The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-07-20


hate of one dead man and his love for
another he has not done wrong Hagnr,
queen of the gypsies. wonders. too, II .
her vengeance has not gone all awry |
Esther Stanley, or, rs she Is known.
Esther Harding. Is n beautiful and |
sweetly dlspositioncd young woman
now. The wild mother love llagar |
bore for the son that was sold from her !
has passed to sweet Esther. So II Is
that Hagar returns to Virginia. re. |
solved again to sacrifice her very heart !
A wild gypsy camp is 10 abiding place
for fair young girl of gentle blood.
Hagar knows all the documents she
took from Stanley hall when she alb !
Quoted Esther. knows them by heart, |
as she knows every facet on the dia |
mond from the sky, which she wrung !,
that night from the dead hand of Colo.
mel Stanley. She would see her boy
again In his manhood. The wild hope !
possesses her that he may fan in love
with Esther and that the secret that
only two living people know shall rest
lightly with the dead when Esther Is
mistress 10y marriage, II not by right,
of Stanley hall.
Her message for DR.. Lee is n written
one. IL reads:
/ have come back after eighteen years
I have had my revenge, but | love tho
girl. What shall be done with her?
HAGAR HARDING.
Esther only learns from the kindly
lips of the doctor and the tremulous
ones of her supposed mother that n
new life has opened for her; that she
must take her place In the society OF
the countryside as the adopted daugh
ter OF DR.. Lee. MS long arranged. This
is all she knows; this is all she is told.
| as with her belongings she bids a
weeping adieu to the stern but kindly
| gypsy woman she has known us moth
er all her conscious years. And she
rides away us the Doctors daughter
from the gypsy camp. With Esther
the doctor takes the diamond from the
sky, demanded of Hagar as part of Es-
theirs inheritance.
Hardly has the doctors carriage de-
/. parted than Luke Lowell, Hagars head
nan, Is given command to strike camp.
In an instant all is hustle and confu-
sion. Within an hour Hagar and her
tribe are on their way.
In three months. though the proud
women of the neighborhood look
askance, Esther Is the belle of the
countryside. The vine clad porch of
the doctors old house sees nightly
gathered there the young sparks Of
Fairfax.
Then comes n night In June, and In
the moonlight are four young men, all
paying court TO the happy Esther.
Chief among them are the Stanley
cousins. Arthur and Blair. Some slight
attention to his cousin. Blair. rouses
Arthur to II temper of jealousy. FRET
tlly rebulied by Esther, Arthur leaves
in huff. Then Esther vents her CO.
quettish displeasure upon the till then
triumphant Blair. and he, now angry
also. arises ana departs. leaving the
field to two SWANS.
In his study that overlooks the gar
dens at the side the old doctor Is gaz.
ing wonderingy In the light of the
study lamp at the great diamond.
Sulkily straying by the house, In his
jealousy and anger, Blair Stanley sees
the light cleaning from the study.
Curious and not overnice In his curios-
lty, he peers through the window. He
starts back. cllnching his hands. He
remembers now the oft whispered sus-
picions of his mother: Or Lee was
alone with Colonel Stanley when he
died Who else but he has taken and
| hn
The obsession of the desire for this
priceless Stanley heirloom has been
born and bred In Blair Stanley. lie
HES away. but that night, when the
SWANS have long departed and the
good doctor and the fair Esther have
long retired to slumber, Blair Stanley
returns prepared to break in and bear
4 away the diamond from the sky.
In the library at Stanley hall the
0 young heir of Stanley muses. and
= dreams In softened mood of Esther
b His guitar lies near him, and he picks
1t up and gently strums II. In his
minds eye he sees himself serenadinG
e sweet Esther Lee, as she is now called
3 and begging her gentle pardon in the
( moonlight should she come to her win
dow to listen. The romantic idea suits
4 his mood. He takes the guitar and
, hastens again to the doctors house.
Blair Stanley has cambered through
b the study window, closed 1t and drawn
G the shade. He has softly lit the doc
i tors study lamp and rihed the drawer
OF the old secretary and the cash box
IS It holds. He has seized the diamond
!. from the sky and cluspel II In ugitat
II ed ecstacy upon his bosom. Then upol
II his guilty ears falls the strain or 1
d guitar. lie hides the diamond and th'
e chain and locket that holds 1t beneath
n his collar and under his shirt.
'e Meanwhile, sleeping the light slum
Der OF the aged the old doctor has beer
y aroused by the opening of the window
l. Candle In hand. he dcscends to hi
r. study and enters just rs the last CLEAN
IS from the diamond In the lampllght 4