Weird Tales: "Drome" by John Martin Leahy

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A serial story titled "Drome" by John Mart, beginning in Chapter 1: "The Mysterious Visitor." Two men, Milton Rhodes and Bill Carter, await a mysterious visitor named James W. Scranton who arrives during a violent Seattle rainstorm. Scranton brings a journal kept by his grandfather, Charles Scranton, during an 1858 expedition to Mount Rainier. The narrative shifts to Scranton reading passages from this journal. The grandfather's 1858 account describes climbing toward the Nisqually Glacier with three companions and an Indian guide named Sklokoyum. On August 24th, camped near the glacier's edge in dense fog, they witness startling apparitions—a tall white shrouded female figure and a second creature described as "seemingly squatting like a monstrous toad." The OCR text ends mid-sentence, cutting off the complete description of these phenomena.