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ViA The Diamor Fn By ROY L. J Copyrighted 1915, by Roy L. This instalment of this romantic novel and absorbing narrative will be shown in mo- j tion pictures at The Casino Theatre on Thursday afternoon and night. $10,0(01? For 1,000 Words or Less !;l For an Idea For a Sequel to "THE DIAMOND FROM THE SKY" ! The American Film Manufacturing Company's lPicturized Romantic Novei !n Chapters. This contest is open to any man, woman or child who is not connected, directly or indirectly, with the film Company or the newspapers publishing the continued story. No literary ability is necessary to qualify as a contestant. You are advised to sec the continued photo p!ay in ihc theaters where it will be shown to read the story as it runs every week, and then send in your suggestion. Contestants majf confine their contributions for the scijuci to 1,000 \utorsi? rr icuj. *i is the idea that is wanted. : 1 SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP- j TQRS. A feud has existed between Colonel Ar- 1 thur Stanley and his cousin, Judge I.am 1 Stanley, over an heirloom, the diamond from the sk.v, found in a fallen meteor by an ancestor. Also, the succession to the . Stanley earldom in England may como to an American. When a daughter is born to the colonel and the mother dies, tincolonel buys a gypsy boy and substitutes him. Three years later the gypsy mother, having had no part in litis bargain, steals the girl, being reared in secret, and leaves her son undetected as the heir. The gypsy has obtained possession of the diamond , from the sky, and a document with tho Stanley secret. When Esther is grown a beautiful young girl, 1J agar, now gypsy i queen, returns to Virginia with her. Dr. Lee, the late Colonel Stanley's friend, adopts Esther, but demands that llagar turn over to him tho diamond from the sky. Arthur Stanley, son of llagar, falls in love with Esther and so docs his com- ' panion and cousin, lilair Stanley, rightful male heir of Stanley. In stealing the diamond Dlair causes the death of the doctor and tries later to put the blame 011 ] Arthur, who takes the diamond from him. The sheriff attempts to take Arthur into j custody, but lie eludes his pursuers and joins llagar, who reveals his identity and ; upbraids liini for his wild life. Needing money, he pawns the diamond in Richmond. At a ball, at which a supposed j."?twv J vil"iv UCHC, \ IVIUIJ iUtUSlOn, IS tllC guest of honor, Arthur and Blair find the : diamond on the visitor. She is an adven- i turcss who has borrowed it. L*uke Bovell, II.;: tr's gypsy guard, steals the diamond, ;.n I to avoid detection j drops it into a mail box. Arthur loaves i Richmond and goes to the west. The dia- j mond passes into a mail hag, picked up , by Quahba, organ grind* r. Quabba's 1 monkey steals tlie diamond, llagar takes ; Esther to Stanley hall. Tom Blake, a detective of Richmond, , who is hired by llagar, produces linger j prints convicting Blair. liagar proposes ! silence to .Mrs. Stanley as the price of J Hagar's and Esther's being received in Fairfax society. Blair strikes down 11a- j tear and steals the linger prints, leaving j the gypsy demented. The diamond is i found by a negro boy and is taken by a ! tramp. The latter is murdered by llung 1 Li. It is stolen just as a slumming party 1 enters Hung Li's den. llagar is again i with Esther .among the gypsies. .Marmaduke fhnythe, lawyer, arrives to anm>unee Arthur is heir t?? the deceased Karl of Stanley. Retiming Arthur is ti fugitive* he Seeks Blair instead. To win Vivian, Blair steals the diamond, later marrying her fttid leaving for the west. Their train is \ robbed. Vivian losing the diamond, which h slain train robber drops in the desert. The $100,000 he stole is found by Arthur, now known as John I'owell, sheep herder, i Vivian deserts Blair, telling him lie must rejoin the diamond for her. Luke Lovel!, driven from the camp after learning Ha- i par's secret, leaves to seek Blair. Hagar Is under treatment and Esther is in Richmond society, protege of Mrs. Stan- I ley, who suspects her real name, and of 1 Mrs. Randolph. Abe Bloom, gambler, who knows Blair's guilt, covets the diamond and calls it the price of his secrecy. Blalt will not listen to Lovel 1, and Arthur also ! Insists on his silence. Blair returns to j Richmond and, instigated by his mother, pays unwelcome court to Esther, Mr*. Stanley asserting Vivian had been married before. The diamond is picked up by an Indian woman. Dr. Lee, Arthur learns, j died of heart diseuwe. Becoming very rich be buys Stanley hall, sold at auction, through Blake, and also provides