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THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORH
TIIUES., JUNE 22, 1939
Eden Phillpotts
TOM AYLMER: At the time the
' story opens is living in Peru, man-
aging silver mines belonging to his
father.
!I±ELICE PARDO: A Peruvian who,
although young, has been fifteen
:years in the service of the Aylmer
opining' enterprise. Ile is the most
trusted `native employee.
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Mrs. MERCY AYLMER: 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 marry on Tem'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 it a
bachelor and is engaged upon a
monumental literary work on the
•subject of bird Life.
SKELETON ON THE BEACH
The alteration to his plans created
.a psychological 'ferment for Felice
.and once more he fell backupon a
hope that the future was already de-
signed, and that the cuphe hated to
'drink might yet be taken from his
lips, .He still resolved to secure the
treasure if it might be possible, but
she knew that he would be thankful
-with another part of his mind, if he
-were denied the •chance.
He had pictured the signals as the
work of Benny Boss, his great grand -
_father, and considered how they had
Jong outlasted the !,ands that iseb
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them there; but their disappea ante
showed this dream to be mistaken.
Jane, Tom ,and Angus joined him
on the bridge • and shared in the
search foe 'the vanished' ,signals; but
Costa's telescope and Tom's binocul-
ars failed to discover any trace of
them. They were obliterated and
their disappearance impossible to ex-
plain. No sign of life appeared upon
the cliffs and as the sun rose a great
purple shadow thrown down by the
smoke brooded upon the island
heights. There promised a day of
torrid heat, and Jane suggested that
they should leave investigation of the
gorge till later, 'cruise on and land
at the forest extremity of the island,•1
where shade night be found and re-
spite from the sun beneath the giant'
vegetation that grew there; but Cap
-1
Costa wee impatient and anx-j
ions. His instinct foreboded ill and'
he desired to be done with Table Top!
and sail, either south or north, away
front it.
"I beg that you will do what you
are come to do," he said, "and seek!
the cache of which you speak in the
gorge. Then, if the glass rises and
I feel myself a happier than, we can
see how to -morrow looks. But there
is clanger here and mystery that I
do not comprehend. So I will ask
you to go ashore this morning and
satisfy yourselves as to the cache.
Then we will see what the day brings
forth."
They could not oppose him and
iagreed to do as he directed,
"It's the disappearance of the
stars, painted as we thought on the
cliffs, that has frightened Costa," so
Jane told them. "Sailors are super-
stitious and hate any queer happen-
ing they can't explain; but such a
lot of things happen cue can't ex-
plain that it's no goad letting. them
get on your nerves."
"I don't think he care twopence
about the signals," said Angus. "We
may find the reason for them, or
we may not. What's • bothering Costa
are the signals from the barometer
which means big weather, And yet,
so far, we don't see a : sign of big
weather."
They found Pardo unusually cheer-
ful before the eaptain';s dieta.
A revulsion of feeling had much
Tightened his heard for it would be
impossible to appropriate any vale
uables they might discover while all.
were working together. He surpris-
ed them by a return to cheerfulness.
The Iguana changed her course
and presently steamed to the mouth
of the great cleft in the coast line
and dropped anchor half a mile from
shore. Morning had brought no
change to the black beach, bat the
stream that there entered the sea
still emerged from the inner gloom
•of the gorge and they could hear
the guttural bellowing of the geyser
from which it sprang, like the snort-
ing of some huge beast.
"The utter lifelessness is so odd,"
said Jane, "You would expect a cloud
of sea birds wheeling' overhead and
floating "in the seal"
"Or a human being, who night, ex-
plain his signals," thought Tont.
"Perhaps somebody has seen us
and doesn't want. us,", -suggested
Pardo. "It might be that tete signals
'were meant for other eyes than ours."
An event delayed them a little
while. The ship had been equipped
with wireless, .and from Limo to time
a message out of South America had
reached them. • To -day came news of
earthquake from Equator, and certain
live volcanoes in tate Northern, Andes
were in eruption.
Costa won a sort of satisfaction
from the intelligence.
"All is to be understood," he de-
clared. "The earth has her fit upoe.
her, an,d these immense : things can-
not happen in her depths -without
distracting the upper air. The Line
is not a healthy place for ships at
such a time, andto make this blow-
hole froth the fires beneath our port
is to ask for tr'ouble."
