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' * tflr <h?jgjiii^" "" ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ -? Copyright. 1913. h. A novelization of the photo play vnltted to the scenario department o contest during December and January come from many sections in the Unit< s well a* thousands of amateurs toe: This instalment of this ro mantic novel and absorbing narrative will be shown in motion pictures at The Casinc Theatre on Thursday afternoor and night. a y\ rv /\ ^ ^ ^lU.WJUH'or E.UUU Words or Less For an Idea For a Sequel to "THE DIAMONDFROM THE SKY" The American Film Manufac tunng tornpary'G Picturized Komar.t.c Novel En Chapters. This contest is open to any <5 an, won;an or child who is net canncctod, dircc-ly or indircctiy, with the Vilm Company o?* the newspapers publishing the continued story. No literary ability is necessary to quality as a contestant. You arc advised to see the continued photo play in the theaters where it will be shown to read the story as it runs every week, and then send in your suggestion. Contestants tntisl confine their contributions for the scr/.icl to I,QUO ljjaras cr less, it is the tctca that is wanted. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. a r .. 1 i %? i ? - * - - ^ - iimi ii.c? u.\i>ii'u ixiwern voionei Arthur Stanley ami his cousin, Jed;.jo Lamar Stanley, over an heirloom, the diamond from the #!<>', found in a fallen meteor by nn puicestor. Also, the succession t > the Stanley earldom in Kngland may eonie (>' tin American. IVhcd daughter is horn to (ho colonel and the mother dies, the ^ Q-'or.r 1 Ini;, ? a trypty iiA nii.l mbstitutcs iinrt. yi i.fc^yccrv? I t;: (he j;> p.s.v ;r.other. having had no part ll tljle fonrgnln, ate A:* the girl. being reared in -cere? apy] joryes I her .1?;i undetected *v':e heir, ~ . ay V "-4^:; , jr _ x n nf the jfamcr.' JStXk ^ w uc " -1 - .la ilia | f^iJtanlejT sv ,. iier. IL>t!;tr is g.own a beautiful ung girl, Hagnr, now i*yp*> J queen, returns to Virginia with her. Dr 1-ce, the in i* C'-5i9*:.?| *' - r'tc' l ly'rnd, j adopts Esther. but noni/iou* that tin?;;ir 1 ' V 1U'? ' 5Ve:* diamond from th? i *cy. "Arthur sCanler, son of Hairnr, fall* ve with Kether and se doe* lbs oom- ' imaion and ejyln, Hlsh .Stanley rightful , ivi.if T if ik.*?,?e j,- p vfuT*'*' U.T" Out7a<Ts is Artl.TTT1." nsding cr Hlair, escaping, intern that he has left Kather's ruo:?. Arthur forces Itin. to tight a duel in which lilnir is onl? : riu:;ned. tries, \>mUi the aid of hh* "niothciTto place l"lio bianfe for the nmnh > of Dr. l.oo upon Arthur, v? no t">\v t' . ' ion d.,_^T:^?v;^ ftT^'"TT"to* T:!> ] ? vArtliuf, but ii? elude* hi* pursuers and ^ join? Ilogar, who reveals I i* Identity ami , upbraids him for his wild life. Needing iridnoy, lie p^V.'uS {He diamond in T*tii l^t^ond. Hlair is in JKichtuond. and ho, tfio. jq fprc?d t<j Visit Tl "* iV/nshop. The two nt*T?e~'fo^stand by . oiTter" *Xr*iT~b at Which n BuppoF?d New York hollo is the guest c4 honor, they are stunned to find tlie diamond on the viwitor. She la nn adventure*} who has harrowed it "While Tlagar la telling the "bole's forlune Euke i.ovell, Masai's gypsy gua:d. steals the diamond and tb avoid detection drops it into a /nail box. A sheriff tri:s to arrest Arthur on the murder charge lie escapes from Richmond on a freight train. The diamond passes into a mail bag, which is lost from a wagon and if picked up b> Quabba, an organ grinder. Quabba's mot key steals the diamond and leaves it in a nest in a tree. Arthur is robbed by hoboes, who leave him in tatters. lie seeks work at a farm ilagt.r takes Esther to live at SUr: ley ho'.l. An old time tournament is held. Arthur h? loads in disguise, proves hinwelf t'ae le.