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Arizona republican., 1915-07-04

His mother nodded, and then, seeing the dawn was breaking by the growing light out side she crossed the room to the old fashioned fireplace and pressed q hidden spring. With wondering eyes Blair saw the whole fireplace from hearthstonc to ceiling turn one cen ter pivot and swing half out into the room and half ba ok into q great recess in the wall.
 "A hiding place built y your Tory great grandfather said his mother. Fairfax was ali for the American arms during the revolu- tion, all except your great-grandfatheT. Washington accused him of hiding and har- boring spies for king George, but though they searched here they never found them." she added grimly.
 In the niche behind the chimney Blair noted q small bench, or pallet, a reading lamp of old design, and sundry other crude com forts.
 "You will find it comfortable enough" re- marked his mother.
Arizona republican., 1915-07-04

in the dooryard and the trampling of the feet of what appeared several struggling men in the flower beds that bordered the walk to the doctors gate The footprints were of we'll shod men of small and shapely feet, it was reported No passing rough marauders, no outlaw negro desperadoes, had part in the murder and robbery in the doctors study, nor had any such struggle in deadly combat in his garden, it was whispered. The matter mystery as well as murder, and the morbid neighbors gathered in and around the cottage of the dead man and whispered greedily.
 Meanwhile the dazed and bleeding Blain Stanley had strange homecoming in the night. His mother, that proud cold woman, worthy mate of the grim judge who had per ished strangely in a wild mountain pass near ly generation agone. loved her seemingly only through her cold ambitions.
 You do not know when a day may come that you may be in position to save the life
Arizona republican., 1915-07-04

of the heir of Stanley" she had said often significantly. Blair understood his mother we'll
 It was known by all the Stanleys that the diamond from the sky " had vanished strange ly the night Col. Stanley had expired alone in his library, 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. It slumbered in the bosom of the younger generation; it smol. dered hidden, yet burning not the less, in the bosom of the judges taciturn widow, Bar's mother. She mad always believed with a bitter suspicion that encompasscd all of the long dead Col. Staniey's friends that Dr. Lee had taken " the diamond from the sky y'' in the confusion attending the colonel's sudden de- mise. pr. Lee was q relative of Judge Stanley's widow, for all the better fam flies of Fairfax were either of kith or kin. The judges widow believed the doctor held the great diamond in his secret custody if for nothing else than to keep it from the hands of the judges family through any legal process they might attempt during the minor ity of Arthur Stanley II.
 Hence it was that when the nerve shattered Blair, with ashen face and bloody brow, con- fessed to his waiting mother that he had seen the diamond in Dr. Lees aged hands she was not surprised. When he half incoherently ad- mitted to her that the old doctor had died in the struggle for the diamond she expressed no compunction for the doctors death or vulsion at the deed of her son that caused it.
 But when he told her that Arthur Stanley, the one life that stood between them and all their ambitious desires, had been in the grasp of Blair did her mood of austere interest change to cold fury.
 " You need not add your reproaches to my own," panted her son. " But it was luck, the devils luck, that all at Stanley Hall possess! I would have killed him, it 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 of a giant"
 "Well," said his mother, we must hope for another, better chance" Meanwhile, if you sure that your struggles were not seen you had better lie hidden until I learn what suspicious are aroused. If you are missed, I will say you gone to Rich mond. Even if Arthur Stanley hears no more ot you he will think still that he has slain you. He will keep silent"
 The flush of hope came back to the ashen face of Blair Stanley. !" I remember now" he said; [" we trampled upon his guitar in the doctors garden in our struggles. He will be accused of causing the doctors death and who will believe him if he in turn blames me? l will keep hidden, as you say, mother. The fact that he has the diamond and the doctor had it in his keeping mp to his death will damn him. Thinking me dead he may fly who knows?"
Arizona republican., 1915-07-04
SYNOPSIS OF PREcEpr2n CHAPTERS.

SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
 A bitter feud has eXIs.ed between Col. Arthur etAnisy and his cousin. Judge Lamar Stanley. ousy over heirloom. % ths ulSiuuu,t from the scNenturer ancestor The feud is further aug n.euted by the fact that the succession to the American stanley. When daughter is born to Go! StaA.ey of the eldest branch ot Inc stanleys in America, and the mother Of tLe ehi4d dies at It's birth. the chagriued colonel buys new born sylsy boy and substitutes hin having had Lo parl in this bargain. steals Inc coloHefs little G- ushte- being reared irt secret. nlot.d from tIe x Ev s--I he i,rosre,tfVe hsi- frou tLe sjtV aT s .Sori,I'lert that soid. tn- staneN secret Of the faise heir She rears tLs Att!e eiF4; Esther StaIley. as her own anu beautiful young s!rl Hsgar- now ey psy queen rfght me wror's tI.t lss been dlt.e fe- hv m, Stanleys, and the wrong she has done the stan the late Col StanI-y7s old friend may now adopt Esther. as originally intended. Her hope ley II may fa!l in love wi.h Esther and thus the innocent girl may become uy marriage what she Is by birth-ul.stress Of Stanley hall. In sll this Hagar the gypsy qVeen. sees tulhl
 meLt Of all her hope>-heI own soE master o: Stanley hall. pozSessor of co the diamond fran tit!s and sso the sweet gtr.- Esther cheated or her b.tthTigAt. sharing al! this good fortune and great honor. Dr. Lee readily agrees adopt Esther. but also demands that Hagar turn over to his custody '- the diamond rom the sky Dr. Lee also Informs HagAr that her eon. the supposed Arthur stanley 1T Is prof hsate and not worthy of Es-her BUt Haear hopes Tor the best and with her people departs. Arthur Stanley does fall in love with Esther. sEd so does hls boon companion Blair Stanley. the cousin who would be'the rightful male air of Stanley were the StaHley secret known. 6lAlr gets a glimpse of D-. Lee In Els study tx- AnllEing the diamond from the sky" K.sir'5 proud, cold mother has always be ieN-7i Dr Lee had the diamond Blair in endeANOring to steal the diamond causes the death of the old doctor Tn escaping from the doctor house al midnight with the 3iamOud Elsir encounters Arthur n To has 10 sersnade Esther
Arizona republican., 1915-07-04

Come at once, dear mother; I need you" She simply signed it. Esther"
 From her lattice window she released her feathered messenger, and with beating heart she the bird wheel twice above the house. top and then dart, high up, swiftly to the west, straight as the arrow flies. The sheriff and his deputy were not long in reaching Stanley hall. They alighted with businesslike chatter, and the sheriff clumped up the steps and across the wide, hospitable portico and made the great iron knocker wake the echoes of the silent mansion. With an indicative gesture of his thumb he had sent his deputy to guard the rear
 Joe the natty nd worldly wise colored man servant of the until recently wild young ter of Stanley hall, wondering at the i'm pudent urgency of the nor that had aroused him as he reached the bottom of the staircase, when he stood stock still, shaken for once out of his usual superior airs and selfpossession. to behold his young master wild eyed and disheveled, rush from the li- brary and seize him. exclaiming as he did so Don't open that door. l have killed man, and they after me.
 
 the erstwhile dandy darky ciung for support ill the weakness of his fright at the pedestal of the balustrade at the foot of the old colo nal staircase.
 Still the sheriff hammered at the door, cry ing stentoriously, Open in the name of the lawi' and still the frightened darky clung to the balustrade, divided in his terror between the awful authority of the law that he was disobeying and in fear of the fate this till now sophisticated servitor had felt for his young master
 One glance from the lew French windows that looked from he library upon the grounds at the back of Stanley hall and Arthur was aware of the watchful deputy, with drawn pistol.
 At this juncture the automobile agent from Richmond came with honking horn up the driveway, with one of the first automobiles that had ossayed tie road of Fairfax. With the agent who proudly drove the red French racer, was an oily and grimy garage mechanic driving a low, old, but powerful seated garage handy car, battered and scared from much hard service, but still strong, speedy, and dependable.
 The sheriff hammered and kicked unavail- ingly at the stout, great white door as these new fangled contraptons," as he called them, drove up to the portico steps. "I am the sheriff., he eXplaineu to the wondering automobile man. q am after a man for murder, and I summon you to aid me- The taciturn garage mechanic brought a heavy iron jack from his battered old car, and he and the sheriff soon had the stout oak door shattering beneath the battering blows they dealt it with this heavy instrument of iron.
 As the door gave way arthur darted from the library, last the still quakng negro in the hallway and into the dining He passed through the al2Ing room into the con-
Arizona republican., 1915-07-04
tCOpyrght: 1915: By Roy z. HoCardelI ]
 CHAPTER III.
THE SILENT WITNESS.