for linear and has money loft secretly In Esther's room. Luke I.ovell buys the d1a- ; tnond from the squaw, but loses It .in a. ! fight on Santa Barbara bay, the gem sink- j Infc. At the auction Smythe buys a mount- : ed deer bead. .Vivian, desiring aid to en- ' enure Arthur, fiends for Blair. The lattpr < Is worsted in tin attempt to take the "Stan- ) ley document from Esther, defended hy Blake and Quabha.. , Esther and Quabha, also Blair, jfd to | the California'mines, to seek Arthuf', Blair j to learn the whereabouts of the diamond 1 for Vivian.' Smythe Is sent west by Blake | Bovoll repairs the coach in which Esther and Smythe rklo. Quabha catches a fish with the. diamond in its gills, but a pelican bears off the gem. . I . . j 1 id am the Sky McCARDEL . McCARDEL CHAPTER XXIX. Desperate Chances. THE nimble of the old mountain stage couch down the hillside iihvtilOv #-lwv 4VI1 ! ? VUU1U V I U(l I l%f IV t?IU V(liJ5 VI Blair and Luke. The conch liad not gained a thousand yards from the mountain top blacksmith shop when the broken linchpin that Luke Lovell. at Blair's instigation, had replaced gave way. The tongue had snapped like a pipestoni, and the driver, tangled in the reins, had been dragged by the frenzied horses along the road. His helper lay as dead where the coach had toppled and plunged down the mountainside when the wheel came off. Bounding like a bowlder down the hillside, the coach rolled and tumbled, while its passengers. Esther and the eccentric English lawyer. Marmaduke Smytho. held as best they could to the straps and interior trappings of the old coach for a few brief seconds of mute horror. Then the crash?and all was still. Luke ar.\i Blair, panting with exertion and excitement, paused not nor gave any heed to the seeming dead man in the road nor the driver, bruised and dragged by the bolting, frenzied horses. MM* 1 l - ? - .... . - i ui-,\ >|n u iiuw ii me skt]i nniside to witness their work, nor stopped till tin.> stood beside the shattered old coa? h hotly. There, prone among the wreckage, lay Ksther and Marniaduke Smythe Ksl Iter's t yes were close I. Pat she had been thrown out providentially, it would seem, with a cushion from the coach that had saved her even from shock and bruise. No longer a liinid gypsy maiden, but a resolute young woman now. realizing siie was a Stanley of the blood. Ksther had become as wise as the serpent, though seemingly as mild as the dove. Was it love for Arthur or was it the old feudal courage of her forbears that prompted her to daringV Like a Hash, once the shock and danger of the accident had passed. Ksther realized it was Itlair Stanley speeding down the hillside and close beside him Luke I/well. The wisdom of the ser Luke Picked He:* Up as Though She Were a Child. pent and (lie mildness of tin* dove! Ivsther had turned at the approach oi her enemies, stirring as one half unconscious and in pain, and hail secreted the Stanley document under a stone, slipping it from her bosom and hiding it. even as she seemed to stir feebly, dazed and pain racked. She knew why Blair Stanley pursued and sought her She realized the tragic accident, to the coach was his work?his work and that of his accomplice, Luke Lovell. Beside her the insensible Knglish lawyer neither moaned nor stirred, while IOsther. her eyes closed again, feigned unconsciousness. She heard Luke Ixivell roar angrily, like a sullen beast. t-viciai, k>uuf nut ir 1 Oil KI1GW I Esther whs in tlio couch. It wasn't the English lawyer you hired me to kill then! Though he lies dead enough to suit anybody there! You tricked mo, you gentleman blackguard! 1 wouldn't! have a hair of her head harmed! 1*111 have your life for this!" "! swear I didn't see the girl. I was! |h tlip shop, you know, when the coach Htoi>p?*V ll'ed Blair glibly. "1I was' the English lawyer I was alter. lie Is going to tlnd Arthur Stanley. If Ar-, ihur Stanley goes back to Virginia I , wfll swing for the murder of Dr. Leo." i "You lie. and you know you lie!"! raged Luke. "The girl is' dead. She i THE HORRY HER would never look at me, but 1 have always loved her. 1 might have been a better man if she had eared for me." "You forget that I am fond of Esther too," murmured Blair. "But if she is dead or if she is unconscious, if she lives she will have no thought of you and me," udded Blair. "It is she who has the proof wo seek to make our fortune. the proof Arthur. Stanley will give all the millious he has made us John Powell to keep suppressed. Es| thor has the Stanley document." and as he said this Blair stooped over the seemingly unconscious girl. "Don't you touch her! Don't you lay a hand on her!" cried Luke. "I will carry her. She isn't dead, thank God!" Esther stirred and sat up and gazed resolutely at them both. Luke picked her up as though she were a child. "You bring her baggage." he said 1 roughly to Blair, and he nodded his ! head indicating the dress suit case that had fallen from the crushed and shattered coach. In this way Esther was borne to the I blacksmith shop. She knew the docuI ment was safe from these evil hands, under the rock by the coach, and bad as she knew Luke Lovcll was. she felt i no great harm would befall her while lw. ....... I... nv: n.