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This contest is open to any man, woman or child who is not connected, directly or indirectly, with the Film Company or the newspapers publishing the continued story. No literary ability is necessary to qualify M a contestant. You are advised to see the continued photo play in the theaters where it will be shown?to read the story as it runs every week, and then send in your suggestion. Contestants mast confine their contributions for the sequel to 1,000 tvorcLt or lis*. It is the idea that is wanted. 8YNOP8I8 OF PRECEDING CHAPrroo I ftallW* A bitter feud exists between Colonel Arthur Stanley and his cousin, Judge Lamar Stanley, wealthy Virginia aristocrats. The feud has been engendered in family Jealousy for the possession of an heirloom known as the diamond from the sky, found by a noble adventurer ancestor la a fallen meteor. The feud Is further augmented by the fact that the death of a noble kinsman In England makes the firstborn male of the elder branch of the Virginia Stanleys heir to the Stanley earldom in Warwickshire, as well as possessor of the diamond from the sky, Judge Lamar Stanley has a son, the presumptive heir to both these coveted honors. But a child is about to be born to the fair young wife of Colonel Stanley. When the child is born and proves to be a girl and its mother dies Colonel Stanley in chagrin and disappointment and aided by the doctor and the nurse buys a newbom gypsy male child from its unnatural and money greedy father. In so doing Colonel Stanley and those assisting him to cheat his enemy cousin's ambitious hopes have believed the gypsy mother has consented to the secret transaction. But Hagar, the mother, finds her way to Stanley hall to denounce her greedy and brutal husband and secure again her beloved firstborn. She arrives Just as the supposititious heir is being verified according to the Stanley custom by the English lawyer representing the Earl of Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley, the colonel's enemv and father nf the hnv who is thus he Ing deprived of a tJtle and the diamond from the sky. CHAPTER III. The Queen of the Gypsies. JIS Colonel Stanley fell unconscions across the library tablo j Matt Harding silently closed | the library door from the outside. Ills right hand closed tightly over the mouth of Uagar, preventing the weak and anguished mother from making an outcry, as before her eyes, mtSr < ; K ^ Good Old Doctor Leo. before the door closed on the scene, she beheld her boy, her first born, arrayed In fine linen, a great jewel glowing on his little breast, the center of some strange aristocratic rite or ceremony. So silent had been the struggle in the hall that, while the keen ears of Jndge Stanley had heard a rustle and a gasp, his attention had been so taken up with the anguish on the face of his kinsman enemy, Colonel Stanley, as the colonel tottered and fell face for By ROTT Is. AtS CARDBLL r Hoy L. McCardell ? selected as the best in over 19,000 subthe Chicago Tribune in a $10,000 prize 1 The manuscripts in this competition 1 d States and Canada. Authors of note 1 part. I 1 ward 011 the table, that the judge had j ' hardly heeded those slight extraneous | sounds. ' [ As for Marmnduke Sraythe, the timid j and bewildered English representative i of the Earl of Stanley, he. like the 1 Judge, was facing the swooning colonel and also was unaware of the silent struggle In the hallway?the struggle ' that had caused Colonel Stanley to j swoon, for the colonel saw in his ' ! mind's eye the baring of ills plot, bis | ; j own disgrace at undertaking it and, j worst of all. the triumph of Ms enemy j of blood. Like a stoic Mammy Lucy, holdiug ; the false holx, had never stirred or changed attitude. ! Dr. Lee, standing closer to the colonel, sprang at once to the aid of his i friend and with all his skill sought to revive the stricken man. Down the hall to the great open doorway Matt Harding bore his struggling, silenced wife. The bank notes in his bosom, the price of the sale of his own flesh and blood, rustled as he struggled with the frenzied, half strangled Hagar. By the sheer force of his brutal strength the gypsy dragged the woman to the little copse where their meager camp was pitched. Here he bound her with ropes to the seat of the van, gagged her with his neckkerehief. hitched his horses and drove off toward the dawn. In the library the ministrations of Dr. Dee naa revivea coiouei omuie;. "Brace yourself!" the doctor whispered. "Remember, your heart will not stand much of this!" "I am all right now," said Colonel Stanley, moistening his lips. "You, doctor, will certify that this is a male child born heir to the Stanley estates, and I will attest that he is my son, heir at my death to the diamond from the sky and also heir to the earldom of Stanley at the death of the present earL" The English lawyer fumbled in his green bag and produced the already drawn up document of attestation. With a firm hand, but giving the colo- ' nel a sad but searching glance as he did so, Dr. Lee signed the paper as physician In attendance at the birth. The colonel signed as father of "Arthur Stanley 2d of Stanley tail, Virginia." And then it was the turn of Judge Stanley to sign as next of kin. For a minute he faltered, a look of bitter hatred on his saturnine counte- 1 * 11 * - sn a ! each other In Ufe, for the wrong he * had done their child. The fear of the colonel that the wild ( gypsy blood la the putative heir might bring him to courses that would disgrace the Stanley name preyed upon the colonel. And so the colonel drew up a docu- j ment, which he securely sealed and placed among his papers. Upon the ' outside lie superscribed It: "To be * opened in case my son, Arthur Stan- 1 ley 2d. ever does anything to disgrace ? the Stanley name." This document he left by Ills will in the care of Dr. Hen- j ' rv T.