The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 30, 1916, Page SIX, Image 6
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The Diamoi
Fr
By ROY L.
Copyrighted 1915, by Roy L.
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CNAF- ?
TERS.
A feud lias existed between Col ? 1 At*- |
thur Stanley and his cousin. Judge l.amur
Stanley, over an heirloom, the diamond
from the sky, lound in a fallen meteor b,v |
an ancestor. Also, tin; sut cc.o-ion t > the
Stanley earldom in Kngland may come to
an American. When a daughter is born
the coloitel and the mother dh~, the 1
colonel buys a gypsy boy and substitutes
hint. Three yea?? Dter the gypsy mother,
having had nr. part id tb's sten's
the girl, being reared la &ociv-i, and lea\oS '
Iter son undetected as the heir. Ti?c gyp- ,
sy has obtained possession of the diamond
from the <?k>. and a document with the
^Stanley secicf. W'tn Esther is grown a
ueiilitiful young girl, TTagar. now gypsy
queen, reticvs to Virginia with iter. I)r.
Lee, the Into Colonel Stanley's friend,
adopts Ksther, but demands that linger
'4 m*n A\*oi? lo 1 ? '. ? 11 t lti? <1 io nt.vti.1 ? ?"m?? !>??
|l V ? V I IV IIZIII I l?V UiaiitV'llVI I i VIII I '.IV
*ky. Arthur Stanley, son of linear, falls
"In love with Esther and so does his com.*
paniou ?.iul cousin, Blair Stanley, r'ghtfyl
male hoir of fiJianley. In stealing the din- \
mond Blair causes the death of the doc* ,
tor and tries later to put the blame on
Arthur, who takes the diamond front hint.
The sherilY attempts to take Arthur into
custody, but lie eludes his pursuers and
joins lliigur, who reveals his identity and
upbraids; him for his wild life. Needing
^ntoney, he pawns the diamond in Richmond.
At a hall, at which a supposed
New York belle, Vivian Mnrston, is tbo
guest of honor, Ai t : r and Blair find the
t diamond on the vi Site is an adventuress
who 1kih borrowed it.
Luke Lovell, liagar's gypsy guard,
steals the diamond, and to avoid detection
drops it into a tnail box. Arthur leaves
Hiihmoml and goes to the west. The diamond
passes into a mail bag, picked up
by Quabha, organ grimier, tjuabba'x
monkey steals the di tntond. llugar takes
Esther to .Stank y hall. !
, Tom Blake, a detective of Richmond,
who is hired by liagur, produces linger
prints convicting Blair. J I;.gar prop ?sc-.{
Bilenco to Mr.-. Stanley as the price of
liagar's and Esther'^ being received in '
Fairfax society. Blair strikes down liagar
and steals the linger prints, leaving
int; gypsy t? :im miimi. I lie <Mi;!l'<U)?I )>
found by m i.?Mn boy and is talma by ;;
tramp. Tin* latum Is murdered by I lung
Li. It is Htob n just as a slumming parly
'enters Hung Li's don. Ilagnr is a^aln
With Esther among the gypsies. Marmnduke
Siiiyllie. lawyer, arrives t?? announce
Arthur is heir to the deceased Karl of
Stanley. Learning Arthur is a fugitive he
seeks Blair iirdoad. To win Vivian, HI air
steals the diamond, later marrying her
and leaving for the \s<si. Their train is*
robbed, Vivian losing tin; diamond, which
a slsiin train robber drops in the desert.
The $100,000 lie stole is found by Arthur,
now known as Joint Powell, sheep herder
Vivian deserts Blair, telling hirn ho must
regain the diamond for her. Luke Lovell,
driven front the camp after learning lfaKar's
secret, leaves to seek Blair. Hagar
Is under treatment and Esther is in
Richmond society, protege of Mrs. Stanley,
who suspeets her real name, and of
Mrs. Randolph. Abo Bloom, gambler, who
knows Blair's guilt, covets the diamond
stnd calls It the price of his secrecy. Blair
wilt not llxti'll to I.r?V?ll u nit Vrllnip 'ilu.i
Insists on his whence. Blair returns to
Richmond and, Instigated by his mother,
pays unwelcome court to Esther, Mrs.
Stanley asserting Vivian had been married
Y>efore. The diamond Is picked up by an
Indian woman. Dr. Ia?e, Arthur learns,
died of heart dlsouse. Becoming very rich
he buys Stanley hall, sold at auction,
through Blake, and also provides for Hn tr
and has money left secretly in Esther's
room. Luke Ix>vell buys the dla?nond
frocn the squaw, but loses it In a
tight on Santa Barbara bay, the gem aink?hg.
