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SIX "
The Diamoi
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By ROY L.
C +r>y righted 1915, by Roy L
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP
TERS.
A feud has existed between Colonel Arthur
Stanley and his cousin. Judge I.a:r..u
Stanley, over an heirloom, the diamond
from the skv, found In a fallen indoor by
an ancestor. Also the succession to the
Stanley earldom in Kngland may come to
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,
having had no part in this bargain, steals
tlie girl, lOsther, reared in secret, and
leaves her son undetected as the heir. The
JSJ ?>?.> IlilES UUUIIIR'U possession OI llie lliamond
from the sky, and a document with
the Stanley secret. Years later llagar,
gypsy queen, returns to Virginia with Mather.
Dr. Dee. the late Colonel Stanley's
friend, adopts Esther. Arthur Stanley, son
of llagar, falls in love with Esther, and 30
does his companion and (^>usin, Blair
Stanley, rightful inaTe heir of Stanley. In
Ktealing 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 llagar, 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 Marston, wears the borrowed
'gem, Luke Lovell, llagar's gypsy guard,
stealg the diamond, Arthur leaves Richmond
find goes fo the wesf. Quabba, organ
grinder, befriends Esther.
Tom Blake, a detective of Richmond,
who is hired by llagar, produces finger
prints convicting Blair, llagar proposes
silence to Mrs. Stanley as the price of
Tlagar's and Estl .being received in
Fairfax society, i r strikes down Ila<gar
and steals the linger prints, leaving
the gypsy queen demented. Marmaduke
Smythe, lawyer, arrives to announce
Arthur Is heir to the deceased Earl of ,
Stanley. Learning 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 the desert
The {100,000 he stole is found by Arthur,
now known as John Powell, sheep herder.
Luke Lovell. driven from the camp after
learning llugnr's secret, leaves to seek
Blair, llagar is under treatment, and Esther
Is in Richmond society. Abe Bloom,
gambler, knows Blair's guilt and covets
the diamond.
The diamond is later picked up liy^an
Indian woman Dr. Lee. Arthur learns,
died of heart disease. Becoming very rich,
ho buys Stanley Hall, sold at auction,
through Blake, and also provides for llagar
and Esther
Vivian is saved from drowning by Powell.
who Is infatuated by her. Smythe
finds the diamond and gives it to Esther
to deliver to Arthur
Blair joins Vivian in Los Angeles. Dura
nd, "king of diamonds," a crook known
to Vivian, goes to a saloon to try to discover
the diamond. Arthur appears oh the
scene. The diamond is lost in a melee.
Esther saves Arthur, who is injured, and
be goes to Lofl Angeles in care of the physician-crook,
Durand. The diamond is
found by two billposters, one of whom
murders the other for it. Arthur is "doped"
by Durand, I >e Vaux and Vivian.
Blair makes Arthur y?oiw>v? im on
< <] from hallucination hi thinking he saw
Esther. Luke is "railroaded" to prison by
Blair. Arthur buys the diamond. Blair,
trying to take the gem from Durand, who
steals it from Arthur, hurls Durand from
a. window, killing him Esther and Smythe
return to Virginia, the girl rejoining I lagar
at the sanitarium. The diamond is
stolen by Do Vaux. He is later struck
down and the diamond taken after Luke,
aided by Quabba, escapes Esther will
not leave Hugur ami take her rightful
place In society. Stnvthe examines an old
parchment bearing Hagar'n pedigree. The
diamond Is given by Luke to Esther, who
will not keep It. hut sends It hack to Arthur.
Hagar and Esther, rejoining the
gypsies, travel westward. Arthur, repentant
and Informed of the treachery of Vivian
and Blair, Is about to take poison Just
as Luke breaks Into his room, but Luke
drinks It by mistake and is then killed by
an auto driven by Blair. He has taken
some of Arthur's clothing, and the auto
disfigures him so that he is taken for
Arthur. Blair removes the diamond from
fils body. Arthur, now nameless, flies in
tils aeroplane, with which Blair has tampered,
and falls near Esther, ilagar is
4ylng.
? X
nd
om the Sky
McCARDEL Z2m
McCARDEL
CHAPTER LVII.
The Pauing of Hagar.
WK all deal with destiny, wittingly
or not. He who had
beeiT Arthur Stanley and
John Powell, alike wastrel
and profligate and yet fondly beloved,
had mounted the stairway of the wind
; and ridden upon the wings of the morning,.
without fear ?iHi*l*1thrt>ut hope./
He had dealt with destiny and had
won. By some miracle of the commonplace
the falling aeroplane had
struck n low. thick, sturdy tree, niul
the man plunging to death had been
thrown up into the canvas wing of the
bird machine, and so. save that he was
stunned by the Jar. had escai?ed unharmed.
