Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-21

sss%ScSSsSss TO some Other, markell" j.. IL
There was no: one at Stanley hall to.
pay him for keeping OF telling the Stan.
ley secret, Sbnt Luke Lowell knew
enough of Tue: Stianleys and, their feuds
,t~o:Sscalize his best market would be
With Blair SANKEY'S mother. If Arthur
Stanley, soscalled, was ,Hagar's son, q
gypsy changeling, then Blair Stanley
.waspthe. real. heir to the Stanley earl,
dom, to- which, according, to the old
family tradition, the heir was com
manded to.scarrys the diamond from the
SKY. S4"
BIT .iat3 the, portals Of the home Of
sBlait, Stilniey's mother the proud, cold
swidbw would shold no traffic with the
sinttaste gypsy WHO clamored ut her
thieshold withra secret sto~sell. She or.
dered hin, tosbe gone. and protested no
interest in the ware. he limited he had
for sale.
Ellen Stanley was, In her austere
way, as unscrupulous in her family am
}bition as ever her husband, the grim.
cold Judge Lamar Stanley, had been,
But she would have no traffic with such
as Luke Lowell. She realized only too
well that once SUCH creature had her
in his power, even as a contidant, his
dominion would be. as is always the
dominion Of the ignorant. brutal and
intolerable:.'
So Blair's mother dismissed the cha.
grined gypsy in cold disdain. She would
be no confederate and yet the victim of
the exactions that she instinctively
knew would follow any association
with any secret with him.
"lfyou have any secret to. sell take it
to some other market" said the Widow
Stanley with cold hauteur. Unless
you leave my premises this instant l
shall have you arrested andcommitted
for attempted blackmail! Shout your
secret from the housetops if you please.
am not concerned aa
But Luke Lowell, thwarted and dis.
'couraged though he was in his first
bold bid for the fortune he had be-
lieved was within his grasp, had nc in
tention of shouting his secret from the
housetops. He realized its only value
was in his keeping it and being paid.
and heavily. to keep it. .
He must find some one who would
pay-this some one would be Blair
Stanley, he did not doubt.
But If Blair Stanley's mother had re-
fused to traffic with the sinister gypsy
she was shrewd enough to surmise the
secret that had become a living thing
again after lying dormant for eighteen
years.
Why had her husband set off alone to
meet his death in the mountains the
day after Colonel Stanley had died,
eighteen years ago: Why had DR.. Lee
adopted the gypsy woman's daughter a
few months since? Why had this gypsy
woman returned after all these years.
in the guisc of a woman of means. and
taken Stanley hall?
Why had she come with proofs Of
Blair's guilt Of the murder OF DR.. Lee
and proffered her silence in exchange
for social recognition by the proud fam
lilies OF Fairfax for this girl?
And now that this gypsy woman was
crazed and all fear of her sons guilt
being known had vanished for the time
being at least, Mrs. Stanley resolved to
take advantage Of these situations as
she suspicioned them. If this girl was
the real heir, the missing heir of Stan
ley hall. of which there had been vague
whispers for years, why not prepare
for and fortify against any possible
disgrace that might threaten through
her sons rash and dreadful deed-the
murder Of DR.. Lee?