South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-26
.E4s FLAMING JEWEL
BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

BY ROBERT v
BEGIN HIRE TO-DAY.
The savage battle for possession
II the Flaming Jewel had reached
a tense point in the hunting camp
OF the Adirondacks where
MIKE CLINCH has boarded the
gem as the sole means of giving
his beautiful step-daughter,
EVE sTRATER, the education Of a
lady.
TSis priceless gem was first stolen
from the refugee
COUNTESS OF ESTHONIA by the
great international thief.
QUINTANA. Chnch stole the jewel
from @ uintana and now Quintana
has returned and stops at nothing
to win back the gem.
For love of the countess,
JAMES DARRAGH, under the name
OF
HAL SMITH, 81 trying to get
the jewel Fighting alongside OF
CEnch's men against QU.ntana,
Smith. dressed % the gangman
Salzar. dashes into the camp and
lakes the jewel packet from QUiu-
taua. who has just grabbed il
from Eve. He rides away. and
Eve with her lover
TROOPER STORMONT escape from
Quintana by swimming the lake.
Then Eve shows she has held the
jewels in her mouth She be-
lievsd she had given Quintana an
empty case.
Go ON With the story.
EPISODE EIGHT.
Cup and Lip.
CHAPTER /.
Two miles beyond Ciuoh's Dump.
Hal Smith pulled Stormont's horse
20 a walk He was tremendously
excited
With naive sincerity ne believed
that what he had done on the spur
OF the moment had been the only
thing to do.
BY suatching the Flaming Jewel
from Quintana very fingers he had
diverted that viudictive bandits fury
from Eve. from Clinch from Stor-
mont. and had centered it upon
himself
More than that. he had shown the
seeds OF suspicion among QUntana's
own people. They never could dis
cover Salzar's body. Always they
must believe that 30 was Nicolas
SaIzar and no other who so treach-
erously robbed them. and who rode
away in rain Of bullets, shaking
the emblazoned morocco case above
his masked head in triumph, de-
r.sion and defiance
At the recollection Of what had
happened. Hal Smith drew bride,
and. sitting his saddle there in the
false dawn. threw back his hand
some head and laughed until the
fading stars overhead swan in his
eyes through tears of sheerest mirth.
Smith sat his saddle. thinking. be-
ginning TO be sobered now by the in
evitable reaction which follows ex-
element and mirth AS reIentlessly
as care dogs the hOrseman.
He thought OF Riga: and OF the
Red Terror. Of murder at monday.
and outrage by night He remem-
bered his only encountcr with a
lively child once-Graud Duchess Of
Esthonia - then a destitute refugee
IS. silkeu rass.
What "a dag THAI hadheen
only one day and one evening.
And revef~lad he been so near in
love in ala his life.
As the false dawn began 20 fade.
he loosened hunting coat and cart
ridge sing. drew from his shirt
osom the morocco case
II bore the arms and crest of the
Grand Duchess TheoGor.da Of rs
,hOnia
HIS fingers trsmb.ed slightly as
ne pressed tire jeweIed spring II
opened on an empty casket.
in the sudden shock of horror
and aetoni~hmert Es conclusive
clutch on The spring started a tiny
bell ringing Then. under his very
nose. the empty tray slid aside re-
vealing another tray underneath
set softly with br.IIauts a rain
bow OF glitter stseamtd from the
unset gems in the s.lken tray Like
an increduIous child he touched
them They we're mdgnifcentIy
rea,
In the center iay blazing the great
Erosite gem - The Flaming Jewel
Itself Priceless diamonds. sapph-
ores. emeraIds rinRed IT, In his
hands he held nearly four millions
q dollars
Gineer.y be balanced the en-
a-azoned ease. fasrin mated. Then he
replaced the empty tray, closed the
box thrust 20 into- She bosom OF his
flannel shirt end huttoEed lt in.
Vow there was little more for this
excited young man 60 do lie was
through wish CUnch. Hal smith.
hoC-up man and dlshwasher at
Clinchs Dump. had ended his ca
reer The time had now arrived for
him % vanish and make room for
James Darragh
For by this time the Grand
Duchess OF Esthonia-Rlcca. cas- sine
was called by her companion. VAL