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6YNOP8I3 OF PRECEDING CHAP
TERS. i A bitter feud has existed between Colo
nel Arthur Stanley and his cousin. Judge
Lamar Stanley. The feud has been en
gendered in family jealousy over an heir
loom, the diamond from the sky, that
was found In a fallen meteor by an ad
venturer ancestor. Also, the succession
to the Stanley earldom in England may
come to an American Stanley. When
a daughter la burn to Colonel Stanley of
the eldest branch of the Stanleys In
America and the mother of the child
dies at Its birth, the chagrined colonel
buys a newborn gyisy boy and substi
tutes him as heir. Three years later the
gypsy mother, having had no part In this
bargain, steals the colonel's little daugh
ter, being reared In secret, and leaves her
own son undetected as the heir. The gyp
sy mother has also obtained possession
of the diamond from the sky, and a docu
ment holds the Stanley secret of the falsa
heir. She rears the little girl, Esther
Stanley, as her own and grows to love
her. -When Esther Is grown a beautiful
young girl, Hagar, now gypsy queen, re
turns to Virginia with her. She has
wild plan that Dr. Lee, the late Colonel
Stanley's old friend, may now adopt Es
ther, as originally Intended. Her hope also
is that her son, the supposed Arthur Stan
ley 2d, may fall tn love with Esther
and thus the -Innocent girl may become
by marriage what she Is by birth mis
tress of Stanley hall. Dr. Lee adopts
Esther, but also demands that Hagar turn
over to his custody the diamond from
the sky. Dr. Lee also Informs Hagar
that her son, the supposed Arthur Stan
ley 2d, Is a profligate and not worthy of
Esther, but liagaj hopes for the best and
.with her people ' departs. Arthur Stanley
does fall in love with Esther and so does
his boon companion, Blair Stanley the
-cousin who would be the rightful male
heir of 8tanley were the Stanley secret
known. In stealing the diamond Blair
causes the death of the doctor. Outside
Is Arthur, serenading Esther.
CHAPTER V.
The Silent "witness.
ATJGIIT like a rat In a trap, with
Arthur Stanley outside tbe
window serenading the dead as
well as the living, and Esther
stirring o'erhead, Blair Stanley nerves
himself with a supreme effort and
turns the knob of the study door and
steals down the darkened hallway lie
unbolts the front door, and, clot, ...g It
softly behind bim, as though be would
shut out the face of the dead man,
Blair slips across the broad piazza like
a phantom of the eight
But Arthur has beard the grating of
the bolt, the soft opening of the door.
I "What are you doing horof
and has stepped from the side to the
front of the house, hoping It la Esther
who comes In answer to his serenade
land to receive his contrite pleadings
for forgiveness. He reaches out to em
brace the gentle girl, only to find be
has clasped the stalwart, struggling
frame of a man. The moon breaks
through a cloud as bis prisoner strug
gles, and Its rays Illuminate the face
of Blair Stanley.
"What are you doing here, coming
'out of Dr. Lee's house at this bourr
whispers Arthur, tensely.
1 "Keep quiet, you fool!" Blair Btanley
hisses, like a snake. A girls good
name is at stake."
1 As Arthur staggers back in horror at
the shameful inference. Blair Stanley
with a rapid movement draws nis 1
r? Pi
il !
volver and fires. lie would do a double
murder and win au earldom and the
diamond from the sky, if be can escape
without detection. Hut the quick arm
of Arthur throws up the pistol and us
Blnir fires he wrenches the weapon
from him. To avoid the shame and
scandul, even of the inference of the
base speaking Blair, the frenzied Ar
thur drags him down the pathway and
down the silent vliluge street, ns the
cocks are crowing, presaging the com
ing of the dawn, ranting and strug
gling, the cousins stumble off the vil
lage highway and into the little village
graveyard. Their feet sink into a
mound of soft earth by au open and
newly du grave. Standing panting
and facing each other with rage and
hate In their hearts and 011 their faces,
the young men pause a moment in their
mad struggle. Then Arthur brings out
bis own pistol and the long white silk
handkerchief that protrudes from his
breast pocket.
"For what you have said about
Esther, either you or 1 must die,"
Arthur says. "Take one end of this
handkerchief and stand across this
open grave. Hold the handkerchief lu
your left hand, as I hold this corner of
It. Now take your pistol, aud when I
count to 'Three!' raise and fire, and the
one of us left alive will pull the dead
man into the grave!"
