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The Clinton News Record, 1939-04-20, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -R ©lW TIIUR$'., APRIL 20, 1939 Eden. Phillp oats 'TOM AYLMER: At the time the' story opens is living in Peru, Inane aging silver mines belonging' to his father. ; ELICE PARDO: A Peruvian whe, although young, has .been fifteen :years in the service of the %Aylmer. mining enterprise. He is the most trusted native employee. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS Mrs.. MERCY A.YLMER: Tom's mother; egotistical and exacting.' JANE BRADSHAW: .Tom Aylmer's fiancee. At the time the story opens; the expectation is that these two will marryon Tom's next leave in England. ANGUS MAINE: A young Scot on Aylmer's, staff, and close compan- ion ' of Tom. JACOB FERNANDEZ: A rich, eld- erly South American whose hobby is the study of bird life. He is a bachelor, and is engaged upon a monumental literary work on the subject of bird life. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS Before leaving Lima, Tom buys a !parrot, to give to his fiancee, Jane 'Bradshaw. The bird, bought from a dealer whom Torn knows and trusts, is, according to the dealer, a very exceptional parrot, and is about sev- 'enty years of age—no great age for 'a parrot. ' On the liner, the bird engages the attention of Jacob Fernandez, a rich mangy, of Lima, who is bound far Pan- ama, whose life. hobby is the study of birds. To Fernandez, the parrot talks, but the only words he can detect, in a string of sound are "Benny Boss." Fernandez says he knew a man of that name, and proceeds to tell Tom and Angus what he knows. i (Now Read On) CHAPTERS ' Tom Aylmer and Angus Maine are enjoying, a holiday on the hills of Tern when Felice' Pardo rides out to them with a cabledmessage announc- dng the death of .Tom's father. Torn knows that his' father has bequeathed to him the Peruvian silver mines of 'which he (Tont) is the manager. 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Thus superstition and force governed the country and created a supine,. phlegmatic spirit destined to snake it an easy prey. "Those who had set the slogan 'Love one another' upon their banners swiftly went down be- fore the battlecry of Spain, and their dream of good comradeship .and uni- versal humanity, made no appeal to the lust of the Latins. Spain, with MYSTERIOUS 13ENNYY BOSS gunpowder to support her and the lore of war at her fingers` ends, Signor Fernandez ordered' refresh- swiftly laid Peru battered and bleed- ment .and proceeded to the subject, ing under her heel, for in a few years' of the bygone adventurer who had time the Jesuits were governing , once and to take Angus for company. South America precisely on the same brought them together; but the tale old lilies of superstition and force of Benny was destined to be again that the Incas were used to employ. delayed, for Signor Fenrandez touch- "Yet," concluded. the old man, "the ed on a side issue, and, finding it little company of our ancient Indian of deep interest to his second hearer, people remaining, still cherish their discoursed a little upon it. memories and reverence the sorrows "The origin of Benny is hidden in of the 'past. They still mourn the the past. He was ignorant of it hum- imperial Incas, and their vanished self, and had not the faintest notion lglories and bitter woes are handed as to whom his parents may have down by father to son, by mother been; but he felt sure that his father to daughter, through the avenues of was a white man and believed his the years." mother an Indian. I think the male Mr. Fernandez broke off, flung parent predominated, Benny possess- away his cold cigar and lighted an - ed enormous energy, great physical other, while Angus asked a question, courage, and indomitable will -power "Is it true, do you think, sir, that — qualities you may seek in vain at the conquest, when Cuzco was the among the aborigines of Peru. In- Inca capital and perhaps the wealth - deed, T always say that when one best city in the world, that, rather meets a particularly dull, apathetic than yield their treasures to the come Old feeble soul, the betting' is that ing Spaniards, the rulers conveyed he has the old blood in him." them southwards to Lake Titicaca Young Maine protested. and flung their golden images and "That's a hard saying!" he cried. sacred vessels and priceless jewels by "I have studied the natives in my the ton into the lake?" small way, because I reverence their "1 should judge there was no ques- story, and I have found them often tion about it, Maine," replied the wiser than—well, Wiser than those we other. "The fact is established on call their betters." massive grounds, Sanguine historians "Good!" said Jacob. "I'like young judge there may well be treasures people to be interested in anthropol-, to the value of fifty million hidden ogy—or indeed in an 'elegy' that will in Titicaca; and they are likely for help to develop their wits. Are you the most part to remain there, for attracted by our aneient history,' her waters are in places eight hund- Angus?" ' i red feet deep. One may compute "He Iives for it, sir," explained where the treasure arrived from Toni, "HO laves the. Incas better Cuzco; but the lake was full of heavy than ,anything, and says it was one; craft in those days and no man can of the great tragedies of history that say where these precious things have a lower civilization conquered a nob- been submerged. Some, however, ler one, when Spain swallowed up. we're undoubtedly recovered; and that Peru." 