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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., AUGUST 10, 1939
Ede n Phillpotts
TOM AYLMER: At the time the
story opens is living in Peru, man-
aging silver mines beIonging to his
father.
t£'ELICE PARDO: A Peruvian who,
although young, has been fifteen
years in the service of the Aylmer
minibg. enterprise. He 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 ina'ry on Tom's next leave
in England.
ANGUS MAINE: A young Scot on
Aylmer's: staff, and close' Compan-
ion of Tom,
JACOB FEItNANDEZ: A rich, eld-
eoly Sottth American whose hobby
is the study of bird life. He is 0
bachelor and is engaged, upon a
monumental literary work on the
subject of bird life.
CHAPTER XVI (continued)
FERNANDEZ AND THE MINE
On the following day Aylmer learn
-
.ed that Signor Fernandez was not
going to purchase his property. He
aamo, however, with au offer.
Jacob emerged from an amazing
muster car at the appointed time,
,lsresently drank the dry sherry await-
ing him, lighted a cigar and had laid
.his proposition before the young man.
"Keep the mine, Tom," he began.
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"It will give you an intelligent oc-
cupation and, assuming that your
Jane likes. Peru, you can bring her
back when you have married her,
Lima is an exceedingly, healthy city,
as you know, and she will be free of
my aviaries—a privilege the young
woman has brains to appreciate.
"Now, touching Mount Atajo, I,
will not take it off your hands, but
1 may tell you the report are es-
ceedingl'y favourable and the possib-
ilities generous. With my penchant
for silver I will therefore, if you ap-
prove, join you and share your mine.
The mine languishes from old age.
It is behind the times, out of date,
utterly inefficient. But these are de-
fects that can be cured. The silver
is there waiting for you to reach it
—so my people assure me. They are
as positive as any mineralogists can
be that far finer grades of ore lie
in your dominions than any you have
reached; but at your present rate of
progress it will not be reached in my
limited time, probably not even in
your own longer span.
"So this I will do. On the basis
of fifty-fifty, as they say, nowadays,
I will recondition your mine, install
adequate machinery, double the staff
and make it a going concern."
"It would cost you as much as the
show is worth, sir," said Tom.
"I think otherwise. This is a busi-
ness transaction and being an old man
in a Murry, I should not make suers
an offer if I felt in any serious doubt
about it. All mining is, a£ course, a
gamble; but I am prepared to do this.
Now, as to your side, you will argue
that to halve your returns is not a
particularly pleasing prospect. But be
under no delusion as to that. My re.
ports leave netlting to be desired and
I am prepared to say that, under the
new dispensation, your half interest
in the mine will very swiftly far
exceed your whole interest returns
from it. I suggest that you take my
reports to London with you and sub-
mit them to your advisers. Jane told
me you are going home . to be mar-
ried very shortly. Then you can cable
'Yes' or 'No,' and I. shall proceed at
once on the proposed scale if you
agree and the legal business be put
in hand."
"It sounds too good to be true; Sir"
"No—otherwise I should not have
told you. You shall have the reports
before you sail, and you will find
them engaging reading. As to Sig-
nora Pardo, I will be at her direction
the day after to -morrow at noon un-
less I hear to the contrary."
"I'm seeing her this evening and
will let you hear."
"Take your Jane with you," said
Jacob. "A woman may assist' you. I
know very little about them myself,
but Jane is clever and tactful. If I
had chanced upon a Jane some sev-
enty years ago, it is possible that I
might be a grandfather at this mom-
ent' instead of a grand -uncle. They
say that if the good Gocl doesn't send
you children the devil is sure to send
you nephews. In my case that is
profoundly true. Tell Jane to conte
to lunch to -morrow at one o'clock
and devote her afternoon to me."
"She's dying to come, Sir."
A little later Tom and his sweet-
heart visited Anita Pardo and found
her as usual inscrutable and self-
possessed.
She was very calm and listened
without interruption to their story..
