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Ai The Diamoi ^ P i Ff I t Copyrighte /1915, by Roy i, This instalment of this romantic novel and absorbing narrative will be shown in motion pictures at The Casino Theatre on Thursday afternoon and night. j $10,000 For 1,000 Words or Less ]' For an Idea For a Sequel to "THE DIAMOND FROM ! THE SKY" ! The American Film Manufac- i taring Company's Ficiurized Romantic Novel In Chapters. i This contest is open to any man, woman or child who is not connected. directly or indirectly, with the I'ihn Company or the newspapers publishing the continued story. No literary ability is necessary to qualify as a contestant. You arc advised to see the continued photo play in the (heaters where it v.* I be shown to read the story as it runs every week, and then send in you,* i suggestion. Contestants must eonfine their contributions for the sequel to 1,000 Woras or iess. it is ' the ;acu that is wanted. ' j j SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP- j TF.RS. A ICll,1 liar? bell, edi Colonel A;' ' thur Stanley and Ids couiiti, Ju'lynj i. '.u Stanley, over an ln'.rlon.a, H e di..:,!o:i?! I , from the sky, jv ;i 1 P' '? meteor by nn ancestor. Aiso, the succession to the ' Stanley earldom in ihigland may em in? . ?ni American. Wheq a daughter is born j to the colonel ar.,1 the mother the colonel bu\ # a j;ypyy boy ai.d substitutes 1 , him. Three years later the Kyp'.v iiioHnr, liuvinq had m? part in tins han, :1a!- ' ( the Kiel, beitiK reared in aeei et, ar.it leaves ; her son l_;vdct"C,.Cd as the liolr. Tl.n cvii Jt} litis Ol'Ui.Kil 3SiOll of gpO diamond from the sky, ami a d leume.Tt with the Stanley secret. When Ksther is grown a beautiful young girl, llagar, now gypsy i queen, returns to Virginia with her. Dr. 1 *ee, the Jute t.'olonel Stanley's friend, nil pis Vlstiier, but demands that liagar ' turn over to hi.n the diain.n.o from the i sky. Althui Stanley, son ot 11 agar, falls in love with liMis?-r ami so dues Ins com ^aaTon i. '1 ' "j I'le if St-h' >y ( male la ir of fAmilcy. Tn stealing t'no diamond Blair canM-s the death of the docTor and tries: hit- r to put the blnnuj on . Aitl ur. uiiu taT.es the diamond from him. * Hlnir, escaping, infers that he has left Ks liter's room. Arthur forces him to light a duel in which Blair is only jHtunrud. 'I .?. sheriff attempts to take, | Arthur, but lie eludes his pursuers and joins 1 lagar, who reveals his identity and upbraids him for his wild life. Needing ' money, he pawns the diamond in Richmond. At a hall. :it whieli si Kimiw.vr.il Now York bello, Vivian Marston, is thy guest of honor.. Ar ami Blair llmi lite 1 diamond on lite sir 1 She is an adventurers why litis bor .oed it. V l.uke LovUl, lfagnt's gypsy guard, teals iho diamond, and to avoid detection drops it into a mail box. A sheriff lues to urrcftt Arthur on the murder charge, lie escapes from Richmond ami goes to tlie west. The diamond passes into a mail , bag, picked np by Quubba, organ grinder. Quabba's monkey stetils the diamond llagar takes Kstltcr to li\o at Stanley! ( hall. ! ^uj'ont Blake, a detective of Richmond, who is hired by I Uigur, produc es fingi r prints convicting Itlair lie gar proposes | silence to .Mrs Stanley a.