- AUGHT like a rat in trap, with Az thur Stanley outside the window ser O enading the dead as we'll as the living
 and Esther stirring o'erhead, Blair Stanley nerves himself with a supreme effort and turns the knob of the study door and steals down the darkened hallway He un- bolts the front door, and, closing it softly be- hind him. though he would shut out the face of the dead man, Blair slips across the broad piazza like phantom of the night.
 But Arthur has heard the grating of the bolt, the soft opening of the door. and has stepped from the side to the front of the house. hoping it is Esther who comes in answer to his serenade and to receive his contrite plead ings for forgiveness. He reaches out to embrace the gentle girl. ouly to find he has clasped the stalwaft. struggling frame of a man. The moon breaks through a cloud as his prisoner struggles and its rays illuminate the face of Blair Stanley,
 What are you doing here, coming out of Dr. Lees house at this hour" whispers Ar thur, tensely.
 Keep quiet, you fool." Blair Stanley misses. like a snake. :" A girls good name is at stake,"
 As Arthur staggers back in horror at the shameful inference, Blair Stanley with rapid movement draws his revolver and fires. He would do a double murder and win esrldom and the diamond from the sky, if ne can escape without detection. But the quick mrm of Arthur throws up the pistol and as Blair fires he wrenches the weapon from him. l .Ia -L. I nJoI .,f, ,b. inference of the base speaking Blair, the fren- zied Arthur drags him down the pathway and down the silent village street. as the cocks growing presaging the coming of the dawn. Planting and struggling. the cousins stumble on the village highway and into the little village graveyard Their feet sink into q mound of soft earth by an open and newly dug grave. Standing panting and fac ing each other with rage and hate in their hearts and their faces, the young men pause a moment in their mad struggle Then Ar thur brings out his own pistol and the long white silk handkerchief that protrudes from his breast pocket.
 For what you have said about Esther, either you or l must die" Arthur says Take end of this handkerchief and stand across this open grave. Hold the handkerchief in your left hand, as I hold this corner of it. Now take your pistol, and when l count to 'Three!' raise and fire, and the one of us left alive will pull the dead into the gravel"
 Arthur counts [" One!" when the fear full murderer essays to fire. But the watchful Arthur is too quick for him. His pistol speaks first, and, instinctively tugging the handker- chief as he fires. Arthur drags the bleeding Blair into the grave, prone on his face. Ar thur leaps into the grave after his fallen foe and tears open his shirt to if the heart still beats. and there. the breast of Blair Stanley gleams in the rays the evil gilt ter of the diamond from the sky.
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For one of the few times Blair could re- member his proud, cold mother softened. She gave her attention again to the slight wound above the temple, bound it gently with her handkerchief, kissed him. and sighed. The unhappy Blair sobbed and impulsively em- braced his mother For one brief moment he faltered, and then his mother pointed in si- lence to the hiding place and he stepped within, the great chimneypiece swung into place, and he was in semi-darkness, hidden and secure.
 The old procedures of the "crowner's quest" still bed strong in Fairfax county, Virginia, long nculcated by its insular early English traditions.
 At the doctors cottage the first expression of authority by the sheriff was that nothing should be touched in the study where the doc tor sat dead in his chair " till the coroner came" The broken guitar had been handed the sheriff. II could not be denied that when Arthur had been with the young people on the doctors porch earlier in the night he had not had the guitar with him. It was known he and the doctor had had high words earlier in the day over the fact that Arthur, who had squandered his means had added to his other extravagances by ordering from abroad costly French racing automobile without con sultng the usually leniently inclined old doc tor. who as one of Arthurs guardians had borne with the young mans wild extrava- Cance with the patience that was part of Dr. Lees kindly character.
 But the return of Hagar, conscience stricl- en also, after eighteen long years. the return of Hagar again, bringing with her the sweet and blooming Esther, the rightful heir to the patrimony the gypsy changelng was squan- dering and the arrangement for her adoption .by Dr. Lee, as had long been intended, had wrought a right about face in the doctors attitude toward the reckless expectations young master of Stanley hall. It had also wrought a great change in the chara cter eff Arthur Stanley; from the first meeting with lovely Esther. Arthur had abandoned his wild and spendthrift ways.
 Then, too, the rivalry for Esthcr's affec- tions with his cousin, Blair, had steadied Arthur He realized he loved Esther and he had resolved to be worthy of her.
 As for Esther, in the midst of depressing, morbid turmoil that followed the discovery of the doctors death in his study. she had moved as one in a most unhappy dream. Under the cold suspicious eyes of Blair Stanley's mother Esther had felt herself an interloper. The judges widow had arrive. ~pOn the scene as soon as she had been sent for. Although her relations with the doctor had been distant and constrained for years, yet the judges widow was next of kin. With the usual delay char acteristic of the easy going doctor he had delayed making out the legal adoption papers for Esther. He had only insisted that she be called Esther Lee. What her real name was the polite Virginians had not asked but it was whispered that it Harding. When ques- toned by the puzzled sheriff as to what pro- cedure he should follow after the identifca-
Arizona republican., 1915-07-04
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-27
LEADERS AMERICAN
 FEDERATION LABOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I
Former President Launches General Criticism in Ad- dress Before National
 Manufacturers .

