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CHAPTER I.
A Heritage of Hate.
IT is June in Virginia, June in the
year of our Lord 18Sli. The fields
are green, the early blossoming
of the honeysuckle gives a fra
grauce to the air. At suoli a time, in
such a scone and such surroundings,
two horsemen meet. Both are men of
striking appearance and proud presence
and are in the maturity of their
middle manhood. They arc Stanleys,
cousins in blood. The one on the bay
hunter, Judge Lamar Stanley, is
smooth of face, that is marked with
cruel and heavy lines. Ills face is
liarsh and set. and tlie grim lines of
his countenance set 11 jo grimmer at the
approach of his kinsman, Colonel Arthur
Stanley The latter rides his
chestnut saddler like a soldier. Judge
Stanley's seat is that of a huntsman.
Even as they ride they differ. Colonel
Stanley's face is kinder. A white mustache
imperial odd to his soldierly j
appearance.
In Richmond during the war Judge
Lamar Stanley had been high in the |
councils of the cabinet of President ,
Jefferson Davis. In the held Ills
cousin, Arthur Stanley, followed the
fortunes of the Confederate arms as a
member of the si.of of General Lee.
Crossing each other in love, crossing
each other in martini, civic and social
ambitions, their mutual hatred grew
with their growing years. There were
deep causes for all this in the thwarted
social ambitions of the judge. As
the scion of the elder branch of the
American Stanleys, springing from
their common ancestor, Sir Arthur
Stanley, a gentleman adventurer, who
came to America in 101 r>. Colonel Stanley
held possession of the precious family
heirloom, the diamond from the
sky.
The family tradition ran that this !
great gem had fallen in a hla/.ing me- j
teor at the foot of Sir Arthur Stanley
throe centuries ago just as he was
about to bo burned at the stake by the
Indians, whom he hn<l in some way
affronted and aroused.
The legend was that the Indians had
deemed the falling meteor an omen
from the Great Spirit that the white
man about to bo tortured was under
the favor of his protection. This lopend
further stated that Sir Arthur
Stanley himself had so accepted the
diamond from the skv as a token of !
supernatural favor, especially as the
Indians had called it "the fallen star."
and as "The Fallen Star" Sir Arthur
Stanley himself had been called after
his banishment from the court of King
James of England for some wild escapade
of pallantry when he was but
turned of twenty-two.
In the ape stained family archives
kept in the stroup box at Stanley hall,
the great mansion home of Colonel |
Stanley, there was the will of tho wild I
Sir Arthur, and at its end there was a !
strange prophetic clause. This clause j
read that when the noble line of Stan- i
leys became extinct in England and an 1
heir of the old Stanley earldom was j
ought among the elder sons of the
yLmerlcan family of Stanleys in Vir- i
rinia the diamond from the sky, the
lerltage of the elder son of this elder
iranch. should be borne and worn back
o. England by the American earl when
le came Into his English earldom.
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Stanley was a bachelor Invalid and
recluse, without hope or desire of an
heir.
Colonel Stanley had no son to succeed
to the earldom in England. He
was married to a fair young wife, who
expected shortly to become a mother.
XUnrrt t h In niiilil n nrinl If r?sx??l*1 hnt*/\ aw*
?v civ tii in vunu u & it wuiu u *a\j
hope for the English great title ill the
family nor to ever possess the diamond
from the sky.
On the other hand, Judge Lamar
Stanley had a son, a sturdy boy of
three. Ills proud wife, equally with
himself, dreamed of a day when this
boy should bear the honors and have
the vast estates of the Stanley earldom
and the wonderful, priceless diamond
from Hie sky.
As the two horsemen, kinsmen and
bitter enemies, rode down upon each
other In a sniillng Virginia lane neither
would swerve his horse a hairsbreadth
for the other. Into each other,
full tilt, their blooded horses charged,
and then the superior horsemanship of
the soldier, skilled *jj cavalry encounters,
told. Over went horse and judge
into t,he dust of the road, and. with a
mocking laugh and not deigning to
look back at Ills fallen kinsman, who
arose and cursed and shook his list at
him, Colonel Stanley rode on.
