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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1926-12-09, Page 60 fr 0 se t '..e est! Finer ner than any Jo, T76i an or hints Green. BY RAFAEL SABATINI. . The Master Tale -Teller, Author of "Bard.elys the Magnificent." Another Stirring Story of Adventure and Love in a New Setting— The Peninsulas War. WHO'S WIIO. Lt. Richard Butler of the Irish dra- Wcons, on a foraging expedition during ellington's campaign against the French in Portugal, toren-ate an of- fence during a drunken revelry, which arouses the resentment of Portuguese officials, and disappears from his regi- ment. Terence O'Moy, brother-inaw of Butler and adjutant -general, is visited by Migeel I'orjas, Portuguese secre- ti. _y of state, who warns Sir Terence that Butler curet be shot for his of- fence. 0'':o. promises. 1',.s{pal Souza of the council of regency is opposed to Lord Welling- ton's plan to devastate part of Portu- gal, and interferes with military op- erations until the British commander- in-chief has issued the ultimatum that unless Souza be removed from the government he, Wellington, will with- urew from the country. Una O'lioy, Sir Terence's wife, and Butler's sister, hides Batier, unknown to her husband. Count Samoval avowedly an ardent supporter of Wellington, assures Una that he will aid Dick if given an op- portunity.. Capt. Ned Tremayne, O'Moy's sec- retary, is in love with Sylvia Armytage, Una's cousin, a clear -thinking, intelligent young lady. CHAPTER R.I. COLQUIIOI'N GIANT, Above in the crowded vestibule at the foot of the great staircase they were net by Capt. Tremayne and Capt. Marcus Glennie of the Tele- machus. Lady O'Moy's entrance of the ball- room produced the effect to which cus- tom had now inured her. Soon she found herself the centre of assiduous attentions. The first quadrille im- pended, and as she was swept away by Capt. Glennie, she came face to. face with Tremayne, who was passing with Sylvia on his arm. She stopped and tapped his arni with her fan. "I have something to say to you, Ned." He met her glance, and found it oddly serious --most oddly serious for her. Responding to its entreaty, he murmured a promise in courteous terms of delight at so much honor. Put either he forgot the proniise or did not conceive its redemption to be an urgent matter, for the quadrille being done he sauntered through one of the crowded ante -rooms with Miss' Armytage and brought her to the cool of a deserted balcony above the gar -i den. "Una will be waiting for you," Miss; Armytage reminded him. She was! leaning on the sill of the balcony. IIe sighed, and stiffened slightly. "Of course if you insist," said he, and made ready to reconduct her. She swung round as if to go, butl, checked, and looked him frankly in! the eyes. "Why will you for ever be misunder- standing me?" she challenged him. "Perhaps it is the inevitable result of my over -anxiety to understand." • "Then begin by taking ins more lit-, eral'y. When I say Una is waiting for ' you, I state a simple fact, not a tom= nand that you shall go to her. Indeed, I want first to talk to you." "Sylvia," he ventured very boldly, and there checked, .eo terrified as to be a shame to his brave scarlet, gold - laced uniform. "Yes?" she said. But he recovered hiniwelf. "You have something to say to me?" he questioned in his smooth, level voice„ Had he not looked away as he spoke he might have ohsorved that her fin- gers tightened their grip on ter pearls almost eonvulsively, as if to .break the rope. It was -a gesture slight and, trivial, yet arguing perhaps vexation. But Tremayne did net Cee it, and had he Coen it, it is odds it would hale conveyed no message to hinm. There fell a long pause, which he clivi not venture to break. At last she! spoke, telling him of Una's premoni- t!ons about Hick. e • "Una shall have my assurance that ,1 am ready to help •Disk this very evening," he promised. 'I at least • have not pledged my word to anything 'Or to anyone;" • And then the sleek and courtly Sam - oval, detaching from, seeming to ma- terialize -out of, the blittering throng they had entered, was bowing low be- fore her, chinning his dance. As Tre- mayne stood looking after them some one. tapped him on the shoulder, very tail, hawk -faced man stood be- side Mise: Xt was Colrluhoun Grant, the abient intelligence officer In 'Well- ingtten'a service, I "Why, relone!!tis cried Tremayne, g. holdinbut his hand. "I didn't know you were in Lisbon,'! • "I ai rived only this-afterneen," The tear, r e ,; foisted 1 ter the diaappcar- i:... , . t'}" t'•,ysvie and her cavalier.: "Tell me, what is the name of the ir- resistible gallant who has so lightly ravished you of your companion?" "Count Samoval" said Tremayne shortly.. Grant's face remained inscrutable. "Really!" he said softly. "So that is Jeronuino de Samoval, eh? A great supporter of the Britsh policy; there- fore an altruist, since himself lie is a sufferer by it; and I hear that he has become a great friend of O'Moy's." "He is at Monsanto a good deal cer- tainly," Tremayne admitted. "Most interesting." Grant was slowly nodding, and a faint smile curled his thin, sensitive lips. CHAPTER XII. 