The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, April 12, 1907, Image 2
mmmmw e The Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA- The Mystery i OF CarneyCroft By JOSEPH BROWN COOKE Copyright 1907 or 8tory lrei Corporation CHAPTER 1 Continued Thats moren I know said the man turning and looking me squarely in the face but they 3aid they seen two ghosts one fur the old man an one fur the boy aout under the trees In front of the haouse right where ole Carney foil off his hoss Every one of em seen the same thing an when nine men agrees to a dot on a thing o this kind its pretty hard even fur a church member not to believe it Theyll all tell ye the same story The boy was a swayin back an forth jest as he did after the hoss kicked him an the ole man kind o hoverin an bendin over him like he was in the saddle a cussin him again The Aggers was perfectly plain all in white but them that stayed to look long enough said ye could see the trunks o the trees an other things right through em too I suppose they all came back to Hoskins after seeing this wonderful sight I remarked You bet they did an they come a runnin too said the man I never seen a scarder lot o men in my life Made pretty good business for Hos kins that night eh I ventured Wal I guess it did he rejoined with a grin An itll keep right on makin good business fur him too Them fellers wont git over talkin o that fur a month o Sundays How did they get home that night I continued persuasively His grin broadened as he chuckled Them as couldnt walk had to ride home in this ere rig Haow I ever piled so many in is moren I kin tell and he laughed immoderately at the thought So when business is good with Hoskins its likely to be good with you too eh I went on Most ginerally he replied Most ginerally less Hoskins gits all their money fore theyre ready fur me an their credit aint no good And when the men arent working at Carneys they spend a good deal of time at Hoskins dont they I asked Yes an a good deal o money too he rejoined Ole Carney alius paid em well nobody cant deny that So its a good thing for Hoskins and a good thing for you to get them away from the place every little while I suggested warily I spose It is an I spose we cant neither ot us help it if they want to leave he returned sullenly and with sudden suspicion as he pulled his horse up sharply at the station plat form My train arrived in a few moments and as I was about to step aboard I drew the fellow toward me and said to him in a low tone that others might aot hear The men were quite right about the ghosts I saw them myself from my window perfectly distinctly and exactly as you have described them The car was already moving and I swung up on the step and left him standing bewildered CHAPTER II Two Letters Iy Dear Mr Ware Mr apologies for not replying to your etter of nearly two weeks ago are weak ned by the fact that I am now writing to you in great distress My brother will be here day after to norrow and It has just occurred to me hat I have made a most dreadful blunder tnd I need your advice more than ever efore You know 1 asked Miss Weston ray 5ld school friend to come here and stav xith me for a time at least and she did o understanding as I have since earned that Jack was away and not to She is here now and seems to me to be quite ill again but the embarrassing part of it is that she and Jack was once great sweethearts and his going away to Hon olulu was really uue to some disagree ment that they had nearly three years ago I never knew just what the trouble was As Annie was my dearest friend in school and afterwards too J quite overlooked the whole matter in my anx iety to have someone with me when I was so awfully alone You remember I merely telegraphed her to come and she did not even know of fathers death and supposed of course that Jack was away Now she is too ill to go home again and Jack is coming so soon that I dont know what to do It is a frightfully em barrassing position to be placed in espe cially as there was so much mystery over their separation You see tinder the circumstances I cannot possibly adopt your suggestion to close the house and come to town for the present and anyway I feel--that I ought to stay Here till Jack comes to keep an eye on fathers things Miss Weston is I am sure quite too 111 to be moved and with Mrs Remsen our old housekeeper 1 feel perfectly safe Please write me at once and advise me in my present predicament Very truly yours FLORENCE CARNEY P S There is a rumor that Carney Croft is haunted and some of the village people even go so far as to say that you saw a ghost when you were here Have you heard anything of this sort It is ridiculous of course but it makes me -nervous F C iMv Dear Miss Carney Your letter of yesterday is at hand I would not worry if I were you about your brother and Miss Weston It was probablv some childish affair that they have both forgotten by this time I am sorry to hear that Miss Weston is ill again for it must add to your cares materially but as you have told me that all your house servants are reliable and trustworthy I suppose you are managing fairly iwell I expect your brother in town to day or to morrow and he will probably stay here over nicht and on to Carney Croft the S58 4M roxt day Either he or I will telegraph ytw a soon an he arrives T thought you knew about the ghosts or I should havo written you before Tlire were two large pieces of mosqultp netlng in my room which were apparent ly Intended for covering portraits I threw them over a chair back near the window and they blew out during the nlgl f and caught In the branches of the treet in front of the house 1 knew that some of the men from the village had Hcenihem and taken them for ghosts but as I myself saw your butler pulling them down early the next morning 1 sup posed ho whole storv had been ex plained to the satisfaction of everybody Very sincerely yours FREDERICK WARE 23S jffSliti CHAPTER III John Carney As Mr Carney was ushered into my private office I rose to greet him