The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-12-03

Esther aside ut the first outbreak of
the panic and the riot. A slash in the
canvas walls Of the tent had given
Quabba and Esther egress to safety.
and Quabba had led his dazed young
mistress away
After Arthur had been conveyed by
Durand and the others to their waiting
motorcar. Arthur, through excitement
and drugs. collapsed. But he revived
when he reached his rooms in his fine
new mansion. and demanded that
Esther be sought for
Il am not crazy he vehemently de-
clared. Il saw Esther there, and |
want you to bring me to herr
Now. calm yourself, Mr.. POWELL y
said Durand soothingly The excite.
ment which you have witnessed has
brought on another attack of this re
current hallucination. a man cannot
suffer conclusion of the brain and 9th
er injuries, as you have. and hope to
escape serious mental as well as physi-
cal reactions. There, there. We must
give you something to quiet you"
And the hypocritical and unscrupu-
lous swindler administered liberal
dose of the drug that he had permitted
Arthur to become secretly as Arthur
thought, addicted to.
Vivian added her Establishments to
the soothing hypocrisies of Durand.
and De Vaux, the jackal. kept up a
| murmur of feigned concern and sym.
moi Inv n,,1,, 1n;, n tI,i-
ways were not his, but Blair coveted
the power of the Powell millions, which
Arthur's incapacity placed him in posi-
ton to administer. and so he gave his
negative aid to the despicable plot to
ruin Arthur bodily. mentally, spiritual
~ and financially.
BY the drug and the power of sugges-
ton the conspirators succeeded in i'm
pressing Arthur again that his seeing
Esther had been an illusion Of his dis
ordered mind They further Gained
him by convincing him there had been
an accident at the circus that had
caused excitement, but the triple trag-
edy he had witnessed was also fig
ment of his hysteria.
Guarded as Arthur was and supplied
with soul and body destroying drugs.
it was easy for the cabal to keep news
papers, visitors and other sources of in
formation from him. Even his private
secretary had been sent by Blair as a
manager of distant properties, so that
Arthur might by no chance gain any
confirmation of the presence of Esther
in Los Angeles
1t was not wholly easy to convince
Arthur. even under these conditions.
though he was weak willed and his
physical strength only returned to him
In measure. But to keep him from
thinking Durand and the others incit-
ed him to one folly after another as his
strength came back to some degree.
Already they arranged for Il tallyhp
party to the races on the morrow. They
feared to go too far In their efforts to
drive Esther from Los Angeles Their
efforts were confined to keeping Ar
thur separated from her. to augment
his fear of complete mental collapse
under the threat of the recurrent hal
fluctuations which they endeavored to
convince him his encounters with Els.
Their We're.
On the other hand, the conspirators
knew Esther's high spirit. They hoped
she would become discouraged and per-
haps disguised at Arthur's eccentric
treatment of her-the cause Of which
she was not likely to suspect-and re.
turn to Richmond and Hagar
Rut Lctbop yoco1uo1 ,,rn,,
the strange mystery of Arthurs con
duct. At each encounter since they
had been parted in the mining town of
Mammoth just before he was so griev-
ously injured he had been delighted
at sight of her. and then some strange