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Qnestions and AnsMera

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questions relating to his department
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saOOO Stolen From Theatre Safe

CHICAGO. Feb. %. - Four yeggmen
early today dynamited the safe at viii
liam Brady's Princess Theatre In the loop
district and escaped with about $1,000 In
cash.
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Theatrical Baedeker

ADELPHI-"Peg o. My Heart" with an eK-
amusing comedy of the impetuous young Irish
girl ana her conflict with a sedate Englisa
family ..........-'.s..''s.. ..s-t..'..s''''o' 'o'lo
BRoAD-"PygmaIlon, with Mrs. Pat Camp
bell the dlstinguished English actress; Ber-
the pphonetic eauivalent Of a duchess. A nne
imperfonatlon IN fne comedy. ....,.,.,'sl0
GARRICK-"A Girl OF To-day" with Ann Muir
with young girl whose, depaTted e9ardian
torgets to make VIII and Leaves S her N eSn shd
relatives. One week only, See review; ,s;lo
TIhEER dcmnaSg MAJ" sonsdR by T'P PorP
s Ths st HFSaH on any aSa stage
1YR1G% Sfs reviis Dancing Around with Al folsom
S5S 5%Eoe i GBSfRS ha I6.dh PG' Gs'ohVuss
wHIEiSuTe IEiHSS Ef 9'Rs Tran ci the LONESOME Pine
H6hn ES5sns FoR jrfs taie OF the cumberland Gap
Returning for fortnights stay See re-
view ......-s3ss'''s's s's'' ''s'''''' '''''''''' 'S'Ao
Vaudeville
IkEITFs-Airs. Leslie Carter in 'zaza"; Wee
ths weil-fhoSn team: okabe jars. symnasts;
al Morton. comedian; Lyons and Yoseo. mu,
Ysisas YsSas sassrs aas COX cole sSd paaSSs % ana
n-ixsS,ps' : SRAED-Willan q ]. pooley in The
i.sWr Party AeMahen Diamond ana ana SR1IR SWiIl-
Ans In ltThe Travelling Salesman and the
Female Drummer NorcToss ana holdsi
eomnapy in THE Artists Dream; Walter
Weems. comedian. and laughing pictures ~
ciOfF-sT4m Mcmahon and Edith Chappeiie
h, HOW Hubby Missed the Train fietsher
Norton ana Nina Payne singing and qsneAV1y V5y
GROW rip" May Melville. dialect eomee .enas'
frsiR and Williams comedians. VIII MOTIF
In The Yakabond'; Peaee and fsrnlnh
stfgfsff IA ssS-Hoyts "A Dream of the
WIFE, Wdlilat Iiih Nine, dakarenko and eegHi-
nany. Eddie Carr and comp4nyi u the NS'r NSS'
v5re6ns9 ~ With VAUGHN Comfort aaa loaa
t-tngt Harry Preen. 1ong writer HAllfn 4ia
nunler Ioy. Elrl ana yiolini Espsy ana r-Vl
ilogQiiY artzra 4z-., roI-
.on lrlllf4ea couiclIan. the kafe N1-N
Mol 1rina. 1IoHaul lane ana seespSl ~. y, \,
rtdf W SIzII in the Aipa and in= tnlsl
NfIeIu Prothefs atfQpatt
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E1.Camdsa CoaneIIman m

Former Councilman Frank Nell Rohln-
son, 81 Camden Is seriously in elth
pnsulnonia IA I.os Angeles. Ascending .
aduess received sodas.
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PHoToPLAYs
MODERN DANCING