and stepped from behind my desk with outstretched hand but as he raised his face to mine I drew back in amaze ment and disgust and motioned him to a chair with scant ceremony Drunk the beast I muttered to myself as he shambled drowsily to the seat I had indicated and dropped into it with a thickly uttered Thank you He seemed to fall asleep for a mo ment and I eyed him steadily for some time before I could bring myself to speak And so the handsome straight forward manly fellow of three years ago had sunk to this A sodden de graded wretch unfit to associate with pigs in a sty and yet the heir to a vast estate and the sole legitimate protector of the sweet faced orphan at Carney Croft who awaited his coming with the impatience born of love and hope and confiding trust God help the poor girl nqw and God help the accursed wreck that sat opposite me His heavy breathing wheezing in and out of his throat his listless stupid face flushed and mottled from the effects of his excesses his body dripping with perspiration which stood out in Jjeads on his forehead and glistened on his hand as it lay in the sunlight and his drooping blood shot JW UvV V U iuSKufc Asjw portunity to ret from your journey and your ahem your health has Im proved somewhat I regretted my words on the instant in spite of the mans condition they seemed to have cut him to the quick An expression of anguish pitiful to see passed over his face and his whole body trembled After a moment he said slowly with the same wonderful self control My health as you choose to call it Mr Ware wli not improve to any ap preciable degree and my mind is at this moment as clear as it will ever be I wish you to draw up a will leav ing everything I possess to my sister Florence Carney and 1 wish also to give you power of attorney so that from this time on you can conduct the estate in my stead and supply her with such funds as she may need I do not expect to spend much time at Carney Croft and I want these mat ters attended to now before I go there at all His ideas were so thoroughly in ac cord with his duty to his sister that I was now anxious to carry them out at once as he requested lestanother op portunity might never occur It took but a short time to arrange the details of the will and then it and the power of attorney were signed by him in a trembling hand and witnessed by members of my office staff When these formalities were over and we were alone again Mr Carney said abruptly I am going to Carney Croft to night and have wired Florence to have a carriage for me at the midnight train and not to sit up I dont expect to stay there long and I should think it would be better to close the place and have her take a house here in town where she would be more comfort able I made the same suggestion my self I replied but she wrote that she felt perfectly safe at home and I Am Going eyes now half closed and again wan dering aimlessly about the room all combined to make a disgusting pic ture It was with the utmost difficulty that I could restrain my feelings suf ficiently to address him with ordinary civility Finally my judgment pre vailed over my indignation and I re membered that I was the legal ad viser only of the house of Carney and not in any way concerned with the moral conduct of its head You had a comfortable journey I hope I remarked icily As comfortable as such a journey can be he wheezed turning his bleary eyes toward me as he spoke The conditions which made my home coming necessary did not make my trip enjoyable and I traveled with the greatest possible haste as there are certain matters that I want you to ar range for me at once He spoke his words with a force and precision unusual in a man in his con dition but he was evidently control ing himself to the utmost degree and as he talked his face flushed in great blotches his blood shot eyes seemed almost bursting from his head and the perspiration oozed from his body and trickled in little streams down his cheeks and neck Do you wish to hear any of the de tails of your fathers death I asked in a most matter of fact tone No thank you he said with some effort I found a long letter from Florence at my hotel this morning and she has told me everything I wish merely to arrange some money affairs with you and make my will and I wish to do so at once How much money do you need for the present I asked sarcastically How much money do I need he repeated in a bewildered tone Why I dont need any I have all the ready cash that I want I only want to ar range for the future you know Very glad to hear it I observed dryly Now as to your will Do you think Mr Carney that your state of mind to day is such that you are quite ready to make a will Would it not be better for you to wait a day or so until er until vou have had an op- Carney Croft To Night that she wanted to remain until you came to take charge of things As you have turned all such responsibil ity over to me as your attorney there is but one thing now to prevent her leaving What else can there be he mut tered thickly I watched him closely as I answered Do you not know that her friend Miss Weston is with her What Annie Weston there he exclaimed Is she well No I replied studying him She is not at all well In fact she is too ill to be moved and that is why Miss Carney cannot close the house at pres ent I never dreamed that Annie Wes ton would be in my house he whis pered as if to himself Poor girl Poor girl When Miss Carney asked her to come Miss Weston did not know that you were to return and even now she has not been told that you are on your way home I continued Your sistei was quite upset over the fact that in asking Miss Weston to visit her when she was in such need of a companion she entirely forgot the disagreement between you a few years ago Disagreement he almost shouted pulling himself up in his chair Why what on earth are you talking about man We had no disagreement I tell you Nothing of the sort I suppose Florence told you that but she knew nothing about it at all I went away because