The Springdale news., 1915-09-10

Vivian Stanley Leaves Her Husband. advanced money on il. and even il he hadn't that's my price for keeping ny mouth shut" he added. and I'll see that Blake here says nothing neither.
 But the diamond has disappeared Ne don't know where il is said Mrs Stanley eoldly. though in her heart she ragged at the presumption.
 .Itll turn aR-them big stones ai= ways do.. It's ole of the finest i'll the world but GIat-s my price,. retqrted Mr Abe Bloom If 1t ever turns aP you Stanleys can repIeyin its No ole can dispute your titte to it. There aiHst another one like it in the world But when you StaHleys get it fl comes te me! Ihats understood and agreed. eh. BIake?es
 There was T strange. impermrba5le eieam in the keen eyes of the detee- ti4e, who had maintained his usual taciturnity during this strange confer ence. but he nodded his head and stft swcred quietly, "Y es. that's understood and agreed.
 Reaching Richmond, ii had been no trouble for QHaHba. It his old oeeHPa ton 0f organ grinder, h find tHe AatIze ef Mrs Burton Randolph. where -H.t knew Esther was stopping iu Rich. moud. He had.jn reached Inc hease and had just been ordered to move =eH by passing policeman wten faAi cab drove Up and Biahc and Bloom alighted and entered the Randolph re@i dencc
 This visitation WIS such q surprise to the policeman hat he readily vouct etl the information as to WHo these iii eividHals were when QHabba inquired
 ."TAemt' said fh" policeman. Them s two of The wiseSt guys Ill Richmond Tom Blake. who runs the Blake detee tiTe agency. and Ahe Bloom. the bis gest gambler in this burg Maybe they are going into society
 Then, ordering ,2uabba to move ou again he moved OH himself
 Quabha with his monkey and organ moved on, but only to the side of the house X detective and i gambling house keeper These were strange visitors indeed, and, suspectine the mo tiyes of Mrs Sfanlcy.s sudden patron age of Esther as he did. Quabba squat ted close by the low window of the reception room and listened. He over heard enough to realize that Blair Stanley's return was being arranged and he knew this boded no good to his fair young mistress.
 After the detective and gambler had departed Quabba sent his ambassador and collector of external revenue, Clar- ence. the monkey, up the wistaria vines to the upper chamber. which he sur missed might be Esthers.
 He was right in his surmise. Esther who, like Mrs. Randolph, had with drawn when visitors on private busi- ness had been announced for Mrs. Stanley, was in her room
 The chattering of the monkey on her window sill reused Esther from a rev erie of Arthur, and with q glad cry she ran to the window and hugged the affectionate little beast and waved a welcome to the smiling Quabba below illtn tIlIdbDd ittltl His tHiiStI u IlN lli' as a sign Of secrecy. XanIed the string to recall his amha~sadur and departed
 
 Beside the track in the glaring Cali fornia desert, Arthur stanley, or. as he calls himself, John Powell. lay stunned after being thrown from the Overland limited, which he had board ed from horseback as the train had panted up the grade in the desert
 He had meant to warn the trainmen Of the robbers lying in wait for them but they had imagined him desper ado single handedly attempting bod up and had thrown him off.
 His horse. as all horses he handled, loved him. The faithful and affection ate creature reused him by nosing at him. Arthur. half stunned. mounted