The judge, discomfited in the dust,
saw the dark face of a gypsy grinning
at him through a hedge near by. The
hedge was on the property of Judge
Stanley. Mounted on his horse again
he now saw a gypsy van on the other
side of the hedge. Judge Stanley,
quivering wiiu rage, roue Into tlio g:q?
of the hedge and hoarsely ordered oil'
the intruders.
"IHil, yo' sec, it Is like tills,*' expostulated
the gypsy, "I am alone here
with my wife, sir. Our people has
gone on. My wife is very sick. We
can't go on. sir."
"What do I care what nils your
wretched wife!" snarled the Judge.
"Drive your horses olT my land and get
out. 1 am judge in this county."
"Mebbe you are president of the
United States, too." grumbled the
gypsy. "Do you think you own the
roads because the gentleman tlmt Just
rode by knocked you olT your horse
011 the road?"
Housed to a burst of fury, the Judge
drove his horse at the gypsy and
lashed him cruelly with the heavy riding
whip he always carried. A wan
but handsome gypsy woman, clutching
at her side as though in pain, tottered
out from the van as though to protect
the gypsy from the sheer brutality of
the horseman. Stanley struck the gypsy
woman across the face, leaving a
livid weal. To his surprise she never
Minched, hut faced him dauutlessly.
"The bitterest disappointment of your
life and a death that will be a buzzard's
feast for you for that blow!" she
said tensely, a light of prophecy in
her courageous eyes.
The judge faltered and wheeled his
horse, hut turning to the gypsy man
he cursed liiin again and hid him he
off ills land. Then lie rode on.
Meanwhile Colonel Stanley had rid*
don to tlie village of Fairfax and had
halted his horse at the gate of a pretty
cottage. A sign by the gate bore
the words, "Dr. Ilenry Lei?.*'
The doctor was an amiable man of
some sixty years, inclined to corpulence.
a kinsman of (leneral Kobert F.
Lee. The doctor had heen a surgeon
in the Confederate army. Some fifteen
years older than the colonel, lie had
been the guardian of the other. During
the war the colonel had saved the
doctor's life by carrying him when
wounded Irak to the Confederate lines
under a galling fire. A further bond
between them, if others were needed,
was the mutual hatred they bore to J
Judge Lamar Stanley, who through j
some legal chicanery had impoverished
the doctor in his old age, a breach of
confidence if not of trust. "Yes, doe-1
tor. conic at once. My wife will need
you tonight." said the colonel.
As the colonel iicurcd his estates and
was within sight of the broad lawn of
Ids colonial mansion. Stanley hall, a
landmark of the countryside, ho saw a
gypsy van approaching. On the driving
seat were two figures, a man and
a woman. The man was, bellowing
hoarse curses at a disapixmring horseman,
whom even at tlie distance the
colonel recognized as his hated cousin. J
tlie Judge.
As lie n en red the approaching gypsy
outfit the colonel noticed the woman
had fainted from pain and weariness.
He had just time to wheel his horse
close beside the van and catch her as
she was falling from tlie seat.
In a few words the gypsy man ex
plained their miserable situation. The
kindly heart of the colonel was touched.
The fainting woman had now revived
and was listening apathetically.
"So Judge Stanley has ordered you
off the earth?' remarked the colonel.
"Well, my good man. that little copse
of woods right over there, not far from
my house, belongs to me. Camp there
as long as you wish and I will see your
sick wife gets every attention. She
expects a child, you say? Ah, the curse
of Eve falls alike in hut and mansion.
We expect this same momentous event
I at iny house. You are doubly welcome.
I will send Dr. Lee. our family
physician, to attend your wife.
The prypsy woman now spoke for the
first time. "For your kind heart I read
your fortune. A bitter disappointment
and a bitter triumph over those you
hate the most comes to you, sir."
"Well, better fortune thun that to
the child you exj>ect," said the colonel
with a kindly smile. "And here is $20
to buv christening elnth?? ??iwi #?,.?.?.i
w wuu LUUUU
the fortune of my expected uamesake
?if he Is a boy.'
"It will be n boy, and you will be
aware of him," said the gypsy woman,
and again she-closed her eyes and shivered
as in great pain, not noticing the
money.
