Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-02

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 desper-
ADDE'S had part in the murder and rob-
berry in the doctors study, nor had any
such struggled in deadly combat in his
garden, it vas whispered. The matter
was 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
Blair Stanley had a strange home com
ing in the night. His mother, that
proud. cold woman, worthy mate Of
the grim judge who had persisted
strangely In a wild mountain pass
nearly a generation agone, loved her
son seemingly only through her cold
ambitions.
You do not know when a day may
come that you may be in a position to
save the life of the heir Of Stanley"
she had said often significantly. Blair
understood his mother well.
1t 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 a few days
only the tragic death of Judge Stanley
In the mountain pass. also, 1t 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. 1t 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 a bitter suspicion thdt
encompassed all Of the long dead Colo
mel SANKEY'S friends that DR.. Lee, had
taken the diamond from the sky in
the confusion attending tile coloneps
sudden demise. 4a
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 Ills
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 minority Of.
Arthur Stanley I'd.
Hence It was that when the nerve
shattered Blair, with ashen face ana
bloody brow, confessed to his waiting
mother that lie had seen the diamohd
in DR.. Lees ageil hands she was not
surprised. When lie half i~ncoierently
admitted to her that file Old doctor had
died in the struggle for the diamond
she expressed no conjunction for the
Doctors death or revulsion at the deed
of her son that caused 1t.
But when he told her that Arthur
Stanley, the one life that stood be-
tween them and all their ambitious
desires, had been In the grasp of Blair
did her mood Of austere interest change
to cold fury.
"You neeu not add your reproaches
to my own" painted her son: "But 1t
was luck. the detil's luck, that all at
Stanley halls possess. l would have
killed him. 1t was in my mind, In my
heart.
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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
the graveyard to kill me and rob me
Of the diamond with the ease Of a
"Well." said his mother. 1--WE must
hope for another, better chance. Mean.
while If you are sure that your strug.
giles were not seen you had better lie
hidden until l can learn what suspi-
cions are aroused. If you are missedI
will say YOU are gone to Richmond.
Even If Arthur Stanley hears no more
Of YOU he will think still that he has
slain you. He will keep silent"