Zurich Herald, 1930-07-24, Page 2The Treasur.e of the Bueoieon.
By A. D. HOWDEN SMITH
SYNOPSIS
Thigh Chesby, on the death of his
uncle, becomes Lord ChesbY, and shortly
thereafter discovers the key to the Trea-
sure of the Bucole.en, which was left by
the first Lord Chesby the Crusader.
Bugb sets out in quest of the treasure,
which Is hidden in a house in Constan-
tinople. With him are Watkins, his ser-
vant; Jack Nash, and Nikka: Zaranko,
They ars set ubyn one Toutdou f dwho hope
erate
criminals led by
to steal the secret and purloin the trea-
sure. •Nikka and Jack gain access to the
house where the treasure is hidden and
which is occupied by Tokalji, an ally of
Toutou's. In order to further their ends
they :onsent to join Tokalji's band of
young men. Kara; a beautiful. GYpsY
girl, is dancing for the young men when
Toutou arrives. Nash and Nikka are
recognized, but escape, The next night
they come back in the launch. of Betty
etalolthe
King,
Thecousin.nbushd andHg
Jack and Nikka are captured. Toutou
starts to torture .;ikka by crushing his
bones with his hands. but Kara knifes
Toutou and chases him from the room.
Watkins discovers a secret passage and
they escape. Next day Watkins brings
news that Betty King has been kid=
napped,
CHAPTER XX.
It was beginning to rain when we
left the hotel, with occasional peals
of thunder. At the Galata end of the
Lower Bridge, which was deserted as
usual after dark, we dismissed our
taxi and held a final brief council of
war in a patch of shadows next the
bridge abutment. King. Hugh, Wat-
kins
atkins and I were to embark on the Cur-
lew, while Nikka and Wasso 'Mikali
tramped to the Khan of the Georgians
and rallied Mikali's six young men.
Then they were to go to Sokaki Masy-
eri, and wait for a pistol -shot, which
would be the signal that we had pass-
ed through the drain and were at
grips with the enemy. Hugh and
Nikka compared watches and agreed
that we should be in Tokalji's house
not later than half -past ten. We cau-
tiously fel: our way along, lights out,
motor running at half speed, taking
bearings whenever the jagged light-
ning streaks illuminated the waters.
I was worried by the frequency of
the lightning displays, but fortunate-
ly, as we sighted the round tower on
the walls. which was our first land-
mark for Tokalji's house, there was a
lull in the storm. When Watkins had
made fast bow and stern lines to a
couple of masses of battered masonry
the Curlew floated almost as easily
as at her moorings.
The beach, like the jetty, was under
water. The waves lapped up to the
footof the walls, and we stumbled
desperately over submerged rocks and
bowlders.
We identified the opening of the
sewer by the hollow, booming sound
with which, every now and then, an
unusually high wave would rollover
its lip.
"We'll never be able to get through
that 'ell 'ole tonight, Mister Jack, sir."
screamed Watkins in ray ear. "We'll
be drowned along With the rats."
Hugh, without any hesitation, yell-
ed: "One at a time!" and slipped into
the sewer mouth between two waves.
King followed him. and Watty and I
brought up the rear. The water was
thigh -deep, and once you had fumbled
your way by torchlight over the jag-
ged moraine that blocked the first
thirty feet, the footing became safer
and the water shallowed•
We breathed more comfortable when
our torches revealed overhead the
bars of the stone grating in the floor
of the dungeon.
"All quiet above," whispered Hugh,
after listening intently.
He pried up the grating with Wat-
ty's crowbar. the butt of which we
rested on the ledge in which the grat-
ing fitted. This secured a space suffi-
ciently wide for us to squeeze through,
and after all of us had climbed up we
eased thegrating back into its bed, so
that there was no trace remaining of
our entrance. The door we had broken
leaned against the wall. Obviously
Tokalji and his peuple had never sus-
pected how we had escaped, apparent-
ly did not even know of the existence
of the sewer.
The lower passage and cellars were
deserteu, but as we climbed the stairs
leading to the central hall
opening on
the little atrium between the Garden
of the Cedars and the large chamber
which. Tokalji occupied, we heard a
distant murmur of voices in disagree-
ment. Investigaiton proved the hall
to be unoccupied, and we were present-
ly grouped on its uneven floor, with
only a curtain separating us from the
drama going on in the atrium.
"No, you are wrong, Toutou, it is
everybody's business," said Hilyer in
French.
"You may be chief, but you have
no right to risk common property,"
protested Sandra's resonant voice.
Toutou snarled something in his
guttural, indistinct, animal speech.
"—like her, and that's enough," it
concluded. "I'm tired of the rest of
you. Bunglers every one."
