Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-12-02
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER II.-Michelson meets Isobel,
mr.. Sidney's daughter. That night he is
awakened by woman's screams and finds
lea, intoxicated. threatening Mrs. Sidney.
he intervenes. Next day Mrs. Sidney
makes light of the incident and urges Mi
chelson to keep silent about it,
CHAPTER III.-After Nicholson has
been short time at the house Mrs, Sid
ney urges him to consent to the announce
nent or his engagement to Isobel saying
II is merely precautionary. Satisfied there
Is welghty reason for such an extraor-
oinaFy request. he complies. Isobel later
Informs him Jed seeks her hand in mar
riage.
CHAPTER Iv.-Mr. Sidney visits the
penitentiary at AlWich and sees the man
Dobson. the slayer Of his brother and the
the haunted pool
CHAPTER VA plumber, doing some
work at Hartley house, tells OF his fright
some time ago when he saw the ghost"
al the pool. Jed relates the story OF the
Dobson tragedy to the doctor.
CHAPTER VI.--That night Nicholson,
wandering in tine grounds, sees figure
standing by the pool, but does not inves-
ugate. Mr.. and Mrs Sidney and Isobel
leave on trip to South America. Mcneil
son meets an acquaintance who tells him
OF tragedy at Montevideo which seems
to Nicholson to have Il bearing on the
mystery of Hartley house.
CHAPTER VlI.-The Sdneys return,
and few days later the appearance of a
foreigner, apparently d sailor, throws Jed
into an agony Of apprehension. He, how
ever, denies any knowledge Of the stran-
gers identity.
CHAPTER VILLA few days later Mi
chelson has caller, Philetus Brown, q
lawyer, acting for a mysterious stranger
, whose name Is Dravada. The lawyer
Mr.. Sidney at MOntevideo, which seems
20 point to crime committed by Mr.
Sidney. Nicholson refuses to have any
threatens publicity. Mrs. Sidney admits
she knows the circumstances but will not
'divulge them.
CHAPTER Ix-Jed is kidnapped from
Hartley house The house is burglarized
and Jed'S room ranSacked Nicholson be-
lieVes the thieves have secured possession
of Mr.. Sidney's diary, containing the sup
posed confession, which Jed had purloined
CHAPTER x.-Michelson gets mes
sage from Norwich, u small town nearby.
cident a man has been killed and wom-
an badly hurt. He finds that the dead
man was the lawyer, Brown. and the
woman one OF the house servants. who
CHAPTER Killed returns and tells
how he had been kept prisoner by Brown
and Dravada, they seeking to force him to
tells Nicholson the thieves did not &C.
cure the document. which he has in
safe place. Morgan, head of a detective
agency. visits Hartley house. and warns
put him on the trail Of the mystery and
that he will follow it. Nicholson refuses
to allow the family to be blaclimailed.
CHAPTER xII.-While awaiting devel-
opments Nicholson. feeling that he cannot
win her. asks to have his engagement"
to lsobel broken off, but both she and her
mother refuse to consider 1t.
CHAPTER X1II-A few nights after
ward. while Nicholson is locking up the
house. he meets Jed, who seems to be act
ing mysteriously. Unknown to Jed. Mi
chelson watches him. Mr.; Sidney appears
Jed follows him. In short time Jed re-
appears In frantic haste, followed later by
Mr.. Sidney. who brings the information
has a telephone message sent to the peni-
Tertiary.
CHAPTER XIV.-Mr. Sidney's night ad-
venture overtaxed his strength. He fails
a te, the S Il to b.
tectives to Montevideo to trace Mr.. Sid
ney's life In that city.
CHAPTER xV.-On Christmas eve Mr..
saHsy oT in hi. ss HE
he orders inscribed on his Tombstone being
Arthur Dobson." Jed gives Nicholson
the diary which reveals the mystery, and
lHnA ~oto I,> l.
to read it.
"When we came to pool by the
river near the house, he became in
sanely violent, cried that he was sick
Of seeing me on earth and would rid
himself Of the sight Of me. He at
tackled me with heavy stick he car
ried, succeeded in breaking down my
guard and knocked me unconscious.
Our cries, while he was attacking,
were heard by farmer living across
the road. Richard was insanely
drunk. He intended to kill me and
thought he had done so. He left the
spot, disturbed, probably. by the
thought of physical consequences but
! am sure, not by any spiritual mis-
givings.
II do not know how long I remain.
ed unconscious or when awoke. II
may have been ten. forty or sixty min
utes. 1t may have been an hour OF
two. When 1t was, consciousness
brought an aching head and a dawn.
ing determination.
Life with Richard at Hartley house
had become impossible. could nc
longer control him, could no longer
endure him.
"a chance of escape and Of revenge
was possible. was. In Richards un