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THE CLINTON _NEWS•RECORI
.THURS., MAY 18, 1939
Eden Phillpotts
TOM AYLMER: At the time the
story opens is living in Peru, man-
aging silver mines belonging to his
father. -
FEI,ICE PARDO: A Peruvian who;
although young, has been fifteen
years in the service of the Aylmer
mining enterprise. He is the most
trusted native em iloyee;
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Mrs. MERCY AYLMER: Tom's
mother; - egotistical and exacting.
JANE BRADSHAW: Toni Aylmer's
fiancee. At the time , the story
opens, the expectation is that these
two will marry, on Tom's next leave
in -England.
ANGUS MAINE: A young Scot on
Aylmer's close compan-
ion
and p
ionof 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.
CHAPTERS
Tom Aylmer and Angus Maine are
enjoying a holiday on the hills of
Peru when Felice Pardo rides out to
them with a cabled message announe-
ing the death of Tom's father. Tom
knows that his father has bequeath-
ed to him the Peruvian silver ;nines
of which he (Tom) is the manager.
He decides to sail for England at
cote and to take Angus for company.
Before leaving Lima, Tom buys a
parrot, to give to his fiancee, Jane
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Bradshaw. The bird, bought from a!parrot missed it, but it belongs all
dealer whom Tom knows and trusts,' right,"
is according to the dealer, a very Then, very slowly, Gregory reveal-
exceptional
eveal.
exec tional parrot,and is abouts v- olo s:—
p n o ed the truth and read as f 1 w.
enty years of age—no great age for GEYSER AT GORGE MANE' (A)
a parrot. TER CACHE' , GALAPAGOS WEST
On the liner, the. bird engages the EQUATOR ON TABLETOP."man,
attention of Jacob Fernandez, as rich "There you are,! said. Jane. "Now
man, of Lima, who is bound for the bouquets, please,"
Panama, whose life hobby is the
study of birds.
To Fernandez, the parrot talks, but
the only words •he can detect in a
1 string of sounds are `Benny Boss."
Fernandez says he- knew a man of
that name, and proceeds to tell Tom backwards, why did you leave `cache'
and Angus what he knows. and 'west'?"
Benny was a man of mixed parent- But Gregory was able to explain
age—English and Peruvian—who, for this.
a time, fifty years earlier, worked A reasonable question, Nicholas,
for Fernandez. They parted' company and the answer is clear. If you turned
and after an interval, Benny tried, `cache' backwards, you would get the
unsuccessfully, to sell to Fernandez letters 'ehcae,' which do not constitute
a large ruby worth much more than a pronounceable sound in any strict
the price he put on it. Piecing to-. sense, and similarly with `west'
gether what Ise learned about Benny Reverse the letters and you get `tsew.'
in later years, it !seems that Benny 'Neither a rudesailorman nor a primi-
had been engaged in dredging on tive parrot could make anything of
Lake Titicaca, and that he had dredg- these vocally, so Benny Boss left them
ed up jewels thrown into the lake as they were. "Now ' he continued,
at the time of the Spanish conquest. "much stands revealed and this feeble
Before leaving the ship, Fernandez enigma has been advanced one step
advises Tons to try to get the parrot's towards solution, but it would be idle
speech investigated by an expert, to say that all is transparently clear
Arrived in England, Tom does so, as yet. Did your reseaches carry you
but the expert, Gregory Barbour, is any further, Jane?"
baffled, despite an extensive kno'cvl- "Rather," she answered. "I knew it
edge of languages. was no use expecting any of you to
help, so I did it all myself."
(Now Read On) "Push on then," said Tom.
"Not content with, making every
CHAPTER VI word go backward, Benny Boss made
the whole sentence go backward," ex -
THE RIDDLE READthe
Jane. "The one thing follow-
Mr. Gregory Barbour, like the true ed the other instantly in my acute
scientist that he claimed to be, hesi mind, though none of you even saw
fated to, ignore a mystery while there that. Now read the definitive and
remained any hope of its reasonable complete edition, Greg."
solution. She handed 'Mr. Barbour another
Thus Gregory wrote to Miss Brad- paper and he read what she had'writ-
shaw, directed her to take action, and ten.
revived her interest in the subject. i "TABLETOP ON EQUATOR WEST
"Do this, Jane, please," he said,^ GALAPAGOS CACHE. MANEATER
"Follow my own procedure. Take GORGE AT GEYSER."
