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FTI SIX The Diamoi Fr i v ' f CyROYL. C( '^ righted j915, by Roy L, This instalment of this romantic novel and absorbing narrative will be shown in motion pictures at The Casino Theatre on Thursday afternoon a _ i. a. sua nignt. $10,000 For 1,000 Words or Less For on Idea For. a Sequel to "THE DIAMOND FROM THE SKY" The American Film Manufac1 luring Company's Picturized "i Romantic Novel In Chapters. 1 This contest is open to any man, | < woman or child who is not connected. win iiuiu i oil I ! I; I 111? 11V IS 11 * I 1 .XttllUI' attends In disguise, hut is later h?*t rayed by Hlair to the sheriff. By using daring horsemanship Arthur escapes Later he leaves the farm. Tom Blake, a detective hired I jy I I a gar, produces linger prints con* j victing Blair. 1 lunar proposes silence to Mrs. Stanley as the price <>f Manor's and Esther's hein.n received in Fairfax society. Blair strikes down Manor and steals the fingerprints, and money from his mother. The diamond is found hy a negro hoy and is taken hy a tramp. The latter is murdered hy Hung Li. It Is stolon Just as a humming party enters Hung Li's den. Manor, mentally unbalanced by Blair's blow, is again with Ksther among the gypsies. Marmaduke Smythe, lawyer, arrives to announce Arthur is heir to the deceased Karl of Stanley. Learning Arthur Is a fugitive he seeks Blair instead To win Vivian, Blair steals the diamond, later marrying her and lea'ving for the west. Their train Is robbed, Vivian losing the diamond, which, a slain train robber -drops in the deeert. The $luu,0u0 he stole i> found by Arthur, now known as John il'owell. sheep herder. Vivian desert* Jllair, telling him he must regain the diamond for her. Luke Lovell, driven from icamp after learning Magar's secret, tries tin vain to aell it to Mrs. Stanley, and he heaves to seek Hlair. llagar is under - treatment and Rather Is in Richmond society. protfgee of Mrs. Stanley, who sua ipects her real name., and of 14rs. Kan?Jolph. Abe Bloom, gambler, who knows Blair's guilt, covets the diamond and calls 4t the pries of his secrecy. 1 CHAPTER XXI. The Web ef Deetiny ? RAGING at Vivian. 'Marston'a cool dlamlseal of him afier ad mitt tug she had mar-led him only to galn^|MMieeeeioir of the diamond from the sky, Blair Stanley waa not wliolly pleased at receiving money from his mother in Jtlchnioud end news that he might return. , lie had half a mind uot to go l>a<-k id om the Sky McCARDEL McCARDEL to Kichmoud. t>ut he felt sure that %here was small hope of getting trace of the diamond now that it had falleu Into the elutclies of the train robbers. "Hut if Vivian gets it?and she will get it If she hears of it?and such a gem will make Its presence known." he thought?"she must send for inc. "Duly as my wife can she hope to have any claim on the Stanley heirloom. And if she will not have me without the diamond site will have lo I ..... .iiii. if directly or indirectly, with the ritm Company or the newspapers publishing the continued story. No literary ability is necessary to qualify as a contestant. , You are advised to nee 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 rnajt con- 1 fine their contributions for the sequel to 1,000 tvords or lejs. It is i the tdca that is wanted. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP- ! TERS. A fciul has existed between Colonel Ar jthur Stanley and his cousin. Jinlj;e l.ania: Stanley, over an heirloom, the diamond | from the sky. foutul in a fallen meteor b> Jtn ancestor. Also, the succession to the Stanley earldom In Knglnnd may come t'> itn American. When a daughter is horn to the colonel and the mother dies, the colonel buys a gypsy hoy and substitutes him. Three years later the gypsy mother, having had no part in this bargain, steals the girl, being reared in secret, and leaves her son undetected as the heir. The gypay has obtained possession of the diamond from the sky, and a document with the tStanley secret. When Ksther is grown a beautiful young girl, llagar, now gypsy 1 queen, returns to Virginia with her. Dr. ! J^ee. the late Colonel Stanley's friend, adopts Ksther, hut demands that liagar turn over to him the diamond from the eky. Arthur Stanley, son of llagar, falls in love with Esther anil so does his companion and cousin, Blair Stanley, rightful 1 male heir of Stanley. In stealing the ilia- j mond Blair causes the death of the doctor. Outside is Arthur serenading Ksther. HI air, escaping, infers