The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-28


mountainsidc Quabba saw that some Of
the gypsfes. warned by the clatter
and roar of the landslide the massive.
bounding. loosened rocking stone had
started. Ind aca to safety.
He saw some half score Of gypsy men
and women toiling rapidly up the oppo-
site slope of the valley from the de-
stroyed gypsy camp. Through the dust
that was settling In cloud over the
debris and rubble where the camp had
stood the straining eyes OF Quabbn
could mark the ragged figures Of some
of the assaulting tramps limping away
from the scene of destruction. as boot
less as they had come.
Then as he neared the scene the an.
tuished Quabba could mark that the
Heeing gynsies had paused halfway up
he opposite slope and had nerved
themselves to return to their submerg
ed. annihilated camp. With an aching
heart and Il great burning sense of re-.
proach for his rash deed that had
worked such i'll when he had meant
but good, Quabba could see that Esther
and Hagar were not among the hys-
terlcal gypsics returning to the scene
of destruction.
When Quabba reached the heaps of
stone and wreckage that had been the
camp site be found the gypsies already
gathered In n group to where the van
of Hagar lay overturned and half
covered by mass of rocks and earth
Then his heart beat again with JOY
as he heard the voice of Esther, tremu.
lous, yet brave for all that, issue from
beneath the van. IF you are friends.
save u.s." was Esther's cry. Strong
and willing hands tore at the heaped
up rock aud rubble, and strained and
lifted at the van.
Soon the van was raised from over
the cavity its very overturning had
made There was Esther and Ha.
gar, trembling but unhurt save for a
few minor scratches and bruises, but
In the bottom of the cavity lay the
bulky form of Luke Lowell. stark and
still.
Kindly hands drew Hagar and Els.
Their out and Quabba fell at their feet,
uttering incoherent self accusations
mingled with equally incoherent
thanksglvings. A kindly hand threw
u coat across the inanimate face and
form of the gyspy outlaw.
Then comedy succeeded tragedy. The
shrill chattering cries of Clarence, the
monkey, were heard voicing his slmian
fright and Indignation from within the
van.
The mercurial gypsies turned from
signs to laughter. and even the wan
lips of Esther were wreathed In u
smile as Quabba cried excltedly, II am
coming, Clarence, my son. and so say.
ing he wrenched open the shattered
window of the van and the frightened
monkey leaped into his masters arms
and began chattering his thanks and
joy.
The saving of gypsy lives was due to
the providential fact that the onslaught
Of the marauding tramps led by Lowell
had driven the gypsies from the danger
zone where the avalanche of stones
and earth had struck the camp.
How many of the invaders lay buried
beneath the settled landslide the philo.
sophical gypsies neither cared nor
| sought to ascertain. 1t was later found
that Luke Lowell evidently had been
| only stunned and not killed. as was at
first supposed. For when the gypsies
returned, after making rude shelter
| tents away from the rubbe of the
landslide for Esther, Hagar and their
children and women folk, no trace of
Lowell could be found.
He had recovered consciousness. II
was evident, and had stolen away,
fearful OF the vengeance of his former
Romany associates.
Quabba deemed 1t best to keep secret
the fact that he had been the genius
of the landslide. 1t had been a fatal
success. He affected the philosophy of
the gypsies in the matter and agreed
with them that somehow good had
come out of the general destruction,
even II It were only their radiance of
the INSCRIPTIONS Luke Lowell and his
ruffian rabble, the tramps.
Acknowledged as their princess and
|
afflicted Hagar, Esther appointed a
head man from the gypsies in the
place of the deposed and banished
Lowell and returned with Hagar and
Quabba to Stanley hall. which was
still held by Hagar on the terms OF
lease she had taken from the receiver
in bankruptcy for the fugitive Arthur
Stanley, still fleeing from justice,
wrongfully under the onus OF being
the murderer of DR.. Lee.
Luke Lowell, when he recovered con.
seriousness, drew himself from the hol.
low beside the now righted van. He
had no intention of endeavoring to
rejoin such Of the tramps who had
attacked the camp with him and might
have escaped unhurt from Quabba' s
landslide
Luke stole away unobserved. and his
one thought was TO make his fortune
| from his knOwlalpa of the STANLEY