The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-07-16


turned to see the judge on horseback
down below, his army pistol leveled at
her.
Hagar held up the child, not 80 much
to shield herself as that Its pretty In
nocence might soften the hard heart OF
the relentless pursuer. But. whether
by accident or design will never be
known, the heavy explosion of the pis-
toll echoed among the rocks. The bull
let whistled past the hinching Hagar
and the terrified child. The horse rear
ed at the crack OF the pistol, throwing
his rider, breaking the neck of the
vengeful judge and dashing his brains
against jagged rock.
Raising the child to her shoulder and
supporting her there with her strong
right hand, Hagar looked down upon
her dead prosecutor and called upon
| him, with a gypsy's curse, the death OF
| the vultures she had predicted for him
when first they met. Then she clin1A
| ed over the summit of the ridge with
her precious burden and was gone.
Eighteen years nave passed Sluc0
| Judge Stanley's shattered body was
/ found in the mountains. the seal of
death upon his lips.
Behold Arthur Stanley I'd. master Of
Stanley hall and wasting his sub
stance in riotous living.
Behold DIR. Henry Lee, pressed with
the weight of years, guardian OF the
heir of Stanley and wondering what
will the harvest be?
The old colored nurse Is dead, as Ii
also the old colored factotum, Ned.
There Is none alive that knows what
really happened on that tragic night
and in the tragic time that followed
save the venerable old doctor and the
gypsy woman whom he has sought for
secretly, but In vain, through all these
years.
While Arthur Stanley I'd carouseb
with his cousin and other wild compan-
ions at Stanley hall and while old DR..
Lee muses. in his study and wonders
what will the harvest be, the harvest 10
close at hand. Fate, weaver of dest1-
MES, in the shape OF Hagar comes
upon the scene.
If the doctor has wondered II in his
hate OF one dead man and his love for
another he has not done wrong Hagar,
queen of the gypsies, wonders, too, II
her vengeance has not gone all awry.
Esther Stanley or. as she Ia known,
Esther Harding, Is a beautiful and
sweetly dispositioned young woma1a
now. The wild mother love Hag4r
bore for the son that was sold from her
has passed to sweet Esther. So 1t Ia
that Hagar returns to Virginia, re-
solved again to sacrifice her very heart.
A wild gypsy camp Is no abiding place
for fair young girl Of gentle blood.
Hagar knows all the documents she
took from Stanley hall when she alb
Quoted Esther. knows them by heart
as she knows every facet ON the dia
n mond from the sky, which she wrune
d that night from the dead hand OF Colo
e mel Stanley. She would see her boy
d again in his manhood. The wild hops
II possesses her that he may fall In low
y with Esther and that the secret tina
J. only two living people know shall res
e lightly with the dead when Esther II
A. mistress by marriage. II not by right
le of Stanley hall
RI Her message for DR.. Lee is a wr1ttel
IF one. 1t reads
r. have come back after eighteen year.
n l have had my revenge. but I love th
!, girl. What shall be done with her1
:" HAGAR HARDING.
Esther only learns from the ktndl,
lips of the doctor and the tremulou
- ones Of her supposed mother that
le new life has opened for her; that sh
% must take her place in the society Q
ne the countryside as the adopted dau8h
ne ter of DIR. Lee. as long arranged Thi
~ il all she knows; this Is all she b told
no A. with her belongings she BIDS
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