At the auction Smvthe buys a mount*
od deer head. Vivian, desiring aid to en nare
Arthur, sends for Blair. The latter
<to worsted in an attempt to take the Stanley
document from Esther, defended by
Blake and Quahba.
J CHAPTER XXVII.
; For Love end Money.
L
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om the Sky
McCARDEL
McCARDEL
OUT from the rickety old mansion,
long gone to slattern
shabbiness as a lodging house,
ennie Detective Tom Blake in
his guise of overgrown bootblack. lie
Fed the dazed and bewildered Esther
by (lie wrist and following after her.
forgetting in his excitement the hurts
he had sustained, came the devcted
Quabba.
Whimpering iiupiiries unheeded by
' Esther as to whether she had been ,
hurt and divided between his worry j
over his young mistress and the fright- j
ened chattel of Ularenee, the monkey, i
who rlllllL* lll>S!lf>r<ilnl V f?* Mm Oiuildin I
submitted to being hustled after Ksthor
into the waiting taxieab. which
drove off as though at command, leav* !
i 11 the bootblack upon tin* scene.
rmin the dark and dingy interior
of the lodging house came a cloud of
dust, raised by tin* falling of the rickety
old stairway and landing in the battle
with Blair.
The blowzy and gin sodden landlady.
roused now to an acute perception
of the trouble to come front the l
police, stood in the doorway screaming J
as the idle and shabby population of <
that mean part of Richmond came <
decking to the scene, wondering if it 1
were murder, robbery or both.
Blake in Irs bootblack guise mingled 1
with the throng as ji spo< tat or. waiting *
l?> see if 1 ?I:iir would he brought out *
from th<> interior wreckage. living or '
dead. At the arrival ol' tho police
wagon I lie screaming landlady slain- 1
mod the door ami barred it. (
Inside, aim ng iiu* wie-kayo of the *
fallen stain -e a id lan ling, i'inir, re- '
vived from ih.e stunning eiVeias of his 1
fali, pniled hi: ?seii' l" his fe a. i'ejoh: , ^
ing that beyond a few braises he was
not injured. Me s rambled over the 11
(h 1?. is and down the eeliar sions and *
'he dirty littered ba< . rds and '
iivaiV, wliile yet the bys-erh-aI land-'
fudy held : r,>,'t against, the hatiVm- (
. 1
nig police ootsiue.
The house bad been a line mansion1
in its day, and the stoat old door bold
slanelily. Hut at last ii gave way and! '
in poured ti'o j><*1 ?* *. who e<?nM rahi*
no information from 11 to >>. cnuing,
sera telling harridan, who endeavored
to bar iboir way, and so they promptly,
laid hands on the landlady and such 1
of lw>r lodgers as had not lied, and s
haled them out to the patrol wagon ^
and bore them off.
Hiake, idling with the crowd, did not j
disclose himself, but. satisfied that .
Blair bad made good bis escape and
that no notoriety or arrests would stir
up manor.-; mat make, as agent of Artlmr,
desired to roinain quiescent, lie
returned, smiling iuscrutably, to his
olliee,
. f
til a hark street the* fleeing Rlair, ^
noting n standing automobile, whose '
driver wh# stooping over by its front ^
wheel finishing pumping up a tire, (
howled over the startled eliaulTotir and
, >
drove oil' in the eoininandeercMi rar at j
iireakneek speed. lie drew his hat
down over his eyes and bent low over
the wheel as, hallway to Mrs. Randolph's
house, he Hashed past the taxicab
containing Kstlier and RUiahha.
Halting his ear in front of Mrs. Ran- [
dolph's mansion. It.air hastily donned a
linen automobile r>at and a driver's
cap with goggles on tlie visor lying in
the ear s-'at.
Hiding his own hat and dust covered
coat under the seal cushion and wear
ing tlir auto togs. In* was tin* nrst per- '
son to greet Kstlier and ouahba when
their taxic.ih drew up and they
nlighh d.
'i he tax! driver, evidently in the pay 1
nnd at id" orders, of licti-ctivc Itlake,
drove a way without a word, and de- 1
spite tin indignant protests of both Ks- ,
(lav and <?>uabba. Hi.iir out faced them
xvi 111 his declaration that iie was innocent
of ;iiix lodging house encounter,
1 hit on tiie contrary laid been riding all
day in the car lie had borrowed from a
friend.
