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The Diamond
From the Sky
By ROV L. AlcCARDELL
Copyright. 1015. by Roy L McCardell
CHAPTER XIV.
"Here Are the Proof!"
ft ND Mr. Burton Randolph re
pX turns to Richmond. Vivian
and Blair have qunrrclcd. Vlv-
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lllll lf4llltS 1-UIIIUA Will
lull while it fensta upon gossip that
will not Interest lier. She will return
to Richmond with her friend.
With n woman's prescience she real-
tee that Illnir'a mother Intuitively aua
Poets her. 8o Vivian Maraton think
fl best to return to Richmond too.
That night the Montlccllo hunt la nd-
Diia n member. Inquiry nnd Investiga
tion bring some of the huntsmen to
BtanU-y hall. The dead rann is Identi
fied for the man he really la and la
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"Hr are the proof that your eon
murdered Or. Lee!"
borne awny.' And tlie breach Is wider
yet between Kulrfni and Montlcello In
consequence.
The next day Hngnr hits a visitor at
Stanley hull. It In Detective Tom
Blake of Richmond, and he bears with
him a curious Hut portfolio of curious
photographs. lie and Hagar examine
these curious photographs in the libra
ry at Stanley hall, leaving Esther upon
the broad piazza, innocent of any
knowledge of what passes let ween the
gypsy woiniiii ii iid the astute private
detective Hagar employ.
But the photographs are vital things.
vital especially to Blair Stauley, for
they hold the evidence that proves him
guilty of the murder of Dr.
For the photographs are the telltale
reproductions of Itlalr Stanley's linger
prints. Some were made by iilake
from impressions he found ou the ri
fled cash box and the dead doctor's
throat, and one other is the reproduC'
Uou of the plain mark of his Ink stain
ed thumb, stained by a leaky fountain
pen, made on the bad check be passed
on Abe Bloom, grumbling den keeper of
Richmond.
The check has come back to the vln
llctlve, angry gambler marked "No
funds." and when Abe lllooni has call
ed upon t lie Bluke Detective agency to
aid hlui recover the amount of the
check the wily Tom Iilake bus In his
possession the convincing identification
he has been seeking the duplicate
thumb print of the murderer of Dr,
Lee, the thumb print of Itlalr Stanley!
The astute if not overscrupulous de
tective is working only for his client,
Hagnr I larding, who pays hlui well
There is no reward offered for the ap
prehension of Hhilr Stanley or miy oth
er man save the innocent Art her Stan
ley.
Detective Blake knows that Hagnr
will use the evident he brings her in
her own time and in her own way
't concerns him no fin t her. for the
present at least, Hiid he takes his fee
and returns to Richmond, htrangely
enough, on the same train that beam
Mrs. Burton Randolph and VI vi
Marstou.
Blub? and his mother have returned
from the little station at Fairfax after
aeelng their late guests to the train
Blair and his mother are at dagger
drawn. He asks that she give him
money and let him go upon his way in
the world, as he wishes to leave Fair
fax and never return.
"You have lecn under euougb ev'l
Influences in following the promptings
of your own unfortunate ways," aayf
Ms mother coldly. "This Vivian Mars
ton eaunot deceive me for a moment
And aa she seems to have also coin
pletely deceived und Infatuated you
iJ
rou shall have no monev of my yiv
(if I
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ff;kJU
tog to wmate upon an aiTvrnturr."
Blair made no reply, but Inwardly he
felt wild curse mounting to hi llpa.
and he flnng himself In the house,
'eavlng hla mother alone on the porch
ere he might utter them.
But he was resolved to leave Fair
fax, and he was resolved to again see
and regain the favor of Vlvlnn.
There was no time like the present,
was his thought. Blair went rapidly
up the steps nnd Into the living room
an the second floor, while his mother
remained In bitter contemplation on
the plar.za
He nerved to his desperate undertak
ing. He cloned the door of the living
ooni behind him He pressed the
spring, and the "Tory hiding place"
elilnd the chimney opened.
Taking the heavy poker from tht
ftreplaee thul now was tuuii outward
Into the tooui, Blnlr stepped Into the
tecess and closed the hiding place aft
er hi in.
Here be lit a caudle and furiously
pried at the old Iron bound chest
where, among his father's papers, his
mother kept the ready money which
alie. like her husband had before her,
lent out at heavy lutereat to such un
fortutiates as fell Into her meshes
when their security waa good.
At Stnnlcy hall, after the departure
of Detective Blake, Hagar ordered her
carriage. "I nm going to pay a call. I
will not be long," waa all the informa
tion she vouchsafed to Esther. But
Esther knew that, whatever waa the
errand that called Hagnr away, al
though a accret. it wns one that waa
for Esther's good.