-? I \\ . This proven! to be Hie case, for when Esther declared to them that the Stanley document?and she professed to , know nolhiug of such a document? was not upon her person Luke believed ! her, and Blair Stanley was constrained to do likewise. "Look in her suit case, then," said Luke, and Blair. picking up a chisel, i forced the lock. As desperate as was the situation. Esther could hardly re-1 strain a smile when Blair, with an ex-1 pression of disgust, brought forth from : i the suit case a pair of striped pajamas. ; : i flask, some shirts and collars and oth J i it* inaie belongings, more than evidently the property of the precise English lawyer. Marmaduko Stay the "We have got the wrong naggage." snarled Blair to Luke. "Von go ba k to the coaeh and find hers, and I will guard l:fer here." "1 would as soon trust her with a i wolf." growled Luke. Then he turned to Ksthor and hold his arms out to tier. "Von say the word. Esther." he said. ; "and 1 will kill this blackguard for i .. .. ... i > 11. But Esther shrank from the tierce, passionate gypsy. "I hate you as I hate him!" she said. "You will got no document, you wiil get nothing, and 1 do not fear either or both of von l Arthur Stanley will repay you well: and fittingly for oven daring to lay a | hand upon me!" "We'll tie you up then, missy," said Luke, shrugging his shoulders. "If I can't have the lady 1 will take the! gold. Matt Harding, your dead father, if he was your father, made his for-I tune out of the Stanley secret, and 1 1 will make mine. As for Arthur State | ley. he can't help you! We know , enough to disgrace him if we expose him here in California and show he is I not John Howell, the millionaire, hut Arthur Stanley, wanted for murder in ! Virginia!" Esther scorned to answer. The two ' worthies, neither trusting the other.! 1 tied her seeurelv and went together! back to the wrecked coach to tind her i suit case and. as they hoped, the Stanley document. But at the coach, in i their absence. Mariuaduke Sniythe had revived before the driver had secured his horses and. bruised and da/.ed. had recovered sullieiently to revive his * i comrade and then seek for his passen- | | gors. YVI it* 11 tlu.? driver had I i ti: j u?: I i clown ilu? hill to the wrecked coach and inquired <>t' the recovering Sniythe : where the young woman passenger was. Sniythe had replied, "1 ch> not know where she is gone, but 1 jolly well know I am going myself!" And I 1 gathering up the suit case he thought ' was his, and taking his gun and the mounted deer head, the trophy that he prized beyond all his possessions, the English lawyer tottered off into the i wilds in the direction of the Lady Veronica mines, as he thought. When Luke and Khtir arrived upon t the scene they told the driver his I young Judy passenger was sale at the blacksmith shop and they had ? ome for her belongings. None couJd be found, however, and Luke and Ll.iir returned reviiing each other. J)arkness was falling at tile time the accident occurred. It was dark in j the blacksmith shop, but Esther felt the braver at the absence of the two i , men. She struggled and freed herself from the ropes that had bound her ! and beat upon the great heavy door ! of the shop, crying for help. Quabba, mourning his young mistress and bewailing his fate that he 1 had so strangely found and so strangely lost the diamond from the sky again, had set out on foot for the j mines to had Arthur, but especially to find Esther, his young mistress. It was just at nightfall that he reached | the forge, some three miles yet from j the mines. It was locked, gloomy and deserted in the darkness. Hut from within he heard a voice lie recognized. I lie voice of his young mistress uppealingly crying for help. A sledge stood by the door. Quabba seized if and shattered down the door sind soon he was shedding tears of Joy as he clasped the hands of Esther. rut. _.... - * i one was 110 time ior explanation now. A look from Esther unit the two sped off through the darkness, to he followed a few moments later by Blair and Luke