"Take It, you fool woman, when the
kind gentleman offers it!" snarled the
man.
Seeing the colonel still offering the
money, the gypsy woman muttered her
thanks and took the money reluctantly,
and the gypsy, loud in his protestations
of gratitude, drove his caravan to tlie
copse.
Arriving at the gateway of Stanley
hall, the grand old munslou built by a
great-grandson of the original forbear
of the family in America, the colonel
cantered his horse up the splendid
wide driveway. There on the lawn his
ilower faced young wife, Ethel, in a
garden chair, swaddled in silken shawls
and carefully attended by her-old colored
nurse. Mammy Lucy, awaited
him.
The old negro manservant, Ned, chief
factotum and butler of the establish*
incut, appeared on the piazza and called
J loudly to a half grown colored lad to
i 1uko i no master's norse.
| The colonel ami the old nurse gently
supported the (lower faced young wife
from the lawn to the portals of the
grout mansion.
It must not be thought that any overwhelming
desire for title or exalted po
sit ion for themselves or for their ex
peeted child actuated Colonel Stanley
and his fair young wife, in fact, the
colonel was not only contented but
proud in his position as head of the
Stanley family in America and master
of Stanley hall. It was only the grasp
1 ing snobbery of.his cousin that had led
I the colonel to encourage tS*o hope that
! his wife might bear a son to cheat his
j kinsman foe of his hopes.
For the proud elder branch of the
Stanleys?the Ix>rds Stanley of Warwickshire.
England-only survived in
the person of a testy old bachelor Invalid.
The next of kin and in direct
line for the earldom of Stanley was
Colonel Stanley of Virginia, and, failing
ids surviving or having a son, the
earldom would go to his cousin. Judge
Stanley or the Judge's sou, Blair, now
a child of three.
It was a sore point with the last
Lord Stanley that he had always hated
i women after a love disappointment in
early manhood and had never married,
and now the succession would go to
what he denominated as his "Yankee
relatives."
But tlie diamond from toe sky was a
comforting thought in a measure to
On the Porch of the Old Virginia Mansion.
i (In? old earl. It gave those "Yankee
relatives" a prestige that even an earl
; might envy.
I For some time past the earl, through
i his solicitor, Marinnduke Smythe. had
been in correspondence with the afore|
said "Yankee relatives."
Mnrmadtike Smythe was a long, lean,
j lank, dry as dust British barrister. He.
| too. was versed in full knowledge of
the fame and fabulous value of the
diamond from the sky. He, too. knew
the legends concerning It. Hut to his
timid mind faroff America was still a
wilderness, peopled by savages.
So it had been with much trepidation
nnd much nervous caressing of his
scanty black sldewlilskers that Mnrmadtike
Smythe. barrister at law, Temple
chum hers. London, had received or
ders from tils distinguished patron.
Cecil, eighth enrl of Stanley, to depart
for America and arrange for the succession.
CHAPTER II.
*1 Will Cheat Lamar Stanley!"
IN the preliminary correspondence
concerning this matter Lawyer
Smythe had been gratified to note
that one of the Stanleys near of
kin in Virginia was a Judge. To Lawyer
Smythe's insular British understanding
being a Judge in the jungles
of Virginia was to be an uncouth, tobacco
eating, hoarse voiced, red faced
j individual.
lfc?, 9QWWKT, U. 9.
The feud and its consequent bitter >
enmities between Colouel Stanley and J
Judge Lamar Stunlcy were hardly
grasped by the testy old earl and his
timid London lawyer. But the legal
mind of Lawyer Smythe prompted him
to rely mostly upon the far off Virginia
judge.
So it was that to carry out his mission
in what he deemed were the wilds
of America Lawyer Smythe determined
to place himself in contact with the
Virginia judge rather tbnu what he
thought might be the more militant
head of the American Stanleys, the exsoldier*
ColoHiel Arthur Stanley.
The lawyer had writteiT to the judge
and hard upon the heels of his letter
he had arrived at the little railroad
station of Fairfax in the dusk of the
evening upon the day in which the
Judge and the colonel had encountered
the gypsies. Matt Harding and his wife
Hagar.
