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The Diamoi
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By ROY L.
Copyrighted 1915, by Roy L
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
A feud lias existed I'd ween Colonel Ar- i
thur Stanley and Ins cousin, Ju<i :o Lamar
Stanley, over an heii loom, the diamond
from the sky, found in a fallen meteor by
an ancestor. Also, the succession to the
Stanley earldom in England may come In
an American. When a daughter is born
to the colonel and the mother dies, the
colonel buvs a gypsy boy and substitutes
him. Three years later the gypsy mother,
having had no part in this bargain, steals
the girl, Esther, reared in secret, ami
leaves her son undetected as the heir. The
gypsy has obtained possession of the diamond
from the sky, ami a document with
the Stanley secret Years later llagnr,
gypsy queen, returns to Virginia with Esther.
Dr. Dee, the late Colonel Stanley's
friend, adopts Esther. Arthur Stanley, son
of Hugar, falls in love with Esther, and so
does his companion and cousin, Blair
Stanley, rightful male heir of Stanley. In
stealing the diamond Blair causes the
death of the doctor and tries later to put
the blame on Arthur, who takes the gem.
Arthur Stanley eludes his pursuers and
joins Hugar, who reveals his identity and
upbraids him for his wild -life. Needing
money, he pawns the diamond in Richmond.
At a ball, at which an adventuress,
Vivian Murston, wears the borrowed
gem, Luke Lovell, Hagar's gypsy guard,
steals the diamond. To avoid detection
. drops it into a mail box. Arthur leaves
Richmond and goes to the west. The diamond
passes into a mail hag, picked up
by Quabba, organ grinder. Quabba's
monkey steals the diamond. Hague takes
Esther to Stanley hall.
mm i-ii.iite, a u* motive oi icicnmona,
who is hired by i'.-.gar, produces linger
prints convicting Lk.ir. llagar proposes
silence to Mrs. Stanley as the price of
I-Iagar's and Kslher'g being received in
Fairfax society, Blair strikes down 11:iKar
and steals the linger prints, leaving
the gypsy demented, llagar is again
with Blsther among the gypsies. Martnaduke
Smylhc, lawyer, arrives to announce
Arthur is heir to the deceased Karl of
Stanley. Learning Arthur is a fugitive lie
seeks Blair instead. To win Vivian, Bl.iii
steals the diamond, later marrying her
and leaving fof the west. Their train is
robbed, Vivian losing the diamond, which
a slain train robber drops in the desert
The $100,t)0U he stole is found by Arthur,
now known as John Powell, sheep herder.
Vivian deserts I'.lair, tolling him lie min t
regain the diamond for hot. Luke Lovell.
driven from the camp al'ter 'earning I lagar's
secret, loaves to seek Blair, llagar
is under treatment and Ksthcr is in
Richmond society, protege of Mis Stanley,
who suspects her leal name, and of
Mrs. Randolph. Abe Bloom, gambler, who
knows Blair's guilt, covets the diamond
and calls it the price of his secrecy. Blair,
at Richmond, instigated by his mother,
pays unwelcome court to Ksthcr, Mrs.
Stanley asserting Vivian had been married
before. The diamond is picked up by an
Indian woman. Dr. Lee, Artliur learns,
died of heart disease. Becoming very rich
he buys Stanley hull, sold at auction,
through Blake, and also provides for llagar
and Ksthcr. Luke Lovell buys the diamond
from tlie squaw, but loses it in a
fight on Santa Barbara bay. the gem sinking.
Vivian, desiring aid to ensnare Arthur,
sends for Blair.
Esther and Quabbu. also Blair, go to
the California mines to 8?vk Arthur.
Smythe is sent west by Blake. Qunbba
catches a tlah with the diamond, but a pelican
bears it off. Viviuti Marston is rescued
from drowning by John Powell, who
Is infatuated by her. Smythe finds the
diamond and gives it to Ksther to deliver
to Arthur. Blair and I,uko go to the yacht
In Arthur's absence and find Ksther with
the diamond. To escape them she jumps
overboard.
