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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-06-22, Page 2PAGE 2 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 The Clinton News -Record with which isincorporated ft THE NEW ERA , TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 41.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2,00 to the U.S. or -ether foreign countries. No paper .discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub - either. The date to which every sub - ascription is paid is denoted on the dobe!. 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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. ts.n.+.r,rr++N.J•�...�.nri+vennM.,. - ...vo.,wry. 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 THRUM YAG Ocean Liner Luxury Scenic Si. Lawrence Route ® Take the smooth "39% less ocean" crossing to the British Isles and Europe on your choice of Canadian Pacific's fleet of fast, comfortable liners—speedy, royal Empresses—stately Duchesses with newly installed hot and cold rnn- ning water in Tourist and Third Class staterooms --or low-cost Mont ships with Tourist Class eliminated to provide bigger and brighter public rooms and extra deck space for the Third Class passengers. Frequent sailings from Montreal and Quebec to British and Continental ports. 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' 'RICK pictures made with the aid ! of glass or mirrors are easy— and these devices permit many un- usual effects. 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.