Arizona republican., 1915-10-31

glass. I have been good enough pal to you when you were sick and broke and Gp against it. And if it is worth anything suppose you yellow dog enough to hog it all! But this shows me just what you are. And if it's worth ten pins or ten millions, l want no part of it. you dirty. cheap four-flusher and snealsing swlne"'
 And they make coffee and cook no cakes. nor bite nor sup with each other: but with hatred and greed in their hearts they lie for the last time bIanketed side by side. One of them clutches the cursed jewel of murder and dissccson and t.e other cannot sleep for an aching anguish to wrest it from the wretched man who found it.
 In the library of the Powell mansion in far Los Angeles the soul strangIers speak of the diamond from the sky and wonder when it will come into their greedy hands
 came out here to get the diamond" says Durand: It will turn up; it always does. Meanwhile here are fat pickings. You" and he turned to Blair get every thing in your hands at the office that this poor boob upstairs has. I will take care that if he ever recovers in mind or body he will never cause any trouble Once morphine gets them. that's the end. We will have him lie down, sit up. roll over, and play dead-just as we say. Talk of black magic; it's nothing to white magic. morphine sulphate" And Durand held up a phial with a red label in which ror,ls small white tablets rattled
 Blair. who had been fretting and fuming in sulky silence. now sprang to his fe |. his face contorted with anger and diseu. t.
 " l do not claim to be a saint! I haze Arthur Stanley, and I have always hated him. He stands in my way. But I will have no part in murdering his manhood with drugs-feeding him slow poison of boGy soul, and mind, with smiling faces. Damn you, spit on you all"
 
 Durand and De Vaux though to spring, upon them.
 Yes, a fine bunch of cold blooded cow ardly murderers> for money, you two are.' hissed Blair, Durand and De Vaux re- garded him in silent amazement.
 And as for you," And Blair turned upon Vivian in her nurses garb and seized her by the wrist. "Take off this nasQue- rade! Let us kick out these vermin. and when Arthur Is well and strong I'll Et,l him, like a southern man kills his enemy man to man and face to face."
 You are a fine to spout heroics," sneered Vivian. Do you forget-' Then Vivian checked herself for though she sneered she admired Blair. He was a man for all his congenital perversity. She had no intention of tauntng him for his having murdered a weak old man-Dr. Lee-for the diamond from the sky
 Vivian reflected that even this guilt of
 
 possession of the diamond and panic at detection in the theft. After all. it was not the cold. insidious. slow murder-the strangling of a soul-the others purposed. Her face softened. look of admiration came into her eyes. she threw her arms around Blair and kissed him passionately. Durand and De Vaux slipped from the room. and Vivian held Blair in her em- braces and worked him to her will
 But his heart never was in the dastard work the drug thugs planned and carried through.
 In the wilderness twenty miles from the mining town of Mammoth two men slept in blankets beneath a dead tree burning at its base. Not far away the English lawyer footsore from his wanderngs had crouched in slum9 Der beneath the shelter of bush. In the night, bird and beast prey one upon another. even a does man An owl flew from the bush. Some furry marauder of the night pursued it. The worn Englishman awoke and fled In panic
 Beneath the dead tree Jack Williams woke from his titful dreams of the dia- mond and the desire that obsessed him for it. He the great dead tree was burned almost through at the bottom and wavered. It was on his lips to scream a warning to his sleeping comrade-but the diamond,
 There was crackle, tearing sound and then the great dead tree bent ana crashed down, crushing the sleeping man beneath it. A shower of sparks in the air from the ruptured base where the fire had eaten until the tree had fallen. Ere yet his writhing comrade died. Will Hams had despoiled him of the diamond from the sky, crushed against his breast by the fallen tree. Then with trembling hands the murderer for such he was. hitched the horse to the wagon and drove off in the night. holding the baleful dia- mond ever and in the light of the lantern the stanchion by the wagon seat.
 Marmaduke Smythe of London. legal representative of the Earls of Stanley, ran in panic through the woods Ills flight was arrested by a dead tree across his path. The base of this fallen tree burned and smoldered. Snythe looked down over it in the moonlight to the upuurned. contorted face of a dead man-another who had gained in life and lost in death the diamond from the sky
 ITO be continued.] .J