New York. May 2s-Former President William IT. Taft, in an address tonight at the annual banquet of the National Association of Manufacturers. severely criticized the Clayton act and the federal trade commission act as detrimental to the business interests of the country. F and denounced the leaders of the Ameri can Federation of Labor for exercising a power that has become exceosive and detrimental to the public veal and the good of society"
 Professor Taft was co-speaker with Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, who declared that "the greatest menace of American progress is the professional batting of big enterprises"
 'I fully approve,' said the former Presi- dent ''of the principle of labor unions. But the power stheir leaders have ac- quired by the principle of combination in their organization has intoxicated them and they have exercised a tyranny over society and over their own members that is certainly leading to reaction and to restraint of their great powers within proper and lawful limits.
 They have failed to condemn in any way. as they ought the use of criminal methods to which in a lawless spirit their
 (Csntinted sn Fass Thsee)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-27
THE WAR SITUATION

Vienna 26(va municaton
  General Mackenzas making the
 
 The zagrody southeast
  
  tonig The British
  chine
 To the to reake in the positions The engagement throughout At the Cornaies fortified compelled withdraw whole position and we have maintained i then At neighborng further attacks have retaken of the north salient salient carried Between have made progress and have gained foothod divers points trenches captured yesterday London. May 26(1037 sued by the British office The first continues division carried last night and this morning Since May the first has three miles On this the captured on front of @ yards the remaining portion the first and second line taken is eight officers 7 other equipment particulars of which not available"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-27