Mrs. Randolph, meeting the excited
group in her doorway, promptly fell
into "a state of nerves" at the problem
that confronted her when the indignant
(Juabba and the more than Indignant
Kstlier breathlessly presented
their charges of brutal treachery and
perfidy against Rlalr, who still insist.,,.^.1..
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| j i? n i i 1111 it'i i iu*< iniiurnnT w nil <111
Mir of hnlf indignation, half puzzled
good nature.
"I am sure I do not know what to
Kay!" moaned Mrs. Randolph. "Hut
as for accusing Hlalr of such dreadful
things, hasn't the poor boy told you
that you are mistakenV"
Seeing that Mrs. Randolph was utterI
ly unable to believe Hlalr guilty of his
dospp-rtble actions and utterly astouiuli
ed at the eool effrontery of Hlalr and
j Ids brazen denials. Ksther dismissed
her one ftii'jpul. loyal friend and gave
him dlreetliJTis to proceed to Los Ani
goles with part of the money that had
i so mysteriously come Into her hands.
"1 will follow you." whispered WsI
ther. "I will not stay In this house,
i where Mrs. Randolph, as Hlalr's cousin,
j 'nimot or will not see how villainous
n? despicable he Is."
I' Ksther took train to Los Angeles a
i wek after tjunhbft had departed for
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THE HORRY HEX
st ft ft 1 -W* 'Jlllillil
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"I want the diamond from the sky!"
ho west. taking with him the pony
in<i piano cart, of which he was inanimately
]iron(1. together with (Marmkt.
his simian collector of external
ovonno.
Onabba had havdlv superintended the
mloadiiig of his traveling outfit from
lie express*, car unci secured lodging
or himself when Hsthcr arrived in
.os Angeles also.
(>uahha, whose tastes were hohemian 1
f not vagrom, permittc<l himself a
hange of costume so far as to take
nit his carvings and don a straw hat.
he very shape and feel of which he
letestrd. and immediately sought for
[ohn rov eP.
Fader this name Arthur Stanley was
i leading Ii.cure ill Los Angeles, and
juahha soon found himself at the ofices
of the (Iooi 1 Hope (>il company.
Ilerc a supercilious ofiiee boy ami a
ondesccuiding telephone ;rirl reluctanty
informed the strange looking in
[Hirer tliat Mr. .lohn l'owell ha 1 gone
a:* off into the distant Sierras To ac|iiire
some mines. It would seem that
ohn l'owell, the ucw oil millionaire.
vms ev<en<ivpiy hrj'uching out in<o |
ther indusiriai investments
It was tids same information. Inn 1
noie agreeably given, that was vouch
afed to Blair when he called later hi.
he day at the suggestion of Vivian j
darston when Blair had joined unit:
ivacious lady, who had married him
n haste for the diamond and parted!
><mi him in equal celerity at the loss I
?f it. ;
From the beginning Vivian made
heir relative positions clear to Blair.
"Von are a very dear hoy." she said, j
'and there is a refreshing air of youth
'ulness ahvit your wicked ways. Bui;
on are so delightfully incapable of
loing the right thing when there is a
vrong thing to do at the same time!
hat I caniior lie too closely coimemed
ivith you in the matters we have In j
tatid.
"I want the diamond from the sky! j
i <ioii i faro wncre ir is or who lias it.
I would sell my soul for it. and I
would not ojiro !n<g' many lives stood
:i i lie way of my desire: no, not oven
f your life was one of them, my tjonr
i toy!"
Blair's eyes glittered murderously.
'You v*> too r r witli me. Vivian!" lie
minted. "No one Knows better than
v o;i (!;: ; there isn't anything I wouldn't
lave for you!"
Vivian senbd herself on the edge oi
the table, still keeping Blair at his dislam
e with a signilieniit gesture of calm
earuest ness.
"That is .just the trouble," she answered
< oolly. "'i'hei'e isn't anything
you would not dare for mo or for anything
o!so you do-by list her i larding.
! in <i aii- e.
I.lair winced. "All," eontinued Vi
vian mockingly, "1 see that shot went
homo, and ii was a chance one. You
dure to love me, and you dare to love
the shy and timid gypsy girl.
"Weil, if yon have double lives why
may we not have double loves? Now,
don't scowl, Blair, my dear. You can't
frighten me for one moment. Physically
you are stronger than I am, and
I have no doubt if you had me alone
some place you might strangle me, but
you could not frighten inc.