that he lias left Ksther's room. Arthur forces him to fight a duel in which Blair is only 1 stunned. lie tries, with tlie aid of Ids mother-, to place the blame for the murder of Dr. l.ee upon Arthur, who now has the ' diamond. The sheriff attempts to take i Arthur, but lie eludes his pursuers and ! joins llagar. who reveals his identity and upbraids him for his wild life. Needing , money, he pawns the diamond in iiich- | mond. Blair is in lilchmond, and he, too. , is forced to visit tin 1 wnshop. At a ball, i iit which a suppos... New York belle is I the guest of honor, they are stunned to find the diamond on the visitor .She is , an adventuress who has borrowed it. lAike l.ovell. Ilngar's gypsy guard. Pteals tlie diamond and to avoid detection drops it into a mail box. A sheriff tries to arrest Arthur on tlie murder charge He escapes from Hichmomi on a freight train. The diamond pusses into a man hag, picked up by epiahha. organ grinder Quahha's monkey steals the diamond. Arthur seeks work at a farm, llagar i takes Ksthet to live at Stanley hall. An j Mil t v HIV" " n M 1 So Flair Stanley paid his hill at the second rate Los Angeles hotel and. tak I ing Ids valise, proceeded to the depot i to take the train hack east. He won i dered if anything had heen heard in i Kicliinond or Fairfax of the missing Arthur Stanley, the right fid heir. Me smiled as he thought of Arthur's ipiixotie nature ^n tteeing as a fugitive accused of a crime he was guiltless of t he murder of I>r. Lee. "I would like to see myself he such a fool simply heen use 1 had gone broke j through wasting my money," was | Flair's inward comment- Me had always hated his debonair supposed cousin, although he had always disguised it. Lut now his hatred was mingled witi? ?'iitetnpt. The Imiel Flair had heen stopping at was near the depot, and he was properdin;: leisurely toward the station when lie was aware that he was being followed by a hulking panhandler, lie turned and fared the fellow. It was Luke l.ovell. a gypsy that Flair had | seen sever.: I times in and around Fair- i \ T'tc psy regarded him eagerly j a ' fouche I !.is h it "It's ;t surprise to meet you here. Mr. I ?*ia:tie\." ---'ill the fellow "I am out I seeing the world; 1 am not a gy|?y any more." "No. you're a tramp now." replied ' '.la.r cootciiiptuottsly "I'll admit I have tramped." returned l t.i?\?.|l. not at till abashed "Fut 1 ' i.avc trau i ?m! to sonic good purpose. I J tave tramped a couple of thousand i niles. and now that I meet up witltj von I ran tell you t know something | you'd give a good many thousand dollars to hear, heen use it would he worth money and more than money to you if von knew it." Flair regarded the gypsy tramp with a sneer. "It is funny." lie said, "you j gypsies can tell everybody's fortune hut : your own." MJypsies sometimes tell their own fortunes, too." retorted Lovell. Then! a sudden idea seized liitu. "What a ' fool I am!" he cried. "Why. if 1 told you what I knew you'd take ad vantage ! of It. liui you'd never give me u cent.! The secret I have is one that 1 will | he paid to keep and not to tell." And j laughing sardonically the gypsy turned j upoii his heel and swaggered away. "It's <pteer what hoo'/.e will do to them." thought the cynical Flair. "It's; a wonder lie didn't try to borrow a dol- ! lur from me; I ladieve that's the price! the gypsies ask to tell a man's fortune They tell Women's fortunes cheaper." Aim lie shruuucd his shoulders and forum tin* incident in niusinu over Viv ! inn's desertion of himself and wonder iiiu how his inotlier would treat him in j Itiehinoinl. Hut while her erstwhile husband is traveling toward Hiehuiond the viva-| cioiis Vivian, installed luxuriously at ' tlie best hotel, has wired her friend. Mr Abraham Hloom, that she Is in Los Auireles and, haviuu ~?d rid of lilair Stanley, hopes to find some trace of the diamond from the sky. of course she has telegraphed for funds to Mr. Hloom as well. In din- time she receives an answer iiiU message. Mr. Hloom gallantly no-I lilies her that lie is telourapiling her Sothi and that lie expects her to stayin the far west, in the big eities near1 where the train robbery was committed. for the purpose of locating 'he r ! < ? I f liiU'nl wlii/O. \ I .. Ill" 1 - v .. , j? .1 v I 1. I IV II .III. I IIIIUIII IS UlMUr- | j mined lo possess. In I'it'lliMrs. Stanley still maintains her attitude of kindly interest in r. titer. Mrs. Randolph is overjoyed to have a protect; of