"Have it your own way," said
Serge, "but it's not business. She's
worth so much to es."
"Have done," bellowed Toutou with
a sudden flame of temper. Am I not
the master? I, want her and I shall
have her! Go! Go! I say or you shall
behold Toutou's knife."
They evidently went, for we could
hear shuffling •f feet, with an under-
current of muttered curses and objur-
gations. Hugh startedforward, pistol
in hand, but I checked him. This was
no time for premeditated action. There
was a moment of silence—and a wo-
man's cry of hatred.
"Leave nye alone you beast! If you
touch me, I'll bite yoa! You can't bind
my teeth."
It was Betty's voice,, and Hugh.
shook me off and was at the curtain
with his hand on the folds before I
could reach him. But reach him I did,
and another interruption helped me
to restrain him.
"Let me—" gasped Hugh.
"There's plenty of time, you fool,"
I hissed. "Wait!"
A door opened, and the voice of
Helene de Cespedes spoke.
"What is this'I hear; mon ami?" she
asked. "Are you mad? This girl is
the spoil of the band: She belongs to
all of us,. We are holding her for a
bigger stake. 'hall we let you have
her for your own satisfaction? You
take too—"
"You are jealous," snarled Toutou:
"I say I want her, and I am going
to have her. I am tired of women
Iike you."
Hugh, his nerves under control,
gently parted the folds of the curtain
with his pistol -nuzzle. The atrium
was brilliantly lighted. He and I
could see perfectly. On a divan heap-
ed with cushions lay Betty. Her hands
were bound behind her, and her' feet
were tied loosely. Her hail was rump-
led, and her blouse ripped off at the
shoulder. But her eyes sparked fire
as she stared fearlessly at the monster
who stood beside her.
"Say I am jealous," Helene answer-
ed steadily. "I have a right to be."
"I want her," returned Toutou, his
voice singularly hoarse. "I ani tired
of you."
"Sooner than see you do this, I will
kill you," said Helene
Toutou frowned at her.
"Stand back!" he warned. 'If you
touch her—"
Helene snatched a pistol from her
blouse; but he was too quick for her.
As the flame spurted from the barrel
he leaped aside, and his immensely
long arra curled out and slashed down.
The blood frothed over the hilt of his
knife as it clicked on her collar -bone,
and she dropped, choking, to the floor.
In the same instant Hugh fired, but
one of us jostled him and the bullet
missed. Toutou turned, saw the cur-
tain swaying as we charged, and ran
for the door. I fired once, and the
bullet chipped between his arm and
side, but he was out before we could
shoot again.
From the courtyard calve E. crash
and a ripple of shots that vied with
the thunder. A chorus of yells pierc-
ed thinly the howling of the gale.
Nikka, bearing Helenes pistol, had
accepted it as the long over -clue signal
for his attack.
CHAPTER XXI.
The big room was a maze of sha-
dows. As we burst in Toutou raised
, a pistol and sprayed us with bullets
ias rapidly as he could pull the trigger.
I Bullets "phutted" all around us, yet
none of us was hit.
Hilmi Bey peered from behind a
pillar next the courtyard door. He
had plainly taken shelter at the crack
of-Helene's pistol. Montey Hilyer and
Serge V'assilievich stood some distance
to the right of us, paralyzed with sur -
prize. Maude Hilyer and Sandra
V'assilievna had risen from seats in
the apselike recess at the other end.
Apparently they had supposed Toutou
was engaged only with Helene.
"Fools!" he shrieked to them. "We
are betrayed!"
The door to. the courtyard was jerk-
ed open, and Toutou spun on his heel
and dodged behind a pillar. Tokalji
reeled in.
"Strange Tzigane folk have burst
the street door," he bellowed. "We—"
He gasped at sight of us.
"Quick!" Hugh shouted., "Scatter
—before they short!" Watkins and T
jumped right and left. high sought
the shelter of a, '
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gained from the
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ISSUE N. 29—'30
The shadows were priaeca with
pistol flashes, Serge Vassillevich
leaped for the pillar behind which i
bad stood, his gun; blazing, knife in
hand. He did not see nae, on my knees,
four feet to the right, and I put any
first bullet in his thigh. He stopped
as if a giant's hand had been shoved
against his breast, tottered and fell
backward. ` As '.he fell, one of the
burning oilpools ignited a .bundle, of
blankets, and the rising flanges sketch-
ed' us both clearly.
There was a scream. I recognized
Sandra's
voice, but I could
of see her.
