The Springdale news., 1915-08-06

diamond tram ttte sfsE. + he can cseaua= without dese tieH Itst thc quick ;FI8 of Arthur throws EI =t8e fls,ol and l. BlaH tiFea He Wreashes flu Weapon from him T. a45Id the shame ..r scandal even of th inference If tbe 9a-e ~eahH1 HHir ta treA.li NJ thur d.a-s LLl G9NH lae pathway a a5#n .ile silent village street. a-#f.zl. e9zss are rEoH uI-. pfesa-Iu -e344 iag ef Che dawn Iaatta4 a.. sefug IliA@. tA2 cuHssIaS stumble oa tie ei4- f7Ee E.-IN@t aud 5H5a J5e UtJu E4Ia4e graveyard IHTr feEr sim. AJa T h4aal.s AZ. ~alL e-Ela=H H# 4a 4 #f renIg da- grave. sst.a4aiH4 .utiug aid faefng each 9theF with rage an4 Hata ia tGCir hea11s a4A au t4ei4. faee=. sle young men Qause | Uomcut ia theis wal ra2gle. Then -4rtaur bgia~s out
 e@=4 pistol aHE=5ff= .aH- vaije sa6 handkerchief tl8t F#5Ta5as from bis Hseast 1lsEet
 what 1o# have sail about Eatilea either JaH ag must die #f5t#Hf says af9ke one ea5 ct thfs handkerchief aH4 esa#a across this 3HeH Ef8ve HoId=ta handkerchief in your loft hand, as l hold tIis corner of $ee take Iafa lzistef and when | count to Three. faise aud fire. and the e9se ef Gs left aIife if pull the deaH aH4a iIta the grave
 Arthur counts eoae when tie now 4eaffais murderer esssz5s fa urc But the =WateAful Arthur is=f9 quick Tor hiia. It's pistol speaks GIs. and, ill- atihetifeIy tu@ei1Ie the han16ereitef as= Ae fires ArtAaf draa- Che bleeding Bfair into the grave. prone on his face. Arthur leaps into the grave after his fallen foe and tears open his shirt to see il the heart still beats. and there, on the breast of Blair Staatoy. 2,eans t.l tlff noon rssss# flle = d glitter of tlle diamond from the sky.
 =Afthur Stanley lad known its every aspect, for the Stanley archives are fHH of il, in print and maHuseript pie tared and deseribed sSo there t hds been. in the keeping of ny cousin.a he HHfters, and hardly realizing what he d8es. except the batefu1 gem iS his by every right, he teaIs il from the neck af the figure ii the gia4e and chambers out and stunhIes on his way
 Beside eross. Hhite and majestic ia the moonlight. he HaIts The moon shines on the diamond iu his bloody hands as he stands by the grave where lies. aS he believes, his sainted mother Then. feeling the brand of Cain is oh his brow, Arthur Stanley 2d stumblea CT, still clutehins the diamond from .tlIe=sl1 in his hlood,. hands.
 ln tie new dHe grave Blair Stanley moanol and stirred. The wound in his forehead had been I glancing one. only sufficient b stun him. and how as he came to consciousness in the clammv depths Of tie grave his first impulse was to= clutch wildly at his blood stained .disleveled shirt bosom
 The diamond from the sky was goHe, The death of the good old doctor had been all in vain. And Blair Stanley also fled beneath the moon, bootlesS and in truth blood guilty
 .At Stanley hall Arthur gained access 
 he saw the stains on his hands and oa the great jewel that seemed 10 gIedm ali the brighter for tIem in the glare of the library lamp.
 Ii wns not to show the diamond from the sky that all men yeaned fer; 1t was to have it, to possess il, even in secret, that caused them to lie. ff 1erA blood for it.
 Well had the late Colonel Stanley known the baleful history of tl4e dia mend that had fallen to the feet of his a. enturer ancestor i'll q meteor. The Sts:.}ey charm against harm 1t Was called. and now look what harm t had already done Array ing brotler against bfed3er. father against son, in tie past. t had broken WomeH'a heart, the while, and HOW I false heir held II against breast that ached in anguish.
 Arthur felt instinetiSely that the dia mond from the sky Was responsible for Rlairs imPugnins the good name Of sweet Esther, good old Dr. Lees fair ward, but Arthur did not know that the good doctor lay cold in death 1t the hands of Blair Stanley.
 The wild thought, the wilder hope. that lie might go elsewhere and under I new name. still holding 10 the dia, mond from the sky. rehabilitate him self and then seek out Esther in SC. eret and wed her neW possessed AT thur.
 Among ArthHr,s many eSleIvasaHees which the lJX administration of estates in Virginia perinitted ! srapesraee heir Wyys the buying of Il costly French automobile It Wa@ a day when auto mobiles were rarities aEl HNuries and the young sren6tthFift ef Stanley hail had precncl himself with the thought chat hp would be the first t oWp m automobile in aa fa.Ff.sy seauty
 Arthur req mi fhsft Bfair wi.o he supposed WIS lEinz deal iii the grave [. ii had ben ,,sz4ed fnra her. would