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The Diamoi
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By ROYJL. .
Copyrighted 1915, by Ray L.
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
A feud has existed between Colonel Ar- I
thur Stanley and his cousin, Judge Lamar
Stanley, over an heirloom, the diamond
from the sky, found in a fallen meteor by
an ancestor. Also, the succession to the
Stanley earldom in England may come t??
an American. When a daughter is born
to the colonel and the mother dies the
colonel buys a gypsy boy and substitutes
him. Three years later the gypsy mother, i
having had no part in this bargain, steals
the girl, Esther, reared In secret, and
leaves her son undetected as the heir. The '
gypsy has obtained possession of the diamond
from the sky, and a document with
the Stanley secret. Years later llagar,
gypsy queen, returns to Virginia with Esther.
Dr. lA'e, the late Colonel Stanley's
"friend, adopts Esther. Arthur Stanley, son
of 1-1 a gar, falls in love with Esther, and so '
.iJoes his companion and c-ousin. 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 en 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
jnouvy, he pawns the diamond in Richmond.
At a ball, at whlcifr-ftn adventur-'
ess, Vivian Marston, wears the borrowed
gem, Luke Lovell, Hagar's gypsy guard,
steals tile diamond. Arthur leaves Richmond
and goes to the west, tjuabba, organ
grinder, befriends Esther. ilagar
takes Esther to Stanley hull.
Tom Blake, a detective of Richmond,
who is hired by llagar, produces linger
prints convicting B'.'iir. Ilagar proposes
silence to Mrs. .ley as the price of
XJagar's and Ksi.. i s being received in
Fairfax society. Blair strikes down ilagar
and steals the linger prints, leaving
the g.vpsy queen demented. Marmaduke
Smythc, lawyer, arrives t<? announce
Arthur is heir to the deceased Earl of
Stanley. Beaming Arthur is a fugitive he
seeks Blair instead. To win Vivian, Blair
steals the diamond, later marrying her
and leaving for the west. Their train is
robbed, Vivian losing the diamond, which
a slain train robber drops in tiie desert
The $100,00'J he stole is found by Arthur,
now known as John Powell, sheep herder.
Vivian deserts Blair, telling him lie must
regain the diamond for her Luke Bovcll.
driven from the camp afar learning 1 lagar's
secret, leaves to seek Blair. Ilagar
is under treatment and Esther is in Richmond
society. A he Bloom, gambler, knows:
Blair's guilt and covets the diamond, lie
calls it the price <>f his secrecy.
The diamond is later picked up by an
Indian woman. Dr. Bee, Arthur learns,
died of heart disease. Becoming very rich
he buys Stanley hall, sold at auction,
through Blake, and also provides for Ilagar
and Esther. Buke Bovell buys the diamond
from the squaw, but loses it in a
light. Vivian, desiring aid to ensnare Arthur,
sends for Blair.
Esther and Qiiabba, also Blair, go to
the California mines to seek Arthur.
Smythe is sent west by Blake. Vivian
Marston is saved from drowning by PewAll
\AT\\r\ ia l... 1- ?< _ _ -j- ?
-W.., iiiiu in iiiiaiuaii'U uy IUT. Biliyill'
finds the diamond and gives It to Esther
to deliver to Arthur. Blair and Luke go
to the yacht and find Esther there.
Esther and Quabba escape while Blair
and Luke battle. Blair in the meantime
lias Joined Vivian in Los Angeles. Durand,
"king of diamonds," a crook known
to Vlvlun, goes to a saloon to try to discover
the diamond. There he meets Luke
Eovell. Esther and Arthur appear on the
scene. The diamond Is lost in a melee
Esther saves Arthur, who Is Injured, and
Its goes to Los Angeles in care of the physlclan-crook.
Durand. Esther follows and
Is refused admittance to see him. In the
meantime Smythe has hid the diamond In
a tree. It Is later found by two bill posters,
one of wborn murders the other for
the diamond. Arthur is "doped" by Durand,
f>e Vaux and Vivian, although Blair,
who has taken charge of Arthur's business
affairs, protests.
