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A""? The Diamoi ! Fr By ROY L. . Copyrighted 1915, by Roy L This instalment of this ro-1 mantic novel and absorbing narrative will be shown in mo-! Hon pictures at The Casino Theatre on Thursday afternoon ud night. , ' I $10,000 For 1,000 Words or Less i For an Idea For a Sequel to "THE DIAMOND FROM : THE SKY" The American Film Manufacturing Company's Picturiied Romantic Novel In Chapters. This contest iu open to any man, woman or child who is not conr.ee 'c?l, directly or indirectly, with the I ilm Company or (he newspapers publishing the continued story. No literary ability is necessary to quality as a contestant. v.-.., . .j..: 1 a it a\ 1 a v> u niv liuviuvU lU C.CC U(C t'JIllll^Ul'U , photo play in the theaters where it will be shown to read the story as it rur.a every week, and then cend in your suggestion. Contestants must confine their contributions for the sci;u;l to 1,000 forums or less. ju rs the idea that ?s wanted. ; i ? II I I II I I ? M. . I I II I. I I I - * SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPI TERS. A feud hos existed between Colonel At*- | tliur Stanley nn?l bis cousin, Judge Lam ir 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 cQ'.:e to , an American. When a daughter is ben to the colonel and the mother dies tlio "vuolQt.iel buys a gypsy boV and substitutes Jllm. Tim e years later the gypoy mother, having had ho part fii this bargain, steals <the girl, Esther, reared fn secret, f.pd leaves her son undetected as the heir. The gypsy has oblalueu possession of the diamond from the sky. and a uwouinovrt- with th^ Stanley sec'el. Years later Hagar, 1 ^gypfiy queen, returns to Virginia with Esther. Dr. Lee, the late Colonel Stanley's friend, adopts Esther. Arthur Stanley, son of Hagar, falls in love witb J-lsther, and so ( docs his companion anoL .ill'i!1' Stanley, "rigniful in.ife I.yir o? Shuney. In ' ^gtea.ljiij^ Jhe diamoiul Blair causes tho death of the doctor and tries later to put th6 blaihG on Arth\ir4 who takes the gem. ^ Arthur Stanley eludes Ids pursuers and Joins llngar, who reveals his identity and upbraid^ him for his wikl life. coding money, he pawns the diamond in Richmond. At a ball, at which an adventure ess, Vivian MarstoiU wear^ t.h?j borrowed , Keni, liUno l.ovell, iiasar s gypsy guard, steals the diamond. Arthur leaves Richmond and goes to the west. Quabba, or* can grinder, befriends Km her. Tom Blake, a detective of Richmond, xv 11o is hired l>y Hagar, produces linger prints convicting 1'.} '.v. llagur proposes "fTIeneo to Mrs. St ' V as tlie price of IIagar's and Kstlx . j bch#g received in ( Fairfax society. Ill iir strikes down linear ami steals the linger prints, leaving the gypsy queen demented. Mariuuduke Smythe, lawyer, arrives to announce Arthur is heir to the deceased Karl of Stanley. Reaming Arthurian fugitive ho seeks Blair instead. To win Vivian, Blair steals t!)e dinmon I, later m irrying her , and leaving for the wosi. Their train is robbed, Vivian losing the diamond, which a slain train robber drops i:i the dese't The $100,00:J he stole is found by Arthur, now known as .John Powell, sheep herder Iajko Lovell, driven from the e.imp after learning 1 lagar's secret, leaves to seek 131alr. llngnr is under treatment and Bathe** is in Richmond society. Abe l.lonn, gambler |>javy lilair's guilt and covets the diamond. i The diamond is later picked up by an Indian woman Dr. Lee, Arthur learns, died of heart disease. Becoming very rich he buys .Stanley hall, sold at auction, through Blake, and also provides for I lagar and Kstlier. Luke Lovell buys the din III 'IHI I I Ulll 111!" ?l|Uil W, Dill IU>>C3 II 111 il Vivian is save I from drowning by Powell, who is infatuated by her. Sniytho finds t)ie di'unonil ami gives it to Esther to deliver to Arthur Blair joins Vivian in Bos Angeles. Durand, "king of diamonds," a crook known to Vivian, goes to a saloon to try to discover the diamond. There ho meets I.uko Lovell. Esther and Arthur appear on tho scene. The diamond is lost in a melee. Esther saves Arthur, who Is injured, and lie goes to Los Angeles in care of tho phy Iclnn-erook, Durand. Esther follows and is refused admittance to see hitn. In the meantime the diamond Is found by two bill posters, one of whom murders tho other for it. Arthur is "doped" by Durand, l>e Vaux and Vivian, although Biair, who has taken charge of Arthur's business affairs, protests. Blair makes