Arizona republican., 1915-07-04

Al thur Stanley has known its every aspect, for the Stanley archives are full of it. in print and manuscript. pictured and described. So there it has been, in the keeping of my cousin .' he mutttrs and hardly realizing wE;.t he does. except the baleful gem Is his by every right he tears it from the neck of the figure ill the grave and chambers out and stun blos his way. Beside q cross, white and ma jestic in the moonlight, he kalts. The moon shines or the diamond in his bloody hands as be stands by the grave where lies, as he be- Ieves. his sainted mother. Then. feeling the brand of Cain is on his brow. Arthur Stanley IL stumbles or. still clutching the diamond from the sky in his bloody hands.
 In the new dug grave Blair Stanley moaned and stirred The wound in his forehead had been a glancing one, only sufficient to stun him. and now he came to consciousness in the clammy depths of the grave his first i'm pulse was to clutch wildly at his blood stained and disheveled shirt bosom The diamond from the sky was gone The death of the good old doctor had been all in vain And Blair Stanley also fed beneath the moon, boot less and in truth blood guilty.
 At Stanley hall Arthur gained access to the library and shuddered again he the stains on his hands and on the great jewel that seemed to geam all the brighter for them in the glare of the library lamp.
 II was not to show '' the diamond from tn. s&y" that all men yearned for; it was to have It. 10 possess it, even in secret, that caused them to lie to swindle and even to grope through blood for it.
 Well had the late Col. Stanley known the baIeful history of the diamond that had fallen to the feet of his adventurer ancestor in meteor. The Stanley charm against harm ' called. and now look what harm it had already done Arraying brother against brother. father against in the past. it had broken women's hearts tine while. and now false heir held it against a breast that ached in anguish.
 Arthur felt instinctvely the diamond from the sky " was responsible for Blair's impugn- ing the good name of sweet Esther. good old Dr. Lees fair ward but Arthur did not know that the good doctor lay cold in death at the hands of Blair Stanley. The wild thought, the wilder hope, that he might go elsewhere and under new name. still holding to " the diamond from the sky" rehabilitate himself. and then seek out Esther in secret and wed her, now possessed Arthur
 Among Arthurs many eItravagances which the lax administration of estates in Virginia permitted a scapegrace heir, was the buying of this costly French automobile. It was a day when automobiles were rarities and luxuries and the young spenttnrift of Stanley hall had preened himself with the drought that he would be the first to own an automobile in all Fairfax county.
 Arthur reasonaed that Blair, who he sup posed was lying dead in the grave that had been digged for ahother would not be found till perhaps noon. Even then they might not connect his tragic deatl with the broken gui- tar and the other signs of struggle in the doctors garden.
 Meanwhile the dawn had come and Esther who had been aroused at the pistol shots. in great agitation and alarm Comforted and encouraged by the first glimpse of dawn, she had descended to the lower hall of the house. The door of the doctors study stood ajar and she glanced within. There in the dim light of the morning sun Altering through the win dow shades she the doctor in his dressing gown seemingly asleep in his favorite chair. She touched his check to rouse him and found Ae eO4bs hoSe phlt IDS klnuly even Tn death, could never keep their promise to tell her who and what she was on the morrow" Here It was the morrow, and the lips that could tell were cold in death,
 Nancy, the doctors colored servant was already astir in the kitchen when Esther's cries brought her to the scene: on the heels of the housekeeper came Alex. the doctors col ored horse boy. After the frenzy of their fright had subsided. the negro boy had run through the neghborhood arousing it with news of the tragedy.
 At first Esther and the neighbors had be- heved the doctors death had been from nat ural causes. the peaceful passing in of old age. But the disorder of the room, the rihel cash box the table, the chisel marked drawer of the old bookcase and the opened window. against which the drawn shade nappcd in the early morning air mutely told their tale of theft and murder.
 The sheriff had been sent for and already an eager neighbor had found a crushed guitar