HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-02-16, Page 2' CHAPTER XX.XIlI.---(Cont'd.) in the way of the late Sir Charles
"Respecting the tests to ss'hieh can_Abingdon, I had heard nothing of the
didates w }
ere ut she spoke with more cult of Fire -Tongue.
freedom. Thosewho, having reached! "Then, lunching with the late Sir
grade, aspired to the first, Charles, after my accident in the Hay-
thesecond 'were submitted to three very severe market, he put to me a question which
ones, to make trial of their courage, I literally made me hold my breath,
ii Do you know anything of the
purity, and humility. Failure in any 4
significance of the term Fire -Tongue?'
of these trials resulted in instant
• hFtisked.
death, and the final test, the trial by "I am not accustomed to any dis-
fire, which took place in a subterran- play of feeling in public, and I replied
can chamber of the great temple, re- in what I think was an ordinary
suited in a candidate whose couragtone:
e
failed bins being pripitated into !list"'Iii what connection, Sir Charles?'
lake of ante which I have already de- "'Well,' said he, watching me oddly,
scribed—a dreadful form of death, 'I know you have traveled in India,
wlt'ie}a by accident I had witnessed. and T wondered if you had ever comp
"I have the reputation of being a in contact with the legend which pre -
cold, hard mail. So had Antony be- k
fore he met Cleopatra. But seven veils there, that a second Zoroaster
years ago, under the Indian moon, I has arisen, to preach the doctrine of
learned tolerance fcr the human weak-
ness which forgets the world for the
seniles of a woman.
"it had to end. Sooner or later,
discovery was inevitable. One night
I told Naida that I must go. Over
the scene that followed I will pass in
silence. It Deeded all the strength of
a fairly straight, hard life to help me
keep to my decision.
"She understood at last, and con-
sented to release ine. But there were
obstacles --big ones. The snow on the
ing a very dignified Hindu gentleman
lower mountain slopes had begun to
melt, and the water -gate in the valley sought an interview with me, saying
eternal fire.'
"'I have heard it,' I replied, guard-
edly.
uardedly. . •
"'I thought it possible,' continued
Sir Charles, 'and I am tempted to tell
you of a curious experience which once
befell nee 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 -
by which I had entered was now he -
passable. As a result, I must use an-
other gate, which opened into a moan
tain path, but which was always
guarded. At first, on hearing this, I
gave myself up for lost, but Naida
had a plan.
"Removing a. bangle which she al-
ways wore, she showed me the secret
mark of Fire -Tongue branded upon
the creamy skin.
"'I will put this mark upon your
arm," she said. 'In no other way can
you escape. I will teach you some of
the passwords by which the brethren
know one another, and if you are ever
questioned you will say that you Were
admitted to the order by the Master
of the Bombay Lodge, news of whose
death has just reached us.'
"'But,' said I, 'how can I hope to
pass for an Oriental?'
"'It does not matter,' Naida re-
plied. , 'There are some who are not
Orientals among us!'
"She exacted 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 quickly as possible. I had
already learned that this remote so-
ciety was closely in touch with the
affairs of the outside world. And,
because I knew I was leaving my
heart behind there in -the Indian hills,
I recognized 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 niy strength to close this door
which I had opened."
CHAPTER XXXIv.
NICOL I3RINN'S STORY (CONCLUDED).
"The incidents of the next seven
years do not concern yon, gentlemen.
I had one aim in life—to forget. From
the time that I left India until the
moment when fate literally threw me
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that a distinguished native noble, who
was a guest of him, had met with a
serious accident, and offering me a fee
equivalent ' to nearly five hundred
pounds to perform an operation which
he believed to be necessary:
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' I moved at once, I inserted in the
Times the prearranged message, hard-
ly daring to hope that it would- collie
to the eye of Maida; but it did! She
visited ine. And I learned that not
only Sir Charles Abingdon, but an-
other, knew of the mark which I bore!
"I was summoned to appear before
the Prophet of Fire!
"Gentlemen, what I saw and how
I succeeded in finding out the Iocation
of his abode are matters that can
wait. The important things are these:
first, I. learned why Sir Charles Ab-
ingdon had been done to death!
"The unwelcome attentions of the
pian known as Ormuz Khan led Sir
Charles to seek an interview with him.
I may say here and now that Ormuz
Khan is Fire -Tongue! Oh! 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 him of having set spies
upon his daughter's movements—an
accusation which was true—and for-
bade him to see her again. Froin 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!- It also. spurred the organ-
ization to renewed efforts, for it re-
vealed that Sir. Charles contemplated
telling the story to others. •
"You will have ob •served,, gentlemen;
'that I a ni, somewhat damaged: - How-
jever, it was worth it! That the organ-
-ization of the Fire -Worshippers is
destroyed I am 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 me, 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 odontoglossum, which lay on her
breast. It was the flower of sleep—
and she was dead.r•: ;st'
"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
I 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. I
should like, Mr. Commissioner, to sign
the statement."
The End.
"She exacted an oath that I would
never divulge what I have 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 ley a Christian surgeon; there-
fore niyvisit must 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 room where the patient
had been cagried. 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 way; nor did I
approve of the presence of many bowls
of hyacinths in the room.