Ksther and Qunbba escape while Blair
*nd Luk? battle. Powell leaves Bos AnfslM
and Ksther Santa Barbara, each
headed for the mines. Blair meanwhile
has joined Vivian In Ia>s Angeles. Bu
rand, "king of diamonds," a crook known
to Viirlkn, goes to a saloon near the
netaaa In hope that he can learn the
"whereabouts of the diamond. There he
meets .Luke Lovell. Ksther, unknowlna
tha ptaoe's character, steps In. Arthur
appears on the scene. The diamond is los?
in a melee. The roof caves In. I'nder
it la Arthur. Esther saves him, badly injured,
and he goea to Los Angeles in car?
?f the physician-orook, Durand. Ksther
Jphowa and ia refused admittance to see
i i'U.
nd
om the Sky
McCARDEL
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n>m. In the meantime Smythe lias hid
tho diamond in a tree. There it is found
by a child, who leaves it near a beehive.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
"The Soul Stranglers/*
KNOWN as John Powell, the
spectacular young oil and
mining magnate, Arthur Stanley's
meteoric career in i.os
i
Angeles had attracted considerable attention
in newspaper and tinancial circles.
All that was known of him was
that he had been engaged in sheep
raising, and it was generally supposed
he was a Virginian who had come to
the oil ticlds with some small capital
and had made a lucky strike in the
ciood Hope gusher.
His impulsively generous nature and
fiis magnetic personality, coupled with
his youth and good looks, hud made
riiiu a marked man in tho small business
world of oil and mining men. in
which he had in a few months become
so important a factor; hence it was the
terrible injuries that had befallen hint
while inspecting his mining properties
had been given much space in the t
newspapers. The reports were meager
as to just li?>w his injuries had been ;
sustained save for the fact that his
physician. Dr. Frank Dura ml. a stranger
to Los Angeles, had by good fortune
been with him at the time of the accident.
Dr. i Minimi had stated to the
newspaper reporters that the injuries
sustained by Mr. Powell had occurred
by the collapse of a building during a
drunken riot at the Mammoth mine,
which Mr. Powell owned.
The papers also stated that Mr.
Powell's business affairs would he
looked after by Ids cousin and eastern
business associate, l.lair Stanley of
Jlichmond, who bad been summoned
to I.os Angeles by Mr. Powell just previous
to his accident.
The papers made :i ill*;*m:itic* stor.v
of the return <?f (lie youu-' millionaire
to his new palatial home, his lirst
iSi HP
Arthur's Business Affairs Are Looked
Aftor by Bla r.
homecoming to :t. a crushed. shuttered,
unconscious a:.d seemingly living man.
And tlun tl.e accident censed to he
a three days' wonder, and other sensti-i
tSoitii| happenings and events of inter- i
est supplanted it in the papers, and
John Powell and his a (Tail's gave no
further concern save to those who were
personaUy interested.
Anions these was a pretty young woman
who lived tpiletly under the name
of Ksther Harding at a modest hotel.
F.sther. after her tirst rebuff at the
portals of the1 Powell mansion, the day
after the injured man was brought
hneV. returned again and again and!
was persistent in her detnauds to see
the injured man.
It was not as a timid pleader F.st her
had come to the so ended Powell mansion
on a last occasion. She was do
tennined to see Arthur. Tactfully she
had waited, with the watchful Ou.ib
I " ~ "' %
hit lingering near. until she had soon
1 >11 ru 11 cl hltd his shadow and nocom
plice, tin* dapper Count do Vans. Ionvo
' the premises. Blair Stanley she knew
! was nt Arthur's offices, already taking
charge of his affairs.
Ksther was not afraid of tlwMti. col
leotively or singly, hut she deemed it
i host to encounter Vivian Mnrsloit. who
i she learned was in charge of the sick
, room alone. Ksther had no desire to
! bring notoriety and ruin perhaps upon
,! the injured man. known here in Los
> Angeles as John Powell, by any pre
, mature disclosure of his real identity
if she could help it. Bnt she was determined
to go even to this length were
it necessary and were she further de,
nied access to the one in all the world
?| she loved with every fiber of her brave
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Vivian In Her Nurse's Costi>me.
a lid loyal little heart.