The diamond passes in dice play from
the hill poster to SantleA circus owner,
who gives It to T^a Belle, lion tamer.
/ Splinters, the clown, her Jealous husband,
shoots Santyey as the Hoh strikes down
,. x and kills the woman. The animal seizes
' the diamond. Sankey, a stableman, seizes
It and hides it In hie stable. Blair and
Vivian falsify a telegram from Blake to
Arthur, making Arthur believe he suffered
from hallucination In thinking he saw
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om the Sky
McCARDEL
McCARDEL
Esther. Esther trie* it? :?eo Arthur, on his
way to the races, but the plotters prevent
her.
CHAPTER X'LV.
Still In the Clutch .of'Drugs.
?W ET the coachinanituke. the reins!'*
I cried Dura ml, subconsciously
jkjf chunking from ids. careless air
of racegoer to tlte grave demeanor
of physician. "l^end a hand,
Hluir,M he added an the coachman workted
around front the back sent by the
groom to the driver's place -on the'
tally ho.
Blair and Vivian, assisting .as best'
.they could, aided Durand in dragging
Arthur from the box seat to the second
one. Here the drug victim collapsed,
murmuring:
"Esther? How plainly T saw bor?In
her gypsv dress! She spoke to u?e. The
hunchback fellow was with her!"
"It was imagination." sniel Vtvlnn
soothingly to the stricken man as the
pseudo physician. Duraiul, administered
the all too handy hypodermic. ""A
touch of ftuu, wasn't it. doctor?"
"Yes," said Duraiul in equally sootte
lns: accents. "1 think it was the sun
liiul too much exertion. We shouldn't
have let you drive, Mr. Powell; you are
not strone: enough vet for these things."
Blair said nothing, lie con Id have
almost pitied Arthur that iu*Vo short
a time as had elapsed since his injuries
Ids characU** had heon so weakened
from his hurts and the drugs administered
that Arthur could he convinced
that the evidence of his own eyes was
but the phantom of a disordered imagination.
Neither the coachman nor the groom
had understood the signitieance of Ins
master's collapse at the sight of two
gypsy musicians with piano, pony cart
and monkey by the roadside. The
coachman and groom, like the other
servants at the Powell mansion, only
knew tlteir master had never been mentally
the same since Ids injuries at the
mines and his tirst homecoming to ids
new, grand mansion, a battered, shattered.
insensible form on a stretcher.
in a few moments the effect of t lie
stimulating drug had calmed Arthur,
and he was sitting with closed eyes on
the second seat, with Blair and Vivian j
and Duraiul. The conspirators decided
to return home.
A passing auto coming in the same1
direction slowed beside the coach, and j
the occupants called to the driver and
the tallyho party that there was a man!
on behind.
"He looks like a tough customei;. too!"!
added the driver of (he car.
The groom on the rear seat looked:
down and ordered the tough looking
customer to get off. The tough looking
customer was Luke Lovell. who had!
come hack to Los Angeles sullenly de j
(el'inined to make an asset of his secret :
and blackmail either Arthur Stanley |
or Blair, preferably both.
Luke Lovell growled a curse hack at
the groom and held <?u. The coachman
with practiced dexterity lashed thej
whip back of the coach at a signal j
from the groom. The thong cut Luke ;
across the face twice before he could!
shield himself. But again and again;
the lash cut and stung him cruelly on;
neck and shoulders, and despite ills!
hardihood and do.erminaiiou to stan 1
toe onslaught Luke was compelled to
let go ami drop oil', ile limped to the
s" lewalk of ilie quiet suburban resi
deuce street and sat in the shade of a
t ree by t lie curb.
Near him i leaking lire hydrant trickled.