-si knight, defeating lJlair, but is betrayed by tit*; latter to the sheriff. Quabba, in Jest, handcuffs the sheriff and Itlair. CHAPTER XIII. "The Fox and the Pig." TlllO knights of the tournament, now frenzied with excitement, pressed on Arthur, effect tin lly barring his way to the gate These hot headed young Virginians "had heon the ffielid< cunitvnlovj .nwl -1 I mlrers of Artlnir from boyhood up. bui tlie <Uvuth of I>r. T.ee and Arthur's illghl had tilled them with bitter resentment against their i'or?ner eoinjmnioM. Everybody in Fairfax litul loved IM\ 1.00. There was none who had been the readout <?f his genial kindnesses more than Artiiur. llenee. when, to shield IJlalr because he l?oiieved he had wronged him In being tlie usurper heir of Stan ley,'Arthur had bjr his flight and dis appearance accepted the onns of guilt nil Fairfax was in auger heat against him. The struggle of the young horsemen seeking to stay and capture Clio iioni l>et rayed and uninasked Arthur tool place directly in front of the grant stand. The excited crowd watched the titan ?t ruggle of the centaurs in tense si lence for a brief moment, hut above the sounds of struggle rose the hoarse voice of the sheriff as lie struggled ex cltcdly to loosen himself from tin handcuffs with which the tricky Quao Br ROIT Ali CA.RDBLL V *Roy X#. McCardeit selected as tlie best in over 19.000 subf the Chicago Tribune in a $10,000 prize . The manuscripts in this competition ?d States and Canada. Authors of note part. Vivian Insisted on Blair's Retaining the Handcuff. ba had bound him to Blair. Oil his part Blair hold baok, as though i ho stool inaiiaole on his wrist was a prophetio stigma. The bold eyes of Vivian Marstou were dirccte I in frank admiral! n to* ward the superb feats of !i >rsei.ianship and strength of Arthur's efforts. Fascinated also as they watched the f.trOnP,,!o bo low thotn. Fslher and I la- ! gar ha 1 forgotten the sting of the humiliation they had been subjected to in being snubbed and ignored by Mrs. Lamar Stanley, her cousin. Mm. Knndolph. the society leader fr T.) Kiel)- ; mond, and Vivian Marston .just at the monicnt when Arthur as the masked' victorious Jong hi had yonio to crown fair Fsther. v. A wild cry rose in unison from the ; crowded stand, and men. women and j unn n ?? ' 1 * ... - ( ana siiricKcd 1 8 - ! I ... ;j \ 1 ^:|:>:x-;V.- ':> :*;; . -.r x ' ' .. Mrs. &.ardey( Mother of Blair. i as Arthur suddenly wheeled his horse j ami drove it to the far end of the J grand stand and up the lower stairs i and right in among the spool a lor?;. When I lie horse reached i he center, aisle, the crowd in panic breaking tinseats and benches as iliey gave way before horse and rider. Arthur form d the gallant Starlight up this central passage, waved to list her and llagai as he thundered by, flien. breasting his horse at the hack rail of the stand, he plunged with Starlight down from the i back of the stand to the ground, some fifteen feet below. Never had such a wild feat of horsemanship been beheld in Fairfax, home of wild riders. As with one accord the panic passed and a tumult of curiosity succeeded Men and women who had shrunk in alarm from the hoofs reverberating | through the wooden ways of the grand Maud now rushed in one accord tip the aisle* ami over the benches and in | wonderment behold steed and rider, the dizzy leap made in safety, disnp* ( peering in the distance. Among those who had rushed tip the ' aisle were Mr*. Judge Stanley's party j and Ha gar and Esther. As the gallant ! horse and rider disappeared in a cloud of dust down the road Vivian Mars ton i Mimed and, with heaving lireast and flashing eyes, openly voiced iter ad? miration. ? "There is a man," site cried, "who is worth n woman's while!" ? Esther shrank back at the words. THE HORRY HER spoken. as it seemed, to her. She felt 1 a chill at lier heart, and from that moment she realized that this woman had : crossed her path in life and Arthur's ' like some baleful and yet beautiful ! serpent. The mounted knights charged through the gateway in pursuit. The sheriff, tossing the key of the handcuffs to Blair, had gained his horse and had followed after the pursuers. Shielding and hiding the dangling handcuff as best he could, for in his nervousness ho could not open the lock i upon his wrist. Blair cursed Quubhn. 