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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-05-27, Page 2°AGE `2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., MAY 27, 1937. `<THB LOST PRInCE„ By Frances oil Btirett SYNOPSIS Marco Loristan was the kind of a 'boy people looked at the second time when they had looked at him once• Be.was a ;well-built boy of 12, intern - Tent 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, :His father had told him the story of .the Lost Prince, who might one day :teturn to Samavia and restore order ;and peace. At present the Loristan's rare in London, England, and Marco shad encountered several interesting ;people, among them, "The Rat," a crippled boy who commands a group ,of willing boys—the boys listen 'at- tentively as Marco speaks to them. which they had talked over together paused a moment and thought. "The article in that magazine said something about a huge forest on the eastern frontier. That's here. We could wander into a forest and stay there until we'd planned all we wanted to do. Even the people who bad seen as would forget about. us.' What we have to do is to make people feel as if we were nothing—nothing." They were in the very midst of it, in deep gloom.;, Marco's father, they decided, was too big a swell to let the two come back after he had seen the sort the Squad was made up of. He might be poor just now, toffs sometimes ' lost their money for a bit, but you could see what he was, and fathers like him weren't going to let. their sons make friends with "such as us." He'd stop"the chill and the "Secret Society" game. That's what, crowded together, Leaning , oveK, he'd do! stretching necks and breathing quick- But The Rat came swinging in on ly with excitement, when Marco lift - his secondhand crutches looking as if ed, his head. Some mysterious im- he had been made a general, and Mar- pulse made him do it in spite of him- co came with hini; and the drill the self, Squad was put through was . stricter "There's my father!" he said. and finer than any drill they had ever. The chalk dropped, everything known. dropped, even Samavia. The Rat was "I wish my father could have seen up and < on his crutches as if some that," Marco said to The Rat. magic force had swung him there. The Rat turned red and white and flow he gave the the command,. or if Later Loristan and Marco have a then red again, but he said not a he gave it' at all, not even he himself :long talk about Samavia, and the Lost single word. The mere' thought was knew. But the Squad stood at sa- 'Prince, who had disappeared fiver like a flash of fire passing through lute. 'hundred years ago. A secret society,) him. But no fellow could hope for a Loristan was standing at the op - 'with members in many European thing as big as that. The Secret Par- ening of the archway as Marco had .countries, were preparing to put his ty, in its subterranean cavern, sur- stood that first day. He raised his -descendant on the throne of Sama-I rounded by. its Wiled arms, sat down right band in return salute and came `via and end the civil wars and blood- to read the morning paper. forward. •shed in the country. At a meeting -of the Squad, The Rat foramsa sec- ret society for Samavia among . them - :selves. "I was passing the end of the street The war news was bad to read. The and remembered the Barracks was Maranovitch held the day for thehere," he explained. "I thought I moment, and while they suffered and should like to look at your men, Cap - `wrought cruelties in the capital city, tarn„ NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY the Tarovitch sufferedand wroughtHe smiled' but it Was nota smile • ' that which made his words really joke. cruelties in the country outside. So 11 a 'o e. When they went to the Barracks, i fierce and dark was the recordIle looked down at the chalk map -the Squad greeted them ,with a • tu- 1 Europe stood aghast. I drawn on the flagstones. -inultuous welcome which expressed. a The Rat folded his paper when he know that man well," he said great sense of relief. Privately the had finished, and sat biting his nails. "Even I can see that it is Samavia =embers ,had been filled with fears Having done this for a few minutes,' is the Secret Party doing?" f he began to speak in his dramatic and "The messengers are trying to find hollow Secret Party whisper."Sra way in," answered Marco. be Clinton News -Record "The boo has tomo," he said to "We can get in there,"' said The With which is Incorporated his followers. "The messengers must Rat, pointing. with a crutch. "There's THE NEW ERA go forth. They ];now nothing of what a forest where we could hide and find they go for; they only know that they out things." u to Marco. "He will be better pleased. His desire is to feel that, he is trust- ed to do things alone." • So they parted ata street corner, Marco to walk back to No. 7 Philibert Place, The Rat' to execute his com- mission. Marco turned into one of the better streets, through which he often passed on his way home, ,It was not a fashionable quarter, but it contained some respectable houses in whose windows here and there were to be seen neat cards bearing the word "A•partments," which meant that the owner of 'the house would let to lodgers his drawing -room or sit- ting -room suite. As Marco walked up the street, he saw, some one come out of the door of one of'the houses and walk quick- ly and lightly down the pavement. it was a young woman wearing an ele- gant though -quiet dress, and a hat which looked as if it had been bought In Paris or Vienna. She had, in fact, a slightly foreign