The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-17
By ROY Il. me- CARDELL
BY Roy L. ncCordeH


York, as he called her, meaning |,
glance.
Let bygones be bygonesr Abe |
Bloom snarled at his brother. "Vi
didn't lose II on purpose. | have tele-
phoned for Tom Blake, whom | con.
slider the smartest detective In this
country. He does what you pay him
to do and keeps his mouth shut. II
the diamond is in Richmond Blake will
find It,"
In few moments the suave and ret
icent Mr.. Blake arrived. Placed In pos.
session of all the facts the Blooms and
Vivian could give him, he remarked
that he would do his best. and the first
and last meeting of the syndicate to
find the diamond from the sky broke
up and the detective departed.
He was followed shortly afterwnrd
by Miss Marston of New York, whose
Richmond society friends would have
been shocked beyond expression did
they know she paid an occasional Sc.
cret visit to the establishment of Abe
Bloom.
Meanwhile where Is the diamond
from the sky? 1t Is not n pearl to be
cast before swine, nor Is 1t fated to
remain the tinsel plaything Of negro
lad who Is n herder of swine.
In the frayed and dirty dress suit,
all the dirtier for its Jail stains, Mr..
Strap MCGEE makes across country,
cursing his luck. He pauses by q pig
pen to play a grim and intensely prac-
teal Joke on negro boy bent over
the sty. Mr.. Strap MCGEE picks up
barrel stave and applies 1t to the per
son OF the bent over negro lad.
Then Mr.. MCGEE notes the boy. in
sudden pain and fright, has dropped
some bnublc plaything into the swill OF
the swine. Mr.. McGee is not fastid
| Gus. He fishes out the bauble.
1t is the diamond from the sky!
And 1t looks good to Mr.. MCGEE, and
| he fees with 1t at his best speed, fol-
| lowed by n shower of rocks from the
colored pig boy, bereft of the sparkling
thing he found In an owls nest.
Richmond is not far away, and Mr..
| Strap MCGEE has some loose change
he won ut gaming IN the jail. He pro-
ceeds TO imbibe, biding his time to dis
pose of the bauble hidden I'm his rags.
But when he drops into the curio
shop, opium den joss house maintained
by Chinese acquaintance, his tipsy
vanity impels him to show the baublc
to the crafty Hung Ii, priest, den
/ keeper and tong leader.
1t Is Il fatal thing to do, for luck has
been bad with Hung Ii and his friends.
The police have closed their gambling
! joint and shut down on opium smolx.
ing. Hung Ii believes that the god Of
the sky, the great god Lung, needs
propitiating, and then he will bring
back good luck In plenty.
Has word from the diamond from
the sky Travelled to China and back
The efligy of the great god Lung is in
its sanctuary in the next room, and
Lung is the god Of the sky. The body
of a strangled tramp Is dropped through
trap door, and the diamond from the
sky is hung about the neck of the great
god Lung.
This night Mrs. Burton Randolph
would a Summing go. Blair and Miss
Marston are all the little party, and
Tom Blake, the detective, is to be their
guide. A significant glance of caution
and silence passes between the de
tective and Miss Marston when they
meet again.
The Chinese quarter, with its joss
house, Is the first place they visit. The
willy Hung Ii wishes no visitors to the
inner sanctuary of his joss, the great
god Lung, but Blake will not be de
MED.
He says his friends have come espe
cially to burn incense for good lucl
before the great god Lung. And sc
they enter the sanctuary and behold
on the breast Of Lung the diamond
from the sky!
Detective as he is, and, possessing
great and evil powers In the eyes Of
Hung Ii, Blake and his friends are
forced from the place. The ladies
Mrs. Randolph again in state o.
nerves." are sent home, and Blak,
from the nearest telephone summons
Abe Bloom and his brother.
Meanwhile an English lawyer has ar
rived at the Randolph house seeking
Blair Stanley. Determined upon hi
quest, the lawyer gets directions ant
arrives ut the joss house. Hung l.
and his confreres will have none o
the London lawyer.
But the exasperated MarmadukC
Smythe will not be denied. He says
he knows the persons he is searching
for are inside this beastly Chinese
place.
Here now he Is, REINFORCED by thu
| excited and money profferlng Abraham
Ind Isaac Bloom and the equally ur
gent but mere self controlled private
detective, Tom Blake
The investing allies, English, lrisl
and Hebrew, surge In upon the In
i trenched Chinese. The struggle OF tn,
invaders to gain the sanctuary and gc
/, for money or by force the diamond