Arizona republican., 1915-11-14

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 You want to be careful and cunning and daring, thenr said Vivian II know Durand of old. He goes through blood and fire for a diamond of price. It is an ob- session with him. He was born so marked His mother waiting maid to a French bankers wife and murdered her mistress for a diamond necklace a few months be- fore Durand was born. He was born in prison"
 He's likely to die there" remarked Blair. grimly. He had better keep his hands off the diamond from the skym
 "Ands had better get our hands on it." said Vivian. What witchery is on it? It comes and goes like the devils talis- man."
 It will only rest and stay with a true Stanley, muttered Blair
 Vivian, regarded him strangely, but said nothing. If this were true, why had tho diamond from the sky avoided Blair. as though it were a living thing that wri:,- gled from his grasp?'
 Arthur was clay in the hands of the conspirators again when the doctored mes sage from Blake reached him. Arthur be- Heved now that it true as those around him inferred-his obsession that Esther was near-was a symptom of re- current insanity He shuddered and grew sick at the thought
 
 prayed in agony. Let me recover in body and mind to make 2 man of myself to re- turn to Esther whole and sound and clean and honorable, as [ promised her. and my poor mother I would
 Ease. unworthy. profigate as have been. my gypsy mother sacrificed her youth and every happiness in life, and she TOW lies in a rnadhOTse, I lie mad in . mansion"
 ArI r; strength he battled with the drug desire that clutched him by the soul-he battlod and lost,
 That afternoon the soft California ar of late summer brought the spice of fruit and flower across the green lawns of the shining, new Powell mansion. where dwcIt the Golden Man" Luck and fortune had been his, except an accident from the it, jures of which, the newspapers stated. his friends were pleased to learn he was recov- ering.
 This afternoon John Powell the "GoIden Man" goes to the races on his costly and shining ta1lyho. Four thoroughbred coach horses in gold mounted harness toss their heads in pride. An English oachman and a guard to blow the yard of brass !" and swagger to the turnout
 With the convalescing millionaire on his tallyho party to the races go his closest friends. These are his private physician, the eminent Dr. Frank Durand; his cousin. MT. Blair Stanley, eastern capitalist associated with MT. Powell and managing his affairs during his convalescence: the Count de Vaux of Paris and Miss Vivian Marsten, who, it is rumored is a young woman of splendid family from New York. and who has taken up nursing and who was called into the by pr. Durand, and who aided that skilled physician to restore his patient to health again.
 This and much more the papers say And this and much more Esther reads These are fine friends. she thinks. Flne friends. indeed, and he. the gypsy chaa geling, lords 1t well among them!
 For the first time a sense of injustice and Indignation burns Esther's bosom She will make the test and prove him what he is. He is the gypsy and she Is the true Stanley. She will go as the gypsy and confront the so-caIled gentleman. who once again bears that is not his own! She dons her gypsy dress and takes her tAmbourine and walks afoot beside Quabba, the humble mountebank. The daughter of the Stanleys, the fair young mistress of Stanley Hau walks in tho dust with a mountebank and a monkey. beside the mountebanks pony and street organ.
 She goes to meet gentleman with his coach and four. But as she goes she won
 
 gentleman. and the gentleman the .rnounte- bank For Arthur Stanley as John Powell" has been called "The Golden Man" but the poor hunchback who trudges in the dust beside her has in honor and loyalty to her proved he has a heart of goldl
 Toward them comes the tallyho. Arthur. in high spirits despite his recent injuries, demands to drive the horses. and sitting beside Vivian. displaces Blair. Vivian smiles at Arthur and hands him a rose from the bunch at her belt.
 And then Esther steps by the wheel horse and cries up to him. Arthur"
 He draws the horses to a halt. A look of glad, wild joy comes to his eyes sue the off horse with the whip she has seized the rose falls from Arthur's nerveless hand and the horses dash away-and the coach is gone in cloud of dust.
 In the dust of the road lies the rose. Quabba stoops and lifts it from the dust and hands it to the broken-hearted girl who leans in her gypsy finery against the pony cart and weeps. The rose in the dust to a rose in the dust.
 Far down the road racegoers in other equtpages see a ragged man ciinging to a tallyho. Whip behind" is the cry. The lash flies back. and Luke Lowell. returned for blackmail and revenge, drops from the coach to which he had run and clung and shakes lis fist and curses after the more exalted gypsy who is master of a coach and four.
 But the master of coach and four has sunk fainting back among his friends. What use is wealth to a madman? He has seen flower by the waysde and a rose in the dust, and he deems what he has seen are but the visions of a mind diseased. That night Quabba's pony in his stall nunches at his hay and knows naught ot