MIR. 4 MRS. H. d. WAGNER. 1880 N. BROAD
Scholars P5SSt,e' psSts Tonight 4sS 4sS. Men sn.
Private Lessons Dayor Eyg. Phone Dla s3s.
THE c. EI4t.WOoD CARPENTER sTuDIo.it2l
Chestnut a.. oper 10 a. M. to 10 q. m; best
patronaFe: hest system: uod. rates; ~ inBtruc-
tors; music always. newest OF the new steps.
THE RTIs s or sc HOO L
1920 CHESTNUT STREET
Phone, Locust 3io2.
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missing lne Cow m Lowell. and beg
the humble hEEcn,..r.. 10 $50.
DO not leave Us, She whispered.
''Som2thin- tgi& Ii s." VIII he ii
friend. alG Wc hINr Ii lied; l.@%
save pe-iI;,!'.: our -: = pv.!.r. An,.
even a. Sh:. spoke i-.Ghtr :c,.'.!Gd il,
scene in tic :g!....;4 ;;an.i IL he toGri."-
ment and how Ills :I::nv:.;ack Wan,.er-
er had warned arthur that lie hal
been betrayed.
At this juncture Il Carri":::2 Crove up
to Stanley lail. Fr3-.l ;Aia u strange
figure aligl;:el. the G@I"e o. Il tail,
lank. serious. side whiSbe-cd English
man wearing plaid suit with heavy
mourning band on the arm and q
glistening white tropic helmet. This
strange individual had rifle in the
carriage.
At the sight of Quabba's chattering
monkey the lank Englishman grew
wildly excited. Some Of their native
wild beasts" he exclaimed and rushed
back to the carriage for his rife.
1t took some effort on the part OF
both Esther and Quabba to reassure
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blow Blair Stanley had dealt Hagar
with the heavy poker had made no cut
or external wound. She was soon In
fevered sleep, and Esther was forced
to leave her bedside at urgent sum-
mons from below.
There she found Luke Lowell, head
man for Hagar here as we'll as at the
gypsy camp, hidden in the mountains
twenty miles away.
Suspicioning that Hagar was Ill botn
of mind and body. Lowell had already
usurped authority. Even now he was
ordering the wandering hunchback or
gan grinder from the place.
But if Quabba was frail he was cour-
ageouS. He was insisting he would
not leave the place until he had said
farewell to the strange. grand lady
who had spoken Romany to him and
also farewell to her fair faced daugh'
ter, who had also hidden him to stay
and be refreshed.
There was something so loyal and
true in the hunchback's respectful gaze
that. stranger as he was, it made Es'
ther take his hand. after sternly dis
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP
TERS

A feud has existed between Colonel Ar
thur Stanley and his cousin, Judge Lamar
Stanley over an heirloom, the diamond
from the sky, found in a fallen meteor by
an ancestor Also the succession to the
Stanley earldom in England may come to
an American. When a daughter is born
to the colonel and the mother dies, the
colonel buys a gypsy boy and substitutes
him. Three years later the gypsy mother,
having had no part in this bargain, steals
the girl being reared in secret, and leaves
her son undetected as the heir. The gyp-
sy has obtained possession Of the diamond
from the sky. and document with the
Stanley secret. When Esther Is grown a
beautiful young girl, Hagar, now gypsy
queen, returns to Virginia with her. DR..
Lee, the late Colonel Stanley's friend,
adopts Esther, but demands that Hagar
turn over to him the diamond from the
sky. Arthur Stanley, son Of Hagar. falls
in love with Esther and so does his com
panion and cousin, Blair Stanley, rightful
male heir Of Stanley. In stealing the dia-
mond Blair causes the death Of the doc
tor. Outside is Arthur serenading Esther.
Rleir, escaping, infers that he has left
Esther's room. Arthur forces him to
fight a duel in which Blair is only
stunned He tries, with the aid of his
mother, to place the blame for the murder
of DR.. Lee upon Arthur, yho now has the
diamond The sheriff attempts to take
Arthur, but he eludes his pursuers and
Joins Hagar, who reveals his identity and
upbraids him for his wild life Needing
money, he pawns the diamond in Rich
mond. Blair is in Richmond, and he, too,
is forced to visit the pawnshop. The two
agree to stand by each other AT bali,
at which a supposed New York belle In
the guest Of honor, they are stunned to
find the diamond on the visitor. She is
an adventures who has borrowed 1t.
While Hagar is telling the "belle's" for
tune Luke Lowell, Hagars gypsy guard,
steals the diamond and to avoid detection
drops il into a mail box. A sheriff tries
to arrest Arthur on the murder charge.
He escapes from Richmond on a freight
train. The diamond passes into mail
bag, which is lost from a wagon and is
picked up by Quabba, an organ grinder.
Quabba's monkey steals the diamond and
leaves it in a nest in a tree. Arthur Is
robbed by hoboes, who leave him in tat
ters He seSks work at farm. Hagar
takes Esther to live at Stanley hall An
old time tournament is held. Arthur at
tends in disguise, proves himself the best
knight, defeating Blair, but is betrayed
by the latter to the sheriff. Quaboa, In
Jest, handouts the sheriff and Blair. BY
daring horsemanship Arthur escapes. Lat
er he leaves the farm. Tom Blake, de-
tective hired by Hagar, produces finger
prints proving Blair guilty Of the death
Of DR.. Lee. Blair and his mother quarrel
about Vivian. Hagar proposes silence to
Mrs Stanley as the price Of Hagar's and
Esther's being received in Fairfax society
Blair strikes down Hagar and steals the
fngerprints and money from his mother
The diamond Is found by negro boy.
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ger, compelling desire, q desire that
held her in provincial Richmond. was
her desire for star-her desire for the
diamond from tie SKY.
Once liz all lis blazing nagniicence
it had sLoIie uEon her b:Slst Vivian
MarSton longed to again hold and pos
sess the diamond Her thoughts were
upon it h. day. and at night her
dreams were bright like gold and red
like blood.
She had heard its story and knew
that, after Arthur, Blair was next In
claim for its possession.
Vivian sank her head upon Blair's
breast beneath the wistaria bough. She
tempted him with languorous glance
and alluring lips. sect and give me
the diamond and I will he yours" she
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and Isaac Bloom and the equally ur-
gent but more self controlled private
detective, Tom Blake.
The investing allies, English, Irish
and Hebrew, surge in upon the in
trenched Chinese. The struggle Of the
invaders to gain the sanctuary and get
for money or by force the diamond
from the sky is now at its fiercest.
But all the while desperate man is
climbing the fire escape at the back
Of the Chinese den. He has noted a
curtain draped window behind the joss.
A crash of glass is heard within.
The frenzied Hung Ii breaks from
the invaders and rushes into the sane
tuary, followed by the other Chinese,
the two Blooms, the detective and the
bewildered Englishman.
A hand through the broken glass be-
hind the idol has torn the diamond
from the sky from the neck and breast
of the great god Lung. With demo
MAC scream the frenZied Hung Ii
seizes keen Chinese sword at the
foot Of the idol and aims swift blow
at the disappearing hand.
Woe and bad luck forever for the un-
fortunate Hung Ii! The blow has
missed the despoiling white hand and
has severed the head Of the great god
Lung!
Another slash in excited frenzy and
down comes the burning altar light.
and the flimsy furnishings Of the sane
tuary and the whole den itself are
roaring blaze of fire.
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CHAPTER XIV.
"A Mind In the Past"

