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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-02-16, Page 6I, ] zi4•: otk al'e• Rita!' CHAPTER XXXIIL--(Confd.) "Respecting the testa to which can -1 ttidatos were put, she spoke with more freedom. Those who, hoeing reached' the second grade, aspired to the first,, ta,re submitted to three .sty, severer to, melte trial of n eenra e, 1 , r:ty, athend humility. Failure in anY c te, ` I of these trials resulted in 10Otant t' =:th, and the final test, the trial by foal, which took place in a subterran- ean chamber of the great temple, re- sulted in a candidate whose courage 1 u:led him being precipitated into that lake of ante Willett I have already de• scribed—a dreadful .farm of death, whish by accident I had witnessed. "I have the reputation of being a cold, hard man. So had Antony bo- lus, he met Cleopatra, But seven y uars ago, under the Indian moon, I learned tolerance fcr.tile human weak- -fees eak-r s which forgets the world for the -.biles of a woman. "it had to end, Sooner or later, d'tsevery was inevitable. One night I tell Naida that I must go. Over the scene that followed I will pass in • si1e;ce: It needed ail the strength of a fetr''y straight, hard life to help, me keep to my decision, ":Che understood at last, and con- t -ended to release me. But there were obstacles—big ones. The snow on the lower mountain slopes had begun to 1re't, end the water -gate in the valley by which I had entered was now ha - pr -snide. As a result, I must use an- other irste, which opened into'a moun- taio retic, but which was always guarded. At first, on hearing this. I rave myself up for lost, but Naida had a plan. "Removing a bangle which she al- ways wore, she sheaved me the secret mark of Fire -Tongue branded upon the creamy skin. "'1 will put this mark upon your only," le said, 'In no other way can you es. ape.•I will teach you some of the pas;. ords by which the brethren know one another, and if you are ever questioned -you will say that you were n.dmitte•1 to the order by the blaster (if the Pon:bay Lodge, news of whose death has just reached us; "'lint.' said I, 'how can I hope to pass For an Oriental?' "'It rt +'s not matter,' Naida re- plied, 'There are some who are not Orientals among usl' "$he ,' :.rated an oath from me that I would never divulge anything which I had seen or heard in the City of Fire. She urged that I must leave India as puickly•as possible. I had already learned that this remote so- ciety w'es closely in touch with the affairs of. the outside world. And, '.becsiwe 1 knew I was leaving my heart behind there in the Indian hills, I retogiized that this dreadful part- ing must be final. • "Therefore I scarcely heeded her when she assured me that, should I ever be in danger because of what had happened, a message in the Times of India would reach her. I never in- tended to insert such a message, gentlemen. I knew that it would need all my sire -Lath to close this door which 1 had opened." l'IIAPTER XXXIV. Nicol, SRINN's STOP- (CONCLUDED), "The incident? of the next seven years do not concern you, gentlemen. I had one Aire in life—to forget. From the time that I left India until the moment when fate literally threw me • COJ (U GATED IRON I ' Asx 'roil Wheeler & Bain "Council Standard" A thick, even, heavy spread of galvanized oyer every inch of sur- face. Deep corrugations. Write us, stating size of barn you want to cover. W® PAY FREIGHT WHEELER & BAIN, LIMITED Dept. 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"I em not nemtlstonced to any dis- play of feeling in public, and Lreplied in what I think was an ordinary tone: "`In what connection, Sir Charles?' "'Well,' said he, watching' me oddly, I know you have traveled in India, and I wondered if you had ever conte in contact with the legend which pre - voila there, that' a seeond Zor'oaster has arisen, to preach tine doctrine of eternal fire,' "'I have heard it,' I replied, guard- edly, "'I thought it possible,' continued Sir Charles, 'and I ani tempted to tell you of a curious experience which once befell mo during the time that I was a guest of my late friend, Colonel.Ban- field, in. Delhi. My reputation as an osteologist was not at that time so fully established as it later became, but I already had some reputation in this branch of surgery; and one even- ing a very dignified Hindu gentleman sought an interview with me, saying that a distinguished native noble, who was a guest of him, had niet with a eeriieue accident, and offering me a fee equivalent to nearly five hundred pounds to perform an