Nor did she ask many questions after
she had heard it. The Signora sup-
posed that Felice must have put his
claims before them and that they had
raieecl no question but surrendered the
treasure at once; yet Tom had made
no illusion to any relationship be-
tween Pardo and the dead adventur-
er. She sounded him cautiously on
the subject for unlesshe knew the
facts, Anita was not preparedto
dwell on them. All that unaltered tq'
her centred hi the treasure now; but
elle felt naturally anxious to Learn
how she had come by it,
"There are eom.e questions 1 ahortld
wieth to ask you, Signor Aylmer," 5110
began. "What happened that put the
silver box you speak of into MY 5nn'S
possession? I understood flenn •11im
that the hoots, if it were found,
ehould:he divided int° four parte, That
was what he told me lastore he went
to bis death,"
"Mohave :T• call beet enewolu that
Signora," sole#. ;Tanen Then, Ale ofe.-
plein'ed "hmv Meet Anglia biles *tatted
to :faint the Penile n9,', th4 ellatilgolalxa
anis how nma, 51i° lied 1PM% 11; n
pommel YYlevel' wYl.li11 't1111 liatirehlted
not let iial,ui'n,
"Vhe,y ft1'I'tedi Inst Nitta bed no
fear. Wo all tried to prevent. his go-
ing; but, before that, we had given
up our claim upon the treasure and
knowing that it was all his, he would
go and find it. I am sorry ;now we
waived our claims, for that might
have meant' hislife; but he was a
great man in his way. He felt that
possession of the treasure might en-
able him to do much good. He would
go. And when he did not come back,
his friends had to try and save him:"
"They would not go for the treas-
ure, but they went to try and save
Felice?"
"Of course. But it was too late.
Poor Felicehad been killed The
island was falling to pieces. But the
treasure lay beside him. He had man-
aged to get it. Tom and Angus
escaped with their lives, and Angus
was able to bring the silver box back
to the ship."
"You did not open it?"
"It was yoiirs; but we felt that
you would like to have skilled wit-
nesses to support you when it is
opened and Tom knew. Signor Fern-
andez. It was really owingto him
that the treasure .has been recovered
for you, Signora."
"And that my son lost his life."
"I'm afraid so—not that any blame
attaches to him, or anybody."
"Signor Fernandez is a great man
and a very good man," said Anita.
"I am well content to be In his hands.
He will do everything that is right.
The people trust him."
Before they left her both expres-
sed their sympathy and sorrow at
the mother's loss, and Jane praised
Felice.
"He was wonderful," she said, "and
full of great thoughts. It is a deep
grief to us all that he should have
died so sadly,"
"You must feel no anxiety about
the future," added Tom. "I know
what Felice would , wish. and now he
is not here, you must let me take
his place as best I can. I regard you
as a sacred trust from him."
"You need not," she answered "I.
will take my son's gift from' his own
dead hinds when thesilver box is
opened, and great or small, that will
meet., my deeds. Duelos con pan son
menos—a fat sorrow is better than
a lean one."
Relieved that their interview had
passed so peacefully the young pee-
ple departed, and when Jane went to
see the birds, she was able to tell
old Jacob that his intervention had
been well received. She rejoiced in
the aviaries and her, honest raptures
delighted Fernandez. Jane. gloried in
the colour and form and varied love-
liness of the collection, and almost
shouted for joy to ,see .two parrots
that resembled Benny's in every gar-
tioular, Presently she handled her
host's monumental volumes with, be-
coming reverence and hoped that he
would soon publish .another.
"You owe it to the world' to finish
it," said she.
"I owe a great deal more to tlhe
world than 1 am ever likely to pay,"
he answered, "Still, there may be
opportunities. Tell me, Jane, when
you are married,: shall you come to
Lima, or stop, in your own country?"
"Tom has let me hear about you
offer, Signor, and I know perfectly
well that he will, delight to accept it.
He thinks it is grand of you. So do
I, And he wilt come back to his
work if yqu are content' to let hint
be Manager and look after your int-
erests as well as. his own."
"Why not, Jane? And who knows
but that you lnay loolc after my int-
°rests too? Perhaps, with you at my
elbow, I might gird these agbd loins
end live to complete my remarkable
book. You are 'rather flippant, Amer
but you aro Highly intelligent and
your attitude to birds is all that it
shotild be. ;You don't t511c 110050nee
about diem and quite ander:nandthey
are, by far the most beautiful and
attr'aetivo cl'otattn,g5 in'ei latign, That
is a 5ouna bailie for i'1lturo eminence."
"Tooley I've htl the Impish:et day
;or mywhole life—MA one," alio Fetid,
"idles 11,040 50011 mollis a1tterly ;mesas.
!to tbiiigs than I thatlg11t oottld exist
even to the world of the bir'do1,"
"Why dreg In another day," htnuir-
ed Jcaoob, "Why nal; ten mo it is the
happiest of elft"
l'uOncaasso it Plot Jiltlnalt," oho am
(mond, "There wart a any , in the
dim, peel, Sienna," When Torte asked
int to harry
"): Mond 00)'110000(1.—misol'abI0 old
bgpholor ttltath 2 ala, 2.1100."