Some intuitive sense of Esther's at-j
litnde must have impressed Vivian
Marston. for she did not uphrnld the
manservant. Instead she said. "1 will
see the yonnj* lady." and followed the
servant from the sickroom where Arthur
lay stun (conscious hi restless fevered
sleep.
Vivian was in her costume as nurse,
a masquerade she had assumed in furtherance
of the plot against the help j
less Arthur. She spoke as one ha vine
authority.
"You cannot come in here!" she said
tensely. "Mr. 1'owell is at death's;
door. Any intrusion or excitement
would he his death."
Esther faltered. Then the Stanley
spirit asserted itself. "Hotter he die
wiili a true friend l?v him than live
with such as you and your associate*
m'misieriny: to him!" she said scorn
fully.
Vivian Was rooi and kepi iter wjis.
"That will he a matter for our friend
to decide when he is aide to decide it.
Will you believe me if 1 permit you
to enter and you can see for your>eif
that he is delirious?"
Esther bowed assent. If her enemies
for she knew they were enemies
-were liuhtiajr fairly it behooved her
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1(1 lid i I > 1111JI 11.
Arthur Iji.v with eyes closed, tossing
in a fevered sleep. la ther knelt by tlic
bedside, altd her hand caressed the pen
bandaged arm neaie>: her. Her g'r/.o
was upon the fevered, anguished conn
lenanee of Arthur. She kept no heed ol
Vivian, who passed by the foot of thei
bed and look a small instrument from
the table there. Then Vivian passed
softly to the back of the bed between
the injured man and the window. She
laid a hand, as though soothingly,
upon I he free arm of the unconscious
Arthur. li was in this maimer tbe|
two women the one w ho loved him j
a' ovo all else and the one who love 1
him i?oi at ali- waited in the sileii e
of the sick room.
Then his eyes opened, and he saw
her. -listher!" he murmured, "is ii
you. dear'.*"
"Yes," she whispered softly. "It i>
Ksi her."
He smiled and was ah nit to try to
speak again. Then Vivian moved
slightly. A lilm passed over Arthur's
dark eyes. They closed, and he la\
oi <11 'CI. . . I.....- I11... 1 I.I :<
.- 111. I IK- Mill? Ilillt'M 111 ill il,?<1111 I
semiconsciousness.
"You Mf, lie U very weak." sail
Vivian <p:icily. " litis nice.in;; has
been a shock to 11 iin. Is your i?i
lor him s.? scllish that you wot:!!
cause his death to yralify your desire
to i ; rude further*.'"
K-titer's fortitude ynve way. Art hut
was sii wan she loured even now that
t ho hand of death was on hint She
rose 'to her feet and slowly left the
room. followed by Vivian, who closed
the door behind her. A heavy dread
fell upon the heart of Ksther. With
t lte aet it seemed to her that the doctor
ad her hopes for happiuess with
Arthur had closed forever.
< 'aliens as Vivian Marstou was. tin -Tie''
ami heartache that the deep blue
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Esther Visit* th* Injured Man.
' steadfast eyes of Rather no poignantly
expressed for a moment stirred some
tender memory of youth in the breast
of the worldly woman.
"I am a trained nurae," she said,
"and Dr. Durand la a notable pbyal
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clan. Our friend is having the best of
care aud treatment. When he Is well
enough you shall see him. Till theu
we must abide by the doctor's orders.
Relieve me. 1 am your friend and
tuean no harm to you or him. On the
contrary, 1 will do all I cau for both
of you."
And such Is the strangeness of these
perverse natures that tears welled to
Vivian's eyes, aud for a few moments
she felt sanctified by her own sympathy.
However, when Esther had departed
Vivian forgot the stirring of
her better emotions and gave strict orders
to the manservant not to admit
this eaiier again under |)eualty of di?
missal.
Esther returned to her hotel torn
with conflicting emotions. Duty called
her to Richmond, wiiere Hngnr was
slowly, hut surely, recovering her reason.
and duty and. stronger still. Iter
deep and ardent love for Arthur held
her here?a love that grew the stronger
despite the strange, weird destiny that
seemed to he bent on keeping them
apart forever.