Arthur believe he suffered from hallucination In thinking he saw Esther. I.uko is "railroaded" to prison by Blair. Arthur buys the diamond, and then later gives a costume hall at which Esther appears. Vivian insists that ho choose between them. Blair, trying to take the diamond from Durand, who i etenls It frotn Arthur, hurls Durand from a window, killing him. Esther and Rmythe return to Virginia, the girl rejoining Hagnr at the sanitarium. The diamond is stolen by De Vaux, who assumes the name l^ancia, and hides with it. He is struck down und the diamond taken after Luke, ided by Quahba, escapes. Esther will not leave Hagar and takes her rightful place In pooiety. Smythe examines a curious old parchment bearing Ilagar's pedigree CHAPTERR LI 11. Hi om the Sky McCARDEL McCARDEL Again at Stanley Mall. 1!UlvJS IjOVELL. forgetting his re cent -.hurts in the Jail delivery. j forgetting his limp which he hud favored to further disguise hiui, fled out* of the Italian boarding house nud through the deserted wine garden with the diamond from the sky. Even after she had brought another Jump to t lip so charming Slgnor Lancia * room Siyuora Solari was in excitement. In fact she broke out into loud crjes of "Assassins!" "Robbers!" and "Police!" and ere she could be restrained had rushed to the doorway ; overlooking her wine garden and made the night hideous with her cries. Luke Lovoll. pausing under a light in the empty street some distance off to reassure himself he had the diamond again, heard her screams and hid the baleful jewel onrie more beneath his rags atul slipped off through the shadows. In the opposite direction, two blocks away. Policeman McCarthy and Policeman Seoult'/.. pausing to wait Cor their midnight relief, also heard the signora's cries. Rut when they reached the Solari estaoiishment the si&nora ' had quieted at the counsels of her 1 more composed daughter. They explained to the police that there had ' been a quarrel hetweou two of Hie pa- i trons, a quarrel that had greatly talarmed the signora and her daugh- i ter. since theirs, as the gentlemen of t the |x>lice knew, was a most respect a- i hie place! They were not regular patrons who \ had caused such an unseemly disturb- I ance, the siirnora further explained. Happily, as the gentlemen of the police l knew so well, the Cafe La Leila Napoli | would not tolerate custom of this kind, s The disturbers were gone. They had e Ci\ v " i .-i i .i ??. c li ? " / .-v' , i 1! ' - , t ' t I I ^ ** I I The Signora Solari Explained to the Police. nod Jit !ho l:rst condnjjf of tlio so bravo police whoa she; had cried out. the si pinru n.ldod. It was midnight, sum! their rollof was ( 4 r. 4* .. * i nu. i ; w;i!iiii^ iur 111"iii. i no poin'u were glad to escape from a morning in court with offenders and accept oil tho ox- j pian.Ut inns. it was fatod that tho ill star.o.l jeweli would I use two guests for the Cafe La' Holla Xapoli. for, routed In his danv.oi were ho caught and he ng Irked :i: his confinement and feeling sure tho cvili repute of the diamond was well found I od. i >o Ynux had hurriedly oast off the clothes ho had been wearing in hiding for tho last several weeks, and, donning his usual and more pleasing attire, the diamond thief, the last of "the pack." dropped from a hack window of tho lodging and made off down a deserted alley through the night and registered later at a hotel that pleased him bet lei than the Cafe La Holla Xapoli. In his similiters in the hayloft Qnah 1 ha was aroused by tho presence ol Luke, and in the moonlight that streamed through the open window ol the toft Luke showed him the diamondi from the sky. Qunblm crossed himself and made the sign that fends otY the evn eye. lie una romp to neiievo the great diamond of the Stanleys was the amulet of the evil one, perhaps the1 evil eye itself. Who knows? "You are to take it." said Luke. "Take it to Virginia to our mifttress i THE HORRY HERA ? _ _____ * ' filk jflW5 HrB ^R . i Jr ?w^ V IflR^SH^mK^ !^Kj|(Lj^^_A.;-- x:?^ "We could not be parted, could we, Clarence, ecy eon?" ilagar anil our little mistress Esther. It belong* to tlieui. 