'fact brings me back to Benny Boss, "A great tragedy often repeated,", whom we have kept waiting long said the old man, "and nothing gives enough." `— vie more pleasure than to reflect that Peru succeeded in regaining her lib- erty,. If I have a hero, it is Bolivar." He returned to Maine. "The history of Inca civilization GEORGE ELLIOTT ;slcetesed Auctioneer for the County of Huron «Covzespondenee promptly answered hlmmediate arrangements can be made ?for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. %ChargesMbderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. lifklE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company :Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Thomas Moylan, Sea- 'forth; Vice President, William Knox, •Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. .A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors, Alex. +Broadfoot, Sealecth; James Sholdice, 'Walton; James Connolly, Godev'ich; V. R. Archibald, Seaforth; 'Chris, ;Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, dilyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: E. A. 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London Huron 8i Brace CHAPTER III THE 250,000 RUBY remains: still to be written, though "Tho man eves in his prime when rich material awaits the historians: we first met," began Jacob, "and as If you 'are an, enthusiast you may nothing pleased him better than talk - know as must about it as I do, how ing about himself I heard a good ever." I deal of his history. One could not, "Please go on!" said Angus. "I'm however, regard him as a very truth - learning Spanish— old' Spanish— to ful narrator. He wast always the read the fine books about it" hero of bus own story, and, to listen Signor Fernandez loved to talk, and one had thought that no morehonest found his present audience quite to plain -dealer ever fought fate and his taste. circumstance; but 'an element of ro-. "We will leave Benny Boss waiting. mance never lacked from the net - for a moment ,then," he said. "And, rative, that, will not trouble him, for he was, "He was an unconscious artist. In used to waiting', and knew the time youth he had .followed the sea and to strike. Patience, combined with his, spent mucl>, time also at various other serpentine qualities, served his' Pacific islands in guano's palmy purpose well enough. I days. The fact. had created a keen "Now touching the Ieloes and those interest in birds, and I will say for defects of character that I attributecirBenny that a sounder naturalist to them, perhaps too harshly, 'we never carne to my knowledge. "Well, Benny, tiring of the sea, found congenial work inland at Puno and presently combined varied ,inter-. have got to remember fundamental facts, my friends, for out of them anises their history. To begin with, they ever shed innocent blood to save este by operating on the lake in the in the rarest instances. Their alta't.•s were not polluted, anti they display the spirit of Abel rather than Cain. Puno then, and was , married with several children. I remember that, towards 'the end of our collaboration, he told me that his eldest daughter was going to marry a man called Pardo, and I gave him a wedding present for her. "That may be regarded as the first act of Benny's story, so far asI know. it, but I only saw the man again once; Physically, by the way, he was undersized, but finely put to- gether—immensely strong for a little 'un and as tough as teak. A broad, solid fellow with a big nose and yel- lowith, pale eyes—rather like your blue parrot's. No mind ever moved quicker, and he knew sometimes—in a mysterious way—what you were going to tell him before you opened your mouth.": Mr. Fernandez laughed at his thoughts. "Well, a year or two passed,' he proceeded, "and I -heard nothing of Benny. Then he called upon me at Lima and invited me to buy—not a bird, but a jewel. "I have small in- terest in jewels ' and know nothing about then, but he showed me 'a re- markable, bleed -red ' stone of great lustre set in gold. It was obviously ancient, but as to its ,quality and market value I could form no opinion I supposed the stone to be a car- buncle, for it looked to be much larg- er than any ruby I had ever seen; but Benny swore that it was a true ruby