The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-07-16
CHAPTER ".
What Will the Harvest Bss

IA came her when shts found her |
self iii the lnadhovse to which |
Judge Stanley had committed |
her without warrant Of law, and she
screamed and struggled. The matron
and burly warden overpowered 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 small
barred window. Hagar listened for u
moment at the iron barred, heavy oak
en- door; then she backed toward the
table and pressed the lacings that held
the fame of the candle. The leather
thongs In the eyelets at the back OF
the straitjacket smoked and burned;
| then, with a great effort, she parted
| the smoldering thongs. To release her
| self from the straitjacket, now her
| arms were free. was but the work OF
| few moments.
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| oaken stool and with It's sturdy legs
she pried the bars from their cement
| ed sockets The ground was only some
| ten feet below. She held to the ledge
| Of the window a moment and then
| dropped She struck the earth with
| out injury and made off In the dark
| ness, free woman.
/ On, MID Nnlnno1 SfonloV
| 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, dishevel
ed painting, but resolved to have her
own. At this apparition the colonel
arose and faced the wild intruder. 81
have come for the childH' said Hagar
hoarsely. Colonel Stanley felt sud
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the last shock the doctor had foretold
for him. He gave moaning, inartic-
ulate cry and sank back a dead man!
Hardly knowing what she did. Hagar
swept into her bosom the diamond
from the sky and the sealed document
with other papers on the table. Then
turning, she softly opened the library
i nd nc Soft1xr IN fhn stair.
( way. Led by unerring instinct she
opened the door upon the landing and
entered the room where the child, hel
own son, the putative heir of Stanley
hall, lay sleeping. She marked the ele
gance Of his surroundings as the riser
full moon shone in the window, light
ing it fully. What should she do? Il
she left her child here she would b.
! cheating the cheaters. What would bt
the wild and lawless upbringing sh'
q could give her son in comparison to al
! that would be his as heir Of Stanle.
hall?
u AS she faltered she heard footstep
outside, and, gazing out cautiously, be
held the old colored nurse descending
: with the little girl, the rightful heir 0
Stanley hall. Hagar huddled upon tn
landing place and listened. A will
: shrek arose from the colored nurse a
9 she entered the library and discovere
her dead master. Then the bell ran
. In the servants quarters from the me-
e vous pull on the bell rope of the oil
y nurse In the library. And shortly af
- erward Hagar could hear the nurs
- was joined by old Ned, the colored bu
y Ter.
Just at this instant DR.. Lee drove u
= outside and soon the great knocker Q