The Springdale news., 1915-09-10

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 There was no one at Stanley hall to pay him for keeping or telling the Stan. ley secret. but Luke Lowell knew enough of the Stanleys and their feuds to realize his best market would be with Blair Stanley's mother If Arthur Stanley, So called, was Hagars son. Il gypsy changelina. then Blair Stanley Was the real heir to tue Stanley earl dom, to which. according to the old family tradition, the heir WIS com handed b carrSthe diamond from the sky
 But at the portals of the home of Blair Stanley's mother the proud, cold widow would hold no traffic with the sinister gypsy who elamored at her threshold with | secret to sell She er= dered him to be gone and prefessed H8 interest fn the ware he hinted he had for sale.
 Ellen Stanley was, ih her aHstere way, &s unscrupuious i'll her family am bitiou as even Ter husband. The grim cold Judge Lamar stanley, had heen But she would have no traffic with such as Luke Lowell. She realized only too well that once such q creature had her in his power, even IS I coutidant, his dominion would be. as k always The dominion of the ignorant brutal and intolerahle.
 So Blair's mother dismissed the cha grined gypsy in cold disdain. She would be no confederate and yet the victim of the eXactions that she instinctively knew would follow my association with any secret with him
 If you have any secret to sell take Il to some other market. said the Widow Stanley with cold hanteur Unless you leave my premises this instant shall have you arrested and committed for attempted backnaili Shout your secret from the housetops if you please. 1 am not concerned.
 But Luke Lowell, thwarted and dis couraged though he was in his first bold bid for the fortune he had be lieved was within his grasp. had no in sention of shouting his secret from tue housetops He realized its only value was in his keeping 1t and being paid and heavily, to keep 1t.
 He must find some one who would pay-this some one would be Blair Stanley. he did not doubt
 But If Blair Stanley's mother had re- fused to traffic with the sinister gypsy she was shrewd enough to surmise the secret that had become a living thing again after lying dormant for eighteen years.
 Why had her husband set off alone 10 meet his death in the mountains the day after Colonel Stanley had died eighteen years ago! Why had br. Lee adopted the gypsy woman's daughter few months since? Why had this gypsy woman returned after all these years. 1 in the guise of Il woman of means and taken Stanley haIlt
 Why had she come with proofs of ! Blair's guilt of the murder of Dr Lee i and proffered her silence in exchange for social recognition by the proud fam l flies of Fairfax for this girl:
 And now that this gypsy woman was erazed and all fear of her sons guilt ! being known had vanished for the time being at least Mrs Stnney resolved u take advantage of these situations as she suspieioned them If thi. girl was the real heir. the missing of Stan ley hall. of which there Ha4 been vaeae whispers for years, why not prepare for and fortiiy against any possible disgrace that might threaten through her sons rash and dreadful deed-the :, r1nrdnr nf Ilr | nop