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The Brussels Post, 1929-2-13, Page 7T aRUNSSIA Poser Cram Grading Means BETTER CREAM BUTTER ETRTE PRICES >s We are 110w prepared to Grade your Cream honestly, gather it twice a week and deliver at our Creamery each flay we lift it, We gather with covered truck to keep sun oft it. We pay a premium of 1 cent per lb, butter at for Specials over that of No, 1 grade, and 3 cents per lb. but - tee -fat fel No 1 grade over that of No, L grade, The basic principle of the improvement in the quality of Ontario butter isthe elimination of second and off grade cream. '.0may be aecompliehed by paying the producer of good (ream a better price per pound of butter -fat teem is paid to the produeers of poor cream. We solicit your patronage and cooperation for better market, gm' -We will loan you a can. $de our Agent, T. C. McCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels. The Seaforth Creamery yLyfJ , Intelligently to owthis lsinna. Talk i • My friend indeed, very evi- ! dent!), was a talker—one of those fan- tastic monologists to whom an audl- ence 1s little more than a symbol. I saw that there• was no need for me to do any of tbe talking. He was more than glad to do it all. Plainly bls en- counter with me was to him like a spring in a thirsty land. "Solitude," he continued, "is pere beps the final need qt the human soul, :After a while. when WP here Inn fl:r I gannet of ail our ardors and our dreams, solitude comes, to seem the ane excellent thing, the summun bonum." 1 mntmured thnt he certainly seemee to have come M the right place for it. "Very true, indeed," he assented with n courtly inclination of his head as though I had said something pro .�oc� found; "very true, indeed, and yet. Copyright by Doa4lcvley. Page ,t Company tVtlSn't it [1,c "rent Batton who said: 'Whoever is delighted with solitude le ou to say;" ano ne quuteu two weii. known Mines of Homer in the original Greek, adding: "or if you prefer it in Pope's translation, which I think— don't you?—remains the best: Close to the gates a spacious garden lies, Prom storms defended and inclement skies - 1 feces igh Being the Authentic Norratanc of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama islands in the Year 1903—Now First Given to the Public. II Ir1C1I:1RD LECALLIENN2 "and so on. Alas! for an old man's memory [ It grows shorter and shorter ---like his life, eh? Never mind, you are welcome, sir stranger, mysterious- ly tossed up here like Ulysses, on our island coast" I gazed with natural wonderment at this strange individual, who thus In the heart of the wilderness had saluted me with a meticulously pure English accent, end welcomed me In a quotation from Homer in the original Greek. Who, la the devil's name, was this odd churacter who, I saw, as 1 Looked closer et him, was, as he had hinted, quite an old mum, though his unusual ereetne(s and sprightUAess of manner. lent him an Illusive air of youth? Wbo on earth was he—and how did he happen in the riddle of this haunted wood? CHAPTER 16L either a beast or a god?'—and thio peIticulnr solitude, I confess, some. , times seems to me a little too moth : !Ike that enforced solitude of tic "untie marshes of which Ovid wailer and whimpered in the deaf ears 0 - Augustus.," i could not help ne"icing at Iasi es he teiited on with twint:tie magn!!t-. cence, the add contrast between his speech and the almost eilutlly flint as - tie poverty of his clothing. The suit he were, though still preserving u certain elegance of cut, was so worn and patched and stained that a negro would hardly have accepted it as u i gift; and his almost painful emttel& l tion gave him generally the appear- ;rl once of an animated framework of rags and bones, startlingly embodying the voice and the manners of n prince. Yet the shabby tie about his neck was bound by a ring, In which was set a turquoise of great size and beauty. i Presently, as we loitered on thrmigh I the palms, we came upon two ncgroes chapping away with. their machetes, trimming up the debris of broken and decaying palm fans, They were both sturdy, ferocious -looking fellows, but one of them was a veritable giant. "Behold try bodyguard!" said my magnificent friend, with the usual pos- ' Calypso. Of course a glance and the first' `r sound of his voice had told me that 1 had to do wish a gentleman—one of those vagabond English gentlemen in exile who form a type peculiar, I thank, to the English race; men that are a curious Combination of arlstocrat and Gypsy, soldier, scholar, and philoso- pher; men of good family, who have drifted everywhere, seen and seen through everything, but In all their wanderings have never lost their sense and habit of "form," their boyish zest in living, thelr humorous stoicism, and, above all, their lordly accent. "Now that yin( have found us, Sir