"'However, I performed the opera-
tion, which, although slight, demanded
some skill, and with the nature of
which I will not trouble you. 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 jethlack
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 monient—
I asked her to bring rue something
from a table at the opposite side of
the room—I lightly raised this way-
.,r^rd Lock and immediately replaced on a Scottish loch, but a fatality had minion. The Red Lake mining clis
i•line again. been averted by the bravery of ' a trio is served with a regular air
"Do you know what it concealed, schoolboy who saved his chum's life. on which the four roper universal
Mr. Brine?' A subscription was rawtor. the planes and the two super -universals,
. "I assured hien that I did not; • young hero, who was presented with: awhich Mr, Oaks purchased, are to be
"'A mark, apparently natural, re- gold watch. In making the presenta- used. Beret Balchen, the "ever smil-
sembling a torch surmounted by . a tion, the Provost said: "I would like ing pilot" of trans-Atlantic fame, has
tongue of fire!' Geordie to tell us in his own. words !heat engaged to ferry these new ships
" Bust a easy he risked his life t save his I to the base of operations at Winnipeg.
Strange though it n pp or how , r; rt 1 watch "In Canada,," Bald Mr. baks, "I sup•
toaccount f Geordie ,lutchi g the at this time I fatted friend.
I had post•, you world immediately conclude
Sir Charles confiding this thing to tightly, said, in a dour voice, "He
me. Litter, I rlaliaed that he must, nut skates on" I that every one has „ova aviation
have seen the -/r1•; on my arm, al.-; - -- •a -
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pot exactly aviation crazy.
"Forced" Trade
'The reason for the large amount
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that Canada is only served in one way
by railways. All of our railroads run
east and west. This leaves a tre-
mendous territory oto the north of
these lines in which there is no train
service. We have gone into this ter-
ritory realizing this fact. There are
only two ways which it can be tra-
versed to -day, either by planes or
afoot.. You want to go into the ter.
ritory. You caneither walk or fly,
and the average Canadian appears to
prefer • to iiy, when the alternative is
walking.
"But maintaining a flying service
into this desolate country, where the
temperatures sometimes rangefrom
zero to 60 and 60 below, has not been
a simple task. We have encountered
all kinds of problems, peculiar to the
locale, and we have had to learn from
experience as we went.
"First of all there was the matter of
intermediate depots and.. emergency
landing fields. These appear to be
impossible, either to establish or main-
tain. The result is that we had to
reduce our flying to a non-stop opera-
tion basis, or long distance cress=fiy-
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eminent had inaugurated a ship -to,
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from Europe to points in the interior
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Trans -Atlantic liners were met ae'
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The service could not be transfer,
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Flying Boomed
In Canada by
Lack of Roads
Facing Problem of "Fly or
Walk," Large Proportion
of Travelers Choose to
Take the First
Many New Problems Seen
Manager of Airways Co. Ex-
plains How Devices Over-
. Come Various
Handicaps
The engineering problems of avia-
tion, experience is showing, differ
from country to country, andilikewise
the progress of_ the idea of flight with
the man in the ,street appears to be
i na large part governed by these me
tionaiistic differences. The case of
Canada is typical.
A. H. Oaks, general manager of the
l restern Canada Airways, Ltd., who
went to New York recently to place
a $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
headquqarters of the line is in Winni-
peg, and from that point the lines
radiate out into the center of the Do-
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Royal Bank Annual Meeting
The annual General Meeting of
shareholders of The Royal Bank of
Canada marked the close of the most
successful year in. the history of the
Bank.
Sir Herbert Holt, President, in his
address, dealt more particularly with
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
foreanost position it now occupies
and gave to the shareholders an in-
teresting insight into the pert the
bank is playing in iii centres in
which it is now doing business.
Outlook Favorable.
Sir Herbert referred to the year's
developments in industry, trade and
finance as generally satisfactory.
The foundation for the development
which has taken place is sound. Sir
Her eber
to]
do aredthatas
yet there
are no indications of industrial and
commercial inflation. Production is
not •expanding to a .point unwarrant-
ed. by growth and demand and it is
',noteworthy fact that tthe 'Whole ex-
pansion has taken p'''ace during a
period characterized by moderately
declining prices. . On the whole the
financial situation in agriculture, In-
dustry and commerce is more settled
than .tit the beginning of the period.
mad.' Wm. are doing unusually i.00d. Summing up the business situation,
business on our passenger lines, con -
was
Herbert stated that the "outlook
!
was never more favorable for pro-
longed prosperity in Canada."
Necessity For Curbing Unwise
Speculation.
In commenting on the annual
statement, Mr. Neill referred at
length to the importance of call
loans, whicit.represent loans aga'rn.st
stock exchange collateral, not only
of the Royal Bank, but of all banks.
He pointed out that this was indica-
tive of three things:
"1. Increase in the number of se-
curities available to investors.
"2. Increase in the market value
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securities.
"3. Increase in speculation,
"In a growing country the devel-
opment of its resources produces
new securities. Prosperous times re-
sult in the enhancement in value of
securities and for t]%ese reasons it is
clear that the two first mentioned
causes for the increase in Call Loans
are at leant to some extent. justified.
As to the third, it is obvious that
speculation has reached a dangerous
stage. The best -informed financial
and brokerage firni,s are already op-
erating on an unusually conservative
basis by calling for increased mar-
gins, by declining to open new ac --
counts and by restricting the liability
of their customers to reasonable
amounts. In times of excessive
speculation, the lure of easy profits
cannot be .denietis but Speculation can
be checked and held within reason-
able bounds by the financial inter-
ests, particularly the banks, and bond
and brokerage houses."
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