Instead, I saw Hilmi Bey sneaking on
Watkins, who was holding back Tou-
tou. I drove the Levantine away with
my first shot. Then the hammer click-
ed, and I knew the, magazine was
empty. I dropped to my knee again,
thinking I was concealed by a patch
of shadow, and fumbled for a fresh
clip. But the treacherous light flared
upward, the shadow disappeared and
I was left defenseless. I saw a raging
figure, hair flying, pistol raised, run-
ning at me. I saw the pistol flash,
felt a numbing blow on lily left shoul-
der and tumbled in a heap.
For a second my eyes misted, the
room danced be.:ore ane. Then I heard
a chatter of Russian and Watkins,
mildly disapproving.
I looked up. Sandra, her face con-
torted with demoniac rage, her empty
pistol shaking in her hand, was back-
ing away before Watty's menacing
crowbar.
(To be continued.)
What New York
Is Wearing
BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON
Illustrated Dressvtaking Lesson Fur-
nished T4'ith Every Pattern
United Schools
Give Urban
Education?
By SAMUEL-FARMEr,,
Pres, of Canadian Trustees' Assn.
Few movements in modern echica-
tional administration have caused
such a diffd'rence of, opiulon as the
introduction of consolidated schools.
Where with the schools are establish -
e1 thepeople ate almost withontex-
ception
e
x
coption
pleased with the results.
Where they are not established there
are innumerable objections raised to
their introduction.
During the next few) weeks we
shall endeavor to consider the vari-
ous phases of the subject of consoli-
dated schools—pro and con. In this
article the main facts as presented in
the report of the Minister of Wile -
tion for 1928 (the latest available)
are presented verbatim,
Consolidation of Schools
There are twenty-eight 'consolidat-
ed schools operating in the province.
Their locations are:.
In the Districts (18) : Quibell, in
Kenora District; Barwick, Burri-s
and Worley, in Rainy River District;
Dorion and Nipigon, in Thunder Bay
District; Mindemoya, on Manitoulin
Island; Charlton, Hudson and Sav-
ard, in Timiskaming District; Byng
Inlet, Katrilie, Nobel, Pointe an Baril
and Sundridge, in Parry Sound Dis-
trict; Gooderham, West Guilford and
Soft moulded lines are featured in
a printed chiffon of cool green color-
ing.
It emphasizes the normal waistline
through horizontal inverted pin tucks
at either side of the bodice.
The bow of plain crepe placed at
the left hip echoes the femininity of
the mode.
The low flared circular flounce of
the skirt terminates in a slender wrap-
ped arrangement at the front.
The capelets falling softly over the
arms give impression of sleeves.
Style No. 2646 can be had in sizes
16. 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches
bust.
Hyacinth blue crepe silk, daffodil
yellow sheer linen with soft cocoa
brown faille crepe bow, coral red chif-
fon, printed dimity in dusty pink
tones and peach pink washable flat
crepe are essentially smart combina-
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HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coil: preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
Wilberforce, in Haliburton.
In the Counties (10):,Falls' View, deal of their driving in the cities or in
in Welland; Grantham, .in Lincoln; I fairly thickly populated sections. Un -
Macdonald, in Wellington; Humber der such circumstances whatever hap -
Heights, in York; Tweed, in Hastings; pens there is usually a service station
Tamworth, in Addington; Welling-' within .easy reach.
When one goes on a long tour the
'conditions are likely to be quite differ-
ent. If one gets stalled or stuck in.
some a section of the country where it
is three or four miles to the nearest
House and ten to fifteen miles to the
nearest town and the nearest service
station, this is quite a different mat-
ter, and under such circumstances one
_ is forced upon one's own resources.
mentary and High School facilities it is in such an emergency that a
up to and including the Middle High I good tow rope is likely to come in
Sdhool Course at net cost.
These consolidated schools are pro-
viding educational facilities, for the
rural 'districts served, comparable to
those) provided for urban centres.
The chief advantage is that the chil-
dren from extended areas attending
these schools obtain their education
withaut leaving home, under favor-
able conditions and at a reasonable
cost.
Inspector Dowsley of Brockville, in
his report for 1927-1928 to the • Coun-
ty Council regarding the Mallorytown
Consolidated School, states:
"Mallorytown Consolidated School
was opened in September, 1920, so
has been in operation long enough
to allow one to draw fairly sure con-
clusions as to its success. The
Board was pleased to sign unanimous-
ly a year ago a statement which
closed thus: 'We have a fine school-
house for our youth, over forty of
whom are procuring a High School
education at low cost. About fifteen
are due to graduate from the Middle
School 'this summer. We believe
that the people generally -are well
pleased with the new conditions'.
Half of the schools for the last two
years has been Continuation, with
two experienced university graduates
in charge, while the other half has
been Public Schoci with two well-
qualified teachers doing the work of
five teachers under the old system.