Arthur counts "One!" when the now
fearful murderer essays to tire. But
the watchful Arthur is too quick for
him. Ills pistol speaks first, and, in
stinctively tugging the handkerchief
as be fires, Arthur drags the bleeding
Blair into the grave, prone on bis face.
Arthur leaps into the grave after his
fallen foe and tears open his shirt to
see if the heart still beats, aud there,
on the breast of Blair Stanley, gleams
in the moon rays the evM glitter of the
diamond from the sky.
Arthur Stanley had known Its every
aspect, for the Stanley archives are
full of it, In print and manuscript, pic
tured and described. "So there it has
been, iu the keeping of my cousin!" be
mutters, and hardly realizing what he
does, except the baleful gem is bis by
every right, be tears it from the neck
of the figure in the grave and clumbers
out and stumbles on bis way.
Beside a cross, white and majestic
in the moonlight, he halts. The moon
shines on the diamond in bis bloody !
hands as be stands by the grave where
lies, as he believes, bis sainted mother, i
Then, feeling the brand of Cain is on
his brow, Arthur Stanley 2d stumbles 1
on, still clutching the diamond from
the sky in bis bloody hands. j
In the new dug grave Blair Stanley
moaned and stirred. The wound in1
his forehead had been a glancing one, I
only sufficient to stun blin, and now
as be came to consciousness In the
clammy depths of the grave bis first
Impulse was to clutch wildly at bis'
blool stained and disheveled shirt
bosom?" zmr.-.- -
The diamond from the skv was gone!
The death of the good old doctor hu3
been all in vain. And Blair Stanley j
also fled beneuth the moon, bootless
and In truth blood guilty.
At Stanley ball Arthur gained access
to the library and shuddered again as
be saw the stains on bis bunds and on
the great jewel thut seemed to gleam '
all the brighter for them in the glare.
of the library lamp. I
It was not to show the diamond
from the sky thut all men yearned
for; tt was to have it, to possess It,
even iu secret, that caused them to lie, ;
to swindle und even to grope through
blood for it. j
Well bad the late Colonel Stanley j
known the baleful history of the din-1
uiond.thut bad fallen to the feet of bis
adventurer ancestor iu u meteor. The
St;;:!ey "charm ugulust harm" It waa(
culled, and now look what barm it had)
already done! Arraying brother against
brother, futber against son, in the past,
it hud broken women's hearts the
while, and uow a false heir held it
against u breast that uched In anguish.
Arthur felt instinctively that the dia
mond from the sky was responsible
for Blair's impugning the good name
of sweet Esther, good old Dr. Lee's
fair ward, but Arthur did not kuow
that the good doctor lay cold in death
at the hands of Bluir Stanley.
The wild thought, the wilder bope,
that he might go elsewhere and under
a new name, still holding to the dia
mond from the sky. rehabilitate him
self and then seek out Esther in se
cret and wed ber now possessed Ar
thur. Among Arthur's many extravagances
which the lax administration of estates
In Virginia permitted a scapegrace
heir was the buying of a costly French
automobile. It was a day when auto
mobiles were rarities and luxuries, and
the young spendthrift of Stanley bull
had preened himself with the thought
that be would be the first to own an
automobile in all Fulrfcx county.
Arthur reasoned that Blair, wbo he
supposed was lying dead in the grave
that bad beeu digged for another, would
not be found tiil perhaps noon. Even
then tbey might not .connect bis tragic
death with the broken guitar and tbe
other signs of struggle In the doctor's
garden.
Meanwhile the dawn bad come and
Esther, wbo bad been aroused at the
pistol shots, was In great agitation and
alarm. Comforted and encouraged by
the first glimpse of dawn, she had
descended to tbe lower hall of tbe
bouse. Tbe door of tbe doctor's study
stood ajar and she glanced within.
There In the dim light of the morn
ing sun filtering through the window
shades she saw the doctor In hii
dressing gown stretched limply across
a table. She touched bis cheek to
rouse him and found it cold. Those
pale Hps, kindly even in death, could
never keep their promise to tell her
who and what she was "on the mor
row." EIre it was tbe morrow, and
tbe lips that could tell were cold In
death.