Luke nmiipcd his brow and the
burning ruts a cross his face with tin*
cooling water. The pain slowly subsided,
and Luke looked about him
There, far off down the street, but
yet dis iie t to the keen eyes of the!
g.vpsy, were two figures plodding by
a I )Oll V Ilia lift f:irl tu-11 li'"ii'nc !?/? L-iinii' i
as well as lie knew his own?Ksthet !
and Ouahha. |
Old emotions, old fealties stirred In1,
Luke Lovell at the siuht. Esther,
daughter of Haj;ar, the queen of the
gypsies; Esther, whom he had always
gazed upon with pride and a dull Ions-1
lug? she was not for hint. Luke knew;
that. Hut yet there stirred in him llt^j
old sense of all'eetion and mingled with
it. a sense of shame. Had as the brute
gypsy was there had always been some !
thinvc tine and tender In his regard for
Esther. To injure her had been no
part of all Ids wild plans to make merchandise
of what he dimly surmised
was the Stanley secret?and Ilagnr's.
Luke's mental processes were slow.
hut ho wiim niltolf tn rnuli'/ii 1i*? ti*i<l lu?<i'
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have time to think of how he should
in??et with Esther again did he wish
to regain her confidence. as lie now
desired to do.
Luke I/>vell rose from the curb even
while cogitating upon these things and
concealed himself behind the tree. But
he could have stood plain upon the aidewalk
for nil he would have been seen
for Esther and Quabbi/, their heads
i . I
bowed sadly to the (lust, trudged on be
aide the patient pony. j
The smart tallyho rattled on and enlong
drew up before the portals of the
Powell mansion, and Arthur was assisted
off by bis whilom friends.
Such is the power of suggestion upon
n drug weakened miml that Arthur had
thrown aside all depression and worry
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Luke Was Compelled to Let Go anc
Drop Off.
soon after entering his luxurious homo
Physically his strength hud almost fu!
ly returned, and the plotters rejohe
to see that under the stimnlaut admin
istered and their cajolnienls the pnnit
stricken remembrance of his ejaeountei
with l ist her had boon disnilH?**tl by Ar
thur as an illusion.
A Am If hour later 10s t her and Quabba
part at the alloy entrance that loads
to Sankoy'v stables. IOslher dons her
cloak a.urdn to cover her jrypsy attire
and removes her headdress and thus
uarbed seems a passing shopgirl, not
does she attract undue attention si-- j
she slips quietly l<? her room by the en
trance of tin1 hotel on a side street.
Qusibha stands ^a/.itiu' alter his youna
mistress wistfully until she lists turned
from the street some blocks stway
Then Qustbbsi is roused by si lisincl upon
his shoulder and turns to see the
swarthy fsice of Luke Lovell.
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But meanwhile what of the Ssintley
circus? Ssintley, the coarse grained
tyrant owner of the show, lies dead in
the inor.true downtown. Beside liini is ,
Splinters, the clown, who killed Santley
and shot himself, and with the.u
is the disfigured body of Lst Belle, wife
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The Sheriff and His Party Grab the
Stableman.
of Splinters, the clown, killed hy the
lion Lancelot. A triple tragedy :ind
all because of a woman's < <? juetry and j
the diamond from the sky!
The new manager of the circus is j
optimistic. lie is inclined to I eiieve
"?!ie big blow off," as he cabs ttie
tragedy. will be "groat press s;u,f foi
the show." Hut the triple tragedy andj
the panic and riot that followed ii
have brought the creditors who are
numerous?down upon the show, and
it is seized for debt and wiil In' sold
at nu"tlon. The disconsolate perform
er$ ami attaches, their salaries long in
arretir, realize It is a had season fot
the show business and are fully aware
the returns from a sheriff's auction
will pay little if any of their salaries.
Then Hill Hull, acrobat, re mem be rthe
great diamond Santle.v gave La
Belle before the lion Lancelot killed
her?iiiHpired to the deed by the Jealous
clown Splinters, the show believes
i <1 ' ? . . a i- - t . a a.x i .1
<ju?mp ax iu uie vaiue 01 iniM great
gem has been rife about the circus
since Williams, the billposter, brought
It in from the woods where he said he
found it and lost it to Santley at dice
If this diamond were recovered 1?
j would l>e an asset that would perhaps
j pay all salaries when sold. Hill Hull,
the acrobat, remembers Sankey, th?
stableman, was one who snatched at
| the diamond. Hull knows Banke.v. In
a previous season, with a smaller show,
some of the animals had been wtntried
at Sankey's. k
The sheriff Is Informed, and the acrobat,
donning an overcoat to hide his
tights?for the sheriff's seizure has
stopped the show?lends the way to
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Sankey'a stable. With the sheriff and
the .acrobat go a policeman and the
manager of the circus pro tern.
