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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-07-27, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS=RECOI.t,D•. Eden Phillpotts Then Aylmer spoke. "We'd better think twice and again before wo smash open the sacred casket and see what's inside," he said. "1 was wondering about it last night and facing certain elementary fact . The first fact is that the chest doosfn't belong, to us: at all. It was Felice Pardo's, and he paid for the thing with his life., But it belongs now to his heirs and assigns, just 'as much as everything else in his cabin belongs to' them. We may safely assume that he didn't make PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS a will before he started, and so it follows everything he left behind him '1PO1V AYLMER: At the time the Mrs. h'IERCY AYLMER: Tom's ANGUS MAINE: A . young Scot on must belong to his mother. I don't story opens is living in Peru, man- mother; egotistical and exacting. Aylrner's 'staff, and close compan- feel very' gay when I think of Signora aging silver mines belonging to his ion of Tom. Anita Pardo in any case. She's rather father. JANE BRADSHAW: Torn Aylmer's JACOB •FERNANDEZ: A rich, eld- a difficult sort •of woman,; as. Angus 'ELICE PARDO: A .Peruvian who, fiancee.' At the time the story erly South American whose' hobby knows, and we've got a complicated although young,. has been fifteen opens, the expectation is that these eis,the study of bird, life. Ile is a story to tell her with a very mourns ;years in the service of the Aylmer two will marry on Tom's next leave bachelor and is.engaged upon a ful `ending. The treasure is about mining enterprise. He is.the most in England.' monumental literary work on the the only thing likely to cheer her up, trusted native employee. subject of'bird'life. if you ask me, because all, the rest of it, is going to sound utterly mad. She's not a; very friendly person, any- way. She can talk 'good English, but I have never ..felt ,.t'hat she likes the English always suspicious and broody." "She told me once frankly ;than Pardo wasn't getting nearly enough money for his services,' 'said' Maine. "You see then,',' • continued Aylmer, ''f' We pour 'the `treasure : into her lap, as likely as not, she will think we are holding up the cream of it and doing something devious; but if ing and the green islands. gradually limned out of a golden, haze, with grey' mountain peaks ascending' above their pasture and forest, They dropped anchor in a little bay towards evening and received a friendly: welcome at Marchland, The visit of t'he Iguana was an )event and'. :Aylmer determined that she would stop here for a week or two while her repairs were completed'and her boilers scaled.- Costa was content,. and though otic island authorities could grant no `considerable supply of coal they promised to furnish all that the ship would need to take her to Callao. The islands had felt the upheaval and suffered' from the tidal wave upon their northern shores. The travellers. heard a sad tale of the disaster, for many native crafts were dashed to pieces upon- the strands,1 many homes destroyed with loss of life, and Marchland was.in mourn- ing for her dead. Aylmer found quarters ashore,' and. they left .the ship: for a time, trust- ing their treasure chest with the captain, who alone knew -of its ex,- .that CHAPTER XIV (Continued) THE STRUGGLE BEGINS seemed to ascend higher than' any foam -beaten abyss and faced a de - hill of earth and touch the very sky. Scent less dreadful than Costa had At a mile distant its inky bosom feared. For the rear' of the wave 'The ship beneath them looked len- revealed detail, and foam, like alpine proved. not so steep as its van.,A •ely.` Everything had been made fast glaciers, streaked•it. A great wind raging wind broke'it up and beat it and she steamed Astern at a fair came with the water, tore fragments down. It swept•on and the ship :speed with her bows to the ` great from its, crest and flung .them for.' presently sank into the lesser bil- wave. It seemed that an enormous, ward;down the steep. Then, as it lows that foamed like' foothills at its moving elevation followed them and reached them, the sun touched its far- base. Now the monster wave' heaved gained upon them. Out of a running (flung mane and a. tremendous glory r up astern of her and receded south sea it reared and rose up and up in of gold apd emerald surge ran along into approaching night, The sun had •one'vast, gradual mountain slope of the crown of the wave, flew off in set and the ship pitched and tossed heavily vrith her bows to the gal .black water. To the atoms on the flakes of fire and fell snow-white e; we hand over the little chest un- lid nor lock. No aperture could be .eockle-shell in its path the wave now under the;curl of the ridge. But it but the tremendous sea and head opened, then she must realize that discovered and it