'the seat, and seeming to envelop her ladyship, looked over her shoulder. 'A ltall figure was advancing briskly. Ile 12eeognized it even in the gloom by its height and gait and swing for 0'- Moy's, ! "Why here is Terence," he said easily—so easily, with such frank and obvious honesty of welcome, that the anger in which O'Moy Caine wrapped fell' from him on the instant, to he replaced by shame.. "I have been looking for you every- where, my dear," he explained to Una. "I have a very dear friend who 'is anxious to pay his respects." "This is damned indiscreet of you, Ned," he added, turning to his secre- tary. "Suppose you had been seen by any of the scandal -mongers," Tremayne accepted the •rebuke in the friendly spirit in which it appear- ed to be conveyed. "You're quite right sir. We should have thought of it,'l And O'Moy felt again the glow of shame of suspicions so utterly un- worthy and dishonoring. CHAPTER XIII. ' TilE INTELLIGENCR OFFICER. In a small room of the palace where the ball was held, sat three men about a card table. They were Count Santo- vas, the elderly Marquis of Minas, and a gentleman who wore the dark green uniform of a major of Cacadares. With perhaps the single exception of the Principal Souza, the British policy had no more bitter opponent • in Portugal than the Marquis of Min- as. '"Once a member of the Council of Regency—before Souza had been elect- ed to that body—he had quitted it in disgust at the British measures. He was listening intently now to the soft, rapid speech of the gentleman in the major's uniform. "Of courserumors had reached the Prince of this policy of devastation, he was saying, "but his Highness has been disposed to treat these rumors lightly, unable to see, as indeed are we all, what useful purpose such a policy could finally serve. Since you assure me, Monsieur le Comte, that milord Wellington's policy is beyond doubt, as reported, it but remains to address ourselves to the discovery of the mys- tery underlying it. What conclusions have you reached? You, Monsieur de Samoval, have had exceptional oppor- tunities of observation, I understand." "I am afraid my opportunities have been none so exceptional as you sup- pose," replied Samoval, with a dubious shake of his sleek, dark head. "One conclusion, however, I have reached: Wellington is preparing in Portugal a snare for Massena's army." "A snare? Hum!" The major pursed his full lips into a smile of scorn.- "There cannot be a trap with two exits, my friend. Massena enters Portugal at Almeida and marches to Lisbon and the open sea.: He may be inconvenienced or hampered in his march but its goal is certain. Where, then, can lie the snare? Your theory presupposes an impassable barrier to arrest the French when they are deep in the country and an overwhelming force to cut off their retreat when that barrier is reached." "The overwhelming force exists," said Samoval. "You should remember ,what Wellington• obviously remem- bers: that a French army depends for its sustenance upon the country it is invading. That is why Wellington is stripping the French line of penetra- tion as bare of sustenance as this card table—an impassible lien of fortfica- tions encountered within many marches of the frontiers -we may also assume that starvation will be the overwhelming force that will cut off the French retreat," (To be continued.) o How It Will Be. I know how it will be this afternoon Within a certain little island town From four o'clock until the sun goes down --- From sunset till the rising of the moon.. A happy time, a tranquil time, and free: School will be out, and children com- ing home; Strong -muscled, hardy, weathered men will come Back from the quarries and the toss- ing sea. THE ALLY. Tremayne elbowed his way through the gorgeous crowd, and so reached Lady O'Moy, who was surrounded by officers. "Why, Ned," she cried, "you have kept me waiting." And with a com- p'ete and chaining ignoring of the claims of all who had been before him, she passed on the captain's arum through the little crowd that gave way before her, dismayed and intrigued. "I want to talk to you most earnest- ly, Ned. Talce me somewhere where we can be quite private," she had beg- ged the captain. "Somewhere where there is no danger of being over- heard." Since the night was soft and warns, Ned suggested the garden. Her lady- ship went to find a wrap, then arm in arm they passed out, and were lost in the shadows of an avenue of pa'm trees. "It is about Dick," she said breath- lessly. 