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$10,000 For 1,000 Words or Less For an Idea For a Sequel to "THE DIAMOND FROM THE SKY" The American Film Manufac turing Company's Picturiied Romantic Novel In Chapters. Thi* contcst is open to any man, woman or child who is not connected, directly or indirectly, with the Film Company or the newspapers publish ing 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 will be shown ?to read the story as it runs every week, and then send an your suggestion. Contestants mturt con fine their contributions for the sequel to itOOO t iford* or Is//. It is the tdca that is wanted. CHAPTER LIX. Arthur Stanley Harding. BARKED out. Smythe and the | lackeys of Stanley- House ham- ; mured at the bolted door, while ! within they could hear the] shrieks of Lady Vivian resounding | through the somber old .Tudor man slon. ''I 8mythe. keeuer than the servants, though not renowned for quickness of j wit, sensed that some murderous in- . truder. cause of the commotion with- 1 in. had barred the great door. The lawyer ran around to the back j ?f the house just" In time to see Dt *Yaux. who had shed the arthor he had concealed himself In. jump through the old Gotbl* window from the stall landing, the window turning back and snapping fliut again. Charging swiftly down upon the in truder. r-> him unknown, the lanky man of Ihw made a perfect low tackle, although he was no exponent of toot tali. In any case, he grabbed the has tening De Vaux below the knees and iown went thief and barrister. The diamond from the sky, which De Vaux still clutched, "flew from his hand at the Impact and. curving ID rough the air, dropped unnoticed ! ?nto the- upturned hat that had fallen upon the ground from the lawyer's ?ate. . I Meanwhile Vivian, iji her coronation < robes, was bending over the stricken form of Blair, in his court dre9s and peer's attire. Instinctively Vivian realized what fcad happened. She hardly needed to , place her hand upon the breast of j Blair? the diamond from the sky ifraa T gone! The lacfaey. wh<? linil been carrying ^ out the. tea tray front her boudoir when ! the sound of Blair's fall In the hallway I Vivian In Her Coronation Robe* Hold ?'?iff Stricken Form. few. the clangin g down of the I discarded armor told Rome tragedy had befallen * " ~ *? to the With trembling fingers the footman threw 'back the ol?L bolt, and his fright ened fellow servants, shoving and beating outside the door, fell In almost npon (beir noble master. Blair by thin time was recovering from tbe ilrcndful blow that bad been dealt him .by tbe mulled figure with the battle mace. Tbe blood trickled down bis ghastly lie* and cmpmpled and smeared tbe ?nowy shirt front of ,W? court attire mod mains'! flic es mine of bis coronation robes. Viviau hcU 111) stricken form. With n Kxkcnins pans nt hor heart Vivian re-ti^eii tlu'te would U? ni' > aud * wiauui for Blair, earl of mmSv flTiirrlVlnn, bis fair couutesa. 535.-. Groat lit.t.t..*. emperor or imlia and ruler of dominions beyond the seas, won hi be ci\?\. iK\i today. . surrounded by the nobles of his realm, bnt the America i j LI:iM of Stanley ami his lad} wonlil not be there. Something of this must have passed through lll::rr> dulled-, aching con 8cious,i ies.<. ' StOuJiim! Lie struck uk down! The illamonil is gone!" He gaspc 1 and fumbled at his blood stained II:. cry as he spoke. j vrhe iiotiik* Avi'tdow had closed luuk lit place. Keci;:;ngly the armored as sailant had vanished as if by ma^rK Only the heap of old mail accouter iuents and h? hnet on the Hoar told how the murderous lntruJer had hidden. ? - The servants stood open" mouthed and helpless as i?lair rose to his feet, ^sststeti-b.v? Vivi.ta. and their he. roused to drive ^hem out by his Uerce com luands ami curses. ' The struggle at the back of the house was streuuoUs. but brief. Tile doughty j- lawyer was no match for the younger /?and more muscular He Vuux. j Throwing Smythe aside and striking \ and kicking him viciously. De Vaux i sprang to his feet find made oflf Just as the servants, followed l>v Hie eaxl f and his l;rtdy. came around upon the scene. - . Suspicious and cvet distrustful ot i Smythe. I'lnlr refused to believe the | lawyer had attempted to stay the mys terious us&niiunt who had struck him down and borne away the diamond. Forgetting his grievous wound and the blood that trickled down his livid face. Blair screamed hoarsely in his | wild frenzy of antrer and chagrin. "Pack your thin.es!" he shrieked. -"Yon were in the plot: you were an accomplice, ar.d I'll have your life for I it: ! Vivian yviled: n chill went through her being. MOome. oome!