- the price o? 11a gar's ami Kstlu r's being i tccivt'd in Fairfax soeiety. Bluir strikes down 1 lapar and steals the lingi r prints, leas ing the gypsy di nicnted. The diamond is found by a negro boy and is taken by a 1 tramp. The latter is murdered by llung J?i. it is stoh n just as a slumming party titters llung l.i's den. linear Is a:4ain with l>t''i\" nntoty: the ttopsins Mania- t duke Srny 1 ic, lawyer, arrives to announce , Arthur is In * to the deceased Karl of filanloy. Learning Arthur is a fugitive ho seeks Blair instead. To win Vivian, Blair teals the diamond, later marrying iter ami leaving for the west. Their train Is robbed, Vivian losing the diamond, which a slain train robber drops in the desert. The SlOUJiOO lie stole Is found by Arthur, flow known as John Powell, sheep herder. Vivian deserts Blair, telling him he must regain the diamond for her. Luke IxjvcII, driven from the camp after learning Iluftar's secret^ leaves to seek Blair, llagar W> under treatment and Ksther is In I|i< dimond society^ protege of Mrs. Stanley, who suspecis "her real name, and of, Mrs. Randolph. A he Bloom, gambler, who knows Blair's guilt, covets the diamond and calls It the price of Ills secrecy. lilalr will not listen to Novell, and Arthur also Insists on hi* silence. lilalr returns to lUchmopd and, instigated by his mother, i pays unwelcome court to Ksther, Mm. Stanley asserting Vivian had been married before. The diamond is picked tip by an Indian woman. Kstltcr, resolving to llnd Arthur, leaves ltichmond with Quabba as attendant. - j CHAPTER XXIII. ' To:the-Highest Bidder." Till'/ impulses of youth arc gencrops. >i'ot for liitrtsclf alone (lid he w ho had been known as \ Arthur,Stanley of Stanley hall, , Virginia, dream,his dreams of wealth ?i*d power, 'as John Powell. Call for 1 mjIh millionaire to he, True, the factor j of vanity, especially strong when life ! la young, actuated him in purl, lie hud i id hi the Sky McCARDEL M:CARDEL left the proud, old countryside of Fair | fax. where. as master of Stanley hall, i lie had lieen an aristocrat of aristocrats, a fugitive accused of tuurder. He hud felt no shame at (Ids. for he knew, his own innocence and knew it could he proved. i Hut the deeper shame that had driv-? en him to this desperate course was. the slinnic at the 11m?iiii111 lli.it his life! had been a living lie. lit' was not a' Stanley of Stanley lut 11. proud ludr of an earldom and the diamond from the shy. Ho was n gypsy ehangeihig. an impo*- ! tor! This had boon through 110 fault ! of his. hut it was his fault that ho I had waited the fair heritage of Stanley hall, a heritage not his. and had left it bankrupt. He had stood and he still stood usurping Blair's heirship to all } these things. It was perhaps vanity, and a natural one. that inspired Arthur's resolve to return to Virginia rh h in his own right. ' tell the truth, the whole truth, snaring If lair from lite conseipioneos of being responsible for the sudden death of Dr. Lee. For Blair had assured him thiH had ! been the etTeet of sudden exeitemenc /k%? ..l.i . - II .in inn iii.iii s weuKcneu nenrt. , when tlit* kind i?ut irascible doctor, alone with lllair in his study, had (pintruled wiili the younuer man over the diamond from the sky. 'J he impulses of youth are jtenerous. Laying aside even his plans for his Inlure lea ii/.n I ion of power and J list ration. Arthur's ilrst ilumuht was tc? ! employ the means he had. at hand in the liudina of the Main i rubers' stolen ! plunder, to aid listher and his u.\ p<y mother. bitter and cruel as the latter had heeli to him. Then he would save Stanley hall, the pfeud old place his prodiaa lit; had. imperiled. from the hand- o. arivuy st t" U'uvs. ? Y> liom should he employ as ii'.