The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-14
By ROY L. Me CARDBLL

for Stanleys OF rne ploou mean,
and matters nothing to Marmaduke |
Smythe. He feels 1t his duty to sur
render IL to the Stanley heir. but |
meanwhile 1t is responsibility he |
does not deem devolves upon him. He |
will be rid of It.
He halts by sgnpoSt that reads. |
Twenty Miles to Mammoth" He
mops his brow and thinks. and. truly. |
it's long. long twenty miles that h.
has come, bearing with him by its
shawl strap handle the deer head that |
he bought ut the auction ut Stanley
han. Personally the deer head is far
more to Marmaduke Smythe than the
diamond from the sky.
Some thirty feet from the road. in
straight line with the signpost. is Il
great live oak tree. In its trunk n
hole is followed. Smythc hides the da.
mond in this hole and makes Il careful
memorandum of the hiding place and
nearby landmarks and his paced meas
urement to the road and signboard
Then he goes his way.
His way leads him to where two
| children-Toodles and Polly-come tod
ding down the road with their dolls
and playthings. A glass of milk would
refresh him. Smythe thinks. The chill
| dren Indicate their doOryard to the
| gaunt but kindly stranger. and there
Smythe makes his way and is RECALLED
with milk and bread and butter and
honey by the rancher's kindly wife.
the mother Of Toodles and Polly. the
little children.
The children go down the road to
play house" as is their custom. be-
meath the live oak. Toodles finds the
cleaning bauble. She Is girl child.
She knows 1t is n necklace, and with
cries of appreciation and delight, she
seizes it and hangs it around her dol
ly's neck. Immediately her little sis
ter Polly demands it, nay. even grasps
1t. A slap, u scream, and Toodles jerks
away the necklace and walks indig-
nantly away, with both her doll ana
her treasure trove while little PLY
patters down the road to run home and
tell mamma.
At the ruins of his dance hall Peter
Huff watches the diggers with a keen
glance that never wavers. The dead
that are brought from the charred
debris are nothing to Peter Huff. He
has them searched, as he had the liv-
ing and the wounded searched in his
frantic endeavors to find the diamond.
A little. old, squat built workman
arouses the suspicion of Peter HUFF,
for the little old workman has furtive-
ly picked up and secreted some shin
ing object. Forced to disgorge, the
workman shows still warm silver
dollar. With Il bitter curse of disap-
paintment and anger Pete smasheS
the little old digger in the face and
knocks him sprawling. The old fell
low picks himself up. "Hou think |
had the diamond that was lost last
night, eh?" he asked. "Well. I'll tell
you, since you've been so handy with
your fists. One of the boys says he's
seen that stranger with the side whis-
kers running out in that direction
with the diamond when the fight broke
loose"
! There Is such an air of sincerity
about the fellows words that Peter
HUFF feels a gamblers "hunch." He
rushes from the work at the prompt
ings of the bunch and commanders
the cheap. old automobile of friend
and with his friends goes In pursuit
of the fugitive stranger with the side
whiskers. SO remarkable a figure as
Smythe, not TO mention the impedimen-
tn OF the deer's head, has left blazed
trail Twenty-one miles from Nam
moth Smythe Is overtaken and held W
at the pistols point. The diamond Is
not on his person. but Pete and his pal
find the memorandum of its hiding
place.
, Back TO the oak tree they bear the
protesting Smythe. but the diamond IS
gone again.
Pete and his pal part from the law
yer with curses and return to Nam
moth They pass Toodles, aged four
crying from a bee sting. Then Toodles
runs. crying, home TO mother as little
Polly did before her. The diamond
has been cast aside and forgotten by
Toodles, who had been engrossed Will
ID as she crossed the bee yard, till
trespassing too near a swarming hive
she had been stung The diamond
dropped by the scampering child f.
, pain, lies on the alighting board of tn,
beehive while the workers of the hive
push out the drones and sting then
I, to death against the bauble at the door
way.
In Los Angeles the newspaper
spread stories OF the dramatic trs
, homecoming TO his great mansion. shat
tered. insensible, more dead than alive
Of John Powell the young oil and mil
ing magnate. The papers speak feel
ingly Of the skill and untiring attentIo.
] of the celebrated physician. DR.. Du
r rand, and of the care and attention o.
u frteDds and relatives of the iuiurp,