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TOE CLINTON NEWS.RECORD
THURS., AUGUST 17, 193
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`TOM AYLMER: At the - time the
story opens is living in Peru, man-
aging silver mines belonging to his
father.
).'SLICE PARDO: A Peruvian who,
although young, has been fifteen
years in the service of the Aylmer
,naming enterprise.. He is the most
trusted native employee.
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Mrs. MERCY AYLMER:. Tom's
mother; egotistical and exacting.
JANE BRADSI{AW: Tom Aylmer's
fiancee. At the time the story
opens, the expectation, is that these
two will marry on Tom's next leave
in England.
ANGUS MAINE: A young Scot on
Aylmer's staff, and close compan-
ion of Toni.
JACOB FERNANDEZ: A rich, eld-
erly South, American whose hobby
is the study of ",bird life. He e is a
bachelor and is engaged upon a
monumental literary work on the
subject of bird life.
CHAPTER XVI (Continued) he told Anita. "He knows far more past, when he .desired to be alone
WHO SHALL OPEN THE BOX?, about precious stones than any man with the parrot's ,speech.
in Lima," "D'you remember Gregory," she
Two skilled smiths, completed the whispered to Angus. "Experts are
gathering, for Felice's mother had' all alike in their mysterious ways."
called none to support her during the They left the house together and
coming ordeal. She was attired in a the two lock -smiths, dazzled by their
black gown and the topaz, that had experience, did not return. ` Anita
come to her as an heirloom from her , brought them coffee, but her fleeting.
husband's family, shone at her throat. hour of exaltation had passed.
Signor Alvarez took charge of the "I forgot Felice for the moment,"
proceedings and first examined the she said to Aylmer. "Now I remem-
silver box, now polished and clean. i ber him again."
There appeared no ready way of op -I "We shall none of us ever forget
ening it, however, and lee directed him," answered Tom, "and we shall
how the lid might be cut off with not forget what he would have done
the least injury to the casket. + with the treasure."
"This," he said, "is a considerable eeThat is as it mays be," she answ-
treasure in itself -archaic work which That
I never found myself in agree -
the explorer probably dredged up meat with my son's opinions."
81.50 per year in advance, to Can- from Lake Titicaca. But the long She took coffee to Alvarez pres-
ently
addresses; X2.00 to the U.S. or years of heat in its lava cache ]rave She
and then retn'end to her
The cosapany that assembled in
.Signora Pardo's house -place to ex-
.auaine her treasure consisted of seven
persons, for Angus accompanied his
:friends.
Jacob Fernandes brought a com
,ipanion at the appointed time -a tall,
..lean Spaniard witch grey hair, a hook-
,ed nose and black eyes.
"This is Signor Antonio Alvarez,"
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Then Jacob turned to Jane,
Let yours be the first hand to
touch the contents," he said, "since
Benny's paw took leave of them."
The girl declined.
"That privilege must be Signora
Pardo's," . she ventured. "It is her
right." • -
"Well spoken," declared the old man
and bowed to Anita.
She dispensed with any more
formalities and proceeded without
words to investigate while theothers
watched her.
CHAPTER XVI/
THE TREASURE REVEALED
Pulling off, the shavings, Anita
discovered layers of old newspapers
in perfect preservation, and -Fern-
andez cautioned her.
"Spare those printed pages," he
begged, "Work with more care
•Signora, and letus come to our
climax artistically,. Such very old
newspapers have their interest."
Beneath the printed paper appear-
ed still more, but now the ancient
sheets wrapped up separate packages
vistors.
"He divides the treasure into two
heaps," she said. "He is using a
Iittle spy -glass upon them one by one.
He does not want anything to drink
and told me to go away. Is he an
honest man, Signor Fernandez. My
jewels are in his power."
Jacob laughed. •
"Have no fear of Antonio, my good
soul," the answered. "Some men are
concerned with the truth alone, he is
one of them. You have set brim a
problem without doubt, for probably
neither he, nor any other living ex-
pert, has ever seen such enormous
gems before. But they will not daz-
zle him, or make him covetous save
in the interests of science. Such
things are 'his business, not his
pleasure."
He turned to Jane.
"Antonio Alvarez is also a bird
man, When he is enjoying life and
not at work, he teaches his burgerig-
ars to talk and do absurd tricks."
"I thought he looked nice," said
Jane. "I daresay, evhen he : gets away
from diamonds and unbends, he is
quite lovable."
