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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-04-29, Page 2*AGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., APRIL 29, 1937. 6 LOST PRINCE'.' By, Frances Hodgson .Burnett SYNOPSIS Marco Loristan was the kind of a 'iboypeople looked at the second time when they had looked at him once. He was a well-built, boy of 12, intelli- gent looking, and well-mannered: He .and his father had travelled a great deal and the boy was proficient in several languages,.so that he felt at home in whatever country he was staying. Marco knew that they were Samavians, that there was trouble and bloodshed in Samavia at present. 1Iis father had told him the story of the Lost Prince, who might one day .return to Samavia and restore order :and peace. At present the Loristan's .;are in London, England, and Marco had encountered several interesting people, among. thein, "The Rat," a crippled boy who commands a group of willing boys—the boys listen at- tentively as Marco speaks to them. Later Loristan and Marco have a 'long talk about Samavia, and the Lost Prince, who had disappeared' five hundred years ago. A secret society, with members in . many European countries, were preparing to put his ,descendant on the throne of Sama- via and end the civil wars and blood- shed in the country. At a meeting of the Squad, The Rat forms a sec- ret society for Samavia among them- :NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY He said "Comrade" as Loristan did, and ' somehow Marco did not resent it, because he was ready to- labor for Samavia. It was only a game, but it made them comrades—and was it leaky only a game, after all?.His ex- cited voice and his strange, lined face made it singularly unlike one. "Yes, Comrade, I am ready," Marco answered him. "We shall be in Sarnavia when the fighting for the Lost Prince begins." The Rat carried on his story with fire. "We may see a battle. We might do something to help. We might carry messages under a rain of bullets -- a rain , of bullets!" The thought so elated him that he forgot his whisper and his voice rang out fiercely. "Boys have been in battles before. We might find the lost King—no, the Found King—ask him to let us be his ser- vants. He could send us where he couldn't send bigger people. I couldi say to hien, 'Your Majesty, I am call- ed "The Rat," because I can creep through holes and into corners and dart about. Order me into danger and I will obey you. Let me die like a soldier if I can't live like one." Suddenly he threw his ragged coat sleeve -up across his eyes. He 'had wrought himself up tremendouly with Ithe picture of the rain of bullets. And he felt he saw the King who' had at last been found. The next moment he uncovered his face. 1 f "That's what we've go to do," he isaid. "Just that, if you want to know. And a lot more. ,There's no end to he'll never really get what he wants, but feels as if this was something near it. IIe said I might show you the map he made, Father, look at it." He gave Loristan the clean copy of The Rat's map of Samavia. The city of Melzarr was marked with cer- tain signs. They were to show at what points The Rat—if he had been a Samavian general; would have at- tacked the capital As Marco pointed them otat, he explained Tho Rat's rea- sons for his planning: Loristan held the paper for sonie minutes. He fixed his eyes on it cur- iously, and his black' brows drew themselves together. "This isvery wonderful!" he said at last. "Ile is quite right. They might have got in there, and for 'the' very reasons he bit on. How did he learn all this?" "He thinks of nothing else now," answered Marco. "He has always thought of wars and made plans for battles. Lie's not like the rest of the Squad. His father is nearly always drunk, but he is very well educated, and, when he is only half drunk, he likes to talk. The Rat asks him ques- tions then, and leads him on until he finds out a great deal. Then he begs old newspapers, and he hides himself in corners and listens to what people • are saying. He says he lies awake at night thinking it out, and he thinks about, it all the day. That was why 'he got up the Squad." noughts were in a whirl.) Loristan had continued examining It ought not to be nothing but a game. the paper lie grew quite hot all over. If the; "Tell him," he said, when he refold - Iill» Marcos tl The Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 61.60 per veal in advance, to •Cana- dian addresses. $2.00 to the' LS. or ether forei en countries. No paper aliscontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publish- .er. The data to which every sub- •ecrintion is paid is denoted on the .label. - ADVERTISING RATES — Tran- ..eient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. Se for each sub- .mequent insertion. Heading counts .2 lines. . 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It was had led them." true-- yes, it was true,' as the Rat Maraca was full of exultation, said, that his being a cripple made j it/ thought you would say he was him look safer than any one else. right. I felt sure you would. That Marco actually put his forehead in is what makes me want to tell you his hands and pressed his temples.. the rest," he hurried on. "If you think ' "What's the natter?" exclaimed he is right about the rest too-" He The Rat. "What are you thinking stopped awkwardly because of a sud- about?" don wild thought which rushed upon "I'm thinking what a general you him. "I don't know what you will would make. I'm thinking that it think," he stammered. "Perhaps it night all' be real—everyword of it. will seem to you as if the game—as It mightn't be a game at all;'said if that Hart of it could—could only Marco. be a game." "No, it mightn't," The Rat answer -1 He was so fervent in spite of his ed. "If I knew where the Secret Party hesitation • that Loristan began to was, I'd like to go and tell them about watch him with sympathetic respect, it. What's that!" he said, suddenly as he always did when the boy was Iturning his head toward the street. trying to express something he was "What are they calling out?" knot sure of. One of the great bonds ome news oy wi p i (shrill voice was- shouting out some-; S b th a art cularly between them was that Loristan was always interested in his boyish mental thing at the topmost power of his ilungs processes—in the way in which his •`thoughts led him to e:ny conclusion. • 'Tense and excited, no member of the circle stirred or spoke for a few "GTheo Rat he said again. 