Rather* s dlstllic| 'ion of appearance and youth. While llagitr is placed in a supltar- j 111:1 malcr the l?cst of care Rather feeds that she has at last found friends in ler loneliness, and she keeps up a good lean in the hope that her foster 1110th r will he restored to reason. Often lie appeals to the doctors to save her not Iter's reason. . v She hopes also Arlhni4 will return :1111 he cleared from the suspicion of milt that attache* to hint since his iiuht under the accusation of Ixdug he murderer of her guardian. Or. Lee. >*iit Rather little dreams that the ah.ts of thought and the cold atuhi* on of a lifetime are not- easily hanged. Itlulr Stanley's mother, in mm* austere way. has been kind to 1st her. It Is true, and the frlvolout !r?. Uaudftlpli is kind, ami also genrotis Km Mr*. Randolph i* only a tool In n? ir^nd* of hop rtflntlve. Mr*. Stnn\v. *1 lit! ICtMher hut the riefltlnetl vie,'m ??f itliilr'x mother's secret |>itr|H?A?. l'lic one pen I friend thut Bstlier hat | BMum v. >'- v * 'ii . IP, . 1 - -, , /- _2?_-_^s?y i Esther and Hagar, Her Insane Foster j Mother. iu Richmond is Quabbn. Both he and Esther have realized It will not do for the humble hunchback organ grinder to be seen in proximity to the young girl, Mrs. Randolph's latest protege, "being introduced into the best circles | of Richmond." as that social light of j the old southern capital would have phrased !t. But every day at a certain hour Quabbn goes by the Randolph house., up the quiet side street. Fie does not i pause to play his vulgar tunes in sucli: hallowed precincts. lie slips quietly O. .1.- i ... t.1^. um i/Miin i? ? i uu? \> iiiii'j?v or nor room each day to see him pass, ami they have arranged * signal should ever Kstlnir need this humble, faith fill friend. The signal is a vase of roses. When this is placed upon the window sill QuabLm knows it is a sign that Ksther 1 needs him, ami day by day ho passes i and is relieved to see that the signal is not displayed and all is well. Ksther, for the sake of the absent Arthur, on whom her thoughts constantly dwell, has carefully hidden the documents at Stanley hall that she \ found in Hagar's strong box. She has said no word to those around her that would Indicate she deems herself to bo other than the gypsy daughter of the mentally elouded gypsy woman whom the surgeons of Richmond hope to restore to reason such time as she i; m t M ?1^1 Esther In Richmond Society. is in < omlit i > 11 for the perilous opera-! tIon that will lie necessary to ell'ect I his. 1 >111 Kstlier knows she is a Stanley of Stanley hall. It does not lessen her alTeetioa for the a filleted gypsy woman she has known as her mother. Kstlier does not oven attempt to .indue the motives that actuated Ilaguri Hording in revenue for having been deprived of her own child, who was' reared as heir of Stanley, while she, Kstlier. the true Stanley, though a girl! and heir to no great title beyond the sen, was brought up in the tawdry surroundings of a gypsy camp. Rut: the thought that ahe la a Stanley of j Stanley hall, though it Ih? not known, nor acknowledged, brings m glow of j pride and courage to leather's heart. She attribute* Mrs. Stanley'* auddea; and substantial kindneee to her to the run mat mm, 5*iuiley tui? mora than' * ?ua|ii(.'l4in of who hIi* rightly la. But *he Mint It In I ra a mother have tacitly ignored the mutter. Katber enly kuowa that her lore for Arthur' la greater than her pride at being a Stanley of Stanley hull. She would rather arm her heart with ! patience and let event* ahape theiueel vet aa a happy fate will decree, ahe hopea. Her dreams and hope* are all to one i lld, cohway, s 0. end, and that ft that Arthur will return, all auaptclon removed, and take bis place as heir to Stanley. She docs not know how to reconcile this hope and dream with Mrs. Stanley's attitude. But at present Mrs. Stnuley's attitude Is kind, and Esther waits, possessing her soul with patience aud her heart with hopes and dreams. Marmaduke Smythe. the English lawyer, has given up his search for the heir to the Stanley earldoui iu disgust. He lias left the matter iu the hands of Detective Tom Blake and departed for England. In his last Interview with Detective Blake Smythe stated his opinion of Yankees generally and the Yankee Stanleys In particular. "I can conscientiously say that 1 do t !