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Show , "r By ROTT L,. MS. CARDBLL Copyright. 1913. by "Roy L. McCardtlt A novalliatlon of tha photo play sslsetsd tho btst In ovsr 19,000 submitted to ths scsnsrlo dspartmsnt of M Chicago Tribuna In a 10,000 prlis contsst during Dicimfatr and January. Tho manuierlpU In thli compstL p tln eama from many ssotlona In tho UnlUd StaUa and Canada. Authors of nota as wall as thousands of ama teurs took part. $10,000 For 1,000 Words or Less For an Idea For a Sequel to' "THE DIAMOND FROM THE SKY" The American Film Manufac-luring Manufac-luring Company's Picturized Romantic Novel In Chapters. This contest Is open to any man, woman or child who is not connected, directly or indirectly, with the Film Company or the newspapers publish ins the continued story. No literary ability is necessary to qualify as a contestant. You are advised to see the continued photo play in the theaters where it wilt be shown to read the story as it runs every week, and then send in your suggestion. Contestants mutt confine con-fine their contributions for the sequel to 1,000 tvords or Ic-t-t. It is the idea that is wanted. BYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. CHAP-TERS. A feud has existed between Colonel Arthur Ar-thur Stanley and his cousin, Jurigo Lamar Stanley, over an licliloom, tho illunionil from tlio sky, found In a fnllen meteor by on ancestor. Also, tho succession to tlio Stanley earldom In Kngland may comi to nn American. When n dauuhtur Is born to tho colonel unil tlio mother dies tlio colonel buys n gypsy boy and substitutes him. Throo yearn lutcr tho iiypsy mutlier, having had no part In this bariwln. steals the Blrl, Esther, reared In secret, and leaves her sou undetected as tho heir. Tlio gypsy has obtained possession of thn elln-mond elln-mond from the sky, and u document with the Stanley secret. Years Inter llaga., sypsy queen, returns to Virginia with Esther. Es-ther. Dr. Lee, tho luto Colonel Stanley's l friend, adopts Esther. Arthur Stanley, son J--fc of llagar, falls In lovo with Esther, and so ,r docs his companion and cousin, niulr Stanley, rightful malo heir of Stanley. In rtcnllng the diamond Ulalr causes the death of tho doctor and tries later to put tho blame on Arthur, who takes the gem Arthur Stanley eludes Ida pursuers and Joins Hagnr. who reveals his identity and upbraids him for his wild life Needing money, ho pawns tho diamond In Ulch-mond. Ulch-mond. At a ball, at which an udventur-ess, udventur-ess, Vivian Mnrston, wears the borrowed gem, I.uko Lovcll, Haqars gypsy guard, Btcals tlio diamond, and to avoid detection drops It Into ti mall bot Arthur leaves Uichmond and goes to tho west The diamond dia-mond jiasse-j Into u mnll bag, picked up by Quubbi, orsun grinder. CJuabba's monkey stenls tho diamond. Ilagnr takes Kslhcr to Btaplcy hall. Tom Ulake, u detective of Hlclimond who Is hired by llagar, produces linger prints convicting lllali llagar proposes sllcnco to Mrs. Stunley us tho prlco of Hugar's and Esther's bclnsc receded In Fulrfiix Bocltty. lllalr turlkcs down llagar lla-gar and steals tho llncer prints, lcavlns tho gypsy queen demented. Mormaduko Hmythe, lawyer, arrives to nnnounce Arthur Is heir to tho deceased Earl of m Stanley. Learning Arthur Is a fugitive ho seeks lllalr Instead. To win Vivian, Ulalr steals tho diamond. Inter marrying her and leaving for tho west. Their train Is robbed, Vivian losing tho diamond, which n, slnln trnln robber diops In tho desert Tho $100,000 lie stole Is found by Arthur, now known nB John I'owcll, sheep herder Vlvlnn deserts lllalr, telling him ho must regain tho diamond for her l.uke Eovcll, driven from the camp after learning Hn-gnr's Hn-gnr's secret, leaves to seek lllnlr Hngar Is under treatment nnd Esther Is In Uichmond Uich-mond society. Abo lllooni, gumbler, knows lllalr's guilt nnd covets tho diamond. Ho calls It tho prlco of