1 the grinning hunchback organ grimier. and rejoined his mother and her I friends. i He had loosened the handcuff at last, but the mocking Vivian had insisted it be retained as a souvenir of i what she termed "the leap of the white knight." So ended the last masked tournament of the knights of Fairfax, and the excited dowagers and maidens were driven to their homes recounting the exciting events of the day. while their husbands, brothers and fathers, who had come on horseback, were far on their way in hot pursuit of the fugitive. The day had been too much for Mrs. Burton Randolph's "poor nerves," as she expressed it. She regarded her Fairfax relatives with smoldering ani I mosity. What had the Fairfax Stanleys done but break up her ball in Richmond with a shameful attendant notoriety? And! now when she had come to Fairfax to i forgot another horrid contretemps had occurred to further rack her already shattered nervous system. Site resolved to return to Richmond and sec k seclusion and. if possible, for- 1 pet fulness there. Some twenty miles away the Monti cello hunt was riding to hounds. The Monticello hunt, a rival social organization "fcf lite next county, made it a point to ho'.d a fox hunt always upon the day that the elite of Fairfax comity held their masked old time tournn if vmii vfiifo .... .. ...... ..viv .'in 1.111,1 [U I'll.1111'III in Monticollo you must consul or that no Kurh tiling as the Fairfax tonrna nun it rviT took place. In turn, the old families of Fairfax likewise ignored tlie Montieclio hunt with its throng c?. fox pursuers. Arthur's dariu"- and dramatic o^cmuv had given him considerable lead over : his pursuers. This lead he increased i considerable, and bo bad quieted Star- I i. . i * light to a less strenuous pace 011 an 1111 frequented road some lifteen miles j from Fairfax when he beheld the Mon- , tlcoilo limn in full cry after it war;.* 1 obi dog fox crossing the lields some several hundred va>%ds nheiid. Starligux was an old fox hunter. r Roused to renewed life ami his fa- i tigue passing from liini at the bavin* ' of the hounds find the crying of the; huntsmen. Arthur's no longer jaded i horse turned briskly from the road and . made after the chase. Arthur let Starlight follow his lieut. | not in a: that 1 ha wur wnjL uniu? ! aeroM Ili fl?ld? was a shorter r*?ut? to the ?af?ty and shelter of tlie Smith i farm. . 4>* ' ' i A Hftwll colored boy driving n fr*c- j thins pig beheld with much liitor<*d j and some a la mii the travel stained mat* ;\nd the bores join In the fox ehuse as he lyul driwn to the aide of the rowd 1 o lei Arm at* pa**. Tho coin pad lad had been r.eurly 1 howled oTPf by the hunt stirred St*rlight when that eager animal's It*?* had encountered the ro|>c which wau attached vo tha hind leg of ?he fractions pig. . w - / ?tup?t nlYead of him, in ji hollow at the * o , **4 bottom of tho field h.v a sunken l'onco, Arthur heboid the last of the hunts men make a leap upon'his horse, only to come a nasty cropper and to lay in a huddled heap, strangely still, again*! a storm l'elled ohl trep. I Tk. hunter's horse stopped with an abrupt jerk as the fallen reins caught and held him tightly by one of its gnarled branches, \ Arthur rode over and dismounted The hunter was dead, his face bruised and disfigured whore it h:id struck tlie log. breaking his nook. Then Arthur remembered the colored boy with the pig and the pursuit that he had outdistanced. The colored boy would tell which way he had gone He had boon a fool to leave the hi^li wsiy. Then a wild idea seized Arthur. Tills man wan dead anil beyond ail ai<l. lie hurriedly changed his coat, with its j while scald', and Ids plumed hat for ; the red limiting jacket and velvet cap | of the dead fox hunter. Then, engaging the laddie of Star j i light to the gnarled limb from which f lie hud released the dead hunter's ' horse, he changed his mount and cantered away. When Sheriff Swain and ids posse of tournament riders reached the scene, directed hy the colored boy with the fractious pig, they saw n fox hunter in his red coat riding away far off, but at their feet lay, as it seemed to them, the body of Arthur Stanley, killed by a fall from the horse lie had ridden ho gallantly at the thrilling Fairfax tour name tit. Cropping the grass near by the log against whic h seemingly his rider had fallen, the bridle rein