Arizona republican., 1915-06-27

Hagar, comes upon the scene.
 If the doctor has wondered if in his hate of dead and his love for another he has not done wrong, Hagar, queen of the gypsies, wonders, too, if her vengeance has not gone all awry. Esther Stanley-or, as she is known, Esther Harding-s beau tiful and sweety dispositioned young now. The wild mother love Hagar bore for the son that sold from her has passed to sweet Esther. So it is that Hagar re. turns to Virginia resolved again to sacrifice her very heart. wild gypsy camp is no abiding place for a fair young girl of gentle blood, matter how guarded
 HaEar knows all the documents she took from Stanley hall when she abducted Esther, knows them by heart as she knows every facet the diamond from the sky, which she wrung that night from the dead hand of Col. Stanley. She would see her boy again in his manhood. The wild hope possesses her that he may fall in love with Esther and that the secret that only two living people know shall rest lightly with the dead when Esther is mistress by marriage, if not by right. of Stanley hall.
 Her message for Dr. Lee is a written one It reads:
 have come back after eighteen years. I have had my revenge but I love the girl. What shall be done with her?
 "HAGAR HARDING"
 Comes, then, old Dr. Henry Lee. IT, is not surprised the aged seldom are They have seen too mucn
 Esther only learns from the kindly lips of the doctor and the tremulous ones of her supposed mother that new life has opened for her; that she must take her place in the society of the countryside as the adopted daughter of Dr. Lee, as long ago arranged. This is all she knows. this is all she s told. as with her belongings she bids weeping alieu to the stern but kindly syrsy woman she has known as mother all her conscious years. And she rides away the doctors daughter from the gypsy camp.
 Hardly has the doctors carriage lcuarte1 than Luke Lowell, Hagar's head Inon. il given command to strike camp. In an n- stant all is hustle and confusion. w tdn m hour Hagar and her tribe are on their way. Tn three months. though the proud women of the neighborhood look askance. Esther IS the belle of the countryside. The vine c'II porch of the doctors old house secs nightly gathered there the young sparks of Fairfax. Then comes night in June and in tbe moonlight are four young men all paying cour: to the happy Esther Chief among them are the Stanley cousins. Arthur and Blair. Some slight attention to his cousin. Blair. rouseS Arthur to a temper of jealousy Prcttily re- huked by Esther, Arthur leaves in huff. Then Esther vents her coquettish dispoasure upon the till then triumphant Elair. a1,l To. now angry also. arises and departs. lcaying the field to two swans, where just previous ly were four.
 In his study that overlooks the garden at the side the old doctor is gazing wondering Iy in the light of the study lamp at the dia- mond from the sky.
 Sulkily straying by the house, in his jeai- ousy and anger, Blair Stanley the light gleamins from the study. Curious, and not overnice in his curiosity, he peers through the window. lie starts back, cleDching his hands. He remembers the oft whis- pered suspicious of his mother: Dr. Lee was alone with Col. Stanley when he died. who else but he has taken and hidden away the Stanley heirloom, the diamond from the sky?"
 The obsession of the desire for this price less Stanley heirlom has been born and bred in Blair Stanley. He hies away. but tha, night when the swans have long rartcl and the good doctor and the fair Esther have long retired to slumber, Blair Stanley returns prepared to break in and bear away the diamond from the sky.
 In the library at Stanley hall the young heir of Stanley muses and dreams in soft ened mood of Esther. His guitar lies near al In his minds eye he himself serenadips sweet Esther Lee. as she is now called, anl begging her gentle pardon in tho moouiigbt. should she come to her window to listen. The romantic idea suits his mood. He takes the guitar and hastens again to the doctor, house.
 Blair Stanley has clambered through thu study window, closed. it, and drawn tie shade. He has softly lit the doctors -tudy lamp and riaed the drawer of the oId tary and the cash box it holds. He has seized the diamond from the sky and clasped it in asitated ecstasy upon his bosom. Then upon his guilty cars falls the strain of guitar. He hides the diamond and the chain and lockct that holds it beneath hs collar and under his shirt.
 Meanwhile, sleeping the slight sIumher Of the aged. the old doctor has been aroused " the opening of the window Candle in hand. he descends to his study and enters just as the last Gleam from the diamond in the iamplight is shrouded by the shirt of the thief in the night There is a quick, sharp