'I'hn nwtiidoHni* />Knf/ul i<<>
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hands and brow, one put a brandy
flask to bis li|*< and forced a few of
its fiery drops betweeu the clinched
teeth.
All the while Rather hold his head
upon her lap and a great joy filled her
being, for she knew he lived and had
tome back to her shed of the husk of
sin and selfishness. And so when ho
opened his yea he looked into Esther's.
and they both read what their
lips could not utter?forgiveness, love
and happiness I
They bore Arthur hack to the gypsy
camp near by in wondering silence,
and then Esther relieved the gypsy
woman watching by the side of 11agar
and whispered to the dying woman.
"Can you hear a great happinessV"
A smile transfigured the wan face
of II a gar. "I know the good news you
' '
"Arthur, my dear sen, i3 here!" Hagar
murmured.
1 >rinir," she murmured. "Arthur, my
dear sou. is here!"
Prescient in the face of death. Ilagar
also knew that the husk of evil had
fallen from Arthur and that the winjjfs
of the morning had wafted clean
strength to his soul.
He leaned his head against that lovln^r.
tired breast an 1 knew full, deep
and satisfying?that a mother's prayer
was indeed a charm against harm,
above all diamonds!
In those few moments of deep rap
tare Ilairar realized at last that all her
sorrows and sacrifices had not been in
vain. Her son. parted from her since
his birth hour, was in her arms at
last?the man she had always hoped
that he would mow to be.
She laid F.sther's hand in his and
breathed a final hlessinix upon these
two she loved above all else. And so
this gentle. yet strong. heroic soul
passed to its reward.
This was the news thrtt Qua Mm
came sadly hack to find. This was
the noivs that wrenched his faithful,
humhlo soul. Hut Ksther and Arthur
did not ivooji. They felt that Ilagar
had passed In Joy beyond eomprehenshm.
and Ksther had no cause for
tears, and Arthur had cause too deep
for them.
They gazed upon the calm face of
Ilagnr hand In hand while Arthur
plcdired his vows again to lie whole of
heart and body as the dead would
wish.
4 TT.n.. I 1 t I - * ? ' -
ai in iiiiKdi IIJUI UtftMl 1111(1 TO resi
the gypsies, led by Artliur, now call
inp himself by the nnme of Hardinp.
journeyed on back to fnlr Vlrpinla to
their mountain rendezvous in the Blue
Ridpe.
The journey wns lomr and slow and
yet a happy one for the fond lovers.
As If, In truth, the evil husk had fallen
from him in the plunpe from the
elouds that Blair's treacherous tampering
with the aeroplane had caused.
*?rthur had found "the drug addiction
THE HORRY HfV
? * ^?LiL-zi__
Hurt lt<s desire pass from him.
If 1t was by a Ktrujrjrle with the
flesh be did not show it. His eyes
Jr
Tha Happy Lovers Journey Across
Nation's Breadth.
crew bright; Ills tanned faro- ff lowed
with happiness, and ever through the)
sun and shade Esther. Ills beloved.
. rode by his side, her tender hand In
his.
So. while those happy lovers journey
across a nation's breadth with the
simple jrypsy folk, how fares It with
tile uroat of earth?
How fares It with Blair Stanley and
his fair wife, who was Vivian Mars i
/
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11: 'V!
ton? Have they not. everything tlicit
hearts have iong desired?
They have the wealth of .John Pow
ell, lor Blair was next of Kin when
it was proved the supposedly dead
John Powell was Arthur Stanley, fa
gitive. They have the diamond from
the sky and the Stanley earldom, for
to these things long desired Blair also
is heir as next of kin.
And Luke Lovell. with a face crush
ed beyond recognition, lies in a western
graveyard with the nxine of Ar
thtir Stan ey on his tomb.
The physicians who examined the
dead man knew nothing of the drug
nidations of John Powell. Thov
t (light for no marks of these. The
wounds and sears on Luke's body from
his escape from prison ami other hard
knocks he had endured were believed
to he the marks of injuries that Ar
time Stanley, alias .John I'owell, had
, sustained in the brawl and riot at his
mines that had fer a while incapaci
I tated him. such time as he had been
tinder the care of the dead Inirand.
posing as his private physician. Blair
and Vivian shunned proximity to the
dead nor looked upon the crushed ini
i-oilined form au tin.
