The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-09-04

sturuy coHSIltutiOn Ol Tue gypsy ~ w
be credited Luke Lowell is brought
back from the Jaws of death.
1t is a strange fate. the gypsy thinks.
when he can think coherently, that 1t
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 aud 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.
II don't know what he had run away |
for" growled Luke. but whatever II !
was it had been squared. for found
out he was going back to Richmond.
But now that you have saved my life
In this God forsaken desert I'll do you
favor-a big favor. know some
thing that the other Stanleys would
give all they have to know. What will
you give me II 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
him. He knows what Luke would tell
him. Just Mt this time John Powell
desires to buy the silence Of the treach
erous and ungrateful gypsy.
81 have $500 that | have saved" Is
John PowelI's reply. 81 never de-
tire to be known again as Arthur Stan
ley. But have reasons why | do not
wish the secret you possess to be
! spread broadcast FOR the present Yor
are all right now. Take this money
and go to the devil with it! But wheth-
er killed DR.. Lee or not, | will kill
you If you ever say Qne word of what
you know. One thing more. Who told
you?'
"Hagar Harding" lied Luke Lowell
| glibly. Then, seeing an incredulous
look in the others eyes, he added sur
lily: "Hagars gone daffy; that's why
she told me. But she don't talk to any.
body now, and / know she didn't tell
anybody else. They would only think
she was raving II she did. Mrs. Stan
ley has taken her to Richmond to an
asylum. Mrs. Stanley has the girl
Esther with her. They are at Mrs.
Randolph's, where the ball was" adds
Luke.
John Powell breathed a sigh of re-
lief. Then all Is well with Esther at
least. He does not question Lowell
further, realizing II Lowell knew aught
concerning Esther the gypsy would
have blurted 1t out.
And so Luke Lowell, gypsy black
mailer. and John Powell, sheep her
der. part But as the gypsy goes
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 he
half believes that 1t was but figment
OF his heat craZed brain.
Some miles across the desert travels
desert Indian family They have
: two horses. One the buck rides at his
ease, and the other drags travels
the two rude poles fastened to the
horse, the ends of which drag across
|
the Indians goods and chattels.
Beside the travois trudges the squaw
On her back her papoose sleeps. strap
ped to its board, in the sun.
= Across the desert the travels scratch
es its way. The eyes of the squaw
fall upon the fresh tracks that 4
makes. A little spray of sand sprin
kles over something that gllstenS
brightly in the sun. The squaw stoop'
down and gathers up the diamond from
the sky and wakes her papoose L
shake the new found cleaning trinke
j plaything before It's bcady eyes.
= So the days pass in Virginia ant
California alike. John Powell ceases
to be a sheep herder, and, taking witt
him nearly 100000 cash in his bat
I tered old valise, unknown to any man
J. he bids goodby to his friends at tn,
sheep ranch, and pausing only In Lo
Angeles TO buy becoming outfit o
: business clothes, he goes TO the ada
cent oil fields to, as he says to him
p self grimly, buy himself rich!
J. He writes to Esther, guardedly an,
| WllnOul signature, rum ldpS AHStltr
u The letter reaches Esther In the nlcj
3 of time. Mrs. Randolph's maid give
e It to her, informing her that Mrs. Stan
; ley has issued orders that If any lette
e should come to Esther that II be dc
G livered to Mrs. Stanley hrst.
n The prosecutions of Blair Stanle
5 have become intolerable, and whe
Esther has gone dehanuy to Blair
b mother Mrs. Stanley has tainted he
l. with the cruel retort that she (Esthoi
e is a beggar on tile bounty Of the mott
p err of the man who hon0rs her with II
e offer of marriage,
e Further, Mrs. Stanley icily remind
II Esther that since Hagar has lost he
reason no trace OF the supposed wealt
l. of Hagnr can he found. The operatio
n necessary torestore Hagar's mind wi
p cost $1,000 II Esther accepts Blai
Mrs Stanley il forms her, this none
t will be forthcoming, and the operatio