1 do not want il now; I only want revenge. When I have that I. too. will .return to Virginia and serve Tin gar faitht'uijy again. Till then you take the diamond and be gone. Von have money the English lawyer gave you for your return and the shipment of the pony bu.ck. (Jive ine the price to shin hack the nonv. and while vou arc utone 1 can for! awhile ln? a simple orjrim in mi with] Ills monkey, as vou were. And who willj think to look for nie as such?" "No. no!" shuddered Quabba. "I du 1 not wish to have the evil diamond." "It will not harm you." said Luke, as aipei'stitiotts as the hunchback. "The! ( liamond from the sky is only evil to j hose who think or do evil. Your heart j s j,'oo(l. Take it! ' 1 ?ut Quabba was loath to do so. lie vjis uot so sure-?poor fellow?that hileart was nood. Hut J.uke forced tile :reat jewel upon him. Then Quabba < tad further object !ms to ih?_? plan i>ru * >osed by Luke. "It is well what yon , ay," he ventured ? "all except (Mar- i noe. We could not he partial, could j ve, Olarence. my son? We were part- ( .1 mice f? r a short while and his It. tie i M I leaft nearly broke by reason of it. ( ( Uid the monkey, as if he sensed Ids ; ( linker's words, whimpered and clnna o him. I "Well, take the monkey with you H hen." said Luke. "It may be all the ( idler, for the monkey is known as j ., our other self, while as for the pony : nd the piano cart, what does i? mat , ^ er? One pony cart and one pcnv of I , he sort is much like another, but a . uonhey?tlure i-< something that peo | ile will remenibor 1" I | So at dawn Luke, in the guise of a i Imping itinerant musician, d.'.ovo tlir | lony aml the street piano cart out , V?iiL Angefes to a dlstaut place, "?! Ill {itii? .-limped t!|^o"|(il !'?'k ! i v..- ? \ . . ? r*tr * i J Apre-s i" ?.M.ai?ha nj^ J air.ax, ocai j rlh re was i "71^?ai"il';v:vi,tiHl a her 1 >' ke h'd cut in tTie wlitis as a tramp Vorkuta n, known to the confraternity is "a blanket stiff." and worked at pelt jobs as he could j.11. 1 >III n%T hi line til t!n> search for him as an ex aped jailbird would have ( tided an :e com'?! return to Los Angeles for hi oven go. When Quablm took the train his be ng accompanied by Clarence, the inon te.v, necessitated his traveling in ill smoking ear. Fate takes us separat amiys, yet sometimes we travel closely with those whoso concerns tire ours mil we never know. In the Fullmai journeyed the dapper and furtive I >< P.Mix. !"or iho most part he kept hi ace behind a newupaj or and Iioik'c 0 1 o unse' ii. so he saw not. And f<>sever. 1 thousand miles I e Vaux. for inerly a complice and jackal to I>u rand, trnv< 1??<I in fear of the po!i< e ai 1 he vengeance of .John Powell and tin is rate 1 lair Stanley, and all tin while the priceless diamond for which! lie and his dead master had risked so1 nmeh traveled on (lie same train in i the rags of a poor hunchback with a! monkey! So Iiic months passed. To keep Ar ! 11 i i; ? from t'Pnkiug. t(? keep him eti : f i gaged that they might flirtlier enmesh and despoil b.in. Plait' and Vivian led the so called .iolin Powell fioni one, dissipation and wasteful luxury to an -j other. He strove to overcome his ad diction and the other dissipations! more or less successfully. Put his I will leu! irrnw ii won I.- :in<l liis licltcr self silenced. all of which was behold by Ins loyal manservant, Parker, tliej one faithful friend remaining to him. | with much misgiving and foreboding j At Stanley Hall, Lawyer Stn.vthe gone about his affairs to England. Es ther abode with liugnr. liugnr never | fully recovered in health from Blair's i murderous blow, though her mind was I again clear and unclouded. She plead j ed day by day with Esther that all Fairfax and all the world might kuow the truth at last. Fairfax shunned the two lone women at Stanley Hall. They were regarded as strangers and interlopers. Blair's mother had died after a paralytic stroke, and there was none now in that part of Virginia who even suspected the truth concerning Esther. Mystery clung around Stanley Hall as some evil thing. The murder of I)r I-ee afteT Esther had been his ward the flight of Arthur Stanley, believed to be the old doctor's murderer, the /I Ion rtivAn ttii a# Hlrtlft *tl^n nil 111 oil | 'I FT <1 I illlv I; Ul nillir DIUIIII7 4121 these things made food for the gossips nnd caused the gentry -of Fairfax to keep aloof. iT.T> CONWAY. 