we 1- i s black and Iistence and locked it in his cabin safe. He 'was deeply interested, for they had told him every particular ,they the story, and he hoped that they might find a grand reward. They had examined the receptacle but made no attempt to open it. Indeed such a task promised to be difficult, for the metal box revealed neither seemed,tlrat, the light burned through, wind were tench phenomena as sailors understand and - face without fear.: In the saloon was heard the familiar throb of the machinery and the trample' of the crew on deck again. "That means we're.saved!" Jane. News-Record �� even those ponderous wall's of water, Mlle Clinton Nfor now the breast of the wave was black no more but glassy green glit- with which is incorporated tering with leagues of fallen foam. THE NEW ERA ! Costa called the engine room and TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION cried "God bless you boys! to the .l 1. O per year in advance,.to Can - sew men at the wheel. Then they median addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or saw the nose of their little ship bur - •other foreign countries. No Raper ted, found her heavy as .lead under 'discontinued until all arrears are their feet for a few vital seconds, ,paid unless at the option of the pub- while great seas hid her forward, then ' -Esher. The date to Which every sub - thrust that she lifted beneath them, •acription is Haid is denoted on the thrust her bonus upward and began THU .,, JUTS 27,' 1939 •! F.,4,..e."•••••••••••• c i1i.ur.r of The¢tion By "Commoner" They are painting the fence, around defensive attitude. Experienced poi - Parliament Hill. This removes any itical observers know' that in an elec- lingering doubt about a Fall election. tion such - an attitude is fatal,that The Prime Minister"may be keep; 'for the party in power defence is ing the" secret of his intention even the forerunner of defeat. That has from his cabinet colleagues, but the been the unvarying experienceo _ Y gof all Minister of Public Works has a lot governments, federal and provincial, to do with,preparations for elections, Governments never win on ,denials: and iso he is'enilitled to' have a and excuses. shrewd suspicion as to what the And the Ottawa governMent wilt secret is and to govern himself ae- not be,able to avoid having to make eordingly, - The Minister of Public excuses in connection with matters works doesn't waste jobs on painting in which' political interest is now in - fences and laying new sidewalks on tense. Parliament Hill at times when votes For example,': the International are not required. This week gangs crew- Labor Office at Geneva reports this of men armed with chisels and screw- drivers drivers are picking sediment from month ilhat for the. quarter year the angles of the iron palings around . ended June 30 Canada was among the Hill, . Next week they will wash the very few countries recording an lite old paint. In a week or ea more increase in unemployment. She shay- they will have progressed to the ed this unfortunate distinction with Aust - ,painting stage. • This, or some sim- Chile, Hungary, Belgium and Aust filar refurbishing of the Hill, has ralia. While unemployment was de- 1 g b an else Lon- ince ri ua o creasing -during the last three months 1Mr. Mackenzie King's successive in the neighboring United States, in ministers of Public Works. Odd- Great Britain, Ireland, France, Ger- its, all above board. There's such rusted with the cinders and sulphur timers on the Hill know, when they many, Denmark, Norway, The Neth- a lot to tell the poor woman, and in which it had reposed for half a erlands, New Zealand and other much of it is so difficult to explain." r see gangs of men tearing up' pave-. P century and more. Under the scratch countries, the roll of the unemployed "I `see that" said' Angus. "Before of a knife the encrustations came I mmnts or doing other work that does was Felice joined us for the treasure hunt off easily, to show that the little'not need to be done, that it is else-; growing larger in Canada. he told her no doubt that.onequarter tion time again. They dont •require ` But those who are most fam!1!ar chest itself was made of silver. 1-_.- _rr.___, with Mr. Mackenzie King's political she's -got to hear that it's all his, ashore they were able to learn news and she'll want to know what hafl- i mations as these will not move him tt entered carrying h' unconscious mate from the bridge. They feared that he must be dead; but he presently regained senses and pened to alter the original arrange- ment." rrangement" "As long as she_ finds it's all hers, she won't bother much about that, was able to shake Costa's hand when surely," asked Jane. "We needn't Jebel to climb. Now she was gunwale deep the captain came below.. Soaked and give ourselves away to her, or any - ADVERTISING RATES Transient I in the slope and green water flooded battered he was triumpant and very i body. You can't tell her that you and -advertising 12c per count line for her decks; now, buoyant again, she proud of his achievement. His pas- I funked the spiders, and you sur - first insertion. 