operation which he believed to be necessary, "'I assured him that my services, were at his disposal, and blankly de- clined to accept so large a fee. He "•She exacted an oft h that I would never divulge what I hare seen or heard." thereupon explained that the circum- stances were peculiar. His friend be- longed to a religious cult of extremely high order. He would lose caste if it became known that he had been at- tended by a„Christian surgeon; thes'e- fore my visit moat be a secret one. "'Accordingly I was driven in a car which was waiting to some house upon the outskirts of the city and con- ducted to a. roost where the patient had been carried. I saw him to be a singularly handsome young man, ap parently about twenty-three years of age. But there was something effem- inate about him which repelled me, I cannot say in what fray; nor did I approve of the presence of many bowls of hyacinths in tate room. "'However, I performed the opera- tion, which, although slight, demanded cof some krlh, and with the 'nature which 1 will not trouble yeti. Intense anxiety was manifested by the young man's attendants, and one of these, a strikingly beautiful woman, insisted on remaining while the operation was performed.. "She seemed more especially to concern herself with preserving intact a lock of the young man's jetblack hair, which was brushed in rather an odd manner across his ivory forehead. Naturally enough, this circumstance excited my curiosity and, distracting the woman's attention for a moment— I asked her to bring me something from a table at the opposite side of the room—I lightly raised this way- -laced ward lock and immediately cep it again. "s concealed, "'Do you know what it n , Mr. Brine?' "I assured him that I did not. "'A mark, apparently natural, re- Stribling a torch surmounted by a tongue of fire l' "Strange though it must appear, at this time I failed to account fox Sir Charles confiding this thing to one. Later, I realized that he must have seen the, marls on my arm, al- though he never referred to p ALL cLgi,41)NC, $OFTEINIS ,44 TATE R 10(4 E'terywolnafb Mate ofelleverk WA las 1 633 1{ I moved at once. I insetted in the, Tithes the prearranged message, hard, would come ly daring to hope that it wo d to the eye of Naide; but it did! She visited hie, And I learned that not only Sir Charles Abingdon, but stn_ other, knew of the mark which I bore! 'I was summoned to appear before the Prophetof Fire! "Gentlemen, what I saw and how I eucceeded in finding out the location of his - abode are' matters that can wait. The important things are these: first, I tearued why Sir Charles Ab- ingdon had bean done to death! "The unwelcome' attentions of the man known ns Ormuz Ishan led Sit' Charles to seek an interview with liim. I may say here and now that Ormuz Ishan is Fite -Tongue! Ohl it's a tough, statement—but I can prove it. Sir Charles practically forced his way into this man's presence and imme- diately recognized his mysterious pa- tient of years ago! "He accused hint of having sat spies upon his daughter's movements—an accusation Which was true—and for- bade him to see her again, From that hour the fate of Sir Charles was seal- ed. What he knew, the world must never know. He had recorded, in a private paper, all that he had learned. This paper was stolen from his bureau --and its contents led to my being summoned to the house of Fire - Tongue! Italso spurred the organ- ization to renewed efforts, for it re- vealed that Sir Charles contemplated` telling the story to others. "You will have observed, gentlemen, that I am somewhat damaged. How- ever, it was worth it! That the organ- ization of the Fire -Worshippers is destroyed I atm not prepared to assert; But I made a discovery to -day which untied my hands.' Hearing, I shall. never know how, that Naida had had a secret interview with hie, Fire- Tongue visited upon her the death penalty. • "I found her lying on a silken di- van in the deserted house, her hands clasped over a little white flower, like an odontdglossutn, which lay on her breast. It was the flower of sleep— and she was dead. "My seven years' silence was ended. One thing I could do for the world: remove Fire-Tongue—and do it with my own hands! "Gentlemen, at the angle 'where the high road from Upper Claybury joins the Dover Road is the Merton Cot- tage Hospital. Mr. Harley is await- ing us there. He is less damaged than 1 am. A native chauffeur-, whose name I don't know, is lying insensible in one of the beds—and in another is a dead man,unrecognizable, except for a birthmark resembling a torch on his forehead, his head crushed and his neck broken. - "That dead man is Fire -Tongue. .1 should like, Mr. Commissioner, to sign the statement." The End. "Men always take up collections because few women calm pass s hat." There had been skattng accident o Scottish loch' buta fatalityhad n a been averted by the bravery of a schoolboy who Saved Itis chum'a life. A subscription was raised for the young hero, who was presented with a gold watch. In making the presenta- tion, the Provost said: "I would like Geordie to tell us in his own words how Ile risked hie life to save his friend." 