Arizona republican., 1915-09-19

sister or swtetheart?
 Lonely. apprehensive even dishe hearten.d
 Esther felt that to be cooIly received Dy
 Arthur would be the last straw The sec, st
 joy she had felt to realize that she ~aS
 the rightful heir of Stanley had passed.
 She had been denied her birthright so 1ous
 that she could feel no gladness at the
 thought of being accepted Esther Stan
 ley rather than Esther Harding the pooy
 gypsy girl. Only Arthur, only the love she
 bore for him, made her ste adfast She felt
 she could go away and die of a broken
 heart if he had changed and with his mil-
 lions had grown arrogant. selfish. and cold
 toward her. She regretted she had gone into
 the wilderness to seek him. Might she
 not have better stayed in Los Angeles till
 Arthur returned and meet him. there? But
 then there was Blair. Blair was seeking
 Arthur, too.
 Arthur had been Blair's comrade in their
 wild boyhood and even wilder young man
 hood. Blair might poison Arthur's mind
 against her. Blair was despicable enough
 for such an action No. she would keep on,
 she would see Arthur. If his eyes lit up
 with love and joy at the sight of her she
 would tell him all and beg his protection
 from Blair.
 And so Esther unused as the stage rocked
 and creaked It's way up the mountain
 passes to the mines.
 Meanwhile Blair is making his way in the roadster he has hired for the purpose
 as best he can over the rough roads
 through the mountains that he curses con-
 tfnual1y. It is prophetic of his curses and forebodings that the front axle of his car snaps and 1t is disabled on the mountain
 side. He walks afoot and arrives at the
 blacksmith shop near the mines to encoun- ter an old acQuaintance-Luke Lowell. Luke Lowell has sentenced himself to hard labor as blacksmith helper since the death of his evil companion in Santa Bar bara bay the night when the diamond from the sky dropped into the waters of the bay in that death struggle in the darkness
 From Lowell Blair. after mutual profrers of friendship and assistance, learns that Arthur Stanley. John Powell as he is now known. has left for other mines he Is considering purchasing. far across the val ley in another range of mountains.
 Meanwhile 0uabba, disobeyinE Esther's commands through his very anection for her. has taken the next train and arrives at the lonely station. only to be informed that the stage to the mines does not meet any train here save the earlier one. in order to avoid Journey that would be made doubly perilous by darkness
 A group of fishermen to whom the islands oil the wild seacoast hereabout offer good pshng in their waters, have alighted with ouabbs- They banter the poor Italian that he is anxious to reach the mines thirty miles away up the mountains. One prof fers him a slightly broken fishing rod and tells him to be philosophical and fish till the stage shall come on the morrow to bear him to his destination. Quabba wonders if he may not miss Esther if he goes afoot. Irresolutely he takes the fishing rod and follows the fishermen. He is told that the mountafneers and miners sometimes como down to tho coast for the fishing and that he may be given a ride back by blackboard or wagon to the mine by some of these who
 I.~ G. AA Il and goes fishing. not so much for a fish to angle for ride to the mountain mine where Esther has gone seeking Arthur. Quabba meets with no friendly fishermen from tho hills with blackboard or wagon returning to the mine. He fishes and wishes he had started afoot. let the dis tance and the roughness of the road be what it may. --'
 The sport is good, save that Quabba is annoyed by the aggressive boldness. or friendliness. Quabba can hardly tell which. of a persistent pelican It Is great fat, white pelican, which reminds Quabba very much of 6 certain pompous, long nosed, southern magistrate who wore white waistcoat and muIcted Quabba of $10 for playing hand organ music without a license Quabba remembers this magis- trate with extreme distaste, and the peli- can resembles him much that Quabba hated tho pestiferous bird all the more in 
 The stage to the mines stops at the blacksmith shop. A broken linchpin is giving trouble. Luke starts to ad- just lynch pin. Blair Stanley. within the darkened shop. for he half ex- pected recognition by some one. saw Es- ther, Esther shrank back from the win dow at sight of Luke. Luke. In turn. was busy at his work at the wheel and gave no attention to the passengers. except one. ar Englishman with side whiskers. who hunE put of the coach and annoyed him with foolish questions.
 When Luke came into the shop for tools. Blair drew him to one side and whispered There is some one in that coach who will ruin our game with Arthur Stanley. You know what to dol" s-
 Luke had a dim remembrance of the English lawyer. and not having seen Es- her in the coach. deemed Blair referred to hat pesterfng individual Luke nodded ,rimly and replaced the broken linchpin with the broken llnchpin, and called to he driver, Its all right" grandlt waving side the drivers profrer of two bits" for Blair had paid for the work with a twenty loliar bill
 Down by tue rugged coast line thirty niles away Quabba was fighting the fight hat Is the true nsherman's delight with ome great and game fish, and had forgot en the pestiferous pelican lurking boldly ,ear. @Nt
 rAr away aiohB the crest or the mount ain. beside a precipitous dizzying declivity he broken elinchpin does its work. The wheel comes off and spins away. the coach opples over. the tongue snaps of short. md the great swaying vehicle falls over md rolls and gathers momentum as 1t. oils. while Esther and the English lawyer ludd1e in its grooming interior spun round md round with the rolling coach, too ter flied to shriek And then the coach trikes a great boulder and smashes as an gg would smash spurt of dust and hen sffllueaa