returning to And their fair ' prisoner had been freed and was gone. Over the mountains, through the dark ness went pursuers and pursued, while by a log near a marsh Lawyer Marina* duke Smythe gathered up some dry trash and lit his fire to eamp for the night. He had lost Ills way, but phllo_ I ALD, CONWAY, 8. O. sophtcnlly he accepted the situation. "1 am a lucky beggar that I thought to bring a tin of biscuit and a tlask of brandy in my luggage," lie remarked half aloud. And he opened the suit case lie had borne so far together with Ills other impedimenta of gun and deer head. "My word, the wrong portmanteau!" he exclaimed as in the tire light lie brought forth a woman's dainty uiglitrobe and boudoir cap. "Well, no matter." lie added resignedly; "they will protect me from the drafts in this jungle. Now. if 1 only had a night light in case my tire goes out. I am used to! having a night light, and if 1 had that and my portable bathtub 1 could stand the wilderness. But if the into Lord Cecil Stanley could only see me now!" he added fervently as he surveyed himself in his strange night attire. "Hv Jove, this is roughing it with a vengeance!" Tile moon ennie up, and as if waiting for it as u signal the harsh, discordant chorus of croaking marsh frogs sounded on all sides. "Indians! Savage Iroquois!" cried the alarmed lawyer, seizing his gun. "But no," he added to himself: "1 will not shoot. Their warwlioops on every side show they surround me, 1 will scout otT in the darkness lljie one of those bally astute western American prairie loopers, such as the subtle Arizona Alfred previous English travelers to these wilds have written about. But just won't I write a book that wili thrill Piccadilly when 1 get back un-' scalped?if 1 ever do!" And sol'tly dropping the marshmallows which he was toasting, a box of which lie had found among Esther's effects, the frightened barrister stole softly away, but be was not so frightened as to leave his baggage behind, lie bore with him the deer head, the suit case and the gun, and on higher land, out of earshot of the savage war cries of the greenskins. he camped quite uncomfortably, thank you. in the crotch of a large live oak tree. CHAPTER XXX. Planning to Win a Millionaire. broke on the other side of tin? mountain at the Eady Yeronica minds. The hoarse whistle at the power plant woke the echoes of the taountain gorge The miners tumbled from their bunks and stormed t ho greasy cookhouse, in the boss' shack the telephone rang, and a sleepy assistant foreman took a message from .John L'owcll. chief engineer 5tt the workings on the other side, to which from tin* lately Yeroni ;? mines :i tunnel w.as driven four miles through the mountain. The message called for all hands to quit tl^ job and come through to the new walkings on the other side. The message is delivered to miners, outside men. tIn; cookhouse help, even to the ore strippers who have just begun to load the ore carrying cable cradle that carries the ore from the hillside outcrop across the gorge to the tipple on the other side of the ravine. j uv> it n v/i\v l^lllV'l VJUilMllil from where I hoy h;ul fa. Hon exhaust oil in their flight on the rugged mountain side a mile or more away. It roused to their evil purposes in their waking hours Luke Lovell and Hlair Stanley as well. "That is the mine whistle!" exclaimed Lhiabba. "If v.*e can reach the mine we will linil Arthur Stanley, and we will be safe." Neither Quahlm nor Ksther knew, as Blair and Luke did. that Arthur had left the Lady Veronica mines and had crossed the mountain to his new workings. Hut Arthur Stanley, or .John Powell, as California knew him, had now ridden away from the new workings in company with one of his foremen and was well on his journey across the great mountain range to distant Santa Barbara, where he had arranged to take over the palatial steam yacht that was to be delivered t,? iijdi there. j Vivian Marston, in Los Angeles, had kept herself posted as regards Arthur's comings aiul goings. Fxporieiuod and world wise, Vivian | Marston laid her plans well. She know | how telling and effectual a romantic or dramatic tirsi mooting with tlio youth-; fill and high spirited typo of young man always is. She had mot Arthur, it j is true. Twice she had seen him. The ; meeting had heen Imt a passing int.ro- i duct ion al .Mrs. Randolph's hall in Richmond. In the excitement that foi- j lowed so swiftly when the diamond had heen torn from her own fair neck; hy an unseen hand, an excitement I heightened hy the further climax of Arthur's arrest on the charge of having murdered l>r. Lee and his desperate light and flight, the passing introduction had left no impression other than perhaps the slightest upon Ar- ! tliur, Vivian was sure. After this she had briefly seen him at the tournament at Fairfax. But these brief contacts. Vivian realized, were as nothing. She felt that to impress Arthur she must throw herself in his way in some impressive manner, at a time when there woiihl ho n.