Luke I -o veil, who spent his time at
Stanley hall partly nnd partly oa hend
mnn under linear at the gypsy rendez
vous Rome dcteu miles awny In a hid
den fastness of the Blue Bldge, brought
around the horse and buggy to the
front of Stanley hall. At this Instant
a diversion was caused by the appear
ance of a hunchback organ grinder
hurrying up the driveway.
It was Qunbba, his monkey, shriek
ing with fright, clinging closely to his
master's breast. Behind them came
Sheriff Sam Swain ou horseback, lash-
lug the unfortunate (Juabba.
II agar and Esther both flew to the
rescue of the poor hunchback.
'lie's lucky I am not chasing him
ont of the county!" explained the irate
sheriff. "But for the trick he played
upon me yesterday I would have caught
Arthur Stanley. I)o you know what
this organ grinding monkey toting imp
of Satan did?
"Why, he handcuffed me to Blair
Stanley, and Arthur Stanley, the mur
derer, who had the nerve to come rid
ing at the mask tournament, got away!
I could have this organ grinding kcouu-
drel sent up for a year for Interfering
with an officer In the discharge of hla
duty!"
'I didn't mean any harm," whined
Qunbbn. "You were teasing and Jok
Ing with me, saying you wero going to
put the handcuffs on me, nnd 1 only
Joked with you and the other gentle
man In putting them on you and him."
"Young feller." wild the sheriff im
presslvely, "never Joke with an olllcer
of the law. It Is against the cace and
dignity of the common wen 1th of Vir
ginia nnd the law nnd the statutes Hint
therein apply!" And, having delivered
himself of this pseudo legal dlctgm.
the sheriff touched hla bat to Hagar
and Esther and cantered off.
Qunbba was a wandering, solitary
gypsy of Italian stock. A word In
Bomnny fell on his ustonished ear
from the Hps of the grande dame at
the portals of this grand bouse, who
gave orders to I. like that Qunbba te
oared for at the kitchen of Stanley
ball.
This done. Hagar was prepared to
go usn her mysterious errand with,
as Esther noticed, the hi nek Hat port
folio tlte strange man from Richmond
hnd brought that day. when her keen
gypsy eye noticed that th horse was
slightly lame.
Half angrily she ordered I veil to
return it to the stable, and after f.ov
ell. with the equipage and Qunbba. ihe
latter uttering expressions of his grat
itude, bad turned the corner of the
great house. "I am not going so very
far, to it doesn't matter If I walk."
alJ.Hnnr and klrsed Esther again
and went Uon her way
Little did list her dream of the Strang
return this secretive yet kind woman,
whom she deemed her mother, was to
make to Stnnloy hall.
At Mrs. I.ain.ir Stanley's house that
mistere woman sat upon her piazza,
risking and waiting for Blnlr to re
turn from Inside the house. She had
more to sny to her son. and as she re
fleeted uion the bitter phrasing of the
words she would sjieuk her heart ached
dully.
What was the use? she kept saying
to herself. What wns the use. whnt
use the ambition, the cold, calculating
:unbfon that had darkened her life
ami had caused the tragic death of ber
husband eighteen long years ago?
What was the use to scheme and
plot and hope and hate for a bauble
that bad disappearedthe diamond
from the sky and an earldom farther
av.ay than even distant Warwick
hire?
The diamond from the sky and the
earldom were not for her. They were
never to be the possession of ber aon
either, it would seem
Dead men lay between and a living
man, a wanderer and a fugitive, and
the earl, old and feeble, a helpless ln
v.i i I for years, Ktill lingered on. And
Aithi r Stanley, proscribed as a inur
ili it r though be was, bore a charmed
liie t but blood between her ion and
the earldom aud the diamond from the
aky.
The diamoud from the fkr itpclf was
goneT tanlshrd from the aiglit ofriianr
Aa for ber eon, that aou waa tnfato
tted with a worthies woman. Vivian
Marston would make a flt mate for
Blnlr Stanley, son site had Ikihhi and
reared!
But bitter as all these reflection
were, the Stnnlej pride waa strong la
the breast of Blair's mother. Bad aa
lie was. she thought. It were better be
never possess Ihe diamond from the
sky or the HI an ley earldom with anch
a woman lo fchnre these great posmft
slons. Aud then He Judge'a widow aavr
cemliig toward her Hugar Harding,
the prevent inis'ressof Stanley hall.