caught in a ! gnarled branch of tlie fatal tree, was ttie horse that they all recognized as tlie very steed that had made the leap from the grand stand, a leap long to bo remembered in Fairfax. That night while Arthur, who lias told all hie story to Farmer Smith, is being sent upon his way with hearty yet and farewells and expressions of I godspeed by the farmer and his family I . \ '"f? ^'; '^'- r ' "''4 >$^t$*Sti? :;^^Cs^^R5fef:^i- ><?" "r >:K Arthur Finds the Doad Fox Hunter. the body of the do;\<l huntmnan with the bruised face is borne inlo Stanley ball. With a wild cry ftsthor reeotrnizcs it is not Arthur, but the silencing hand 11 ??*?!? !' !ijw m?ii> i.~.. ?! ? WE * ??*?? MUIP 11 { M r 11 111" I m 2S. "A Jiypsy irick." murmurs Havar. She ycnrns for t ?n? sen whom she has disowned, but :il! of whose secrets she will hold. "Let them tind out his ruse in Mil goal time," 11:?ti:ir mutters to her-elf. "It will give him t!te hotL?r Vl^inco to be f.tr and safely on Ids way." CHAPTER XIV. "Hero Aro tee Proofed" ND Mrs. Burton Bundolph ret Vj\ turns to Richmond. Vivian and Blair have quarreled. Viviau realizes I'airf. x will be de.ll wiiiie it leasts apt a gossip that will not interest her. She \y:'l return to Richmond with her fiiend. With a woman's prescience she realf -- ? 1. * HI . . >? L t.. si.ti i.. . . , .. UIUI I H.tll > UMHUVt it. ? it \ i*l%\ i)eets her. So Vivian Marslon thinks it best to return to Richmond t(?o. That night the Monticollo hunt is minus a member. Inquiry and investigation bring some of the huntsmen to Stanley hall. The dead man is identified for fIim man !>e really is and ie v * f ' ' * :/ : v:y::^ : ' > -vXv: *" ' _;. * " ' x .*> :*>' i.vAf a . <?m' "Here are the proofs that your son murdered Dr. Leo!" borne away. And the breach is wJUer yet between Fairfax ami Xlontioello in consequence. The next day ilagar has .1 visitor at Stanley hall. It is Detective Tom Blake of Itichniond. and he boars with hint n curious ilnt portfolio of curious photographs, lie and 11 amir exnndnc these cttrious photographs in the library at Stanley ball, leaving Fstiler upon the broad phi ///a, innocent of any knowledge of what passes hot woen the gypsy woman and the astute private detective I la gar employs. Hnt the photographs are vital things, t vital especially to Blair Stanley, for j they hold the evidence that proves him guilty of the murder of Dr. i>ecl For the photographs are the Kdihtlc reproductions of Hlalr Stanley'* fin get prints. Some were made by Blakt from impressions lie found on the ri f1<Ml cash box and the dead doetor'i threat, and one other is the re product tieti of the plain mark of his ink stain cd thumb, stained by a leaky t'oHntnii pen, made on the laid cheek he pas sec on Abe Bloom, gambling den keoi>t?r ol UichmoHd. r|,|,I, l.n_ .?? t.n ,.i. ?... ,1.. .1. uir i nrv a una wuic uuuk r? i lie t dictlve, angry gambler marked ">h funds," and when Abe Bloom has call ed the Blake Detective agency U aid him recover the amount of tb check the wily Torn Blake has In hi possession the convincing identifieatioi he lias boon seeking?the duplicat I thumb print of the murderer of l)i Lee. the thumb print ef Blair Stanley! Tlie astute if not overscrupulous detective is working ? nly for his client. Hagar Harding. who pays him well. There is no reward offered lor the ?p prehension of Blair Stanley or any other man save the innocent Arthur Stanley. Detective Blake knows that Hagar will use the evidence lie brings her in her .own time and in her own way It concerns him no further, for the present at least, aad he takes ills tor and returns to Richmond. strangely enough. on tho same train that bears Mrs. Burton Randolph ar.d Vivian Murstou. Blair and his mother have returned from the little station at Fairfax after seeing their late guests to the train. Blair and his mother are at daggers drawn. He asks that she give him money and let him go upon his way in the world, as he wishes to leave Fairfax and never return. "You have been under enough evil I Influences in following the promptings of your own unfortunate ways." says Ids mother coldly. "This Vivian Marston cannot deceive me for a moment. And as site seems to have also completely deceived and infiltrated you. you shall have no money of my saving to waste upon tin adventuress." Blair made no reply, hut inwardly he j felt wild curses mounting to his lips, ami ho Cut tig himself in the house. I I Umivliii; Ids mot7km* alone on the porch i ore* he mivht utIor them. Hut lie was resolve:! lo leave Fair fax. am! lie was rosolvo?l t?? again see ami regain the favor of Vivian. The e was uo time !I!. ? t!ie present, i w his thought. I'lair went riiph.lly J en the stops ami into the living re.en ! 