"Now listen," continued Vivian. "You
know how the desire for the diamond
obsessed you when you saw it in the
hands of the old doctor whom you
i i m i k ? .1 .v .. to aUI..
iiiumt'icii km li. i <10 inn curt* 11 iiun
diamond rightfully belong* to you or
whether it rightfully belong* to Arthur
Stanley, and I do not eare whether
your suspicion* as to his Iwing in your
way wrongfully are correct or are nils,
taken.
"1 only know that Arthur Stanley in
known out here as John Powell, and 1
only know that John Powell has many
millions and Is maklug more. Yon
cannot expose him, tiecause, after all
ho knows he is not guilty of the inur
i.l<?e r?f I>r li>(* 11 ml h? IttioWH v<?n nrc
That he has tacitly accepted the gull!
by bis flight from Virginia and living
here under a false name doea not coil
eern me. 1 only know that you hat?
him and that he Is fond of you. In thi
IALD. CONWAY, S. 0.
minds of those wlio knew him in Virginia
he Is believed to he a murderer,
and he lets this onus rest on his name,
or, rather, the name he wore back
there, for your sake.
"If the diamond rightfully belongs to
Arthur Stanley I will marry him for it,
even as I married you for it, and if
you say a word I will send you to the
gallows. As desperate as you are. my
dear Blair, 1 can see you do not wish
to go to the gallows. You do not wish
even to be charged and tried and imprisoned
for the murder yojj know you
are guilty of. although you Told Arthur
that Dr. Deo died from excitement
when you broke into his house to get
the diamond.
"If you are tin* rightful heir to the
diamond and the earldom all well and
good. I want the diamond, and I
would dearly love to be Lady Stanley
of Stanley castle. Warwickshire. Hut
your very recklessness has placed you
in your present position.
"You (-an claim nothing. So if you
will think it over you will see that,
while we had better work together, it
I must not l>e* as man and wife. You
are apt to venture too rashly, and 1
cannot lie identified with you.
"The diamond from the sky has disappeared.
but John Powell's millions
! are very tangible. No matter what I
do to gain the money or the diamond
1 you must not interfere. If all goes
i well we may gain the diamond, the
i earldom and John Powell's nionev to
I gcther. We hold Arthur Stanley's sej
< ret. and that is a prowl advantage at
I the start.
"Now you go and find him. He is at
those mines he has just bought. He
will bo as glad to see you as he was
in Richmond. lie does not know your
; true ohnraetor as I do. lit* will make
i you his manager or partner, for he is
generous and will be glad to have his
kinsman, if you are his kinsman, and
boyhood comrade with him.
"On my part I will interject, myself
into his affairs either with your Aid or
without. We will work together, and
I nromise you that in the end if all
goes well we will have our desires."
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Off to Seek Her Love,
o thi> was their strange compact,
departed for the mines
in an automobile t<? throw himself
lute Arthur's way.
ouabba. passing the ho.e! where
Rlair and Vivian had their meeting. I
got a glimpse of them parting in the
street. He telephoned to l ist her win ie
she was stopj-.ing. and Ksiher r< solved
to start at once to lind Arthur before
Rlair reached him.
Again llsther thoi'.g'ht it best that she
go alone. Rut ouabba. parted with at
the depot, took the next train after
Ksthcr. lirst leaving Clarence, the monb/x,,
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iw\. isiiii uie pony ;iiki ins.' outer equipment
in good hands.
There was another seeker for the
golden 111:111 in Los Angeles. It wsis
pone oilier tlnio \Tjiriundnke Sniytlie.
Blair Departed For the Mines.
the eccentric Knj^lish legal represents
t ivc of I ho earls of Stanley. 111?
methodical Itrilish mind compelled liin
to make every effort to locate the fugi
tive heir to the earldom ere he return
ed to Hnglaiul. lie had consulted Ton
Hlake.
Blake upon reflection, perhaps will
a desire to keep the American Stan
J leys' game with destiny going, ?"iv
eti the Kngllsh lawyer a hint that Join
Powell in Los Angeles couhl give hin
information of the missing Arthu
' j Stanley, heir to the Stanley earldom
' as well as the missing diamond.
It was an interesting game to Rink*
and he watched the moves of tho*
concerned, and none waa more coil
cerned 4linn he. Fie knew that Marmn
i duke Sniythe, for all his eccentricities
. 1 would have suffered himself to tot
turns )>.v the Indians, who in the Brit
; isli barrister's foggy mind still itirke
- in ambush In the jungles of Amotion
: rather than betray a Stanley of th
- blood.
