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Contestants mujt conline their contributions for the sequel to 1,000 tvords cr It is the idea that is wanted. ' SYNOPSIS OF PR EC E DI N 3 CHAPTERS. A bitter f< ltd exists between Colonel Arthur Stanley and Mis cousin. Judge Lamar Stanley, wealthy Virginia aristocrats. The' ft ud has been engendered in family jeal- | ousy for the possession of an heirloom [ known as the dap.u <1 from tire sky. found by a noble adventurer ancestor in a fallen meteor. The. feud is further I augmented by the fact that the death of j a noble kinsman in Lngland -makes the | tlrstborn male of the elder branch of the Virginia Stanleys heir to the Stanley earldom in Warwickshire, as well as possessor of the diamond from the sky. Judge Lamar Stanley has a son, the presumptive heir to both these coveted honors. But a child Is about to be born to the fair young wife of Colonel Stanley When the child Is born and proves to be a girl and its mother dies CVilohc I Stanley I in cnagrin uiui disappointment ami aided : by the doctor ami the ije.rye buys a new- 1 T>6rn gypsy male cliiid from iis unnatural] and money greedy father. In ho doing j Colonel !.<\v and those assisting him | to cheat his enemy cousin's _ i vhopes have believed the gypsy mother lias | consented to the secret transaction. But ' Hagar. the motlicr, finds her way to Stan- i ley hall to denounce her g.eedy' and bru-j ta.1 husband and secure again her beloved 1 firstborn. She arrives Just as the supposl- j tltious heir is being verified according to the Stanley custom by the Kngllsh law- j yer representing tiie IOarl of Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley, the colonel's enemy and father of the hoy who is thus being deprived of a ,<j and the diamond from the *kv. f chaprea in. y The Queen of the Gypsies. 1 Colonel Stanley fell . uncon-, scions across the library table' Matt Harding silently closed tiie library door from the outside. Ills right hand closed tightly 1 over the mouth of llagar. preventing the weak and anguished mother from! making an outcry, as before her eyes, r /' ^ "S . v , yj *F\ f *" - ^fo. ' ^ jwy j Good Old Doctor Loo. Iwfore the door closed on the scene, he beheld her l>oy, her lirst born, ar Ar ilOr JL. Al? CARDBLL ' *Roy L. Af c Car deli elected as the best in over 19,000 subthe Chicago Tribune in a $10,000 prize The manuscripts in this competition d States and Canada. Authors of note part. rayed In fine linen, a great jewel glow| ing on his Kttle breast, the center ol some strange aristocratic rite or ceremony. So silent had been the struggle in the hall that, while tho keen ears of Judge Stanley had heard a rustle and a gasp, his attention had been so taken up with the anguish on the face of his kinsman enemy. Colonel Stanley, as the colonel tottered and fell face forward on the table, that the judge had lllirdl V heeded i hese v;li<'hr ovtrnnnunc sounds. As for Martuuduko Sinythe. the timid and bewildered English representative ! of the Earl ??f Stanley, he. like the Judge, was faring the swooning colonel and also was unaware of the silent struggle in the hallway?the struggle that had caused Colonel Stanley to i swoon, for the colonel saw in his mind's eye the baring of his plot, his own disgrace at undertaking it and. worst of all. the triumph of his enemy of blood. Like a stoic Mammy Lucy, holding the false heir, had netifrr stirred 01 changed attitr.de. Pr. Lee. funding closer to the colonel. sprang at once to the aid *?f his friend and with all his skill sought to revive the stricken man. I town the hall to the great open doorway Matt Harding hole his struggling. silenced wife. The hank notes in his bosom, the price of the sal(? ol his own tlesh and blood, rustled as he struggled with the frenzied, half stran gled llagar. l?y the sheer for. o o! his brutal strength the gvnsv dragged the woman to the little copse where their meager camp was pitched. Here he hound her with ropes to the seat ol the van. gagged her with his neeU kerchief, hitched his horses and drove off toward the dawn. In the library the ministrations ol I>r. 1.00 had revived Colonel Stanley "I'.raee yourself!" the doctor whispered. "Uememher, your heart will not stand much of 1 his!" "I am all right now." said Colonel Stanley, moistening his lips. "Von. doctor, will certify that this is a male child born heir to the Stanley estates, and I will attest that he is my son. heir at my death to the diamond from the sky and also heir to the earldom of Stanley at the death of the present earl." The Knglish lawyer fumbled in his green bag and produced the already drawn up document of attestation With a firm hand, but giving the colo nel tt sad but searching glance as he did ku, I>r. bee signed the paper as physician In nltendance at tbo birth The colonel Higiffcd as futlit*r of MArt!vr