and worth five thousand pounds at the least. He maintained anah of great mystery and declined to give me any particulars, I advised him to take the jewel to an expert, but this he declined to do. "It struck' vie knowing my Benny that the red stone was probably stol- en from some trusting native, and when he finally offered to let me have it for five 'hundred pounds in- stead of the sum he had claimed it to be worth, I felt more than eves suspicious. I had no mind to play fence for Mr. Boss and perhaps lend myself in possession of somebody else's property, So I told him there was nothing doing under such vague circumstances. "He left me after our conversation and said that he was going to stop with friends at Lima for a few days and then return to his home beside Lake Titicaca. I never saw hint again but after a couple of years were passed, heard a further instaIIment of his story. Benny now achieved notoriety, and was wanted by the authorities. Doubtless anticipating this demand,however, he evaded the challenge by making himself scarce For a considerable while no news of his activities was forthcoming, and neither the members of his family not. anybody else could guess where he might be. "Meantime, his story and the charges levelled against him saw the light. Two brothers Emilio and Juan Garcia had entered a secret partner- ship with. Benny.: It appeared that they found the money for this enter- prise, while Mr. Boss supplied the brains and needful exertion. The gamble had been undertaken at Benny's inspiration, and he had fired the Garcia brothers with his own enthusiasm. As I have told you, it is historically certain that on the ap- proach of the Spaniards, and .before the capital city of the Incas fell to them, immense quantities of their treasures were removed front Cuzco, conveyed south, and buried in the waters of Lake Titicaca, steamers trading between Bolivia and Peru. I met him upon an excursion in one of these little paddle -boats, They claimed a heavenly origin, and, and we struck up a friendship over Der their time, behaved in a manner birds. He agreed to serve nee and, quite worthy of it. The sun, the for a time, worked solely in my em - moon, the evening star, and the spirit ployment on the waters and shores e o ace icaca, n e ca urs o that spoke to the thunder were theirf L 1 Tit' I th pt f gods. The people were religions ,and birds he was illustrious and most in - paid their toll to their deities. They genious. I look back at Benny as gave willingly n11 that was most one of the founders of my unique precious to them, With gold and sil- collection. ver and needed's' stones they adorned "I paid Mr. Boss very well," con- their noble temples and brought Untied the old man, "and we never thither the fruits and harvest of the quarrelled; but presently he appeared earth, together with the productions to lose interest in the birds and I felt of their own industry— the finest they had ceased :to be his first achievements of their craftsmen and thought. He never' let me into his ''doing North ar. 11.25 I've. 11.47p.m. husbandrrnen, And that, ,surely, is secerts, however, and I was not cone 'Cluing South ar. •,2,G0, leave, 8.08 p.m:' about the Most rational form - of corned' to learn them. He lived at 6�ideMesi! dreden"+riaWWs'iti ,i'J AN'irr'oWroWee'VeVedoaadea 9 e'se',; + r. (copyright) AMBITIOUS ADVENTURE "Now these waters were in some places nearly three hundred yards deep, and to probe their fastnesses had demanded machinery and man power which would need more capital that was forthconusg. But Benny had his own theories on the subject, and they apeared quite sound. "He told the Garcias that it was unlikely the . ;ancient peoplewould have cast away their 'wealth—their insignia of office, crownjewels, gold- en statue, and all the rest of it — beyond the reach: of recovery. Hope that their invaders might yet be don- quered and driven out of Peru still remained. "This 'argued comparatively shal- low water, and for Benny the problem had been to judge where most prob- ably 'among the wide margins and estuaries of the 'lake their hiding - places were to be discovered. 01117 a man of extraordinary courage .and sanguine nature would have thought twiceabout any task so apparently hopeless, - but the fact remains that Benny, aided perhaps by his reading of old authors, or simply served by good luck, arrived at some conclus- ions Which justified further explora- tion. He might have laid .the facts before business people and made ar- rangements of a proper character, but he did not, and I :ant afraid the reasons for his line of action will presently appear, A straightforward, commercial deal offered no charms for --the explorer, and knowing the Garcias reasonably 'Well, he tools his story to them, though not before 1m could show them some material to justify it. When, Benny vanished, the brothers told thein tale, and it was as follows:— • "The old, sailor