The Springdale news., 1915-09-17

are aa right now Take this money and 70 10 tLa devil with it. But wheth CT I Killed Dr. Lee CT not, will Ri. you if you ever say one word of what you know. One thing more. Who tofd youf
 "fIagar Harding, lied Luke Lowell sI.oly Then, seeing an mcreduloas lo1l ill the others eyes, he added SUI lily: 4Iiagars gone datfy; that's waT she told me. But she don't talk to any body now and know se didn't tet. anybody else They would only thin she Was raying if she did. Mrs Staa ley has taken her to Richmond to an asylum. Mrs. Stanley has the girl Esther with her They are at Mrz Randophs. where the ball was" adtls Luke
 John Powell breathed Il sigh of F lief. Then all is well with Esthes r east. He does not question Love. further, realizing if Lowell knew au2A. concerning Esther the gypsy woulG have blnrted it out
 And so Luke Lowell. gypsy bIaeE mailer, and John Powell. sheep her der, part. But as the gypsy eoe~ across the desert to the nearest desert town and railroad station he searches. ever searches. for the diamond from the sky. He has not told John Pow ell of the diamond Even now h. half believes that it was but fgment of his heat crazed brain.
 Some miles across the desert travels desert Indian family. They have two horses. One the buek rides at h:s ease and the other drags q travois the two rude poles fastened t6 inc horse..the ends of which drag across the desert. and lashcd 10 the poles are. the Indians goods and eGattcls.
 Beside the trayoiS trudges the sqnaN On her hack her papoose sleeps. etran- ped To itS board. in the sun
 Across the desert the tratois scratch es its way. The eyes If the squaW fall upon the fresh tracks that Il makes. little spray of sand sprin kles over something that gisteH, brightly in the snn. The squaw stoop@ down and gathers up the diamond from the sky and wakes her Papoose to shake the new found gleaming trfnket plaything before its beady eyes
 Sc the days pass in Virginia and California alike. John Powell ceases to he q sheep herder, and. taking with him nearly S1eo000 cash in his but tered old valise, unknown to any mat he bids goodhy to his friends at the sheep ranch. and pausing only in Les Angeles To buy t becoming outfit ot business clothes, he goes to the adj cent oil fields to. as he says to him self erfmly buy himself rich,
 He writes to Esther. guardcdly aHi without signature from Los Angeles The letter reaches Esther in the nick of time Mrs Kandolph,s maid gives 1t to her. informing her that Mrs Stan= ley has issued orders thatif any lettef should come te Esther that it be d. Hvered t6 Mrs Stanley first
 The prosecutions If Blair StaaleF Zt5s.#ot..s= fat54tera lsls.ZaHd 4IIs## Esther H99 saHe. aefaatzA.to RIaIsZ motHae. sIf~ stanley has =saautcd HeH with the erucl retnrt that she lI.sther. iS q bc-gar on the houutz ef the moth er of tile man who houars Der with au offer af marriage
 F.tLee Mrs Stanley ieiiE reminds Es'Her tEat since Ea-ar has lost he. reason zua= traee=af the supposed Nea1fA of TI7.4e c4u be feaUd The operation Hceess4E9 t9 eestare lIasafes mind Nil cost 5sfaaa Ef Esther 51cePts Ria7 Air. iaf4r3t- her. tais meaes VIII ta art0omfns. aIsI The opocaF WI ! la "fpruIeG
 r aa the point If I7faer'@ t5n- to speak and d. lare herself for 05l4= she =tae leaitinaafc daa4Ater ef fas