The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-09-17

! sheep herder in the next month and
take the stolen treasure with him and
make it the capital on which to found
great fortune in the busting west.
He salved his conscience with the
thought that when he had built up
John Powell's vast fortune he would
return the stolen money to the express
company anonymously.
Meanwhile Luke Lowell JOURNEYS
eastward again But he cannot travel
as Blair Stanley and other fortunates
with money travel Luke Lowell re-
turns by freight. But In the desert the
tralnmen throw him from his place on
the bumpers and mock him as, bruised
ana sore, he rises In the desert dust
to curse them as the freight train bears
them on.
Down the endless miles Of railroad
track, across the dusty desert, he stag
gers. Blinded by the sun, choking and
burning with thirst and half delirious
he stumbles from the track and makes
his way. fevered with delirium. across
the trackless desert.
Then by a low growing mass OF
cacti something CLEANS before his ach-
ing eyes. CLEANS and dazzes him. Is
1t vagary of his thirst madness. or is
1t the diamond from the sky, for,
tune within his grasp?
He lurches forward and snatcbes m
the diamond from where the train rob
Der in his death agony from the pur-
suing posses rifle bullets had cast it!
But just as his grimy hand closes
upon the great jewel q brown lance
strikes him. In the ringing of the fe-
yer in his brain he has not heard the
warning rattle of death guarding the
diamond. But even in his delirium
the fevered brain of Luke Lowell knows
the thrust of the brown lance.
rattlesnake has bitten him! With
a hoarse scream of despair he con-
vulsirely throws up his hands. The
diamond flies from his neryeless CRASH
and settles again in the dust of the
desert twenty feet away, and Luke
Lowell pitches forward on his face in
his agony, giving himself up as dead.
So, half conscious, John Powell
sheep herder, finds him. and so John
Powell bears him to his Iorely camp
IRE and suceors and restores him.
Lowell is able to moan his plight.
Fortunately his rescuer has flask OF
whisky and a canteen of water. He
doses the half conscious Luke, and
whether the whisky or whether the
sturdy constitution of the gypsy is 10
be credited Luke Lowell is brought
back from the jaws of death
1t is strange fate. the gypsy thinks.
when he can think coherently, that it |
has been his destiny to meet the real
and the usurping heir Of Stanley and
to clutch again the priceless Stanley
heirloom, the diamond from the sky. |
He laughs sardonically and then tells
Arthur whom he now recognizes as
he recognized Blair Stanley, that just
a few days since he has met up with
the latter In Los Angeles.
Il don't know what he had run away
for" growled Luke. but whatever it |
was 1t had been squared. for found |
out he was going back to Richmond. |
Dul INV luul yOu nave 6dV&u my uIe |
In this God forsaken desert I'll do you
a favor--a big favor. know some
thing that the other Stanleys would |
give all they have to know. What will |
you give me il | don't tell them what
know? You didn't kill that old doc
tor, and know that some day you are
going back. What will you give me to
keep my mouth shut?''
John Powell regards with cold
scorn the wretch who thus reQuites
lin. He knows what Luke would tell
aim. Just at this time John Powell
ieslres to buy the silence of the treach-
.rous and ungratefui gypsy.
II have $500 that have saved ia
Iohn Powell's reply Il never de-
lire to be known again as Arthur Stan
ey. But have reasons why do not
vish the secret you possess to be
pread broadcast for the present. You