Arizona republican., 1915-09-26
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bound her. and beat upon the great heavy door of the shop, crying for help.
 Quabba, mourning his young mistress and bewailing his fate that he had so strangely found and so strangely lost the diamond from the sky again. had set out on foot for the mines to find Arthur, but especially to find Esther, his young mistress. It just at nightfall that he reached the forge. some three miles yet from the mines It was locked gloomy and deserted in the darkness. But from within he heard voice he recognized. the voice of his young mistress crying for help. A sledge stood by the door Quabba Seized it and shattered down the door and he was shedding tears of joy he clasped the hands of Esther.
 There was no time for explanation now. look from Esther and the two sped off through the darkness to be followed a few moments later by Blair and Luke returning to find their fair prisoner had been freed and was gone. Over the mountains, through the darkness went pursuers and pursued, while by a log a marsh, Lawyer Marmaduke Smythe gathered up some dry trash and lit his fire to camp for the night. He had lost his way, but philo- sophically he accepted the situation.
 "I a lucky beggar that I thought to bring tin of biscuit and flask of brandy in my luggage" he remarked half aloud. And he opened the suitcase he had borne so far together with his other impedI- menta of gun and deer head My word! The wrong portmanteau!" he exclaimed as in the firelght he brought forth a woman's dainty nightroJe and boudoir cap Well, no matter" he added, reslgnedIy, they vii! protect from the drafts in this iunGie! Vow if I only had a night light in ease my ire goes out! l have been always used to having night light, and if l had Lat and my portable bathtub l could stand the wilderness! But if the late Lord Cecil Stanley could only see me now!" he added fervently, he surveyed himself in his strange night attire. By love. this is roughing 1t with a vengeance!
 The up. and, as if waiting for it as a signal, the harsh, discordant chorus of croaking marsh frogs sounded all sides
 'Indians Savage Iroquois!" cried the alarmed lawyer, seizing his gun. But no,'' he added to himself ." will not shoot; their war whoops on every side show they surround I will scout of. in the dark ness like one of those bally astute western American vorloopers. such the subtle Arizona Alfred previous English travellers to these wilds have written about. But just won't I write a book that will thrill Picadilly when l get back unscalped-if 1 dol"
 And dropping the marshmallows which he was tOasting. a box of which he had found among Esther's effects, the frightened barrister stole softly away, but he nor frightened to leave his luggage behind. He bore with him the deer head, the suitcase. and the gun, ana higher land, out of earshot of the age cries of the greenskins. he camped, quite uncomfortably, thank you, in the crotch of a large live oak tree.
 Day broke the other side of the noun tain at the Lady Veronica mines. Tho hoarse whistle a the power plant woke tne echoes of the mountain gorge. The miners tumbled from their, ,'bunks and stormed the greasy cookhouse. Tn the boss shack the telephone rang and a sleepy assistant fore man took a message from John Powell" chief engineer at the workings on the other side. to which from the Lady Veronica mines a tunnel driven four miles through the mountain. The message called for all hands to quit the job and come through to the workings the other side. This message is delivered to miners, outside men. the cookhouse help, even to the shippers who have just begun to load the ore carrying cable cradle that carries the ore from the hillside outcrop across the gorge to the tipple on the other side of the ravine.
 The whistle woke Esther and ouabba