air, and it was' this, indeed, which made Marco look; at her long enough to see that she was also a graceful, and lovely person. ,He wondered what her nationality was. Even at some yards' distance he could see that she had long dark eyes and a curved mouth which seemed to be smiling to itself. He thought she ,might be Spanish or Italian. He was trying to decide which of 'the two countries she belonged to, as she drew near to him, but quite sud- denly `the curved mouth ceased smil- ing as her foot seemed to catch in a break in the pavement,. and she so lost her balance that she would have fallen if he had not leaped forward and caught her. She was light and slender, and he was a strong lad and managed to steady her. An expression of sharp momentary anguish crossed her face. "I hope you are not hurt," Marco said. She bit her lip and clutched his shoulder very hard with her slim hand. "I have twisted my ankle," she answered. "I am afraid I have twist- ed it badly. Thank you for saving me. I should have had a bad fall" Her long, dark eyes were very sweet and grateful. She tried to smile; but there was such distress un- der the effort that Marco was afraid she must have hurt herself very much. "Can. you stand on your foot at all?" he asked. "I can stand a little now," she said, "but I night not be able to stand in a few minutes. I must` get back to the house while I can bear to touch the ground with it. I am so sorry. I am afraid I shall have to ask you to go with me. fortunately it is on ly a few yards away." "Yes," Marco answered. "I saw you come out of the house. If you will lean on my shoulder. I can soon help you back. I am. glad to do it. Shall we try now?" • She had a gentle and soft manner which would have appealed to any boy. Her voice was musical and her enunciation exquisite. Whether she was Spanish or Italian, it was easy to imagine her a person who did not always live in London lodgings, even of the better class. "If you please," she answered him. "It is very kind of you. You are very strong, I see. But I am glad to have only a few steps to go." She rested on his shoulder as well as on her umbrella, but it- was plain that every movement gave her in- tense pain. She caught her lip with her. teeth, and Marco thought she turned white. He could not help 1ik- ing.her. She was so lovely and grac ious and.brave. He could not bear to see the suffering in her face. "I am so sorry!" he said, as he helped her, and his boy's voice had something of the wonderful sympa- thetic tone of Loristan's. The beauti- ful lady herself remarked it, and thought how unlike it was to the or- dinary boy -voice. "I have a latch -key," she said, when they stood on the low step. She found the latch -key in her purse and opened the door. Marco helped her into the entrance -hall. She sat. down at once in a chair near the hat -stand. The place was quite plain and old-fashioned inside. "Shall I ring the front -door bell to call some one?" Marco inquired. "I am afraid that the servants are out," she answered. "They had a holiday. ` Will you kindly close the door? I shall be obliged to ask you to help me into the sitting -room at the end of the hall. I shall"find all I want there—if you will kindly hand me a few things. Some one may come in presently—perhaps one of the. oth- er lodgers -and, even if I ani alone for an hour or so, it will not really natter" "Perhaps 1 can find' the landlady," Marco suggested. The beautiful per- son smiled, `' "She has gone to her sister's wed- ding. That is why I was going out to spend the day myself. I arrang- ed the plan to accommodate her. How good you are!.1 shall be quite com- fortable directly,really. . I can get to Y my easy chair in the sitting -room now I have rested.a little." Marco helped her to her feet, and her, sharp, involuntary exclamation of pain made 'him wince internally. "Perhaps it was a worse sprain than she knew. The house was of the early -Victor- ian London order. A "front lobby" with a dining -room on the right hand, and a "back lobby," after the foot of the stairs was passed, out of which opened the basement kitchen stair- case and a sitting -room looking out on a gloomy flagged back yard in - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 51.60 mer near in advance, to Cana- must obey. If they were caught and "Reconnoiter,said Loristan, look- ,tdian addresses. $2.00 to the ILS. or tortured, they could betray nothing ing down. "Yes. Two stray boys ether foreign countries. No paper because they know nothing but that, .could be very safe in a forest. It's discontinued until all arrears are paid at certain places,they must utter a „ unless ak the option of the publish -a good genie. hreeveryh sub- certain word. They carry no papers., v.r. The data to w .ncrintion is paid is denoted on the All commands they must learn by fader, heart. When the sign is given, the ' ADVERTISING RATES Tran- Secret Party will know what todo- stent advertising 12c per count line where to meet and where to attack." -for dist insertion. 8e for each sub - plans He drew of the battle on the ksequent insertion. Heading counts lines. Small advertisements not to flagstones, and he sketched an im- .axceed one inch, such as "Wanted," aginaty route which the two niessen- '"Lost" "Strayed," etc., inserted once gers were to follow. But his know - dor He, each subsequent insertion ledge of the map of Europe was not 15c. Rates for display advertising :made known on application. 