> u. .../ >? itwuni IV mitigate against the dramatic intensity of the meeting as she planned it. The reckless daring of Arthur had interested her, hut as a bankrupt young Virginia gentleman or as a fugitive front Justice she had not deemed him worth exercising her siren spells upon, oven had opportunity presented itself. Hut here In California it was a far cry from the situation as it had been in staJd Virginia. The fugitive young prodigal of Virginia was John Towell. the multimillionaire, whose dazzling rise to riches through his oil invest meets had made him a mar keel man even in California, that wonder land where everything possible can happen. Vivian had sedulously kept out of Arthur's way In I*os Angeles, and bow that she had brought on Blair to ale! j 1 Vivian Marston Plans to Ensnare Arthur. 1 her Inter, hut had sent Hlair :nv:iy for I the present that she might bettor work | out her plan unhampered. Vivian Marston felt that; the gods were kind, and she resolved she would not fail. Every j lie that bound Arthur Stanley to hit old life in Virginia was broken, now that he was John Powell, California millionaire, flattered, sought after. Hvi * t i .. i 1 1?* . PI \ lit- .IS Ml MAPil, * is I i . 1*1 i ? "* III.*' affection for Esther. Hut youth and success and thillcry lend to forgetful ness. us Vivian knew. Once eouhl slu I cross his path impressively, as she planned, she felt sure she eouhl hold him. and Esther would he but a mem- i cry, a faint influence no longer to be feared. She had taken care to avoid John Powell when that courted young magnate had arrived at the great hotel at Santa P.arhara, a hostelry for tourists of weultn. to take command of . s I ' ' ' ' ^ ^ She Donned a Fetching Sailor Costunic. tho I>mInt ia 1 steam vneht im<i ^ v ?. c nu\ HUU read in the papers would ho delivered lo him in the beautiful bay of Santa Ha rbara. ller prospective prey had conic; on horseback and had met the yacht broker shortly before she had arrived at the same hotel, lie had donned the expensive yachting attire that had been sent here for him and was on his way to the wharf as Vivian watched front the window of her room in the hotel and mused upon her plan of campaign. "That is the new yacht the young millionaire, John Powell, has .just bought, is it not?" she asked of the attentive hotel maid. The maid was quick to assent. "Have you seen Mr. Powell, ma'am?" the maid asked eagerly. "lie is so handsome all the young ladies at the hotel are dying to meet him!" "lie is an old friend of mine." said Vivian, smiling. "Too bad he went to Ids yacht before I saw him. 1 know he wuuia nave lauou mc aboard." Then, as though the idea had just occurred to her, she*clapped her shapely and gem covered hands together and cried: "I know what I will do. I wired here hefore I came that a sailboat should be hired for me. The clerk told me the owner of the sailboat had it waiting for ine anchored off the dock. If I hurry I can sail out to the yacht before Mr. Powell will be through looking it over and getting under way for the trial trip. Here, help me into these clothes." And with the hotel mold's assistance Vivian quickly attired herself in a fetching sailor costume, which helped to set off her rich beauty to ad. a taxi, she drove to the wharf *| to bud the sailboat owner waiting for f\| her. Declaring she wan a good sailor *| of pleasure craft and could handle a 2 | small boat as well as any man?whictlfc. |l I was tme enough?Vivian Murston re^ LI ; fused the assistance of the bewildered sailboat owner. She had him run up | | the sail for her and left him at the jj| | wharf and headed the pretty craft in r| the direction of the graceful yacht an- g| I chored far out. Already, with steam u| | tip and anchor weighed, the yacht was -I ready to start off on its first voyage .