down verbatim and with phonetic pre-, •
vision ,the ten words spoken by your "Let's go," suggested Tom, and
parrot (for that they are words no Jane agreed.
reasonable person can pretend to "But just one moment more before
doubt) and then compare your re- we start," she said. "Nothing like
sults with my own." simplification when one is dealing
The girl obeyed and was interested with the masculine brain. Nosy you've
to find that her dictation correspond—heard how Benny boiled down his
ed exactly with her friend's. secret • for the parrot; no doubt be-
"Letter by letter they are alike," fore he had finished he was quite
she wrote. "There is no difference sure the bird had got it right; but
whatever, Greg., and I am bringing here is my last edition. A very few
my feminine intuition to bear at full words will make the message clear.
steam. If I don't see the meaning of "Tabletop" is an island, of course.
it in the next twenty-four hours, I West of the Galapagos group there
shall blow up." , can't be anything but islands till you
But well within the allotted time come to China, so we get the follow-
Jane arrived at the solution and ing."
laughed- to find its childish nature. , She took up her final sheet of note -
"All is as clear as mud, dearest paper and read it to theist.
Greg," she wrote, "and the only re- ,,THE ISLAND OF TABLETOP
mainiitg mystery in my mind is that UPON EQUATOR WEST OF GAL -
four brilliant people, like you and APAGOS ARCHIPELAGO. C'ACHE
They were all silent for a moment;
then Nicholas spoke,
"The revised version doesn't seem
much to make a song about," he said,
"and if you turned all the other words
Toni and Angus and myself, were IN MANEA.TER GORGE AT GEY•
nonplussed for a moment . . . The SER."
Man who taught 'the parrot these
words used your own language, Greg! "How simple!" said Angus.
It was common English that beat "Infantile," agreed Jane, "but now
you, and, of course, I shall' never the really interesting work begins."
think of your learning so highly "Getting an expedition together and
again in consequence. But thepar- plunging into the equatorial depths
rot's old master—Benny Boss -no of the Pacific Ocean? Would you
doubt wanted a repository for certain suggest anything so made Jane?"
facts, and he knew they would'. be asked Gregory.
safe with his bird. Everything 'falls "You're beginning at the wrong end
beautifully into its place now. I've —most unseientific, darling. No; the
told Torn and Angus to come to din- first thing to do is to collate all the
ner' to -morrow, and S shall then ex- known facts, weigh them in the baI-'
pound the thing, from basement to anee and then decide if it's good en -
attic, and put on a bit of side no ough," S explained Jane. "Needless to
doubt." !say I have collated all the known
Angus and Tont' obeyed her man- facts;"
date, but the linguist did not join. "There aren't any," declared Angus,
them for dinner. It was not until and she pretende disappointment,
the meal was finished that he an-, "You can say, that! And I've had
rived just in time . to hear Jane's hundreds of cast-iron facts from
exposition. She produced some sheets Tom's own lips. And you heard them,
of notepaper. I toe. This must be the dine results of
"Sit in a quiet, attentive row and relations in Aberdeen," mourned Jane.
listen," she said. "It is an utterly "Now listen," she continued. "We
childish cryptogram`,' but Benny Boss have next to combine all, we know
had to keep it pretty elementary, of of. Benny Boss with what he taught
course, since he was relying upon a his parrot, pool the results and de -
bird to store it away for him." lcide, onstho findings, exactly what
She read the original document. we're going to do about it,"
"RESYEGn TA EGRO:G REITEN'AM "If you have already: decided, as I
CACHE SOGAPALAG WEST begin to suspect, Jane, then it is
ROTAUQE NO PO'I'hl1.BAT." probably going to be our task to
"So much for that," .said Janenmodify your decision," declared Mr.
"Now all you have to do is first to, Barbour.
turn each word round and read it, . "I Haven't decided at all,' she
again backwards, Let Gregory do it." answered. "It's nothing to do with
Mr: Barbour .obeyed. - I me. I may know what I'd like to
"To do this with precision will take happen, but what does the wish of
a little time," he said, "so I beg you one lone woman matter? Well, it's
to bear with ate." !like this—.Mr. Boss dredged in Lake
"I've put an 'a' into the fourthi Titicaca on an . understanding! with
word,' explained Jane, "but you'll seethe Garcia brothers.. Then he made
why in a moment when you come toa slip, as the cleverest people some -
it. "The 'a' isn't sounded, so the times do, and instead of handing his
big topaz to the company, gave it to
his daughter. Of Course,' it's easy to
see that all the time he was working
in the lake 'he was;ca'refully keeping
the really swagger treasures for him-
self, no doubt considering that the
lion's share ought to go to the man
who had the wit to find them.
