularly
we'll acquainted with all the inns in the
2eighborhood named, and could take
HIM to a nice quiet one.
Leaving his baggage to be attended
to on the morrow, DR.. Weldon got
into the cab and was driven away.
He knew that London was an i'm
nense city, but it seemed to him that
he had been in that wretched cab for
hours and hours, when it brought up
before building family indicated in
the darkness by dim lamp in front.
The driver rang the bell, and dark
visaged man, who was introduced as
the landlord, responded. The Doctor
had had his supper on the way from
Liverpool SO after paying for his cab
he asked to be shown to his room.
In response to the landlords sum-
mons an evil-eyed woman in a black
gown and her hair in papers, appear
ed with a lighted candle and led the
guest up stairs, and as he was ascend
ing ne caught the words coming from
the hall:
eyes; he's an American and they're
all as rich as Jews"
Leaving the candle on table in a
room that appeared to be comfortably
furnished the woman said:
<'This is your apartment, sir. VIII
you have breakfast with US in the
morning, and when do you wish to be
-eaIIed?''
81 will breakfast here, and call me
4h nj u I,
tor; and the woman echoed sGood
night" and went out as silently as
the shadows that swallowed her up.
Doctor Weldon was neither ner-
vous nor a coward, but there was
that In his surroundings that stirred
his suspicion and added twenty de-
grees to the chilliness Of the room.
He was about to pull off his boots,
buG he changed his mind and began to
look more carefully into the situation.
BESIDES letters of credit, he had on
his person q gold watch, a diamond
ring and ESQ in ready money. Here
ne was in gloomy house, in a city
that he knew nothing about and his
whereabouts unknown to friends.
The landlord and the woman had
look that disturbed him, SO instead of
pulling off his boots and going to bed,
he began to think, and the more he
thought the worse the situation look
ed
He was unarmed, and although rea-
sonably strong and active, he knew
that if he were attacked it would be
with sufficient force to overcome
speedily any resistance he might
make He opened the window and
looked out, and as he did so he heard
the growing Of a dog underneath
Et was horribly dark, and as there was
not lamp in sight he reasoned that
he was outside the city limits.