Arizona republican., 1915-08-29

been had usurped his place. Blair the rightful heir of Stanley. He. as John Powell" would make a name and fortune for himself, and Blair. all in good time. might have the Stanley earldom and the diamond from the sky. And then John PowelPs" thoughts would turn to Esther. Was she his sister. she. too a changeling? He thought Of Hagar, and his heart hardened. She was his mother, but she had wrought bitterness and woe.
 John Powell" carefully laid out his plans. He hid the outlaw treasure beneath sheltering rocks in the desert. He took but a few hundred dollars of the money. He bided his time in patience until the hue and cry after such of the train robbers as had escaped with their lives had died down. It was thought the survivors had gotten away with the plumber. Only the finder knew this plunder had fallen under a dying horse in the desert John Powell " resolved he would relinquish his employment i'll paid sheep herder in the next month and take the stolen treas ure with him and make it the capital on which to found a great fortune in the bustling west. He salved his conscience with the thought that when he had built up John Powells" vast fortune he would return the stolen money to the express company anonymously.
 Meanwhile Luke Lowell journeys east
 
 Stanley and other fortunates with money travel. Luke Lowell returns by freight. But in the desert the trainmen throw him from his place on the bumpers and mock him as bruised and sore, he rises in the desert dust to curse them as the freight train bears them on
 Down the endless miles of railroad track. across the dusty desert, he staggers- Blinded by the sum- choking and burning vii nd hal doli lirO he from the track and makes his way fevered with delirium, across the trackless desert. Then by low growing mass of cacti some- thing gleams before his aching eyes, gleams and dazzles him. Is it vagary of his thirst madness or is it the diamond from the sky, a fortune within his grasp? He lurches for ward and snatches up the diamond from where the train robber in his death agony from the pursuing posses rifle bullets has cast it. But just his grmy hand closes upon the great jewel brown lance strikes him. In the ringing of the fever in his brain he has not heard the warning rattle of death guarding the diamond. But even in his delirium the fevered brain of Luke Lowell knows the thrust of the brown lance. A rattlesnake has bitten him! With a hoarse scream of despair he convulsively throws up his hands, The diamond flies from his nerveless grasp and settles again in Che dust of the desert twenty feet away, anu Luxe LONeIl pltCHSS lOtWdl OI HIS face in his agony, giving himself up as dead
 So. half conscious, John Powell" sheep herder, finds him; and so John Powell " bears him to his lonely camp fire and suc and restores him. Lowell is able to moan his plight. Fortunately, his rescuer has a flask of whisky and a canteen of water He doses the half conscious Luke and, whether the whisky whether the sturdy constitution of the gypsy is to be credited, Luke Lowell is brought back from the jaws of death.
 It is a strs nge fate, the gypsy thinks when he can -hink coherently, that it has been his destiny to meet the real and the usurping heir of Stanley and to clutch again the priceless Stanley heirloom, the diamond from the sky. He laughs sardonica1ly and then tells Arthur. whom he now recognizes as he recognized Blair Stanley, that just ter in Los Angeles.
 I don't know what he had run away for" growled Luke; but, whatever it was. it had been squared. for I found out he was going back to Richmond. But that you have saved my life in this Godforsaken desert I'll do you a favor-a big favor. know something that the other Stanleys would give all they have to know. What will you give if I don't tell them what I know? You didn't kill that old doctor, and 1 know that some day you are going