"After all, tie Garcias only paid
for the boat and dredging net, and
I don't blame Benny in the least for
looking after his own end. But evi-
dently he. knew the fat was in the
fire when a Garcia saw Julio Pardo
wearing the huge topaz. So he van-
ished off the may while the going
was good, and, of course, he took his
hoard with him, Nobody ever knew
where he went (to, but presently he
came back, declared his innocence,
and expressed amazement that any-
body should doubt it,
"But we now know that on his
return he must have been at great
pains to teach my parrot the secret.
Why he did --and chose English to do
it in—I' don't suppose anybody will
ever know, but the fact remains,
When he fled front his home he went,
sooner or Pater, to the Galapagos, and
from there presently sailed due west
along the equator to Tabletop — an
island he must have known about in
his seafaring days. And that's where
he hid his treasures—in some weird
place called 'Maneater Gorge,' beside
a hot spring. How he got there, what
he sailed in, or the reasons he gave
for going, we do not know, but you
may be sure the people on the ship
didn't hear anything about his real
purpose. ',Is that clear so far?"
"A reasonable conclusion from the
premises," admitted Gregory. "You
cannot be sure, however, that he sail-
ed from the Galapagos Island's."
VISION OF ADVENTURE
"I feel perfectly certain he did,"
she answered: "It was the inevitable
starting place if he meant to follow
the equator till he reach his island.
You can see that on the map. To
find an uncharted island in the heart
of the Pacific would have been like
looking for a needle in a haystack,
but his seaman's knowledge embrac-
ed the fact that it lay on the equator,
so he had only to go ahead due west
till he picked it up. Well, he did
pick it up, went ashore • with his
treasure, hid it, came back to the
ship, and probably said that the isl-
and' was no use, or something like
that. Then he came home again.
"He lies low for a bit, lives an
innocent life, and waits for the clouds
to blow away. They blow away. One
Garcia brother dies, •and the other
sells his fruit fat'nt, leaves Peru, and
goes to Cuba, Benny Boss now feels
that the coast is clear, so Off he goes
again to Tabletop to get his hoard
and no doubt turn it into money. But
this trine he doesn't come back, He
vanishes, and we can only assume
that something happened to prevent
him from coming back. . His wife
never heard any more news of hint,
and his end is unknown. Probably
it wasn't peaceful, being the sort of
man he 'was. He may have liked
Tabletop so much that he decided to
stop there. There may have been
cannibals on Tabletop who liked him
so much they telt they couldn't part
from him. They may have eaten him,
or they may have made him their
king and thought the world of him.
Or he may just have died a natural
death before he got back to his Ireas-
ure, and been buried. at sea. In that
case no doubt the cache is still in-
tact,"
"He would hardly have chosen a
cannibal island," said 'torn. "He
wouldn't have liked the idea of a lot
of poking, prying cannibals watching
him bury Isis treasure. I'll bet it
was an inhabited island, Jane."
"Against that, however, you must
set the fact that a district of Table-
top is called Maneater Gorge, Tom,"
said Gregory Barbour. "To me that
has 'a distinctly anthropophagous
connotation"
"Where do you find these beautiful
words, Greg?" sighed Jane. "But I
believe Tom's right."
"It can't bo uninhabited, my dear
child, if there are man-eaters in it,"
argued Gregory. "The place does not
get its sinister name for nothing, and
many other creatures are quite ready
-ndy, even willing—to eat men be-
tide his fellow men."
"It doesn't matter," declared Jane.
"It's a detail. Benny found the island
in the first' place and called it `Table-
top." My feminine intuition is dead
certain there is a Tabletop, and price-
less Inca treasure lying snugly con-
cealed upon' it."
Nicholas Bradshaw made ;a sugges-
tion. '
"You ought to charter a low, raking
hand -hog schooner with a grim cap-
tain and a cut-throat crew," he said.