Stanley Ud of Btnnloy hall, Virginia." And then il was the I urn of Judge Stanley to sign as next of kin. For a minute In* faltered, a look of hitler hatred on his saturnine countenance. and then he aflixed his signature and threw down the pen with a bitter curse for what he did. A mock ing smile played upon the face of Colonel Stanley. For one brief moment he forgot the flower faee of the beloved dead woman upstairs. For one brief moment he forgot the girl child born of their deep love, whose birthright had been taken away in the fulfillment Of his hate for bis disappointed and chagrined klnxtnnn. A few brief and stilted farewells ano perfunctory congratulations ensued between the still embarrassed Knglish lawyer. Marmndnkc Sniythc, and the colonel and tin* <lo tor. There was some evil brooding in the air. and the aura of hate was felt by the Knglish man of law. ' It is only a veneer'of civilization that thinly covers these crude Yankees In these wild parts." said the Knglish lawyer to himself as he awkwardly mounted his horse* in the moonlight outside Stanley ball ami rode down the darkened lanes behind the gloomy Judge. "They jolly well would toma hawk and burji each other at the stake if they had opportunity." he added to himself. "I shall start back to London tomorrow if I can and deuced glad of it!" t'neventfully three years went their round. The supposit itions heir at j Stanley hall grew'"to he a sturdy little ln/y of handsome appearance, but of violent and ungovernable temper even | as a child. On the little girl. Ksther, reared it secrecy in a closed chamber In tin I great house and ministered to only by ! the silent and faithful Mammy Kuey ; the colonel lavished and outpoured tin great and growing love and nfTectioi of his iiivmItdcd ;iii< 1 aging years. l-'oi already the 11;111<I of death was plait upon 11iin Mini every day In* rode to tin <toss upon the grave of his dead wif( and prayed that ho might see hor fan to face and he forgiven in the grea ! tenderness of the love tliev had horiu I . each other hi life, f??r the wrong In had done their child. Tlie fear of the colonel that the wll< gypsy blood in the putative heir migli bring him to courses that would dls grace tlie Stanley name preyed upoi the colonel. And so the colonel drew up a docu THE HORRY HES i in?? mum? r~ t uient. which h<> securely scaled mid placed among Ids papers. Upon tbe outside lie superscrllied It: "To be opened in case my sou. Arthur Stanley "d. ever does anything to disgrace the Stanley name." This document he left by his will in the care of Dr. Henry I.ce. should the physician survive hiin. as his executor. Then. too. the colonel realized that he could not long ; hope to rear ids beloved little daugh; ter like a tlower in the dark secretly 1 at Stanley hall. He was arranging with the kindly old widower friend and confidant. Dr. Lee, that little Esther would be secretly delivered to him and the doctor could give out the story It was an orphan relative that he had ? adopted as his daughter. To this supposed daughter of his dearest friend the colonel proposed to will as much i of his meui.s as would have come to a , girl openly acknowledged. Meanwhile the unhappy Hagnr had been borne far away by the brutal and ever watchful Mutt Harding. With him a iiephew devoted to hiin. I one Luke Love.ll. an English gypsy, aided Matt in keeping watch and wm-.t upon Ilagar without knowing or asking why. And then Matt Unfiling fell upon evil courses in his Romany prosperity. anil ilrink made an end to him. Ilagar succeeded to his gypsy wealth and gypsy power. The king was dead; long live the queen! Ills henchman transferred his allegiance from the dead husband to the living wife. In the grim household of Judge Lamar Stanley the shadow of cheated hopes and blighted ambition fell heavy upon the family. The proud and i grasping wife, the cold and taciturn judge, had one unifying cause in common: that was that death might strike Tho Au*a of Hato Was Felt by the English Man of Law. the lives that lay between their only child that he might possess both the diamond from the sky and the Knglish earldom. Such was the state of affairs when llagar and her tribe came back to Virginia. three yeaie after the death of I the colonel's wife and the substitution! of Iiagar's child as the heir of Stan ley. Leaving her people camped at a distance, lla^ar Journeyed to the neighborhood of Stanley hall, and there, hidden in the shrubbery, with bursting heart, beheld her son ride i forth, the pelted and pampered little j nutster of Stanley hall. Colonel Stanley, with the bov. was riding < n his daily pilgrimage to tlu i cress surmounted grave of his dead wife. The road led him past the house ; of Judge Stanley. Looking from his window after his enemy and the little heir of the Stanleys on Ids |>ony beside the colonel, the