* Blake not only gave the timid y?
i J loyal lawyer a hint; he also gave bir
a letter ot Introduction to Joon Pow,
ell eouchinl in guarded terms. So
, Marmaduke Smythe departed for "the
veldt." as he expressed It. talcing with
him an elephant liile. and as a furi
ther Incitatlon to t!ie hunt the mounted
deer head he had bought at the
' sheriff's sale at Stanley hall.
Lawyer Smythe had a shawl strap
arrangement with which he carried
tills incongruous object as hand luggage
with him on all his Journeying*
i in barbarous America. So highly hail
he come to esteem this trophy of the
chase that by some strange mental
process' wherein the wisli was father
to the thought, the Lnglish lawyer had
come firmly to helieve that the deer
head ho so highly prized was actually
the spoil of ids own gun.
"I figure it out tills way," Smythe
explained to Blnlce: "You remember 1
I u>nu It, tlw. 1 hi.1 ?. I t ... 1..
ii mi in i in- ?? im.-i in 1 ii ^iniii I unu.v
years ago. I dot rained in tho dark
amid the howls of suvages and wild
boasts. I IIrod my gun-?there was silonco.
Tho la to Judge Stanley after'
ward ohaffod mo about. It, savins: I
had tired at frogs.
"But it is fvry strange that 1 should
j not have noticed this door head tit
Stanley hall at that time. It is my
belief that in discharging my gun into
the jungle I slew this stag."
So in due time Solicitor Smvthe
I
found himself with gun and deer head
trophy in far Los Angeles. "Always
too late, my word!" he exclaimed
when informed that John I'awe! I was
! at his far distant mining properties in
another part of the state. "But 1 shall
follow him and knock over some big
game in I lie interim," he added.
"There* ain't no big game in the interim."
vouchsafed the ollieo boy at
tho headquarters of the (Jootl Hope Oil
company. "But there's big game in
tin* mountains, mister."
i /\.. i* -
WHIM' :sw. Willie SO. replied MIX rmadnke
Sniythe and look liis departure.
Where passer ers for the Lady Ve!
roiiica mines alighted from the train
at a small and desolate way station a
daily stajre conveyed them to the
mines, thirty miles away up the rocky
mountain passes.
Theie was another passeiurer hesides
Smythe, who still carried his mm
uiul the d.ia head trophy as well as
his dress suit rase. This passenger was
a very pretty yoiinu woman in a neat
dark blue traveling suit. Had Marinaduke
Siaylhe a uood memory for
fa? t's lie niL'ht ha\e recollected his fellow
passenger as a younu uirl he had
seen at Stanlev hall tipeii his present
\ isit to America, some six months au'o.
But MaruiaduUc SuiyHic was shy with
the ladies, lie had nardly looked at
the pretty j:irl who had answered his
questions when he had called at Stanley
hall to li 11 <I Arthur Stanley tfone.
no one knew whither, upon the oreasion
when the lawyer had come to tfive
notice that the oid earl of Stanley was1
dead and the Knulish line of Stanleys
was extinct with him.
Hut Ksthor re-'okiiIr.ed the lawyer
and shrank back into her corner of tlie
scat in tin* somewhat dim interior of
the rattletrap and battered old sta^e
coach. Esther alone in the world and
sorely tried, suspected every one. after
her experience with Blair and his
mother and even the friendly though
wisliy washy Mrs. Kuiidoiph. Her
hope, her desire was io see Arthur.
Now that lie was rich and powerful
she determined to he guided in her actions
by Arthur's reception of her.
Was he much changedV Had success
turned his head and made him saltish?
Did lie still love her as sister or sweet,
heart?
Lonely, appri hensive. even dislieartened.
Esther fcit that to he coolly re
ceived l?y Arthur would he t!ie last
straw. The secret joy she iiad felt to
realize that she was the rightful heir
of Stanley had passed. She had been
denied her birthright so lontr that she
could feci no uiadness at the lh<ir._*ht
of being ;h*v ? !>led ;is Esther Stanley
rather than Esther Harding, the j#<?oi*
gypsy girl.