8c, for each subse- emerged and struggled onward and sengers praised h!m. rendered your interest rather than went insertion. Heading counts 2 upward. For a time it seemed that Costa told his intentions. go among them again, and that I -lines. Small advertisements not to: the wave could not be surmounted "We shall stand on- our course told Tont I wouldn't marry him if -exceed one inch, such as "Wanted",E and that she must founder on its again after midnight if not sooner," he did. Anyway, you both went "Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once breast; yet Costa knew that, if she he said. "Then we can run before quickly enough when it was a mat - for •85c., each subsequent insertion lived, the summit must certainly the wind without added danger and ter of trying to save her son. Costa 15c. Rates for display advertisingi pass under her. l relieve the ship:' can swear to that." made known on application. , Below Tom and Angus and Jane 'But don't catch up the tidal wave "It all sinews how complicated the again,' begged Jane. Communications intended for pub-, clung to their chairs and saw the situation is,"said Tom, "We've got lication must as a ❑arantee of ood , We shall not catch the great to be jolly careful what we tell her. faith be accompanied by the name porn holes 'of the little saloon blotted wave," he promised her. "It wilt She'll hate us - in anycase." out as the sea surged over them.' r •of the writer. reach the Marquesas many days be- "We might do this," suggested i They had felt the Iguana shake andfore acne, ' "One can'tsay, ofcourse, great wave rolled upon her, They have made. had heard the roar of the water get back to the.mainland, but if old A tremendous sea still battered the Jacob Fernandez: is still alive when thundering on her decks and thought Iguana, and lightning tore the dark- we do, then you could put 'all the that it must have broken through Hess above her, so that her present facts before him, Tom, and get him the solid timbers and was drowning perils only seemed less by compar- to see Anita Pardo. She'd listen. to her when she seemed to stand still ism with those that she had escaped. him if not to us. I and grow` inert and dead. And then A liner and Maine did tori s e '. E. HALL - Proprietor: shy like a frightened horse as the we can and I hope the Islands Maine. will make such good weather as we how long it's going to be before we H. T.RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial. Real Estate and Fire In- .surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire !Insurance Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton they had found that she floated yet Y g p 11 (Nobody will be more interested Frank Fin land B.A. LL.B. and fought .mel ' on. The angle of work on deck, and when they re- then your Signor Fernandez," prom- s s gamelyg turned to her /either they nor Jane ised Jane. "He' ought to be thrilled, of` the cabin told them that she was diarrister, Solicitor, Notary Pub19e retired, but Rept vigil white the hours Perhaps he'll even believe •us. I've climbing; then for one moment the Successor to W. Brydone, S.C. crept' by and the heartening note of got a feeling that so few people will. i3Ioar." Bloctc — Ciiatnn, out portholes rose clear and they saw the bell told them one bye one. Then But he might, because he was really the terrific slope of the wave. 'towards dawn, the altered action of responsible for the whole adventure Half a dozen tin trays leapt from the ship and her increased rate of he and the parrot between them." D. H. McINNES ,, their mooring and made' a greater speed showed that she had changed "Front the Marquesas it's a bee riot as they fell to the saloon floor course and was running south again. litre due east to Callao," said Torn, such' a nightmare that you'll have pressing. CHIROPRACTOR than the ea outside. China tumbl- Sailor cam and went . d tbe, it's to consider what to tell her and what. "Waite: If the Prince Minister were likely g PD d to be guided by such considerations she knows himself as yet" i "That applies to everybody," sat these observers would be• right and, "It must_ be round about three Angus. "I'm not at ail sure whether unquestionably, the election would be thousand sea }piles," explained An- we ought not to be a bit vague— delayed. Atmospheric conditions are gas, mot so much for other people's peace anything but favorable to the admin - "Not much more than a fortnight of mind. as our own credit. The truth istration. There is no denying that if we get fair weather." is rather unbelievable when you look discontent with the emirs of federal at it calmly and without bias. It affairs is country -wide and acute. BACK TO CIVILIZATION I doesn't get any better as we leave