Angus agreed with bite, and the
explorers soon tookthe ship's dinghy
and rowed 'themselves ashore.
The gorge gaped immediately be-
fore them, and making fast the boat,
they tramped the black, gritty beach,
and entered it. For fifty yards it
appeared to run straight into the
hills, then turn abruptly. westward.
The place was heavily shadowed, but
volume of water was considerable,
and Jane cried when she dipped her
finger et the margin, for the sulphur-
ous rivulet burned her.
"It's more .than boiling hot," she
said,
An acrid odour ascended frons the
water, and now the noise of the gey-
ser had much increased. It boomed
and •exploded in a great din- that
burst down the gulley. The sides of
the gorge were honey -combed with
little caverns, and it seemed ' that'
some sort of strange, botanical life
herd made .shift to exist, for cliffs
and caves dripped with tenuous, grey
draperies that hung in heavy threads:
from the rocky shelves above them
and densified, like some giant lichen,
in any deep cranny that offered foot-
hold.
"Ho :dame armed, you see, and the
weapon must have dropped from his
Mind when he fell. That seems to
show ho actually died on this spot,"
he said.
"Much may turn on that," suggest-
ed Angus. "We know he came alone
for his treasure but was he dead be-
fore he reached it, or killed on the
way .back to his boat after he had
got it? In the latter case, the treas-
ure would be hese, unless he was kil-
led by an'enemy, who took it fr•oni
him after he was; dead. The revolver
may have been used by somebody else
to shoot Benny, and unless he was
shot thranghthe head, there would
be nothng left to show it that were
so:,
But the vanished' man's skull re-
vealed no injury. It was perfect.
"It's far more likely that he never
got to his cache," said Jane. "He
knew there was danger and came
armed, but he mush have been sur-
prised before he had time to put up
a fight. Can you tell if the revolver
is empty or loaded? Give it to Felice.
He understands firearms better than
you do." -
Pardo •took the weapon and ex-
amined it with caution.
"It's 'a mass of rust," he 'said,,
(`but the chambers have cartridges in
them. The changes may have rotted
away. I don't think any were fired,
but I can't be eure."
"We shall know soon enough in
any case," declared Jane, "and the
sooner the better. I'h getting chok-
ed with sulphur. If the caehe shows
,up by the hot -spring, that's proof
positive he never • got there; and if
there's no cache, we're done anyway."
The men picked up their: spades
and proceeded. Angus had run on
before and was already . at the turn,
while Jane followed him, matdng
slower progress Dover the rough
Then there confronted them their
first discovery and all three, proceed-
ing together, stood still in the pres-
ence—not of life—but the desolate
and dismembered fragments of a be-
ing who had once lived. And it was
something finite and distinctive that
linked the vanished existence to their
own. A human skeleton lay supine
on the ebony sand, whose darkness
set off the gleaming lustre of its
bones.
A museum specimen could not have
been displayed to bettor purpose, for
the fragments were set orderly 'and
•sustained in place by the earth on
which they rested. Not a splinter
of the ancient, structure appeared to
be missing, though it had fallen
apart; the ribs were stranded amid
the vertebrae 'and the fragments of
hand and feet lay detached, but they
had not scattered, and together in-
dicated the vanished body of an un-
dersized, though heavily built than.
The bones, despite the 'attrition of
half a century, Were sturdy still and
of considerable size. The .skull shone
silver bright and grinned up at them!
cheerfully. The eye -sockets sank
deep; the donee was of a dead white
but still perfect and so clean that
every suture could be noted; the ivory
in the jaws had withered and spoke
of age. There was,'a speck 'of gold
in one hollow tooth. F• or a .moment the four stood silent
anus Jane was the first to speak.
"Benny!" she murmured.
Various emotions agreeable to their
characters and quality moved in the
hearts of the beholders; but it was
natural that Pardo should feel the
most acutely. For the rest, here was
only an arresting proof that their
enterprise still stood on sound fouhda-
ground, and Tom and Felice came
behind her. They were talking, and
Aylmer,; reminded by the discovery
lof the revolver, regretted that they
;had forgotten to bring their own
weapons in the haste of departure.
