The San Francisco call., 1898-08-11
WILLIAM GEYEs' LOST LOVE
RETURNS RICH TO FIND HIS
 WIFE FAITHL ESS.
Carries With Him a Sack of Gold, but Finds Another Man in Possession of His
 Cabin.
Special Correspondence of The Call.

JUNEAU. Alaska. Aug 1-Womans weakness and the Klondike have turned out another Enoch Arden in Alaska. The coast of Sum Dunn Bay, fifty miles south of Juneau, where the boats are drawn up on the beach, and where, too, lay an chors with flukes rusty red" and where children play as in the sand where Annie and Enoch and Philip played at man and wife, is the scene of this infelicity. Sum Dunn has two mills grinding gold out of ore day and night They are at the Sum Dunn Chief and the Bald Eagle mines.
 Two years ago Williams Geyes built and furnished a cottage, settled his young wife within, and set out for the Yukon Basin to find a quicker fortune than he could make a foreman in a mines tun- nel. William promised to return in a year. A year passed, and then six months as with Enoch's wife, before the waiting bride in the cottage gave up looking hope fully for William down the path that led from the house to the sea. Then, needing the importunitieS of a Stalwart boss of a pit gang she, being in need of the nimble siXpence, took him into her home as a solitary boarder. Thus eventually Will Hams castle became one of "dissolving sand.
 William returned from the Alaskan wids last week, filled with fond antici- pattons of coZy home. waiting wife who would cling to his shoulders on the  upturned face. He had a buckskin sack bulging with gold and heavy with the fortune he had made, for he had been in with the early rush and located on a pup hanging to the main valley of Ell Dorado He did not stop at the inn near the beach. nor make inquiries about the Annie he had left two years before, but walked straight up the road which skirts the mountain toward the cottage. It was evening and a light shone in the window. There was no protecting shadow a and secret DReDinR through the window for him. He walked boldly up to the door and knocked, and stepped in.
 This Philip Ray and his Annie were happily at supper. She was bending over him, pouring out his tea. Though this Philip Ray was far from being stirred by the loyal, fatherly sentiments of Ten nyson's noble Philip, his devotion being of the grosser sort, not solemnized either by the church or the law, 1t needed no second glance from Geyes to under stand the light in his wife's eyes as sine quickly turned from the table to the
 Where he lodged that night is not known in Sum Dunn. It was probably out under the favoring cedars in his blank cts, with a heavy heart and abject lone Illness. and his bag of gold that he had won for her as bedfellows. He certainly did not stop in the cottage, but Philip
 Next morning when the sealfon. the small steamer for Juneau, was sighted. Geyes and his wife were seen walking down the road to the beach together. They stood aside from the crowd as the boat came in. He was overheard to say to her:
 You have made your choice; now stay with 1t. I hope you will do as well as l."
 Carrying his load of gold and the heav- fer burden of faithless wife, he went aboard. She walked slowly back up the road. twice turning her head. When she reached the bridge she faced about, stood with hand shading her eyes, gazing at the receding steamer for a time, then she whirled about with a swish of her skirts and walked without hesitation back to the home her husband built and left to shelter another.
 Geyes is now in Juneau. Since things have turned out so he hardly knows what to do with his money some $10,000.
 HAL HOFFMAN.