-. trust- 1 L'tl nuciii in these matters': lie thought of tile t a e | J v : pisey' ' ' ? Tp.d i Blake, the liiviio.onu ocUtii\<>. Ar ' i l. ? * mm- remcmuercit \ i\ i?lly 1m v, ; t a I look from Ilagar. Make had <1<-Ti'iy , nidod 11im in escaping from the sheriff of Fairfax and tin* police of Kidnnond lu tlie exciting encounter at Mrs. Kan ' dolph'.s l.?aII. Arthur resolved to trust Pdake ^ Reaching Los Angeles with the outlaw loot. Mie tirst thing Arthur did was to wire the Kichmond detective in a guarded message, lie received a reply! in a few hours, which read: t "Know you are all rijivl. Will act i for you in conlideiice. Trust me fully." i Then it was that Arthur wired ample, funds and instituted Pdake to secretly' guarantee all expenses for 11 a.gar's treatment at the sanitarium, it respective of what Mrs. Stanley might do. for Arthur had all particulars in brief hy wire from Itluko. From Flake 11e also learned that Fsliter was seemingly in good ha mis with Mrs. Stanley at Mrs. Kaudolph's man-j sion in Richmond. ami from the same source lie learned that Stanley hall, in the due course of the bankruptcy proceedings against the missing Arthur Stanley, was to he sold to the , highest bidder. Of the money, some hundred thou sand dollars, he had found under the skeleton of the horse in the desert, Arthur placed S'Jo.um by wire at the disposal of lilako in Richmond with instructions to hid in Stanley hull at nil hazards, ami if more money were necessary more won! i he forthcoming. He could save Stanley hall from strangers ai d aid Rslher aim his gypsy mother, both penniless and on the bounty of strangers, since 11 agar, in her mental inliiinity from tin* blow thai none knew itliiir bad dealt ber, had no means of telling where her supposed wealth was hidden. Rut it was a hitler thought to Arthur that even in this lie was using means not rightfully his. As the spend! Iirift heir of Stanley hall he had unwittingly been an impostor and a cheat. And now, even in seeretly coming to the rescue to save Stanley liall from viiiiimci's or to aid Esther ami liagar. ho whs using stolon money. An awakening to higher ideals hail <i)!ijo to Arthur, and those reflections were hitter ones, lie hoped good might mine out of evil and resolved to make every effort to found his own fortune ami refund with interest. With list her the impulses of her fair young womanhood were more than generous; they were loving and self saerilhlng. She knew she was rightful heir of Stauley hall, even though hy a evident of sex no titled honors n ?ro:ui could come to tier. Hut Iier Idrtbright was a proiul heritage. Yet for tlio sake of Arthur, a fugitive, and Ha gar. a crazed gypsy wocuan, who fi:id done tier a wrong In permitting Arthur to. <1 well as master at Stanley li li. while she, the true Stanley, was roared among the rutle Romany, aho wouhl keep silent. , v The lender heart of Ksther waa peri'?eated only with loving kindness for the afflicted ttngar and the reckless, handsome gypsy son who had niasque rtlta! as tlie rightful master of Stan THE HORRY HER hi 1 I | f * ;v | I .7. At the Door of the Sanitarium ley hall. Rxeept for the humble help of the poor hunehback, Quabbn, Ksther was j now alone surrounded by eohl heart oil S' heiners, save perhaps the light brain ed ami frivolous society leader. Mrs Itandolph. So when the persecution"' v?f the returned ne'er do well. 1?!::ir Stanley, had become unbearable, and when his austere mother dropped the mask of kindliness and held over: Kst iter's head the threat le.gardin;: llagar. Rslher had tied. She lied with fjuabba. s? ehing Arthur, hoping, trust in^r. believing Arthur would be her help I'or his sake she kept silent, though she had proofs hidden at Stanley hull | of who and what she was?Rvther Stanley, not Harding. No daughter of a maddened, dependent gypsy woman was she. St) I-'sther's impulses, loving and self saerith-ing. led her first to where llagat . ^ ^ ^ I A Gleam of Recognition In Hagar's Eyes was. It was Into on the night of hot' tlight w I ton Kslher arrived ;tt tin? private snnitnrium. A long olonU con-J oealed the plain attire in which she had ela inhered down the vinos in the