Liberal government, country and
township grants, and a saving of ap-
proximately $2,500.00 as salaries (due
to the reduced staff) have enabled the
Board to reduce their special levy to
five mills, well, within the average
for the township. When the deben-
ture levy of eleven mills (the half-
way mark in payment of which is
reached this year) has been wiped
out, the • operation of this school
should be found as economical as
that of the average rural school, with
the High School advantages `to boot'.
The debenture, burden is well vindi-
cated by improved accommodations
and opportunities for the children, the
formation of a .larger community unit,
and the prospect generally of a high-
er cultural standard for the rising
generation. One needs only .o re-
call the classrooms of the discarded
schools to realize the advance made in
merely sanitary conditions,- not to
speak of the advance in tuition."
Another excerpt from the Board's
statement, referred to above, says:
"We have no transportation difficul-
ties and transportation costs are very
reasonable."
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Hints to Tourists
Don't Forget Rope
Proper Equipment Means a
Happy and Care -free
Trip
By H. Clifford Brokaw
Technical Adviser, West Side Y. M.
C. A. Automobile Schol
The most important accessory in
an automobile on tour has been found
to be by many who have had experi-
ence is a piece of strong rope. This
is one of the last things many people
would think to take along, yet in an
emergency a rope often comes in
handy. Most motorists do a great
ton, in Prince Edward; Mallorytown,
in Leeds; North Mountain, in Duu-
das; and. Grant, in Carleton.
With the exception' of a few con-
solidated schools all the others pro-
vide High School education in Fifth
Classes or Continuation Classes or
nearby High Schools. )The eight
consolidated schools maintaining Con-
tinuation Classes provide both Ele
First Debutante: "011, she'll never
make a hit in society!'
Second Debutante: "Why not?"
First Debutante: "She 'always be -
lieges in telling the truth,"
The advocates of the consolidated
school idea should have no apology
to make if good judgment is shown
as to the axtent of consolidation, the
selection of an easily accessible cen-
tre, and the observing of• a fair ratio
of building cost to assessment.
Motorist's Paradise
' Stockholm—Both chambers of the
Swedish R,iksdag recently decided
with a large majority to take away
the maximum speed limit for motor -
ears. When the 'question cane up
for debate, three proposals were put
forward. The (government proposed
e maximum speed limit of 65 kilo-
meters (40) miles an hour.
The special Committee accepted
this proposal with the addition that
the county councils should have the
right to allow free al speedon cer-
tain roads, while a ,Soolallst member
There aro many trials Were we are matte a reservation to this proposal
per>'ectecl.--.Fraser. glad wanted no speed limit. This
►:�: last notion was carriedin both
Minard's Liniment gives quick relief. chambers.
handy.
Where Tow Rope Is Handy
A good fow rope comes in handy
two ways. If a driver is stalled he
can probably get ,the assistance of
some passing tourist to use a tow rope
in helping to get him out of his diffi-
culty. On the other hand, if someone
else is in difficulty, the man with the
rope can be a very satisfactory help
in time of trouble by helping someone
else out of their static situation.
The automobile tires should be given
careful attention before starting out
on a long tour. In addition to that
it is worth spending two or three
minutes each day to inspect the tires
after the day's run, to see if there
are any cuts or abrasions. If there
are they should be filled with rubber
cement. With no more trouble than
this motorists have toured the United
States from coast to coast without a
single puncture or any other tire
trouble.
Before going on tot'', attention
should be given to the water eircula-
tion system, Any motorist can easily,
do this himself. This means emptying
the radiator and filling it with- a SO4
lution of a double handful of sal soda
to a pail of water. Then run the,
engine for a few minutes with the
spark retarded, until the solution has
had a chance to boil.
The car should be left to itself',
solution works on the scale and rust in
the water jackets. By this time the
water will have cooled. It should
then be drained off and the circula-!
*tion system) thoroughly flushed out!
with clean cold water and finally filled!
with the same.
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No Quick Lunches Here!
The quick lunch has not yet found
its way into the habits of Madrid. Two
hours is the usual interval „allowed
for the midday meal, taken with full
leisure after and before a twenty-,
minute tram ride. There are conse
quently no large restaurants in the
city catering for the moderate appe•
tites of those who enjoy a light meal
at midday. A lunch or dinner any-,
where in the regular dining rooms of!
the Spanish capital is a solid respast
at which hors d'oeuvres of eight or
ten different kinds, soup, eggs, fish,
salads, vegetables, beefsteaks, sweets,
fruit or cheese are served in portions
each spflcient in itself for a .. feast)
Yet the request to omit one of these
courses would astound the average
waiter.
Mrs. Mussel—"Yes, my husband is
somewhat undersized, ,but he is an
easy little chap. I cad just twist him
round my flinger." • Mrs. Meekinmild
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