Ulysses" — continued my eccentric host, motioning tile, with an Inde- seribably princely wnve of the hand to accompany hila -"you ntnst certainly give us the pleasure of your company to luncheon. Visited: are Its rare as black swans 00 this Ultima Thede of ours—though, by the way, the black swan, eyguus nirlitus, Is nothing like so rare as the imilents belies ed. I have shot them myself "at in Amu relit*, St111 they tree care enough for the min else of imagery, dimwit really not so rare as a Inman heal; tans can 1,111 anoweeeemmomoirsemewsessemoss, Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing House. We will do a job that will do credit to your business. Look over your stock of Office Stationery and 11 it requires replenishing call as by telephone 31, The Post Publishing ,Nouse "Behold My Bodyguard!" sessive were of his Irnnd; "t.:ly 5,vlt'ers, ml dunisstitiem, so to ray." Thu hearties stopped week towered tbclr great straw hats, and flashed their splendid teeth In n de- lighted smile, l:vldvhtly thee were used to their master's ways of tenting, and were devoted in him. "This chap here is 13reht,tl," said my host, turd the appropriateness of the nitrate' was apparent, for he (vas certainly the Meekest negro I shad ever seen, as superbly black as some wine- en emen are superbly white, "And this is'Sumsnn. Let's hnve a Molt at your muscles, Samson—there's it good boy l" And, with grins of pleasure, Sam - Son proudly stripped off his thin Calico jacket and exposed n torso of terrify- ing pewee, but, beautiful In its play of muscles aS (bat of a gad. l4eaving Samson .and Awns re colt• tinuee their savage play with their machetes, we walked on through the pa;lns, Willett here gave .a particularly Iunglelike appearanne to the scene from ,the fact of their being bowed out from their roots and sweeping up. ward In great curves. One 1 0 nv iuntu• lily looked for a stain eating tiger at any moment, standing striped aad splendid le onoof the openings, Theo suddenly to the t'lght, there came a flash of level green, suggesting, lawns, and the outlines of a house, partly covered with brilliant purple flower's—a marvelous splash of color, "Bougainvillea! 13eugeinvillea spew tabule—of comae, you know it, Was there ever sect a purple? Not Solo, mon in all his' glory,' et cetera: And belle we are ouof )3g Alelncus-,-h huatmblethe verhsionse of it Linn! deed," I1 was a large rambling Mum) house, somewhet decayed looking; and evidently built on the ruins of an older building. We came upon It at R broad Italian -looking loggia, supported by stone pillars bowed in with vines--- very cool and pleasant—with' mossy slabs for its floor, here and there tropical ferns set out in tubs, some wicker chairs standing about, and a table at one side on which two little barelegged negro girls were busy set- ting out yellow fruit, and other ap• purtenanees of luncheon, on a dazzling white cloth. ,, "Has your 'Mistress returned yet, my children?" asked the master. "No, ear," said the older girl, with a giggle, twisting and grimacing with embarrassment. "My daughter," explained my host, "has gone to the town on an errand, She will be back at any moment, Meanwhile, I shall introduce you to a cooling drink of my own manufacture, with abasis of that coconut mill; -.lith I need not oak y,:,i whether yal "npreelate, recalling the pleasant circumstance of our' first acquaint. Jnce." elationing me to a seat, and pushing toward me a hex of cigarettes, he went Indoors, leaving me to take in the stretch of beautiful garden in front of rue, the trees of which seemed 'literal- ly to be Dung with gold—for they were mainly of mange and grnpefrult ranged round a spacious beautifully kept lawn with the regularity of sumptuous decoration. In the middle of the lawn, a little rocky fountain threw up a jet of silver, falling with El tinkling murmur into a broad cin cuter basin from which emerged the broad lea vee and splendid pi nit biose soros of an lti,yptinn lotus. Certainly It was to far-fetched nllusinn of my classical friend to speak et the gar• den of Alcinous; particularly r0nne01 ed as it was III my mind with the white beach of a desert isle, end that marble statue in the moonlight. As 1 sat dr'•nming. bathed in the golden -green Jigitt of the Orange treeti. and lulled by the tinkling of the foun- tain, my host returned With our drinks, his learned d'sgnisition on which 1 will spare the treader, highly Interest- ing and cherarceristic though it was. SufRce it that it wns a drink. what- ever Its Ingredients—and there 10(15 cell 'linty somewhere a powerful "stick" in it—that seemed to have been drawn from some cont grotto of the• virgin earth, 80 thrillingly cold and invigorating It was. While we were slowly sipping (tend smoking bur cigarettes, hi an unwont- ed pause of my friend's fanciful ver- bosity, I &most jumped In any chair at the sound of a voice indoors. It was instantly followed by a light and rapid treed, and the souud of a woman's dress. Then a tall, beautiful young woman emerged on the loggia. "Ah l there you are!" cried my host, as we both rose; and then turning to me. "this is my daughter—Calypso. Her real name I assure you—none of my nonsense—doesn't she look it? Al- low me, my dear, to introduce—Mr. Ulysses!" for we had not get ex- changed each other's names. 