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Torct* upon the yot iincoronetHl ht?u?l
' of the American eurl.
Down the stricken man falls li o.\<l
IIoiijj. The clattering tigure In armor
trends down the 4tc|tft and lamds over
j the crumpled. V&rthig MgUril In the
robes of an earl and from the ermlned ]
breast of the prostrate Blair a mulled;
hand draws away the diamond from
the sky'
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
A feud has existed between Colonel Arthur
Stanley and his cousin, Judgo Ltunar
Stanley, over an heirloom, the diamond
from the sky, found In a fallen meteor by
an ancestor. Also the succession to thu
Stanley earldom In England 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 thin 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 llugar,
gypsy queen, returns to Virginia with Esther.
Dr. Lee, the late Colonol Stanley's
friend, adopts Esther. Arthur Stanley, son
of Hugnr, falls in love with Esther, and so
does Ills companion and cousin, Blair
Stanley, rightful male heir of Stanley. In
stealing the diamond Blair causes the
death of the doctor^nd tritii* later to put
, the blame on Arthur, who f?Wr;3 tho gem.
Arthur Stanley eludes his pursuers and
joins iiagur, who reveals his Identity and
upbraids him for It in wild life. Needing
money, he pawns tho diamond in Rich-,
mond. At a ball, at which an adventuress,
Vivian Marston, wears tlie borrowed
Kern, Luke Lovcll, Hagar's gypsy guard,
steals tire diamond. Arthur lyaves RlohidoiuI
and to the west. Quubba. organ
grinder, befriends Esther.
Tom Blake, a detective of Richmond,
who is hired by Hugar, produces linger
prints convicting Blnir. Hagnr proposes
silence to Mrs. Stanley- as the price of
Ilagar's .and Esther's being received hi
Fairfax society. Blair strikes down 1 lagar
and steals lite linger prints, leaving !
the gypsy queen demented. M<\rtnaduke
Smytlie, lawyer, arrives to announce :
Arthur Is heir to the deceased Earl of j
Stanley. Learning Arthur Is a fugitive, lie I
seeks Blair instead. To win Vivian, Blair ,
steals tho diamond, later marrying her
and leaving for the west. Their train is i
robbed, Vivian losing the diamond, which i
a slain train robber drops in the desert [
The $100,000 he stole is found by Arthur. ,
now known as John Powell, sheep herder
J.uko Lovell, driven from the camp after
learning Ilagur's secret, leaves to seek
Blair. Hagnr Is under treatment, and Esther
Is in Riehnuvrsi ai?> tiin#%*?
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Kambl^r, knows Blair's guilt ami covets
the diamond.
The diamond Is later picked up by an
Indian woman Dr. I*oe. Arthur learns,
died of heart disease. Becoming very rich,
he buys Stanley Hall, sold at auction,
through Blake, and also provides for 11agsir
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 Dos Angeles. Du- t
rand, "kin;* of diamonds," a crook known I
to Vivian, goes to a saloon to try to dia- ;
cover the diamond. Arthur appeurs on the
scene. The diamond is lost In a melee, j
Esther saves Arthur, who la Injured, and
he goes to Boa Angeles in cure of the phy- |
8lolan-crook. Durand. The diamond la
found by two billposters, one of whom i
murders the other for it. Arthur is "doped"
by Durand, De Vaux and Vivian.
Blair makes Arthur believe he suffered
from hallucination In thinking he saw |
Esther. Duke Is "railroaded" to prison by 1
Blair. Arthur buys the diamond. Blair
kills Durand, and later Esther and Smyths
return to Virginia, the girl rejoining Hagar
at the sanitarium. The diamond is
Stolen by De Vaux He is later struck
down and the diamond taken after Duke,
aided by Quabbtf?*.?ftCjii%s Esther will
not leave llngar and t?ke her rightful
place In society. Smythe examines an old j
parchment bearing 1 In gar's pedigree The |
diamond is given by Duke to Esther, who
will not keep it. hut sends it back to Arthur.
Hngar and Esther, rejoining the
u.iv?;i wesuviiPi, Artnur, repent- j
ant ami informed of the treachery of Vlv- !
Inn and Blair, ia about to tako poison just ;
as Luke breaks into his room, but Luke i
drinks it by mistake and Is then killed by j
an auto driven by Blair. lie has taken,
some of Arthur's clothing, and the auto
disfigures him so that he is taken for |
Arthur. Blair removes-the diamond from .