, Then lie fore Blake, the detective, or
Abe Bloom, the Richmond gambler,
the first deeming justice should he
done and the latter desiring the diamond
from the sky. could make a
; move Blair and Vivian had crossed the
I continent from Los Angeles and had
, sailed for London.
Blake waited cautiously to strike. ,
, and Alio Bloom had been in too many '
I shady transactions to Ik* in any posl
tlon to make an open demand on Blair
| for the diamond, which had been
promised him in the bargain for his
! silence.
So Blair and Vivian Journeyed toIyomlon
and were received, with som;
ill grace, by Marmaduke Smytbe, for a
lifetime solicitor and family lawyer to
tlwt (Uirla t\f Win iiloit
v >i\ i? in v/i l?l 1.j icj
Hut Marmnduke Smythe did Ids duty
iih he saw it. lie had all the e red en
tin is. and In due time Hlnir was in
| ducted into the house of lords. This
brief and somewhat bald ceremony
was not at all satisfying to the luxury
and display loving Vivian.
She had sat in the peeress' gallery
in ordinary afternoon attlve and had
seen Blair introduced to the lord ehan
cellor by a fat and stupid old baron
of the realm, whom Smythe had se
, cured to l>e Blair's sponsor.
The robes an earl wears at. ids It.
traduction to the house of lords and
at sittings of parliament are neithet
graceful nor becoming.
It was the iirst bitterness to Vivian
\vho had imagined an occasion of great
> lp, oohwAt, r o.
splendor. Blair wore an ordinaty
morning suit under bie robes, for it
was the custom. Smytbe had assured
them, and when one is u i>eer one
must do everything according to custom.
Then when Vivian and Blair were
to be presented at court, which meant
something more satisfying In costume
und ceremony. King Edward VII. died
and King George V. reigned in his
stead. There was the usual |s?riod of
mourning and no royal drawing room
until after the coronation.
The coronation! That was worth the
waiting, for it meant the only occasion
a |>eer and his noble lady may wear
their coronets and the more graceful
and beautiful coronation rolies.
Here. too. the diamond from the sky
could 1k? worn, literally, as the ad veil
Mirer. Sir Arthur Stanley, who found
It in a meteor three centuries before,
had desired. "When n descendant of
my body shall 1h? called to the English
earldom of the Stanleys!"
Sovwhije Vivian ami Bi dr are busy
with" court tailors and court dressmnk
ers and are feverishly preparing for
the glories they are to he part of. an I
while day by day the suspicion and
distrust between them and Mnrinaduk<
Sinythe grow in Intensity, let us retur
to America and to the gypsy folk.
The gypsies had reached Virginia and
the neighborhood of Fairfax. The cur
avan moved on under the leadership
of Quuhbfi.
Skirting around Fairfax. Arthur and
Esther rode In the twilight and stoodi
nt the-portals of Stanley Ilall. Tliv>|
place was barred and bolted and fast!
falling to decay. Weeds rankled on
the once well kept lawns and dower
beds.
A weather stained, discolored sign.
"For Rent.1* hung by rusty nails to one
of the great pillars. A whlppoorwill
called mournfully from the shrubbery
CHAPTER LVIII.
rving Arthur harries CJueen Esther.
rn or IRTKKSS oI Stanley Hall.
iWH List her. nty wife to bo. 1
salute you!" said Arthur in
deep earnestness as he drew |
list her to him. "Too long ha\ e \ ou been
cheated of your birthright. ! am not
guilty of any wrong except to you, and
you have forgiven me. Ulnir St aide;,
is guilty of the death of I)r Lee. and
I feel sure that Blake has the ptvofs
"The time has come when, for you:
sake, the truth must he known, and ,
you must take your place in this state
l.v home of your people, where I due .
so long an Impostor to foster the a:nhi
tions of the dead and to augment their
feu-Is tttul hat re is."
leather shuddered and threw Itcrsel'
into Ids arms. "No. Artliur!" she erie I
"I have never been happy here! Let tit '
dead and their secrets ret in ft" grave.
"Rich and of position, you know m>
happiness, nor would I. It was no,
your dying mother's wish, I know |
Looking into the faee of death, sh * saw j
clearly. All she dusire.l was that we i
should be happy together
"When last within this gloomy house
with her I asked for a sign, ami it was
given to me. And I repeat this to yon
as we repeated it together th t night:
" Tintreat me not to leave thee or to
return from following after thee. fo. \
whither thou goest 1 will go. an ! ]
Vivian and Blair Make Merry In Lon*
don.
where thou lodgest I will lodge. Thy
people shall be my people and thy God
my God.' "
And as the twilight turned to darkness
these two rode away from Stanley
hall to dwell unknown, obscure,
among the simple gypsy |>eople who
loved them.