Nancy, the doctor's colored servant,
was already astir In the kitchen wheu
lust her' s cries brought ber to the scene:
on the heels of the housekeeper came
Alex, the doctor's colored horse boy.
After the frenzy of their fright had
subsided, the negro boy had run
through the neighborhood arousing It
with news of t:ie tragedy.
At first Esther and the neighbors
bad believed the doctor's death had
U'cn from natural causes, the peaceful
passing in of old age. But the disorder
of the room, the rilled cash box on the
table, the chisel marked drawer of the
old bookcBse, and the 01 e tied window,
against which the drawn shade flap
pod In tho early morning air, mutely
told their tale of theft and murder.
Tho sheriff had been sent for and
already an eager neighbor bad found a
crushed guitar In tbe dooryard nnd the
trampling of the feet of what appeared
several struggling men in tho flower
beds that bordered the walk to the
H cki S
9 -i
She Found Him Cold In Death.
doctor's gate. The footprints were of
well shod men of small and shapely
feet, it was reported. No passing rough
marauders, no outlaw negro desper
adoes bad part in tbe murder and rob
bery in the doctor's study, nor bad any
such struggled in deadly combat in bis
garden, it was whispered. Tbe matter
was mystery as well as murder, and
tbe morbid neighbors gathered In and
around tbe cottage of tbe dead man
and whispered greedily.
Meanwhile the dazed and bleeding
Blair Stanley bad a strange home com
ing in the night Ills mother, that
proud, cold woman, worthy mate of
the grim Judge who had perished
strangely in a wild mountain pass
nearly a generation a gone, loved ber
22il i'f.SPitoB'y on,y through her cold
ambitions." TEife&ifiH.
"You T6 not know when a day may
come that you may be in a position to
save the life of the heir of Stanley,"
she had said often significantly. Bluir
understood his mother well.
It was known by all the Stanleys
that the diamond from the sky bad
vanished strangely the night Colonel
Stanley bad expired alone In bis li
brary, this preceding by a few days
only the tragic death of Judge Stanley
in tbe mountain pass, also, It was
thought, alone.
This wob eighteen years ago, but tbe
Stanley feud was not dead with its
protagonists, those elder men of that
elder day. It slumbered in tbe bosom
of the younger generation. It smolder
ed bidden, yet burning not the less, in
the bosom of the judge's taciturn wid
ow, Blair's mother. She bad always
believed with a bitter suspicion that
encompassed all of tbe long dead Colo
nel Stanley's friends that Dr. Lee had
taken the diamond from tbe sky hi
the confusion attending the colonel's
sudden demise.
Dr. Lee was a relative of Judge
Stanley's widow, for all tbe better
families of Fairfax were of kith and
kin. The Judge's widow believed the
doctor held the great diamond In his
secret custody if for nothing else than
to keep it from the bands of tbe judge's
family through any legal process they
might attempt during tbe minority of
Arthur Stanley 2d.
Hence it was that when tbe nerve
shattered Blair, with ashen face and
bloody brow, confessed to bis waiting
mother that be had seen tbe diamond
In Dr. Lee's aged bands she was not
surprised. When he half incoherently
admitted to her that tbe old doctor bad
died In tbe struggle for tbe diamond
she expressed no compunction for tbe
doctor's death or revulsion at tbe deed
of her son that caused It,
But when be told ber that Arthur
Stanley, tbe one life that stood be
tween them and all their ambitious
desires, had been In the grasp of Blair
did ber mood of augtere Interest change
to cold fury.
"You need not add your reproaches
to my own," panted her son. "But it
was luck, the devil's luck, that all at
Stanley hall possess. I would have
killed him. It was In my mind, in my
heart.
"But he wrested the pistol from my
band as though from the band of a
child, and be dragged me out of the
yard, down tbe deserted Tillage street
to tbe graveyard to kill me and rob me
of tbe diamond with the ease of
giant"
"Well." said his mother, "we must
hope for another, better chance. Mean
while if you are sure that your strug
gles were not seen you had better He
hidden until I can learn what suspl
clons are aroused. If you are missed I
will say you are gone to Richmond.
Even If Arthur Stanley bears no more
of you he will think still that be has
slain you. lie will keep silent"
CHAPTER VI.
Wanted For Murder.
THE flush of hope came back to
the ashen face of Blair Stan
ley. "I remember now," he
said; "we trampled upon bis
guitar In the doctors garden In our
struggles. He will be accused of caus
ing the doctor's death. And who will
believe him If he In turn blames me?