\i\l 1*? ?! t ????? * -- ^ *1.' A nvi tut? viiiimit' ui iiiin ruiuiirj' is conducive to a titled aristocracy. Even the so called landed gentry are a queer lot," said Lawyer Sm.vthe. "When 1 was here eighteen years ago to verify the birth of the Yankee heir to the earldom I was in danger of tuy life, I assure you. "1 had hardly returned to England when 1 learned of Colonel Stanley dropping dead and Judge Stanley being shot or tomahawked in the mountains by natives, whether relatives or savage redskins or a blackamoor tribe nobody will ever know. For my part I shall return to England and look after the estates, and If this young Arthur Stanley is caught and hanged for murdering Dr. Lee. whom 1 remember as a rather decent old cba}>. why. the nest of kin, who is also a ticket of leave man or something of that sort, can come over and ciaim the earldom. "As for this diamond from the sky. so called. 1 believe it is ail a hosw I am going back to England and look through the archives at Stanley castle with the hope of establishing a blood lino in Knjdand Hint may ^ot tlio liouso of lords to acknowledge its claim to t ho oarldom and out out those bloodthirsty Yankee Stanleys and their blooming bijr diamond!" CHAPTER XXII. To Seek Her Loverl WTIKN Blair returned to Klchinouil his mother received him with remarkable corf dintity. considering the conditions under which lie had left both Fairfax and Richmond. Abe Bloom, the ^aniblin^: house keeper, and his brother, Ike Bb*:>in. the pawnbroker received him wilh a cold, husinessiike indifference. which was rather strange when it was remembered what both those j^entleinen had endured at the hands of Blair. Hut both the Rlooms were so obsess ed with the desire to secure the diamond for their own at any cost that they had casually remarked they were glad to see liim and to "let bygones be bygones." Blair's mother had only shown one touch of bitterness in her conversation with him alone upon his return. This wus \viicii she had informed him that tiic* price of the silence of the two dooms and the detective. T0111 Blake, hail been her written agreement, which Blair must sign also, that the diamond from the sky must he relinquished to the Blooms if it ever came into the possession, legally or otherwise, of Blair Stanley cm* his mother. As for Tom Blake, the dote live, he seemed to have no scruples one way or the other, hut kept Itis own counsel and worked diligently and silently for his clients, ami them alone. It did not seem to occur to the detective?at least, he gave^io sign that it did?that lie was compounding a felony in suppressing (lie evidence he had secured, which undoubtedly fastened the guilt of I Jr. Lee's murder on Blair. Mrs. Stanley had dismissed Vivian Marston froui the matter by simply stating to Blair that Abe Bloom had informed her that the vivacious individual in question had one. if not several, previous husbands prior to her marriage lo Blair. "The minister who married you to that creature lias moved away from Richmond." said Blair's mother. "There are reasons not necessary to intrust to you that make It desirable that you should marry list her Harding," Mrs. Stanley had added. And Blair looked upon Kstlier and saw that she was fair. and. while his infatuation for Vivian was still strong, his unscrupulous mind dwelt with pleasure upon the thought thai if lie married Ksther the fact might arouse the Jealousy of Vivian. If Vivian was a married woman, married other than to him. what would it matter if he married Ksthcr? So Blair paid court to Ksthcr. Sjueli were the thread* in the web of destiny thai wore being woven around Ksther in Richmond. Abe Bloom wove for the diamond from the sky. In far Los Angeles his agent, the luxurious Vivian Marston. wove also for the diamond, but for herself. Perhaps Mr. Bloom surmised this, but if so he deemed he had the means that held her at his mercy. Mrs. Stanley wove her well for some deep purpose of her own, deeper now than it ever had been. If she *usplcloncd Arthur's claims to the Stanley heritages the earldom in Kugland and the great diamond, so strangely missing, hi America, were null and old, she *ald ii(? word. Blair thought only of Ids own desire*. him.1 so he wove also. Am for loeteetire Tom Blake, he helped the wear Inf. too, but whether he wove for Bloom or for Blair or for Blair'a mother or for himaelt only Torn Blake knew. . a In the far went a sheep herder who caYled himself John Powell hn<l found an outlaw's stolon plunder under the iJHH^SIIk ^HMnjBXMi^^^^Hjflf ^^HHHKP^HEmhF Luke Lovell Was Thrown From the Train. ' skeleton of