Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

When Arthur arrived upon the scene two robbers were in the express car ahi trD were going through the Punmans An- other had compelled the fireman to I1- couple the locomotive and, covering .!.4 engineer. had made him drive the dc,achei machine up the track some distance rc..4 the standing train.
 Scarce knowing what he did Arthur ra'- loped by and. mounting the engine at 70 end of the tender from his horses ha.., grappled with the lone robhcr covering in, engineer. A desperate struggle fJIl-wc,l by the furnace door. Seizing 2 rar:s wrench, the engineer aimed a blow at .h. robber struggling with Arthur, but Tho blow missed foe and hit friend. and -lr..lur was stretched senseless on the firing Sla.1. The robber. with a curse. jumped fr.., the engine and ran. rejoining his coapsA- ions.
 In one of the Pu1lmans Vivian Mlrstor. who was now Mrs. Blair StanIey-thc tu-o travelling MT. and Mrs. Guy Peyton - were among those held at pistols point. An envious woman passenger to whom Vivian had shown the diamond from 10 sky had betrayed the fact she posscsseI -t. Despite her pleadings. supplements. ani even curses-curses that were chorused &y the chagrined Blair-the chuckling rcbbc, ' bore off the great gem with their other booty. Laden with a sack of valuables. ar taking also S100.000 in bank notes from tio express messenger. the robbers dcc2,a.e,l.
 Within a few hours the sheriff mi ',.5 posse of deputies and railroad detec i.-5 were hot on the trail, and " John Tot:cI..' sheep herder. after being lioni2ed q few brief moments, was back at his lonely 0c- cupation.
 Vivian. despoied of the jewel for wtich she would have risked her soul, reproa h.s herself and her raging brideg groom that they did not die gloriously in defending i-. In her bitter rage Vivian taunts Blair hy telling him she only married him to ra the diamond and now that it gone ho must go and regain it. or se1 her no lGc:c. In vain he protests. She threatens to S..e him to the police. and deserts him a-- Los Angeles, and wires to Abe Bloom -a Richmond telling of the loss of the dia- mond. and asking for funds. The deserted and raging Blair pawns what possessions the train robbers have left him. and. der his assumed name of Peyto1. hides in mean hotel. after writing to his relative, Mrs. Burton Randolph. to iutcrcede for hi.a with his mother-with what results have seen.
 Far off in the desert fastncsses the pur- suit of the posse after the train robbers is hotly A shot and the rearno,t saddle of the fleeing outlaws is emp,y. But Is the outlaw falls the diamond from the sky that he has clawed out from the fao6 of valuables. flies from his now nervoo.s hand and lies glittering but unnoticod Dy
 
 Another shot going hosrl. and the fore most outlaw drops from his saddle. An other shot and his riderless horse drops dead in it's tracks. As this horse falls -he treasure sack with the bank notes falls half under the dying animal. The bulk of its prostrate body covers the treasure sacN of bank notes, and masks it from ,1cw of the posse that gallops almost over the dead horses hoofs the pursuit of the th,co surviving desperadoes goes on.
 A month later John Powell" sGccp herder is sent to the desert to hnl ! strayed flock. Beneath the skeleton If ! buzzards' feast. a dead horse. he finds the stolen treasure In a wild frenzy of hysterical delight John Powell " remcm- bers Monte Cristo." which. as the wlI young master of Stanley hall he had read with greedy eagerness. And so, like 1d- mond Dantes, he stands erect and cries. in the burning desert waste. The Wo4ld $ minel"
 The diamond is lying near; it Sicalns n the sun on the desert sand. among rall4e- snakes and cacti. but " John Powell" b!nd- cd with the treasure that he grasps from the bones of mouldering horse sees IL not And there the diamond lies! Who will get, it next?
 ITO be continucd1