1 am a wretched actor. and I am bound to say that she proved herself no better. For she gave t. decided start ns she turned those glowing eyes on ase, tine the lovely olive of her cheeks glowed a5 with submerged rose color. Our embarrassment did not es- cape the father. "Why, you know each other al- ready !" he exclaimed, with natural surprise. Not exertly"—I WAS grateful for the sadden nerve with whiell I wee able to hasten to the relief of her love- ly distr' ,—"In)t pniRihly Aiiss—tln- lypsn recalls as, naturally as I do. our momenta ry meet In; !n Sweeney's store, enc evening. I had no nxp,•rta- lion of ennl•ce, that we should meet 5011311 111nhrr Snell plensnnt eircuin- tt'111, ,: us 11,11." 8110 ::ave 010 0 grateful took els she leek my land, and with tt--nr ens it duly my pogo. Inntghiiltion?—n shy lit - 110 1121,ssUre, again as of gratitude. 1 hail tried to get Into my valor, my assurenee that, of ((uric, I roulette tiered 00 Mimi' more recent me,'ting— thntt:;IL naturally, as she hail aiyen that little start In the doorway, there had flashed on me main 1110, picture Of her standing, moonlit, In Another (resounding doorway, anti of the wall start she lull given than, as the golden pieces strrluued from her lovely sun prised mouth, and her lifted hands, And her eyes -1 11111(1 have aworu— were the living eyes of .rack Hotlta- wayl Hod she n brother, I wondered. Yet my mind was too dazzled and con- fused with her nearness to pursue the Speculation. As we sat down to luncheon, waited ripen by the little bnrlegged black chin• di'en--Whited op, ,ntoo, surprisingly well, despite the conto'tioes of their primitive embarrassment --my host once more resulted hie character o11 IFEATHERS1 WANTED Highest market price Feathers laid for your f • MF rollick *444441114,411+1110.1.44+44104444+ Ina classtc king welcomes tea sten,. tossed stranger to his board. "Far wanderer," he said, raising lila glassto me, "eat of what our board affords, welcome without question of name and nation. But if, whit the food and wine have done their genial Mike, and the) weariness of your jour- neying has fallen from you, you should feel stirred to tell us somewhat of yourself and your wanderings, what manner of men call you kinsman, In What fair land is your home and the place of yourloved ones, be sure that we shall count the tale good hearing, end, for our part, make exchange In like fashion of Ourselves and the pass. age of our days in this lonely isle." We ail laughed as he ended—himself with a whinny of laughter. For, odd as such discourse may sound In the rending, it wag uttered so whimsically, and in so spirited and humorous a style that I assure you it was very captivating, "You should have been an actor, my lord Alcinous," I said, laughing. I seemed already curiously at home, seated there at thatable with this fantastic stranger anllthat being out of fairyland toward whoin I dared only turn my eyes now and again by stealth. The strange fellow had such a way with him, and his talk made you feel that he had known you all your life. "Ah I I have had my dreams, I have had my dreams!" he answered, his eyes gazing with a mntnentnry wistful- ness across the orange trees, Then we talked at random, as friend- ly strangers talk over luncheon, though we were glad enough that he should' do all the tnllting—wonderful, irides- cent, madcap talk, such as a man here and there in teu tt•nusund, gifted with. perhaps the most attractive of all hu• man gifts, has at his command. And, every now end again, my ayes, rolling on the paradoxical squalor of his clothing, would remind me of the enigma of this courtly •vagabond; though—peed I say it?