1 "I know—Miss Armytagg told me." "What did she tell you?" "That you had a premonition that he might come to you for assistance." "A premonition!" Her ladyship laughed nervously. "It is more than a premonition, Ned. He has come." The captain stopped in his stride, and stood quite sti,1. "Come?" he echoed. "Dick?" "Sh!" she warned him, and sank her voice from very instinct. Followed details of his appearance Lind a re- cital of his wandering so far as he had made them known to her. "And he was so insistent that no one should know, not even Terence." "Terence must not know," he said gravely. "You think that, too!" "If Terence knows—we'll, you will regret it all the days of your life Una. You will realize it when I tell you that duty forced Terence to pledge his word to the Portuguese govern- ment that Dick should be shot when found." She stood still, ghostly white against the gloom. A dry sob broke from her. "Terence did that! Ter- ence did that," she moaned. And then in a surge of anger: "I shall never speak to Terence again. I shall not live with him another day. It was in- famous. Infamousl" "It was not infamous. It was al- most noble, almost heroic," he amazed her. "Sit down, Una." They had reached a little circle by a piece of ornamental water, facing which a granite -hewn seat* had been placed. She sank to it obediently, if sulkily. "It may perhaps help you to under- stand what Terence has done when I tell you that in his place, loving Dick as I do, I must have pledged myself precisely as he did or else despised myself forever. Won't you under Stan ` "I understand that men are very stupid," was her way of admitting it. Tremayne sat down beside her. "Now that we understand each other on that score, :et us consider ways and means to dispose of Dick." At once she was uplifted and be- came all eagerness. "Yes, yes. You will help me, Ned? How are we to get him out of the country?" "I think a know a way. I am sure I can induce Glannie to take our fugi- tive home in the Telemachus and land him safely somewhere in Ireland, where he will have to lose himself fo • a while," 'Do you think Glennie will co, - cent?" she asked in strained anxiety. "I wn sere be will. I cal: pini :'t pledge: my word on it." Under that confident promise herr tio•ables fell from her, as lightly they over did. "Yoe ere very good to me, Ned. For- give me what I said just now about Terence." "Of course," Moved to c'inifort her as he might have been moved to em. fort a child, he fiaiig his arni alen,g the seat behind her, and patted her shoulder soothingly. Fell a ste. on the patch behind thein crunching' the ..ravel. Captain tain 'I're- Mayne, hip aria still along the back of ,r • The fir -tree shadows will be length. ening; The slanting rays of sun will richly stain The harbor and each western window - Pane Deep wase. The sky will be a lovely thing. Against the glory some berated boat Will reach its mooring. Plash of rhythmic cans; Then silence save where ocean kepis' the shores -- Only the distant m.licmur of the rote. e-Alioe Lawry Could. Another World. The weight of a load depends upon the attraction of the earth. But sup- pose the attraction of the each were removed? A ton on some other planet, where the attraction of gravity ie less, does not weigh half a ton. 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When they have made their fortune, and they start out to enjoy the plea- sures of which they have dreamed so long, they find to their amazement that you cannot buy happiness over the counter. They have. done without things so long that they have lost the sense of desire. A tbousand dollars when you are eighty will not buy you the pleasures that ten will when you are twenty. And so those who get any happiness out of money must do it by enjoying all the luxuries they can afford as they go along. It Is every man's. and wo- man's duty to set apart enough money to secure them aga•!n,st being depend- ent in their old age, but efter theey have done that they are wise if they enjoy what they have in the present instead of waiting to buy nuts with it� when they have no teeth to crack, them. • . Many men