<k\ should the physician survive ( him. as his executor. Then, too, the ; 5 colonel realized that he could not long 1 hope to rear Ills beloved little da ugh- * ter like a flower In the dark secretly ' at Stanley hall. He was arranging . ' ';!i the kindly old widower friend1' ind confidant. Dr. Lee, that little Esther wouid be secretly delivered to him rnd the doctor could give out the story .t was an orphan relative that he had j idopted as his daughter. To this sup- j posed daughter of his dearest friend the colonel proposed to will as much >f his means as would have coine to a girl openly acknowledged. Meanwhile the unhappy Hagar had been borne far away by the brutal and jver watchful Matt Harding. "With him a nephew devoted to him, one Luke Lorell, an English gypsy, aided Matt in keeping watch and ward upon Hagar without knowing or asking why. And then Matt Harding fell upon evil courses in his Romany prosperity, and drink made an end to him. Hagar succeeded to his gypsy wealth and gypsy power. The king was dead; long live the queen! Ills henchman transferred his allegiance from the iead husband to the living wife. in me grim nouseuolu or Judge Lamar Stanley the shadow of cheated hopes and blighted ambition fell heavy jpon the family. The proud and grasping wife, the cold and taciturn fudge, had one unifying cause in common; that was that death might strike The Aura of Hat? Wai Felt by the English Man of Law. the lives that lay between their only child that he might possess both the diamond from the sky and the English earldom. Such was the state of affairs when Ilagar and her tribe came back to Virginia, three years after the death of the colonel's wife and the substitution of Ilagar's child as the heir of Stanley. Leaving her people camped at a distance, Ilagar Journeyed to the neighborho ?d of Stanley hall, and there, hidden in the shrubbery, with bursting heart, beheld her son ride forth, the ,,etted and pampered little master of Stanley hall. Colonel Stanley, with the boy, was riding on his daily pilgrlmuge to the Neither would she speak in answer :o the judge's rapid fire of questions svhen the colonel and little Arthur had passed out of sight. She affected a ?ullen dumbness. And when the judge jailed a passing stockily built man Iriving a buckboard, the constable of he district, and gave her in charge as i wandering mad woman Hagar would speak no word. That night, with gross disregard of egal procedure, the Judge, alone in his jourtrooin with his creature, the con- i stable, committed the silent gypsy wo nan to the county madhouse, with in.tructlons to those in charge, tLrough he constable, that when the seeming-1 v sullen, insane woman spoke or was early to speak lie should be sent for. nance, ana uien ne amxeu uib siguttture and threw down the pen with a ' bitter curee for what he did. A mocking smile played upon the face of Colo- ' nel Stanley. For one brief moment he forgot the flower face of the beloved dead woman upstairs. For one brief moment he forgot the girl child born of their deep love, whose birthright had been taken away in the fulfillment of his hate for his disappointed and chagrined kinsman. A few brief and stilted farewells and perfunctory congratulations ensued between tile still embarrassed English lawyer, Marmaduke Smythe, and the colonel and the doctor. There was 1 some evil brooding in the air, and the ' aura of hate was felt by the English man of law. 1 "It is only a veneer of civilization that thinly covers these crude Yankees in these wild parts," said the English lawyer to himself as he awkwardly i - .1 1. mAAnll?k? iiiuuillt*u his uuisu m iue ujuviuigui out.sido Stanley hall and rode down the darkened lanes behind the gloomy 1 Judge. "They Jolly well would toma- 1 hawk and burn each other at the stake If they had opportunity," he added to ' himself. "I shall start back to London tomorrow If I can and deuced glad 1 of It!" Uneventfully three years went their j round. The supposititious heir at Stanley hall grew to be a sturdy little boy of handsome appearance, but of 1 violent and ungovernable temper even as a child. 1 On the little girl, Esther, reared in 1 secrecy In a closed chamber In the great house and ministered to only by ' the silent and faithful Mammy Lucy, the colonel lavished and outpoured the ' great and growing love and affection 1 of his invalided and aging years. For ( already the hand of death was plain upon him and every day he rode to the cross upon the grave of his dead wife and prayed that he might see her face to face and be forgiven in the great ' tenderness of the love thev had borne cross surmounted grave of his dead wife. The road led him past the house of Judge Stanley. Looking- from his window after his enemy and the little heir of the Stanleys on his pony beside the colonel, the judge was aware of a gypsy woman who stalked after the colonel and the boy as swiftly and us furtively as an Indian tracker. Seizing his hat, the judge quietly emerged from his house and trailed the gypsy woman. By the gate of the graveyard Ilagar hid panting behind a huge bowlder. She watched so intently the bore