Touring members of the government "Where do.you reckon to make it behind us." . , 'themselves, confirmed this when they. for 'iii the Marquesas?" Tont asked "We'll try it on Jacob Fernandez,"found it necessary, at political meet - the, captain, as they -sat one night decided. Tom. lings in the Maritimes and elsewhere, over their evening meal. It had been "Perhaps he'll' pretend to believe it to argue with their listener's as to served under the awning on the after out of his Spanish. courtesy," thought whether or not the Mackenzie King deck, for the weather was very hot Jane: but Angus felt sure that the government is a do-nothing govern - awl the evening' air welcome. .old man would not, ment. Tire state of public sentiment, I go to Marchland—a big island,""We shall see' like a shot if he be- which they were shrewd enough to replied Costa. "There: the French lieves it," he said. "I• think he will. recognize, compelled them to adopt s have officers and people wife rule He knows that Torn and I are not the natives. Much more is doing inventive sort of people, and I'm sure Electro Therapist Massage ed and smashed; but all that meant s e n an cook that the mainland had suffered sev ere earth tremors but no seriou damage, and the . volcanic chain the Cordilleras was quiescent. "The safety valve lay far out in the ocean this time," said Main "but I tremble for Lima when think what may happen to her i years to come. She is the mo beautiful and noble city in South America, and a real big earthquak there is too awful• to contemplate." "Then don't contemplate it," beg ged Jane. "Think of the buried citie and the Inca wonders we are all go ing to unearth some day." Aylmer gave an entertainment fo the crew of the Iguana on Marchlan and feasted then at a great pima upon the shore. The travellers ha created a pretty close friendship be tween themselves and the sailors, an Captain Costa cordially hoped, that if ever minded to sail ,the Pacifi again, they would call upon hint and his ship. At the advice of Jane, Tom had sent an aerial message to Anita Pardo in Lima informing her of the death of her son. "She will have got used to the sad thought of poor Felice's end," said the girl, "and it will be less distres- sing for you when you meet her She's going to want to know all the details naturally, and the details are odds the election, whether hthe against his government by e would bring political skilfulness and that he Maine on the election, and with this danger would prefer to face even certain I aparently averted for the time being n he will be expected to make known defeat now than the prospect of a mos _ Europe lessening, such announcement to accept the advice of associates s is not likely to be long delayed. The who are against an election this year. of war danger was the reason given by They reason that he will count on Mr. Mackenzie King for not telling having some chance of overcoming his h!s decision. still worse defeat in 1940. Same observers who choose to e ignore such time -tested signs as the painting of Parliament Hill fences - and insist. upon pure reasoning as s their guide prefess to think that the Prime Minister may in the end de- cide to put off the election until r next year. And there is something a in their reasoning. They figure this c way: Most of Mr. I{ing's cabinet d colleagues have been going around and about the country. One or more d of them have been in all the prov- ' inces in the last few weeks, A. o quorum of them held a Treasury Board meeting in Prince EdwardEdwardIsland last week, calling officials from *awn to Charlottetown for the purpose. In a few days these perigrinating ministers will be re- porting to their Chief as to how they found the political atmosphere in the various parts of Canada. And the observers, think that these re- ports should influence the Prime Minister to put off the election until the political atmosphere is less de- but how long rt s going to take ter Htzron'Street. (Few Doors brought them coffee and ocId food. Costa to of there,T don't suppose west of Royal Bank) Hours -Wed, and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 20`Z the life of the ship held fast. j The riot and din overhead persisted, She mounted steadily and kept on and at the first gleam of morning her course, now smothered, now lift- Costa joined them to drink. He asked ing clear again until at last she for a cigarette and declared himself reached the crown of the waveon contene an even keeland the crucial striig- "Now we can breathe again in out gle began. But the crest of such a mind and in our throats," he said, billow was no knife-edge, Half -a- 'rfor the accursed dust is growing mile of water churned into fury .by thinner and the gale blows itoff the gale lay beffore them, and a the decks." of Huron terrific gale blew over this uplifted "What of the glass, Celptain," Correniespondence promptly answerer mountain -top et the sea. For