"That's the way to tackle Pacific
islands.' Then, when you've lifted the
booty and set sail for bonne, the inen
mutiny and do you all in, and you
are never heard of again, Probably
that's what happened to, Benny Boss."
"Coward!"answered Jane: "You
can stop at home now, Nick, and
look after the birds."
"I haven't the slightest intention
of coming," he said.
"Will you come, Greg?" she asked.
"We don't want a crowd, of course.
This is a matter of business not a
picnic. But if you like to share' in
the expenses--".
"'Maneater Gorge,'" answered Mr.
Barbour. "No, Jane."
"Well," she said, "that leave us
three, Tom and Angus and L"
"You don't waste much time, do
you7" asked the Scot,
"If it's going to be our honeymoon
Stodgy Wanton
trip, Jane, -we shan't want to bother
Flowers
Aylmer.
"It isn't," she answered: "My idea Canada's diminishing succession of
is a treasure. recovery company en a lovely wild flowers from Spring to
purely financial basis. It's a gamble, Fall has now reached the point that
of course: We've ,got to weigh the their _ultimata disappearance can be
possible against the probable." avoided only by the care and consid-
"With what result?" asked Greg. enation of the people. Throughout
"With the result that the possible the years, the greatest destruction of
turns the scale," she assured hire. "It wild flowers 'has been the clearing
is frankly possible that we might of the forests and land' for farms
draw a blank. As far as I can see and habitations, assisted by forest 5
directly from the roots, may be pick-
ed at will, providing the body of `the
plant is left undisturbed.
Tearing up a plant by the roots to
gain a bloom is wanton destruction
and means, only onething—the pass-
ing of beautiful flowers from the
Canadian landscape. It is against this
reckless plucking of wild flowers that
the horticultural societies -make their
apneal. •
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Angus to conte, shall me? asked
it is purely a matter of expense. One fires and the grazing of animals. Still I
doesn't want to go exploring de luxe, `later, the want of thought on thei
or anything silly, like that; but part of persons, particularly in tho •
against the cost of the expedition, 'vicinity of the larger centres of pop -
we mayfairly set the probable re- ulation, has hastened' the possibility —
turns." Id wild flowers sharing the fate of
"And what da you estimate the the buffalo, the musk ox, the great
eggs in the basket to be ;worth, auk, the carrier pigeon and other
Jane?" inquired Angus (wild life, fair already some of the
"I am counting them before they're finest specimens in the woods have
hatched, no doubt," she admitted, "but disappeared. • Hence, the appeal b£
we have to consider Benny Boss horticultural societies through Canada
again. He was a very able man, for the prevention of wild flowers.
whatever he wasn'.t in other direr- The preservation of wild flowers
tions, and he wouldn't have fled` and does not meant that no one is allowed
taken all this prodigious trouble for to pick a bloom, but it does demand
anything small. The thing is in a: a little thought from the picker. For
nutshell, Toni; you have only got to example, some wildflowers should not
inquire roughly for what we can be:.pieked sit all. Plants like the white
charter a sinall steamer at the Gal -1 trillium, the floral emblem of Ontario,
apagos, take it for say three months, are best left alone in all the glory
and set off along the equator to huntlof their original setting, because these
down the island A few thousand, flowers cannot be picked without re -
pounds perhaps —absolutely nothing' moving all the foliage on which de -
against the probable result." i pends the maturing of the bulbous
They chattered, but found Janelroot for the following Season's crop
meant all she had said. Indeed she' of flowers. Other species of wild
was exceedingly firm, flowers, such as violets, hepaticas and
"There is one other who will cer- the like whose flower stems rise
tainly have to come," said Tom, "and
that's Felice Pardo."
Jane Bradshaw reflected.
"It was a man eaIled Felice Pardo
that Julia Boss married," she said.
"D'you remember? How queer!"
"That need not detain us," declared
Tom. "There are hundreds of Pardos
at. Lima alone and dozens of Felfees
—a very common5name and Christian
name is Peril. Felice would never
forgive us if we tank a jaunt like this
without him. He's a keen photog-
rapher and will be able to immortaI-
ize the island.
"And he certainly ought to have a
share," declared Angus.
They both regarded Jane, but she
offered no objections.
"Then that leaves four," she said.
"A nice easy number."
(To be continued)
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