Judge was aware of a gypsy woman wno stalked after the colonel and the hoy as swiftly an I as furtively as an Indian tracker. Sci:'. I ing his hat, the judge ipiietly emerged from his house ami trailed the gypsy woman. By the gate of the graveyard liagai hid panting behind a huge bowlder She watched so intently the bare head el ligure of the colonel praying by the grave of his wife, and she watched still more attentively and with such a hun gcring heart the little hoy upon his pony by the colonel, that she was not aware of the presence of the judge un til his strong hand grasped her wrist and his liaush voice hissed in her ear. "Why do you spy upon themV" To the starMod dlagar the cruel face of i the judge was the face of a well re ? I inembered enemy. Her account of Jus ; tIce and retribution with Colonel Stanley was between them alone. She would nave no confidence In or dealing with i Judge St:i 11 l??.v. For she knew instinct holy that if he bated the colonel he i equally hated and was prepared to > harm the colonel's supposed son, her ? ; child. ? . Six; did not struggle or attempt to free herself from the grasp . of the * I judge. Hut as th?Tcolonel, with tin ? little hoy, rode from the grave toward the gate she slipped down l>eside tin \ 'Judge ami hid with him from the oh t servathm of the oncoinors, as though . she were an necompllee of the colonel'? - enemy. Neither would she speak in nnswei . | to the Judge's rapid (ire of question? i ALD, CONWAY, S. 0. r rr~~ nrTini ii when the colonel anil little Arthur had passed out of sight. She alTected a sullen dumbness. And wlieu the judge hailed a passing stockily built man driviug a backboard, the constable of the district, and gave her in charge as a wandering mad woman Hagar would speak no word. That night, with gross disregard of legal procedure, the Judge, alone in his courtroom with his creature, the constable. committed the silent gypsy woman to the county madhouse, with instructions to those in charge, through the constable, that when the seemingly sullen, insane woman spoke or was ready to speak lie should be sent for. CHAPTER IV. What Will tho Harvest BeT AFKEXZY of fear and rage overcame her when site found herself In the madhouse to which Judge Stanley had committed Iter without warrant of law. and she screamed and struggled. The matron i ami a burly warden overpowered her ! I..UK . 11 #li 1 t ... j mm iiiiiu uui, piaceu hit iu a straiiJacket ami throw her upon the cot in the cell ami locked the clanging door ! and left her. A wild idea suddenly seized linear. ! She staggered to her feet and gazed i around. Above her cot, some eight feet from the lloor of the cell, was a small barred window. Ilagar listened for a moment at the iron barred, heavy oaken door: then she backed toward the i table and pressed the lacings that held t lie sleeves of the strait jacket against the tlaine of the candle. The leather thongs in the eyelets at the back of the strait jacket smoked and burned: then, with a great effort, she parted the smoldering thongs. To release herself from the strait jacket, now her [ arms were free, wax but the \^ork of a few moments. Mounting the table, she drew up the oaken stool ami with its sturdy logs she pried the bars from their cemented sockets. The ground was only some ten feet below. She held to the ledgo <?f the window a moment and then dropped. She struck the earth without injury and made off in the dark ness. a free woman. On this very night Colonel Stanley had sent for I ho doctor to t :i !ci? away lho littlo girl. At Stanloy Im 11 tho oi l mirso was preparing littlo Lsthor for tho night joiirnoy. In his library Colonel Stanloy gazed in tho lamplight at tho din i nunul from the sky and tho sealod document ho had proparod that would betray tho Stanloy soorot. Ho hoard tho sound of the opening of tho long Pionoh window by tho lirop'aoo. and there ho saw Ilagar entering. disheveled. panting, but rosolvod to have hor own. At this apparition tho oohuiol arose and faced the wild intruder. "I have oolite for tho child!" said Ilagar hoarsely. Colonel Stanloy felt a sudden pang through his heart. It was the last^ shook the doctor had foretold for liiin. lie gave a moaning, inarticulate cry and sank back a dead man! Ilardly knowing what she did, Ilagar .swept into her bosom the diamond from the sky and the sealed document with other papers on the table. Then, turning, she softly opened the library door and as softly crept up the stairway. Led by unerring instinct, she opened the door upon the landing and entered the room where the child, her own son, the putative heir of Stanley hall, lay sleeping. She marked the cle; ganee of his surroundings as the risen I full moon shone in the window. lightj lug it fully. What should she do? If I she left her child here she would be cheating the cheaters. What, would