Arizona republican., 1915-08-01

Srande dame at the portals of this grand house, as she gave orders to Lake that Quabba be cared for at the kitchen of stan ley hall. This done. Hagar was prepared to go upon her mysterious errand with as Es- ther noticed, the black flat portfolio the strange man from Richmond had brought that day, when her keen gypsy eye noticed that the horse was slightly lame
 am not going very far so it doesn't matter if I walz,' said Hagar. and kissed Esther again and went upon her way. Lit tie did Esther dream of the strange return this secretive yet kind woman whom sae deemed her mother to make to Stanley hall!
 At Mrs. Lamar Stanley's house that austere woman sat upon her piazza rock ing and waiting for Blair to return from inside the house She had more to say to her son. and as she reflected upon the bitter phrasing of the words she would speak her heart ached duly.
 What the use? she kept saving to herself, What the use? What use the ambition. the cold. calculating ambition that had darl<ened her life and had caused the ragic death of her husband eighteen Ions, years ago?
 What was the use to scheme and plot and hope and hate for bauble that had disap- peared-the Diamond from the Sl,y-dnd an earldom farther away than even distant Warwickshire?
 The Diamond from the Sky and the earl dom were not for her. They were never to be the possessions of the son of her body either it would seem. Dead men lay be- tween. and a living man. a wanderer and a fugitive; and the earl. old and feeble. a helpless invalid for years. still fingered on. And Arthur Stanley. prescribed as d mur- derer though he was, bore charmed life that stood between her son and the earl dom and the Diamond from the Sky
 The Diamond from he Sky itself Nvaa gone, vanished from the sight of man. As for her son. that son was infatuated with a worthless woman. Vivian Marston would make fit mate for Blair Stanley, son she had born and reared!
 But bitter as all these reflections were. the Stanley pride strong in the breast of Blair's mother. Bad as he was. she thought. it were better he never possess the Diamond from the Sky the Stanley earl dom with such a woman to share these great possessions!
 And then the judges widow coming toward her Hagar Harding. the present mistress of Stanley hall.
 At the sight of Hagar, Mrs. Stanley stiff ened and instinctively all the old hopes and all the old hatreds leaped again within her withered breast. She rose if to enter her house and ignore Hagar. but Hagar stayed her with a gesture.
 Do not go. Mrs. Stanley" said Hagar in even tones. "I have with me the proofs that your son, and not Arthur Stanley. ia guilty of the murder of pr. Henry Lee" and she indicated with a meaning gesture the flat. black portfolio she carried. the same portfolio Detective Blake had brought from Richmond.
 "Hush!" whispered the judges widow tensely. Come insidei" And she led her strange guest within the portals of. her home and up to the living room. Here Hagar without a further word showed her the photographs of the thumb prints left by the murderer in Dr. Lees study and the photograph of the returned dishonored check. with the fatal inky thumb print of Blair Stanley resting against his signature, though he had attested to it.
 T will get my son. he is somewhere about the house!" cried Mrs. Judge Stanley. What is the price you ask for your si- 1ence? I cannot think you would come here except to bargain"
 My price is an easy one" replied Hagar. " ask that you and all your friends ceive my daughter Esther and myself in Fairfax. I have only this to say: Deem me whom you may. my daughter Esther is of as high birth and blood the proudest families of Fairfax" "
 What you ask be arranged. I feel sure" said the judges widow. regainlng her cold composure. Wait here till find my son!" And Mrs. Stanley bowed and hur- ried down to the porch. where she called loudly for Blair. thinking perhaps he in the garden or at the stable.
 Meanwhile Blair. in the Tory hiding place behind the chimney. had heard every word that had been uttered in the room. In his hands he clutched mass of bank notes. Thrusting them into his pocket. he touched the spring and pushed aside the swinging fireplace noiselessly.
 Hagar stood by the table, her back to the fireplace, watching the door. In her hands were the discriminating photographs of the f T,t-i,, Ioir rJa turned at the sound of Blair's advance he struck her down with the heavy iron poker and she fell to the floor though lifeess. in crumpled heap.
 As Blair stopped to seize the photographs of his guilty thumb prints that had fallen to the floor a gleam of steel the table caught his eye. It was the sheriff's hand cuffs that Vivian Marston had brought to the house with her and left for Blair, she said. mockingly. " as souvenir of the White Knights leap!"
 Hagar moaned and stirred. Blair could hear his mother calling him in the hallway now. He seized the handcuffs and clasped then. the unresisting wrists of IIagar. Picking her up, he thrust her in the :" Torys hiding place" and hastily swung the wall back in position, leaving the un- and manacled form of Hagar i'm prisoned by the broken open chest in the darl<ened niche.
 At this instant he heard his mother on the threshold and turned and fled with the and the stolen money by the ioor that led to the inner rooms and is gone.
 Far away a colored boy. who had been lriving a pig the day the gentlefollS of Fairfax held their vaunted tournament. Is playing he is a hunter after eagles.
 He has a wooden gun, this colored boy who herds pigs while gentle white folk tide to tournament and to chase the fox. md with bis wooden gun he plays a part