DULL, aching resentment burn
ed in the bosom of Blair's
IA mother as with voice hoarse
to her own ears she called to
summon Blair to make his part of the
bargain with the implacable visitor,
who waited for them in the somber
living room upstairs, with the photo
graphs of the guilty thumb prints of
Blair.
No answer was returned to her call,
and Mrs. Stanley remembered again
the bitter quarrel she had had with
Blair over Vivian Marston.
With a bitter sigh the realization
came to her again that all the stern,
persisting ambitions that had embit-
tered her life-the desire for the earl
dom and the great diamond for her
most unworthy son-were not worth the
heartache and tragedy that had dark
ened her life.
1t was with a fierce resolve, in a
sudden revulsion Of desperation and
= despair, that Mrs. Stanley returned to
Ethe living room to tell her strange Wis
.5itar. Hagar, to do her worst, let the
- consequences be what they might
For herself the austere Mrs. Stanley
resolved to strive no more for the sake
sof.her ;mssolute and desperate son.
Z win make, no bargain with this
woman even to save Blair from the
gallows," was her grim thought. "Nei-
ther she nor the strange girl who was
DR.. Lees ward and whom she now
, mothers al Stanley hall shall have So
i, cial countenance from me-"
1Ily as she ascended the stairs to
make known her resolve she heard the
slam of a door and the sound of hur-
rving feet from the living room to the
chambers at the back of the house.
She opened the door from the stair
landing TO the living room. The CEN
for table was overturned, and there
were other signs of struggle but the
room was empty. -.
Then a muffled sroan, low moaE ol
main fell upon the ears of Blair's MOTH
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the swine. Mr.. McGee is not fastidi-
Gus. He fishes out the bauble.
If IS the diamond trul the sky.