Here the astute Tom Blake of Richmond
found them, and here he brought
a copy of the proofs of Blair's guilt,
the linger print markings from the
murder scene, the library where Blair
had slain the kind old doctor. Henry
Lee. in his first attempt to gain the
diamond from the sky.
Blake pleaded with Arthur to halt
Blair In the hour of his supposed triumph.
hut Esther and Arthur refused.
71>ct Blair have the Powell millions;
let him have Stanley Hall; let him have
the earldom In England and the diamond
from the sky,'* said Arthur. "We
have more than all these things, for in
casting them aside we have found
love and happiness!"
"Your mother, Hngnr Harding, was
my best friend. Shq gave me my start
I
I *"
in life." said Blake huskily. "I will
abide by your wish. Abe Bloom usiwcta
much, but kuows little regarding
Blair Stanley.
"Bloom dare not move unless I say so
and I can hold him quiet. Even near
Fulrfax you will uever be recognised
In the gypsy.^Arthur Harding, by the
people who knew you us Arthur Stan
ley.
"The few short years have chnuged
you. but It is different with Miss Es
ther Stanley here. Who could not tell
her? You cnnuot keep the secret on
this account. I know."
"This is a sheltered place which only
the gypsies know the way to. only the
g.vjwles. with the exceptlou of yourself."
replied Arthur. "You know the
way because my mother taught you.
and you know the Homany password
that admits you past the outer vans.
"This Is the old rendezvous of my
mother. The gypsies own the very
land. We will not be here loug?only
for our wedding, which will be a gypsy
one. None but a Romany ?hti be at
the wedding?none but youVror you*
were adopted Into the triln? as a boy.
I am told."
"Yes. I was picked tip by your mother
n starved and wretched lad. a runaway
from a miserable almshouse in
the middle west." replied Blake softly
"I was adopted Into llagnr's tribe, fed.
lotbed and educated by your mother.
"But I cannot come to the wedding.
I /think-you are wrong, and 4 could not
C'hetir to see the mistress of Stanley
hall wedded as a gypsy when she
should bo wedded as her mother was?
the way her people have been.
"You will pardon ine for speaking
r from nry heart?"
Esther smiled. "You are too serious.
Mr. Blake." she said "It is the only
I way I would be wed. You may be an
adopted gypsy, and Arthur may bo a
born one. but of us three I am the
real Romany, and I will have the wedding
of a gypsy queen and none other!"
But in the privacy of his sanctum in
life
p? //) tf^Si
Pi HK%Swff|
And So King Arthur Marries Queen
Esther
his Richmond agency the next dav
Blake suiiled to himself us he said:
"Blair Stanley, you destroyed one set
of proofs when you struck down Ha
gar and wrested them from her. Ar
thur destroyed the set I took to him
hut Tom Rlake had tlie originals!"
Then he sighed and gazed at a por
trait of llagar that l*mg upon the
wall of his sanctum. The picture was
inscribed from llagar to Rlake. The.
eyes of the portrait seemed living ones
in the earnest gaze of the detective.
"You are dead." he said, "but your
spirit lives, I know. Whatever was the
wish of your steadfast heart that
thing shall be accomplished, and per
haps I yet shall be the instrument of
it!"
He spoke prophetically. In far away
Loudon the sincerely faithful lawyer
Suiythe writhed in secret protest at
the title having come to Blair and
Vivian while the two dine and make
merry lii London's famous restaurants
Smythe had seen I>la|r take his seat
in the house ol* lords, and no word
cuine from Blake, although he had cabled
the Richmond detective to send
prooffc of Blair's guilt and secure u
requisition
Blake now went to this latter task.
But, influential as lie was. he found
the Virginia Jurists were averse to
moving in the matter. After long delay
lie secured with all the secrecy
possible a warrant for Blair and a
| requisition to return him to America,
and this he sent to Smythe.
Meanwhile In the fastness of the
Blue Ridge there is a royal wedding,
the nuptials of royulty in Romany.
King Arthur marries Queen Esther,
and gypsies from all over the lund
have gathered for the event. There is
a maypole, and there is music, and
there are garlands.
The vans are garlanded; the little
children strew flowers and the elder
gypsies bear branches of blossoms to
form a flower archway for the royal
young couple. The goats and horses
are garlanded. Quabba wears a garland
and a big bridal favor and leads
the gypsy musicians, who play all the
while the merry Romany wedding
j strains.