headed figure of the colonel praying by the grave of his wife, and she watched still more attentively and with such a hungering heart the little boy upon his pony by the colonel, that she was not aware of the presence of the judge until his strong hand grasped her wrist and his harsh voice hissed In her ear, "Why do you spy upon them?" To the startled Hagar the cruel face of the Judge was the face of a well remembered enemy. Her account of Justice and retribution with Colonel Stanley was between them alone. She would have no confidence in or dealing with Judge Stanley. For she knew instinctively that if he hated the colonel he equally hated and was prepared to barm the colonel's supposed son, her :*hild. She did not struggle or attempt to free herself from the grasp of thej Judge. But as the colonel, with the little boy, rode from the grave toward :he gate she slipped down beside the Judge and hid with him from the observation of the oncomers, as though she were an accomplice of the colonel's jnemy. CHAPTER IV. What Will the Harveat Be? A FRENZY of fear and rage overcame her when she found herself in the madhouse to which Judge Stanley had committed her without warrant of law, and she screamed and struggled. The matron oiwl . 11111-1 vr ii-.ici1i.il iii'iirnnu'artJ lu>r UUU 11 w?v*rv??v.v? with difficulty, placed her in a straitjacket and threw her upon the cot in the cell and locked the clanging door I and left her. I A wild Idea suddenly seizeJ llagar. She staggered to her feet and gazed ! around. Above her cot, some eight feet from the tioor of the cell, was a small j barred window. Hugar listened for a moment at the iron barred, heavy oaken door; then she backed toward the : table and pressed the lacings that held the sleeves of the straitjacket against the flame of the candle. The leather thongs in the eyelets at the back of the straitjacket smoked and burned; then, with a great effort, she parted the smoldering thongs. To release heri self from the straitjacket, now her . arms were free, was hut the work of a few moments. MmiiiMr.?' fh<? tnhlo she drew un the ! oaken. stool aiul with its sturdy logs I slie pried the bars from their cement! od s;n kets. The ground was only some ten feet, below. She held to the ledge of the window a moment and then | dropped. She struck the earth withj out injury and made off in the darki ness, a free woman. On this very night Colonel Stanley had sent for the doctor to take away the little girl. At Stanley hall the old nurse was preparing little Esther for the night journey. In his library Colonel Stanley gazed In the lamplight at the diamond from the sky and the sealed document he had prepared that would hatrnr thp Ktnnlpv swrpt Hp hoifrri the sound of the opening of the long French window by the fireplace, and there he saw Hagar entering, disheveled, panting, but resolved to have her own. At this apparition the colonel arose and faced the wild Intruder. "I have come for the child!" said Hagar hoarsely. Colonel Stanley felt a sudden pang through his heart. It was the last shock the doctor had foretold for him. He gave a moaning, inarticulate cry and sank back a dead man! Hardly knowing what she did, Hagar swept Into her bosom the diamond from the sky and the sealed document with other papers on the table. Then, turning, she softly opened the library door and as softly crept up the stairway. Led by unerring instinct, she opened the door upon the landing and entered the room where the child, her own son, the putative heir of Stanley hall, lay sleeping. She marked the elegance of his surroundings as the risen full moon shone in the window, lighting it fully. What should she do? If she left her child here she would be cheating the cheaters. What would he the wild and lawless upbringing she could give her son in comparison to all that would be his as heir of Stanley hall? As she faltered she heard footstep** outside, and. gazing out cautiously, beheld the old eolored nurse descending with the little girl, the rightful heir of Stanley hall. Ilagar huddled upon the landing place and listened. A wild a V? vi Alf n t*Aoo from tlio r*t \1A rrwl nnfca O a OUI K Z\ tlx VOC II "IJI lliC ^VIVICU HUiO^ UO she entered the library and discovered her dead master. Then the bell rang In the servants' quarters from the nervous pull on the bell rope of the old nurse In the library. And shortly afterward llagnr could hear the nurse was joined by old Ned, the colored butler. Just at thts iustant Dr. Lee drove up outside, and soon the great knocker on I '' ^ 1 The Colonel Faced the Wild Intruder. the front door was clamoring its iron summons through the house. Two old ! servants rushed to the door and broke the news of the tragedy to the friend of the dead man. Ilagar stole unseen down the staircase and into the library once more. There, cloaked and hooded, stood the little girl whimpering "Wake up, daddy, and kiss me!" Hagar paused. "An eye fgj an eye!" she muttered. Then, lifting the little girl in her arms, and stifling her cries of fear and alarm, Hagar, with her burden, passed out of the low French winj i? i.kuk oKrt lin/1 first ontprpd UUW uy V* Ullii cue uou and closed it after her. As the doctor with the two frightened colored servants stood over the dead man in the library, and before the old nurse had noticed the absence of the child, 11 agar had come around the mansion to the front Loosening the strap that held the horse, she entered the doctor's carriage, still holding the 'Continued on page 12.) . , ? J