Tale of the supernatural. A young English officer, scalped by Indians during a war in the last half of the 18th century, dies in the hut of a French settler, his Indian wife and their children. His ghost haunts the cottage which is generally untenanted until a Chicago sculptor comes to recuperate there in 1887 - and is visited by the ghost. Taking his appearance as a warning he starts him and is drowned when his steamer sinks ... (PB)