Arizona republican., 1915-06-27
ICopyright: 1915: By Roy L.. McCsrden
 CHAPTER II.
IAN EYE FOR AN EYE"

AN EYE FOR AN EYE'
 T S Col Stanley fell unconscious across A, the library table Matt Harding silently \ closed the library door from the out
 side. His right hand closed tightly over the mouth of HaSar. preventing the weak and anguished mother from making outcry. before her eyes. before the door closed on the scene. she bsheld her boy. her first born, ar rayed in fine linen. a great jewel slorirs on his little breast. the center of some strange eristocratic rite or ceremony.
 So silent had been the struggle in the hall that while the keen of Judge Stanley had heard a rLA,'e and a gasp. his attention had been so taken up with the anguish the face of his kinsman enemy. Col. Stanley. as the colonel tottered and fvn face forward on tle table. that the judge had hardly needed these slight extraneous sounds.
 As for Marmaduke Snythe the timd and bewildered English representative of the Earl of Stanley, be, like the judge, was facinG tre swoOnirg colonel and also was unaware of the silent struggle in the hallway the struggle that had caused Col. Stanley 10 swocn. for the colonel saw. in bis minds eye, the barring of his plot. his own dizgracc at m
 
 his enemy of blood,
 Like stoic. Nanny Lucy, holding tue false heir.. had never stirred or changed atti- tude
 Dr. Lee, standing closer tn the colonel. sprsng at once to the aid of his friend and with all his skill sought to revive the stricken man.
 Down the hall to the great open doorway Matt Harding bore his struggling. silenced wife. The bank notes in his bosom. the price of the sale of lis own flesh and blooI rustlcd. as he struggled with tic frenzied, half strangled Ha-ar. I}y tie sheer force of his brutal strength the gypsy dragged the woman to the little copse where their measer camp was pitcLed. Here he bound her with ropes to the seat of the gagged her with his ncckkcrchief. hitched his horses. and drove CT tovar,l the dawn. Tn the library tho ministrat;ons of Dr. ice had revived Col. Stanley. - Brace yourSclf," the doctor whispered. Rcmcmter, yor- heart viii not stand much If this"
 "I am all right nov.'' sad Col Stanley. moistrnng his lips. You. doctor. will tfy tha, tLis is a rcals child born heir to the Stanley estates. ard will attest that he is my son. heir at my death tp the diamond from the sky and also heir to tie earldom of Stanley at the death If the present carl" The English lawyer fumbiod in his green bag and produced the a,reaGy drawn up docu- ment of attcstation With a firm hand, but swing tho colonel sad b-t searching glance he did go. Dr. Lee signed the paper physician in attenda3ce at the birth. Hhe colonel signed as fathcr of " Arthur Stanley IT. of Stanley hall. Virginia" And then it the turn If Judge Stanley to sign next of kin. For a minute be faltercd. look of bitter hatred on his saturnine countenance. and then hc affixed his signature and threw down the pen with bitter curse for what he did mocting smile played upon the face of Col Stanley. For brief moment he forgot the flower face of inc beloved dead woman ups.airs. For one brief moment he forgot the girl child Lorn of their Iecp love. whose birthright he Lad taken away in th" fuIfllment of his hate for hs disappo nted and cha Erined kinsnan.
 A few brief and suited farcwells and per- functory congratulations ensued between the
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