be the wild and lawless upbringing she could give her son in comparison to all that would be his as heir of Stanley hall? Ah she faltered she heard footsteps outside, and. ga/.ing out cautiously, beheld the old colored nurse descending: with the little girl, the rightful heir of Stanley hall. Ilagar huddled upon the landing place and listened. A wild shriek arose from the colored nurse as1 she entered the library and discovered i her dead master. Then the bell rang in the servants' quarters from the ner! vous pull on the bell rope of the old j nurse in the library. And shortly aft: erward Ilagar could hear tlie nurse ' was joined by old Ned. the colored butler. Just at this instant 1 >r. I.ee drove up 1 outside, and soon the great knocker on mrn?mmammmmmmm^mamm?mmm?mm^mmmmm*?m?~mmrnmm??-. 11 Thf Colonel Faoed the Wild Intruder; i ' - ? I the front door was clamoring Its Iron r I MUiniuona through the bouse. Two old , servants rushed to the <l<K?r and broke I the news of the tragedy to the friend of tlie dead man. lla.gar stole unseen down the staircase i.iul Into the library once more. There, cloaked ami hooded. stood the little girl whimpering i "Wake up. daddy, and kiss me!" IlaI gar paused. "An iye for :: 11 eye!' she muttered. Then. Lit !ug the little girl in her arms, and stilling her cries of feat* Mid alarm. II.: gar. with her burden, passed out of the I ?w French win dow by which she had first entered and closed It after her. As the doctor with the two frightened colored servants stood over the dead man In the library, and before the old nurse had noticed the absence of the child, llagar had come around the mansion to the front. Loosening the strap that held the horse, she entered the doctor's carriage, still holding the frightened little girl so its cries were silenced, und drove away. The next morning the news of his enemy's death reached Judge Stanley. With it were vague rumors and whi.s pered suspicions. Other news came, too?news of the cscnpO'of the gypsy mad woman and the disappearance of I?r. Lee's horse and buggy. The judge j stayed not to rejoice at the death of his enemy. He refused even to tell Ids wife what strange business called him hence, with a pistol in tlie holster at his saddle side. In a narrow defile in the Blue Ridge 1 Judge Stanley tracked down his prey. | Ilagar had abandoned the doctor's ex ha listed horse and the now broken gig i and, bearing the child on her strong | shoulder, was climbing the rocky trail when she heard the rattle of horse hoots and heard the voice of Judge i Stanley < all upon her to halt. She i ~~ I Wasting His Substance In Riotous Living. turned to see the judge on horseback, down below, his army pistol leveled at her. Ilagnr held up the child, not so much to shield herself as that its pretty innocence might soften the hard heart of the relentless pursuer. Hut, whether by accident or design will never he known, the heavy explosion of the pistol echoed anions the rocks. The bullet whistled past the flinching Hagar and the terrltied child. The horse reared at the crack of the pistol, throwing his rider, breaking the neck of the vengeful judge and dashing Ids brains against a Jagged rock. Raising the child to her shoulder and supporting tier there with her strong right hand, ilagar looked down upon her dead persecutor and called upon him. with a gypsy's curse, the death of the vultures sin? had predicted for him when lirst they met. Then she elinibi ed over the summit of the ridge with her precious burden and was gone. ******* Eighteen years have passed since ' Judge Stanley's shuttered body was found in the mountains, the seal of death upon his lips. Heboid Arthur Slaidev 2d master of Stanley hall and wasting Ids substance in riotous living. Behold Dr. Henry I.ee, pressed with the weight of years, guardian of the 1 heir of Stanley and wondering what 1 will the harvest be? ! The old colored nurse is dead, as is also the old colored factotum, Ned. There is none alive that knows what really happened on that, tragic night and in the tragic time that followed j save tiie venerable old doctor and the 1 gypsy woman whom he has sought for ! secretly, but In vain, through all those j years. I While Arthur Stanley INI carouses wit Ii his cousin and other wild companions at Stanley hail and while old Dr. I.eo muses in his study and wonders what will the harvest be, the harvest is close at hand. Kate, weaver of destinies. in the shape of Ilagar comes upon the scene, i If the doctor has wondered if in Ids hale of one dead man and his love for another he has not done wrong Hagar. queen of the gypsies, wonders, too, if her vengeance has not gone all awry. Esther Stanley, or. as she is known. Esther Harding. Is u'lteautiful ami sweetly dispositional young woman .now. The wild mother love TTagnt bore for the son that was sold from hei has passed t<? sweet Est her. So it h tliat Hagar returns to Virginia, re solved again to sacrifice her very heart, A wIM ropey camp la no abiding plac? for a fafr'yohfig glfl of gentle )>loo<l. Haghr knoftr* all the documents sh< ' took from Stanley hall when she ah ducted Esther, knows them by heart ; as she knows every facet on ttie dia i I I tfrom the *:>*. whiflV she wrung I tV r nh'M fr?in the ! haml of Colont l Rtniile.v She would sec her boy I i?