Annie thought I ought to but she was mistaken poor girl If I had stayed at home I shouldnt be in this condition now but she thought it was for the best Poor little woman she tried so hard to do the best thing for me and look at me now Look at me Ware But she must not be disturbed under any circumstances You say she does not know I am coining home She must not be allowed to know it As I told you I shall not stay there long and there is no need of her knowing that I am in the house I shall not see her Ware he almost sobbed Im not fit to see her Im not fit to see her man TO BE CONTINUED J NEBRASKA MATTER MISCELLANEOUS NEWS NOTES HERE AND THERE ITEMS GF GENERAL INTEREST Social Agricultural Religious and Other Matters Having Reference to This Commonwealth Alone Louisville went dry at the late elec tion Hon W V Allen former senator from Nebraska has been secured to deliver the oration at Wisner on Me morial day At Sterling careful examination of fruit buds reveals the pleasing fact that none of the fruit has been in jured by the recent severe frost The body of Robert Romans a rail road employe who has made his home in Blair for fifteen years was brought from Cheyenne where he died of spotted fever John F Mahoney has sold 440 acres of land in the western part of Otoe county for 25000 This is the largest land sale made in the county within the past thirty days Fire in the roof of the West school building Fremont was extinguished with little trouble and the damage will not exceed 50 The children marched out of the building without much ex citement Rev Albert E Ricker former pastor of the First Congregational church Aurora departed for Indianapolis Ind where he will have his headquarters as superintendent of the Congrega tional home missionary society for In dians While Myer Hansei a farmer living north of Friend was attending church Sunday his residence was broken into and thoroughly ransacked About 3 in cash two suits of clothes a suit and some other articles were taken It was soon discovered that the nble thieves were hiding in some bushes in his pasture They were ar rested While playing about the house the little child of Mr and Mrs Silas preckenridge of Plattsmouth fell and struck one eye against a nail which had been driven through a board The child was taken to Omaha but physi cians could give but little encourage ment in saving the sight of the wound ed member The Beatrice Commercial club is considering the advisability of asking the city council to remove the occupa tion tax from insurance companies doing business in the city A proposi tion was recently submitted to the club by the insurance companies offer ing to deduct five per cent off the in surance rate in the city providing the tax is removed The story has gone out that the Johnson County Fair association has decided definitely to participate in the Nebraska Driving associations circuit this year When approached upon the subject Secretary Charles Wilson of the local association said it had not yet been determined by the officers of the fair whether or not Tecumseh would be in the race circuit Miss Sarah Riechers of Humboldt had a narrow escape from death by poisoning while sewing at the home of Mrs J E Buell In mistake for a medicine which she was taking she got hold of a bottle containing tincture of belladonna and swallowed a of the mixture Only prompt and effcient medical attention prevented the dose from proving fatal In the new stone quarry which was opened at Nehawka a freak of nature was discovered which will probably never be witnessed again by any of the inhabitants of that vicinity It is an old oak and a cherry tree growing from the same stump They are per fectly fused together and to all pur poses grew from the same root It is a matter of considerable specula tion how two of these trees that are so different in habits came to be linked together A meeting of the board of health of Grand Island was called to take action upon the recurring importations of smallpox A few weeks ago the first case made its appearance A laborer arrived on an early morning train from the northwest where the Burlington is having considerable construction -work done He walked through the entire city the stage of the disease being that in which it is most contagious and called at the St Francis hospital which can take no contagious diseases Nebraska City has several bright stars on the theratrical stage and the indications are that it will soon have another and one that will perhaps shine brighter than the others Miss Sue Andreasen was born there grad uated in the high school and some two years ago went to Chicago to study for the stage The college she attends selects two students by com petition to be an understudy with one of the leading theatrical companies Out of a class of forty eight Miss An dreasen was first chosen H R No 220 the Knowles mileage book bill was passed by the senate The measure provides that the rail roads shall sell 1000 mile mileage books for 20 good in the hands of the bearer and for any number of persons Dr and Mrs Randally physician and matron of the soldiers home Grand Island will leave for the southeastern part of the state for a visit with rela tives and will thence go to Julesburg Colo where they will make their home Dr Dunyan of the southern part of the state succeeds Dr Ran dally Vifcl J CARE OF THE SICK ROOM Above AH Things the Walls Should Be Kept Dry When the bedroom becomes a sick room there is an added reason why ex treme precautions should be used to keep the room in a thoroughly sanitary condition Above all things the bedroom should never be damp It should be nice and dry always warm and comfortablo In winter cool and airy in summer and bright and sunny Kome parts of the day If there is any suspicion of damp ness in a bedroom it is probably due if there is wallpaper on the wall to the absorption of water by the paper which frequently acts as a blotting pa per and holds quantities of water in it The use 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