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Oaks, general manager of the Western Canada Airways, Ltd., who went to New York recently to place x'$100,000 order for Fokker planes to he used on his line, in an interview discussed the manner in which the entire question of aviation in Canada differs from that of the United States. The Western Canada 'Airways has undertaken to serve the mining dis- trict of Central western Canada. The headqugarters of the line le in Winni- peg, and from that point the lines radiate out into the center of the Do - inion. ra The Red Lake mining dis- trict is served with a regular air line on which the four Fokker universal, planes and thetwo t w st pe r-univ ersals, which Mr. Oasts purchased, are to be used. Bernt Belcher, the "ever smil- ing pilot" of trans•Atlantio bane, has beeu engaged to ferry these new ships to the base of operattone at Winnipeg. "In Canada," eaid Mr. Oaks, "I pup- party yon Would immediately conclude that every one has gone 'aviation mad.' We are doing unusually good burliness on our passenger )ince, cofl- Judge the quality al Green Tei by ?the eol'.orar/of the, brew when pours % hrit+q your cup'I e' orae er calm a is 'added.;; 'rhe paler the coda the fine the Gree! Tea. Cormipare any other Greer* Tea with 14S;i {.,APA" ---Notre can equial it in fiadouri point,: arrelearewees. O,niy 38e per i.113. ,i sidot'ably betterthan they are in the States.' But the Oeuadien people are not exactly aviation crazy,. "Forced" Trade • O'he reason for the large amount et passertger business le 'attributable 40 an •extei'nal "condition; "Ib the -fact that Canada is only served in one way by railways, All of our railroads cult east and west. '.[his• loaves a tre- mendous territory to the north .of these lines in which there Is no train service, We have gone into this ter- ritory er•rt ory realtzing'tltis fact. There are only IwO whys which it can be Ira - versed today, either by planes or afoot. Yon avant to go Into the ter- ritory. You can either walk or fly, and 'the average Canadien appears to Prefer to fly, *hen the alternative is trollying; . put 'maintaining a. flying service into tens desolate country, where the temperatures -sometimes 'range treat zero to 50 and 00 below, has not beeu a simple task, We have encountered all kinds of problems, Muller to the locale, and we have h'ad to learn from experienceas we went. ''First of ail there was the matter of intermediate depots. and. .emergency landing, Reda. These appear to, be impossible; either to -establish. or main- Min.- The result Is that we had to reduce our flying to a non -atop opera- tion basis, or long ttietance cross-lly- ing:,Alighting on: the way can be done only in extreme emergency, and then only with the idea that that particular Algid is.ended. Crews Hard To Get "Under the conditions as they exist, the real problem with us in our air service to the mining dietrteto of the interior has not been finding the pas- sengers and' the freight for the line,. but for the personnel to maintain it. The conditions impose Certain require- ments on our pilots. They meet liavre special training in landing pianos oh ice and on scow fields. "The work Is arduous, the flying for the pilot far from a pleasant task. He has to be a goodlong-distance flyer and resourceful. And if anything goes wrong he has to be a good walit- er. One of our pilots this winter found himself confronted . with an eighty -utile trek. "Frequently a plane takes oft at Winnipeg under one condition and is forced to land ,at its destinatiou under an entirely different condition. The element of equipment enters here. "There is the simple matter of skis for planes for landing o, ice. We tried more than a dozen types... We im- ported skis from Norway. And then We ended by building our own," Trans Shipping Mail One of the most interesting .,anal unique problems which has confront- ed aviation in Canada was brought recently by the Canadiagn govern- ment to the American aircraft Indus' try f0'i solution, The