All the barrister saw when he alighted
from the slow local train that had
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uruugui nira, mm wueu ills luggage
i I
The Mather of the Gypay Child.
i hail been deposited beside him by unt
ceremonious bands, was a shambling
negro with a private mail pouch attached
to a strap over bis ragged shoul- :
1 der. This negro was joined bv several
other inessengers of his sort. who were
busy receiving mail from the station
agent, who was evidently also the local
postmaster.
Lawyer Smy the looked up and down
the platform, expecting to see cowboys
or a prairie wagon, or some sort of
backwoods person to greet him or vehicle
to convey him to Judge Stanley's
ranch, lie dually summoned up
courage to inquire of the station agentpostmaster,
as that individual was
locking up for the night.
"Judge StanleyV" repeated the station
agent. "Why, his nigger, Zeke,
just got the Judge's mall and has gone.
The judge couldn't have been expecting
anybody, or lie would have sent
his carriage. Hut inebbe Zeke will tell
him lie saw you, and you will be sent
for. You had better wait right here."
And he turned the key in the i>ad-1
lock on the station door and trudged
away, leaving the bewildered lawyer
wondering if wild beasts might be
j about.
In the somber Jiving room that was
part law oilice and chambers of Judge
Stanley, the Judge and Ills equally
stern visageil spouse were awaiting the
evening mail on the last train down
from Richmond.
In a few minutes Zeke. tlie colored
handy man of the household, entered
with the judge's mail bag. The judge!
eagerly separated a large, formally addressed
envelope bearing English
stamps and sealed at the back.
The judge opened it. glanced at it
hurriedly and banded it to his wife.
"It is from the earl's lawyer. Marina
uukc rtin.vTiio, you see. llo says he
may arrive at about the same time this
letter reaches us." lie turned to the
slouchy negro. "Did you see a strange
man get off the train?looked like an
undertaker?all English lawyers do?"
"Yes, suli, a strange gemman did get
off de train." replied the negro, "but lie
didn't say nufllii to me, and 1 didn't
say liuflin to him!"
"You black scoundrel!" roared the
Judge. "That gentleman has come all
, the way from England to see me on
an Important matter. Get my liorse
and }>ut a saddle on the black mare. I
will go to the station for him myself!"
At Stanley hall, in the old colonial
bedroom of the mistress of the house,
the colored nurse, Lucy, was ministering
to her flower faced mistress,
while Colonel Stanley stood by solicitously
continuing the old colored mammy's
words with affirmative nods.
"Yes, my honey, de doctor will l>e
here any minute." the old nurse was
saying. "Ain't the colonel Jest back
from goln' after him? lUess my soul,
honey, dere come Dr. Lee hlsself drlvln'
lip wld dat. ole rod hoes. Stonewall,
of his."
The colonel's wife lifted her fair face
as the colonel bent over to kiss it. The
old nurse softly bustled to the door and
admitted the doctor.
In the copse of wood*, hardly farther
than a stone's throw from the
mansion, night was falling darkly with
the inutterlng8 of an approaching
storm. Over u smoldering tire crouched
Matt Harding, the gypsy, puffing at
his short black pipe. A cry of pain 1
from the weather stained tent near by !
roused the tnan, and he arose and sulleuly
walked over and entered the
shabby shelter. ,
In a few womcuts be emerged and j
hurried rapidly in' the direction of
Stanley Hall.
As he rupped at the great door of
the mansion Ned. the colored butler,
opened It. throwing a glare of yellow
light upon the sinister face of the
gypsy.
"You can't sec nobody tu this house.
Mr. Man," said Ned.
"But 1 tell you t'olonel Stanley promised
me his doctor would be here tonight
and that he would attend my
wife. She needs the doctor now. it's
n matter of life and death. And it's
bad luck when a gypsy dies without
being able to face the rising suu."
"De colonel's nlluH doln' foolish kindnesses
fo' poo' white trash," grumbled
the darky as he shut the door on the
strange caller and went reluctantly to
bear his message.
But the good old physician was positive
that no harm would come from his
absence for an hour or so and hastened
away on his errand of mercy.