Ids body. Arthur, now nameless, flies in
his aerop'ano. with wltVeh Blair litis tarn- j
pered, and Calls near Esther. 11 agar dies, j
forgiving Arthur and clasping Bather's
hand in Ids. The two, assuming rule over I
the gypsies, are married near Stanley j
Hall in Virginia. Blair, having Arthur's
money and the diamond, obtains the earldom
and is struck down by De Vaux, in
armor, in the London house of the Stanleys.
CHAPTER LIX.
Arthur Stanley Harding.
BARKED out, Smythe and the
lackeys of Stanley House hammered
at.the bolted door, while
within 'they could hear the
shrieks of Lady Vivian resounding
through the somber old Tudor mansion.
Smythe, keener titan the servants,
though not renowned for quickness of
wit, sensed that some murderous intruder,
cause of the commotion within.
had barred the great door.
The lawyer ran around to the back
-of tlie house. Just in time to see De
Vaux, who had sited the armor he had
concealed himself in. Jump through the
old Cothlc window from the stair
landing, the window turning hack and
snapping shut again.
Charging swiftly down upon the intruder,
to him unknown, the lanky
man of law made a perfect low tackle.
although he was no exponent of football.
In any case, he grabbed the hastening
I)e Vaux below the knees and
down went thief and barrister.
The diamond from the sky, which
Do Vaux still clutched. Hew from his
hand at the impact and. curving
through the air. dropped unnoticed
into the upturned hat that had fallen
upon, the grouud rffeom the lawyer's
pate. '
Meanwhile Vivian, in her coronation
robes, was bending over the stricken
form of Blair, in his court dress and
peer's attire.
Instinctively Vivian realized what
had happened. She hardly needed to
place her hand upon the hrtjufe of <
HUIr?AMI tfc*i?KgMMui
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.... wli'i !i:i<] been cnrr inv: I
?nr the tea trny from her boudoir when ' (
the soun.I of Blair** fall In the hallway i
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Vivian In Hsr Coronation Robes Hold
Blair's Stricken Form.
below unci the clanging down ,of the
discarded armor told, ho me tragedy-hud
befallen the American earl,, run ,to 'U?o
door past his countess and the bleeding
earl prone In the hallway.
With trembling fingers the footman
threw back the old bolt, and liis flightened
fellow servants, shoving and
beating outside the door, fell in almost
upon their noble master.
Blair by this time was recovering
from the dreadful blow that had been
dealt him by the mailed figure with the
battle mace.
The blood trickled down his ghastly
face and empurpled and smeared the
mihiwj suiri iroiu 01 111s conn attire
and stained the ermine of his coronation
robes. Vivian held his stricken form.
With a sickening pang at her bean
Vivian realized there would I e no
immp and ceremony for Blair, earl of
Stanley, and Vivian, his fair countess,
to grace this day. George, king of
Great Britain, emi>eror of India and
ruler of dominions beyond the seas,
would be crowned today, surrounded
by the nobles of his realm, but the
American Earl of Stanley and his lady
would not be there.
Something of this must have passed
through Blair's dulled, aching consciousness.
"Stop him! He struck me
down! The diamond is gone!"
Me gasi>ed and fumbled at bis blood
stained finery as be spoke.
The Gothic window had closed back
in place. Seemingly the armored assailant
bad vanished as if by magic.
Only the heap of old mail aocouterments
and helmet On the tloor told how
the murderous intruder had hidden.
The servants stood open mouthed
and helpless as Blair rose to bis feet,
assisted by Vivian, and then he roused
to drive them out by his fierce commands
and curses.
The struggle at the back of the house
was strenuous, but brief. The doughty
lawyer was no match for the younger
and more muscular Do Vuux.
Throwing Smylhe aside and striking
and kicking him viciously. Do Vau.x
sprang to his feet and made off just
as the servants, followed by the earl
and his lady, came around upon the
scene. *
Suspicious and ever distrustful of
Smythe, Blair refused to believe the
lawyer had attempted to stay the mysterious
assailant who had struck him
down and borne away tlie diamond.
Forgetting his grievous wound and
the blood that trickled down his livid
face. Blair screamed hoarsely in his
wild' frenzy of ' linger and chagrin.
"Pack your things I" he shrieked.
"You were In the plot: you were an
accomplice, and I'll have your life for
it!"
Vivian paled; a chill went through
her being. "Come, come!" she whispered
tensely. ' "Come, dear; let us go
into the house. You are badly hurt,
and the diamond Is gone. Never mind,
we will recover It!
"Everything will he all right; yes.
everything will be all right!" And for
the first time in her wicked life that
pity which is akin to love filled her
heart with a deep affection.