Canadian gov- ernment had inauguu'uted a ship -to - /Move air mail service in an effort to expedite trans-Atlantic neons going fi'oin Europe to points in the interior of Canada, For years it had reposed in a paper" •Traus•Atiantio liners were metas box; now It has been placed 10 a ape they ' entered the month of the St• tial glass reliquary anti' stands on a Lawrence River, by seglilgltos which elicit, til*hero the golden remnants of received the mail sacks for fast de- a past glory can be 'seen. So many livery at points farther up the rivet, visitors have strgked titin lock that In the summer the seaplanes were it was being worn :cavay , •. able to maintain this service on regu- The hair -Is tried at two ends with lar scltedtlle, hut with the approach of gill[ Just as Literezia prepared it prior winter, the formation of ice at'the to sending it to her poet lover, Herniate, regular points of delivery prose ed the Venetian,. who, hat, lug studied at unique problem, the University of Ferrara, had. return- The service could not be transfer - ed !baro en a vlSlt,aud-hist clic boauti red to the standard land planeequip' tui duchess, who had married Al. Lock ,f Hah. n fer" Glass at Milan Strand Sent to Poet I3ennbo by l3eautifiil Lucrezia in 1505 Nearly Worn Away by Hands of Curious TRESS INSPIRED BYRON Wrote Poem About It; Oris,-, anally Bought by Am. broaden Library Founder Rpino,-Tho lock of Liter -41a Bor gia's hair, jealously kept In the Am• brostian Library, of Milan, tpogether' with a' number Of her love tetters, as well as the letter itseiif wlifoh accom- panied the lock, has been put where{ 11 cannot be touched by t1•,e ourious. ped with skis for the reason that whsle a land plane equipped with side was wholly adequate at' the points or delivery only a seaplane could bo of service in meeting the liners at thein river mouth. The problem was brought to the Fairchilde Aviation Corporation of Farmingdale, L.1,,. and afterdonsider- able -study an entirely now; develop- ment of the amphibianplane was pro- duced. This is a laud plane converted. to water service by the attachinent.of floats on the bottom of which •skis have howl attached; It will land and 'take off front water'(0 land and take off from ice. Minard's Liniment relieves pain. THE NEW RAGE "M9khig any resolutions tor the New Veal'?" "Why yea, 1 think 1'11 limit my left to five companionate marrlapee in 1923." 'I hate emitted, prisoner," Bald the magistrate, "to let you off ou promis- ing not to offend again, and would strongly advise you for the future to keep out of had company," Thank you, sir, replied the accused. "You won't catch tine here again in a hurry,"' Royal ank Annum. Meeting • ,The an,ntial. General :cleating of shareholders of The Royal Bank of Canada marked the class of'the most successful year in the history of the Bank, • Sir I•Ieebert.Halt, President, in his address, dealt more particutarly.w'ith general conditions ' throughout the country, but touched on many devel- opments of great importance, more especially from the standpoint of trade and industry. C. E. Neill, General Manager, re- viewed the growth of the Bank to the foremost position it now occupies and gave to the shareholders an in- teresting Insight into the part the bank is playing in all oentres 1n which it is now doing'business, Outlook Favorable. Sir Herbert referred to the year's developments 1•n industry, trade and finance as generally .satisfactory. The foundation for the development h., Nh1C bass taken ten place is sound. Sir Herbert declared that es yet there are no indlcat mss of industrial and commercial inflation. nfiation. Pratluction is not expanding to a point unwarrant- ed by growth and demand and .it is 1. noteworthy fact that the whole ex- pansion • has taken prate during a period, ohara.dterized by moderately declining pricer!. On the whale the tlnanetal titration in agriculture, in- duetry and commerce ie more settled than at the beginning of the period. Summing up the business situation, Sir S3trhertst,tted that the "outlook rl 1 1 ; y URIT was never• more favorable'for pro- long'ed prosperity inCanada. Necessity` For Curbing Unwise Speculation. In commenting on the annual statement, .lir. Neill referred at length to the importance of call. loans, which represent loans against stock exchange collateral, not only of the Royal Bank, lint of all banks. Ho pointed out that this was Indica- tive of three things: "1. Increase in the numtber of se- curities available to Investors, "2. Increase in the market value of securities. - "3.Increase in speculation. "In a growing countrythe devel- opulent of its resourcesproduces new securitJes. 