A. STRANGE lawrER
Oho ;net• her 5weehhloal't at Itea-
ttitre end, they eat In one of Lima's
silver streets under the foliage of 'a
great palm and drank iced' chocolate
together. Jane was in rare spirits
and Toni listened to her wonders; but
he appeared unduly silent and she
quickly perceived that he did nob
enter into the magic of herdescrip-
tions with becoming' zest.
"What's biting you?" she asked.
"Office worries?"
"No, Jane. 'Angus is back at his
desk and the heads are delighted at
our future possibilities. They share,•
old Jacob's opinions and believe that,
i1 he comes in, everything in the
garden will be lovely and silver begin
to flow down the hill like the lava
at Table Top. It's not that. I've
had a letter from mother. Rather
a blot on the landscape I'm afraid,
At least, that's how it strikes me:
Perhaps you'll see a ray of hope be.'
twoen the lines, but personally it has
made me feel a little chastened." ^
Ise took the letter from his pocket-
book, handed it to Jane and watched
her while she read it.
Thus wrote Mrs. Mercy Aylmer:
"My dear son, -Needless to say
you are never out of my thoughts.
for a moment and I much delight to
picture you in the glorious tropics,
basking under the rays of the equat-
orial sun and enjoying a restful aria
happy holiday with your beloved
Jane. You must, however, keep a
careful eye upon your expenses for
my peer sake, though I am thankful
to know that none of the trials and
difficulties of life in London combine
to spoil your leisure hours. But
there is the future to think about
for us all. Here the case is sadly
different and the growing demands
of existence are such thatI am wor-
ried to' death, and can only hope that
it will not be much longer before you
return to England and lift these un-
reaonable cares off my old shoulders.
"I have taken a house in Audley-
street, and while the accommodation
is scarcely all that I could wish in
the upper regions, the reception
rooms will be adequate when I have
thrown two into one and made other
struetural alterations. The cost,
however, is preposterous, and if
agree wit n %me, rt may
to question the builder's figures after
their week is done, or even to protect
ourselves by litigation if they are un-
yielding. But the operations are in
hand and fairly well advanced, while
the decorations are occupying a firm
of artists who specialize in this sort
of work. They, too, are grasping,
but they enjoy a 'world-wide reputa-
tion. Colour has always been rather
a flair of mine, but so far, these
people and I tend to differ on ,the
subject of colour schemes and I have
not yet brought them round to my
way of thinking. I favour a rich
orange, interwoven. with gold; but
their ideas strike me as rather sordid
when compared with my own.
"However, these questions will pre-
sently be answered, though they are
very exhausting and I begin to crave
a little rest myself. My appetite is
not good and my sleep might be much
more restful than it is.
"But a far more serious Matter
for the moment is • our lawyers, and
when I tell you that they are treating
me abominably, .I know you will
share my indignation and make a
change as soon as you return. Indeed
I have told thein that you will do
so. ' Your holiday, niy darling, wilt,
I fear, cease to give you any more
pleasure .when you hear that your
mother is .inthe hands of obviously
unscrupulous men, They absolutely
dediue to advance me any more
money at all. And at the bank I was
confronted with like insolence. The
over -draft, as far as I can snake out,
appears to be little mole than two
thousand pounds; but all they have
to sayiethat, until you communicate
with them, no more money can be
forthcoming! If you are in regions
where there is a cable or telegraph
office, or 'wireless station, when you
receive this letter, please direct She
bankers instantly to supply my future
needs, and also inform our lawyers
that you propose to dispense with
tiweir services,
"Faced'.rvith this impasse, I have
had recourse to a money -lender,
known personally to one of my clear-
est private :friends. This elan ap-
preciated my problems instantly and
showed me the utmost tact, courtesy
and consideration; and I' had tltesat-
isfaction of paying his cheque for
five thousand pounds into 'the bank
throe days ago.
"1 hope and trust that the buried
treasure will prove all that Jane ex-
pected. Then, 100 doubt, these tire-
some and unseemly difficulties will
clisappoar. Not tbnt I shall tough a
penny more than you will hasten to
devote to my new hone and altered
position, . I really matter very little
now at my age, and my one hope
and prayer is that your future with
Jane will be a long and happy finan-
cial triumph in every . way. I only
demand permission'. to spoil my 'be-
loved grandchildren sometimes.