Esther laid been in communication
with Blake. the Richmond detective,
whom she had trusted as at least one
disinterested and iiitluential friend
This night she wired him again that
the condition of their friend?she had
wired him previously of Arthur being
Injured?would keep her for ttie time
at least in Los Angeles, and while she
?s|ept that night, perchance to dream
of happier days to come, a strangej
v enclave? the stranglers of a soul ? was|
| gathered in the luxuriously appointed
! library of the young millionaire who;
lay upstairs in delirium from his m
juries and opiates.
I'irst. there were Duranci and his
jackal, the dapper Count de Vaux
Then there was Vivian, her enticing!
charms doubled by the becoming
nurse's uniform she wore. Then there!
was Blair Stanley, silent and sullen,
while the other three chattered of their
plans ami strategies.
CHAPTER XL.
In the Hands of Drug Thugs.
11 < ) M si 111 il i ionn i I u \ iinniin It.
l*ary t?? the wild outdoors is ;i
{ distance that may In* bridged
?Iuii l 'Iy I?y thought. Km the
soul stranch rs who plot tor ;i fortune
iiinl the* diamond from tin; shy have n.>
thought of a rude eatnp'.ir'in the woods
not twenty miles from where t lie man
whose means. iiiiixl and lie i t happiness
they plot auainst was injured and hy
those injuries plaeed helpless in their j
hands.
Kid by the rude eainplite are two
paste spattered. overall clad eiivu . bill
posters, and they are pertinent to the
Durand and His Jackal, the Uappor
Count de Vaux,
! plotters in the shattered man's library
in Los A nurlos, for they, though they
, do not know it now. are nearer to at
least one ureal object lor which the
plotters seek to strangle a soul ? the
| diamond from the sky.
The diamond lies unnoticed since eari
ly forenoon on the alighting hoard of
one of liie many beehives in the apiary
of Rancher Junes. 11 lies where Ids
little three-year-old daughter dropped
it when a testy bee had slung her lifter
she had found the diamond beneath
the rock where Sniylhe had put it.
Where the billposters are camped in
the woods beneath a great dead tree
is not fit JO yards from the bee yard or
j apiary of Rancher Jones. For some
lIllVX I ! i I > 1111 h w I <? rsi ivitli I 11??i ? ivtif.
i ons ami paraphernalia have made (lie
straggling Warns ami wayside boardings
of i his ihliily settled region WlosKom
gaudily with the Wills announcing
the appearances of Saut ley's Stupeu1
dous Circus. The circus Is playing the
towns and cities large enough to meet
tlie requirements of what its proprietor
i calls "a regular show." Huntley's Stui
pendous Circus Is a regular show, ami
, if It is too big to play small places
| such as Mammoth and vicinity, yet
i Mammoth and vicinity are apprised of
! place of show uud day ami dare. It
1 has been the duty of the two blll|H>sii
era. camped here beneath the deed tree
in tllA Wtvuil to limLrti tlia U'l litnl-f\AUu
-M iv a J 11 ? v tiav mJVV IIV
blossom like I lie rose with the eye usfounding
iNHtters of Santlcy's Stupenj
dOllS C'ilVUK.
Their fire has been slow In starting,
bul now It burns well. As the billiKister
who la called Jack Williams liestirs
himself to mix some pancake
flour, the billposter whose name is Hen
Hurk fames over the fire and sheds a
few tears and wipes his eyes from the
acrid smoke of the newly started tire.
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And night comes quickly In California.
It Is daylight and then dusk am? then
dark. And fur off on the other side of
the hill Lawyer Sin.vthc of London ha*
lost his way nud walks In a eirele.
seeking shelter.
"There is no sirup." says the hill
poster nained Burk. as he sear lies
among the dirty tins of the larder an i
holds the sirup run and shakes it by
a doubting ear. "I told you not
make thipjacks!"
"What's your klek about molasse*
bo?" asks the pancake expert, turiiin
from the whitish mass lie Is stirring
"Didn't we pass a bee yard not a qua*
ter of a mile down the road?"
i The other looks disgusted.
"I should think you'd l?e slek of cook
lug ami stirring paste to sling up billwith
all day without mixing and eook
iug paste tii eat at night!" he grumble.*.
