Arizona republican., 1915-06-27

still embarrassed English lawyer, Marmaduke Smythe. and the colonel and the doctor. There was some evil breeding in the air and the aura of hate was felt by the English man of law.
 '"It is only a veneer of civilization that thnly covers these crude Yankees in these wild parts" sad the English lawyer to himself as he awkwardly mounted his horse in tine moonlight outside Stanley hall and rode down the darkened lanes behind the gloomy judge. :" They jolly well would tomahawk and burn each other at the stake if they had op- portunity." he added to himself. "I shall start back to London tomorrow if l can, and dcuccd glad of it -
 Unevcntfully three years went their round. The supposititious heir at Stanley hall grew to be a sturdy little boy of handsome appear nnce. i,.t of violent and ungovernable temper even as child.
 On the little girl. Esther, reared in secrecy in a closed chamber in the great house and ministered to only by the silent and faith ful Nanny Lucy. the colonel lavished and outpoured tho great and growing love and af- lection of his invaIided and aging years. For already the hand of death plain upon him and every day he rode to the cross upon tine grave of his dead wife and prayed that he might see her face to face and be forgiven. in ihe great tenderness of the love they had borne each other in life. for the nyrong he had done their child.
 The fear of the colonel that the wild gypsy blood in the putative heir might bring him to course, that would disgrace the Stanley name prcycd upon thc colonel.
 And so the colonel drew up document which he securely sealed and placed among his papers. Upon the outside he superscribcd t: "T To he opened in case my son. Arthur Stanley IT.. ever does anything to disgrace the Stanley narnc" This document he left by bis will in the care of Dr. Henry Lee. should She physician survive him. as his executor. Then, too, the colonel rcalizcd that he could not long hope to rear his beloved little daugh- ter like flower in tine dark secretly at Stan fly hall He was arranging with the kindly old viinHcr friend and couhdant, Dr. Lee, that little Esther would be secretly delivered 10 him and the doctor could give out the story if was an orphan relative that he had adopted as his Ghter. To this supposed daughter of his dearest friend the colonel pro- posed to will as much of his means as would have come t5 a girl child openly acknowledged.
 Meanwhile the unhappy Hasar had been borne far away by the brutal and ever watch fu Matt Harding.
 With him, a nephew devoted to him, one Luke Lowell, English gypsy, aided Matt in keeping watch and ward upon Hasar without Lnowir= or asking why. And then Matt Harding fell upon evil courses in his Romany prosperity, and GrinE madc an end to him.
 Harar succeeded to his gypsy wealth and gypsy power. The king was dead long live thc q1ccn. His hcnchman transferred his allegiance from tAc Gcad Lcsband to tbc living wife.
 In inc grim household of Judge Lamar Stanley tEe shadow of cheated hopes and lighted ambition fell heavy upon the family. The proud and graspins wife, the cold and taciturn judge. had unifyins cause in common; that was that death might strike the 4 lives that lay between their only child that he might possess both the diamond from the sky" ami inc English carldom.
 Such was tac state of affairs when Iiasar gnd her tr.he came back to Virginia. three years after the death of tlic coloncis wife alG the substitution of liagars child as the heir If Stanley. Leaving her people campcd at distance, HaGar jou:neycd to the ne Ehbor- hood of Stan'ey Iial, and there, hidden in the siirul,Lcry, win bursting Lcart, behcil for son ride forth, tho petted and paapercd little mas;cF of Stanley hsn.
 Col. Stan'cy. w;ii the boy. was riding on Lis dai'y pilgrimage 10 the cross surmountcd grave of his dead wife. Tie road lci him past the house of Judge Stanley. Looking from his window after his enemy and tine little heir of the Staneys on his pony beside tLc colonel. the judge aware of q gypsy who stalkcd after the colonel and the boy as swiftly and as furtively as an Indian trackcr. Se;zing his hat, the judge quietly emerged from his house and trailcd the gypsy woman.
 By the gate of the graveyard Hagar hil panting behind a huge powder. She watched SD intcntly the bare headed figure of the colonel praying by the grave of his wife. and