| 11ivi manhood. The wikl hope* her tlUlt he mny full In love- Jk I w!?!i lather Mini tlmt the secret that onll* two IIvlni; people know shall rest 1 I '! -!?I!v with the dead when Psthor is H inhtross by marriage, if not by right, of Stanley hall. H Her message for I)r. Lee Is a written H one. It reads: H I have come back Rfter eighteen years. H I I hfive hnil mv rrv?n en hni T .1? M - --.J - - - V..p,v. IV? * r 1119 Klrl. What shall b? don? with h?r? II AG AR HARDING. Esther only learns from the kindly^ I lips of the doctor and the tremulous I ones of her supposed mother that a I new life has opened for her: that she- 9 must take her place In the society of /H the countryside as the adopted daugh- / ter of Dr. Dee. as long arranged. This f I Is all she knows; this is nil she Is told, as with her belongings she bids a. weeping adieu to the stern but kindly I gypsy woman she has known as moth- I etf All ber conscious years. And she ^ I rides away as the doctor's daughter*^ I from the gypsy camp. With Esther 5 the doctor takes the diamond from the I sky. demanded of IIagar as part of Es- I thcr's Inheritance. I Hardly has the doctor's carriage de- I parted than I.ukc Loveil, 11 agar's head I man, is given command to strike camp. I In an instant all is hustle und coufu- I slott. Within an hour Ilagar and tier I tribe are on their way. /J I in three mouths. though the proud I women of the neighborhood look I askance. Esther is the belle of the I countryside. The vine clad poivli ?if | the * 1<>< tor's old house sics nightly 1 gathered there the .voting sparks of 1 Kairfux. * 1 Thou comes a night in .It:no, ami in 1 the moonlight are lour young men. all 1 paying court to the linppy Ksther. Chief among them are the Stanley coutiitis, Arthur ami Blair. Some slight \J attention to his cousin. Blair, rouses " Arthur to a temper of jealousy. I'rettily rebuked by list her. Arthur leaves in a liulf. Then Ksther vents her < oquettish displeasure upon the till then triumphant Blair, and he. now angry also, arises and departs, halving the field t<> two swains. in Ins study that overlooks the gardens at the side the old doetor is gaz- * ing wonderingly ia the light of the study lamp at the great diamond. Sulkily straying by the house, in his jealousy and anger. Blair Stanley sees the light gleaming from the study. Curious and not overnlee in his curiosity. he peers through the window. lie starts hack, clinching his hands, lie remembers now the oft whispered suspicions of his mother: "IM\ I.ee was alone with Colonel Stanley when he ^ died. Who else but he has take u and hidden :i\v;iv I lie Stanley heirloom V" The obsession of tile desire for this [irieeless Stanley heirloom ln\s been born mid bred in Wait* Stanley. lie hies nwnv. but t hut night, wlien the swains have long departed and the good doctor ami the fair Ksther have Ionjr retired to slumber, Illair Stanley returns prepared to break in and bear . away the diamond from the sky. In the library at Stanley halt tin? young heir of Stanley muses and dreams in softened mood of Kstlicr. His guitar lies near him, and he picks it up and gently strums it. In his mind's eye he sees himself serenading sweet lOsther Lee. as she is now called, and begging her gentle pardon in the moonlight should she come to her window to listen. The romantic idea suits ^ his mood. He takes the guitar and hastens again to the doctor's house. Hlnir Stanley has clambered through the study window, closed it and drawn the shade. He has softly lit the doetor's study lamp and rifled the drawer of the old secretary and the cash box it holds. He has sei/.ed the diamond from the sky and clasped It in agitated eesiaoy upon his bosom. Then upon I 1 > Som? Slight Attention Rouses Arthur's "T Jealousy. lila guilty ears fulls tlw? strain of a guitar, llo hides the dlamoiul and the chain and locket that holds It beneath I his collar and under his shirt. Meanwhile, sleeping the light slumlw?r of the aged, the old doctor has been aroused by the o(>e.iilng of the window. , Candle In hand, he descends, to hi* V study and enters Just as the last gleam from the diamond In the lamplight, la , shrouded by the shirt of the thief in the night. There is a Quick, sharp j struggle. FrenrJed with fear and eovetousness and resolved to do murder rather than lose the long coveted heirloom. Blair Stanley, maddened with fear and rage, strangles the old