1 on t tie second t'oor. while liis mother rear1 inod in hitter contemplation on the phmKn ITe nerve 1 to 1 is desperate undertaking. He closed the door of the living i ro m behind him lie pressed the j j spring, and the "Tory hilling place" i behind the chimney opened. Taking t lie heavy poker from the j fireplace 'hut now was swung outward I into the room, llialr stepped into the i te< "-s an.I closed t'.ie hiding place alt or him. Here ho lit a candle and furiously pried at the old Iran he. #,1 ch.wt ! whete. among his father's papers, h i mother h.ept the ready i;:? i"?y which ! she. like her husband liai'.f? 'fore her. lent out at heavy interest m swell tin fortunates as fell Into her mesheswhen their security was good. At Stanley hall, alter the departure Detective Make. I lagar ordered her i carriage. "1 am going to pay a call. I will not 1h? long," wan all the information she roucliHti fed to Ktfther. Hut Esther knew that. whatever w.u the errand that called Hagar away, alI tbou"h a secret, it wa* one that was I for Esther's good. I.tike Ta>v?ll. who spent his tUne at i Stanley hall partly and partly aw liond; man Minler Hug*!* at th* gypsy reudw. i vow* wvme iloxeu mi'ioa a v. ay in at hid den faatii?*k* of tiiv kiln# Kidge. brought , around th# hum# and huggy to iite front ??" Stanley haW. At iltw iuatayt a diversion was #nus#d br tbt? appear1 nn#e of a hiiaehhack orgsu grinder hip-v/n^ ap di'iytvrs/ IT vv?u> vjunC'o#. hi* lii.'.nkcy. Uwiokiu;; with fright. cklu^ing ciootsly te hi* master* bluest. Kahind iboui cam a Slier iff lulu Hwaiu on korcebuok. lashing tU? mm fori imi u > ijuaUhu. llugar eod ki?! her both tl#vr la tbo i rvNcae of the poor hunchback. "Me'a lucky I aut sot chasing hint out ef the oounty!" explained the Vrase sheriff "Hut for the trick he p;u\od upon uu* yorfterdxy I v\on!d ha\w caught I Arthur #t?n!ey. l>e you know what llik-: organ grin Ung won Key tot I ay 1:np I of i^hnt did? "\? ujf. lie Imiudcuffed use ts? I'.UiW Stanley. and Art bill' Stanley, the rat'.-r I dcrer, who had tlie nerve to conic lid' triyc wt the uia.sk tournament. got away! i I could have this organ grinding scoiin. dud sent up for a year lor interfering I with at; officer in the disclwrge of Ida duty!" i "I didn't mean any harm." whined i Qunbbn. "Vou wore teasing sind Joki ing with nn>. saying you were going to : put the handcuffs on mc. and 1 only joked with you and the other gentleI man in putting tlicm on you and hiiri." "Young feller." said the sheriff imI prewslvely, "never joke with an oMieer ' of the law. It is against the peace and i dignity of the commonwealth of Virginia and the law and the statutes that therein apply!" And. having delivered ! himself of this pscudo legal dictum, tile sheriff touched Ids hat to Hagar j and Esther and cantered off. Qiuthba was a wandering, solitary gypsy of Italian stock. A word in liomatiy foil on Ins astonished ear from the lips of the grnnde dame at the portals of tli'.s grand house, who gave orders to Luke ihnt Qutthbit be , cared for at. the kitchen of Stanley hail. } Thl* done, Iiagar was prepared to . go a 110:1 her mysterious errand with. ,! as Esther noticed, the black flat port. j folio the strange uiau from Iticbmaud 4 do41 oroognt mat (toy. w 11011 ner kcou - gypsy eye noticed that the horse was . slightly lame. ! Half angrily she ordered Tx?veil to i return it te the stable, and after Loyr ell, with the equipage and Qoubba, the latter uttering expressions of his gratitude, had turned the corner of the 0 great house. "I ?m not going mo very - far, iw> *t doesn't matter if I walk," ? sntd Hagft'r and kissed Esther again e and went upon her way. b Eittledid Esther dream of the strange a return this secretive yet kind woman, e whom she deemed her mother, was to r. make to Stanley bnM. , -Jr.