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SYNOPSIS
Marco Loristan was the kind of a
.boy people l'ook'ed at the second time
'when' they had looked at him once.,
Be was a well-built boy of 12, inteelli-
.gent looking, and well-mannered. He.
and his father had travelled a great
.deal and the bo r was proficient in
-several languages, sothat he felt at
+home in whatever country he was
;staying. Marco knew that they were
'S'anzavians, that there was trouble
:and bloodshed in Samavia at present.
113+is father had told him the story of
the Lost Prince, who might one day
.return to Samavia and yestore order
:acid peace. At present the Loristan's
.are in London, England, and Marco
,had encountered several interesting
to play a part in his life. 'summit. Thy were not in search of
Events which follow prove her to a ledge.
be an enemy,, agent, and by a clever The Rat and Marco were. When
trick Marco is captured and closely the little 'train stepped at the op,
questioned, but reveals nothing of they got out with the rest.' They
what he knows. Later heescapes, wandered' about with them over the
and shortly afterwardhe and The short grass` on thetreeless summit
Rat are sent out' as agents of the and looked out from this viewpoint
Cause to various cities, where they land the other. The Rat grew more'
are to communicate with various per- and more silent, and his silence was.
sons, not merely a, matter of speechlessness.
but of expression. He looked silent
and as if he were no longer . aware of
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY the earth. They left the sight -seers.
' at last and wandered away by them
Marco was very quiet, He was selves. They found a ledge where
Looking at the farthest and highest they could sit or lie and where even
peaks and wondering about many the world of mountains seemed 'below
things. them. They had brought some simple
'It was the expression of his face •
laid
people, among them, The Rat,"a that was different," he said. "And food with them, and they it be- hind a jutting bit of rock. When the
.orippled boy who commands a group his eyes. They are rather smaller
,ef willing boys—the boys listen at- than the right man's are. The light sight -seers boarded the laboring lit-
tentively as ,Marco speaks to them. in the shop was poor, and it was not tie train again and were dragged
Later Loristan and Marco have a until the last time he' bent over me :back down the mountain, their night
long talk about Samavia, and the Lost that I found out what I had not seen of vigil would begin.
;Prince, who had disappeared five before. His eyes are gray—the other That wswhat it was to b A
ones are brown." night of stt illness on the heights,
"Did yousee that!" The Rat ex-
claimed. "Then we're sure! We're
safe!"
"We're not safe till we've found
shed in the country. At a meeting the right man," Marco said. "Where
of the Squad, The Rat forms a sea is he? Where is he? Where is
*ret society for Samavia among them- he?"
-selves.,He said the words dreamily and
The Rat's father dies, and Loristan !quietly, as if he were lost in thought
'invites the lad to live with him and 1—but also rather as if he expected
Marco. The two boys plan to aid the answer. And he still looked at
the cause of the Lost Prince. Marco, ' the far-off peaks. The Rat, after
while on an errand, assists a young 'Watching him a moment or so, began
lady in distress, who seems very in-
eterested in him. She seems destined
something stilling about them, and They heard it laboring on its way,
?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 -
where they could wait and watch
and hold themselves ready to hear
any thought which spoke to them.
The Rat was so thrilled that he
would not have been surprised if he
had heard a voice from the place of
the stars. , But Marco only believed
that in this great stillness and beauty,
if he held his boy -soul quiet enough,
he should find himself at last think-
ing of something that would lead.him
to the place which held what it was
best that he should find. The people
to look at them also. They were like returned to the train and it set out
a loadstone to him too. There was upon its way down the steepness.
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when your eyes had rested upon them as though it was forced to make as
a few moments they did not want to much effort to hold itself back as it
owe away, had made to drag itself upward.
"There must be "a ledge up there Then they were alone, and it was
somewhere," he said at last. "Let's a loneness such as an eagle might
go up and Iook for it and sit there feel when it held itself poised high in
and think and think—about finding the curve of blue. And they sat and
the right man." watched, They saw the sun go down
There seemed nothing fantastic in and, shade by shade, deepen and make
this to Marco. To go into some quiet radiant and then draw away with it
place and sit and think about the the last touches of color—rose-gold,
thing he wanted to remember or to rose -purple, and rose -gray. One
find blit was an old way of his. To,, mountain top after another held its
be quiet was always the best thing, blush a few moments and lost it. It
his father had taught him. It was took long to gather them alt but at
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could speak without words. I vel of night fell.