They have reached the stable yard
in an auto just previous to the arrival
of Quabba with his monkey and pony
and street piano cart that he stables
bene. While Quabba faces Luke Lovell
at the alley's mouth, the sheriff
with the acrobat and others are in the
stable. Sunkey has been hi the loft
searching vainly for the diamond,
where he ihld it beneath the hay. He
comes <down the ladder and faces the
sunlight from the opeu door, and there
between him and the daylight, gleaming
like a star, dangles from the hay
rack over ithe pony's empty stall the
diamond from the sky!
Just hk Sunkey grasps the diamond
from where it had been left unseeu
by Quabba .In Ills pony's hay the sheriff
and his party are at the door and grab
ttie slinking stableman.
Out from the place they struggle, the
diamond glittering In the sun. clutched
in San key's grimy hand, that is in turn
clutched by the others. In wresting it
from the desperate stableman the diamond
Is parsed almost against the eyes
of Quabba and '.Luke Lovell. who have
hurried ujwu the scene from tlie alley
mouth at tlie tiret sounds of the struggle.
How well they know that dazzling
Jewel! It had been a fortune for them
both, n fortune briefly held and quickly
lost!
The next day the papers ring with
fhe account of the recovery of the diamond.
the aftermath of the grout circus
tragedy. The mine of the diamond
can hardly l?e estimated, the Los Angeles
papers suv. There are conflicting
stories as to how it came into the
possession of the dead circus proprietor.
This only is known: It will be
sold at sheriff's auction as an asset of
flte Santley circus, bankrupt.
Homer (Sraydon. millionaire, reads
the story. Homer flraydon is old In
years, but. as he says, "young at heart."
Wicked at heart would be the truer
saying.
CHAPTER XLVI.
"I Am Not John Powclll"
T her arrival in Los Anjxelos
XtQi Vivian Murston uu/acted the
/' ft attention of 1 loinor (Iraydon,
a cm;noisst-ar ot' lair woin- |
on. Since tiu> ueeidoiit to .lotui Low - ;
oil. t lit* newly rich ymii:; oil and
miniim man. it ?mor <?ra.\d; n h :s soon
liltIc of Vivin ^inrston. I'ur ii somas
slio is an old ft lend oi' Powell and old
friend of Plair Stanley. ilio \ on tin tapilalisl
and relative from tlio oast, now
in charge of Powell's aliairs. She is
also an old friend, it would appear, of
Dr. l>urai.d. Powell's ptivato pii.vsien.n.
"In fact. Vi." says (Iraydon to that
fair charmer, "you sooin to ho an old
friend to everybody but me in this 1
town." I
Vivian sinilid. She has mot (Iraydoa
in the park by telephone appointniont.
Now that her charge has recovered Miss
Marshal. who so capably nursed him
has time for her social oimancinoids
amiin. She mil. t be tactful in social
matters, however.? as Iilair is .jealous!
and Inirand suspicions. Dut (Jraydon
is t< o ^ood a friend to lose, accord
im; to .Miss .Marsion's "way of think
in;:, and unknown to the others eon
A ...
<trued she lias driven to tin* park ami
kept her su let appointment with the
alii 1-iSlil.
"You liavv I) M'li cruel ami neylcet fmI
of mo. Yi." cent in lies (Ira.vilon. '"Hut j
litre is somei hiuj? in the paper that
may interest you. You ale < rar.y about
< 1 i:1114< nils, and I romenil.er your telling
me ul' a wonderful one that broke your
heart when it was taken from you by
train robbers. It was a wild story, and
1 eannot say I believed it. Hut there
>eoni to be stranyo tragedies about biy
<lianionds. ilere. the paper says, is a
wonderful one Uhat canst d a triple tra
yedy the o'.her day at the circus."