his secrecy. Tho dlnmond Is later picked up by an Indian woman. Dr. Leo, Arthur learns, died of heart dhcaso. llecomlng very rich ho buys Stanley hall, told nt auction, through lJInke, nnd nlso provides for llagar lla-gar nnd Esther. Luko Lovcll buys tho diamond dia-mond from the squaw, but loses It In a light on Santa Ilarbaru bay, tho gem sinking. sink-ing. Vivian, desiring nld to ensnare Arthur, Ar-thur, sends for lllnlr. Esther nnd Quabba, nlso lllalr, go to the California mines to seek Arthur. Sinytho Is Bent west by Illake, Vlvlnn Mnrston Is saved from drowning by Powell, Pow-ell, who Is Infatuated by her. Smytho finds tho diamond and gives It to Esther to deliver to Arthur. Ulalr and Luke go to tho yacht In Arthur's abBonco nnd llnd Esther there. Esther nnd Quabba cscnpo while Ulalr nnd Luke battle lllnlr In the meantime has Joined Vivian In Los Angeles Du-rand, Du-rand, "king of diamonds," n crook known to Vivian, goes to a saloon ncur tho mines In hopo thnt ho enn learn tho whereabouts of the diamond. There ho meets Luke Lovell. Esthsr nnd Arthur appear on tho scene. The diamond Is lost In a melco Esther saves Arthur, who Is Injured, nnd ,. ho goes to Los Angeles In care of tho phy- M slclsn-crook, Durnnd. Esther follows and Is refused admittance to sco him In the meantime Smytho has hid tho diamond In a tree. It Is later found by two bill posters, post-ers, one of whom murders tho other for tho diamond. Arthur Is "doped" by Durnnd. Du-rnnd. De Voux nnd Vivian, although Ulalr. 'who has taken chago of Arthur's business busi-ness affairs, protests, Tho diamond passes In dice play from tho bill poster to Snntley, circus owner, who gives It to Ui Ilelle. Hon tamer. Splinters, thu clown, her Jealous husband, shoots Huntley ns tho lion strikes down nnd kills the woman. The animal seizes the diamond, CHAPTER XLIII. "I Am Not Craxyl" WW T" ITU tho pandemonium that Uf followed tint swift dentil M meted to thn Lady of I.Ioub uiruck dowu In li'jr hIiih, It would seem every evfl pafsi.m mm loose In the panic nt Snntley's draw. Santley, struck down In lili hIii also, nnd Splinters, the clown, dead by his own hand after the vengeance o"f hts frenzied brain, were trod upon and further dlsllgured as the crowd fought nnd struggled. Showmen nt the performers' per-formers' entrance, hearing the pHol shot and the hoarse cries of the crowd as it roe to Its foot and surged for the exits, Imagined a murderous nlter-ciitlon nlter-ciitlon between town roughs nnd the circus men had broken loose. The circus men's rallying; cry. "Hey, Itube!" was ral-cd. The eanvnsmen. the vicious swindlers, the agile acrobats, acro-bats, all those who knew n tragedy had happened but had not sensed what It was, seized tent pegs nnd stakes, lrew forth brass knuckles and slung-diots slung-diots and struck sickening blows right mil left at every head In sight. Houghs :ut tho ropes nnd tore down the half rncntcd seats and added to the general ficnzy of fright, destruction and panic. Hut from the first tragic happening, the death of l.a 1 telle under the lion's paw, a greedy eye had been upon the blazing diamond from the sky. As the paw of Lancelot, the Hon, dtew away from the senriVd, dead breast ot Ills faithful mistress, the chain 'to the diamond dia-mond locket duns to his cruel claws. As the lion, roaring In his maddened rage, faced the frenzied throng at his cage bars, the diamond dangled out over the dead faces of Snntley nnd Splinters, the clown. Foremost hi the throng, seeking escape from the scene of horror, was Sankey, keeper of the stnble In which Quabba kept his outllt Sankey was SBBBBMBBBSSSWsBBnssK i lui ' y V4sflaBBBf . fBBBBBBBBUBEsEBBBBBBBBBBBT 4 " ' iS. )3K'H WMWMMtMFjMMMm ' 9k3 WIHbBIsBi - Bk x- l SMmL - 7; 3P79i , MMMMwMMMiukZ- uasaEsn mi ?fcH1ssra!nLi' H tBBHBBBBBBBft fitfRl 1i BKraBBBB 9 pSsbBBbJt mflasHsk -' M sbbbbbbbbbbbWsbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbI ' Smytho Called on Blair Stanley and Vivian. He Smirked at Hor. holldayluB at the circus, us was half tho town. He hud seeu tho diamond blaziug on tho breast of tho fair and faithless La Ilelle. He had seen the Hon strike her down and drag the diamond to the cage door. Sankey passed across the bodies of tho dead men outside tho cage, snatched at the bloody bauble and drew It from tho claws of tho Hon. Tho light and tho panic surged about him. Others as greedy and grasping lu tho face of death as Sankey snatched, too, ut tho Blenmlng Brent Jewel. Iu tho maelstrom of tho struggle Sankey, Hunting for tho diamond, whirled Just beneath tho box whete stood tho ugltated party with Arthur. Durum! grubbed nt tho diamond ns It passed beneath him. Hlalr sprang out of tho box, but soiuo one btruuk him a stunning blow from behind and tho lighting front of the throng, dospe.ale-ly dospe.ale-ly strugKllug for tho diamond, swirled and surged on tho accursed heirloom of tlio Stanleys passing t'loso by IMIior and Quabba. Lawyer Smythe, searching for Arthur, Ar-thur, to whom, nB "John Towell," Hlako tho Hlchmoiid detective, lind sent him when tho lawyer llrst went west on his quest for tho heir to tho Stanloy earldom, arrived at tho circus Just oj the triple tragedy had occurred. Kurllcr lu tho day Smythe, freshly clothed and rested and revived after his wundering In tho wilderness, had culled ut tho ottlco of tho Oood IIopo Oil company. Hero ho had met Hlalr, In charge, and Vivian Marston. Ho Binlrked at tho young woman nnd Vivian returned tho smile, deeming it to her Interest to do so. Hut they guvo hlra no clew thnt tho man he sought as "John rowell" for Information regutdlng Arthur Stanley Stan-ley wns Arthur Stanley himself Smythe had never met Arthur Stanley except, oncp l;rlelly In thp wHderues4, nnu nere lacirKYHiiy "on tram sides m a casual meeting had ptevented either knowing the purpose of the other. Hrletly, at the olllee, Smythe had discussed dis-cussed with Hlalr and Vivian the kindred kin-dred subjects of the Stanley earldom nnd tho dlnmoud from the sky. Smythe had no Interest In the diamond. It wns but nn heirloom of doubtful value lu his eyes, nn heirloom pertaining t the American Stanleys only. Hut the English title concerned lilm much, nnd he hnd Informed Hlalr that until It wus definitely proved that the fugitive Arthur' Ar-thur' Stanley was dead tho claim of Hlalr to both tho diamond nnd the Stanley earldom lu nnglaud could not bo allowed. Hut Hlalr, Smytho ndmlt ted, was next of kin. Then tho English lawyer had called at the I'owcll mansion seeking further Information and, learning here that the Injured Mr. I'owcll was so far recover- j cd that his fi lends hnd taken him to the circus, had gone thither, lie nrrlved, ns he usually nrrlved any i where In bewildering America, too late. The circus performance wns ending end-ing In tragedy and panic, nnd the flee lug, fighting, frenzied men that poured out from the pandemonium within bowled the I'ngltsh lawyer over and trampled upon him. When he recovered recover-ed from the excitement nnd Jostling tho police were lu possession nnd the place deserted except by the illsor gnulzcil employees. The protection of the box hud preserved pre-served Arthur nnd his party from In Jury. Tlio watchful Qunbbn had drawn i:-vvher usldu ut the Itrst outbreak of tho panic nnd the riot. A slash lu the canvas walls of the tent had given Quabba and Hsthcr egress to safety, and Quabba had led his dazed young mistress uway. After Arthur had been conveyed by Durnnd nnd the others to their waiting motorcar, Arthur, through excitement and drugs, collapsed. Hut ho Tevlvod when he reached his rooms In bis line new mansion, mid demanded that Ksther lie sought for. "1 am not crazy!" lie vehemently declared. de-clared. "I saw Hsther there, and I want you to bring mo to tier!" "Now, calm yourself, Mr. I'owcll," tald Diiraud