"There is a little train which goes The breath of the forests below
up the Gaisberg," he said. "When
you are at the top, a world of moun- was sweet about them, and soundless -
tains spreads around you. Lazarus ness enclosed them which was of un-
wept once and told me. And we • earthly peace. The stars began to
can lie out on grass all night. Let show themselves, and presently the
us gAide-de-camp•" two who waited found their faces
turned upward to the sky and they
So they went, each one thinking both were speaking in whispers.
the same thought, and each boy -mind "The stars look large here," The
holding its own vision. Marco was Rat said.
"Yes," answered Marco, "We are
not as high as the Buddhist was, but
it seems like the top of the world."
"There is a light on the side of
the mountain yonder which is not a
ply that it was the working of a law, star," The Rat whispered. --
not
not the breaking of one, which gave "It is a light in a hut where the
answer and led him in his quests. The guides take the climbers to rest and
Rat, who had known nothing of laws . to spend the night," answered Marco.
other than those administered by pal "It is so still," The Rat whispered
lice courts, was at once awed and [ again after- a silence , and Marco
fascinated by the suggestion of eros whispered back: .
sing some borderland of the Un- "It is so still." '
known. The law of the One had baf-
bled and overthrown him, with its They had eaten their meal of black
sweeping away of the enmities of bread and cheese after the setting of
passions which created wars and cal- the sun, and now they lay down on
led for armies. But the Law of Earth- their backs and looked up until the
ly Living seemed to offer practical first few stars had multiplied them -
benefits if you could hold on to selves into myriads. They began a
little low talk, but the soundlessness
was stronger than themselves.
"How am I going to hold on to that
second law?'" The Rat said restlessly.
" `Let pass through' thy mind only
the image thou wouldst sce become a
believing you were going to get truth'. The things that are passing
?]rings—and working for them —and through my mind are not the things,
they'd come," I want to come true. What if we
Then he bad laughed a short ugly
laugh, because he recalled something.
"There was something in the Bible stars," whispered Marco. "They give
that my father used to jeer about— you a sure feeling,"
something about a man getting what There was something in tha curious
he prayed for if he believed it," he serenity of him which calmed even
said. his Aide-de-camp. The Rat lay still
"Oh, yes, it's there," said Marco. and looked -and looked—and thought.
"That if a man pray believing he And what he thought of was the de -
shall 'receive what he asks it shall be sire of his heart: .The soundlessness
'enwrapped him and there was no
world left. That there was a spark
of light in the mountain -climbers'
rest -hut was a thing forgotten.
"Nobody does -- really,"answered They were only two boys, and they
had begun their journey on the ear -
Marco, as he had done once before. ; Best train and had been walking a -
"It's because we don't know."I bout all day and thinking of great
They went up the Gaisberg in the and anxious things,
little train, which pushed and dragged l .: "It is so still," The Rat whispered
and panted slowly upward with them. again at last,
It took them with it stubbornly and
gradually higher and higher until it "It is so still," whispered Marco.
had left Salzburg and the Citadel be- And the mountains rising behind
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yourself enough to work it.
"You wouldn't get everything for
nothing, as far as I can make out,"
he 'had said to Marco. "You'd sweep
it as if you did it with a broom -and
then keep on thinking straight and
don't find him --don't find the right
one, I mean!"
"Lie still—stili—and look up at the
given him. All the books say some-
thing like it. It's been said so often
it makes you believe it."
He didn't believe it, and I didn't,"
said The Rat.
low and had reached the world of each other and 'beside each .other and
mountains which rose and ,spread beyond each other in the night, and
and lifted great heads behind each also the myriads of stars which had
other and beside each other and be- se multiplied themselves, looking
yond each other until there seemed I down knew that they were asleep
—
no other land on earth but that on as sleep the human things which do
mountain sides and backs and,shoul- not watch forever.
ders and crowns. And alsd one felt I 1 "Some one is smoking," Marco
the /absurdity of living upon flat found himself saying in a dream.
ground, where life must be an insigni- After which he awakened, and found
ficant thing. that the smoke was not part of a
There were only a few sight -seers dream at all. It came from the pipe
in the small carriages, and they were of a young man who had an alpen-
teeing South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 Tem. going to look at the view' from the
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climbed to see the sun rise. i He wore
the clothes" of a climber' and a green
hat with ;a tuft at the back. He look-
ed, down, at the two boys, surprised,
"Good day," he said, "Did you
sleep hereso that you could see the
sun get up?"
"Yes," answered1Mareo.
"Were you cold?" I
"We slept too soundly to know.
And we brought our thick coats."
"I slept half -way down? the ';moun-
tain," said the smoker. "I am a
guide -in these days, but'.I have not
been one long enough to miss a sun-
rise it is no work to reach. My fath-
er and brother think I am mad about
such things: They would rather stay
in their beds, Oh! he is 'awake; is
he?" turning toward The, Rat, who
had risen on one elbow and was star-
ing at him. "What is the matter?.'
