Arizona republican., 1915-10-24

upon him. He will be rid of it.
 He halts by sign post that ads
 Twenty miles to Mammoth" He mops his brow and thinks and truly, it's | .on.;, long twenty miles that he has come. be t.- ing with him by its shawl strap handle ne deer head that he bought at the aur: ,on at Stanley hall. Personally, the deer lrai is far more to Marmaduke Smythe han ne diamond from the sky
 Some thirty feet from the road. m straight line with the sign pest is ! great live oak tree In its trunk a hole is hol- lowed. Smythe hides the diamond in t!ts hole. makes a careful memorandum of thc hiding place and nearby landmarks anu his paced measurement to the road and signboard. Then he goes his way
 His way leads him to where two children -Toodles and Pony-come toddling town the road with their dolls and pIaythn3s A glass of milk would refresh him, 5mytAe thinks. The children indica te their door yard to the gaunt but kindly stranger. and there Smythe makes his way and Is rcsaled with milk and bread and butter and honey by the rancher's kindly wife, the mother of the little children.
 The children go down the road 10 play "house." is their custom, beneath the live oak. Toodles finds the gleaIning bau- ble. She is.a girl child. she knows 1t g necklace, and with cries of appreciation and delight she seizes it and hangs | around her dolly's neck. Immediately her little sister Polly demands it. nay. even grasps 1t. A slap. scream, and Toodles jerks away the necklace and walks indignantly away, with both her doll ana her treasure trove. while little Polly pat ters down the road to run home and tell mamma.
 At the ruins of his dance hall Peter Huff watches the diggers with 8 keen glance that never wavers. The dead that are brought from the charred debris noth- ing to Peter Huff. He has them searched. as he had the living and the woundel searched to find the diamond from the sky.
 A little. old, squat built workman arauses the suspicion of Peter Huff. for the ,:ttl- old workman has furtively picked Uo and secreted some shining object. Torcei to disgorge, the workman shows si.il warm silver dollar With bitter of dis appointment ard anger. Pete smashes tn. little old digger in the face and knocks hirl sprawling. The old fellow picks himsel5 up. You think I had the diamond :ha: was lost last night eh?" he asked. w. Il, I'll tell you, since you've been SC n ndv with your fists. One of the boys says he's seen that stranger with the side whiskers running out with the diamond when the fight broke loose"
 There is such air of sincerity about the fellows words that Peter Hun feels | gamblers hunch" He rushes from tn work at the promptings of the hunch and commanders the cheap, old automobile Of a friend, and with his friends goes in pur- suit of the fugitive stranger with the side whiskers So remarkable a figure as Smythe not to mention the impedi,nenta Oi the deers head, has left a blazed trail Twenty-one miles from Mammoth Smythe is overtaken and held up at the pistols point. The diamond is not or his person. but Pete and his pal find the memorandu.n of it's hiding place
 Back to the oak tree they bear the pro- testing Smyth, but the diamond ;S gone again,
 Pete and his pal part from the lawyer with curses and return to Mammoth They pass Toodles, aged 4, crying from bet. sung. Then Toodles runs crying home 50 mother, as little Polly did before her. The diamond has been cast aside and forgotten by Toodles, who had been engrossed with 1t as she crossed the bee yard, til tres- passing too near a swarInlng hive, she had been stung. The diamond. dropped by the scampering child in pain. lies the alght- ing board of the beehive. while the workers Of the hive push out the drones and sting thsm to death against the bauble at the doorway.
 In Los Angeles the newspapers spread stories of the dramatic first home com- ing to his great mansion, shattered. in sensible, more dead than alive of John
 
 Powell, the young oil and mining magnate. The papers speak feelingly of the skill and untiring attention of the celebrated physi- elan, Dr. Durand, and of the care and at tention of friends and relatives of the in- jured man, including a favorite cousin Blair Stanley of Virginia, who has recently arrived and will take complete charge of MT. Powell's affairs, say the papers.
 The papers also mention briefly that a pretty and agitated young woman called to inquire as to MT Powells condition, but refused to give her name to the servant. who informed her that no one could he ad- mitted to MT. PowelPs bedside except pr. Durand and the nurse in charge, Miss Mar ston.
 So Arthur Stanley lies helpless at the hands of hatred, while Esther of the loving heart is barred out at his door-and tho diamond from the sky is buZzed about by bees. who perhaps whisper of it to their sovereign-for it is indeed a jewel for ''ss"' ITO be oonslnusd1 ~y.'