a horse in the desert. Few who knew Arthur Stanley, the Unlit and reek I crm young master of Stanley hall, near Fairfax. Va? would have recognised in this h'ron/.ed and shahhy sheep herder the dashing scupegruco who had boon suspected of murder. Hut John Powell no Ioniser thought of himself as Arthur Stanley. Ills cheeks burned with shame at the recollection of all the years he Inid mpniti: tiered a heritage not his. He was a K.vpsy ohaipfolinjn and impostor. Hack In Fairfax, let theiu think him a fugitive murderer. If the.v olioKe. lie ; would hide Ills time and return a rich : tuan. stand Ills trial, and. without luii plica lint: Itliitr. lie cleared. He felt an | fl'.ldi'tl shame as he thought of Hlnir Had as Hlitir was. iu?. John Howell. ; Arthur Stanley that had heen. had ' usurped his place. Hlair was the rightful heir of Stanley, lie. as John Howell. would make a name and fortune for himself, and P.lalr nil in trood time ; ini^r111 have the Stanley earldom and the diamond from the sky. And then John Howell's thoughts would turn to Ksther. Was she Ids sister. or was she. too. a chanxcliiiK? He thought of linear and his heart hardened. She was his inotlier. hut she had wrought hitterness and woe. John Howell carefully laid out his plans. He hid the outlaw treasure beneath some sheltering rocks in the des, ert. He took hut a few hundred dollars of t!|r.' money, ile hided his time in patience until the hue and cry after such of the train rohhers as had escaped with their lives had died down. It was thought the survivors had gotten awa\ with tlit* plunder. Only the finder knew this plunder had fallen under a dylnj: Imrse in the desert. John Howell resolved he would relinquish his employment as an ill paid John Powell Regards the Wretch With Cold Scorn. ! sheep herder in the next month and take the stolen treasure with him and make it the capital on which to found ! a great fortune in ttie hustling west. : He salved his conscience with the 1 thought that when lie had built up John'Powell's vast fortune he would return the stolen money to the express company anonyuiously. Meanwhile Luke Lovell journeys eastward again. Hut he cannot travel as Blair Stanley and ot her fort una tes with money travel. Luke Lovell returns by freight. But in the de-sert the trainmen throw him from his place on tlie bumpers and mock him as. bruised and sore, lie rises in the desert dust to curse them as the freight train hears them on. Down the endless miles of railroad track. across the dusty desert, he staggers. itlimlcd by the sun. choking and burtilug wit'll thirst and half delirious, , be stumbles from the track and makes hia way, fevered with delirium, across the trackless desert. Then by a low growing mass of cacti something gleams before his aching eyes, gieauis and Oaazle* him. is it a vagary of his thirst madness, or is K the diamond from ths sky, a fortune within hie grasp? Jfe lure ties forward and snatches u|i i the diamond from whers ths train role . ber in his death agony from tiie pur HMiing ixMse's rifle bullets had caat It! But Just as bis grimy 'hand closes ujiou the great jewel a brown lanes striken him. In the ringing of the fetter In his brain be has not heard ths i warning rattle of death guarding th? i I diamond. !*?ut even In Ills delirium the fevered intiln of Luke l.ovell know* In* I lirusi of I ho brown lance. A rattlesnake lets bitten him! Withhoarse sci'vaui of despair ho confe \ ulslvely throws up his hands. The diamond tllos from his iiorvoless gra*p and sottlos again in tho dust of the* desert twenty feet away. uu<l Luke l.ovell pitches forward on his face in Ids agony, giving himself up as dead. I So. half oonsclotis. John Powell* I sheep herder, tiuds him. and so John I Powell hears him to Ids lonely cump* II tire and sueeors and restores hi in. l.ovell Is al>le to moon his fortunately his rescuer has a flask of MM whisky and a canteen of water. He< I doses the luilf conscious Luke. and. whether tlie wliisky or whether the sturdy constitution of the gypsy Is to he credited I.uke l.ovell is brought II hack from the jaws of death. It Is a strange fate, the gypsy thinks.. when he can think coherently, that It has been Ids .destiny to meet the real and the usurping heir of Stanley uiul to clutch again the priceless Stnul?V heirloom, tlie diamond from the sky. lie laughs sardonically and theu tells Arthur, whom lie now recognizes aslie recognized Itlnlr Stanley, that just a row tinys since he lias