—my eyes and my heart had other business than with him, throughout that wonderful meal, enfolded as I felt myself Ace more in that golden cloud of magnetic vitality, which had at first swept over me, as with a breath of perfumed fire, among the salt pork and the .tinware of Sweeney's store. Luncheon fiver, Lady Calypso, with a stately Inclination of her lovely head, left us to our wine and our Cigars. The time had come for the far -trav- eled guest to declare himself, and I saw In my host's eye a courteous invi- tation to begin. I had been pondering what account to give of myself, and I had decided, for various reasons—of which the Lady Calypso was, of course, first, but the Open-hearted charm of her father a close second—to tell him the whole of my story. Whatever his and her particular secret was, it was evident to sue that It was an in- nocent and honorable nne; and, be- sides, I may have had a notion that before long I was to have a family interest In lt. So I began—starting In with a little prelude In the manner of my host, just to enter into the spirit of the game; "My Lord Alcinous, your guest, the far wonderer, haling partaken of your golden hospitality, Is now faln to open his heart to you, and tell you of hime, self and his retie, his home and his loved ones across the winefdark sen, and such of his adventures as may glee pleasure to your ears" though, having no talents in that di- rection, I was glad enough to abandon my lane attempt at his Homeric style foe a plain straightforward narrative of the events of the past three months. I had not, however, proceeded very far, when, with tt courteous raising of itis hand, lring Alciuuus suggested a pause. "If you would tint mind," he said, "1 would like my daughter to hear thLs too, for it Is of the very stuff of ro- mantic adventure in which she de- lights, She is a brave ctrl, and. es T Marriage Prohibited Without a proper license 11 you issue Marriage Lic- enses, tell the young folks about it in ourClaes!fied Ads. They all know n license is necessary. but they don't all know where to get one. This paper Is popular wiW the young people. often tell ple tedher 4are•deWealvil boy, have ado it she hadn't happened to be beta a girl." This phrase seemed to flash a light Upon the questicaings that Ita(1 tittered et the back of my mind since I had first .heard that voice In Sweeney's store, "I3v the way, dear kIug," I said, as. sawing a casual manner,'"do you hap- pen to have a son?" "No I" he answered, "Calypso is my Duly 01,11(1," "Very strange I" I said, "we met a whimsical lad in our travels whom 1 would hare sworn was her brother," "That's odd!" sald the 'king" lmper' turbably, "but nal I have no soar and he seemed to say It with a certain sadness. Then Calypso came in to join my' audience, 'having, meanwhile, taken the opportunity of twining a scarlet hibiscus among her luxuriant dark curls. I should Certainly have told the story better without her, yet I was glad—how glad I—to have her seat- ed there, an attentive presence in a Minnie gown, white as tbe sea foam-- from oam—from which, there was no further doubt In my mind, she bad magically sprung. I gave them the whole story, much as I had told it in John Saunders' snuggery—John P. Tobias, Ir.; dear old Tom and bis sucking fish, his ghosts, sharks, skeletons, and all; and when I bad finished,. T found that the interest of my story was once more chiefly centered in my pock -marked friend of "the wonderful works* of God." "I should like to meet your pock- marked friend," said King Alcinous, "aad 1 have a notion that, with you as a pbait, I shall not long be denied the leaanre." "I am inclined to think that I have seen him already," said Calypso, using her honey -golden voice for the base purpose of mentioning him, "Impossible!" I cried; "he is long since safe 1n Nassau jail. "Oh, not lately," she answered to our Interrogative surprise, and giving a swift embarrassed look at her fa- ther, which I at once connected with the secret of the doubloons. "Seriously, Calypso?" asked her fa- ther, with a certain stern affection, as thinking of her safety. "On one of your errands to town?" And then, tarring to me, he said: "Sir Ulysses, you have spoken well, and your speech has been that free, open-bearted speech that wins its way alike among the Hyperboreaas that dwell in frozen twilight near the northern star, and those dwarfed and swarthy intelligences that blacken in the fierce sunlight of that fearful axle we call the equator. Therefore, I will make return to you of speech no less frank and true . " He took a puff at bis cigar, and then continued: "I should not risk this confession, but that It is easy to see that you be- long to the race of Eternal Children, to which, you may have realized, my daughter and I also belong. This ad- venture of yours after buried treasure bag not Seriously been for the dou- bloons and pieces of eight, the million dollars, and the million and a half dol- lars themselves, but for the fun of going after them, sailing the unknown seas, coral islands, and all that sort of blessed moonshine. Well, Calypso and I are just like that, and 1 am going to tell you something exciting—we too bare our burled treasure. It Is node. Ing like so magnificent In amount as yours, or your Henry P. Tobias'—and where It Is at this particular moment I know as Melte as yourself. In fact it Is Calypso's secret ..." i looked across at Calypso, but her eyes were far beyond capture, in un - plummeted seas. "I will show you presently where I found It, among tbe rocks near by— now a haunt of