The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-20
CHAPTER ".
VIVA, Will the Harvest Be7


a FRENZY of fear and rage over
~ came her when she found her.
self In the madhOuse to which
Judge Stanley had committed
her without warrant of law. and she
screamed and struggled. The matron
and burly warden everpowered her
with difficulty, placed her in Il strait
Jacket and threw her upon the cot in
the cell and locked the changing door
and left her.
A wild idea suddenly seized Hagar.
She staggered to her feet and gazed
around. Above her cot, some eight feet
from the floor of the CELL was n small
barred window. Hagar listened for n
moment at the iron barred, heavy oak
table and pressed the lacings that held
the sleeves of the straitjacket against
the flame Of the candle. The leather
thongs in the eyelets at the back of
the straitlackct smoked and burned;
then, with n great effort, she parted
the smoldering thongs To release her.
self from the straltjackct. now her
arms were free, was but the work of n
few moments.
Mounting the table. she drew up the
oaken stool and with its sturdy legs
she pried the bars from their cement.
ed sockets. Tie ground was only some
ten feet below She hsld to the ledge
of the window moment and then
dropped. She struck the earth with.
out injury ana made off in the dark.
ness, free woman.
On this very night Colonel Stanley
had sent for the doctor to take away
the little girl.
At Stanley hall the old nurse was
preparing little Esther for the night
journey. In his library Colonel Stan
ley gazed In the lamplight at the dia
mond from the sky and the sealed
document he had prepared that would
betray the Stanley secret. He heard
the sound Of the opening of the long
French window by the fireplace, and
there he saw Hagar entering, disheve
ed, painting, but resolved to have hei
own. At this apparition the colone
arose and faced the wild intruder. e.
have come for the child" said Hagal
hoarsely. Colonel Stanley felt n sud
den pang through his heart. II was
the last shock the doctor had foretolt
for him. He gave Il moaning, inartic
ulnte cry and sank back n dead man!
Hardly knowing what she did Haga
swept into her bosom the diamond
from the sky ana the sealed documen
with other papers on tho table. Then
door ana MS softly crcpt up the stair
way. Led by uncrring instinct, sh
opened the door upon the landing AM
entered the room where the child he
own son. the pututiyc heir of Stunle
hall. lay sleeping. she marked the ele
gancc of his surroundings rs the rise
full moon shonc in the window, light
ing 1t fully. What should she do?
she left her child here she would b
cheating the cheaterS. What would b
the wild and lawless upbringing sh
could give her son In comparison to a
that would be his as heir of Stanle
hall?
AS sue lulleieu sue uehIu iootSteI
outside, and, gazing out cautiously, bt
held the old colored nurse descendin
with the little girl, the rightful heir @
Stanley hall. Hngar huddled upon tn
landing place and listened. A vii
shrek arose from the colored nurse a
she entered the library and discovere
her dead master. Then the bell ran
in the servants quarters from the ne
vous pull oil the bell rope Of the oil
nurse In the library. And shortly af
erward Hagar could hear the nurs
was joined by old Ned, the colored bu
Ter.
Just ut this instant DR.. Lee drove u
outside, and soon the great knocker o