moonlight from her room in the Pan(iolph mnnsion ami joined the faithful tjuahlia wailing helow. Outside (ho sanitarium she handed to tjiiahtia the gypsy headdress she i had donned for her llight, and, while < i.... il... i .. ..I 1 - * - viniDim iiii ktu ;n n ciisiaiioo, she run}, ilu* bell at tin* door (if the sanitarium and whs mini it tod. She had doffed the ; eloak. for the night was warm, tint donned it ligMti. In her cloak with her curls nlxuit heH pretty head she seeuied to the superintendent simply tlie Miss Harding lie knew as visiting the well known soeieiy loader of Richmond, Mrs. Kan-1 lolph, and whose mother was under) treatment for mental trouble hero. "I am en I led suddenly from ltlohinond." I'Nther explained to the house surgeon. "You will pardon tho lateness of my call, but 1 want to see my mother ere 1 leave the city." At first tho head of the Institution made polite efforts to deny her request. Rut he was not proof against the agitated Kattier's pathetic appeals. "Under ordinary circumstances, Mtas ALD. CONWAY, S. 0. Harding." said the house surgeon. "I could not let you see u patleut at this hour. Hut I have good news for you. Your mother shows signs of Improvemeiit. ami If you <lo not excite her It may do no liartu to let you see her. I can also let out a hope? mind. 1 do not promise this?that In time, with rest and quiet, she will completely recover. and an operation will not he needed. So kind was his manner that list her could no longer restrain herself. She hrlctly told the surgeon that conditions wore such she was compelled to re move herself froiu being under further obligations to Mrs. Stanley and the tatter's relative, the more kindly Mrs i..1.0. *?\?wi|r i|. ?! "1 am ?lt?.vj: to seek a friend." said ttsther, "a friend who ha* every reason to assume all responsibilities for all eli a ryes the treatment ot' n\y mother1 ineurs. 1 al*o pledge myself person ; ally to this. j ''Will you see that even if Mrs. Stan-1 ley withdraws her aid that m<r mother' , 1* not taken from here, that she will' I i Continue lo receive the benefit of the treatment whhdi will, as you believe ^ and i truly hope, lesuu'e Iter rea on 7" I The head xuryeon regarded ttsther with a look of sympathy, "S? t your initio al ease. Mhs Ward , ing." he said quietly "An unknown friend, and I am not at liberty to yive j even the name of Ihe ayent of this mi- . known friend, has guaranteed all tlinn- 1 ehtl respate-ibility for your mother's | expenses and treatment here. I am i authorized to return to Mrs. Sffluley I ! what she has paid oul for your moth- f ' or. Resides this, were Ir otherwise, i the case is so interesting and has re-I I spondcd so well to treatment without [ i operation that wo would ho incline*)' to , consider It worthy of our attention i without recompense." It was with a :/lad heart that Ksther received this cheerina inforination. and it was with an oven aladder one she hohold linear and noted a aleani of recognition itt those eyes so lonjj vacant and inexpressive. I CHAPTER XXIV. Arthur Strikes It Rich. 5^^^* dear." I la a a r liat! mur i .. i i . i i... i .1.1 tiihiM'd i .^t tiri tioti iwivt is) her in her .arms; "1 know who you afe. hut I jtlst cannot remember now. Maybe tonior- j row 1 wiil remember. They h>oi. my I boy away; thev put a meat jewel on his breast. 