met up with the latter In Los Angeles. "1 don't know what be had run away I for." growled Luke, "but whatever It was It had been aquarud, for 1 found' out he was going back to ttlchfnon^l Hut now thai you have saved uiy lifjIn this (jod forsaken desert I'll do you a favor?a big favor. I know something tllflt the other Stanleys wumd^ I give all they have to know. What | you give me it I don't tell thein what I know? Vou didn't kill that old doetor. and 1 know that someday you aregoing buck. What will you give me to\ ^^9 keep my month shut V" John Powell regards with cold* I scorn the wretch who ihus requites him. lie knows what Luke would tell ' him. .lust at this time John Powell desires to buy the silence of the trencherous ami ungrateful gypsy. ' ^ "1 have that 1 have saved." is / .liilin I 'OU IIH'C I'niil i- "l .......... .1.. ^ | .. .... ?? t 11*7 * L' I llf sire to ho known au'Min as Arthur StanIcy. But I linvo reasons why I do not wis!) the secret you possess to ho spread broadcast for the present. Yo.u/ are all ri^ht now. Take this money and pi io ihe devil with it! But wllctll- fl or I killed l)r. Loo or not. 1 will kill you if you over say one word of what you know. One tiling more. Who told H| "linear llut'ding." lied Luke Lovell B glibly. Then, seeing an incredulous BB look in the other's eyes, he added sue- BB Illy: "Mauar's gone daffy: that's why B she tohl me. Hut she don't talk to any-^ hotly now. and I know didn't toll anybody else. They wou.u only think she was raving if she tlitl. .Mrs. StanI ley has taken Iter to IlichlUOtld to mi B asylum. .Mi's Stanley has the irirl * list her with her. Tlu-y are at Mrs. IH J(ando!ph's. w here the ball was,'' adds .joint row oil breathed a sigh of relief Then all Is \vol| with Kstlier at^ least. lie does not question Lovcll I further. realizing if l.ovcii knew might I concerning Ksther the g.vpsy would I have hluriod it out And so Luke Lovcll, K.vpsy blackmailer, and John Powell, sheep her- I dor. part. Put as the gypsy goes across the <1 ?sert to the ucares^ desert town and railroad station lie searches, ever sea relies, lor the diamonl from ^B the sky. lie has not told John Pow- i I oil of tlio diamond. Kven now li*? I half believes that it was lait a figment of his h ?at ora'/.ed brain. H Some tulles across the desert travels I a desert Indian faudly. They have H two horses. One the buck rides at Ids H ease, and (lie oilier drags a travois? I the two rude poles fastened to the ? I Iiorse, the ends of whlcli drag across H t ho desert, and lashed to the polos are * H the Indian's goods and chattels. 'fl PesUU t he t ravols t rudges t lie squaw*. V H On her hack her papoose sleeps, strap- H pod to its hoard. in tho sun. H Across tho desert tho Ira vols scratch- I os its way. Tho o.vos of tho squaw 1 fall upon tli?* fresh tracks that if makes. A little spray of sand sprinklos over something that glistens jH brightly in tho sun. Tito sqtinw stoops ,k. down and pithors up the diamond from the sky and wtlkos her papoose to fl shake the now found gleaming trinket I plaything before its beady eyes. I So the days pass in Virginia and California alike. John Powell oca sen I to l>e a sheep herder, and. ttlkltlg With I him nearly $100,000 cash in his hat- I tcrcd old valise. Unknown to any man. I he bids good by to Ids friends at the t I sb<s?l> ranch, ami pausing only in Eos I Angeles to buy a becoming outfit of I business clothes. he goes to tho nd.ja- I cent oil liehls to. as lie says to himself grimly, buy himself rich! He Writes to Esther, guardedly and without signature, from I,os Angeles. The letter reaches Esther in the nick of time. Mrs.' Randolph's maid gives it to her, informing her that Mrs. Stan- ] it-j ii?? iwiumi oruers nuu ir any lot tor should come to Knitter that it 1k? detivoro<! to Mrs. Stanley first. The persecutions of Rlalr Stanley have become Intolerable, and when Esther has gone defiantly to Blair's mother Mrs. Stanley has taunted her with the cruel retort that she (Rather) Is a IteKKttr on the bounty of the toother of the man who honors her with an offer of marriage. . ( Furtlier. Mrs. Stanley lolly remtnda ^ Esther that since Hagnr lias lost her reason no trace of the suppoaed w ealth , of linear can be found. The operation necessary to restore Ilagar's mind \vW eoet $1,000. If Rather accepts Blatr, Mrs. Stanley Informs her. this money will be forthcoming, and the operatWm will 1* |?erformed. It is on the point of Esther's tongue ^ I