"I should not call him lovable. His
sense of humour is saturnine. His
budgerigars say very dreadful things
and their tricks are not in the best
taste. But he is a most honest man,
and if he tends to despise humanity,
that is onlyto be in the fashion."
of varying size, Some were large Half an hour later Signor Alvarez
and some 'were quite small, but each called .them to return. There was, no
cynicism in his attitude to the treas-
was tied carefully with twine and the
knots made secure with black sealing
wax. Wax and string had, however,
rotted away and at a touch the little
parcels opened. Each held an article
of jewellery, and while' some were to
be recognized as finger-ringsand
decorations for the heador neck, the
purpose of others could not be det-
ermined. Many were obviously frag-
ments of larger things, either broken
when they came into Benny's dredger
or at an earlier time.
"What a bean tub," murmured
Jane, as Anita drew out - piece after
piece, stripped them of their paper
and the - cotton wool inside it, and.
laid them on the table. With all the
colours of a rainbow they responded
to daylight after their long night of
darkness, shining, twinkling and
flashing at a touch. But some of the
stones were dim and clouded, and it
yeemed they had been inserted in
their gold settings without any effort
to polish and perfect them,
Green and blood -red, pale blue and
sapphire, orange and blazing yellow',
crystal clear and milky opal, tawny
and ebony black and pearly grey, the
proud germs glittered, and some were
of a size that seemed- tolift them
out of the realms of reality, where
they glowed . four and five inches
across in their golden nests and enade
;the sight ache to look at them. '
The widow's face grew flushed, and
her brown eyes shone` as brightly as
her treasures before she had emptied
the box.
"That is all," she said at last.
"There are three and forty pieces. I
counted them as I went."
"So did I,' said Maine. "Forty-
three . is the number, Signora."
They gazed without comment for a
little while; then Jatob turned to the
l ' ! A1'0 .� .rtM MLw YS l expsrt.
"And what do you think of that,
TIME TABLE Antonia?" he said.
!Trains will arrive at and depart from "1 shall have much to tell you
presently, i` answered Alvarez. But
Clinton as follows: do not speak to' me again for a little
BuDi
Buffalo and Goderich v,
'Going East, depart 6 58 a.m.'while, because I have now to consider
Going East, depart 3.00 p,m• I each separate piece. If you were all
(Going `West, depart 11.45 esm, to run away and leave me quite alone
Going West, depart 10.00 p.m, for an hour, it might be a wise thing
London, Huron Bruce eto do and saveour time."
;Going North, ar. 11.25 lve. 11.47 p,m I Jane remembered haw Mr. Barbour
going 'South .ar. 2.50, leave 8.08' p.m,' lied issued a similar direction in the
ure. Indeed, nothing but professional
interest and enthusiasm marked his
discourse. Yet it seemed before he
started that understanding of char-
acter was among his gifts.
"Count them," he said to Anita. "I
well know that you desire to do so
before we proceed."
"Naturally," she answered without
emotion, Then' she obeyed and was
satisfied, nodding her head to Alvarez
"Light one of your big cigars,
Jacob, and be patient," continued ,the
Spaniard. "I shall not detain any of
you very long."
Theysettled down wn to Siston with
their eyes upon the hoard.
"You will have noticed," he.began,
"that I have divided' this amazing
collection into two parts; but we have
first to consider three things about
them: the gold of the settings, the
real precious stones on my left hand,
and these brilliant and - enormous
jewels on my right. The gold is as
nearly pure gold as possible. We may
assume that the Incas did not under-
stand the art of alloy and, having ex-
traordinary resources in the matter
of gold, used it without limit. Pure
gold would not stand the wear and
tear of coinage, or many other pur-
poses to which it is put to -day, but
for these rings, bracelets, head-
dresses and other .adornments it met
the ease.
"To me the golden settings are per-
haps more interesting than anythjng
else, because they give us a first
hand idea of Inca awe Their .severity
and . restraint was hardly to be ex-
pected and contrast, to their great
advantage, with more modern golc-
smiths' achievements. But they would
be called too massive and clumsy
to -day.
"WHAT ARE THEY WORTH?"
"Now," he continued, "we will con-
sider the authentic germs, on my left
hand, a r(d wereb1eees the we a
hand, and here we see the stones are
in many cases remarkably fine
especially two rubies, an emerald and
three diamonds. We must confess,
however, that in the craft of cutting.
stones to the best advantage, the
Incas,appear to have been backward,
though there may be reasons for that
which we do not ,know. They were
a religious people and might have
supposed that their God would prefer
his precious stones as he made thein,
without any addition , from human
craft and ingenuity. `One can hardly
suppose that a civilization iso advanc-
ed — a civilization' capable for such
magnificent architecture for example
-would not have known how to cut
diamonds.