Gus. He fishes out l!ie D3uDle.
It is the diamond trOLl tie sky.
And it looks good 10 III. McGee, and
he fees with it at hi.' bet speed, fol-
lowed by shower of ro.is from the
co.ored p:g boy, bere.t Z tie sparkling
thing lie iouad i'll IN o|':'s nest.
Richmond is not tAr away, and MI
Strap Aciea Las suc.l2 !oose change
he won 1T gaming in lie Jail. He pro-
ceads to int Ec. LiiiGg his time to dis
pose of the Eaublc h;licn il his rags.
But when be drops INTO The curlo
shop, opium den joss house mGintained
by Chinese ac&uaintances. his tipsy
vanity impels him to show the baubie
to the crafty Hung Ii, priest, den
keeper and tong leader.
1t is fatal thing to do. for luck has
been bad with Hung Ii and his friends.
The police have closed their gambling
Joint and shut down on opium smok-
ing. Hung Ii believes that the god OF
the sky. the great god Lung, needs
propltiating, and then be will bring
back good luck in plenty.
Has word from the diamond from
the sky travelled to China and back!
The effigy of the great god Lung Is IN
it's sanctuary in the next room, and
Lung is the god Of the sky. The body
of a strangled tramp is dropped through
a trap door, and the diamond from the
sky is hung about the neck Of the great
god Lung.
This night Mrs Burton Randolph
would a Summing 20. Blair and Miss
Marston are all the little party, and
Tom Blake, the detective. is to be their
guide. 4 significant glance Of caution
and silence passes between the de-
tectiye and Miss Marston when they
meet again.
The Chinese quarter, with its joss
house, is the first place they visit. The
willy Hung Ii wishes no visitors to the
inner sanctuary Of his joss, the great
god Lung, but Blake will not be de-
MED.
He says his friends have come espe-
cially to burn incense for good luck
before the great god Lung. And so
they enter the sanctuary and behold
on the breast of Lung the diamond
from the sky!
Detective as he is, and, possessing
great and evil powers in the eyes OF
Hung L. Blake and his friends are
forced from the place. The ladies,
Mrs. Randolph again In "state OF
nerves." are sent home, and Blake
from the nearest telephone summons
Abe Bloom and his brother.
Meanwhile an English lawyer has ar
rived at the Randolph house seeking
Blair Stanley. Determined upon his
quest, the lawyer gets directions and
arrives at the joss house. Hung Ii
and his confreres will have none Of
the London lawyer.
But the eXasperated Marmaduke
Smythe will not be denied. He says
he knows the persons he Is searching
for are inside this beastly Chinese
place.
Here now he is, REINFORCED by the
excited and money proffering Abraham
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CHAPTER XVI.
An lido! Adorned and Cee9o:.cd.

" E tliLa .Hi-:.4t tend I" g-5!o.e
iI"-ar 10 reason, Is s...,r de-
parted thai night with Ha-.r lrom
Stanley hail.
She Was accompanied By QGa5ba,
now her faithful attendant. &nd the
sullcnly iEs:stent Luke Lowell. Il was
a sad return Of their stricken queen to
the grieving Nomany people.
Hagar recognized tic G;yrsies a3 Gyp-
sizes, but she called on the names of
those long departed. including the Lame
of her dead husband, Matt Harding,
whom she evidently deemed was alive
and threatening her. For when she
spoke his name it was In grim revolt
and with bitter maledictlons.
That night Quabba slept with his
monkey beside him at the threshold of
Hagars van. Inside Esther had sunk
in exhausted slumber on her cot beside
the fever dream afflicted Ha&r. Quab-
ba's light slumber was broken by the
crunching of pebble beneath heavy
foot. Quabba reused and drew his
knife, and the menacing figure Of Luke
Lowell SUNK back from the accusative
moonlight into the shadows and was
seen no more.
That night ut this same hour Arthur
Stanley. n fugitive and wanderer,
stranger in a strange land, by his
4 in ~
desert. dreamed wild dream that
reused him with a shrek. lie saw the
fear struck face of Esther and near
her the sinister Luke Lowell, with
his great gnarled hands stretched as
though to clutch and crush her.
-
One who is in society in Richmond
may forget unpleasant things in a
ceaseless round of new frivOlities.
Mrs. Burton Randolph returned from
her stay in Fairfax to find her friends
in an attitude Of delighted cOmmisera-
ton toward her. She confded to her
dearest friends that her life seemed
fated to be one of turmoil and tragedy.
But instead Of finding herself pitied
in society in Richmond Mrs. Randolph
found herself envied as social hero
inc in these delightfully."- dreadful af-
fairs"
So as the beautiful wistaria was en-
purpling her house and grounds Mrs.
Burton Randolph announced vista
ria fete, and all Richmond society was
nervously expectant Of more delight
fully dreadful occurrences.
But, although the wistaria fete was
wondrously brilliant affair, accord
ing to the society columns of the Rich
mond papers, no untoward event oc-
Cured to mar the pleasure Of the day,
somewhat to the disappointment OF So
ciety.
Blair Stanley, with plenty Of money,
but keeping seIulOusly away from MIR.
Abe Blooms temple of chance. turned
up in Richmond in pursuit Of Vivian
MarstOn, with whom he was still In
fatuated. He knew the risk he took,
for it was evident some one in Rich
mond had secured from Abe Bloom the
check that, besides being worthless,
had the fatal print Of his thumb upon
it. For the photograph Of this check
and thumb print, together with photo
graphs of his thumb prints taken from
DR.. Lees study, had been in the pos
session of Hagar Harding when he had
struck her down.
But such was his fierce passion for
the luxurious and beautiful Vivian
Marston that Blair walked in the shad-
ow Of death for her sake.
He intimated as much to her when
he had led her aside beneath the bow
re, -..=k- q
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The sound came frcm near tit