0k T* Mr*
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Clarence. the monkey, bt? a wedding 1
favor uiid wears a garland and ti* 1
-made to beat iu* trlungle. though. 1. I
sooth. Clarence Is cynically Indifferent 1
being a bachelor by lustinct. I
And so the maypole ribbons an I
twined, and so the wedding dnnct I
goes on. aud so at sunset the royai I
pair. King Arthur and Queen Esther. I
jump over the gypsy broomstick held I
by Quabba?and so they are married. J
But because Esther is a Stanley of I
the blood a minister Is brought from I
Richmond to marry them In the con- I
reutlonal manner also. And the mlti* I
Ister comes and goes and wonders. I
Then the happy, dancing gypsies I
light them to the royal ran with flnm-l I
beaux and return to dance and drink i I
and sing beneath the moonlight by the, I
maypole. i I
But the royal pair steal n way unseen 1 1
and clamber up the sheer hillside, aud I I
from a great rock pinnacle they sit 1
embraced and watch the moon, like a J
shield of sjlver caiMbe wall of heaven, ]
hhng oVer the duBP^rale below. ' j
On sucli a night the dapper Count de I
Vatlx. once "knave of clubs of the dlu- I
mond pack." sits In Ids bachelor chum- ]
hers In London and reads again the
coronation story that tells that on the
morrow George V. and Queen Mary
Klin 11 he crowned with pomp In Westminster
Abbey.
He reads that Bhilr. earl of Stanley,
and- his countess, who was Vivian
Mnrston. will ho auiong the privileged
tdvh horn present
The American earl. so*ks.vs the London
newspaper, will wear the famous
Virginia Jewel, the diamond from the
sky. wldch. according to family tradition.
was found In a fallen meteor by a
colonial ancestor,(rpi.
?-> i
i in* rum >imi < outness of Stanley
nn? residing in London nt Stanley
House. Mnyfair." concludes the article.
And the dapper Do Vaux lays aside
tho papor and uoos ant He takes a
cnh .and rides to the neighborhood of
Stanley House. Mnyfair. It fronts
Ilrrenfs park and is a detached old
edifice ??r Tudor architecture
Dismissing the cab. Do V;>ujc
watches and loiters till late, lie sees
against a window shade of Milady
Stanley's chamber the silhouetted reliecj
ion of his nobte lord, ihe earl,
cl;.spina the diamond from the sky
around the shapely throat of the Countess
of Stanley!
The next day' the earl and Ids lady
a re tip early, att iring themselves in
l heir coronation robes, for the crush
wi I I e jrroat. and they must be in their
state cone 11 to the abhey in due time
Lawyer Smythe in his Cothie chumher
in the old house is not happy. He
has received his con^e from the noble
earl, my lord Blair. and. besides, lie
has not h< ard from Blake, the Bicli- i
I1M/1MI UO 1 I'l l I \ l*.
"1 lonjj in my soul." muses the ec- j
centric lawyer. "to have his lonls!:i|>
arrested iti t!ie vi ry doorway of the J
ahhey and drayryed to Xewunte in fetters!
Though that would make tlm
dead and p.one earls of Stanley turn I
in their stately graves!"
As if in answer to his wishes a flunkey
taps at his chamber door and announces
that the postman is below
with a registered package for him;
and. taking his hat. without which he
Lawyer Scnythe It Not Happy.
never at Irs outdoors, Smytlie descends
to the portals of Stanley house. ^
Called to my lady's boudoir as he
passes In the corridor, the lackey informs
the questioning lord of the registered
mall package for Smythe.
Fearful of some bitter disappointment.
fearful o'f.;hls criminal past in
Amer^cM."'Blair, earl of Stanley, leaving
the lackey to do some service for
the Cotintess Vivian at Iter tiring, bur
ntfH uuwii in uuvKrent uotuie stairway
to Intercept any ill omened tuessnge
that may hnve come from America to
Smythe.
On his breast ithere gleams the diamond
from theeky that the American
earl would wear .Into his earldom, as
the ancestral finder bad decreed.
The flunkeys usually loitering In she
hall have been.drawn by curiosity to
follow the family lawyer out to the
mall man waiting with receipt book
and the registered package.
Aa Blair, ninth, earl of Stanley, reaches
the last landing of the Gothic stairway
the armor of Sir UeofTrey Stanley
of Agincourt'ls- behind him. Then
the mailed arm.!* silently uplifted and
then It descends,: bringing the battle
mace k holds down with crushing