At the slt;bt of Hngnr Mrs. Stanley
stiffened, ami Instinctively all the old
hopes nnd all the old hatreds leaped
again within her withered breast. She
rose us if to ci.tcr he.r houi e uud Ignore
Hngnr, hut Hngnr stayed her with a
gesture.
"Do not go. Mrs. Stanley," aald Ha
gnr In even tones. "I have with me
the proofs that your on and not Ar
thur Stanley Is enllty of the murder
of Dr. Henry le." And she indicated
with a meaning gesture the flat black
portfolio she carried, the same portfo
lio Detective Blake bad brought from
Hlchmond.
"Hush!" whispered the Judge'a wid
ow tensely. "Come Inside!" And she
led her strnnge gnest within the por
tal of her home and np to the living
room.
Here Hagnr without a further word
bowed hot the photographs of the
thumb prints left by the murderer to
Dr. Eee's study and the photograph of
the returned dishonored check, with
the fatal inky thumb print ol Blair
Stnnley resting against his signature,
na though he hnd nttested to It.
"I will gel my son. He Is some
where atsuit the house!" cried Mrs.
Judge Stanley. "Whnt Is the price
you ask for your alienee? I cannot
think you would come here except to
bargain."
"My price la nn easy one," replied
Hngnr. "I nk that you nnd all your
friends receive my daughter Esther
and myself In Fairfax. I have only
this to say: Deem me who you may,
my daughter Esther la of as high birth
and blood ns the proudest families of
Fairfax."
"What you ask can be arranged. I
feel sure," aald the Judge'a widow, re
gaining her cold composure. "Walt
here till I llnd my son."
Mra. Stanley bowed and hurried down
to the porch, where she called loudly
for Blair, thinking perhaps he waa la
the garden or at the stable.
Meanwhile Blair In the "Tory hiding
place" iM'hlnd the chimney bad heard
every word that had been uttered In
the room. In his hands he clutched a
mass of bnnk notes. Thrusting them
In his pocket, he touched the sprbig
nnd punned aalde the awlnglng fire
place noiselessly.
Hngnr stood, by the table, her back
to the fireplace, watching the door. In
ber bands were the incriminating pho
tographs of the thumb print of Blair
Stun ley.
I Aa she tnrned at the sound of Blair's
ndvnnee he struck her down with the
heavy Iron poker, and she fell to the
floor aa though lifeless, In a crumpled
lump.
Aa Blnlr stooped to Bclze the photo-'
graphs of bis guilty thumb prints that
bad fallen lo the floor a gleam of steel
on the table euugbt hi eye. It waa
the sheriffs handcuffs that Vlviaa
Marston had brought to the house wltb
her and left for Blnlr, us be ildi
mockingly, "as a souvenir of the white
knight's leap"
Hagnr moaned and stirred. Blair'
could hear his 'mother calling him in
the hallway now He seized the hand
cuffs and clasped them on the unre
sisting wrists of Hagar. .
licking ber up. he thrust her hi the
"Tory" hiding place" and hastily
swung the will back In position, leav
ing the uuc"'"" kins and inauacled form
of Hagnr impr soned by the broken (
pen chest In the darkened ulche.
At this lntaut be heard his mother
on the threshold and turned and fled
with the photographa and the stolen
money by the door that led to the Inner
rooms and win gone.
Far JJ'y a colored boy,, who had
oeen driving u pig the day the gentle
folk of Fairfax held their vn anted
tournament, is playing he Is a hunter
after eagles
He has n wotslen gun. this colored,
l-o.v who herds pigs while gentle white
folk ride to tournament nnd to chase
the fox. nnd with his wooden gun he
play n part In Ihe destinies of those
concerned In this strange story.
For beneath a wayside tree he find
a handful of feather "Owls up dar!"
says the niiinlc hunter, and he drop
'he rude wotslen gun nnd climbs the
tree. An ow fllea from ita best with
a querulous screech.
That evening an obscure negro ur
chin, whose lot It is that be mast at
tend to awtne. loans over a noisome
pen and dangles before an unapprecta
five pig. gorging at hla swill, the dia
mond from the skyl
TO BE KEEN AT THE EMPRESS
Til E.TltE MONDAY XKillT
When Baby Has the t roup
When a mother is awakened from
sound (deep to find her child who has
gonsr to bei apparently In the best of
health atruggliug for breath, the la
naturally alarinod. Yet if she can
keep her prcBonee of mind and give
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy every
ten minutes until vomiting la pro
duced, quick relief will follow and
the child will drop to Bleep to awaken
In the morning aa well as ever. Tbla
remedy has been in use for many
years with uniform success. Obtaina
ble everywhere,
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