wild bees. "Can you ever forget that passage in the Georgics? It makes the honey taste sweeter to me every time I taste it. We must have some of it for din- ner, by the way, Calypso." I could not help laughing, and so, for a moment, breaking up the story. The dear fellow! Was there any busi- ness of human importance from which he could not be divel•ted by a quotation from Homer or Virgil or Shakespeare? Put be was soon In the saddle regain. "Well," he resumed, "one day, same seven years ago, in a little rave below the orange trees, grubbing about as I am fond of doing, I came upon a beau- tiful old box of beaten copper, sunk "1 .Came I/pon a Beautiful Old 13 often a o ,,pp r Qe Pepper, deep among the roots of n fig tree, was strong, but !t seemed too dein 103' 8 pirate --same great lady's jew box more Vilely -'Calypso shall.show to us res. ! tat . .P O a u 9 n pet lug It—w1, do you think? 1t spilled over w1 golden doubloons—aawng which we submgrged some nue ,jewels, such title tie ring you see me wearing. A tually, It was no great treasure, at nutnctney eak•uhitlun-•-certainly nofo tune—hilt from our rinnunlle prbnt view, as beluuging to the nice of Fite nal Children, 1t was 1.1 Dorado, Ala die's lamp, the mines of Peru, whole Sunken Spattinh Main, gilmme Ing fifty fathoms deep in mother -of pearl and the moon. It was the vc Secret nose of Romance; and, als mark you, it was some money --o perhaps, all told, it might be some flu thousand guineas, or --what would y say?—twenty-ave odd thousand do !ars; Calypso knows better than I, an she, as I said, alone knows where it is now hid, read bow much of it now re- mains." He paused to relight his cigar, Nettle Calypso and I— Wen, he. began again; "Now my daughter and I,"" and he paused to look at her fondly, "thougb of the race of Eternal Children, are not without some of the innocent wis• door which Holy Writ countenances as the self-protection of the innocent— Calypso, I may say, is particularly en- dowed with tnis quality, needing It as she does especially for the guardian. ship for her foolish talkative old fa- ther, who, by the way, is almost at the end of his tale. So, when this old chest flashed its bewilderingdazzle upon us, we, being poor folk, were not more dazzled than afraid, For—like the poor man in the fable—such good for- tune was all too likely to be our un- doing, should it come to the ears of the great, or the indigent criminal, The 'great' in ottr thought was. 1 am ashamed to say, the sacred British treasury-, by an ancient law of which, forty per cent of all 'treasure-trove' belongs to his majesty the king, The 'indigent criminal' was represented by —well, our colored (and not so very much colored) neighbors. Ot course we ought to have sent the whole treas- ure to your friend, John Saunders of his Britannic. majesty's government at Nassau, but— Well, de didn't. Some day, perhaps, you will put In a word for us with him, as you drink his old port, in Ute snuggery. Meanwhile, we had an idea, Calypso and I—" He paused—for Calypso bad invol- untarily made to gesture, as though pleading to be spared the whole reve- lation—and then with a smile, contin- ued: "We determined to hide away cur Kittle hoard where It would be safe from our neighbors, and dispose of it according to our needs with n certain tradesman in the town whom we thought we could trust n tradesman, who, by the way, quite naturally levies a little tax upon us for his security. No blame to him! I have lived far too long to be bard on human nature." "John Sweeney?" I asked. looking over at Calypso with eyes that dared at lest to smile: "Tile very same, my Lord Ulysses," answered my friend. And so I came to understand that Mr. Sweeney's reluctance in selling me that doubloon was not so sinister as it had, at the moment, appeared; that it had in fact come of a loyalty which was eire0dy for me the most preolous of loyalties. "Then," said I, 'sea fitting eonclu- alon to the confidence you have tee WEDNESDAY, FED. lath, 19 og Jewelers' rouge, m0stened with a hitt ot alc01101 and applied with a soft It cloth, is the effective means of cleat! etl 1115, headlight reileutore, it John Dinsmore, 1p'th concession, I •iowick, line taken out t d t t1, for an Auctioneer. Co, license re-.-.--_ .�-- Debts °collected a of r.(1- tbe ry 0, h, e yo d We Collect Accounts, Notes and Judgments anywhere and every- where, No collection, no charge. Write us today for particulars, Canadian Creditors' Ase'n Post Office Box' 901, Owen Sound posed in me, my Lord Alcinous, if Mlss Calypso would have the kindness to let us have a sight of that ehest cf beaten copper of which you spoke,'. would like to restore Mix that was once a part of its contents, wherever the rest of them" (and I confess that I paused a moment) "may be to hiding." 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