"The fact remains, however, that
these stones are in many cases un-
touched and their lustre hidden: Here
and there we free an effort to polish
them, and some are encrusted by their,
centuries of immersion. But; in skilled
hands, they might be found of un-
doubted and considerable value. Need-
less to say, however, that science
would protest with indignation at the
thought of any such treatment. The
supreme value of these things is
scientific, and it would be a menet-
rous piece of vandalism to remove a
single stone from its setting. As well
might you melt the gold for its mar-
ket value. This is a national treasure
and must be treated accordingly."
"Most assuredly," agreed Fernan-
dez. ."Money value is the last thing
to be considered before these wond-
erful curios."
He turned to Anita.
"You will be the first to appreciate
that fact I trust, Signora?"
"On the contrary," .she answered,
"their money value is the first and
only question that can possibly int-
erest me." I •
"We will examine the matter from
your point of view later, then,"
promised Jacob. "Proceed, Antonio."
"Now I have kept these enoaunous
and glorious jewels till the last," con-
tinued Alvarez. "If they were in
reality such opals and emeralds„
rubies and sapphires as they appear
to be, then I should declare them
literally and commercially priceless;
but they are not, They are what a
former generation of collectors called
'obsidians'—a mistaken term embrac-
ing those numerous jewels of pressed
glass and other materials compre-
hended in the solitary word 'paste'.
But I find a very curious accident in
this collection, for some of the most
beautiful things before us are actual-
ly and really obsidians. Obsidians
is a volcanic glass --a glass manu-
factured by nature—and Peru is one
of the volcanic countries in which it
has been most frequently found. No-
thing more likely than that the Incas
should know it and wort it."
Ile turned to the great jewels and
began to separate them.
"I will set apart the true obsidians.
This mineral breaks with conchoidal
fracture and has been used all over
the world for purposes less peaceful
than adornment. Arrow -heads, spear -
points and various cutting instrum-
ents have been found wherever it oc-
curs. Mexico is full of them. These
brown, silver-grey and striated, vit-
reous stones' with their wonderful
metallic sheen are true obsidians, and
I have seen nothing to approach then
in my experience, but the green, crim-
son and dark blue of the broken
tiara and these fragments of a prob-
able -breast -plate are paste. How
created, chemistry can tell us. They
are far larger pieces than any paste
that I have ever seen. As to the
enomous opals, too, are :much larger
than any recorded from nature's
workshops. We :must therefore as-
sume them also to be paste, though
they resemble the real thing se clos-
ely, so ,marvellously, that I withhold
my judgment for the moment. As
makers of paste the Incas had cert-
ainly nothing to learn. And that is
all one need say,save
to express
gratification at this unique exper-
ience."
"What is my dead son's property
worth, Signor?" aoked Anita Pardo.
"Your learning is not for me."
"it was natural that my old friend,
Benny Boss, should have mistaken
size for value," declared Jacob Fern-
andez. "We are all apt to do the
like, and doubtless judging the huge
obsidians to be real emeralds and
sapphires and rubies, he put those
first. But you must tune your mind,
Signora, to understand that your col-
lection does not represent anything
very stupendous in the shape of
cash." •
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Seated at a dining table with diet -arid here I may say that I am
a friend, I said something about permitted to have bran muffins with -
food and diet, and my friend said out sugar in them; also- plenty of
to me, "I wish that you'd write butter•
something someday on the theme
'We dig our graves with our
teeth,'
I confess that it had been in my
mind to write someday about a per-
sonal experience -not of death but
of diet, and so in this contribution
to the News -Record I want to say
something; which may be useful to
others, particularly to 'those getting
on in yearns.
Let me begin by saying that for
several years ,I have had 'a trouble-
some heart; it misbehaves when I
walk fast, and when I exert myself
physically. It is a very common ex-
perience — my having to stop fre-
quently when I walk, for I seem to
choke. My doctor says that it is
the heart muscle which is out of or-
der: it is not fully supplied with
blood, especially when I hurry or try
to lift or carry anything heavy, or
after a meal.
But last January and February I
felt myself to be very much worse
than I had been previously and, be-
cause I was quite : obviously worse, I
went to the doctor to whom I had
gone seven years before. He found
that I had an alarming diabetic con-
dition, and he said that undoubtedly
this condition was contributing to my
heart distress He hinted at insulin.
But after following his prescribed
diet for several weeks, I felt myself
to be very much better; and so I have
escaped. insulin.