At the little station of Fairfax meanwhile
the now frightened London lawyer
was wondering whether he should
load the elephant rltle with which he
had provided himself and fortify himself
behind his luggage. As the beat
of horse hoofs drew nearer the English
lawyer rose with leveled ritle and cried:
"Halt! Who goes there, friend or
foe?"
The approaching horseman. Judge
Lamar Stanley, 'auglied grimly as he
called out: "It's a friend! Don't fclioot!"
And then he rode up to the platform
and introduced himself to the Englishman
and explained matters to the lattop'o
eaflol'anf !<* ? 'PL..,. *1%.. 1 ? . 1
iv i ^ out 1^1 (iLiiuu. j ni'ii mu juu^tf
fastonod the luggage of his visitor to
the two saddle horses, and they rode
off together.
In the copse of wood the pattering
night rain fell upon the gypsy tent.
The storm passed as quickly as It
had come, and the moon shone out
refulgently. The Hap of the tent opened.
and the bulky form of the good
doctor was seen in the moonlight, lie
held a small swaddled object in ids
arms.
"Matt Harding," said Dr. Lee impressively.
"the storm has passed with
the miracle of birth, and you may say,
as was said of old, 'Unto us a child Is
born; unto us a son Is given.'"
"Thorn's fine words for rich folk."
grumbled the gypsy grutHy. "To me
it don't mean nothing but another
mouth to food."
The doctor regarded the man with
such a look of sternness that the gypsy
took the child from the doctor and entered
the tent with It. lifter promising
the physician to take good care of it
and its mother.
The good doctor hurried back to
Stanley hall, where all were impatiently
awaiting him. lie smiled reassuringly
at the colonel's wife, the colonel
and the nurse.
"A fine boy has been born to the
gypsy woman." he said. "It seems an
omen of like good luck to Stanley hall.
We may expect a little earl to be born
here this night." he added gently.
The colonel's flower faced wife shook
her head and smiled lnwt ??* ?i.?
? ?V t r- UIU
doctor, and the colonel spoke quickly.
"I have no ambitions for any title for
a son of mine." lie said. "Hut I wish
a boy if but to thwart inv cousin. Lamar
Stanley."
A bitter expression crept into the
face of the negro woman at the mention
of Judge Stanley's name
"Don't you worry, honey." she said
softly to her mistress, "an* don't you
worry either, colonel. IV good Lord
don't Intend no luck for Judge Lamar
Stanley. I was a slave girl on his fa
tiler's place when de Jedge was a
young man. He killed my brother like
a dog. an' he had ine heat insensible
when I called him 'Cain.' "
A girl child was born at Stanley
hall at midnight. The colonel blanched
at the news, but the flower faced
mother smiled and called her husband
to bring the diamond from the sky.
With trembling hands lie brought the
precious heirloom, and the mother with
her own weak hands placed the chain
and the locket that contained the
jewel around the neck of her newborn
daughter.
"She Is heir to Stanley hall, at least."
murmured the mother, "and until you
die," she added, turning to the colonel,
"she may wear It as a 'charm against
harm/ XS the Stanleys of our branch
nave always done."
Then as all turned away to hide their
tears at the pathos of her words the
young mother, with trembling hands,
drew a slip of folded paper from beneath
her pillow and. opening the secret
catch at the back of the locket,
placed a mother's last message unnoticed
beneath the diamond from the
sky. murmuring as she did so:
" 'A charm against harm.' my little
daughter: 'charm against harmP " And
then she sank back upon her pillow,
her bahe upon her breast.
The old nurse turned and gazed fixedly
at her mlstrees; then, with a scream
of grief and terror, she threw herself
t>eslde the babe and mother.
"She Is dead!" shrieked the nurse.
"My sweet mistress Is dead!" It was
but too true; this gentle aoul had
passed.