Vivian paled as he showed her the
newspaper account. "Yes. ! know."
she said. "I was there. It was a wonderful
diamond and"?she faltered?"a
dreadful trayedy."
Ilut she does net tell him the diamond
was the veritable yon she lost.
1 lomer (Irjiyd .ui was a materialist. He
was skeptiea of much he saw. and he
believed little of what he heard.
"He. he!" cackled the old man. "The
papers are full of wild yarns that
the circus owner yave the diamond to
the lady lion tamer, and the clown, her
husband, told his friend, the old lion,
the lady was unfaithful. The lion
killed the lady; the husband killed the
yiver of the jewel. Then the lion
pawed the bauble from tlie (lead woman's
neck. and a stableman stole it.
Uouauitic. to say the least, eh. what?"
"1 was there," repeated Vivian. "I
saw it all. The papers speak the
truth."
"Well, if you will he a good little girl
I'll go to the auction and buy this wonderful
diamond for you." chuckled the
,.i/i i.?..I ?.
Dm Di'ii \ i \ am.
"Will you?" asked Vivian eagerly.
"I will if you promise to give up
these 'old friends' who have recently
monopolized you. Old friends? Pooh!
Never mind old friends. Stick to good
friends and you'll wear diamonds."
"I will stick to good friends who
get me the diamond," retorted Vivian
"It is well enough to criticise my old
friends, as you call them, but they
have promised me ttie diamond too."
"ill get it for you. I'll outbid them
if it costs every eent 1 have!" cried
Graydon excitedly.
Vivian smiled at the thought of the
compliment to her charms that sevcra
1 would bid for the diamond for hef
sake. Let the cost be what It may,
the diamond from the sky would be
hers, no matter who bought It.
Then Vivian bade goodby to Graydon
and drove away. During her absence
from the Powell mansion there
i were callers she might have recognlz
W
Vivian P?/tarston Attracted tho Att?n>
tion of Homer Graydon.
I'd. Tlio llrst was Luke Lovell. set and
determined upon what he called "liav- j
iipr a stjuare deal."
Luke Lovoll had encountered Blah i
earlier in the day. and the suave man !
ner of Blair puzzled Luke. Blair told
liini that he (Lukin was well within
his rights in demanding a share of the
xpo' IA i t Imr's weall h.
"Call at the house." said Blair, "and
kick up a row. You'll tret yours, tot
I'll hack you up."
The i when Luke had departed from
the oilier Mlair called up the police and |
.old them a tlireaicniint fellow ??us
lanjrimr around tile IVweil mansion
evidently hent on hlackinad.
Another culler at the Louoll house
was Mann.iduke Smytlie. loaal representative
of '.he Lurls of Stanley. He
a* 1 never ni"t Arthur Stanley. Arthur
heinvr a fipr'tive from Virginia when
Sill Vt ho had collie to not If v li 111 lie \v .<
Larl of Stanley. Put l'lake. the 15it'll
inoial date tive. had given Stnythe a
letter to ".John Powell" in Los Airholes.
Plaice informing Sinythe that I'owe'l
eotth! tell him something of the missing
Arthill* Stanley.
As Vivian arrives an<l after LnUa
left Sinythe has called and has been
"I am not John Powell, but Arthur
Stanley of Stanley Hall!"
I
admitted. Flushed with wine and enlivened
with drugs. Arthur is wild and
boastful. Stuythe produces a newspaper
and speaks of the circus tragedy
and recovery of the great diamond.
Suddenly Arthur dashed down ins
j wine glass and stood erect.
"It is the diamond l'roin the sky!"
he cried. "I will buy It at the auction.
! If you are the lawyer of the Far Is of
Stanley, listen: I am the earl! 1 am not
John Powell, but Arthur Stanley of
' Stanley hall!"