"I will keep hidden, as you say,
mother. The fact that be has the dia
mond and the doctor bad it In bis keep
ing up to his death will damn him.
Thinking uie dead, he may fly who
knows?"
Ills mother nodded, and then, seeing
the dawn was breaking by the growing
light outside, she crossed the room to
the old fashioned fireplace nnd pressed
a btddeu spring. With wondering eyes
Bluir saw the wbolo fireplace from
hearthstone to celling turn ns one cen
ter pivot and swing half out into tbe
room nnd half back into a great recess
in tho wall.
"A hiding place built-by your Tory
grent-grundfuther," said his mother.
"Fairfax was all for the American
arms during the revolution, all except
your great-grandfather. Washington
accused him of biding and harboring
spies for King George; but, though
they searched here, they never found
them," she added grimly.
In the niche behind the chimney
Blair noted a small bench, or pallet a
reading lamp of old design, and sundry
other crude comforts.
"You will find it comfortable
enough," remarked his mother.
For one of the few times Blair could
remember his proud, cold mother soft
ened. She gave ber attention again to
tbe slight wound above the temple,
bound it gently with ber handkerchief,
kissed him, and sighed.
The unhappy Blair sobbed and im
pulsively embraced his mother. For
one brief moment he faltered, aud then
his mother pointed in silence to the
hiding place and he stcpied within,
the great chlmneypleco swung into
place, and he was in semtdarkness,
hidden and secure.
The old procedures of the "crowner's
quest" still held strong In Fairfax
county, Virginia.
At the doctor's cottage the first ex
pression of authority by the sheriff
was that nothing should be touched in
the study where the doctor lay dead
on the table "till the coroner came."
The broken guitar bad beeu handed
tbe sheriff. It could not be denied that
when Arthur had been with the young
people on the doctor's porch earlier in
the night he bad not bad the guitar.
It was known be and the doctor had
bad high words earlier in the day over
the fact that Arthur, wbo had squan
dered his means, had added to his
other extravagances by ordering from
abroad a costly French racing auto
mobile. But the. return of Ilagar, conscience
stricken also, after eighteen long years.
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t, .i. 'X. .I .--:
Th Gypsy, Hagar, Telling Fortunes.
tbe return of Ilagar again, bringing
with ber tbe sweet and blooming
Esther, tbe rightful belr to the patri
mony the gypsy changeling was squan
derlng. and tbe arrangement for ber
adoption by Dr. Lee. as bad long beeu
intended, bad wrought a right about
face In tbe doctor's attitude toward tbe
reckless, supposititious young master
ot Stanley halL It had also wrought
a great change In the character of Ar
thur 8tanley. From tbe first meeting
with lovely Esther Arthur bad aban
doned his wild and spendthrift ways.
Then, too. the rivalry for Esther's
affections with bis cousin, Blair, bad
steadied Arthur. lie realized be loved
Esther, and be bad resolved to be
worthy of her.
As for Esther, In the midst of de
pressing, morbid turmoil that followed
tbe discovery of the doctor's death In
bis study, she had moved as one In a
most unhappy dream. Under the cold
suspicious eyes of Blair Stanley's moth
er, Esther had felt herself an inter
loper. Tbe Judge's widow bad arrived
upon the scene as soon as she had
been sent for.
although ber relations with tbe doc
I
r J
tor bad been distant and constrained
for years, yet the Judge's widow was
next of kin. With the usual delay
characteristic of the easy going doctor,
he had -Iclayed making out the legal
ndoptlon papers for Esther. He had
only Insisted that she lo called Esther
Lee. What her real name was the po
lite Virginians had not asked, but It
was whlsiHTcd Unit It was Harding.
When Uostlonod by the puzzled
sheriff ns to what procedure he should
follow after the Identification of the
broken guitar, found by the footprints
in the flower beds, the Judge's widow
bad coldly replied, "Do your duty!"
and the sheriff, with bis deputy, set
out for Stanley hall to apprehend
Arthur Stanley 2d on suspicion of the
murder of Dr. Henry Lee.
At their parting there bad been oue.
gift of Hagar's that Esther bad since
lovingly cherished. It was a pair of
carrier pigeons.
