Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-26
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Inc savage battle for possession
OF q Flaming Jewel had reached
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 STRAYER, the education of a
lady.
This priceless gem was irst stolen
from the refugee.
COUNTESS or ESTHONIA by the
great International thief,
QuINTANA. Clinch stole The jewel
from Quintana and now Quintana
has returned and stops at nothing
4 to win back the gem.
For the love of the countess
[3AMES DARRAGH under the name
hal SMITH. is trying to get the
jewel. Fighting alongside of
Clinchs men against Quintana,
Smith, dressed as the gangman
I'D Salzar, dashes into the camp and
takesffhe jewel packet from Quin-
tapay who has just grabbed it
f4bm Eve. He rides away, and
. Eve, with her lover,
RRpOPER STORMONT, escape
from Quintana by swimming the
lake. Then Eve shows she has
held the jewels in he- mouth.
She believed she had given Quin-
tana IN empty case.
HI Go on With the Story
Episode Eight
Ii ( Cup and Lip
n CHAPTER I
4 Two miles beyond Clincn's Dump,
NAL Smith pulled Stormont's horse
20 a walk. He was tremendously
excited.
With naive sincerity he believed
|that what he had lone on the spur
|of the moment had been the only
thing to do.
BY s~natching the Flaming Jewel
from Quintana's very fingers he had
diverted thai vindictive bandits fury
from Eve, from Clinch, from Stor-
mont and had conferred it upon him
self.
More than that he had sown the
seeds OF suspicion among Quintana's
own people. They never could dis
cover Salzar's body. Always they
must believe that it was Nicolas
Salzar and no other who so treacher
ously robbed them, and VINO rode
away in a rain of bullets, shaking
the emblazoned morocco case above
DIS IQdSkeu ucdQ LII Triumph Ac-
rision and defiance.
At the recollection of what had
happened, al 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
Smith sat his saddle, thinking, be-
to be sobered now by the in
evitable reaction which followed ex-
element and mirth as relentlessly
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 encounter with a
lovely child-once Grand Duchess
Esthonia-then a destitute ref
ugee in silken rags.
What a day Thai had been
And never had he been SO rear in
love in all his life.
As the false dawn began to fade.
he loosened hunting coat and cart
ridge sling. drew from his shirt
bosom the ase
1t bore the arms and crest of the
Grand Duchess Theodocia of Es-
honia.
His fingers trembled slightly as he
the jeweled spring. 1t
,pened on an empty casket.
In the sudden shock of horror
establishment, his convulsive
lutch on the spring started a tiny
,eli ringing. Then, under his very {
lose, the empty tray slid aside re-
another tray underneath,
let solidly with brilliants. A rain
low OF glitter streamed from the
inset gems in the silken tray. Like
n incredulous child he touched :
hem. They were magnidcently real.
In the center lay blazing the great
gem-the Flaming Jewel
tself. Priceless diamonds, sap s
emeralds ringed it. In his
1ands he held nearly four millions
Dc dollars.
Gingerly he balanced the en-
1lazoned case, fascinated. Then he
'eplaced the empty tray, closed the
thrust into the bosom of his
shirt and buttoned it In.
Now there was little more for this
young man to do. He was J