The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-31

reception room and listened. He over
heard enough to realize that Blair
Stanley's return was being arranged,
and he knew this BODIED no good to his
fair young mistress.
After the detective and gambler had
departed, Quabba sent his ambassador
and collector of external revenue. Clar.
ence. the monkey. up the wistaria vines
to the upper chamber. which he sur
missed might be Esther's
He was right In his surmIse. Esther.
who. like Mrs. Randolph. had with.
drawn when visitors on private bust.
ness had been announced for Mrs
Stanley, was In her room.
The chattering of the monkey on her
window sill reused Esther from a rev.
erie of Arthur and with glad cry
she ran to the window and Rugged the
affectionate little beast and waved
welcome 10 the smiling Quabba below.
Then Quabba laid his finger to his lips
as sign of secrecy. yanked the string
to recall his ambassador and departed
Beside the track In the glaring Cali.
fornia desert. Arthur Stanley. or. as
he calls himself. John Powell. lay
stunned after being thrown from the
Overland limited, which he had board.
ed from horseback as the train had
painted up the grade I'm the desert.
He had meant to warn the trainmen
Of the robbers lying In wait for them.
but they had imagined him n desper-
ado single handedly attempting hold
up and had thrown him off.
His horse rs all horses he handled.
loved him. The faithful and affection
ate creature reused him by nosing at
him. Arthur. half stunrad, mounted
his affectionate four footed friend and
| galloped after the train. At the top of
the grade the ambushed robbers halt
| ed the express with an obstruction on
| the track too great to be risked by the
| engineer endeavoring to pass through
| II.
When Arthur arrived upon the scene
two robbers were In the express car
and two were going through 1.-THE Pull
mans. Another had compelled the fire.
| men to uncouple the locomotive and
covering the engineer. had made him
drive the detached machine up the
track some distance from the standing
J train.
! Scarce knowing what he did, Arthur
galloped by and, mounting the engine
ut the end of the tender from his
horses back, grappled with the lone
robber covering the engineer.
A desperate struggle followed by the
furnace door Selling a large wrench
the engineer aimed blow at the rob.
! Der struggling with Arthur, but the
blow missed foe and hit friend, and Ar.
thur was stretched senseless on the
firing board. The robber. with a curse
| jumped from the engine and ran, re.
joining his companions.
| In one of the Pulmans Vivian Mars.
ton, who was now Mrs. Blair Stanley
' the two travelling as MIR. and Mrs
Guy Peyton"-were among those held
at pistols point. An envious woman
passenger to whom Vivian had shown
the diamond from the sky had betray.
f, ed the fact she possessed 1t. Despite
her pleadings, cajolements and even
curses-curses that were chorused by
the chagrined Blair-the chuckling rob
bers bore Off the great gem with their
other booty. Laden with sack OF
valuables, and, taking also 100000 In
bank notes from the express messen
ger, the robbers decamped.
| Within a few hours the sheriff and
his posse of deputies and railroad de
tectives were hot on the trail, and
John Powell" sheep herder, after be
ing lionized few brief moments. was
back ut his lonely occupation.
Vivian, despoiled of the jewel fol
which she would have risked her soul
reproaches herself and her raging
bridegroom that they did not die glorl
ously In defending 1t. In her bittel
rage Vivian taunts Blair by telling hin
she only married him to gain the dia
mond, and, now that 1t is gone, he
must go and regain 1t or see her NJ
more.
In vain he protests. She threatens Il
give him over to the police and deserts
him at Los Angeles and wires to Alb,
Bloom Ia Richmond telling of the loss
of the diamond and asking for funds
The deserted and raging Blair pawn'
what possessions the train robbers
have left him. and under his assumed
name of Peyton hides In n mean no
tel after writing to his relative, Mrs
Burton Randolph, to intercede for hin
with his mother
Far Off Ia the desert Businesses the
pursuit Of the posse after the trail
robbers Is hotly on \ shot and thu
rearmost saddle Of the fleeing outlaw
ls empty. But as the outlaw falls tn,
diamond from the sky that he hu'
clawed out from the sack of yaluahlc'
flies from his now nervcless hand auC
lies gllttering but unnOticed by ciumI
of cacti as the posse thunders by.
Another shot goes home. and the
foremost outlaw drops from his sad
die. Another shot and his riderles'
|