The Springdale news., 1915-08-06


 kHA self i'll the madhouse to Whi 9
 Judge Stanley had committed her without warrant of law. and she screamed aHd struggled. The maiteH and burly warden orerpoWered her with difficulty placed her il a striit- jacket and threw her upon the cot + the cell and locked the changing doas aud left her.
 \ wild idea suddenly seized Hagat. She staggered to her feet and saZeo around Above her cot, some eight feet from the floor of the cell, was a smai, barred window. Hagar listened for Il moment at the iron barred, heavy oak ell door; then she backed toward the table and pressed the lacings that held the sleeves of the straitjaekct against the flame of the candle. The leather thongs in the eyelets at the back of the straitiacket smoked and burnedi then, with q great effort she parted the smolderine thongs. To release her self from the straitjacket, now hel arms were free, was bat the work of T few moments.
 Mounting the table. she drew up tie oaken stoel and with it's sturdy legs e=lft.= =nfied the bars from their cement ed sockets. The ground WAS only some ten feet below. She held to the ledge If the window moment and then dropped She struck the earth with oHt injury aud made off in the dark hess d free #W6nan
 on this very night Colonel Stanley had sent for the doctor to take away fhe little girl.
 1t Stanley hall the old nurse WIS preparing little Esther for the night journey In his library Colonel Stan ley gazed in the famplight tt the dia mond from the sky and the sealed document he had prepared that would betray the Stanley secret. He heard the sound of the opening of the long French window hy the fireplace, and there he saw IIagar entering diSheyel- ed. PaHting. but resolved It have her own At this apparition the colonel arose and faced the wild intruder 'I have come for the childt" said Hagar hoarsely. Colonel Stanley felt sud den pang through his heart It was the last shock the doctor had foretold for him. He gave q moaning. inartic ulate cry and sank back q dead man.
 Hardly knowing what she did. Hagar swept into her bosom the diamond from the sky and the sealed document with other papers on the table. Then, turning, she softly opened=the library door and as softly crept Up the stair WHY. Led by unerring instinct, she opened the door upon the landing and entered the room where the child, her oWn son, the patatiYe heir of Stanley hall, lay sleeping She marked the ele- gance of his surroundings Us the risen full moon shone in the window, light. Ing it fully What should she do? If she left her child here she would be cheating the cheaters. What would be the wild and laWleSs upbriHging she could give her san in comparison to all that would be his as heir of Stanley hallf
 As she faltered she heard footsteps outside, and. gazing out cautiously, be held the old colored nurse descending with the little girl, the rishtful heir of Stanley hall Hagar huddled upon the landing place and listened. A wild shriek arose from the colorel nurse as she entered the library and discovered her dead master. Then tie bell rang in the servants quarters from the ner- vous puIl on the bell rope of the el. nurse in the library And shortly aft erWard Hagar could hear the nurse Was joined ly cid Ned, tie eolored but Ter.
 Just at this instant Dr. Lee drove uI outside, and soon the great knocker Oil