"lin strictest confidence T may
whisper that an old friend has asked
1ne to marry liim. I must not, of
coarse, tell you his name,, but he is
a intired soldier of good family and
no means beyond a ridiculous pen-
sion. It was interesting and perhaps
a little , encouraging •ta feel that I
am not entirely on the shelf as yet;.
bet my sad experience of the -state
(lived under duress with your dear
father) does not make ale feel that
another husband would promote my
happiness, unless he were in a posi-
tion to gratify my modest needs. 1
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by ,lO.l1:N
C. KIRKWOODD
ry1`, en"nrx 0 u u u••Via"VeP05A. "c °u AN"6"•VVII L'o`uuu'e'a`" seuVolVu°n•r'u oris
in the Toronto Globe and Mail a kind of business. He is getting on
fortnight oe so ago was printed a well, and is happy, for he sees a
letter from a young man who had future: he is getting ready for larger
failed to find employmcnt. The let affairs. He had initiative.
ter was signed "One of The Luckier I know a young man who had a
Ones", and its writer's question was, job with his father -what he consici-
What can we do? -for 'lie imagined ored to be a blind -alley job. Ile was
himself to be the spokesman for not working hard. He married --
many
many like him—jobless young men perhaps unwisely, in view of his air
who have failed to find employment. cumstances. Then he determined to
Some extracts from his letter are: get a new kind of job. He selected
"I have been looking for a job the food industry. Then he began a
for three years new. :Most of sales campaign of himself to firms
my older friends have said that in this industry. Ho got a job dt•iv-
theywould give me one as soon ing a truck. He is selling bread to
as they had a chance, but the . grocers, He wears a uniform—but
chances haven't just come. There no white collar. He has to rise about
are 310 jobs for people like me. 4 am, He told me that he is happy
All these years I' have been as he never was before, and that he
coddling myself with. the idea and his wife are having good times
thaa things must improve. But -Tan very little a week.
nothing has ;turned up. I am I' know another roan in middle life,
just about ready to quit, I have He is 'a locomotive engineer. When
lived off my parents all too long. the depression came, he was laid off.
I deli t know business, and it is' He bought a truck, and got contracts
impossible to get even a small hauling sand and gravel and stones
job with a good firm—reason, for road construction work. Now he
no experience. is back on a locomotive.
What is going' to happen toIf — ^
us! Can you answer that ques- We: idle young man thistion? We are young, fit for the sponger,. this leaner — will read the
most part, willing, anxious for life stories of successful or great
a chance to help ourselves and men, he will find that most of them
our country. But we haven't had . -did many thing in their young life
a chance—yet" before finding their true vocation, He
will find that many of them were of
very lowly origin, and were the child-
When I read this young man't let- ren of parents 'without .money. Yet
ter, I boiled inside. I wanted to they found work—and they were not
horsewhip him or do something choosey. They lacked "gull" and
worse. He is 25 years of age—and friends, yet they found work. From
never has had a job! He is disgust- the vantage point of employment
ing. And lay indignation extended to they found other employment.
his parents, for apparently they con- There is a vast amount of undone
done their son's state and inertia, or under -done work in the world, and
About a month ago:I sat at a din- there is an under -supply of workers
ing table with a friend, and we were It is true that in most communities
talking about this alleged inability of there are to many wanting to do the
same work, ready to replace others
You 'can't:beef id'
for speed ?• for
a,, eeafness -- for
ease of operation,
\Help tSem to
better grades.
Maw ON
6DISPLAY AT
CLINTON
NEWS -RECORD
See George Knights
in employment, Thus, there are too
many stenographer -typists, and prob-
ably too many persons' wanting be-
hind -the -counter jobs in retail stores.
,Yet there is an undersupply of good
GOOD — salesmen: everywhere,
meaning salesmen 'who will seek out
their own customers. All life insur-
1 ance companies want good salesmen.
All publishers of newspapers and
trade and class newspapers and
magazines want GOOD salesmen. All
manufacturers want GOOD salemen,
There is: a vast under -consumption
of printed matter in this country --.
just because there are not enough
GOOD salesmen of printing— sales-
men with imagination.
Wherever there are poor buildings
or shabby buildings there is need for
GOOD salesmen, Wherever there is
a factory or store which is under -
ladling its product, there is need for
GOOD salesmen.
But the world does NOT want limp
. men like the young man of whom
I have written. If he is rejected of
men, it is because he is NO GOOD,
and is content to remain so.
'young men to find. employment. This
man said . with vehemence, "I'll bet
'$1000 that, if I were without work,
I'd find a job inside 24 hours", by
which he meant that he would offer
to work for nothing rather than re-
main idle, and that he would work on
a farm .if it were necessary, meaning
that he would do a kind of work in-
volving physical labour.
