The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-02
By ROY Il. Me CARDELL
EFT the coachman take the reinsr'

NuunSlnB IrOln MS careless air |
of racegoer to the grave de- |
meanor of physician. Lend a hand, |
Blair he added as the coachman work. |
ed around from the back seat by the
groom to the drivers place on the
tallyho.
Blair and Vivian. assisting as best
they could, aided Durand in dragging
Arthur from the box seat to the second
one. Here the drug victim collapsed.
murmuring:
Esther? How plainly saw her-in
her gypsy dress! She spoke to me. The
hunchback fellow was with herr
ut was imagination" said Vivian
soothingly to the stricken man as the
pseudo physician. Durand, administer.
ed the all too handy hypodermic. "A
| touch of sun. wasn't It, doctor?"
Yes" said Durand in equally sooth.
| ing accents. ~ think 1t was the sun
ANA too much excrtion. We shouldn't
have let you drive, Mr.. Powell; you are
not strong enough yet for these things"
Blair said nothing. He could have
almost pitied Arthur that in so short
a time as had elapsed since his injuries
| his character had been so weakened
| from his hurts and the drugs admins
| tered that Arthur could be convinced
that the evidence of his own e. y was
but the phantom of disordered mag
! nation.
Neither the coachman nor the groom
had understood the significance of his
T, masters collapse ut the sight of two
gypsy musicians with piano, pony cart
and monkey by the roadside. The
| cOachman and groom, like the other
servants ut the Powell mansion. only
knew their master had never been men.
tally the same since his injuries ut the
mines and his first homecoming to his
new, grand mansion, battered, shat
tered, insensible form on stretcher.
In few moments the effect of the
stimulating drug had Gained Arthur,
and he was sitting with closed eyes on
the second seat, with Blair and Vivian
and Durand. The conspirators decided
to return home.
A passing auto coming I'm the same
direction slowed beside the coach. and
the occupants called to the driver and
the tallyho party that there was man
on behind.
"He looks like tough customer, too
added the driver of the car.
The groom on the rear seat looked
down and ordered the tough looking
customer to get off. The tough looking
customer was Luke Lowell, who had
come back to Los Angeles sullenly de-
termined to make an asset of his secret
and blackmnil either Arthur Stanley
or Blair, preferably both.
Luke Lowell growled Il curse back NJ
the groom and held on. The coachman
with practiced deXterity dashed the
whip back of the coach at a signal
from the groom. The thong cut Luke
across the face twice before he could
shield himself. But again and again
the lash cut and stung him cruelty on
neck and shoulders, and despite his
hardihood and determination to stand
, the onslaught Luke was compelled to
: let go and drop off. He limped to the
sidewalk of the quiet suburban resi-
, dence street and sat in the shade of q
tree by the curb.
Near him leaking fire hydrant trick
=. led. Luke mopped his brow and the
burning cuts across his face with the
cooling water. The pain slowly subsid
r ed, and Luke looked about him.
= There. far Off down the street, but
. yet distinct to the keen eyes of the
gypsy, were two figures plodding by
n a pony piano cart. two figures he knew
!, as well rs he knew his own-Esthel
= and Quabba.
" Old emotions, old fcaties stirred II
= Luke Lowell at the sight. Esther
a daughter of Hagar, the queen OF thu
: gypsies; Esther, whom he had always
q gazed upon with pride and a duh long
r. ing-she wss not for him. Luke knew
II that. But yet there stirred In him tn
= old sense of affection and mingled witt
;. IL n sense Of shame. Bad as the brut
70 gypsy was there had always been some
thing fine and tender in his regard 10
ir Esther. TO injure her had been N
70 part of all his wild plans to make met
N chandise of what he dimly surmise,
s. was the Stanley secret-and Hagar's.
&c Luke's mental processes were slow
10 but he was quick TO realize he had hes
"a have time to think OF how he shoul
y meet with Esther again did he wis
I'd 10 regain her confidence, as he noN
y, ,e desired to do
y, Luke Lowell rose from the curb eve
or while cogitating upon these things an
u concealed himself behind the tree, Bu
IT. he could have stood plain upon the sid'
~ walk for all he would have been seel
m for Esther and Quabba, their head
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sr The smart tallyho ratified on and er
d. long drew up before the portals OF tn
sn n Powell mansion, and Arthur was a.
les sisted Off by his whilom friends.
nd Such is the power Of suggestion upo
IL III drug weakened mind that Arthur ha
,r thrown aside all depression and worr
,,s soon after entering his luxurious hom
mt Physically his strength had almost fu
ly returned, and the plotters rejoice
TO see that under the stimulant adhi.l