expect to be happy when they retire from businests. They never take a holidaey. They never play. They are geared up to high speed all the time. They work so hard that they never have time even to get acquaint ed with their chilidren. Very often death gives such a man( his first real Test. But even when he does oarry out his plan and retire, he generally finds that he is bored with' having nothing to do. He musses the harppiness and the health he might have had if he had; mixed his work and his piny through the years; If he had given more time to his home and lees to his business;1 if he had taken time to enjoy his` babies, to have games with his boys. Map3Y women expect to enjoy their, children when they are grown up.,i They look upon themselves as little' less than martyrs because they have] to stay at home with their babies.' They complain that their children are' under their feet all the time and that" their noise gets on their nerves. But they look forward to a time when the house will be orderly and quiet, with only grownup children in' it. Vain hope. It is only the mother with a flapper daughter, and a young son away from hone, who knows what real anxiety is, and if little children get under your feet, older children only -too often walk on your hearts. The moral of all of which is that we. ean't put off being happy. It is now or. never, That Apostrophe! Many 'people are worried, by the possessive apostrophe; They neem to think that it must fairways be used bey fore the final ns." For t'nr;tance, not long ago a noti,oe in a hall read, "Ladle's room," instead of "Ladies' room." The general rule is to put the apos- trophe immediately after the 'singular form of the noun if one pelrseon. or thing ie meant, and atter the plural when more than one is meant. When the plural is formed by the addition of "s" this rule is plain and easy. Thus we should say: "My boy's sehooi" and "A barge boys' school"; "That ltttle fish's tail' and "Fishes' tete."' The trouble ,begins when the plural. form of the woad does' not end in "s." But it need not, if the rule to place 'the apoetrophe inimad'tataP.s' after the plural is remembered. For instance, one should 'write "Men's headgear," "Woanetnfs hats, There are words which make no change for singular anal plural. Thus we say, "A sheep's fleece" and, "A thousand sheep's fleeces:" Other words have no singular form, Thus, we should 'write, "My shears' lades" Oysters Grown on Trees. Did you know that many of the oys- ters eaten in America spent their youth clinging to the twig of a birch in the sliallow waters of a tidal flat? The death -rate among oysters was so high that it was feared the supply of bivalves would soon be exhausted if msasnres wore not taken to protect thein. When about fourteen to eighteen days old, oyster larvae attach them- selves to a smooth surface and remain, fixed. Hitherto a submerged rock has been a favorite resting -place, but ex-' pnients have shown that birch' brusb provides the best aneharage of ail. A sdnglo brush may become the hone of thousands of Tutees oyeters, and by this moans it is hoped that It win]. be easier for the baby oysters ,to develop and reach maturity. Minard's Liniment for Sore Sack. Umbrellas, so long out of favor, among men, are being used so much' nowadays that an attempt is to ba made to introd•uct colored "gamps" for, male use. aun;1 "The aeras re edges ere dul:l," The mother opossum, liko the kan- whether speaking of ono pair or a garoo, caries its young,. in a pouch. little of what this business of Human gross. living is all about, Tills acquiring of the full heart can i not he taught; but the revealitng of time heart, which Is the d'evelop:nent of artistry, snasr be gatide'd by a cap- able hand. It is not something which can be forced or hurried; the student's very earnestness, sometimes inay lead him to irreparable mistakes, when his entlnis•ia'sm over one angle makes him careless of others which are equally vital, Let there be heir•e a little building, there a little growth, now the hand of restraint, again the voice of en- couragement; .and, the whole process s'o governed, each part with relation to the other, that the deve'.opnent of this art of revelation may progress as symntetrioally, rind as inavitebly, as the unfoldieg of a flower, I • The Distinct on. "H,ave you Shakespeare's • works' here?" "No, mad'a:m, replied the junior clerk, "but we have his piers." Japanese Edit English Dailies, Japan has two English daily news- p'aper's' edited and pubi!ahee by Japan. este, one in Tokio and one in Osaka. 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