Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-09-23

Tie haunted pool,
CHAPTER VA plumber, doing some
work at Hartley house, tells OF his fright
some time ago when he saw the ghost"
at the pool. Jed relates the story Of the
Dobson tragedy to the doctor.
From MOntevideO had a letter from
Jed In different tone from his sarcas.
tic banter and haunting. ! thought It
was the letter of q man who had suf-
fered shock. / could not say why I
thought so. but thought something
had disturbed him. gathered the
idea that something had changed Jed's
view of life.
Early In March came letters saying
that my folks shortly would be on their
way home, to arrive after our uncer-
tain spring had resolved itself securely
into weather safe for feeble man who
had accustomed himself to luxurious
temperatures. then felt invogorated,
as by promise in March Of hepatica,
My winter was breaking up.
l met an old-time acquaintance, q
dentist who had been several years in
South America. His name was Alcott.
Henry AIcott.
:, Alcott and never had been intimate
Of affectionate, but we greeted each
other with ardor. was lonesome, AL
colt may have been. There Is lone
someness associated with q return to
a place which has forgotten you and
receives you as an alien.
We had dinner together and enjoyed
our meeting. There was furtively, at
dinner. reminiscent amativeness in
his conversation. 1t suggested that he
was smlrking over exploits which he
might relate If his restraints were
broken down.
He had talent for merely carnal
stories. They gained additional car
nality In his telling of them. must
have been given the record Of half the
amatory experiences of South America
for two years. Alcott told them with
gusto. The one that fascinated me he
did not emphasize more than the 9TH
ers. AS he told these stories he was
trying to convey the charm of sex-ad-
venture in Latin America. think he
wanted. by other instances. to suggest
his own adventures.
man named Sinclair-that was as
Alcott remembered the name, but 1t
might, he said. have been st. John or
SOuthgrOve or Sergeant or anything
else beginning with s; 1t was long b.
fore Alcott's time In South America,
and he merely told the story because
1t was a standardized episode-this
man Sinclair, an Englishman or a man
from the States. fairly young man,
anyway. and attractive. had fallen In
love with most charming young WON.
an of excellent family.
AlcOtt could not remember whether
this little episode had been staged In
Rio or Valparaiso or Buenos Aires or
where.
1T might have been in Montevideo,' ~
he said. He did not emphasize the re-
mark. but the remark subsequently en-
phasfzed the story for me.
Sinclair-Alcott thought we might al
well agree upon Sinclair as name
had come out of somewhere or no.
where and had made great deal of
money. When he fell in love, he was
an advantageous match. The parents
accepted him gladly.
Sinclair and the young. lady were
married, but he did not have the Latin
genius for isolating and guarding a
woman. Neither did he have the
genius for completely interesting and
absorbing woman. He was in the
shipping business. He was very prac-
teal and business-ruled man, but, AL.
colt had heard, a genial and jovial man
nevertheless.
Lovers came, as lovers will. The
lady was too charming and had too
much freedom. She was innocent and
gulleless, but her husband was not, the
barrier needed. Alc0tt said he thought
she was Of noble sort and was betrayed
BY her idea that human beings had
character.
He was not precise as to the dilem.
ma abe had entered. how or why she