*? she whis pered tensely. "Come, dear: let tw go into the .ho'jsc. Yon are badly hurt, and the diamond is pone. Never mind, we will recover it! "Erery-thfne will he all right: yes. everything will he all right!" And for the first .tttne in her wicked life that pity which Akin to love filled her heart with :? decn affection. '? After alt wicked a* he was. Blair was a tnr.n who had foncht his way. unscrupulously ami desperately, it Is . trtie. hnt he had fought and never ?vhlmpetert? ntid for her! And In this w M hour' preceding more evil days to rome Vivian felt a wild affection for the stricken man beside her which was never to falter ndr weaken. ? * ? ?????? In faraway Virginia there are love and happiness, increased and greater. In the joyous hearts of Esther and Ar thur in the sweet, dear year that has , passed. At the gypsy rendezvous, nn visited by the outside world, Arthur and Es Iher, man and wife, hnve seen the hap py year si>eed by aud in its couree j bring them their heart's desire ? a thild. Again a joyous gypsy . festival, the fbrlstening of the little, feypsy princc. Again the stranger minister, who was (nought to officiate at their wedding ?from distant Richmond, comes. This time there is no such wild rev elry ns,::t tlie.aayroie-we'ldlug, which io amaze 1 aLd interested the good man.- But once again th^gypsy musl ia.ns play. ft n 1 once again Qr.abb'a is Jrunk with jo/. mi: luuiiLaiu iuai gasnes iu a crystal stream into the hollow trough that Is nature's own christen ing font the minister from Richmond | dips his finger* and sprinkles the son ! of Esther and Arthur and says, "I :hristeu thee Arthur Stanley Harding." Then, after the christening feast and the strange gypsy rites by which a ; man child Js taken Into the tribe, the wondered before, what strange gypsies are these wlu are ruled In love and riudness by a young king and queen bearing ev'ery evidence in speech and action o^ "duration and roGncraent. But fhat U their secret, and the goo4 man respects It and goes as he has j come and says ncr word to any one, as i he has pledged himself to do. j ? ? "***"? ? ? , '? ? 9 I When the pursuit of the murderous ! thief had halted and vr'.ieu Blair had' been helped back to his chambers in i Stanley House the still bewildered . ! Smythe, dully smarting under the un I Jaat accusation of Dluh. bud letileieil ? i his hat and absent mindedly had placed | it upon his head. He winced us he felt a sharp# hoary object fall down within the frown and rap him smartly on the sLuFL, He scratched his head and tber\ in mfld surprise felt Iris fingers entangled in a | jeweled chain. Zle drew St -down and j gazed ut-it, dumfounded. "My word," he said, "If It Isn't tlio bally old diamond from the sky!" Stupid; as Blair might think, yet wise a? tlie scrpentr as Blair might also think. Marmnduke Sinythe took the great Jewel and placed ft carefully I In the Inside breast pocket of bis frock coat and then bnttrjood that mont re- | One afternoon a few days later when Smytbe returned to his room, bnlf bed chamber. half ol 1 Hbrrxry and office, quarter* Kacreti to him as family aollc ltor of the earln of RtanTev for over thirty years, he found the present earl busle.l among tbe paper** and docu ments. i. The curious 61d parchment Hagar had Riven lilnjr-the jryi*y family tree of tbe Hacdlnztf? *iad been tossed upon i the floor contemptuously by Blntr, who regarded It as Rome trumi>ory. - " "Pack nil your things ana get." Bald Blair. "Your own things and nothing ? Smythe answered dutifully, but crisp ly, "Ah your lordship wishes," and picked up the parchment of the rfiu uiif? pypsy ^onosl ; li oui tlf- 1*007. Ills bai =? Woo area \v packed. and lie now ^!i!?:!KK-mfilu' *ai:? bo hail ear ' rlod !n ,tb;' v.-ih!? of Ao.icrlo.i mi l >va< 1 turning t? rem ?vo th.' d sor lieml tV | eherislied souvenir of hi* Foeond vl -it j to the Yankee Juns'e*. v. lion Blair's ox j olatuallon. "Leave that alonei" cansul I him to wbi^l' {'.rmni.l >tarrtedv Tlio pun "went oT pdnted back oy?*-| Smythe's shoulder., ami the taotivy 1 chnrve of sho: siruok the doer bond I fair h;?t\vo :i t'v.?No o \ The Imn a t 1 loosemul *r'i *ovor h^und tfte deer bead j to the wooiVn tr.nmit. The Y ??.- Hacl Brought Them The:r Heart's Pesirt. CHAPTER LX. Lo\< br.d Po^ico Dwell at Stanley Hali. j THE deer Ileal dropped forward bold at tlio lower- part of tl><? ueck to the mouut an, though by a hinge. A little puff of dust mr.rV.^d tUe breakaway, and tben 1 from within tbe hollow neck u little package of yellow parchment, bouud ?vltli faded tcpe. fell to tbe floor. Smytbo picked Jt up and stiw it was lunotatcJ In undent angular hand writing, the Ink /ailed to ru At color by Ige. Tbe lav^vr's eye* opened wide 1* be sc inucd tbe faded tuarkiugs: H?rew!thp Yc Marrlajc Lines Of My first- Wyfc Rachel .Harding, A Cypgl? Mayde, V-Uo Lore M* A Son, But Left M-i In Dud^?Tjry\r. J Cust Off My Name, Re luming To Jiler Own People With Ye Childe, Nop Woufd She See Me More. (SgneLv AKTHUXl STANLEY. Ye ^vlns'y Province of Virginia, Xovenf" bre C, 1GL0 A. I>. . "What was that? Hand It here!