1 remember that, and I remember you came ami were my j baby in bis place. i will remember ! tomorrow. i a n tired tu?w. but kis> tne. dear child, for I see by your eyes ' you love me. and 1 wiil remember tomorrow who you are." "She will not leniember you Minor row," whispered the kindly house sur goon as Ue led I lie weeping Kslliet away. "It may le many mouths lu? fore she remembers you. Mel* ery will he -low, hut 1 feel iliut i van] assure ymi that In the end it will be complete." ' jt was with a Imjeo'iil heart and feeling lewlute for her adventuring in search of Arthur that Ksther hid ad en to the kindly head of the sanitarium and rejoined (Jttahha. who. with his own personal attendant. ('larcncc. the monkey, waited for her in the shadows 1%' the street, and. trudging side' hy side. the girl and the? httiiehhaek,, the latter eairying tlie sleeping moil- ' key and a small handle of Ksther's hastily packed belongings, took their way from elty streets to eountry lanes, while on them gleamed the light of the myriads of diamonds in the sky. She was happy. She felt, sure that Arthur prospered in far California and, was the unknown friend. - ; Vlsilier le.d oi i! v Wit own Mint with I he clouding of Hagar's mind after her visit to the house of Mrs. Stan-! ley in Fairfax no trace of anv wealth or means that linear supposedly had. been possessed of could he fointd. Save for a modest sum of money on her person when she returned to Stanley hall. II agar, it was ascertained, hail no further funds thai could he found. In the sudden journey taken to Richmond and in the events that followed! after linear had heen plaeed in the; sanitarium and Blair had returned to persecute list Iter, abetted by his mother. list her had kept no heed of the conditions that so vitally affected Stanley hall. IIaga?' had leased It. hut the} property. ru.TVd by Arthur's profligacy, was to he sold in bankruptcy proceed- i lug*. j Ksther had not been aware that this Impended. The morning following her! llight, however, Mrs. Stanley received! from Fairfax a letter from the referee in bankruptcy informing her. as a party concerned, of the scheduled sale of Stanley hall witldn a few days. As a party concerned. Lawyer j Smythe, representing the Fnglisli Stan- j leys, received a like notice as he was i on the point of departing to Flightnd, I <HSgUM|c<l Willi .MlloriOll III gCllOini 1111(1 the erratic mill, us lu> thought, criminal | "Yankee" Stanleys in particular. But j lie (.loomed his duty called hint to tliei sale. When Mrs. Randolph's maid an- j nounccd that Fsther's room was In di* j order, her bed uot slept iu and that Esther was gone, Mrs. Randolph promptly had an attack of nerves, while Blair raged and t'mncd. Mrs. Stanley alone remained cool hi tljc face of this surprising news. "She has no friends and no money,", said Mrs. Stanley calmly; "she will not go far We will find her back, here or with iier gypsy friends before loug." "The next thing.", continued Mrs. St ah ley, "is to run down .to Fairfax for this sale. I know of uo-one in Fairfax with the means to .purchase ! tbe place. If your father ouly could have lived to see the day he could have ' bought, iu Stanley hall, home of his enemy, ?it a bankrupt sale he would I have been a happy 'nun. Tlu* place : will for a son;:. ;i! 1 shall lus.v it." All Fairfax turned <?ut at the auction sale of Stanley hall. The oM arista 1 ri Jfist He Aimed His Gun at the T rophy. orals onnm to sigh over the vanishing vrlory of rlio old regime. I tut t'o the poor whites ami the euroloss colored ito]uilailou it was a t'ote day add a free picnic l>??g lights and the prosen of the cct ontrlc Knjrlixh lawyer, MarinaduUc Suiythe. enlivened I he proceedings. As no purchaser of (ho whole had conic forward. the auctioneer w :i >; pre-I pared to sell (he historic and proud old place and all the line, old furnishlvys it contained, in separate lots. Pictures, ornaments, ruys had hoen I?i*?ttiirl11 out upon the hroad piax/.a t<? ivntke tho i au? tioneer's work the easier. I Anient; nil these f? udshlngs ami | chattels not h in:; so took the eye of the llnulisii