The Springdale news., 1915-07-30

is idle for you to rave. have told you. you have aneurism Of the heart, and another attack like this may be your death You cannot hope to live to marry wife who may yet bear you a soii.'
 T will never marry again cried Colonel Stanley iu anguish T have loved but one woman,# could love but one woman, and she is dead. But, by heavens, l will cheat Lamar Stanley and nil his brood. I have $5ooo fn wonder safe I will buy the male child born to the gypsy woman. l will hide away my own flesh and blood. my lit tie daughter. and nave her reared ten derly. yet in secret And the gypsy's brat at my death shall be the Earl of Stanley in England and possess the diamond from the sky That will he fine for Lamar Stanley and his yermin offspring" And he laughed and shook his hands in bitter rage
 T mean if, and you must help me. You hate Lamar Stanley for he ruined you. Nanny Lucy hates him. He killed her twin brother in cold blood. tome.'
 IH the glow If his campfire Matt Harding gazed gfeelily 1t the wealth Hesead his widest dreams that Colo nel stanley hal reused him from his ttfttl sittmber 10 pour into his iap. ttasaf. reused from her fevefed dreams, felt her babe being lifted from her bosom. The rural gypsy husband and father seized her by the throat IS she feehIy struggled. He gagged and hound her hastily as he might and emerged panting from the tent. carry ins tlfe swaddlea babe which he hand ed to the colonel and the doctor.
 Does HF wife obieet?. he asked to tAte doctors question Say governors she would sell every child she expects h have for half the money. Well be twenty miles away ty sunrise and if ty niles more hx another day VII i7s eYpsy= kings atl queens and SeaslI aetef hear of Hs again.
 Back at Stanley hail the doctor aud fhe colonel entered secretly bg the ii. 1 - a4 Al4lI90 IIttt i11It iIe f31DE AP= 7titifs 10 the waiting nurse. Reluctant g and fet resolved like aE He Test. fhe faithful colored nurse .Irfaxrl In. gypsy child iH fire linen and hung about it's neck tine diamond from He sky. while =the little daughter. born to stanley hall uhmperea beside is fair daad mother
 .lH answer to the summons to Sts4n-= Icy hall eane Judge stanley, tie kins= nan enemy aa5 fhe English bar4istef.Z
 II WIS l strange group Int gathered ia-the. .eolenets= =lihfary. English balfisfer. the grim bitterly aisapnoint= F1 judge silently faeing pr Lee and 1 Colonel stanley.
 =A fHIl 1t the bell rope and the weep. HE =eo1ofea nurse entered the library bearing the black haired. dark eyed babe. | taale#ehfla= in stanley hail. pre- sumptiye hetr to all English earldom. and blazing on it's breast was the dia- mond from the sky.
 Over the gypsy campfire within the sound of q human call from Stanley hall q bereft and frenzied mother tore herself loose from her bontis. Like tigress she threw herself upon her husband and demanded her child. When lie told her If the bargain and showed her the money that came from l il she cursed him and tl1e gold md, seizing iagee1 burning billet from the l fire. she struck Matt Harding down and, leaving hiin prone en tie - md. l she rushed te Stahel hall ta rees.il her 1 tirSthatn
 The gypsY foused himself from the ] stunning b5aN aGzl t.astenea afr. ter ere she could spoil all his greedy