"Beat it! .Make yourself useful an
go and get some honey. We got lots o!
time Indole we have a lire hot enough
for flapjacks." says the other. "If I <1
not eook flapjacks you won't have an\
thing to eat hut hat-oti: the bread's a!
gone. Close your trap and go am!
v wipe some honey. When I saw thus*
1 beehives 1 ^?t to thinking of flapjack.-*
ami honey. Anyway. I've got to go fo
water for eoll'ee It's almost as far foi
water as it is for honey. Beat it!"
So the hi 11 poster named Burk. stn
grumbling, .takes plate and knife as li.
is hid and im?\es off in the darkness i.
rifle-the s\vii?t store of tin* Inrny bee*
beyond.
The moon sliincs vaguely just tihoi ?
! he sky line. its dim light harelx
throws a shadow as Burk skulks ncni-.-.
the held after eomlng out of the wood
ami enters the rancher's bee yard. 11
rocks an occasional hi\c as In* passe*
and tlie iniiriunr of disturbed bee*
sounds du!!\ from wit'.iiu tlietn lbpa
uses at last by otic that rocks with
j heavier resistance, and he Is about to
lift the cap piece when something
gleams opates<eut in the moonlight on
t lie a lighting hoard of the rocking hive.
Burk stoops over and picks it up. hi
tin* dim liirhl Iroin tlit* iiiiuhi I?? sees ii
is m tuitions larire locket attached to a
:nri??us cli tin of dull old n<?id of siu
. ioni workniunship. I'.ut tlit* faro o!
Iho loci ot Is what ha; aleaiinsl In noati
t lit* Vk'a a inoon ra \ s.
I In rk tamps al ihe si-lit of il. Was
ever a diamond of siudi a si/.o? l'.Uf.?
is a Imlpostor and knows lilt It* of d' i
tiiiinds. Ilo ?-;i1111<?t toll diamonds IT o
paste. perhaps. 11 11 ho can ti ll p-as'e
from diamonds. "I wonder if it's a
fake':" lie j^asps. "Why. a piooe of i
this size would ho worth some nmimy!'
Then, as if pronipto i hy some old
huriosijuo htul'oonery. ho holds ihosliin
in- object ajrainst his moistoneu
tonvuo. "Anyway, it ain't alum." h
says. IturU. fho billposter. kimia
ai 1 itm. It is used in paste. The ir.oai
wiiite stone fleams so hriahl ly as tinmoon's
liuht strengthens t i.-it ilioiou_h
hillpostor is half tonviiiced.
"(Hi. Lortly! Suppose it was a re a
diamond?" lie whispers hoarsely. And
lie for-ets that lie has dropped tin
plate and knife and is uiiooas on \
wandering away from the hives and
honey.
When he roaches the tiro henentli the
dead free he notices his partner is ah
sent. lie holds the lot ket in t Ijo lire
ilijlit and is rewarded hy a hlaziip; tlax
ail*, rnn'1'uiij; iiu' crimson giare <?i in
(lames from tin* faeete I s;o?n* I nr.
jis mm English walnut. Then he heara
st< |? behind him and spring's gwiilil.
to his I'eet. It Is .lack Williams, hack
from the spring with a pail of walei
for their coffee.
"What's the excitementV Whateh
hiding there?" asks .lack Williams suspiciously.
Murk brings tin* chain and locket i:i!
view. "Soniepin I found." he an
swers. "Think it's worth an.vthing'.
Sii|>f>ose it was a real diamond and a
big as that? Ilully gee!"
Williams takes it and examines i.
scornfully. "A diamond that s!::e?
lie asks. "You're daffy! They ain'.
made that big. It's what the fake jew
elry guys call 'a piece of big slum!' '*
"But there's nothing cheap looking
about it. That chain ain't brass inn
the locket, either," says Burk.
"Let's give it the acid test." remarks
Williams, and. going over to the way
on, he removes a piece of glass from
one of the sides Of their large, square
lantern.
The uppermost facet of the stone in
the locket; is drawn down across the
glass. A low. gritting, slightly hissing
sound follows. The amateur lapldar\
bends the deeply scratched plane of
glass. It severs clear and straight
along the line of the deep scratch.
The billposters have found and now
possess the diamond from the sky!