had talked history to them and .explained first, that any hope of success would certainly lie upon the western borders ,of the lake, as being nearest to Cuzco. He had then shown them the results of his own industry in shape of some gold and silver ornaments dredged up by him in a secret locality. He then invited them to finance a more eaten - YOUR WORLD AND. MINE. by JOHN C. KIRKWOODrd i ?meed anFr eVe tala%So'i"e sPeasre'i�S°taAAiti'oti"O'e'aiinoa°r"o"asae leve s adsad' silt of vanity:' we cls and... buy''things for-no'other reasOff than`to impress In a jewellery store in °t1oronta hand store in+ London whose window our friends or neighbours oz ac- was a window display showing the was always a place of temptation, for quaintances. We may not hear what ;progressiva ',stages of preparing l there were shown in it a variety of they say about us, yet we imagine rough diamonds for the market; x'ings and of old silver, and I bought their sayings, and it is not hard to showing, also, replicas in glass of ,there, over a' space of years, nota p peeneede ourselves that what people famous diamonds—dianwirds measur-I few rings and pieces of silver, to say about us when. we. build an wax- ing an inch; and mean across --diem- give members of my family and my large and over -costly house, or buy a onds worth (?) quite fabulous sums, idn, vcostlymotor car, will be a. sneer and able to be owned only: by sov duringOnce, the war years, ier y rather than admiration or envy. Most eeeigns and immensely wealthy coin bought an: opal pendant' -> when "i o£ us are jsmall boys grown . movers. ,'could not really afford it, because A small boyust,up when 'he gets a new Looking at these huge diamonds— of its compelling beauty. A fine 'suit hat • t to "fano 'mseif" or their shares—aroused in me net piece of opal is entrancing. " 's rt or isap y hr p g This fora day or two, and to' do a little a particle of desire to possess them, treasure and also a moonstone pend- b•a •i —all to im res other bo s• or any one of them. I think that I ant which I had bought at Liberty's, t gg ng p s boy e. could enjoy having a smallish dram.-' and which gave me endless ,pleasureit aees5n vetory bech.verildiysh, natural,ofcourse, yet, it and—for its power to refract light to behold, were stolen ane night, and Many of us are imitative; we do in many colours, but not to wear on were never recovered., what' others do, for no other reason a finger or tie. Indeed, I could enjoy Perhapls my liking for precious than to ors do, with others far the the possession of a variety of pree- stones is a eoneequenee of my having .ai or , 11 of our nen hbcu+s and nous and semi-precious stones for produced a booklet on precious stones acquaintances. If our ne neighbour gets their beauty, but not for their value; —a collection of facts about precious g a new re£rigej ator, Clue we feel that and I do like to see . precious stones stones which I had gathered Prem we have to have a new refrigerator, set in rings, or in brooches or as' several .sources. But, as I have said, pendants, for wearing by women.' I have not a particle of desire to ear, or If cm„, neighbour gets a new rug, or When I lived in London, I used to goes to Florida or takes a own :a diamond or emerald or sap- eruiee, then we feel it to necessary linger at the windows of Bond Street phire of immense size, for 11 I did to be imitative; and in being imita- and Regent Street jewellers, and en-: � own one, I would be in perpetual fear tive, we may have to go into debt joy the sight of the precious stones —fear that it might be stolen; and and to go miserable for weeks and there shown. Onee I entered a Bond this fear would lend me to keep it perhaps months. street jewellery store which was mak- in a vault, and even when it was ing a display of emeralds,; and saw a worn by anyone, all of us would be magifieent brooch, set with a glorious in a state .of fear. All of us have see those who over emerald, which had been given by spent on a new house or ear or on the Great Napoleon to Josephine his atan indulgence of some sort, and we wife. I was permitted to handle this When, I looked the imitation have seen these same persons, in brooch, but I did not want to own diamonds of great size in the Toronto .,navy instances, "ernne a cropper". it, even had I been able to buy it. jeweller's window, 1 was led to think My observation has informed me that of the vanity—rho folly—of having those whose spendings are:well in - things which cannot be-used—or ade- side theirincome and whorefuse to quataly used, and among such things be imitative of the follies and the ex - are great houses. I heard recently travagances of others live long en - of a family in the United States who ough to have their ways commended had built a 17 -room house in the by those whom they might have martvicinity .of New York. The martat imitated. . the head of the family had been ih-1 It not smart to be