8. O. Wtr ' T| >? ? ;i/. x ^ | j Hagar Pleaded With Esther. I Matrnr 3-enlized that this was a cruel injustice to the fair young girl she so clearly loved. With Esther ostracized in a community where she should have i heen envied and sought after and with Arthur, the son for whom she had sac- ' riticed and Esther had sacriticed. a profligate and a wastrel under another name not his own. the devoted llagar reaped a harvest of heartaches, until she at last determined that Esther at least should he spared further ignominy. CHAPTER LIV. "Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee!" Esther had steadfastly refused to permit Iiagar to avow to all the world that the miss- j ing Arthur Stanley was hut , * g.vi?sy ciiaugeiing and that Esther vns the true heir of Stanley Hall, lagar determined to proclaim the I ruth and lice to her gypsy people 1 1 dice Esther's true status was known i i1 .i ? ' ? - iraii.:ni mere eoum ne no si) ial communion for the gypsy and tlit* 1 nistress of Stanley Hall. ; One night Iiagar made the vent tire ler tilings were secretly parked. Her ilent gypsy help had prepared her for leparture in the night. Esther slept. I ! ind linear crept silently hy her bed ide to prav and leave a note that von Id tell Esther of her determined . 'esolve. Hut Esther stirred and woke . md eau.trlit the weepin.tr Hatrar at the >ortals of the old mansion while yet J ler carriage waited, in loving slri'g rle Esther he;e Hatrar hack to t^:e l! | irary t'wt led seen the great tragedy f their hves. "You shall not leave me! I will die. I will kill mvse'f. if you do!" cried Es| The Mad Millionaire Is Now an Aviator! ther, throwing herself Into tho arms of Ilagar, while the tears welling from ! those two loving, steadfast hearts gave' hitter savor to the parting. But IIagar was resolved. "This dreadful lie, this living lie of twenty hitter years and more must die!" said Hngar resolutely. "Our wuj'8 lie different. The wrong of years I can undo at tho breaking of my heart, my darling eld Id!" "Ami ?t the breaking or mine! cried Esther. "What are the Stanleys to ineV What have they done for me? What will they do for me7 What will they do for you? I would rather beg my bread by your side throughout the world than dwell without you here or anywhere in every luxury that could be i>rofl"cred me. 1 swear you shall not leave me!" But llagar sobbed, yet was resolute "You are my mother, in place of he who died wlieu 1 was born. A tendei mother through all the luippy years w? dwelt together before ambition and de sire for things that are vain parted u> and brought the sorrow to our hearb that now we feel." continued Esther "I will not let you no. or if you go shall go with you!" Again she tiling herself Into the arm of 11 agar. who. though her own tear> blinded her and her own sobs choked her. endeavored to calm the shudder big. heartbroken girl. In the struggle the Bible fell from the table beside them, flngnr pieked it up as it fell open upon the tloor. "It shall lie an omen and a portent." she whispered brokenly. And. lo, her hand was upon the book of Ruth and her linger at the sixtctr.il; verse of the first chapter. With eyes scarce seeing, the twain chanted that old. sweet In spired message from on ? loyal woman's heart to another: "'And Ruth said*.1 Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for whither thou guest 1 will go. and where thou lodgest 1 will lodge: thy people shall he my people and thy God my God."* A deep hush fell upon them. Then Ilagar spoke. "It Is God's will," she said. And so that night those two, never again to be parted In this life, closed the great door of the stately house be hind thorn and journeyed on in a deep. ..I I?... * I * - r**ifiii iiiii?i?iim'ss to wilt1 re tile humble gypsy people awaited tlieiu. "Strike camp!" was llagar's cominaad when the wild and happy clamor of the wandering folk at the return of their beloved (pieen and princess had calmed. She pointed westward. No further word was sai l, hut day by day. mouth after mouth, the caravan moved ever westward, and list her knew they Journeyed to seek Arthur and to save his soul and bring hint hack from the living hell wherein he dwelt. ******* In far I .os Angeles the mad minion aire John Powell has a new toy. It is an aeroplane of the latest, most coin .dole and costliest type. Prink and 4 rug razed, the new toy tills the mad millionaire with wild, insensate height. Sliced! Speed! ile drives it like i demon, living like the lost soul he Is at maddening pace tntown the slopes jf tlie wind. "It will fall with hitn and hreak his took some day." says Ihair i<> Vivian (hiiosophically. Hlair is a true proph 1. so far as that the machine will fall, lie will take good heed that something jroaks when all is ready with his other duns. Then lie can announce and >ro\e that .John Powell, the mad tni!ionalie. shattered