"Take these, my dear daughter,"
Ilngnr had said. "If you are ever In
trouble aud need me scud a message
by the birds. Their homing place Is
our gypsy rendezvous In the Blue
ridge. Even If I am not there wheu
the message comes, some of our tribe
will be. They will know where I am
and fetch me the word."
So Esther, under the open espionage
of Blair's mother, had taken one of
the pigeons from Its cage on tho porch
and bad hastily written the message
to send by this aerial carrier to Ilagar.
The message read briefly, "Come at
once, dear mother; I need you." She
simply signed it "Esther."
From her lattice window she releas
ed her feathered messenger. It flew
swiftly to the west straight as tbe
arrow files.
The sheriff and his deputy were not
long in reaching Stanley ball. They
alighted with a businesslike clatter,
and the sheriff clumped up the steps
and across the wide, hospitable portico
and made the great iron knocker wake
tbe echoes of the silent mansion. With
an indicative gesture of his thumb be
had sent bis deputy to guard the rear.
Joe, tho natty and worldly wise col
ored man servant of the until recently
wild young muster of Stanley hull, was
wondering at the Impudent urgency of
the-clamor that hud aroused bim as be
reached the bottom of tho staircase,
when be stood stock still, shaken for
once out ef bis usual superior airs and
self possession, to behold his young
master, wild eyed and disheveled, rush
from the library aud seize him, ex
claiming as be did so: "Don't open that
door! I have killed a man, and tbey
are after me!"
With chattering teeth and shaking
knees the erstwhile dundy darky clung
for support in tho weakness of bis
fright to the pedestal of tbe balustrade
at tbe foot of the old colonial stair
case. Still the sheriff hammered at tbe
door, cryUig stentoriously, "Oien lu tho
name of the law!" and still tho fright
ened darky clung to the balustrade, di
vided In his terror between the awful
authority of the law that be was dis
obeying aud lu fear of tbe fate this till
uow sophisticated servitor bad felt for
his young muster.
One glance from the low French win
dows that looked from the library upon
tbe grounds at the back of Stanley bull
and Arthur was aware of tho watchful
deputy, with drawn pistol.
At this Juncture the automobile
agent from Richmond came with honk
ing horn up the driveway with oue of
tbe first automobiles that bad ever es
sayed tbe roads of Fairfax. With tbe
agent who proudly drove tbe red
French racer, was an oily and grimy
garage mechanic driving a low, old but
powerful oue seated gar a go bandy car
battered and scarred from much bard
service, but still strong, speedy and
dependable.
Tbe sheriff hammered and kicked
unavallingly at tbe stout, great white
door as these "newfangled contrap
tions," as be called them, drove up to
the portico steps. "1 am the sheriff,'
he explained to tbe wondering auto
mobile man. "I am after a man for
murder, and I summon you to aid me."
The taciturn garage mechanic brought
a heavy Iron jack from his battered old
car, and be and the sheriff soon had
tbe stout oak door shuttering beneath
tbe battering ram blows they dealt it
with this heavy Instrument of iron.
As the door gave way Arthur darted
from the library, past tbe still quaking
negro In the hallway and into the din
ing room. He passed through tbe din
ing room Into the conservatory at Its
back that overlooked, as did tbe libra
ry, tbe grounds at the rear of Stan
ley hall But here bis way was block
ed by Iron and glass, there was no
egress from the conseravtory save
through tbe dining room.
As he turned to retrace his steps the
sheriff, with the frightened automobile
man at his back, appeared at the door
sf the conservatory with leveled re
volver and demanded Arthurs sur
render. Arthur's reply was to seize
a heavy rustic chair and with one
swinging, sweeping blow thrust aside
tbe leveled revolver and then smash
tbe heavy glass and the metal frames
of the rear wall of the conservatory,
He leaped unhurt through the aper
ture thus made and fled around tbe
corner of tbe bouse, followed by
fusillade of shots from tbe sheriff and
his deputy.
At the front of the house stood the
two automobiles deserted. Tbe new
French racer stood throbbing under
power at the portals of Stanley halL
The excited dealer had not thought
further of the fine new machine when
he heard tbe sheriff's quick summons
for assistance. The more phlegmatic
and practical mechanic had turned off
the power of the old garage car when
he had brought tbe sheriff the Jack to
smash tbe door.