The doctor forbad me starchy foods
and sugar. I was and am permitted
to have daily a piece of toast or
bread; but no potatoes and other
starchy vegetables. I had been eat-
ing a good deal of candy—this be-
cause I do not smoke; but candy and
ice cream and sugary vegetables like
corn and beets were forbidden. I may
nothave pork and Teal.' I anay not
have marmalade or honey, and certain
soups are forbidden. I may have
nuts. I am not allowed fruit juices
if I have already had applesauce or
fresh fruit. I may have milk, and
buttermilk if flavoured. I am not
stinted in regard to the quantity of
food taken. I may have bacon and
eggs, but not cereals. I' may have
bread and biscuits made from soy
bean flour.
When I went to the dootor last
January or February I weighed 182
lbs. A week or so ago when I went
back to him for a check-up, I weigh-
ed 170 lbs.—which shows that .I have
been sticking pretty faithfully to any
I look the picture of health, and
I am feeling very much better than
I did in March. My diabetic condition,
if it has not whollydisappeared, is
not causing me anxiety. I have no
blood peessure. I am forbidden to
walk up hills, I rise each morning
at 6, and am at my office well before
9—often at 8.30. I go to work each
moaning gladly, and I can keep .going
at my speed—which is neither slow
nor furious --.until 4.30 or 5. Per-
haps I should mention that I am in
my 71st year,
I have provided Chis rather ,minute
account of my condition and prescrib-
ed diet because I feel that there must
be very many persons *among my
readers whose case is more or less
like mine, and my hope is that what
I have said will be useful to them,
if they are not feeling very well,
Ageing persons are prone to kidney
ailments, and if they do not go to a
doctor, to get a good examination,
they may not know just what is
wrong with therm or what to do to
correct their condition.
It. is pretty certain that persons
who eat a lot of starch foods and
sugar in the form of candy, preser-
ves, honey, ;marmalade, and sugared
pastries, and whose habits are sedent-
ary, will become diabetic, and if they
keep' on with these foods without any
let •up, they are likely to develop a
very serious kidney condition. Of
course, I cannot say that I am out
of danger, yet I can say that I am
very much better than I was, and
that I am no longer fearful. My
future, so far as my. Iddneys are
concerned, would seem to rest with
myself. If I begin to indulge my
desire for starch and sugar, then I
shall of a certainty get into a bad
condition.
Last summer I drank a great deal
of water at meals and in between
meals, and this desire for water was
not confined to hot weather months.
I was told that one explanation of
nay great thirst was that I was eat-
ing too Hauch starch, yet I tried to
persuade myself that drinking a lot
of water was good for me—that my
thirst was a healthy sign. But since
I have reduced my starch intake to
a negligible amount, my thirst has
left me. Outside these hot weather
months, I do not want water at my
meals, and have no desire for water
As the restaurant which I go to
almost daily I knewtwoFsen, both
of whom have passed on during the,
past two -three ;months, One had
kidney trouble very badly. It is true
that he slid diet, but not toe severely.
He collapsed quickly at the end, and
at the very end had three 'strokes,
Which were fatal.
The other man was heavily built
and had a large appetite. I do not
think that he was very selective or
careful in the mattes' al his food. He
was known to have high blood pres-
sure. One day he had a stroke, and
in 10 days thereafter he died.
Recently 'I read the life story of
Edgar Wallace, writer; of mystery
stories and plays. Wallace was ass
amazing man. His industry when
wilting was astounding. He would
dictate a whole novel in the .space of
a few days, when under great finan-
cial pressure, or when publishera
wanted a book from him. Always.
Wallace. had by his side a pot of wealc.
tea. Always Te put a lot of sugar
in his tea. At age 56 he went to
Hollywood to do some work there, at
a wage of 2600 a week. He was not
i,feeling well before he left England
for America, and at Hollywood he
was not at the top of his form, One
day he hhd a collapse, and his ail-
ment was diagnosed as diabetes. Ira
a week he was dead. His diabetes
was the consequence of drinking
heavily -sugared tea for many .years..
Neither Wallace or ` others had sus-
Ireoted that he had diabetes.
My feeling is that there are many
everywhere who are diabetic without
knowing it — and diabetic because
they go on eating too much starch
and sugar.
Now, it is not really hard to re-
duce on starch anal sugar—especially
so when one may eat freely of non -
starch and non -sugar foods and
dainties. One does not have to starve
oneself or to deny oneself meats and
vegetables and fruits and butter; one
must just be selective.
In my own case .my loss of 12
pounds and more has been beneficial.
I am better for weighing less, and
my heart has less labour to perform
than it had when I weighed in the
180's and 190's.
In my case I recovered rapidly
when I began to eat what the doctor
ordered and omitted starch and sugar.
I feel sure that .many persons who
are not now feeling very well would
experience better health very early
if they will begin to reduce their con-
sumption of starch and sugar.
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