'worth much, andhe turned, to Marco. Communications intended for pub- "You know more about geography !tication must, as. a guarantee OT good than. I do. You know more about ev- faith, be accompanied by the name erything," he said. "I only know It-' ofthe writer. I aly i G. E. HALL • - Proprietor.s at the bottom and Russia is at one side and England's at the other, !rti H. T. RANCE How would the Secret Messengers go, Notary Public, Conveyancer 'to Samavia? Can you draw the con rFinancial Real Estate acid fire In Vies they'd have to pass through?" •durance Agent, Representing 14 Fire 'Insurance, Companies. Because any school -boy who knew Division Court Office. Clinton the map could have done the same thing, Marco drew them. He also knew .the stations the Secret Two would arrive at and leave by when, they entered a city, the streets they would walk through and the very uni- I forms they would see; but of these things he said nothing. The reality ' his knowledge gave to the: game was,' however, a thrilling thing. He wish- f ed he could have been free to explain to The Rat the things he knew. To- gether they could have worked out se many details of travel and possible adventure that it would have been al- most as if they had set out on their journey in fact. As it was, the mere sketching of the route fired The Rat's imagination. He forged ahead with the story of ad- venture, and filled it with such mys- terious purport and design that the Squad at times gasped for breath. In his glowing version the Secret Two entered cities by midnight and sang and begged at palace gates where kings driving outward paused to lis- ten and were given the Sign. "Though it would not always be kings," he said. "Sometimes it would be the poorest people. Sometimes they might seem to be beggars like ourselves, when they were only Secret Ones disguised. A great lord might wear poor clothes and pretend to be a workman, and we should only know him by thesigns we had learned by heart. When wewere sent to Sarna via, we should be obliged to creep in through some back part of the country where no fighting was being done and where no one would attack. Their generals are not clever enough to pro- tect the parts which are joined . to friendly countries, and they have not forces enough.. Two boys could find a way in if they thought it out." He became possessed by the idea of thinking it. out on the spot, He drew his rough man of Samavia on the flagstones with his chalk. "Look here," he said to Marco, who, with the elated and thrilled Squad, bent over it in a cldse circle of heads. „'Beltrazo is here and Carnolitz is here -and here is Jiardasia. Beltrazo and Jiardasia are friendly, though they don't take sides. All the fighting is going on in the country about Mel - p.m There is no . reason why they should, prevent single travelers from coming in across . the frontiers of friendly neighbors. They're not fight- ing with the countries outside, they are fighting with themselves." ,,He tFrank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. hilarrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydpne, K.C. -Glean Block — Clinton, Ont. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR !Electra Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by I appointment. 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A betel of ragamuffins they were and noth- [ng else, and he standing looking at them with his fine smile. There was something about him which made him seem even splendid. The Rat's heart thumped with startled joy. "Father," said Marco, "will you watch The Rat drill us? I want you to see how well it is done." "Captain, will you do me that hon- or?" Loristan said to The Rat, and to even these words he gave the right tone, The Rat's pulses beat only with exultation. This god of his had look- ed at his maps, he had talked of his plans, he had conte to seethe soldiers who were his work! The Rat began his drill as if he had been reviewing an army. What Loristan saw done was won- derful in its mechanical' exactness. The Squad moved like the perfect parts of .a perfect machine. That they could so do it in such space, and that they should have accomplished such precision, was an extraordinary testimonial to the military efficiency and curious qualities of this one hunchbacked, vagabond officer. "That is magnificent!" the specta- tor said, when it was over. "It could not be better done. Allow me to :con- gratulate you.", Ile shook The Rat's hand as if it had been a man's, and, after he had shaken it, he put his own hand lightly on the boy's shoulder and let it rest there as hetalkeda few minutes to them all. He kept his talk within the game, and his clear comprehension of it added a flavor which even the dullest member of the Squad was elated by. Sometimes you couldn't understand toffs when they made a shy at being 'friendly, but you could understand him, and he stirred un your spirits. He didn't make jokes with you, either, as if a chap had to be kept grinning. After the few minutes were over, he went away. Then they sat down a- gain in their circle and talked about him, because they could talk and think about nothing else. They star- ed at Marco furtively, .feeling as if he were a creature of another world beeapse he had lived with this man. They stared at The Rat in a new way also. The wonderful -looking hand had rested on . his shoulder, and he had been told that what he had done was magnificent. "When you said you wished your father could have seen the drill, said The Rat, "you took my breath away. I'd never have had the cheek to think of it myself—and I'd never have dar- ed to let you ask him, even if you wanted to do it. And he came him- self! It struck me' dumb." - "If he came," said Marco, "it was