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Our Full Cos Guarantee given with each jot I sell on close margin of profii dividing commission with m customers. rt-7-t *&SAnLSIPE? IF NOT, WHY NOT? Whose fault is it? It is no ours. We offer you the necessan requirements to place you on th< safe side, and would be more thai delighted to WHITE YOU A POLICY that will protect you from all los: by fires at a yery low rate. W< represent the best and most re liable companies on earth. Klngstree Insurance,Real Estate & Loan Co *. H. WELCH, Manner. ,. J M fro The Diamond p I ' br( From the Sky jjjj j as il By ROY L.McCARDELL ? S Of I, eai M | Copyright, 1915, by Roy L McCankO sta k Lie da; leu 8YNOPSJ3 OF PRECEDING CHAP- caj TERS. tie A feud has existed between Colonel Ar- thl > thur Stanley and his cousin. Judge Lamar 5^ I Stanley, over an heirloom, the diamond I from the sky, found In a fallen meteor by h an ancestor. Also, the succession to the nn' Stanley earldom in England may come to pn an American. When a daughter Is born j 1 to the colonel and the mother dies, the , colonel buys a gypsy boy and substitutes a<* him. Three years later the gypsy mother, 1 having had no part In this bargain, steals die the girl, being reared In secret, and leaves m? her son undetected as the heir. The gyp- . sy has obtained possession of the diamond from the sky, and a document with the hit Stanley secret. When Esther is grown a , cit > beautiful young girl, Hagar, now gvp6y ; {jq queen, returns to Virginia with her. Dr. , Lee, the late Colonel Stanley's friend, * adopts Esther, but demands that Hagar turn over to him the diamond from the j Bli sky. Arthur Stanley, son of Hagar, falls fig, in love with Esther and so does his com- ^ panion and cousin, Blair Stanley, rightful male heir of Stanley. In stealing the dia- LdC mond Blair causes the death of the doc- ha tor. Outside lc Arthur serenading Esther. di? Blair, escaping, Infers that he has left cjj Esther's room. Arthur forces him to ' fight a duel In which Blair is only or stunned. He tries, with the aid of his SEl m mother, to place the blame for the murder } - of Dr. Lee upon Arthur, who now has the ne > diamond. The sheriff attempts to take A? *V... K??* Ka Klfl nnrcHhrfl find * such dreadful places as that Chinese e den he would never get his money. He v * at least should have seen us home If ^ >. Blair Stanley was not gentleman t 5; enough to do so." i "But the diamond," murmured Vivian vj 5 Marston. "Didn't you see bow It blazed Uke a coal of fire under that swinging lamp and on the idol's breast? They . named it right when they called It the * diamond from the sky." s u "1 believe you are as crazy about that dreadful diamond as the silly Stanleys are," whined Richmond's leading soclety light -r "It may be worth millions, bnt I . would not touch the dreadful thing! Not that I am superstitious, but it is ^ bad luck, everybody says sa And that _ Idol?ugh! I won't sleep for a week for thinking of the horrid thing!" But Vivian Marston. engrossed in the intense and desperate desire for the great Jewel that had obsessed her since 0 the day she had first beheld it, said ^ nothing more, but bit her lip and clincht cd her hands until the nails marked j her palms. She was impatient to reach ^ a Mrs. Randolph's house and be alone ~~e ^ with her desire for the diamond. Arriving there, she turned her totter- "? ing friend over to the ministrations of rea r hor mnifi nnrl flpw to her bedroom. She donned a peignoir, stood by tiie win- P^a 5 dow and looked out across the sleeping Th - city, it was after midnight now. Who would get the diamond? There had been no use to further dis- coc cuss the diamond with her silly hos- ^ 1 toss. The diamond from the sky was 1 a jewel to be worn by women who rc: AI U1U1| UUk IIV VIWUW ntw ywawwvav ? J Joina Hagar, who reveals his Identity and ed | upbraids him for his wild life. Needing ^ ? money, he pawns the diamond in Rich- * ^ mond. Blair is in Richmond, and ha too, ? Is forced to visit the pawnshop. The two Bli * agree to stand by each other. At a ball, Ia\ y at which a supposed New York belle Is * the guest of honor, they are stunned to find the diamond on the visitor. She ie * Z an adventuress who has borrowed IL In * While Hagar is telling the "belle's" fort tune L.uke Lovell. Hagar's gypsy guard, , * steals the diamond and to avoid detection jrops it into a mall box. A sheriff tries he * to