Tn IIK?? ?- - "
ii mi; nuim/ an nour IftlOT LfT. LW
stood over the shattered colonel. "Listen
to the truth," said the doctor. "It
Is Idle for yon to rave. I have told
you, you have aneurism of the heart,
and another attack like this may be
your death. You cannot hope to live
to marry a wife who may yet bear you
a son.**
M1 will never marry igalar cried H
Colonel Stanley In anguish. MI bar#
loved but one woman, could lore hut
one woman, and she is dead! But, by
Iieavena, 1 will cheat Lamar Stanley
and all his brood! 1 have $5,000,4^
yonder safe. 1 will buy uie male chlldl
born to the gypsy woman. I will hide
away my own flesh and blood, my lit*
tie daughter, and have her reared tenderly,
yet lu secret And the gypsy's
brat at my death shall be the Earl of
Stanley lu England and pofcsess the j^H
diamond from the sky. That will bo
tine for Lamar Stanley and bis vermin
offspring!" And he laughed and shook
his hands in bitter rage.
*'I mean It, and you must help me.
You hate Lamar Stanley, for be rained 9H
you. Mammy Lucy hates him. Hej^H
killed her twin brother in cold blood.
Come!"
In the glow of his eampflre Mate
Harding gazed greedily at the wealth
beyond his wildest dreamB that Colo
Ut'1 r?uiuu".v tutu ivunm uiui nuui
fitful slumber to pour into bis lap. i
Hagar, roused from her feared
dreams, felt her babe being lifted from
her bosom. The rural gypsy husband
and father seized her by the throat
she feebly struggled. He gagged and
bound her hastily as he might and
emerged panting from the tent, carrying
the swaddled babe which he handed
to the colonel and the doctor.
'Hoes my wife object?" he asked to
the doctor's question. "Say. governors,
she would soil every child she expects
to have for half the money. We'll ho
twenty miles away by sunrise and (Ifty
miles more by another day. We'll
be gypsy kings and queens and you'll^^H
never hear of us again!"
Hack at Stanley hall the docto^ '
tho colonel entered secretly by
brnrv window mid lioro llwi l> x
stairs to
ly and yet resolved like all tIk*
tlie faithful colored nurse arrayed thrajUfl|
gypsy child in Line linen and hung
about its neck "tin* diamond from the I I
sky." while the little daughter, horn to
Stanl< \ h:iII. whimpered 1 eshle Its fair
dead mother. ^^b
In answer to the summons to Stan- H||
ley hall came Judge Stanley, the kinsman
enemy and the Knglish barrister.
li was a strange group that gatiiereil
in the colonel's lihrttry. the bullish
barrister, the rim. h!tt< rl.v disappointed
judge, silently facing Dr. Lee :md:HH
Colonel Stanley.
A pull at the hell rope and the weep|
ing colored nurse entered the lihrary^^^
hearing tin* black haired, dark e.vedi^H
bahe. a male child in Stanley hall, preKtimptlve
heir to an English earldom. I I
and hlazing on its In'east was the iliamond
from the sky.
Over the gypsy camptire within*tke-HM
sound of a human call from Stanley
hall a I >e re ft and frenzied mother tore-^H
herself loose front her bonds. Like
tigress, she threw herself upon lier
hushttiKl and demanded her child. |^B
Whim he fold her of the bargain and I I
showed Iter the money that came from
it she cursed him and the gold and, HI
seizing it jagged burning billet from tbo^3
lire, she struck Matt Harding town.
mill toiil'tn.r i II'/HUI ..I, ?!?/, irB/iinwl
11 it I 111, ill ill?| m will?rm?i 111:
Matt Harding the Gypsy.
schemes. Tbe k?**'^t door of Stanley
hall stood ajar. For a moment Ha?&r
swayed faintly at the portal, fbeft
she staggered in and down tbe spa- II
clous hall to the door of the library, I I
guided by the sound of men's voices
and the cries of a child?her child!
Jler haads seized the knob and softly
and silently she threw open tbe door IH
just as her gypsy husband seized her
The backs of the judge, the English
lawyer, the doctor and the nurse were
to the door, but Colonel Stanley stfigd
behind the library table facing the
"Yes," he was saying, "there la the
newborn baby, a son. do you hear, a
eon!" And ihen his eyes opened wide
with horror, for there, struggling at
the open door, were the gypsy woman
and her husband. The man's hand I
waa over the woman's mouth, and I
with every effort he sought to str#bgle
her to silence and closed the door. I
Colonel Stanley clutched at his heart
and fell senseless forward across the
tlhrarv table! I
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