- ' ' ~ I I y .wm- .^.- i ^RnSpflK^I^^HHBiV/ Qunbba Appears at Stanley Hall. At Mrs. Lamar Stanley's house th:/fl austere \v(i';i:i!i sai upon her piuv.za, roekiuir att ! wait tvz lor lilalr to return from isisido the house She had noro to say to I km* son. and as she roHo tod upon tin* Litter plnasiipr of tlto j words she would spunk Iter heart ached jA dully. vWhat was tho uso? she kept saying to herself. Wliat was the uso. what' a uso tho ambition. tho uold. calculating audition that had darkened her lifo and had c:um"I t!m* tragic death of hot* husband eighteen loiii: voars nvto? What was tho use to scheme and plot and hopo and lotto for a handle that had disappeared?the diamond from tho sky?ami an earldom farther away than oven distant Warwickshire? i iu? diatdoa i from ilie sU\ rind ihe. earldom wise not for lui;\ They i.cif novcr to ho tlio possessions of her son either, it would seem bead men lay hot ween and a living man, a wanderer and a fugitive, and the earl, old and foehle, a helpless invalid for years, still lingered on And Arthur Stanley, prosrrlhe.J as a murderer though he was. bore a i harmed life that stood between her son and the earldom and the diamond from llio* sky. The Uk:niorul from thw sky itself was goue. vanlshe! from the sight of man. As for live son. that sou ?as infatuated* with y worthUiss woman. Vivian kittisteu would ma Ue a fa mate for ilUtlr SWiuiey, Mm she had home and rearedI feint hitter a\. aW t hese re (1 ee 1 to us were. the Stanley pride was strong i'.t^ i We krenat of I'.lair s met her. Ilini ;ih^ l?e was. ?>ie Ihovrght. it wore hetter lie never possess tile diamond horn the aky er the Stanley earldom with such a \ve.unu to share these great possesaio. w. A ud ilivu the judge's widow saw eomtog toward her I hi gar Harding, the present mistress ?f Plan ley hall At the sign; of Magui Mrs. Stanley stiffened. and Wist fueli\e'y all the eld ^t IkAlims Ml) 1 ii 11 ! I 4.II l.ilf Vuilu l.til Iwnl agai* within her v.ilhered lirwist. She!xii? ikM if u* enter her house uud ignore Hagur. I > u i ilttgar stayed Lvr with a iiest we. "I)o not go. Mrs. Xtanle.v." said Half ur tai own tones. "I Iiiivv with mo tliv proofs flait your sou and not Arthur Stanley is guilty of the murder of Dr. H< ?iry Lee." Ami she indicated 4 with a meaning gesture the flat black" portfolio she carried. the same portfolio Detectho Blake had brought from Richmond. "Hush!" whispered I he judge's widow tensely. "Come Inside!" And she led her strange guest within the portals of her home and up to the living room. . Here 11 agar without a further wor/n showed het the photographs of the thumb prints left by the murderer in Dr. Leo's study and the photograph of the returned dishonored ebeek. with | the fatal Inky thumb print of Itluir Dtn.,1/... ..--..I ?-l oi.nuir.t hmiii>; ?!*; ( mini ills sign;il ll as though Ivi* had attested to it. "I will get Ili.V son. II? is SOIM?" wkere about the lions?!" cried Mrs. . Judge Stanley. "Wlint in the price'^ you ask for your silence? 1 cannot tliink you would com? l>ere except to bargain." "My price Is nil easy one." replied Flagar. "I ask that you and all your friends receive my daughter Kstlier and myself In Fairfax. I have only this te say: Deem me who you may*, my daughter Kstlier is of as high birth end bloed as the proudest families ef Fairfax." v ^T I "What yoa wan l>e arranged. I fool aero," Mild the Judge's widow. re? . gaining her e*M composure. "Wait hore till I find my won." { Mrs. Stanley bowed and hurried down j to the porch, where she called loudly j for Rlftir, thinking norhans lu> wan ii* the garden or at the triable. Meanwhile Bloir In the "Tory hklln/r; place" behind the chimney had hour<? e?ery word that had been uttered In. the ream. In his hands he clutched ft mass of bnuk notes. Thrusting them In his pocket, he touched the spring j and pushed aside the swinging tire I