to death h.v his aerodane's fall, 's Artlutr Stanley, fugitive roin justice in Virginia and sometime leir to the Stanley earldom in Kng i and and to the diamond from tin* sky \rthur Stanley dead and out of the >v.av. then he. Hlair Sttmley. possesses hese honors as next of kin. f %,. I . i i z - oiiiir ut't'i>s io a r. hut's nu.inoss at 'airs while .Folui I'owcll keeps to ills kvild pleasure s. Already Blair has di rerted funds in secret that will i.ie a he wreck of the Powell enterprises at he death of Powell. Clair onl.v waits is Vivian waits, for the reappearance ?f the diamond from the sky. Put where is the diamond? Ilayar could tell and Ksilier and Ljuabba. Better still, .lolni Powell knows, for he has it safe an 1 hidden Pile one eunninju tiling he does is t<? keep this secret, for it is more than all [dse the cause of his present inure desperate evil courses. LMiabhn delivered it safely to Ilanar anil list her in due time. Put these two fed hack from it is a thin.i? accursed. They returned it sealed and carefully marked With it linear transcribed and sent the prayer that iOslher's dyiiijj mother had penned and 'placed within the locket?a moth er's prayer that the Stanley "charm against harm" should he doubly so. "Oli, child of my heart, not. a dia mond, hut a loving mother's prayer is the true 'charm against harm!' Locked in the library, Arthur had rend this message. I n manned and weakling ns he now was. he felt that the diamond was sanctioned by this prayer of a heartbroken mother ot whom he was unworthy. Though Viv ian had woven a spell around him. he felt in his secret soul it would be saeri leu'o to place the diamond around her fair white throat after it had been blessed b.v a prayer, oven though he was lost too far to heed it. it was then that the lirst wild idea <1 -.1 ? -.'i ? wi ijuii. <n-aiMii inni n iwcii .v I'l ll lir N (|]N ordered mind. lie secured u deadly and sudden poison and liid it in t.lie safe in the Ulirary together with t!te diamond and its wrappings, and the message From the heart of Ids mother, the heart he knew he had broken. Knowing he had wronged Blair and kept him from his birthright, a deep regard for Blair, wicked as he knew him to be, bad grown in Arthur's heart ?like a weed where there should have been flowers. Dimly, loyally, lie trusted Blair, trusted and loved him because he knew he wronged hhn and was not man enough to tell the truth now that tlie truth had grown a living lie through all the years. Vfvtllll CIIW<K HfYlAiJ llil tjllA 1.1 1.^/1 V m ? a?i iat wwv # (4 1MVO l?n emu 141 11^ U imirU over him. endeavored to dissuade him that Blair was but her friend, their mutual companion. Blair, constrained, submitted to this scheme, though he little knew in his jealous heart bow far the false Vivian carried it. And ever westward the gypsy caravan Journeyed, bearing the two devoted hearts that sought to save Arthur's soul. The gypsies worshiped Ksthor. and the children, whom she petted, were ber devoted followers. The caravan was within a few hundred tniles of Los Angetea when matters came to Vivian's Throat Was No Diamond Blessed by a er, Arthur Thought. a t ra orMs for t !io inn<l Vivian and Itlair wei^H w hen John I'owell's socret^H his employer's mansion I^H him the irrefutable pmof^H treachery ami showing bey^H hy the doctored accounts cheeks, how Itlair by dcvio^H ruin and that lUair had w.*^| Another tnend brought in^s, as is the wont of friei^H Arthur's devoted man scrv:H| with deep concern t lu* mac^H both Itlair and Vivian. Iu^| confidence of Vivian's xpi^H This ma ure feioal" had eyes on the dignified ai^H Parker. She had hinted she held over her mist II Parker, a fi'cct in ur to wiles of the none too [>i^| fern me de chanibre of v ^i\ en t ho secret. 11 was 11^1 ( ert ilicate ??f Vivian and in Kicliin uid t he year This tilled the cup of hi^| John Powell, some time A^| Esther Petted the Gypsy ley of Stanley Hall. False woman, and he a woakllni and dishonored?a weaklin betrayed the love of sweet broken the heart of his mother. He takes all these proofs his own and others'?his nw diamond from the sky am er's message?and lays th fore him. He Is locked luH alone. The clock nears 11 night he will drain a poisoi drink a toast to death? At this hour Ilagar and drawn ahead of the gypsy Hagar's van to hasten on of their journey. A storm I them, and Quabba, who did guides the horses beneath i of a great live oak by tl There is a blinding crash