Arizona republican., 1915-10-10
SPECIAL NOTICE:
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

DING CHAPTERS.
 money on condition that she marry Blair but
 Esther refuses.
 Arthur by applying the robbers loot payment in-
 tends Stanley fl. the hands of strangers
 aud help Esther and Hagar. He employs Tom Blake,
 the detective inst-uctnG him defray all of Hagars
 expenses and to old in Stanley Hall. Esther
 meanwhile. fees from iac stanleys tn tue
 persecution of Blair staHey.s-- She intends find
 Arthur. Blnke, following lnstTucti9as buys Stanley
 Hall. Inke Lowell the sinister. by trick nt fate
 again the diamond from the sky and
 buys 1t for quart Of whisky. Arthur '- Jchn
 Powell meanwhile strikes it rich in oil anu is bal-
 Gu"te1 in Los Angeles. At tue height of tfe festSv
 ties he receives word from Blake Esther has departed for parts Cnknown." This blow crushes
 him. As to the diamond Luke and his fecw boot legger quarrel oyer its possession and the diamond sinks into tue Pacific. Santa Barbara.
 Vivian. learning of Arthur's sudden weatp, her attentions to Blair i3 the hope that to- gether they will be GOie to strip hm of his gold. Blair and Vieian and Esther and Quahba scpara teIr go to Los Angeles in search of Arthur. Marnaduke Suy the also Is Ia of Arthur in California, and up in the mountain region where Arthur Is seeking investment a combat Is staged determ'Ee which will be the first reach Arthur.
 Blair hires Luke Logen to kill Esther and Marma- duke Smythe by putting defective finch pin into the coach. The coach rolls down tae mountain but Esther and the lawyer escape unhurt. Meanwhile Quabba returns and they both fee into the woods, where pursued by Blair and Luke until night fall. h the orong all hands of the Lady Veronica mine ordered to the works by a message from John Powell. Quabba and Esther fee in car trolley thinking there will be help at the mine. Finding 1t deserted they elude Luke Blair by going through the tunnel the electric trolley Mean while John Powell aboard hs yacht in Santa Barbara bay. viTian bent his capture charters
 sailboat and needs directly the course of the yacht Powell at the wheel forces the inevitable col Nsion and jumps into the bay to save her life.
 Esther ard ounbha make their escape by setting of Eiast in the tunnel and Kindly received by the people at :he mine. The puTsuers only slightly injured. Powell falls under the spell Of Vivian and promises for her the diamond from the sky. Bloom writes to Drrand promising any price for tiiarnoEd Ma-maGuke Snythe shoots . frog which kept h!m awake. and hagFing hs game. finds '' tle diamond from the sky.''
 concerned the diamond. Seemingly the corlpiice of Blair Stanley in his desperate schemes to regain and possess it. yet in the back Of his mind Luke Lowell felt his deep est joy would be when he throttled Blair Stanley and tore it from his weakening grasp.
 As Blair and Luke speed down the noun tain over a rocky and half obliterated trail to intercept Esther. Marmaduke Smythe. guiding himself by the sun plods along the read at the base of the mountain Marina duke Smythe is embued with one idea- The idea is that "England home. and beauty" as he expresses 1t to himself, lies to the east. So at sunrise he has faced the east and plodded from his camp fire, carrying the suit case, his gun, and the deer head, which more and more he has come to believe is bona fde trophy of hts prowess a hunter !. in the American jungle. The diamond from the sky means little or nothing to Marina duke Smythe.
 "How 1t came on the veldt I cannot for the fife Of me imagine" he muses. T only know, Marmaduke Smythe. you are a bally ass to have ever left England to find the Yankee heir to the Stanley earldom"
 These reveries were ended abruptly by a succession of pistol shots. The startled lawyer next heard a pounding chatter of hoofs and the rattle of wheels coming be- hind him.
 "The savage Iroquois have tracked me down." he cried, and stood stock still. too frightened to move. And then he felt him self bowled over and scattered with hls belongings in the dust.
 Smythe. picking himself up saw that the wagon was driven by the pretty girl who had shared the coach with him just previous to the wreck that had made him what he was now, a wancerer In the wilderness. But harGships and adventure had sharpened even tl:c wits of the tlmid London lawyer. He gave willing hand to help bring the horses out of their tangle of harness  a against the hillside. and was quick to accept the proffer of a lift from the mysterious young woman who had been his fellow passenger in the wrecked coach and the strange looking hunchback with her.
 The lawyer brisaly piled his chattels~ on - the tuckboard and hopped ninlbly on the back and was speeding on all within the space of a few seconds. He gieaned from the comments of his rescuers that they had been attacked by two men on foot and that the driver of the vehicle had been shot and lay back in the road. wounded dead
 X cold sweat broke out upon the brew Of STnythe. Actually" he thought @ himself, for the vibration of thc buck board slats kept him mute. |" actually. these wild Americans seem to take pistcling m oic Gf0rxy in E11p