The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-07-23

doctors gate. The footprints We're of
well shod men of small and shapely
feet, 1t was reported. No passing rough
marauders, no outlaw negro desper-
ADDE'S had part III the murder and rob
berry in the Doctors study, nor had any
such struggled in deadly combat in his
garden, 1t was whispered The matter
was mystery as well as murder, and
the morbid neighbors gathered in and
around the cottage Of the dead man
and whispered greedily.
Meanwhile the dazed and bleeding
Blair Stanley had strange home com
ing in the night His mother, that
proud, cold woman, worthy mate of
the grim judge who had persisted
strangely in a wild mountain pass
nearly a generation agone, loved her
son seemingly only through her cold
ambitions.
You do not know when day may
come that you may be in position to
save the life Of the heir Of Stanley
she had said often significantly Blair
understood his mother well.
1t was known by all the Stanleys
that the diamond from the sky had
vanished strangely the night Colonel
Stanley had expired alone in his II
brary, this preceding by few days
only the tragic death of Judge Stanley
in the mountain pass, also. it was
thought, alone.
This was eighteen years ago, but the
Stanley feud was not dead with its
protagonists, those elder men Of that
elder day. 1t slumbered I'm the bosom
of the younger generation. 1t smolder-
ed hidden, yet burning not the less, in
the bosom OF the judges taciturn wild
ow, Blair's mother. She had always
believed with II bitter suspicion that
encompassed all of the long dead Colo
mel Stanley's friends that DR.. Lee had
taken the diamond from the sky In
the confusion attending the coloneHs
sudden demise.
DR.. Lee was relative of Judge
| Stanley's widow, for all the better
| families of Fairfax We're of kith and
kin. The judges widow believed the
| doctor held the great diamond in his
| secret custody if for nothing else than
| to keep it from the hands of the judges
family through any legal process they
| might attempt during the minority OF
Arthur Stanley I'd.
Hence 1t was that when the nerve
| shattered Blair, with ashen face and
| bloody brow, confessed to his waiting
mother that he had seen the diamond
in DR.. Lees aged hands she was not
surprised. When he half incoherently
admitted to her that the old doctor had
died in the struggle for the diamond
she expressed no conjunction for the
doctors death or revulsion at the deed
| of her son that caused 1t.
| But when he told her that Arthur
| Stanley, the one life that stood be,
tween them and all their ambitious
desires, had been in the grasp of Blai,
did her mood of austere interest change
to cold fury
you need not add your reproaches
to my own" painted her son. But ii
was luck, the devils luck, that all at
| A'edHiSy nan I'oSScSS WOULD nave
killed him. 1t was In my mind. in my
heart
But he wrested the pistol from my
hand as though from the hand of a
| child, and he dragged me out of the
! yard, down the deserted village street
to the graveyard to kill me and rob me
| of the diamond with the ease of Il
| giant"
! Well" said his mother. I'VE must
hope for another. better chance Mean
| While If you are sure that your stlug-
| giles were not seen you had better lie
| hidden until ! can learn what suspi-
clons are aroused. If you are missed ]
| VIII say you are gone to Richmond.
| Even If Arthur, Stanley hears no more
OF you he will think still that he has
slain you. He will keep silent"