The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-08-20

/ The Diamond
From the Sky
By ROY L. McCARDELL
Cnovrasht lo1s hv pnv Mer.eA.al
Copyright. 1915 BY Roy L. MeCardeal
CONTINUED from page 81


and right In among the spectators.
When the horse reached the center
aisle, the crowd in panic breaking the
seats and benches rs they gave way
before horse and rider, Arthur turned
the gallant Starlight up this central
passage, waved to Esther and Hagar
% he Numbered by, then, hreasting his
horse at the back rail OF the stand, he
plunged with Starlight down from the
back OF the stand to the ground, some
fifteen feet below.
Never had such a wild feat Of horse
manship been beheld in Fairfax. home
Of wild riders.
As with one accord the panic passed
and tumult OF curiosity succeeded.
Men and women who had shrunk in
alarm from the hoofs reverberating
through the wooden ways of the grand
stand now rushed in one accord up the
atsles and over the benches and In
wOnderment beheld steed and rider,
the dizzy leap made In safety, disap-
pearing in the distance
Among those who had rushed up the
aisle were Mrs. Judge Stanley's party
and Hagar and Esther AS the gallant
horse and rider disappeared In cloud
Of dust down the road Vivian Marston
turned and, with heaving breast and
MASKING eyes, openly voiced her adj
miration.
There is man." she cried, "who is
worth a woman's whiler'
Esther shrank back at the words,
spoken, as 1t seemed, to her. She felt
Z chill at her heart, and from that mo-
ment she realized that this woman had
crossed her path in life and Arthur's
Ike some baleful and yet beautiful
serpent.
The mounted knights charged through
the gateway in pursuit. The sheriff,
tossing the key of the handouts to
Blair, had gained his horse and had
followed after the pursuers.
Shielding and hiding the dangling
handcuff as best he could, for In his
nervousness he could not open the lock
upon his wrist, Blair cursed Quabba,
~ grinning hunchback organ grinder,
md rejoined his mother and her
friends.
He had loosened the handcun at
last but the mocking Vivian had In
alsted 1t be retained as souvenir of
what she termed "the leap OF the white
Knight"
30 ended the last masked tourna-
1aent OF the knights of Fairfax, and
the excited dowagers and maidens
wsfe driven to their homes recounting
the exciting events Of the day, while
their husbands, brothers and fathers,
who had come on horseback, were far
n. their way in hot pursuit of the
fugitive
The day had been too much for Mrs.
Burton Randolph's poor nerves. as
she expressed 1t. She regarded her
FAIRFAX relatives with smoldering ami.
monty.
What had the Fairfax Stanleys done
Int break up her ball in Richmond with
4 shameful attendant notoriety?a And
now when she had come to Fairfax to
forgot another horrid contretemps had
occurred to further rack her already
shattered nervous system.
She resolved to return to Richmond
and seek seclusion and. II possible, for
getfulness there.
Some twenty miles away the Month
ool1o hunt was riding to hounds. The
monticello hunt. rival social organ
lsation OF the next county, made 1t
point to hold a fox hunt always upon
the day that the elite of Fairfax coun-
~ held their masked old time tourna-
ment II yon were socially prominent
IN Monticello you must consider that
no such thing as the Fairfax tourna-
ment ever took place. In turn, the old
families of Fairfax likewise ignored
the Monticello hunt with its throng of
fox pursuers.
Arthur's daring and dramatic escape
had given him considerable lead over
his pursuers. This lead he increased
considerably, and he had Quieted Star
Hight to less strenuous pace on an I'M
freQuented road some fifteen miles
from Fairfax when he beheld the Mon
ticello hunt in full cry after q wary
old dog fox crossing the fields some
several hundred yards ahead. Starlight
was an old fox hunter.
Reused to renewed life and his IA
tigue passing from him at the baying
Of the hounds and the crying Of the
huntsmen, Arthur's no longer .jaded
horse turned briskly from the road and
made after the chase.
Arthur let Starlight follow his bent,
noting that the way he was taking
across the fields was a shorter route
to the safety and shelter of the Smith
farm.
A small colored boy driving frac-
tious pig beheld with much interest
and some alarm the travel stained man
and the horse Join In the fox chase as
he had drawn to the side Of the road
to let Arthur pass.
The cplOred lad had been nearly
bowled over by the hunt stirred Star
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