lawyer as a line mounted deer head that he was informed had heeii at Stanley hail for over a century. in fact, none knew lew old ii was. To the lawyer ahoe.t to return to insular Knyland from what lie ami *is friends deemed the wiids of Ameriea. noil.my appealed so milch as this. in jo*.; he aimed Ids trim at the trophy as thotly.h it had faileti to his prowess as a Nun rod. lie resolved to purchase tin* dvr head and take it to Knyland as a trophy of yood huntiny in "tlie janyles of Virginia." At his ivouest it was put up as lirst thinjr to he sold, and lie |,?"uylit it. The jokes and uioekery of ) Vivian Marston Dines With an Elderly Ad mi rer. tlie crowd nettled Mnrmaduko Smy the beyoud endurance. and so, taking his purchase, he mounted his horse and awkwardly bore it away. Ue had hardly gone when Detective Blake arrived, driven over from the Fairfax depot, followed in another sta lion earrhigo by Blair Stanley and Ids mother and the agitated ? for every little lliing upset her. and she would tell you?Mrs. Handolph. Blake asked that the house and the furnishings he offered as a whole, and leuucreu an opening niu or S-.uuu. .Mrs. Stanley drew her Hps together, and Hliiir nervously lashed himself to a suppressed a nil murderous anger. The Stanleys had hot ex|>ectcd oofnipetItlve bidding. Blake admitted'acting ; for an unnamed client. Neil her Blair nor his mother dared openly alTront the interloper, as they deemed him. Itut they bid desperately to the limit of their resources only to see Stanley hall and all its furnishings, save the deer head already purchased by the English lawyer, -go for $20.(HH) to Thomas Blake, the agent of i the unknown highest bidder. They dared not vent their cold an | .M* r.pon t':t* Minf'tUfT and thatttttfoblft* I j r.:.ke. btlt Ml*. SS::it!t?y turned whii u I i (ofrent of l?Utof. cuntttUiiHiiuttH gibeft I ^ ii poor Mr*. Iluudolph. who Imp- I I potted to reumrk that her poor uofvoA I j v\r.t' shut torn I ii i *? I t tint she wniitod I ! to r'i?:i:t In ooiiaot|uolic'o Blair amK I | uta mother wont to their house In IV. ir- I j fax lid did llOt return with Mrs. UutU I > ??o!ph to 111* hmond. I Mstliof rout hod tho iiypsy rendezvous I worn and exhausted. not knowing of I the utile of Stanley hall. The irynsies I focolvod her with wild delight. Imi sh.? I only tua.ved with those sincere though; I luuiihie friend* long enough to uta^i I another unavjt'.llng acureh for Hugar'h I mis-dug hoard. I * * * * Meanwhile what of the diamond from. | l..v ..i .lie "?rv It glomus upon (he hreant of a pa-' poose nursed by its stolid mother. In (he glare of the California sunshine, outside an adobe but. I.tike I.ovoll, it is fated. Is to see uttU gain nqalathe diamond from the sky. lie }mHtaken tip with associates as had himself and has become a bootleggcr;. or i 1 ii<-it whisky peddler. With a companion of his own ilk he passes by Ihe desert Indians' hut and sees the nd t lie son a w lets found gleaming in ihe sunshine, ft papoose's plaything, ? It is only a hit of class and tinsel "it* tiie mind of the sodden, drink ernviiut: IndUui father, hesplte t!te angry ' tests of tile squaw. ihe glistening nr:lament is bartered for tin* vile wld-'.y of the eager white evu. And so lite diamond moves on v;:fl I Santa liar barn. e sort for ricli tourists, not far itwi _ *^PI ami ("Hiliter l.uke l,ovoll and bis crony I bear it. seeking a purchaser aide nA I hnv rtCv i-..in .it iii-i' ? - I * * * * * * y V Willi Arthur Stanley that wan. wfioJp? Is John Powell now, how fares it'" I IIow have Ms fort tines, tol l lilies to lie I founded on stolen means, prospered? Not well A Arthur lias fallen into the hands of ?