arrest Arthur on the murder charge, de; * He escapee from Richmond on a freight y train. The diamond passes into a mail > bag, which is lost from a wagon and is ( picked up by Quabba, an organ grinder. st< i Quabba's monkey steals the diamond and thi f leaves it in a nest in a tree. Arthur is . y robbed by hoboes, who leave him in tatters. He seeks work at a farm. Hagar ton ^ takes Esther to live at Stanley halL An thi I I old time tournament is held. Arthur at- k ? * 1 * kAO? I tends In disguise, proves mmseji me uwi > knight, defeating Blair, but Is betrayed nH by the latter to the sheriff. Quabba, In ^ Jest, handcuffs the sheriff and Blair. By i daring horsemanship Arthur escapes. Lat- .. er he leaves the farm. Tom Blake, a de tective hired by Hagar, produces finger- toi prints proving Blair guilty of the death of Dr. Lee. Blair and his mother quarrel ? about Vivian. Hagar proposes silence to Mrs. Stanley as the price of Hagar's and ?*. j Esther's being received In Fairfax society. $ Biair strikes down Hagar and steals the ; ? I fingerprints and money from his mother. J ' The diamond is found by a negro boy and g ? | is taken by ft tramp. The latter is mur- 5 ) dered by Hung Li, who hangs the gem | j on his idoL Thence it is stolen Just as a k , slumming party enters Hung Li's den. j , i Hagar, mentally unbalanced by Blair's g blow, Is again with Esther among the S , i gypsies. Marmaduke Smythe, lawyer, ar- I j rives to announce Arthur is heir to the deceased Earl of Stanley. Learning Ar1 thur is a fugitive he seeks BlaJr instead. i 1 Vivian asks the diamond of Blair as the j price of consenting to marry him. 5 CHAPTER XVII. * "A Runaway Match." Mrs. burton Randolph, society leader, sank back in ^ tbe taxicab petulantly resolv- ^ ed to have a real good cry 4 and a thoroughly enjoyable nerve crisis as soon as she reached her residence * | and could give way to her "poor nerves" with all the comforts of home. "I don't believe you have any nerves ,> at all, Vivian!" she whimpered to her guest. "I think you have the fortitude fl of a cowboy or something of that $> , sort, and I shall never forgive Blair jj| Stanley for deserting us and sending g t Us home alone! g "As for that Detective Blake, I am | [[ sure if It were I he was depending i d upon for any pay for taking us to IS red aspire to it. a gem to be wrested >m the weak by men who cared for consequence except to gain it Yho would gain it now? If Blake t it as agent of Abe Bloom and his >thor. the pawnbroker, would she be le to cajole it from these astute (brews? She doubted this. But if llr Stanley got it Vivian knew it >uld be hers without dispute. "mining as Detective Blake was an l astute as were the Blooms. Vivian irston felt a supreme confidence in i daring unscrupulous determination Biair Stanley to get the stone to [n her love. ["he diamond from the sky. crime lined as it was. had never been sul d by the hands of traders. Since the y, according to its legend, it had falt to earth in a meteor and had been Ined by the first Arthur Stanley, genman adventurer of coloulal Virginia. xjc hundred years agone. it had never ?n cheapened or debased by being in ? hands of little men who bought d sold its gleaming glory and aplised it at a price. t had no price; it was a jewel to om beauty at the bauds of daring, rbis lieautlful womau Of bold heart I well to rely on the desi>erate young in who had reached up from the ees of murder already for the dla>nd from the sky. Now further ined by his infatuation for her. she ew he would not fail. ^.fter Blake and he had sent Mrs. ndolph and Vivian Marston home, ake had sought a telephone and notiil Abo Bloom that the diamond from i 6ky was on the neck of the Chinese >L Then it was that Blair Stanley d stolen away and had seized the irnond by swift and daring action in mbing the fire escape at the back the den, smashing the window and itching the diamond. iVe have seen how the frenzied Chise tong leader. Hung Li, had, in atnpting to malm the despoiler, severthe neck of the idol and cut down ? swinging lamp before the Idol Just len the detective, Abe and Ike oom, supplemented by the English vyer. Smytbe. had arrived on the ?ne. n a shed by the Chinese den Blair, his quick exploration and approach. d stumbled upon n motorcycle, in j excitement that followed the fire had dropped from the last iron ladr at the back of the den and had lirled away through back alleys and eots