The Springdale news., 1915-09-17

sheep herder in the next month and take the stolen treasure with him and make il the capital on which to found Il great fortune in the bustlng west He saived his conscience with the thought that when he Lad built Gp John Fowell's Fast fortune lie would return the stolen money to the express company anouymouSty.
 Meanwhile Luke Lowell Journeys eastward again But he caunot travel as Blair Stanley and other fortunates with money travel Luke Lowell rez turns hy freight But in the desert the trainmen throw him from his place on the bumpers and mock him as. bruised and sare he rises in the desert dust 10 curse them as the freight train bears them 0I4
 the endless miles of =railroslti track across the dfsty desert he Sfasz serS Blinded hF the =saa1zlH4 s##zI barring with thirst and hatf ae, ei54Is= ae >tta=i9Ie@ from fIie traak and laa=stss his way. feTered with deIirian. acr1ss the tracBiess desert
 Then hF a lew growing mass of eaeti something 2leans before aJ~ aeh tlg eyes gIeams and dazzIe@ hm K 1t q vasarf of his thirst madness. er fz | the diamond from the Ky. a far tnne Wsthiai Us grasp
 He larehes forward and sHateheS aF= tae diamond from where tAe tlaiu tett her in ii, death agony from The 9.te- suing aasse.~ etl}e=btIllpfs f5#ad sa~s tf 8Gt tae 4s his aeiHz ##Ha e3-e44 aaau the great eVel 1f8at Guee strikes him lu tl8 rin-iu- al the fes vea Iu Al. brain lie has ael heard the aarnas rattle af death .s3af8u- tfft diamond Haf oven in his deirista thc fcecze=l a..J.I4=tl..= Luke tarn-t tHa34 ti.c thrsst ztf teg= zzuHu iHHHe
 < rat#3esHaEe f#zz hit.ca Hut Httd | loarse ream If despair lie ea# 1al-ive3E throws H f- hands Te ham l1 ftio. from tzi- ueryetfss grasp sz.4 -ettfez asaAu u tle=aHtzt at t41e 1escrt Twenty Eeel at.als-44d Lake IaEea Tf 8p4 fat Hof a A fq.e his a4ars. zlelu h arid
 @o asf eouselaas. 5a5aa HoaelH sheep Aeaaee, 4s= =Ai4H a4 sa .fa4a PavrH hears him to hi- 7aeAy c1-1F GHe and saeeors ard fe-.aft= him
 Lowell k able t5 moan hi- pl-at Fortunately his rez@uer has flask eG whisky and q eaa.e4n of water Ete doses the half czas, jou~ Gulc a.d vhctl4er thr whisky pr wGetlcr the sturdy constitution of the gypsy k te be credited Luke LoNel < brought back from the ia8s of death
 It is q strange fate. the gyps. thinks. when he can think coherentll, that il has been his destiny to meet the Feat and the nsurpins heir of stanley and to clutch again the priceless Stagte4 heirloom, the diamond from the sky He laughs sardontcally and then tetts Arthur. whom he now recognizes as he recognized Blair Stanley. that inst feY days since he has met np with the latter il Los Angeles
 II don't know what he had run away for. 4roWed Luke. but whatever it Was ii had been squared, for found out he=was going back to Richmond. But now that you have saved my life in this G0d fOrSakeH desert l II do you fayor-a big favor l kno@ some thing that the other StanleYs would give all they have fe know What will you give me f don't tel them what knowe You didn't kill that old doe tor. and know that some day you are going back What will you give me to keep my mouth shut
 
 scorn the wretch who thus requites him He knows what Luke would tell him. Just at this time John Powell desires to buy the silence of the treaeh erous and ung.dtefnl gypsy
 "I have 5000 that 1 have saved" is John Powel's reply. '.I never de sire to be known again as Arthur Stan ley. But have reasons why | do not wish the secret you possess to be anreod broadcast for the present Ton