The Springdale news., 1915-08-06

turned to see the judge on horseback down below. his army pistol leveled al her
 Hagar held up the child, not so much to shield herself as that its pretty in nocence might soften the hard heart ot the relentless pursuer But, whether by accident or design.will never be known the heavy explosion of the Dis tol echoed among the rocks, The bul let whistled past the ffnching Hagar and the terrified child. The horse rear- ed at the crack of the pistol throwing his rider. breaking tue neck Of the vengeful judge and flashing lis brains against q jagged rock
 Raising the child to her shoulder and supporting her there with her strong right hand, Hagar looked down upon her dead prosecutor and called upon him, with q gypsy's curse. the death of the vultures she had predicted for him when first they met Then she climb ed over tie summit of the ridge with her precious burden and was gone.
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 Eighteen years have passel -s.Gce Judge Stanleys shattered body was found i'll the mountains, the seal Of death upon his lips
 Behold Arthur stanley 2d, master of Stanley hall and wasting his sub stance ill riotous living.
 Behold Dr. Henry Lee, pressed with t.e weight of years, guardian of tine heir of Stanley and wondering what will the harvest he?
 The old eoIorcd nurse is dead, as is also the old colored factotum, Ned There is none alive that knows what really happened on that tragic night and in the tragic time that followed save the venerable old doctor and the gypsy woman whom he has sought for secretly, but in vain, through all these years.
 Willie Arthur stanley 2d caroases with his cousin and other wild c0npan- ions at Stanley hail and while old br. ! Lee muses in his study and wonders what will the harvest he. the harvest is close at hand. Fate, weaver Of desti- uies, in the shape of Hagar comes upon the scene.
 If the .loctor has wondered if i'll his hate of one dead man and his love for another he has not done wrong iIagar. queen of the gypsies, wonders. too, if 1 her vengeance has not gone all awfy Esther Stanley, or. as she is known Esther Harding, is beautiful and swectlv dispositioned young woman now The wild mother love Hagar bore for the son that was sold from her has passed to sweet Esther So if is that Haear returns to Virginia, re. ] solved again to sacrifice her very heart. X wild gypsy camp is no abiding place for a fair young girl of gentle blood.
 Hagar knows all the documents she took from Stanley hall when she ab ducted Esther. knows them by heart, as she knows every facet on the dia mond from the sky which she wrung that night from the dead hand of Colo nel Stanley. She would see her boy again in his manhood The wild hope possesses her that he may fall in love with Esther and that the secret that only two living people know shall rest lightly with the dead when Esther is mistress by marriage, if not bH right of Stanley hall.
 Her message for Dr. Lee is T written one It reads:
 have come back after eighteen years have had my revenge, but love tho girl. What shall be done with hera
 HAGAR HARDING.
 Esther only learns from the kindly lps of the doctor and the tremulouS ones of her supposed mother that a new life has opened for her. that sha must take her place in the society of the countryside as tie adopted daHeh ter of pr Lee as long arranged This K m shn knows; this is all she is tolG ...Lai- -lln-. Lnll.la.slllna sLa LII. :.