to where he knew Vivian Marni would wait awake for him and e diamond. Ie had the diamond and he would ve her! He felt the great gem and * luxurious woman were worth all would dare for l>oth. and that was ich. Arriving beside the Randolph .mann long after midnight, he saw the ht gleaming from Vivian's window, >vard which ? wistaria clambered. ' 'ivian Marston and Blair Stanley. > drew himself up the gnarled and mcious vine. Vivian came to the ndow at the first swaying of the ie. Blair showed her the diamond. Give it to me." she whispered. But llr was resolved upon the only price would accept for this proud possesn?the favor of a woman he loved. I will wait for you!" Blair replied tsely. "We must marry and leave :hmoud tonight Blake will be hot er us!" Ivian nodded, and Blair slid down i wistaria and hid the stolen motor;le in the thick vines at the side of i house. n a few minutes Vivian had Joined o. A few blocks from the Randolph jse they hailed a belated taxi and re driven to the home of the Rev. in Gray, noted in conservative Rich* nd as "the marrying minister." lean while, driven out dv me names, which the Chinese den was now a >thing mass, Detective Biake. with > Blooms, got their taxicab and hurd away to avoid embarassing quesns from the police and firemen aldy heard hurrying to the scene. The nzied Chinamen, pouring from the ce, were too excited to stay them, e bewildered English barrister, lythe, his respectable gray high : and his equally respectable frock it on fire, was brushed aside by De tive Blake and the Messrs. Bloom, 'hey were not interested in the leg-il >resentative of the Earl of Stnnler | or bis search for the fugitive heirs to He Drew HimseJf Up to Vivian's Window. the Stanley title and estates In Warwickshire. Their minds were all upon the heirloom of the American Stanleys, fho rH<irrv?nri fmm tfl?? skv. "Possession is nine points of the laty," panted Mr. Abraham Bloom. "The law is that a pawnbroker ain't responsible for a pawned article except to the valne of the sum he has advanced on it If we get hold of this diamond them Stanleys can whistle for it eh. Ike?" But Isaac Bloom, pawnbroker, bad on actual crisis of nerves such as Mrs. Burton Randolph had never been able to effect. In the words of his more hardened and experienced brother. "Ike was all in." He moaned in the corner of his tuxicab and begged to be "let out of this thing!" "It ain't your tire, you should worry," sneered his brother, the cynical gambling housekeeper. "For my fire, when I have it I have got an insurance." moaned the unhappy Isaac Bloom. "But to see a Are in which a diamond goes as big as yonr fist worth $1,000,000! A fire by which you almost lose your life, as we (lid?well, words can't say it, and I want that you should let me out at my pawnshop!" After leaving the collapsed Ike Bloom In tbe haven of his pawnshop. Detective Blake and Abe Bloom were driven to tbe latter's gambling house, and from here to tbe residence of Mrs. Burton Randolph, society leader. "As yon say there is $o,000 in It for me if I get trie ammonu tor yua, 1 will tell you my theory," said the detective to his gambler client "Blair Stan ley. who passed the bad check on you, with his thumb print from the leaky fountain pen on it has got the diamond It belongs to his family, you know. If this Arthur Stanley, who has also fled (but I can tell you now he is guilty of no crime that I know of), dies the diamond belongs to Blair Stanley. "But Blair does not want it for himself; he wants it for that fair friend of yours from New York. Miss Vivian Marston. Rlair is crazy about that dame and she is crazy to get the diamond. Well find them at Mrs. Randolph's if we are not too late." But they were too late. Their insistence forced the presence of Mrs. Randolph herself, and just when she was dropping off in a sweet sleep after having enjoyed her nerves with all the comforts of home. Thus aroused, Mrs. Randolph was quite Indignant at the detective and also at the presence of Mr. Abe Bloom, Richmond's notorious gambling house keeper. "The idea," she murmured indignantly, "the idea." But when the cynical Mr. Bloom Intimated that Mrs. . Randolph's guest the vivacious Miss Marston, was a friend of his, Mrs. Ran dolph sensed another Impending scandal and "came down off her perch." as Mr. Bloom afterward described it. She led the way to Miss Marston's chamber. 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