"Something must have laid out
Benny Boss," he said, "but, after the
passing of half a century, that some-
thing ought to be dead itself."
"Unless it was some saurian—some
huge toad or lizard that lives for
'ages," suggested Pardo. "I'm think-
ing of what night have happened,"
the continued. "If Benny got hr's trans-
;
ure and was coming back with it,
then, assuming some wild animal rob-
bed him of his life, it wouldn't have
robbed him of his hoard, and the
hoard might have sunk into the sand
land be quite close to his bones. The
i bones, themselves ten you something.
!They are not scattered or knocked
I about. You night expect that any
huge beast would have smashed him
after it had killed him, but nothing
of that sort happened. He just died
here and has remained here ever
since, while his body and .his clothes
I— even his boots — were all turned
'to dust and blown away."
As Pardo spoke the horror carte,
and they saw Jane stumble and fall.
'She stood opposite one of the grey,
Icavernous cones in the rock and, hast-
ening to her, they saw that rope -
like filaments ran out front it into
the gorge, and that she had caught
her feet in than anti been brought
down: She laughed as they approach-
ed and made to rise, bat then her
farms were caught and the strands of
Ithe net proved beyond bee power to
break.
"Cut me out of this tangle, Toni,"
she said. "I ought to have jumped
over it, as Angus did, but thought
it was only Iichen, It's tough and
sticky and I can't get out,"
Ile ran forward, bringing out his
knife, then suddenly stood stock still
as though frozen. From the grey
cavern something suddenly and sil-
ently came. It was a black lump of.
a creature that looked like a gigantic
gorilla advancing on all foul's; but,
though it had shining red eyes as
large as motor lamps, the creature
Possessed no face, and not upon all
fours it Went, but upon eight legs.
It towered above thein and crept
leisurely towards Jane.
(To be continued)
ions.
To discover the mortal remains of
Benny Boss indeed moved them, but
no sorrow could be awakened to mod-
ify a reasonable satisfaction. Tom
echoed the thought in the mind of
his friends.
"Benny to a certainty,"• he said,
or it's impossible to imagine these
ones can belong to anybody else:
What he is going to do for us re-
alms to be seen, but one, • thing at
"We'll put his pbor.old bones whets
id •Jane.
"We've got to find it fittst,'' point -
For Pardo there wakened stranger
d deeper sentiments that he might
not share with the others. He knew
that he was regarding the dust of an
ancestor, that the life forces thee
active amongst the debris at his feet
still animated his own limbs and beat
in his heart. The man reacted cur-
iously to this strange inspiration
There stirred a vein of superstition
deep hidden within him, and he told
himself. that these venerable bones
welcomed hum, that, though le had no
tongue, this silent skull saluted him
and invited hint to take what was bis
own. A sort of inter voice in/anted
Felice that, what for the moment ap-
peared impossible, Was going to hap-"
pen and the treasure presently lie
within his reach. Therefore he as-
sured his conscience that to shirk. any
future ordeal anion awaiting him trust
be treachery to the dead, For, the
skeleton at his feet suddenly became
alive, urgent, commanding. Benny's
bones were closer to him than the
living people at his elbow, and for
some moments he.forgot his compare.
ices. Then Jane spoke.
at the .turn light fell from above, "We must bury hien properly be -
indicating an aperture. fore we go." she said; ..
Overhead! the, cliffs bent forward, Tom had' bent over the remains and
and it was clear that masses of the now made a discovery. Thrust from
volcanic rock had from time to time the cindery sand there stuck a piece
fallen: into the Sift beneath, where of,metal and,, dragging it out, he
babbling and steaming from its cecre't,,,found the rusty fragments of an old -
fountain within, leapt the stream. The fashioned revolver.
nv
least we can da for him; and that
is to give rho old lad decent burial."
his treasure has lain all these years."
sa
ed out Angus,
an
BI1D FOR PLOWING
MATCH IN 1942
On Saturday afternoon a meeting
of the committee appointed to invite
and make plans for the International
Ploughing Match expected in Huron
County in•1942 met in Clinton. Those
present: J. D. Thomas, Goderieh; L.
P. Cardiff & B. Hemingway, Brus-
sels; Gordon. McGavin, Walton; P.