the'inquired Tom. summit was as. the summit of any "For the first time these many other mountain and rolled marry,I u days the glass moves upward. hundred feet above sea level. The i "How . is poor Palma." asked Jane. rear declivity of the wave was yet to; "Ricardo has slept for three hours come and now, nearer the sky than' and is now ab the wheel again. He. many r men have ever been at sea, has recovered. He was choked with Costa fought this lofty hurricane as'the ashes, but now he breathes• once best he might. But the wave ad- more. And Carlos feels his brain vauced beneath him . carrying the growing clear, which mens that the Officers: wind as it went. At times it seem-•electticit will<soon be gone out of president, Thomas Moylan, Sea- ed that the ship was going astern' the air.' "forth; - Vice President, William ICnox, and must inevitably be toppled' back over the precipice it had surmounted, CHAPTER XV but in reality her engines kept wayl SHALL THE CASKET BE on her, She held her course and , while making no progress herself,) OPENED? was not beaten' back. The wave surg-1 For two days the storm persisted, cd on and there swi�'tly 'came a and daric`skies and heavy seas were moment when out,of • the welter the portion of the Iguana; then the Costa knew they were come to the weather .abated andthe air grew great descent beyond, . , clear. Many: dead fish came to' the For a moment' the ship broke clear surface, and among them were great and rose above the torment of lesser creatures that had perished in the waves that raged over her;. `Then downfall of Table Top.. Coal was they plunged downward and began running short, and Costa felt doubt to slide into. the approaching depth. 'ful whether the Marquesas could be The rear declivity of the great wave counted upon to supply it, but Maine was far less serene than its van, for believed there must be ample stores an electric storm beat fiercely upon awaiting' hint. it and now 'flaelhecl . lightning over; "'they are French islands, and if the ship, rolled- thunder and fell still a bit elementary, they wouldn't downpour of torrential rains. Tho'•be short of coal,' he declared. deluge from above Costa welcomed,' It was Angus who first raised the but it was at this moment that (tie- question of the treasure with his ardo,Palmo, who. shared the wheol,�friends. Hie, antrguaraur spirit hang. - suddenly lost consciousness and drop -1 (wed and thirsted to see and handle ped upon the deck: Costa lept to jewels that .the Inca hand fashioned his place instantly. and worn. ,Then for a moment, the harsh r•at- : "I never want to see them or think, ing of the screw was heard within 'er them again," sant Jane. "They the ship 'as her stern lifted; but only mean dead mon, and :though we can't for a moment. These penned in the fool Very- unhappy about Bonny Boss, forecastle shivered when the spend after all these ,oars, we sire all ceased, for they feared their screw, decade Lilly missrablo over poor Felice was lost and the end ,at hand; blit and 'ltie fate; So wo ought to be. Costa bad throttled down and lends 'I alined; 'hope the box- haus; nothing. her safe, while the steering gear but rublrlsh in it, for then we shall. 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Parties deeirieg to effect insur- ance 'or transact other business will he promptly attended to on applica- lop to any their the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces, ,. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. TIME TABLE ?t'ralns will arrive at and depart. from Clinton as follows Bit ffalo and Goderich P17 'Going East, depart 6 58 a.m. Going Fast, depart 2.011 p.m 'Going West, depart , 11.45 am ' Going :West, depart 10.00 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11,25 lye. 11:47 p.m Going South ar. 2,50, leave 3.08 p.m. held stoutly as the Iguana took the know lis had the ;joy si! anticipation." not to tell her." than of old, but still not very much. I have never been there myself, but talked with those whop"have. The islands are rich• in bananas and sugar -cane and green things. One cannot say how the great wave serv- ed them. They, too, are volcanic and perhaps, like Table Top, they may not be there any more." ' BM the verdure -clad 1Vlarquesas broke the sea horizon twelve hours later and glimmered deliciously like jade jewels lifting out of a purple ocean. Morning set their faces glow - he'll feel that you would never tell wicked stories. As far as the island is concerned we've got ; Costa and his crew to back us up. And we've also' got the treasure. The real snag in my opinion is the spiders. Only we :and poor Felice saw. them. If we could have brought a deadspider or found some of their eggs - to hatch out when we got home--". "Oh, don't!' said Jane. "I'd much rather : be called a liar to the end of my life than have done th;at." (To be Continued.) BIG ENGINE PLAYINI. 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