The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-24


great change in the character of Ar.
thur Stanley. From the first meeting
with lovely Esther Arthur had abun.
doned his wild and spendthrift ways
Then. too, the rivalry for Esther's
affections with his cousin. Blair, had
steadied Arthur. He realized he loved
Esther. and he had resolved to he
worthy of her.
AS for Esther. in the midst of de.
pressing. morbid turmoil that followed
the discovery of the doctors death in
his study, she had moved rs one in
most unhappy dream. Under the cold.
suspicious eyes of Blair Stanley's moth.
err, Esther had felt herself an inter.
loper The judges widow had arrived
upon the scene as soon as she had
been sent for.
Although her relations with the doc
tor had been distant and constrained
for years, yet the judges widow was
next of kin. With the usual delay
characteristic of the easy going doctor
he had delayed making out the legal
adoption papers for Esther lie had
only insisted that she be called Esther
Lee. What her real name was the po-
lite Virgsnians had not asked, but 1t
was whispered that 1t was Harding.
When questioned by the puzzled
sheriff as to what procedure he should
follow after the Identification of the
broken guitar, found by the footprints
In the flower beds, the judges widow
had coldly replied. do your duty"
and the sheriff, with his deputy, set
out for Stanley hall to apprehend
Arthur Stanley % on suspicion of the
murder of DR.. Henry Lee.
At their parting there had been one
gift of Hagar's that Esther had since
lovingly cherished. 1t was pair of
carrier pigeons.
"Take these, my dear daughter"
Hagar had said. IF you are ever in
trouble and need me send a message
by the birds. Their homing place is
our gypsy rendezvous in the Blue
ridge. Even If | am not there when
the message comes, some Of our tribe
will be. They will know where am
! ltlCh INC NpIu.
So Esther, under the open espionage
Of Blalr's mother, had taken one of
the pigeons from its cage on the porch
and had hastily written the message
to send by this aerial carrier to Hagar.
The message read briefly, Come at
once, dear mother; | need you" She
simply signed It Esther"
From her lattice window she releas
ed her feathered messenger. 1t flew
swiftly to the west, straight as the
arrow flies.
The sheriff and his deputy We're moi
long in reaching Stanley hall. They
alighted with II busincsslike clattcr
and the sheriff dumped up the steps
and across the wide, hospitable pOrticJ
and made the great iron knocker wax,
the echoes of the silent mansion. Wit
an indicative gesture Of his thumb hC
had sent his deputy TO guard the rear.
Joe, the natty and worldly wise col
ored man servant of the until recently
wild young master of Stanley hall, wa'
wondering ut the impudcnt urgency o.
the clamor that had aroused him as h,
reached the bottom of the staircase
when he stood stock still, shaken TO
once out of his usual superior airs an,
self possession, to behold his yOunI
master, wild eyed ana disheveled, rusl
claiming as he did so: Don't open tina
door! | have killed man, and the.
are after me!'
With chatterlng teeth and shaking
knees the erstwhile dandy darby clun
for support IN the weakness of hi
fright to the pedestal of the balustrad
at the foot of tue old colonial staiI
case.
Still the sheriff hammered at tn
door, crying s:entoriOusly, open in tn
name of the law" and still the fright
ened darby chung to the balustrade, d
vided In his terror between the awfu
authority of the law that he was dis
obeying and In fear of the fate this ii
now sophisticated servitor had felt 70
his young MASTER
One glance from the low French VIII
dows that looked from the library upo
the grounds at the back of Stanley ha
and Arthur was aware of the watchft
deputy, with drawn pistol.
At this juncture the automobil
agent from Richmond came with honl
ing horn up the driveway with one
the first automobiles that had ever e.
sayed the roads of Fairfax. With I'll
l agent, who proudly drove the re
: French racer, was an oily and grim
garage mechanic driving low, old bt
powerful one seated garage handy CT
I battered and Scared from much han
a service, but still strong, speedy an
dependable.
4 The sheriff hammered and kicke
= unavallIngly at the stout, gre.s whit
door as these "newfangled contral
lions" us he called them, drove up
e the portico steps, 81 am the sheriff
Y he explained to the wondering aut
f. mobile man. IL am after man Il
n murder, and summon you to aid me
er The taciturn garage mechanic brougl
IN | n haov, iron lack from his battered %