The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-12
The Diamond.
From the Sky
By ROY l.. McCARDELL
Copyright. 1915. by Roy L MccardeII
(Continred from Yesterday
CHAPTER x.

AND what OF the diamond from
"a the sky? Torn from the fair
"a throat of Vivian MarstoD, IL /
lies in n mail box, with no |
light TO gIeam upon il and be reflected |
back intensified. With letters and \
packages and newspapers folded tight |
lies the diamond from the sky without |
a stamp TO make it mail of any class
Then comes the busy mail collector, 1
with his mail collecting car. There Is
some excitement at the Randolph man.
sion close by. Police whistles are
blowing and a laundering fight is going
on ON the sidewalk.
But Bob Adams is one OF Uncle
Sans mail men. Way for the u. s.
mail, which has no time TO stop for
/ police, police whistles or shindies on
the street. But 1t attracts his atten-
ton, as do some hurrying passersby.
and he opens the mail box and me
chanically drags its contents into the
open nav of the drawstring regula-
ton canvas mail bag. Into the sack
while Bob Adams, mail man, looks
with averted head toward the elegant
scrap goes the mail from box 413, and
? with it goes the diamond from the sky.
!, Bob Adams gets back from his col
lection route to the postoffice an hour
later His work Is through, and he
stops I'm to see his friend, the sergeant
at police headquarters, TO learn what
the row was all about that caused such
a commotion and evidently put crimp
In the swell ball given by that grande
dame of Richmond, Mrs. Burton Ran
2 dolph.
4 Meanwhile on the sorting tables at
i the postoffice the local collections are
= being dumped from the mail bags. The
= clerk looses the drawstrings and holds
O the bags up from their bottom corners
:, and shakes out the mail with deft and
practiced rapidity. On the floor the
emptied mail bags pile. They see hard
,, service, and some are rent and frayed
The Inspector comes on his round:
: and goes over the empties. marking
s briskly with large piece of chali
e Repair on those that need mendins
N and renovation.
n Out to the loading platform go 70
% the time being the condemned mai
. bags, and there all night they lay II
!, the arc light, with only the eye OF th'
- night watchman upon them occasion
~ ally.
Dawn breaks at a small way station
forty miles from Richmond. Here tn
freight train halts for orders. and her
Arthur, so cramped and sore that ey
e. cry fiber OF his being aches, crawl
D. from his perilous perch and creep
f. from under the car into the dusky day
,a light. Choked with dust, marked an
- matted with grease and dirt, DISNEY
eled and pitiful In what was his mas
. culine finery OF the night before, Al
" thur limps to a small pool OF waite
is between the tracks and Is not to
d. dainty TO throw himself down besic
he 1t and suck up its refreshing coolnes
nd to his cracked lips and parched an
ch feverish throat
ke The trainmen are busy with the
own concerns at water tank and tel
graph station. far up the track and
- the other side of the train Acros
from him is freight, going out on
~ branch line The open door OF freigi
Is car seems to call him to Its shelte
re- ing haven of escape. Arthur dar
ds across the track. realizing what ridi
in. ulous figure he must seem In his stat
lot ed and disheveled dress suit. mar
,la ed and battered silk hat still clamps
10 tightly on his head.
- The outgoing freight is gaining m
mentum as Arthur filings himself ha