different angle. Here she came un- der fire of Turkish howitzer battery on the Asiatic shore which dropped Is shells around her and threw three missiles on board Little damage was done by the shells, however, and only two men were wounded. The battleship silenced the Turkish battery before re- tiring.
 few days later, while landing op- erations were proceeding the Triumph with other warships. in addition to covering the landing, bombarded the forts in the Dardanelles to prevent re- Inducements reaching the Turks from the Sea of Marmora. The Triumph was credited in the official reports with having set fire. to the town of Maidos during this bombardment
 The Triumph, which was commanded by Capt. Maurice F. Fitzmaurice, was vessel of 11,9S5 tons. Her crew of officers and men in times of peace numbered about 700 men. The vessel carried four 10-inch, IA Finch guns and 14 14-pounders and four 6-pounders. She also carried two 1S-inch torpedo tubes.
 The Triumph was 4s6 feet long, and had speed of about 20 knots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-27
COALITION CABINET
 MEMBERS TELL WHY . THEY TOOK PARTS
Lansdowne and Law Discuss Aims of New Cabinet in Prosecuting War
 on Germany

London, May 26.-(1Os15 p. m.}-The Marquis of Lansdowne and Andrew Bc- mar Law, both of whom now occupy seats h the coalition ministry. ex- pIsined to their followers at meeting "s unfonist members of both houses of Parlisment today the reasons why they decided to join the coalition govern- ment.
 Bonar -read letter from the prime minister ID which the premier suggested a coalition, saying:
 After long and careful consideration I nave definitely come to the conclusion that the conduct of the war to success fui and decisive issue cannot be effective iy carried on except va cabinet which represents all the parties in the state. need not enter nto reasons sufficiently obvious which point to this us the best solution in the interests of the country of the problems which the war now pre- sents; nor does the recognition. of it's necessity involve any disparagement on my part of the splendid service which in their several spheres my colleagues have rendered to the empire
 Tn this great and trying emergency my colleagues have placed their resigna- tions in my hands, and I am therefore. in position to invite you and those who are assooiated with you to join forces with us in [ combined administration, h
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-27
SUPERIOR FLEET OF ENEMY PROVES TOO MUCH FOR FLETCHER Story of Victory for Beatty in Mimic Naval War Is
 Given Out by Navy Department

Washington. May 26.--superi.,rity of the ''eneny" in units representing fast and heavily armed battle e,mi.ers, coupled with weather condftioAs fa- ssrnbIe for an attack. brought failure of Admiral FIctcher's defense of the Atlantic seaboard in the naval war game which closed yesterday with Rear Admiral Beatty's invaders in position to establish . base in Chesspeake hay. The story of the game as told in re- ports of the commanding officers to the avy department today revealed that Ad- iral Beatty with astheoretically stronger rec, engaged the main body of the de- 1ding fleet last Thursday and destroyed put half of Admiral Fletcher's scouts 'ile easily eluding the supporting dread
 ights. Then. when Admiral Fletcher w off to guard against movement
 Inst New England or New York, the
 my" swept southward prepared to
 bltsh a base of operations by landing
 xpedition from his transports, and
 ste same time faced northward with Efficient force to deal with any auadrons the defenders might send tinst him.
 idmiral Fletcher's defensive campaign
 described as good one. but he was
 of speedy kscouts with ionE ranse e
 but by inability to have submarines, llt It 4 'tlt5t-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-27
DENIES CHARGES CONCERNING CHILD
 LABOR IN SOUTH
David Clark Testifies Before Industrial Relations Com mission at Washington.
 Hearings Not Ended

Washington. May 26.-Labor eondf- tlons In the cotton mills of the vouth and in Porto Rico were before the in- dustriaI relations commission today. The commission was unable to concIu.ic its hearings tonight according to pro- gramme and several witnesses win he txamined tomorrow. including Samuel Eompers, president.. and other officers of the American Federation of Labor.
 David Clark of Charlotte. N. O., editor of textile magazine, subnitted stste- ruent to the commission denying in de- tail charges concerning child labor in the south made recently by Dr. A. J. McKel- way of the national child labor commits sion. Clark filed mass of statistfcs designed to controvert Dr. McKelway.s assertions as to wages paid in the cotton mills
 "The testimony given by pr. A. J. Me Kelway on May 10 was very largely false and where not exactly false was so shaped as to carry 2 false impression." Clark $ statement said.
 seHe testified that a largo number of employees in southern cotton mflls. includ-
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