The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-09-09
By ROY II. me- CARDELL
W Roy L. McCordeH

note a. we'll a. thousands Of anna.
humble friends long enough to make
another unavailing search for Hagar's
missing hoard.
Meanwhile what of the diamond from
the sky?
1t CLEANS upon the breast of pa.
poose nursed by its stolid mother. In
the glare of the California sunshine.
outside an adobe hut. Luke Lowell
II Is fated. is to see and gain again
the diamond from the sky. He has
taken up with associates as bad as
himself and has become a bootegger
or Illicit whisky peddler. With com.
panion of his own ilk he passes by
the desert Indians hut and sees the
diamond the squaw has found CLEAN.
ing in the sunshine. a papoose's play.
thing.
1t is only biz of glass and tinsel in
the mind Of the sodden, drink craving
Indian father. Despite the angry pro.
tests of the squaw, the gistening orna-
ment is bartered for the vile whisky
Of the eager white man.
And so the diamond moves on again.
Santa Barbara, on the seacoast, re.
sort for rich tourists, Is not far away,
and thither Luke Lowell and his crony
bear it, seeking a purchaser able to
buy this gem of price.
With Arthur Stanley that was who
Is John Powell now. how fares 1t?
How have his fortunes. fortunes to be
founded on stolen means. prospered?
Not we'll
Arthur has fallen into the hands OF
oil sharks and has invested the outlaw
plumber in the Good Hope wells. The
Good Hope wells have been q joke of
these oil fields But who is to warn a
gulleless young investor?
John Powell has played with hgh
stakes in n crooked game and has lost.
His men who laughed at him behind
his back for his simplicity now feel
for him. Jack Wilson, his foreman.
seeks his despairing' young employer
and finds him in the shanty that is
the office of the Good Hope wells.
81 am sorry, boss" says Jack, but
I'll tell you something. There is oil
in the Good Hope. We've struck every
indication. If you only had money to
drill deeper the oil Is there. That mon.
ey you sent east would save your
Its too late now, Jack; that money
saved something more to me than these
wells"
I'm from Pennsylvania, says VII.
son. 81 believe If we torpedoed the
big well we'd start the oil. / know il
ruins "A well If the oil doesn't start,
and already the shysters are coming to
take the property away from you be.
cause we didn't strike oil, and the last
payment Is due. So let's do something
desperate, boss; let's torpedo the big
well!'
John Powell is desperate. and he
agrees. The man of law representing
the unpaid owners hears of the plan
and arrives with an injunction.
But the desperate John Powell de-
fies law, as when he was known as
Arthur Stanley he detied all order The
lawyer is held back waving the "scrap
Of paper" the injunction. The nitro
glycerin charged torpedo is lowered to
the bottom of the well, the heavy iron
detonator is dropped and all run for
their lives. A throb shakes the earth,
and the derrick rocks. Then arises a
geyser of mud and spuming fountain
of roaring oil and gas!
The big Good Hope well has come
in" gusher! John Powell is mil
lionaire!
No such gusher has ever been known
In those fields, as the long dry and long
despised Good Hope becomes. No oil
millionaire gets rich so quickly as pop
ular young John Powell.
His associate, Jack Wilson, wearing
impressively his first dress suit gives
him "the SWEETEST banquet with cab
aret trimmings" that Los Angeles lead
| ing restaurant has ever known.
Vivian Marston dimes with an elder.
| ly admlrer ut this same restaurant the
night of the banquet.
John Powell's associates toast and
praise him for the pluck and resolu-
ton that snatched victory from defeat.
and ever Vivian's dark eyes are on the
| dashing and handsome feted oil mag
nate. Her elderly admirer testify en-
dures the pangs of jealousy.
But 1t Is not love or sudden infatua-
ton that draws the dark eyes of Vivian
Marston to the young millionaire at the
head of the festa board. Where has
she seen this lauded young favorite of
fortune before?
John Powel's secretary enters def
erentially with telegram. 1t has
come to the offices of the Good Hope
OH company, and the secretary. think
ing It important, brings It to the feast
Arthur opens Il and reads:
| Esther Harding departed parts unknown.
| Hagar Harding better. Bought In Stanley
hall for $4,000 you sent, VIII keep ev-
erything quiet. BLAKE.
Esther departed for parts unknown.
| A rft,p- tho In bts