Blair and Durand and De Vaux. who
: were present, started in surprise at
this announcement. The lawyer's Jaw
I dropped, lie stepped back a pace and
fell backward over Itis chair,
j Just then tlie servant announced that
a rough fellow was at the door who
demanded to see Mr. Powell and Mr
Blair Stanley,
i Ttie party lteft the library and cross
I ed to the door. Luke had followed the
butler In. and Blair and Durand wlthi
out ado seized the gypsy and thrust
i him out
A policeman was waiting, and Luke,
straggling and protesting, was thrown
into an automobile and taken to the
station house, the others going along
as complaining witnesses.
At the station house Luke, strangely
silent now, was searched.
A claspknlfe and some silver colli
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ww all-that whu found upon liim. ami I
then the HKitk^iituU UahCil ft tun an <>b- I
score |wbM a small. cioamHl. stained I
slip of jiniHT. It was a broken tnniulu 1
baud, such im are put around packages I
of banknotes. Printed on it were the I
words: I
W1CLLS PAROO KXFKKSS. I
$000 I
-Over tike iienite of those closest tcr I
Liui Luke gluuced fixedly at Arthur. I
who bluuched and trembled. It was a 1
slip of paixsr such. as had l?eeu around I
the train robber treasure Arthur had J
come upon in the desert* funds upou 1
which be had founded the great Johu I
Powell fortune! I
It bad been among the bank notes I
Arthur bad given to Luke. It had been 1
hidden among tbem and Luke had held 1
to it, when the money was gone, us evi- I
deuce against Arthur, for Luke had I
suspicious where the money had come
from.
"This looks like train robbery stuff!'*
said the desk sergeant.
And then I hi rand spoke up. "1 remember
tills fellow," he said, pointing
to Luke. "I met him at a place said'
to be a train robbers' haugout at the
mining town of Mauiinoth. where Mr.
Powell here was injured some weeks
ago."
"We'll bold him till we Hiul out." said
the sergeant. "Lock him up!" (
And Luke was taken away.
By the aid of the police station- i
messenger. Luke got word of his plight
to tjuablsi and asked that List her be
brought to see him.
Quabba apprised Esther by telephone.
She had Just received n telegram
from the convalescing llugar asking
her to return to Richmond, and
Esther had just wired in reply that she
would come, guardedly adding that Arthur
seemed to he under evil Influences
licit1 and tliai she was discouraged reyardum
liiin.
At flic station house I\st her briefly
explained that Luke had been a serv- y
ant of her mother in Virginia for years 1
and that she knew him to be honest.
Quabba waited for Ksther. More
stranee eoni|ianv. ilioiiuht the serjreant.
lint Ksther spoke of Tom Hhikc. the
famous liiehmond detective, and tlie*
sereeant alisolved her from suspicion,
especially when she winsomely smiled'
and admitted she n\ms of irypsy blood.
At tlie eel! bars Luke Lu\eii seized
There Was a Buzz of Excitement as
Jehn Powell Doubled the Bid.
lis young mistress' nand ami kissed it,
while contrite tears rolled down his
bron/.ed cheeks. Iirielly he explained
what had happened.
"There is but one tiling to do." said
Esther. "Tell the truth. 1 am tired
of subterfuge and deception. 1 am
going back to my mother in Uichmond.
She has recovered, and she needs me.
1 cannot shield Arthur at the expense
of wronging any one, much as I have
loved him and much as others have
loved him. If he has done evil things
he Is not worthy of further sacrifice
and silence. 1 know Blair Stunt#..' to
he wicked, as are ail those who live in
luxury with Arthur. So tell the truth."
"No, Miss Esther," said Luke huskily;
"I will keep silent. They have double
crossed me, and I will have revenge
in my own way?the gypsy's
way."
"There is only one course to follow,
nay poor Luke," said Esther gently,
"and that Is the open and truthful
course."
"Do not mix up In this," replied
Luke earnestly. "Go baek to Hmmr
and ask her to forgive me and forget I
ever rebelled against her. 1 will attend
to my enemies and to hers. I
will not. harm Arthur if I can help It.
but on itlalr Stanley and the others I
will have my revenge for their treachery.'
Tell Hagar that when 1 can get
away I shall return to her and serve
her and you faithfully again, my little
mistress."
Luke's-determination and contrition
were so evident that Esther made no