er The sound came frcm near tie
fo3r. behind the fireplace.
Mrs. Stanley pressed the spring, anG
the wall with tie fireplace turned out,
ana there ii dc Svil!i.aIl l.!css Of the
"Tcgy'S hiding Place" iay the uncon-
scious G.arc OF Ha2ar. 1t was man
ac!cj with TIE sheriff" haudcuiTS that
Vivian Narston had brought to the
house after the tournament in mOckery
of Blair
The form of Hagar lay half reclining
against the ritied family strong box.
Mrs. Stanley picked UP the key of the
handouts, lying near, and unfastened
the manacleS on the wrists of the
daZed and unreSisting Hagar.
Then the judges widow realized that
here was the elimination of the wick
ed deeds of the son she had inculcated
with a lawless desire for things that
were not his.
She raised Hagar, dragged her out
into the room and closed the hiding
place. She was not surprised to note
that the photographs of the thumb
prints We're gone. She revived HaSar
and regarded her stricken visitor, pre-
pared for a harsh defiance with no
thought of compromise.
But the whole expression of Hagar
had softened to IL pathetic, cowed visit
fuiness. Her face seemed younger, her
eyes moist and pleading.
She turned to Mrs. Stanley with out
stretched arms and murmured, Give
ne my child." And then Biair's moth
er saw that the blow her son had dealt
the strange visitor had deprived her Of
all realization of the present.
The stricken brain of Hagar Hard
ing was cognizant of no recent hap
pening. Her mind was in the past
But the judges widow was not aware
that the disordered intellect Of the wo-
man before her dwelt only on the great
tragedy of Hagar Harding's life, the
sale of her son to be foisted as the
male heir to the earldom and the dia-
mond from the sky. nearly twenty
years ago.
Mrs. Stanley had no suspicion Of the
import of Hagar's words, but she real
lied the crazed woman was no menace
to either herself or her son. and she
led her downstairs and to the door,
where she set her on her way to STAN
ley hall.
At Stanley hall in the gathering twi-
light Esther waited for Hagar. 1t was
sad Homecoming. The dull eyes OF
Hagar cleaned with recognition OF the
portals of Stanley hall. But the face
of Esther, the gentle, loving Esther,
was the face Of stranger to her.
Alarmed and weeping, Esther led the
moaning woman she deemed to be her
mother up the broad steps and into
the wide hallway Of Stanley hall.
Here a fierce. wild change came over
Hagar. She sprang to the door of the
library and threw it open.
"See. he Is in here she cried. They
have him in there. the child they stole
and sold from me. See the diamond
that blazes on his little breast! Take
off the diamond, There is a curse on
it for all our race! Take off the fine
raiment. Give him back his rags! He
is my son.
AS it had been with Blair Stanley's
austere mother. the wistful Esther
sensed no Importance in the wild
pleadingS Of Hagar.
Now. too. even the crazed mind Of
Hagar seemed to realize the library
was empty and unOccupied, for she
gave wild cry and fell sobbing on
the breast Of Esther
Summoning the servants, Esther had
Hagar carried to her chamber. The
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er of the purple blossoms at his cous-
ms wiStaria fete. Il have gone to the
foot of the gallows for you. Nivian!'
he whispered to her.
For he realized that this beautiful,
dangerous woman was one to whom an
INSCRIPTIONS and desperate deed would
appeal. He felt that she, too. had a
past and that in wickedness they were
we'll matched, and for that the desper-
ate Blair loved her all the more.
For herself. Vivian MarstOn had lin
sered in Richmond, leading an exist
ence that was puritanical and CALLING
to her in the vapid restraints, as she
deemed them. Of conventional southern
social restrictions. Her one strong, ca