Passmore, Roland Williams and Wil-
liam Quinn, Exeter.
The secretary will issue an invita-
tion far the 1042 !match and a sub-
committee of throe was appointed to
leek over prospective sites and to
interview farmers of the selected
site this summer. -Thisis, necessary
to allow the fanners to seed down
fields so that sufficient sock land will
be available.
Arrangements were matte to send
a team of three ploughboys to rep-
resent Huron County at alae Interna:
tional Match to be held in Brock-
ville in October. To select the team
there will be two ploughing demon-'
strations . and coaching classes, •• on
September 5th. in South Huron on
the farm of P. Passmore, reeve e3
Osborne, and the following day in
North Huron on the farm of L. E.
Cardiff, reeve of Morris. Two well
known champion ploughmen will be
present as coaches at these demon-
strations.
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Mirror of
The Dation
By "Commoner"
Coming events: cast their shadows
before. So, Liberal members of the
(louse of Commons, before leaving
Ottawa at the close of the recent
session, cleared their rooms and desks
of all personal correpondence and
effects, sending anything of value to
their homes. They did this because
they are canyinced they are facing
a general election and that•scores of
them!, will not be t;eteening to Ottawa
fol•any future sessions. They did not,
want to have the expense and trouble
of a trip to Ottawa, after their de-
feat, to leave their parliamentary
premises in order.
,It is significant that only one Con-
servative member cleaned out his
desk before leaving. He is not 'ac-
cepting re -nomination. All the other
Conservative members are confident
of being back for the first session
of the new parliament and so they
merely turned the keys in their desks,
The time-honored expression "he is'
licked before he starts" almost in-
variably is used in reference to the
Spiritin which a contestant enters
the lists. The defeatist spirit of a
large body of Liberal members at the
close of the session is recognized as
a major worry of Liberal party. 05-
g'anizers. A. number of them will not
accept re -nomination because they do
not feel like spending time and ef-
fort on a cause they know in advance
to be lost. Several are seeking to
be appointed to government jobs
while the ministry they bare support-
ed is still lit existence. Virtually all
of hemi look through the glass dark-
ly at the prospects of the coming
eleetio-h.
The little band of 38 Conservatives,
who fought so tirelessly for action on
public questions throughout the ses-
sion, left Ottawa itt quite the opposite
spirit, They are confident they will
return a host to the new parliament.
If "confidence is half the battle", the
impending struggle at the polls will
, no•£ have as much resemblance to a
horse rase as Sir John A. MacDon-
ald -was credited with saying elections
generally have, At any rate the Con-
servatives are, going into the battle
of the ballots with their banners fly-
ing..
IN THE LETTER BOX'
Clinton News -Record,
Clinton, Ontario.
Dear Sire—.I ant instructed to for-
ward you a copy of the below resolu-
tionpassed unanimously by the dir-
ectors of the Stratford Board of
Trade at a special meeting in connec-
tion with the 'failure of the Royal
Train to slovr down at Romeo St.,
Stratford on June 6.
"The directors of the Stratford
Board of Trade join with the City
Council (andall our citizens) in ex
pressing very sincere regret that ow-
ing to some mistake or 'Maunder -
;standing in carrying out the plans
and schedule, as understood and made
public, by the Royal Visit Committee,
so many were disappointed in not! see-
ing Their Majesties on the occasion
cf their vi.;it here on Tuesday, June
GilWt.
e desire also to pay tribute to
the Rev. F. 0. Lightbourn and the
members of his committee, particul-
arly 14Ir. W. L. Whyte, of Seaforth,
in charge of the organization of
school children, Scouts, Guides, Cubs
and Brownies, for the very fine and
faithful work done by them and all
who assisted them!, and regret that,
in spite of their efforts, there should
be so much disapointntent;
Notwithstanding disappointments,
(we desire to express our appreciation
! df the visit of Their Majesties to the
Classic City and of the opportunity
many, many thousands had of seeing
them in person and of being able to
appreciate their gracious, kindly
spirit and challenge us and our child-
ren to a deeper devotion and firmer
loyalty."