You look as if you were afraid of
me"
Marco did not wait for The Rat to
recover his breath and speak.
"I know why he looks at --you so,"
he answered for him. "He is startled.
Yesterday we went to a hair -dresser's
shop down below there, and we saw a
man who was almost exactly like you.
only—" he added, looking up, "his
eyes were gray and yours are brown."
"He was my twin brother," said
the guide, puffing at his pipe cheer-
fully. "My father thought he could
make hair -dressers of us both, and
I tried it for four years. But I al-
ways wanted to be climbing the moun-
tains and there were not holidays e-
nough. So I cut my hair, and washed
the pomade out of it, andbroke away.
I don't look like a hair -dresser now,
do I?"
He did not. Not at all. But Marco
knew him. He was the man. There
was no one on the mountain top but
themselves, and the sun was just
showing a rim of geld above the far-
thest and highest giants' shoulders.
One need not be afraid to do any-
thing, since there was no.one to see
or hear. Marco slipped the sketch
out of the slit in his sleeve. He
looked at it and he looked at the
guide, and then he showed it to him,
"That is not your brother. It is
you!" he said. -
The man's face changed a little—
more than any other face had chang-
ed when its owner had been spoken
to. On a mountain top as the sun
rises one is not afraid,
"The Lamp is lighted," said Marco,
"The Lamp is lighted."
"God be thanked!" burst forth the
man. And he took off his hat and
bared his head. 'Then the rim behind
the mountain's shoulder leaped forth
into a golden torrent of splendor.
And The Rat stood up, resting his
weight on his crutches in utter si-
lence, and slated and stared.
"That is three!" said Marco.
CHAPTER XXIII
The Silver Horn
During the next week, which they
spent in journeying towards Vienna,
they gave the Sign to three different
persons at places which were on the
way. In a village across the frontier
in Bavaria they found a giant of an
old man sitting on a bench under a
tree before his mountain "Gasthaus"
or inn; and when the four words were
uttered, he stood up and bared his
head as the guide had done. When
Marco gave the Sign in some quiet
place to a man who was alone, he
noticed that they all did this and said
their "God be thanked" devoutly, as
if it were part of some religious cere-
mony. In a small town a few miles
away he had to search some hours be-
fore he found a stalwart young shoe-
maker with bright red hair and a
horseshoe -shaped scar on his fore-
head. He was not in his workshop
when the boys first passed it, because,
as they found out later ,he had been
climbing a mountain the day before,
and had been detained in the descent
because his companion had hurt him-
self.
When Marco went in and asked him
to measure him for a pair of shoes, he
was quite .friendly and told them all
about it.
"There are some good fellows who
should not climb," he said. "When
they find themselves standing on a
bit of rock jutting out over emptiness,
their heads begin to whirl round -and
then, if they don't turn head over
heels a few thousand feet, it is be-
cause some comrade is near enough
to drag them back. There can be no
ceremony then and they sometimes
get hurt—as my friend did yesterday."
"Did you ever get, hurt yourself?"
The Rat asked.
"When I was eight years old I did
that," said the young shoemaker,
touching the scar on his forehead.
"But it was not much. My father
was a guide and took me with him.
He wanted me to begin early. There
is nothing like it—climbing, • I'shall
be at it again, This won't do for me.
I tried shoemaking because I was in
love with a girl who wanted me to
stay at home. She married another
man. I am glad of it, Once a guide,
always a guide." He knelt down to
measure Marco's foot,and Marco bent
a little forward.
"The Lamp is lighted," he said. '
There was no one in the shop, but
the door was open aria people were
passing in the narrow street; so the
shoemaker did not lift his red head.
He went on measuring.
"God be thanked!" be said, in a low
voice. "Did you, want these shoes
really, or did you only want me to
take your measure?"
"I cannot wait until they are made,"
stock andwho looked as if he had; Marco answered. "I must:go osr "
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LAKE GENEVA MINES; — Lake
Geneva Mines mill should reach its
rated capacity of 100 tons before the
end, of August, having been tuned in
at 50 tons over a week ago. A road,
under Government supervision, is now
under construction to the property.
Lead. and zinc concentrates will be
shipped, while the mine has some
small values in gold and silver.
CADILLAC: — Maritime Cadillac
Mines, favorably situated along the
Cadillac strike, has set a program for
shaft sinking, to start as soon as
possible. Plans are now advanced
for this sinking to possibly 500 ft.
depth. It follows several months' in-
tensive and interesting surface devel-
opment, together with some 18 drill
boles sited for structural purposes.