** snarled 'the A :i:rr!can earl. . Tbe mild mannered ilarmauuke was roused to -revolt. "I jolly weU will do nothing of the nort." be retorted. MI bought that deer bead at tbe auc tion at Stanley ball, Virginia, and car ried It oVcr the whole bally United' States. It and all in It are m|ne." Blair moved forward "as If to take the paper, but Bmythe shoved tbe li Vivian Shrieked and Fail Into Blair's Arm*. bcary table between bimnelf and the angry earl, pinning tlic latter to tb* wall In a mom uudl?nificd position. At otber times Blair could have easily freed himself and throttled the con tumacious Bmytbe. But be was weak from the injury be bad suffered, and i be pressed hi* band to bis throbbing Dead and rcLuninl the rebellious law Jtr furiously. And tbeu the door opened, and a group of flrtn faced, well built men Off tered. ? "1 bet! ywir pardon, my lord.". wild ? * ?* ? . ? r ? -* ? (Con Untied on Page Nine) , ? ! provided, I, the undersigned Trustee wilLjon the 21st day of Feb. 1916 at \2 Lfi!cl<kck M? at-the courthouse door In ! Louisburg, N. C., sell at public auct ion to the highest bidder (or cash the following real estate, situated in Cedar Rock township. Franklin county and described as follows: FIRST TRACT. Bounded on the Vorth by! the lands of Buck Collins; on the East by the lands of J. J. May; on the South by the tands of W. I. Stallings and on the West by Sta! -Hnga, containing fifty acresr ? SECO.\D TRACT. Bounded on the North by the lands of Mrs. Anna Wood's e3tate; on the East by W Stallings; on the South by the laniiu of J. W. Vallentlne and on the West by the lan'*?' ' ??? S. Wood, non talntng 23 1-3 acres more or less. . 111KD TRACT. Bounded on the North by the lands of Mrs. Naomi S. Wood and Willie Wood; on the East by Mrs. Naomi S. Wood; on the South by the Greenleaf- Johnson Lumber Co. and on tbe West by the Inn Naomi S. Wood, contp acres, known as tt- . "ft. FOURTH T' o>1 on th? Xo'th - ? . -prey Oupton; XV-'," ?"<=??- by the lands of Mrs. Naomi S. Wood; on tne South by W. O. Stone and on the West by Mr3. Bettie Tucker, containing 35 acres. The last three tracts adjoining each other and constituting the 'home place now occupied by J. H. Wood, Jr., and wife. This the 19th day of I January, 1916. BEN T. HOLDEN. l-21-5t Trustee. Notice - .. North Carolina, Franklin county. The undersigned, having been appoint ed and duly qualified as administra tor of the estate of Sarah J. Predly, deceased, all persons having claims against said estate are requested to exhibit the same before him on or before the 10th day of February, 1917. or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate will please make immed iate payment. This -Fobruary 1. 1916. BLAND G. MITCHELL, Administrator of Sarah J. Preddy deceased. 2-4-Kt. i-'ures Old Suras, Oui?,i rsmeaiej vont Cure. ??he worst q4b??, nomntltro(hcwlr,Di? ?ndljE. i .yi the? wo|wl*r(ul, old iriiaLle Dr. """PJ'J. "?'?'"?I* Oil. It r'lirvrt in aud Heali at the same time. Vc 30c, $1.00 Sale of Valuable Keal Estate. Under and by virtue of the pawer and authority contained In that Certain k'ed-oX Trust executed by J. H. Wood." Jr.. and wife Naomi S. Wood to Ben Sr Holden, Tru3tee. on the 23rd day of ecember 1914. and duly recorded in the ofBce of the Registrar of Deeds of j Franklin county. In Book 193; at pago 145, default having been made In the payment of the Indebtedness thereby secured and demand made upon me to foreclose as In said Deed of Trust I SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY I Engraved Wedding Invitations, Visiting Cardc, I Corresponding Stationery. Superior Quality ? Approved Styles. J-et Us Have Your Orders. We Guarantee to Please. FrecLAJiff Jeweler and Optometrist Louisburg, N. Carolina You Will Always Find a Fresh Line ^>f Greeeries At My Store When in town call in to see me. A cordial welcome awaits yea. Hay and Grain a Specialty Highest Market Prices Paid for Country Produce. A Trial ia all I Aak. J. w. PERRY . East Nash Street ? Louisburg, N. C. MORSES AND MULES Cheap For Cash Or On Time I havejust received a car load of good farm horg<?s and mules that I am offeiinjr cheap for cash or on lime wiib good approved security. < Come to see me at my new location and let nie*l?ow you what value is in horse or mule. t - o o u o o R. F- FU L_L_E1R Main Street Louisburg, N. C. Near Bridge Subscribe to The Franklin Times ? " ... ? % " . If you do not deal with us, let us tell you that we carry the best liae of Hardware "you aver SAW." Our line encompasses everything a first-class hardware htore should carry. o o o We screw our prices right down low, and ^are al ways hammering awuy, doing our hardware busi ness on the high plane of an honest, square deal to our customers. We want your business. THE HARDWARE COMPANY
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