Yours very truly,
11.15. Mason, Secretary.
OPEN LETTER TO THE CLINTON
PUBLIC "SCHOOL BOARD
Gentlemen:—The amazing and il-
logical wording of your advertise-
ment for teachers, appearing in the
June 8th. issue of the Clinton News-
Record, and again in that of June
15th. naturally calls for some -ex-
planation, which niay reasonably be
expected with respect for the follow-
ing considerations: The Catholic tax-
payers of this town have never
shown any concern whatever - over
the fact that members of their Faith,
have been conspicuous by their ab-
sence en the teaching staff of the
local school, their interest being al-
ways confined to the teacher's abil-
ity to impale knowledge, maintain
discipline, and in general, measure
up to the requirements, set by the
Dept. of Education. Was your em-
phasis, then, upon their exclusion at
this time, merely a wanton fling at
the tame submission of Catholics to
(`taxation without representation"?,
or is there some dark and myster-
ious ,danger known only to yoursel-
ves, lurking in the remote possibility
of employing "at longlast", a teach-
er fully qualified in every respect
but exercising his constitutional,
rights in subscribing to the tenets
of the Catholic Faith?
The general public is deeply con-'
corned in this matter, purely on prin-
ciple for if 'the principle is allowed
to stand, where`will it lead? What.
category of taxpayers will be pro-
scribed next?
Cordially Yours,
Maurice N. Sullivan.
ED. NOTE- The advertisement
referred to was worded from a sim-
ilar one appearing in a daily `eews
paper. While members of the School
Board can :speak for themselves, we
feel sure the inclusion of one Word
to which exception is taken, was not
intended. as a slight to Catholic
taxpayers.
August 8 will be the twentieth
anniversary of Rt. Hon, W. L. Mac-
kenzie King's selection as Leader of
the Liberal Party. The party manag-
ers have arranged for the holding of
a big banquet in Toronto on that date
to mark the occasion, Mr. Mackenzie
Sing. Iikes anniversaries connected
with himself. He likes to make their
observance as notable as possible..
Political, pundits are expecting, there-
fore, that he will choose the Toronto
celebration as the -occasion for an-
nouncing the dissolution of parliam-
ent and the calling of the election.
If this expectation should be borne
out the earliest date on which the
election could be held would be Oc-
tober 2nd. Selection of this date
would allow for tete minimum time
required by the Iaw between the is-
sue of the writs and polling, Under
the law polling has to be on a Mon-
day and' the enumeration of voters
must commence forty-nine days be-
fore polling.
Some think the Prime Minister
might decide to make an earlier an-
nouncement of the election. It is
understood, however, that he has re-
tired into seclusion for a rest after
his month's trip- aroundtt
the country
with Their Majesties and he is not
expected to give much attention to
election natters at least before the
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Sante Liberals have considered the
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Plane an object on a table with
glass top—shoot from underneath
the table --and the object teems to
be floating in air, for the glass, of
course, will be invisible.
That is hew the picture of the
"castle in the clouds," shown above,
was taken. A. big piece of glass
served as support—the castle is a
toy one—the clouds are pieces of
fluffy cotton And a portrait attach-
ment was used on the casnera to per-
mit shooting "close-up." Diagram 1
• shows how things were arranged.
• You can use this sante technique'
in shooting a picture of a pet—in
picturing a ship model --showing a
doll making -a high dive -and in
many other clever,' striking snap-
shots. Just have the glass well
cleaned, don't allow it to pick up
reflections from your photo lights,
—and your ,pictures will truly put-
ale anyone who views them
Mirrors are extremely useful in
making trick snaps. For au amusing
shot, get a plain unmounted mirror,
and place it level just under the
camera lens as shown in Diagram 2.
Take a picture at your house with
this arrangement—and if the mir-
roe is correctly adjusted as,shown,
your picture will show a lake in
your front yard! The mirror cuts off
the lower half of the scene, and sub-
stitutes an upside-down reflection,
just as would appear in a smooth ;.
sheet of water!
Try these simple, amusing camera
stunts. You can make trick pictures
as well as anybody!
230 John van Guilder
Diagram 1—Castle picture. Put subject on glass sheet olr glass top table,
shoot from below. G, glass; C,
camera. Diagram 2—Trick reflec-
tion `.method. M, mirror arranged
under lens; 0, camera. The mir
ror creates a "lake."
1.