Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-10-28

doctors gate. The footprints were OF
we'll shod men OF small and shapely
feet. II was reported No passing rough
marauders. no outlaw negro desper-
ADDE'S had part In the murder and rob.
berry IA the doctor study nor had ANY
such struggled In deadly combat IN hl,
garden. 1t Was whispered The matter
was mystery as well rs murder. and
the morbid neighbors gathered la aud
around the cottage or the dead mAn
and whispered greedily
Meanwhile the dazed and bleeding
Blair Stanley had strange home Dom
ing In the night His mother. that
proud. cold woman. worthy mate Of
the grim judge who had persisted
strangely In Wild mountain pass
nearly generation agonc. ,ed her
sou seemingly only through her cold
ambitions
You do not know when day may
come that you may be In position to
save the life OF the belr OF Stanley"
she had said often significantly. Blair
understood his mother well
II was known by all the Stanleys
that the diamond from the sky had
vanished strangely the night Colonel
Stanley had expired alone IN his H.
brary. this preceding by few days
only the tragic death OF Judge Stanley
In the mountain pass. also. It was
thought. alone.
This was eighteen years ago. but the
Stanley feud was not dead with Its
prOtagonists. those elder men OF that
elder day. II slumbered In the bosom
Of the younger generation. II smolder
ed hidden, yet burning not the less. IN
the bosom OF the judges taciturn wild
ow. Blair's mother. She had always
believed with bitter suspicion that
encompassed all OF the long dead Colo
mel Stanley's friends that Dr. Lee had
taken the diamond from the sky I'm
the confusion attending the colonels
sudden demise
DR.. Lee was a relative OF Judge
Stanley's widow. for all the better
families OF Fairfax were OF kith and
Kin. The judges widow believed the
doctor held the great diamond In his
secret custody If for nothing else than
to keep 1t from the hands OF the judges
FAMILY through any legal process they
might attempt during the minority OF
Arthur Stanley I'd.
Hence II was that when the nerve
shattered Blair. with ashen face and
bloody brow, confessed to his waiting
mother that he had seen the diamond
In DR.. Lees aged hands she was not
surprised. When he half incoherently
admitted to her that the old doctor had
died In the struggle for the diamond
she expressed no conjunction for the
doctors death or revulslon ut the deed
or her son that caused IT,
But when he told her that Arthur
Stanley, the one life that stood he
tween them and all their ambitious
uesires' had been In the grasp OF Blair
uid her mood of austere Interest change
to cold fury.
You need not add your reproaches
10 my own" painted her son. "But It
was luck, the devils luck, that all at
STANLEY hall possess. would have
Killed MIN. 1t was In my mind. In my
heart.
But he wrested the pistol from my
hand as though from the hand of a
child. and he dragged me out of the
YARD down the deserted village street
TO the graveyard to kill me and rob me
OF the diamond with the ease of n
giant"
WeIl'' said his mother. I'VE must
nope Tor another. better chance Mean
while II you are sure that your strug-
gles were not seen you had better lie
nldden until | can learn what suspi-
cions are aroused. II you are missed
VIII say you are gone to Richmond.
Even II Arthur Stanley hears no more
or you he Will think still that he has
siain you. He will keep silent"