The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-09-03

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the day she had first beheId it. said
nothing more, but bit her lip and clinch-
ed her hands until the nails marked
her palms. She was impatient to reach
Mrs. Randolph's house and be alone
with her desire for the diamond.
Arriving there. she turned her totter-
ing friend over to the illustrations of
her maid and few to her bedroom. She
donned peignoir, stood by the win
dow and looked out across the sleeping
city. 1t was after midnight now. Who
would get the diamond?
There had been no use to further dis
cuss the diamond with her silly hos
tess. The diamond from the sky was
jewel to be worn by women who
dared aspire to it, gem to be wrested
from the weak by men who cared for
no consequence except to gain it,
Who would gain it now? If Blake
got it as agent OF Abe Bloom and his
brother, the pawnbroker, would she be
able to cajole it from these astute
Hebrews? She doubted this. But if
Blair Stanley got it, Vivian knew 1t
would be hers without dispute.
Cunning as Detective Blake was and
as astute as were the Blooms, Vivian
Marston felt a supreme confidence In
the daring INSCRIPTIONS determination
of Blair Stanley to get the stone to
gain her love.
The diamond from the sky. crime
stained as 1t was, had never been sui
lied by the hands of traders. Since the
day, according to its legend. 1t had fal
len to earth in a meteor and had been
gained by the first Arthur Stanley, gen
tleman adventurer of colonial Virginia,
three hundred years agone, 1t had never
been cheapened or debased by being in
the hands Of little men who bought
and sold its cleaning glory and APP
praised it at Il price
1t had no price; it was a jewel to
adorn beauty at the hands Of daring.
This beautiful woman of bold heart
did well to rely on the desperate young
man who had reached up from the
knees of murder already for the dia-
mond from the sky. Now further in.
cited by his infatuation for her, she
knew he would not fail.
After Blake and he had sent Mrs
Randolph and Vivian Marston home,
Blake had sought telephone and noti-
fed Abe Bloom that the diamond from
the sky was on the neck Of the Chinese
idol. Then 1t was that Blair Stanley
had stolen away and had seized the
| diamond by swift and daring action In
climbing the fire escape at the back
of the den, smashing the window and
snatching the diamond
We have seen how the frenzied Chi.
nese tong leader, Hung Ii, had, In at
tempting to main the despoier sever.
ed the neck of the idol and cut down
the swinging lamp before the idol just
when the detective, Abe and Ike
| Bloom, supplemented by the English
! lawyer, Smythe, had arrived on the
| scene.
| In a shed by the Chinese den Blair
in his quick exploration and approach,
had stumbled upon motorcycle. In
| the excitement that followed the fire
he had dropped from the last iron lad
DER at the Dack OF tne zen ana nau
whirled away through back alleys and
streets to where he knew Vivian Mar
ston would wait awake for him and
! the diamond
He had the diamond and he would
| have her! He felt the great gem and
| the luxurious woman were worth all
he would dare for both, and that was
much.
Arriving beside the Randolph man
sion long after midnight. he saw the
light cleaning from Vivian's window,
toward which wistaria clambered.