because he wanted to see it." When they had finished talking, it was time for Marco and The Rat 'to go on their way. Loristan had given The Rat an errand.. At a certain hour he was to present, himself at a certain shop and receive 'a package. ,"Let him doit,alone," Loristan said Botanical Notes for May By E. W. Hart '< of Botany,Centra Division 1 Experimental Farm, Ottawa There are many Wild plants in' bloom of more than ordinary botani- cal interest, especially those that claim attention as being poisonous or edible, Throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec:an d Ontario, growing in low rich woods, is the jack-in-the-pulpit or indian • turnip (Arisaema triphyllum). Each leaf, which is attached to a long stalk, has closed by high walls. The sitting - room was rather, gloomy itself? but there were a few luxurious things a- mong the ordinary furnishings. There was an easy -chair with a small table near it, and on the table were a sil- ver lamp and some rather elegant trifles. Marco helped his charge to the easy -chair and put . a cushion from the sofa, under her foot He did' it very gently, and, as he rose after doing it, he saw that the long, soft dark eyes were looking at him in a curious way. "I must go away now," he said, "but I do not like to leave you. May S go for a doctor?"• "How dear you are!" she exclaim- ed. "But I do not want one, thank you. I know exactly what to do for a sprained ankle. And perhaps mine is not really a sprain. I am going to take off my shoe and see." "May I help you?' Marco asked, and he kneeled down again and care- fully unfastened her shoe and with- drew it from her foot. It was a slen- der and delicate foot in a silk.stock- Ing, and she bent and gently touched and rubbed it. "No," she said, when she raised herself, "I do not think it is a sprain. Now that the shoe is off and the foot rests on the cushion, it is much more comfortable, much more. Thank you, thank you. If you had not been pas- sing I might have had a dangerous £all: t "I am very glad to have been able to help you," Marco answered, with an air of relief. "Now I mustgo, if you think you, will be all right." "Don't go yet," she said, holding out her hand. "I should like to know you a little better, if I may. I ani so grateful. I should like to talk to you. You have such beautiful man- ners for a boy," she ended, with a pretty, kind laugh, "and I believe I know where you got them from." (Continued next week). three shining leaflets. What is term- ed the flower (the shape of which resembles that of its cultivated rela- tion—the calla lily), is in reality a sheathing or protection (spathe) of the' true flowers, which are very small and arranged around the club -shaped "jack" (spadix) which stands erect in the "pulpit" or spathe; this spathe is pale green and often striped or spotted with reddish -brown or p)ar- ple. In the autumn,this pulpit and jack will have withered, but attached to the jack will be a cluster of most attractive and conspicuous bright -1 scarlet, shining :berries which look very tempting, but must not, on any account, be eaten. In spite of the fact that this plant is listed as_ being poisonous, C. F. Saunders says in his "Useful Wild Plants": "the familiar Jack -in -the -Pulpit . '.. whose small, turnip -shaped corm, (root) bitten in- to raw, stings the tongue like red hot needles, becomes thoroughly tam- ed when dried and cooked, and its starchy content was once a source of bread to the Seneca Indians". In swamps and other wet places, the golden cups of the marsh mari- gold (Caltha palustris) will be gath- ered in large quantities for garnish- ing the home, and they really are worth the discomfort of wet feet. Mrs. Traill in her "Studies of Plant Life in Canada" says that the leaves were used as a pot -herb by the early settlers, before gardens were planted. Those people without gardens now— and there are very many—may like to sample these spring greens. All who are interested in edible wild fruits should be familiar with the poisonous kinds, in all stages of rowth. In the woods from New 6 Brunswick' to Manitoba is the blue co- hosh (Caulophylitun thalictroides),, sometimes unwisely called bluelterry, as the whole ,plant, including the "blueberries", is listed as being pois- onous: When young, it is dark green- ish -purple in colour, which `grs dually turns to green with maturity. The flowers are greenish -purple too, and give place to large globular berry- like seeds or poisonous "blueberries". Also growing in rich woods front coast to coast are the poisonous bane -berries (Aetaea sp.). They are not easily distinguished from one another in the flowering stage,_ with the very small white flowers arrang- ed, generally, •in .oblong clusters at the end of the stalks, and the wide- spreading compound leaves; but later on the red baneberries have red fruits and the white ' baneberries white fruits, both kinds are said to be very poisonous. T h e edible -fruited juneberries (Amelanehier sp.) are in bloom. Clusters of conspicuously long -petal- led white flowers, out before the leaves are fully expanded on these shrubs or small trees will claim the attention of, especially those who an- ticipate and appreciate the sweet red -purple fruits, about the size of currants, when they mature in July. Should there be doubt about the identity of the foregoing or any wild Canadian plants; specimens, weighing under 1 lb. may be mailed, free of charge, to the Dominion Botanist, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, who will be pleased to identify them. 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