'I hIt . seconds. The Rat listened, Marco list- like and I am like you. Ito has not seemed quite like a game to ened, the whole Squad listened, prick- me, so far." Frank Fingland, B.A., LL B. I ing up their ears. 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Descendant of the Lost Prince though it was always their habit to found!" • 'speak at such a pitch that no one out - "Any chap got a penny?" snapped side the room they were in could dis- The Rat, beginning to shuffle toward tinguish what they said. the arched passage. "It is. The Rat's plan for giving the "I have!" answered Marco, follow- signal for a Rising," he said. ing him. Loristan made a slight movement. "Come, on!" The Rat yelled. "Let's "Does he think there will be a Ris- go and get a paper!" And he whizzed ing?" he asked. down the passage with his swiftest rat -like dart, while the Squad follow -I "He says that must be what the ed hiin, shouting and tumbling over Secret Party has been preparing for all these years. ' `And it must come soon. The other nations see that each other: , CHAPTER IX "It Is Not a Game the fighting must be put to an end even if they have to stop it themsel- Loristan walked slowly up and down' vas. And if the real King isfound— the back sitting -room and listened to but when The Rat bought the news - Marco, who sat by the small fire and paper there was nothing in it about talked. "Go on" he said, whenever the boy stopped. "I want to hear it all. He's where he was. It was only a sort of rumor. Nobody seemed to now any- thing." He stopped a few seconds, but a . strange lati and it's a splendid he did not utter the words which were game." in his mind. He did not say: "But Marco Was telling him the story of you know." his second and third visits to the in- "And The Rat has a plan for giv- closure behind the deserted church- ing the signal?" Loristan said. - yard. He had begun, at the beginning, Marco forgot his first feeling of and his father had listened with a hesitation. He began to see the plan deep interest.. again as he had seen it when The A year later, Marco recalled this Rat talked. He began to speak as evening as a thrilling memory, and The Rat had spoken, forgetting that as one which would never passaway, it was a game. He made even a clear - from him throughout his life. He er picture than The Rat had made of would always be able to call it all the twovagabond boys—ode of them, back. The. small and dingy back room, a cripple—making their way from one the dimness of the poor gas -burner, place to another, quite free to carry which was all they could afford to messages or warnings where they light, the iron box pushed into the choose because they were so insigni- corner with its maps and plans lock- ficant and poor -looking that no, one ed safely in it, the erect bearing and could think of them as anything but actual beauty of the tall form, which waifs and strays, belonging to no - the shabbiness of worn and mended bodyand blown about bythe wind of clothes could not hide or dim. Not poverty and chance. He felt as if seven rags and tatters- could have he wanted to convince his father that made Loristan seem insignificant or the plan was a possible one. He did undistinguished; He was always the not quite know why he felt so anxious. salve. His eyes seemed darker and to win his appcval of the scheme— more wonderful than ever in their re- as if he were real—as if it could ac - mote thoughtfulness and interest as tually be done. .But this feeling was he spoke. I what inspired him to enter into new "Go on," he said. "It is a splendid details and suggest possibilities. game. And it is curious. He has ( "A boy who was a cripple and one thought it out well. The lad is a born who was only a street singer and a soldier." Isort of beggar could get almost any - "It is not a game to him," Marco where," he said. "Soldiers would lis said. 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Before he had gone far with his story, the faraway look had fallen up- on Loristan's face—the look Marco had known so well all his life. He sat turned' a little sidewise from the boy, his elbow resting on the table and his forehead on his hand. He looked dawn at the worn carpet at his feet, and so he looked as he listened to the end. It was as if some new thought were slowly growing in his mind as Marco went on talking and enlarging on The Rat's plan. He did not even look up or change his position as he answered, "Yes, I think so." But, because of the deep and grow- ing thought in his face, Marco's cour- age increased, His first fear that this part of the planning might seem so bold and reckless that it would only appear to belong to a boyish game. gradually faded away for some strange reason. His father had said that the first part of The Rat's im- aginings had not seemed quite like a game to him, and now -even now—he was not, listening as if he were listen- ing to thedetails of mere exaggerated fancies. It was as if the thing he was hearing was not wildly impossible, Marco's knowledge of Continental countries and of methods of journey- ing helped him to enter into much de- tail and give realism to his plans. "Sometimes we could pretend we knew nothing but. English," he said. "Then, though The. Rat could not un- derstand, I could. I should always un- derstand in each country. I know the cities and the places we should want to go to. I know how boys like us live, and so we should not do any- thing which would make the police angry or make people notice us. If any one asked questions, I would let them believe that I had met The Rat by chance, and we had made up our minds to traveltogether because peo- ple gave more money to a boy who sang if he was with a cripple. There was a boy who used to play the gui- tar in the streets of Rome, and he al- ways had a lance girl with him, and every one knew it was for that reason. When he played, people looked atthe girl and were sorry for her, and gave her gold, Yost remember. ares, I remember.. And what you say is true," Loristan answered. Marco leaned farther forward a- cross the table so that he came closer to him. The tone in which the words were said made his courage leap like a flame. To be allowed to go; on with this boldness was to -feel that he was being treated almost as if he were a man. If his father bad wished to stop (Continued on page "7) Worts Every industry, prosperity of any community, tal to a town, and Every Town Industries and capi- - be it large or small, adds to the progress Every such industry brings new distributes this among the business men generally w in the way of wages and salaries. Everybody benefits. 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