Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-28

and 60 to the devil With it! But wheth-
er I killed DR.. Lee or not, l will kill
you If you. ever say n word Of what
you know! One thing more. Who told
you" ,.f ~
"Hagar Harding" lied Luke Lowell
glibly. Then, seeing an i%ncredulous
look in the others eyes, he added sur.
lily: "Hagar's gone daffy; that's why
she. told me. But she don't talk to any
body now, and I know she didn't tell
anybody else. They would only think
she was raving If she did. Mrs. Stan
ley has taken her to Richmond to an
asylum. Mrs. Stanley has the girl
Esther with her. They are at Mrs.
Randolph's, where the. ball was" adds
Luke. ~ tx, ,
John Powell breathed a sigh Of re-
lief. Then all Is well with Esther at
least. He does not question Lowell
further. realizing If Lowell knew ought
concerning Esther the gypsy would
have blurtcd it out.
And so Luke Lowell, gypsy black
mailer. and John Powell, sheep her.
der. part. But as the gypsy goes
across the desert to the nearest desert
town and railroad station he searches,
ever searches, for the diamond from
the sky. He has not told John Pow
ell Of the diamond. Even now he
half believes that it was but a fgment
of his heat crazed brain.
Some miles across the desert travels
a desert Indian family. They have
two horses. One the buck rides at his
ease: and the other drags & travels
the two rude poles fastened to the
horse. the ends Of which drag across
the desert. and dashed to the, poles are
the Indians goods and chattels.
Beside the travels trudges the squaw.
On her back her papoosc sleeps, strap
ped to its board. in the sun.
Across the desert the travois scratch
es its way. The eyes Of the 'squaw
fall upon the fresh tracks that it
makes. A, little spray Of sand sppin,
kles.5 over something that glistens
brightly in, the SUI The squaw stOops
down and gathers up the diamond from
the sky and wakes her papoose to
shake the new found cleaning trinket
plaything before its beady eyes.
So the days pass in Virginia and
California alike. John Powell ceases
to be a sheep herder. and. taking with
him nearly 100000 cash in his bat
tered old valisc, unknown to any man,
he bids goodby to his friends at the
sheep ranch, and pausing only in Los
Angeles to buy a becoming outfit of
business clothes; he goes to the ada
cent oil, fields to- as he says to him.
self grimly, buy himself rich! SIT -Ii%
He writes to- Esther, guardedly and
t.without; signature, from Los Angeles,
The letter reaches Esther in, the mick
Of time. Mrs. Randolph's maid gives
II. to her, informing her that Mrs. Stan,
ICY has issued orders that if" any letter
shouldacome to-, Esther :that;it be dc
livered to Mrs. Stanley first. T. $50 }2.'
The prosecutions Of Blair Stanle,
have become intolerable,. and whef
Esther has gone defiantly to Blair:
mother Mrs. Stanley has tainted he
with the cruel retort that she Esther
is a, beggar on the bounty OF the moth
or OF the man who honorsi her with NJ
i offer oflmarriagc!ra3i atN0& CIV &
Further, Mrs. Stanley icily reminds
Esther that: since, Hagar, has lost he,
reason. no, trace Of the supposed. w'eeallttlll
Of Hagar can be found. The operatlloAl!
necessary to restore Hagar's mind viii
cost $1,000: If, Esther accepts: Blair
mrs: Stanley informs 'hci', this money
will be Forthcoming, and. the operation
will: be performed. a. Arl &i9ji"h sal] i:E
1t is on the point of Esthcr's tongue
to speak and declare herself for wha'
she is, the legitimate daughter of the