What infuriated me when I read
this -young mann letter was. his con-
fessed reliance on others to find work
for him. This man does not seem
to Immo that it is possible to make
jobs. I am trying to visualize this
idle man of 25. I can see him as a
big softy—a leaner. Assuredly he
smokes, a lot of cigarettes each day.
Assuredly he lotmges about his home
and elsewhere. Assuredly he is not
employing his time to fit himself for
wage -paid employment. I venture to
say that he is not a bit better equip-
ped today, regarded as a worker,
than he was when he matriculated.
Assuredly he has not learned short-
hand -typing, or ordinary bookkeep-
ing. He has just bummed. He calls
himself one of lucky ones, probably
because he can live at home and is
supported by his parents. 1 regard
him as being an unlucky one. Had
he been forced to find work, he would
have found it, but having a good
home and indulgent parents, he has
become both mentally and physically
lazy, and the quality of his character
bis deteriorated. He is becoming
month after month more unemploy-
able. What employer wants to have
a sponger in his service?
It is pretty safe to say that this
young man has not read books on
vocations and on how to find a job—
this despite the fact that there are
numerous good boosts of this descrip-
tion to be had. Assuredly Ste has
never heard of the boot: written by
two women aver 40 years of age now
-their book entitled "We are 40 and
we Did Find Jobs" — by Thompson
and Wise. This book is worth its
weight in gold to persons willed to
find work; to the young 'man of
whom I am writing its worth is
probably nil, for he is NOT willed
to find' a job; 'lie's just willed to
TAKE a job if • it be handed to him.
I cult thinking of a young man who
had a job in a bank. He began to
feel that there was no future, for
him in the back. 13e was married.
So 'he loft the bank, and bought a
truck and. secured the whelesale
agency in the Niagara Peninsula dist-
rict for a well-known beverage. He
wears no, white collar today, for he
drives his truck, and does the hard
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PICTURES AND SPORT
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Combine photography with your sports or other hobbles . , . for studies of
' form" in golf , , , wild -life studies if you are a hiker ... and so on. Picture
taking mixes well with almost any other hobby.
(IND of the fascinating features of full, weir. -rounded picture record of
as a hobby, isthat all, the things he does and sees. And
Photography, »
' it l'fectlyterest. with almostIaaticrty such "notebook" pictures add great-
otherfits hobbyinpeor inu pru ly to the pleasure of other sports
lar, nowadays, outdoor enthusiasts and hobbies,
For example, the hiker or mown
are finding that picture taking liar -
physical labour connected with his 1 monizes admirably with such sports
as hunting, fishing, hiking, golf, and
other open-air .activities.
More sports enthusiasts are tak-
ing pictures because modern cam-
erae areso light, compact, said easy
to carry. Cameras tasting fairly largo
pictures have been reduced in bulk
in recent years, ;while many flue
present-day miniature cameras are
so compactly built that they can be
carried in a pocket at all times.
Operation has been made more
convenient;. too, so that picture tak-
ing is quick and easy. Therefore, the
sportsman can use his camera about
as he would a notebook, "jotting
down" in picture form each interest-
ing detail of his trip or sport aotivi
ties. ,
This is the modern way to use a
camera. Instead of . taking random,
snapshots, one here, one there, the
wise picture taker tries to keep.a
could only give my broken heart into
hands fully competent to mend it.
"Every loving thought and bless-
tng, my preeious• Tom, from your de-
voted mother.
Mercy Aylmer.
"P.S. Don't forget to cable er
g' .
wireless, as soon'as possible. Be firm
with these wretched people. '
"P.P.S. Jane will not mind . being
married in London I know. So much
more convenient for my 'acquaint-
ances. Leave all the arrangements
to me."
Jane read the letter, folded it up
and returned it.
"Funny she should. be called
Mercy,' mused Jane.
(To Be Continued) I ,
tain climber may employ his camera
for pictures of woodland plants and
wild life—gradually building up a
collection which is genuinely worth
while, The hunter records Itis camps,
itis kills; the trails and waters Ile
traverses-buildiug up an enviable
story o travel and outdoor life. The
golf prlfessional may use a home
movie ' ieuera to make slow-motion
pictures of his students, so that they
can study their errors on the movie
screen—or golfer's may take movies
of each other for the same purpose.
From these examples, it is easy to
see how photography can enrich and
broaden other bobbies. It fits in with
any of. them—and its great virtue is
that pictures have lasting value.
Therefore, by using the camera to
record our other hobbies and activi-
ties, we can :pat them In enduring
form . , , and enjoy then' ever and
over again.
23s John van Guilder