They stare at It dumfouuded. Then
Williams says hoarsely, "It's a real
, diamond! We're rich men, Hen!"
With an oath Burk snatches the
chain uud diamond from the shaking
hands of Williams.
"We? Von ain't got no claim on it!"
he cries, with hoarse greediness. "Who
found it? Did you? Naw! 1 found it.
: and it's mine, and 1 don't have t"
' share with .nobody!"
' "Well, keep It, you hog!" cries the
other. "There's lots of junk will cut
glass. 1 have heen good enough pal to
you when you were sick and broke
i and up against It, and if it Is worth
j anythlug 1 suppose you are yellow dog
| enough to hog it all! But this shows
, me just what you are. And If it's
| worth ten pins or ten millions 1 want
| no part of it, you dirty, cheap four
! (lusher and sneaking swine!"
Ami they make no coffee and cook
| no cakes' nor bite nor sup with each
i ntlux' I,nt wltli hnfi'Ml ami irrnwl In
their heart* they lie for the last time
,| blanketed aide by aide. One of them
i clutched *#?wel of murder and dlaaenaion
and the other cannot sleep for
, an aching anguish to wrest it from the
wretched man who found it.
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Blair Sprang to His Feet In Anger and
Disgust.
In tlu? library i??* the l*o\vc?ll tnansi >11
in far Los Angeles the soul strnuKk'i'8
speak of the diamond train the sky
and wonder when it will come into .>
their n reedy hands.
"I came out here to net tlie diamond."
says Otirant. "It will turn up; it al- *
ways does. Meanwhile here are fat
j pickings. Voe.." and he turned to
I Itlair. "f:et everything in your liands
i . . . ... ...
I ill Till' OiilCC I 11 it I I Ills pilot' IlliOll up!
stairs luis. | will take eare i hilt if ho
cvrr 1*1 mmivet's in min<l op 1mm1v he will
. hever cause us any 1 ramie. Once morphine
yets them. that s ihe end. Wo
wiil have hint lie down, sit u;>. roll
over and play dead .1 list ;is we say.
Talk of laiick r.*.a:,i *. it's nothing, to
w bite nia&ic -morplrne sulphale!" And
hr.rand mud a p .iui w.ih a red la!
el. in win h smne siiiiiil white tablets
Pill 5 led.
1 l;ti:*. who h:id hecji 'retting and
fuming in sulky si.enee. now sprang
i<? his l<*. i. hi ^ lace contorted wit h
anger and disgust.
"I >h? led el:;tin to he a saint. I
hate Arthur Sian.cy. and 1 have always
hated bun. lie stands in my
way. !I;;i 1 \v:d have m? pari in murdering
his taanlioed wi'li drills?feedin;;:
him sl<i\v p u-uui of hod.v. soul and
mind, with sniiiiug t;i<*es. I spit on
you ah!"
And r.iair glarij! menacingly at hoth
I Hit*; nil and lie Vjiw.n as though to
pi ing upon them.
ex. a line hunch of cold blooded.
owr.nliv murderers lor money, you
:wo nro!" hissed lil.iir .is I Minimi mid
I e V:iux recorded him in silent iiinu/.e:
"ent.
"An.I ;js for you"?iiml Rinir turned
11'' i "!v;: i iii her nurse's n;irl> mid
edzed he" l?v the wrist -"tuke olT thLs
Vivian Haid Blair In Her Embracas.
masquerade! Let us kick out these
vermin, and when Arthur is well and
strong I'll kill him, like* a southern
man kills Ids enemy?man to man and
face to face!"
"You are a flue one to spout heroics!'*
sneered Vivian. "Do you forget" ?
Then Vivian checked herself, for,
though she sneered, she admired Bfoir.
He was a man for all his congenital
perversity. She had no intention of
taunting him uow for hits having murdered
a weak old man-?Dr. I,ee? for
the diamond from the sky.
Vivian reflected that even this guilt I
of Blair's was a crime of Sudden pan- I
slon for itossesslou of the diamond and
panic at detection in the theft. After
all, it was not the cold, insidious, slow
murder?the strangling of a soul?the
others purposed. Her face softened, a
look of admiration came into her eyes,