*. j oil sharks and has invested the outlaw A I plunder In the (lootl Hope wells. The I (.'ood Hope wells have been a joke of I these oil fields I'.ut who is to waru a guileless yollli;.: ilive tor? 1/ .1 oil li I 'o well lias played 11! i III sltIi I stakes in a erooked game and has lost. H His 111< n who laughed at hi in behltul Ills haek for his siinplleity now fool for hi111. .link Wilson. Ids foreman, I seeks his despairinir voting employer I and flixls hill) in the sll*yity that is I <4? H the olliee <0' the Ho.?d Ho,V Wells. H "I ma sorry, hoss." says .laek, "hut H f I 1 i ll . - i n m 11 \ 'mi soiim'I liiii'4. 11 ?:t?* is wll 9 ill flu* lion | I to|M'. We've stl'lleU cvoit I indieal ion If you only h:ul money to I drill deeper the oil i< there. That inou e.v you sent oast would save voii!" I "It's too Into now. . I :i < k ; that money I saved something mole to uie than those I wol's." I ' I'm from Pennsylvania." says \YU- I son. "I holiovo if w? torpedoed the I oiu v.ell we'd start the oil. I know it. B ruins a we.I if the oil doesn't Ma|4s I and tt I road,\ l!to shysters are ootnhig to- I take the property away from yon he- H oatise wo didn't strike oil, and the last I |)tiv tinm i-. due. So lot's do something I <lespeiMtu. boss; let's torpedo the bitf I Joim Powell is desperate, and ho I agrees. *1 ho man of law representing I the unpaiti owners hears <4* the plan H and arrives wit 11 an iiijnnol ion. ^ I Put the desperate John Powell do- H ties law. as when ho was known as H Arthur Maniey lie doliod all ordor. The- I lawyor is hold hnoU waving tlio "scrap* | of |?:i |I hi* i 11 j unci ion. The nitro- H ri11 charg< (I torpedo is lowered to H the* I ?<?11 <?; 11 >;' tile well, tlie heavy iron H 'etomiior i> dropped. and sill run for H l iieir lives. a throh shakes the earth. H siiid the derrick rocks. Then arisct^a H geyser of niwd and a spuming fountain I <>f roaring oil ami gus! H 'J'lie hig (tooil Hope well has "COttl* I in" a gusher! John Powell is a mil- I lionalre! ^ H No such gusher lias ever been kiiowu I in tho<e llelds, as the long dry and hum despised (iood Hope becomes. No milllonaire gels rich so quickly as pop-jH|H ular young John Powell. A. His associate. Jack Wilson, wearing H impressively ids lirsl dress suit, gives him "the swcllcsl banquet with cab- H a ret trimmings" tiiat I.os Angeles lead- H ing restaurant has ever known. fl Vivian Marstoii nines with tin elder- 'fl ly admirer at this saute restaurant the H night of tlie banquet. fl I John Powell's associates toast and I praise hint for tlie pi ink and resoljjk tion that snatched victory from defeat*, H and ever Vivian's dark eyes are on the H dashing and handsome feted oil mag- H nnlc. tier elderly admirer testily en- I dtires the pangs of jealousy. H ik.? f. - -* i>111 u is noi rove <>! sudden infanta- H tion that draws the dark eyes of Vivian H Marston 1 <> the young millionaire at tin? I head of the festal hoard. Where has H she seen this lauded young favorite of I fortune before? I John Powell's secretary enters def erentially with a telegram. II has H route to the offices of ihe flood Hope I OH company. and the secretary, think lug It important. brings it to the feast. I Arthur opens it ami roads: I T'V*ther fpiwlittir departed jiprt* unknown, llugar U irtPny bettor, Houc;ht In Stanley H hall for t'-O.OOu you ?ent. Will keep ev- H ery thing uu'ct. HbAKI'i, H Esther departed for parts untyhtHvn.. H Arthur crushes the telegram lir^his nervous grasp, Mechanically he hears fl the friends that honor John Powell I chant. Jovially, "For lie's a jolly, good H fellow!" As one du/?ed lie rises and H departs with his Ivnppy. felicitating as- I sociates and is hardly aware of the H dark eyes of a luxurious woman fa*- H teried upon liltn. f H + "