^| under the command of its new owner, ''I John Powell. ^ " I Far a-way in the Sierras, in that wnd region where lie the Lady Veronica 11 mines, owned, like the great white r| yacht In Santa Barbara buy, by John ^f| Powell, another fair but younger wo- ,1 man seeks also this fortunate young I man. Housed from the slumber of ex- I haustion. Ksther and (jualtba hastened '| along the mountain road toward the r| now deserted mine. By some unfortii- , | nute chance the evil pair who pursued ,-fl and who had lost thorn in the llighttin i the night now sighted them ugulpl. H Qual>t>a was lirst to sense the renewed I pursuit. "There is Blair Stanley and ' I Luke Lovell!" he eried. ICsther guth- I ered up her skirts and ran like a young I frightened fawn beside her faithful I protector. H "The mine is not far away. Wo heard the whistle at daybreak quite I plainly." Esther panted. "Arthur is H there. Arthur will stive ub.m a h But she little knew there was none rv> H save her at the place of refuge. Arthur H was far away, and a designing and un~ was suuunating a desperate plan to etr . Nearer and nearer came the sp??^* Luke and Blair. Quahba seized I MS- B hy the hand and turned sharply d<nvX the rooky hillside where the sheds a. the mine moplli could he seen at 11:? n , |l bottom of the wild gorge far helowwVl? Over roek and shrub, down the dizzy fl hillside. Quabba and Esther thai. But j the more sturdy and agile Luke and ^ Blair gained on them. Suddenly Ouahha held back himself and Esther with an effort. They had jjj reached the upper anchorage of the Q cable carrier across the gorge. H"i<> H the empty ore cradle hung upon the H pulleys just as the ore strippers at tlflp I outcrop left it when summoned, with ihe other workmen, to proceed through I the tunnel in the mountains t<> the new H workings on the oilier side, tour miles H straight through tlie very heart of tile H "Quick!" gasped Quabba. clambering' S ninthly into the ore carrier and helping H the almost equally active Ksthor up bo I side him. H Just as the hand of LtlUe Lovdf^ fl clutched at the carrier Quabba lifted I the catch, and the ore carrier started I i across the cable and darted with in- I creasing momentum over the deep. wild. I gorge and the rocky, turbulent stream I that roared beneath them. The cable I sways, the wheels to the ore cradle I hum as they spin. Over the sickening H height, borne by the thin line of the fl cubl(? go the frightened girl and t!i?* devoted Quabha. wliile the desperate* I I Blair and his gypsy accomplice curso I each other and the Hying fugitives oni I their swift and perilous flight down the I mountain. I At the lower anchorage at the other I side of the canyon the aerial tram | stops wiin a sudd! 11 shock that almost; I ! precipitates its oe upnnts t?> the ground I UcMieat.il. 1'ccovoring. QuaUlm and E'W tlicr climb ?>111 aiul hasten around fi'o.u^ I the tipple tracks and bad: to the other side <d the gorge to the mine mouth. I Tiiis time they cross Uy a trestle built I to carry the mine cars from the tunnel I to the tipple. Luke and Blair mean- I wlille have piunt-rd do v. n from the up-* I ! per anchorage of tlio aerial tramway io tlie river and forded their way I across as best tliey can and reach the I other side only to see their quarry is. I doubling buck over the high trestle I the tunnel mouth. \\, 1 Benching the lbine opening at the I trestle end, one glance shows to Quab* I ha and Esther that the workings here I are deserted. There is no help. Not /} I even a watchman or mine guard has been left behind in the exodus to the* other workings through the mine tun fl I ucl under the niountain. Now, whilt they halt and hesitate, Luke and Blair ^ I have seen the helplessness of the fugi- I tives. . ^ I I "There is ho one at the, mjitc. A I strike or an accident in the tinftiel lias I called away every man," pants Blair. I "We will have them yet, and this time I we will not take the girl's word thai: I she lias not the Stanley document on* 1 her person." And Luke Lovell echoed;. + -I "We will have them yet!" \ 1 They are half across the trestle when- I QunUUa, inspired Uy despair, notices I tlio little electric engine by the mine- I mouth. lie lias not to speak to Esther- I as lie seats himself in the driver's sent,. I for Esther climbs up and sits beside- I him. A turn of the controller proves 1 me power is on, and the little, low, heavy motor glides off like a thing of life, grinding and showering sparks from the overhead feed wires into the narrow, dark depth of the tunnel. In f they go, into the darkened heart of the hills. After them, floundering and cursing over the ties and through the mud and water of the mine, panting and swenr~ ing, come their relentless pursuers, following the trolley's blue sparks far off, with a determination that will not foe denied. v )* In Santa Barbara bay John Powell's yacht moves swiftly from its anchorage. The owner is at the wheel receiving his first instructions from his . sailing master. The owner's boyish \ face is lit with a smile, and his dark eyes dance with excitement. Sudden-. I - 81 ifilMil