Arthur Jumped into tbe throbbing
new racer, ne bad little thought when
he had ordered it in a fit of reckless
extravagance that Its first service fop
him would be in a nerd like this, lis
sensed the use of Us levers, and In tbe
Instinct of fear nnd self preservation.
may have been chance that aldel
him. but tho machine bounded nwny
n highest speed, nnd Arthur turned!
he steering wheel nnd made the turn
to the gateway safely.
He gave one glance back nnd snwi
the nicchnnlc endeavoring to start tho
other car, while the sheriff stnnipvl
nd swore finitely. Whether It was
that the old dependable car failed for
once to respond or whether It was be
cause the sporting Inst Suet In thd
grimy mechanic was strong, nnd he
hoped for n long, stern chase of a
ractlced driver In an old car after a
rank amateur In a new Frcmh racer.
In either case the old car was soma
minutes In responding to his efforts to
I
m Jo'4
He 8mashed His Way Through thsj
Conservatory Window.
start It Arthur had read enough of
automobiles to know It were well for
bim If be pnused In bis flight that ha
did not stop tbe engine.
Looking back again and seeing he
was not as yet pursued, a fit of desper
ate recklessness encouraged him In tbe
resolve to pause and bid farewell to a
Esther, uy this time ail Dut a rew oc
tbe curious neighbors bad gone, and
Esther was at the gate engaged inv
banging a white wreath upon it la
tnemory of ber dear old friend.
The meeting, tbe parting, were brief, -
dramatic and passionate. There waa ,
no time for explanations on either side.
Arthur held tbe fair girl to bis heart
for oue brief moment and pledged hla
love and faith for ber, and then was
gone.
Now came the other car in a cloud
of dust Ou sped tbe pursued. Now
at the railroad crossing the one armed
watchman gave bis warning flag. The
gates are down, a long freight train 1b
thundering up. At his highest speed
Arthur takes the gates, that smash and
splinter at the impact of bis swift ma
chine. He is roue, and tbe freight
train blocks pursuit Then pride has its
fall. Around a bend of tbe road work-.
men ore digging a great culvert. Ou
one side is a sloping bank of tbe river.
On tbe other side the embankment of
the road ted, across which tbe open
culvert cuts. One glance shows Arthur
that this way lies death. He will trat
the river.
With a mighty effort he turns tbe
steering wheel and tbe great plunging
auto swerves at tbe brink of the newly
dug culvert and, atllt on two wheels.
plows its way through the sort eartn
of the roadbed on the stream side and
hurtles a rocking, ponderous mass of
mechanism dowu the sloping side ofj
the river bank, swifter tbnn It takes to;
telL
Tragedy and comedy are close akln;j
In the midst of life we are In aeatn.(
On tbe green banks of the river oa
this peaceful summer day the Colored
Sons of Liberty had elected to bold'
their annual picnic. Fat. dusky ma-.
trons were spreading tempting cakes
and pies and pouring tbe even more;
tempting lemonade beneath the eager)
eyes of the longing colored lodge broth-1
era of the Sons of Liberty. j
The Sons of Liberty band could bard-,
ly keep tbeir smacking lips applied to
their battered old Instruments as they:
played "Emancipation Day March."
Deacon Jones, in full regalia, was!
about to summon all to the spread upoaj
tbe white cloths on the ground when.)
roaring and plunging as though, aa
Deacon J-jnes afterwards said. "It was)
de berry debbil hisself V came the great)
racing auto down through tbe picnic;
and the band nnd across tbe very feat
spread, and scattering old darkles
young right and left struck the wat
with a mighty splash, turning co
pletely over.
Neither dusky man nor dusky ma
tron, elder or pickaninny, wait for one
moment to see or learn what bad gone
through their festal gathering like a'
fiery chariot on Judgment day or what;
bad happened to man or mighty mtt-j
chine after they had struck the river. 1
With ashen faces the Colored Sons'
of Liberty and their wives, children,;
sweethearts and sisters, clambered op
the bank to the roadway, shrieking:
with terror. They did not see, no one
saw. the form of a man floating down
tbe river, face up.
That eve at early dusk the new risen
moon beheld a quiet face floating down
tbe stream. Half submerged, at time
tbe dank body rose slightly to the sur
face; then It was tbe moon saw, gleam
ing ou that wave wet breast the half
blddet, half showing Jewel, the "charm
against barm" of the Stanleys ths dia
mond from the sky. , j
(Continued neat week) j
WmL J
