Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-19

. lals Tor you to rave. have told
You, you have ,aneurism Of the heart,
and another attack like this may be
your death. You cannot hope to live
to marry . wife who may yet bear you
a son" is9e5
II viii never marry again" cried
Colonel Stanley in anguish. Il have
loved but one woman, could love but
one woman, and she is dead! But, BY
heavens, / will cheat Lamar Stanley
and all his brood! I have 5000 In
yonder safe. l will buy the male child
Sor1l to the gypsy woman. I will hide
away my own flesh and blood. my 1T
tie daughter, and have her reared ten
derby, yet In secret. And the gypsy's
brat at my death shall be the Earl Of
Stanley in England and possess the
diamond from the sky. That will DO
fine for Lamar Stanley and his veruin
offspring" And he laughed and shook
his hands In bitter rage.
II mean It, and you must help me.
You hate Lamar Stanley. for he ruined
yeu. Nanny Lucy hates him. He
killed her twin brother in cold blood.
Comet"
In the glow Of bis campfire Matt
Harding gazed greedily at the wealth
beyond his widest dreams that Colo
mel Stanley had reused him from his
ftful slumber to pour into his lap.
Hagar, reused from her fevered
dreams, felt her babe being lifted from
her bosom. The rural gypsy husband!
and father seized her by the throat as
she feebly struggled. He gagged and
bound her hastily as he might and
emerged painting from the tent. carry
ing the swaddled babe which he hand
ed to the colonel and the doctor.
docs my wife object" he asked to
the DOCTORS question. "Say, governors.
she would sell every child she expects
to have for half the money. Well be
twenty miles away by sunrise and If
~ miles more by another day. Wen
be- gypsy kings and queens and you'll
never hear Of US again"
Back at Stanley hall the doctor and
the colonel entered secretly by the H.
brary window and bore the babe up
stairs to the waiting nurse. Reluctant
" and yet resolved like all the rest,
the faithful colored nurse arrayed the
gypsy child In fine linen and hung
about its neck "the diamond from the
sky" while the little daughter, born to
Stanley hall, %whimpered beside It's fair
dead mother.
In answer to the summons to Stan
ley hall; came Judge Stanley. the kins-
man enemy and the English barrister.
1t was a strange group that gathered
in the colonel's library. the English
barrister, the grim. bitterly disappoint-
ed Judge, silently facing DR.. Lee and
Colonel Stanley.
A pull at the bell rope and the weep
ing colored nurse entered the library
bearing: the black haired, dark eyed
babe, a male child in Stanley hall, pre-
sumptive heir to an English earldom,
and blazing on Its breast was the dia-
mond from the sky.
Over the gypsy campfire within the
sound Of q human call from Stanley
hall a bereft and frenzied mother tore
herself loose from her bonds. Like a
tigress. she threw herself upon her
husband and demanded her child.
When be told her of the bargain and
showed her the money that came. from
1t she cursed him and the gold and.
seizing a jagged burning billet from the
fire, she struck, Matt Harding down
and, leaving him prone on the ground.
she rushed to Stanley hall to regain her
firstbOrn. @
The gypsy reused himself from the
stunning blow and fastened after her
ere she could spoil all his greedy