The Maritime property adapts its
name through the property having
been carried for some years by an
optimistic group of Maritime bust -
nes men.
DOME MINES:—Dome Mines Ltd.
had production valued at $649,628
from milling 46,500 tons in the month
of July. This production is slightly
above the monthly average to date
this year, as for the six months end-
ed June 30th the company reported
$3,700,285 production value, and made
$2.21 per share profit. At present
rate the company is earning approxi-
mately 35 cents per share per month.
ALASKA JUNEAU: — Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Co. had estimated
July profit of $225,300 after operat-
ing expenses and development char-
ges but before depreciation, deple-
tion and federal income taxes. This
compares with $269,500 in July, 1936
Gross for the month was $470,500 as
against $482,500 in the same month
of last year.
For the first seven months of the
current year estimated profit was
$1,639,600 on the same basis as a-
bove compared with $1,411,300 in the
same period of 1936. Gross so far
this year was $3,280,000 against $2,-
944,500 last year.
MACLEOD COCKSHUTT: — Mac-
leod Cockshutt Mine program is up
to schedule, Foundations are rapidly
going ahead for the mill. Sinking to
open two levels below the 500 ft. lev-
el is proceeding, and has already ad -
ib
TIIURS., AUG. 12, "1937.
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DOINGS IN THE SCOUT
WORLD
Rover Scout Makes New Record Por
The 100 Mile Run
•,.A new record for running 100 miles
was established July 3rd by Rover
Scout Hardy Ballington, of Durban,
South Africa, when he covered that
distance, from Box, near Bath, to
Hyde Park Corner, London, in 13
hours, 21 minutes and 19 seconds.
The previous record was held by an
Englishman, Arthur Newton, who at
the age of 51 covered the same route
in 14 hours, 11 minutes and 30 se-
conds. Rover Scout Ballington did
his training over the "Comrades
Marathon" course, a 54 miles' greul-
ling run through mountainous coun-
try between Durban Ind Pietermar-
itzburg; South Africa.
Row To Rescue A Dog From a Well
Boy Scout ingenuity and the Scout
rule of kindness to animals were ex-
emplified by two Parksville, B. C.,
Scouts in responding to the yelping
of a dog which indicated that the
animal was in trouble. Tracing the
sound, the boys located the unfor-
tunate animal in an old partly caved -
in 45 -foot well. Obviously it would
be extremely dangerous to attempt
a descent to the dog. The boys found
another solution. They secured a
box large enough to accommodate the
animal, "baited" it with a sandwich
and lowered it by a wire. 'The hun-
gry dog jumped inter the box for
vanced some 50 feet in that direction
An erroneous impression seems to
have been created about the Mac-
Leod Cockshutt mill, All foundations
and plant will be installed, with
crushing scale for 500 tons daily.
Actual crushing equipment will be
closer to 600 tons daily, states the
management. The first mill unit to
operate will be at 300 tons daily, for
which tankage facilities will be re-
quired. The mine at today's date has
something over 400,000 tons of ore
in sight. The mill is anticipated to
handle $10 per ten average grade.
the sandwich, and the boys hauled
him up,
Ontario's New Training Centre For
Scout Leaders `
"Blue Springs Scout Reserve," the
former Blue Springs Park, near Ac-
ton, Ont., the 100 acre property which
is to be developed- as a training cen-
tre for Ontario' Scout leaders, was
formally dedicated July 21st, The
acquiring of the Reserve was made
possible by a memorial contribution
received from the family of the late
Fred J. Mann, of Toronto, and ado=
nation to the Provincial Council of
the Boy Scouts Association by the
late Col, R. W. Leonard of St. Cath-
arines. The keen interest of Mr.
Mann and Col. Leonard in the Scout
Movement was commemorated in con-
nection with the opening of the Re-
serve by the unveiling of a rustic
'stone monument. The main entrance
to the Reserve is marked by a 'stock-
ade gateway, a reproduction of a pi-
oneer day blockade.
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
STATEMENT
The accidents reported to The
Workmen's Compensation Board dur-
ing the month of July numbered 6,-
763, as compared with 6,357 during
June, and 5,772 during July a year
ago.
The benefits awarded amounted to
$423,203.32, of which $328,981,76 was
for compensation and $94,221.56 was
for medical aid.
The accidents reported to date this
year number 37,994, as compared with
33,617 doming the corresponding per-
iod of 1936, and the benefits awarded
amount to $3,509,940.21, as, against
$3,232,013,72 for the same period
last year.
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