Only Arthur, only the love site horn
for him. made her steadfast. Sin* foil
she cotiid go away ami die of a broken
hoarf if ho had changed and with his
millions had grown arrogant, sellish
and cold toward lior. She regret ted
she had gone into the wilderness to
seek liim. Might she not have better
stayed in Los Angeles till Arthur re
turned and met him there? Hut then
there was Blair. Blair was seeking
Arthur too.
Arthur had been Blair's comrade in
their wild boyhood and even wilder
I young manhood. Blair might poison
Arthur's mind against her.
Blair was despicable enough for such
i an action. No. she would keep on. she
' would see Arthur. If his eyes lit up
with love and joy at the sight of her
; she would tell him all and beg his pro1
lection from Blair.
And so Esther mused as the stage
"J rocked and creaked on its way tip the
mountain passes to the mines.
M mi li i 'liilo Hloif* les m a L* '? n >? % ?
! -urn n ?? nil*; 1'iuii i.i inn i\ui^ inn >f ?1%>
In the roudstcr lie lias hired for the
, purpose as best lie can over the rough
roads through the mountains that he
curses continually.
It is prophetic of his curses ami forei
boding* that; the front axle of his car
.! snaps, and it is disabled on the mountain
side. He walks afoot and arrives
at the blacksmith shop near the mines,
e to encounter an old acquaintance?
i-. Luke Ixivell.
i- Luke Lovell has sentenced himself
i, to hard labor as a blacksmith helper
- since the death of his eTil companion
> In Santa Barbara bay the night when
rl the diamond from the-sky dropped Into
i, the waters of the bay In that death
e ' struggle in the darkness.
From 1*ovell Blair, after mutual prof
fern of friendship and assistance.
D>learns that Arthur Stanley, or John
. I*owen, as lie is now known, has left
v
for other mine* he la considering pur- % I
chasing. far across the valley In annth- it
er range of mountains. t.
Ye'smvhlle Qtiahbn. disobeying RS
tiler's commands through tils very af- ^ SI
i J
....
Found Mirnrelf In Los Anoclos Witi *
His Deer Head. \C+
feet ion for Ii<?r. Iins taken I ho ncxt^W^^^^
train stud arrives at I ho lonoly station. ^ ^
only t<> bo Informed that tlio stage to
tho mines does not moot any train hero ^ !fl
sstvo t ho ojirliof ono. in order to avoid
a journey that woald ho niado doubly
| >'M'i lolls hy dnrllM'ss.
A group ??t" fishermen to whom the *^1
islands off tho wild soaooast hereabout Pfl
of'or big fishing in their wators havt? jjfl
alighted with (ptnhbn. They banter
the poor ii.tiian that iie is anxious to
roaolt tlio initios thirty miles away
tin- mountains. Ono proffers him a ^ I
slightiy hfokon fishing rod and tolls *
him to Im> philosophies 1 and tisli till the
stage shall ronio on tho inuriow to bear
him to his destination. Quabha wondors
if ho may not miss Ksihor it' ho
gwts afoot, livosoluloly lie takes 11 us
li.dting lot .and follows tho li-di< rnnn.
lie is fold that the mountaineers ami mm
minors somollinos eonio <lown to tin?
coast for the ti.-diing and that ln> may
be given a riile back by bucUboard or ^ I
wagon 5<> tho mine by some of tlmse
who may lie returning. So Quabba
plays his lurk and goes fishing, not |H
so much for a lisli as to angle for a
ride to tho mountain mine where Kxtiter
has pine seeking Arthur.
Qua him moots with no friondlv fish
i*i*iiioii from t!:e hills wit! 1 huckhonrd
or wagon returning to tlio mine. So I
ho fishes and wishes he had started
afoot, let I lie distance* and tiie rough- j4^
;less of the road he what it may.
The sport is good. save that Quahba
is tttuioyed hy the aggressive boldness
a* friendliness, Qunbbu can hardly tell
wl; cli, of a persistent pelican.
It is a great fat. white pelican,
which reminds Quablm very much of
\ certain pompous, loner nosed, cor
Arthur Inapaotlng Hia Minaa. I
.pulent southern magistrate who wore I
a white waistcoat and mulcted Quabba v I
of J&10 for itlnvlnor hunil <?> "" ? a"
? ,? a...v n ? ?uu ui^mi uiunv r
without a license.
Quahha remembers this magistrate
with extreme distaste. ami the pelican
resembles hliu no much that Quablm
ha tea the pestiferous bird all the
more In consequeuce.
The stage to the mlnee atopa at the
blacksmith shop. A broken linchpin
' Is giving trouble. Luke, in the ab- |i