'Prosperous .times re- sult In the enhancement invalue of securities end for these reasons it is clear .that the two first mentioned causes for the inoreaeo in Call Loans are at least to some extent justified: As to 'the third; it Is obvious that Speculation h as reached e dadzngero ns stage. The best -informed financial and brokerage firms are already op- eratinon g an Unusually conservative basis by 'calling for' Increased mar- gins, by declining to open -new ac- counts anti by restricting the liability of their eustomors to reasonable amounts. I'n times of excessive speculation, the lure of easy profits cannot be denied, but speculatloncan be checked and held within reason- able bounds by the financial inter - este, particularly the hanks, and bond and brokerage houses,.." BEST FOR ALL YOUR BAKING Pies, Cakes, Buns and Bread DOES ALL YOUR BAKING BEST 1 phonso d'Este by proxy in Rome to 1505, and had journeyed with her' suite to her bridegrooms home in I'er-. rain, Discovery Meant Death, ft was wizen Bembo left and was: visiting the St}'ozzl ramie, at 1i113•' °stellate that the lows missives hare• exchanged by means of trusty messen-• gaga who knew that the discovery, meant death, as Alphonse d'Este was. Jealous, Cardinal .Siorromeo, when he cel-• leets{! 8,000 manuscripts, including the letters between Lucretia and Bern - be and the lock of hair, •founded the Ambrostiarr Library. For years Otte lock of hair had beeu almost forgot- ten. Then' one day the poet Byron visited the library and was ,bows the.. 'look. Fie wrote a poem ahout'it and called it "the softest and lightest hair' in the World." From that clay until the present time visitors journeyed to. Milan just Cor the privilege of touch- ing the hair ,and gradually its color anis quantity dwindled until the direct-, or of the library thought that little of this reiie o1 a famous beautiful woman. would remain. Bought fay Cardinal. When Lucre.ia w shed to send to. her lover a remembrance she cut this, lock from her stead and placed it iu the 'piece of parchment, together with the letter, where it still remained when Cardinal ilorromeo bought It. Besidesthe original with the hair. there are others, dating to the same period, together with Bembo's poetic answers. In one missive Lucrezla mentions that it is uo longer safe, to sign her own name, and that in future only the double initial F. 7, will hear evidence that the letter i:; from her. Only a year had passed since Lucretia had jourueyc•-d to Ferrara as the bride of Lite heir of the powerful D'Eate 1001117, L ucrezia was so proud of her hair that (luring the journey northward from Rome tete stopped live times fax the 'purpose of west -atm ' her goldcu locks, according to the. Venetian Cash- ion, with a hair wash compounded an- eot'ditig to a recipe of Catherine Stor- es,. It is said chat her two handmnider:s spent much of their time brushiu it and' cnmetime, gathering it into n. golden net, as light as a cobweb, or else arranging it over her shoulder.', v:here11 seemed as it colored with the rays of the sun. No;v this lock 113 5111 ashy' blmtd, for time bas bereft it of ile golden tints. Leniency Shown Slayers Stirs French to Protest Pet s—"'CUe Crimes at Jtn'lee," ae one critic describes the acquittals el husbands, wives and levers who shoot to kill, are stirring many to protest against conditions. Ilany Jury reforms have been debat- ed In Parliament, but nothing bas been dole. There tentales, however, much agitation for the jury'spartiei- pationin fixing penalties, now the=pre- rogativs of the judge. It is argued boat in murder trials Jsu 'es often return "riot guilty" verdic'c,,rather then take a chance on the Judge being ton severe, L ( L This element of sympathy for 1e dG- u trials ti t murder fendan s beta tse most ird r. now involve seamen, either as the killer or the killed. Women or late do more shooting than man In Paris, and their aim generally is geed. A peculiar feature of these cases le that the old "triangle," where au out= eider does a ilttlo family wrecking, 8000 Callow'od by gunfire, figures more often In the provincial courts, while in Parts, the bright light, night life centre, family quarrels .result ids criminal deaths more often than de` love affairs, Murphy—"old ye hear tliatt, poor Tim Casey's death". O'Flaherty— "Ye' don't say so?" 'hlbrpto,—"Yes; an' 'eel left all, 'e 'ad to the berry Poorhouse," O'Flaherty --"Sew emelt did he Iave?" Murphy -"A wife an' ten; children," Prepare for an emergeney and Who thaws MR of ten', you won't irate 10 ..4t.•