What is a summary of The Californian's Tale by Mark Twain?

There was a traveling prospector wandering around California, seeing deserted cabins, some occupied cabins, with the occasional pretty little cottage home.

One day he comes across a cozy little rose-clad cottage where he is invited in. The home owner proudly describes how his wife did all the work on the home and is pleased when the visitor finds his wife's picture hanging on the wall. When the visitor asks when the wife will be in, the home owner states that she will be home on Saturday, about nine o'clock, and convinces the visitor to stay until his wife returns.

Over the next three days, other miners stop by to visit and to ask if the homeowner has heard from his wife. The homeowner shares a letter he has received from his wife and the miners plan a party for Saturday evening to celebrate her return.

On Saturday, the homeowner becomes anxious for his wife's return. The other miners arrive for the party, decorate the house, then set up to play music. At about nine o'clock, they pass drinks around. The visitor starts to take one of the two drinks left but is told to take the other one. The homeowner takes his drink, asks about his wife and is told she is close to returning, and then falls asleep.

As the miners prepare to leave, the visitor asks them to stay until the wife returns as she would not know him. The miners then tell the visitor that the wife had been dead or gone for 19 years, that she was captured by Indians within 5 miles of the place and has not been heard from since. The homeowner has lost his mind and his miner friends help him make it through this time each year by coming over, asking to hear the letter, and having the party.