After all. wicked as he was, Blair
was a man who had fought his way,
unscrupulously and desperately, it is
true, but he had fought and never
whlmi>ered?and for her! And In thi>?
111 hour preceding more evil days to
come Vivian felt a wild affection for
the stricken man beside her which was
never to falter nor weaken.
In faraway Virginia there are love
and happiness, increased, and greater, }
in the Joyous hearts of Esther and Ar- s
thur in the sweet, dear year that has <
passed. \
At the gypsy rendezvous, unvislted
by the outside world, Arthur and Esther,
man and wife, have seep the hap- }
py year speed by and la its coarse |
bring: them their heart's jnhn 1
child. 1
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THE HOBRY HERA
Again * Joyous gypsy festival, the
christening of the little gypsy prime.
Again the stranger minister, who was
brought to oliiciute at their wedding
from distant Richmond, comes.
This time there is no such wild rev
elry us tit the maypole we lding, which
so amazed and interested the good
man. But once again the gyps.v miistciuiis
play. and. once again Qu&Uhu is
drunk with joy.
At the hillside fountain that gushes
in a crystal stream Into the hollow
trough that Is nature's own christen i
ing font tlie minister from Richmond j
dips his lingers and sprinkles the son j
of Esther and Arthur and says. "1 i
christen thee Arthur Stanley Harding." j
Then, after the christening feast and I
the strange gypsy rites by which e i
man child is tuken Into the tribe, the
parson departs, wondering, as he has
wondered before, what strange gypsies
are these who are ruled in love and
kindness by a young king and queen
bearing every evidence in speech and
action of education and refinement.
But that is their secret, and the good
man respects it and goes as he has
come and sa.vs no word to any one, us
he has pledged himself to do.
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When the pursuit of the murderous
thief had halted and when Blair had
been helped back to ids chambers in ;
Stanley House the still bewildered ,
Smythe, dully smarting under the tin- j
Just accusation of Blair, bad retrieved ,
his hat and absentmindedly had placed j
it upon his head.
He winced as he felt a sharp, heavy
object fall down within the crown and
rap him smartly on the skull. He
scratched his head and then in mild
surprise felt his fingers entangled in a
jeweled chain. lie drew It down and
gazed at it. dumfounded.
4,Mj' word," he said, "if it-isn't the
bally old diamond from the sky!"
Stupid, as Blair might think, yet
wise as the serpent, as Blair might
also think, Marmuduke Smythe took
the gr<?iit Jewel and placed It carefully
In the Inside breast i>oeket of his frock j
ruur immi iiumi mmoneti mat most re
spectahle garment tightly around him.
One nfternoon a few days later when
Smytho returned to his room, h alf bedchamber.
half ol 1 library and otlice,
quarters sacred to liini as family solicitor
of the earls of Stanley for over
thirty years, lie found the present earl
busied among the papers and documents.
The curious old parchment Hagarhad
given him?the gypsy family tree of
the Hard in irs?had been tossed ujion
The Year Had Brought Them Their
Heart's Desire.
the Hour contemptuously by Blair, who
regarded it as some trumpery.
"Pack lip your things and get." said
Blair. "Your own things and nothing
hut your own things, remember."
Smythe unswered dutifully, but crisp
ly. "As your lordship wishes." and
picked up the parchment of the liar
ding gypsy genesis from the floor.
His bags were already packed, ami
lie now shouldered the gun he had car
rlcd In the wilds of America and wa?
turning to remove the deer head, the
cherished souvenir of his second visit
to the Yankee Jungles, when Blair's ex
( Puliation. "Leave that alone!" caused
him to wheel around startled.
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m utr mm wcm on pointed back over I
Smythe's shoulder, and the heav.v
charge of shot struck the doer head
fair between the eyes. The impact
loosened whatever hound the deer head
to the wooden mount.
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South Carolina is well represented
in the United States army, and her
30ns are willingly answering their
country's ca^. Some are already on
the Mexican border.
An infant chii i ^ *rlr. and Mrs. 0.
P. Evans of Bowman swallowed a
Tiedium sized safety pin on Tuesday
norning. The child has been tdken
to Columbia for treatment.
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Greenville, S. C.?The feature ol
the campaign meeting here was C. L
Blease's attack on Governor Man
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W. McLaurin on Treasurer E. T. Carter.
The crowd numbered 1,500 persons.
John T. Duncan made his usual
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Governor Manning, the third speaker,
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the glorious record of the Palmetto
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At the conclusion of his speech h?
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Cole L. Blease, the last speaker, at
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