foolish and duced by real estate promoters:to extravagant beyond one's financial build a house, on two or more acres , ability to do extravagant and foolish of ground, in a district declared to'thinga. be very choice front the investment point of view. But something hap - the view of guests and friends, and whose possession must always be a cause o1 fear. Lociciag up money in a possession which can't' be used and whose sates value is likely :to decline „e• to not very wise. $ So ninny of us are guilty of the And I used to go into the famous Liberty shop on Regent Street, where I had formed some sort of acquaint- ance with tiro man at the head of the jewellery department, and ask to be shown eome of the fine stones,— this for the indulgence of a taste for fine jewels. Liking to see fine jewels is much the same as liking to see fine pictures, or liking to listen to fine music. Once I did buy, for myself, a ring with a sapphire set in it, front Lib- erty's. I wore this ring, silver and pend, rend this house is 'today the APPOINTED MANAGER house in the particular district t Mr. Eric M. Wilson, formerly of rather ornate, for a period, but al- only ways consciously •and with misgiv- . which the real estate sellers said Goderich and later publisher of The ingt: it was too showy, I thought. would become a well-settled eommun ,! Stayner Sun, has been appointed So I quit wearing it, and have never' rty. Today the sales value of this manager of the Toronto office of The worn another. property is but a fraction of its or- . Montreal Daily Star. Mr Wilson hhs And there was a certain second-iginaf cost. For year's this family— been on the staff of the Toronto of- 'fathffather, mother, and two sons lived flea of The Montreal Star for some er, this huge house. The family had weeks, but has now assumed the sive inquiry, to be undertaken solely less than $100,000, and a good deal managership. by himself, and declared that all hel of this money had been sunk in the needed was dredge -fret or trawl with' purchasing property and in the house powerful hand gear and a stout boat. built on it. The father had no oe- He impressed upon them the import-' cupation, for he had retired, Both once of secrecy, because, as he truly he and his wife for years and years pointed out, if their enterprise tante did the housekeeping themselves, to be i;xsown, many others would start without hired help. Imagine two age - on a like quest. ling people living in a 17 -room house "The Garcias were taken with the without servants, and •with rarely any scheme, promised the profound sec-' visitors — living in a remote and recy on which' their ally insisted and neighborless region! Not long ago the. presently fitted him out with all the father died. I cannot say what is the needful gear, Under pretence of fish- intention of his widow, but one can ing, Benny set to work—always by guess that the house will be left, night—and it was not long \before he, perhaps to go empty for years and beganto repeat and reveal results, years, and if and when sold, it will (To be Continued) be sold at a give-away price. ICAS eAReT i ES • "The putts! form In which tobacco can be ,naked" Rich men incline to build big houses—far larger than the family's own requirements. Building and liv- ing in a big house—bigger than is required—is of the same sort of folly as owning a mammoth diamond which can seldom be worn or exposed to MurpIi ainits a"d NAIWO will make your home FIT FOi._ A KING: 11AGIVO Canada's Smartest Finish COVERS IN ONE COAT BRUSHES PERFECTLY DRIES IN NO TIME! Bail & Zapfe Albert Street—Phone 195 CLINTON, ONT. aliff Welcom s Their Majesties anff Springs Hotel, interna- trongl7y Famous .Canadian Boclty 3/fountain •resort at Banff, Alberta, will .be visited by Bing George VI' and Queen Elizabeth during their 'Canadian tour, when residents of 1 0 Rocky Mountain town will accord them a .:right royal welcome.. Their Majesties' will enjoy their first day of rest in Canada in the Banff Springs Hotel, and to their memories of the I ]Empire will be added the compellingly, magnificent vistas of the Valley of the Bow and the sweeping snow crested ramparts of Sulphur Mountain, Mount Handle and the Feerholme Range. Present plans provide for the arrival of Their Majesties at Banff in the. evening of May 26111; a day of rest and enjoyment on May 27111 and their departure daring the mid-morning of May 28th. During their stay they well enjoy the drive to beautiful Lake Louise, appropriately named af- ter Princess Louise, wife of the Marquis .if Lorne, sometime Gov- ernor-General of Canada, and a daughter of Queen Victoria. They will make their headquarters at the Banff .Springs Hotel which will be opened earlier this season exclusively for use of the Royal party. The pj,eture lay -out shows the hotel in its magnificient moun- tain setting ;and glimpses of a. Sew of the spacious rooms which lend comfort and charm to the Royal Suite,