The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-11-19

| Is idle for you 10 rave have told
you. you have nneurism Of the heart.
and another attack like this may be
your death. You cannot hope 10 live
to marry a wife who may yet hear you .
q son"
~ will never marry AGAIN. cried
Colonel Stanley In anguish. II have
loved but one woman. could love but
one woman. and she X dead. But, by
heavens. / viii cheat Lamar Stanley
and all his brood, have 5000 In
yonder safe. will buy the male child
born to the gypsy woman viii hide
away nay own 1csh aud blood, my III
tie daughter. and have her reared ten
derry, yet In secret And tho gypsy's
brat at my death shall be tho Earl OF
stnnley in England nnd possess the
diamond from the Sky That will be
hne for Lamar STANLEY and his yermin
ofrsprngr And he laughed and shook
bis hands IN bitter rage
~ mean II, 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.
Conner
In the glow Of his campGrc Matt
Harding gazed greedIly at the wealth
beyond his widest dreams that Colo
mel stanley had reused him from his
htful slumbcr 10 pour into his lap.
Hngar reused from her feyered
dreams f-lt her babe being lifted from
her bosom. The rural gypsy husband
and father seized her by the throat as
she feebly struggled lie gagged and
bound her hastily ms he might and
emerged painting from the tent carry.
ing Che swHlilcd blhe which he hand
ed 10 the colonel mud the doctor
Does NY wife ohjccty he asked TO
the doctors question. SAY governors,
ahc would ,cll every child she expects
to have Tor h1lf the money Wen be
twenty miles away ~ sunrise and fif-
ty miles more by another day Wen
be gypsy Kings and queens and you'll
never hear NJ ~ again
Back nt Stanley hall the doctor and
the colonel entered secretly by the H.
brdry window and bore the babe up
stairs 10 the waiting nurse Reluctant
ly and yet resolved IKE an the rest,
the faithful rolorcd nurse arraycd the
Fyrsy child IN fine linen and hung
about ~ necb "tho diamond from the
sky" while fhc little daughter. born to
Stanley hail whimprrcd beside H. fair
dead mother
In answer 10 the summons 10 Stan.
Icy han came Judge stanley the kins
nun enemy and the English barrlsier.
Il was strange group that gathered
90 the yolouers library. the English
barrister. the grim. bitterly disnrpolnt
cd Judge. silently facing Dr. Lee and
Colonel stanley
A pull a, he hill rule and thc weep
Ing colorrd nurse entered the library
bearing tho black haired. dark eyed
tdbs. a male child IN Stanley hall, pre-
nmptive heir 10 an English earldom,
and blazing M It's breast WIS the dlh
mond FROM the sky.
over the gypsy campfire within the
sound " human cali from stanley
hall iereft and frenzled mother tor
herself loose from her bonds Like .
tigresg. she threw herself upon her
husband and demanded her child.
when he told her N tho bargain and
showed her the money thnt came from
u ahe cursed him md the gold md.
leizlng iarrcd burning billet from 'ho
arn rhc struck Matt Harding down
and. leaving him prone on Tho ground.
she rushed iu stanley ta'l 90 regain hcr
NrthuW
Tho gypsy reused himself FROM me
stunning blow Hrl HH.'rnol af'or Hcr
o-r ahr could spoil 900 hI7 greedy