soothingly. "The excitement excite-ment which j mi have witnessed lias brought on another attack of this recurrent re-current hallucination. A man cannot stilTer concussion of the brulu nnd other oth-er Injuries, as you have, and hope to escape fcerlous mental us well ns physl cal reactions. There, there! We must give you something to unlet you!" And the hypocritical ami unscrupulous unscrupu-lous swindler administered a liberal dove ot the drug that ho had permitted Arthur to become secretly, as Arthur thought, addicted lo. Vivian added her blandishments to the soothfug hypocrisies of Durnnd, nnd Do Vuux, the Jackal, kept up u murmur of feigned concern and sym-path)'. sym-path)'. Only Hlalr stood aloof. These ways were not his, but Hlalr coveted tho power of the l'owell millions, which Arthur's Incapacity piaeed lilm In position posi-tion to administer, nnd n Ho gave his negntlvo old to the despicable' plot to ruin Arthur bodily, mentally, spiritual-, ly mid tlunuclally. Hy the drug and the power of suggestion sugges-tion tho conspirators succeeded lu Impressing Im-pressing Arthur again thnt his seeing Esther had been an Illusion of his disordered dis-ordered mind. They further cnlmed lilm by convincing lilm there, had been nu accident nt tho circus that had caused excitement, but the triple tragedy trag-edy ho hail witnessed was ulso a tig-incut tig-incut of his hysteria. Omirdcd ns Arthur was nnd supplied with soul and body destroying drugs. It wns eusy for tho cabal to keep newspapers, news-papers, visitors and other sources of Information In-formation from him. Kven Ids private secretory had been sent by Hlalr as it manager of distant properties, so thut Arthur might by no clinuco gain any confirmation of tho presence of Ksthcr lu Los Angeles, It was not wholly easy to convince Arthur, even under these conditions, I though he was weak willed and his I physical strength only leturued to tilui lu u measure. Hut to keep him from thinking Dumnd and tho others Incited Incit-ed him to ono folly after another as his strength ennio back to some dcgice. Already they arranged for u tallyho party to t ho races on tho morrow. They feared to go too fur lu their efforts to drive Esther from Los Angeles. Their efforts were confined to keeping Arthur Ar-thur separated from her, to augment his fear of complete mental collapse under the threat of the recurrent hallucinations hal-lucinations which they endeavored to convince lilm his encounters with Esther Es-ther were. On the other hand, tho conspirators knew Esther's high spirit. They hoped she would become dlscournged and perhaps per-haps dlsgiibtcd nt Arthur's eccentric treatment of her tho cnuso of which she was not likely to suspect and ic turn to Itlchmond and llagar. Hut Esther wus resolved upon solving the strange mystery of Arthur's conduct. con-duct. At each encounter since they had been parted lu tho mining town of Mammoth Just before ho wus so gjlev-msly gjlev-msly Injured ho hnd leen delighted if si' lit of her. nnd then somo strange sjsbibbbbbbbsVsbbbbbbbbEsIibbbbbSIHLbbbbbbbbi bbbIbbbbbEbwIbbbbbbI BBBBWKjlS' s) iSBBBBBBBBWP VbBBBBBBBBbI sHHnwSrmTv viH BBBBBVwHiWfvMi!j BBbPBBBBBBBBBBBBbI i m 11 Hi w Hw. I Si I IBBBrr famuWrmsmA "I am not crozyl" ho vehemently de dared. influence would overcome him and he would u'gurd her with a fear haunted expression, lapsing Into vacuity, and then fate, lu tho shape of those Who surrounded him or tragic excitement Mich as had last occurred, would separate sepa-rate them wide apart again. True as steel herself, her stanch heart would not penult her to believe Atthur was base or forget ftfl. She felt tho call of Ilagnr, recovering slowly uliiong strangers. Hut Esther determined to see nnd have nn under standing first with Arthur, and then leturn. Yet she did not wish to liitrinli upon lilm, now that ho wns ileb und powerful tin John Powell, tl!1 ho not desire It. |
