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The Brussels Post, 1913-6-12, Page 2e vv tial1o•'o 1~4.1yaro 444.4%41 4$, ,► rN tl 0nc f c Garrison Or, A Mysterious Affair. o q6,6. r1s a�. i&7 "attrrm.W wo.ivg.. CEAPT1111. III (Gont'd.l. "WhY," sai4.1. "I AM- Very cnueh inter. eeted in bite: 'What a magniidcoiut head and bearing he luta for a young man. I auppone he cannot be more than thirty" k'orty, " said the mate. "Sixty, {f bo is a day;'' remarked.Cap. rain Meadows, "Why, I have. heard him talk quite familiarly of the Aro Afghan wan'. He was a. man then, and that is close on forty years ago.' "Wonderful!" I eJaoulatod. "Ilia akin is as smooth and his eyes are as clear en mine are,. Heie the superior priest of the three no doubt,'. The. inferior;said the peptide confl- a gall of two inches or more bet % (11 dankly. -That is why he does all the 1them. ThroughthisI had a view oftire talking Inc them: Their minds no too house and a part of the lawn in front elevated to descend to mere worldly chat- of it, and though I could pea no signs ( of life outside oe at any of tbe windows, • 'r1ey are the strangest pieces of sot- 1 settled down with the intention of stick - sate and jetsam that ever wero thrown I ^ upon this °oast,' 1 remarked. "eta .father I epeulto my opoet untilor t]I had thethence of will be mightily intel'estee is them." ! Indeed, the cold, deed aspect of the haute Indeed, 1 think the less you have to had struck such. a chill into my heart that do' wit!. thorn the bettor for you, said Iliad determiued to scale the fence at what - the mate. •If I do command myown ever risk of incurring the general's deeship 1"11 promise you that 1 never carry �pleasute rather than return without nous live stock of that sort on board of her. :Pleasure the Heatl.erstonee. But here we are an aboard and the Happily there was no .mod of this ex- anehor tripped, so we must bid You good - 1,y. The waggonette had Just finished load - Jug up when - wearrived, and the chief 1 eitherid f thedriver,had the solitary exception of the m.aesivo and impenetrable fencing, which presented ae unbroken and formidable an obstacle ea ever to the would-be trespasser. I walked round this barrier es far as our old trysting place without finding any flaw through which I could get a glimpse of the house, for the fence trod been tweeted with each rail overlapping the last, :,o as to secure absolute privaeY Inc thea° inside. At the old spot, however•, w here I had had the memorebiu interview with the general on the oev+asion when he surprised me with his daughter, I found that the. two loose rails had been refixed in such a manner that there wags theme expedieue,for I had not been there half au hour. before I heard the blush sound of au opening lock, and the gen- eral himself emerged from the main dor. .been reserved. for 0my two companions, I To my surprise he was dreamed !u a rani - who speedily sprang into them. Wiih a tary uniform -and that not the uniform chorus of cheers thegood fellows Witrled ' in ordinary use in the Britieh array. The !red Beat was strongly eat and stained away down the road, while my father, 1 with the weather. The trousers had orig• Tether, and I stood upon. the lawn and! [pally been white, but bad now faded to waved our hands to them until they da- 1 a dirty yellow. With a red sash Access appeared behind. the Cloomber tv°""N on . his chest- and a etraigbt sword banging rotate for -the Wigtown railway 511.101.' from his side be stood the living exam le Bark ,and crew bad bout vanished now) of n bygone type --the John Company's from our little world, the only relic of'efpcer of forty years ago. He was followed either being the heaps of debris upon the' by the ex -tramp, Corporal Rufus Smith, 1,ear11 -which were to be there until the now well clad and proeperoue, who limp - arrival of an agent from Lloyd's. ed along beside his maater, the two pan- - ing up and down the lawn absorbeel in CHAPTER XIII.conversation. I observed that from time At dinner that evening I mentioucd to lto time one or other of them would panne my father the episode of the three Bud•Iand glance furtivelyall about them, as dhist- priests, and found, ae I had 50- though guarding keenly.against a sur• peered, that he was very much. interested I Dries. by my account of them. When, wever, I chortle have preferred communicating ho heard of the high manner len- which with the general alone, but since there Item Siugh had spoken of him, and the was no d eeociating him from him com- anion, 1 beat loud! on the fencing w1ey t. 'n whichat as n y distinguished puelti u he lied my stick Co attt•set their attention. They signed him among phi,olOgiata, he be• both faced round 1„ 0 moment, and I ' came 50 excited that r wee all we could j could see front their gee -tures that they do to prevent him from setting off then were disturbed and alarmed. 1 then els- andthere to make his ay.iuointsnce. Ea.; vated my stick above the barrier to show ther and I were relieved end glee khan them where the sound proceeded from. At we at last succeeded in otatraetiel hie tyle rho eneral be an to walk in m g g Y direction with an air of a man who to bracing himeelf for an effort, but the other caught him by the wrist and en- deavored to dissuade him. It was only when 1 ehouted out my 'lame and assured them that I was alone that I could pre- vail upon them to approach. Once as- sured of my idoneity the general ran eage,-l:v toward me and greeted me with the -utmost cordiality. "Don't you think, Jack," she said in "This is truly kind of you, West," he her lots sweet voice, "that we are forget-,se.{d. 'IE a onlyuat such times as these tin our friends over at Oloonlber? that ore can judge le {s a friend and g who not. It would not be fair to you to ask you to come inside or to stay any time, hut I am none the lees very glad 80 see you." ^'I have been anxious about you all" I said; "for it is some little time slue I have seen or heard from any of you. How have .you all been keeping?" tomorrow is the Fateful 5th of October-- "Why, as well as could be expected. But we will be better tomorrow -we will ' , one more day and all will be well with be different men to•m0rroty, eh, corporal?" us." "Yee, sir," said the corporal, raising ',refer ill," said my sister, gloomily. his band to his forehead in a military '!Why, what a little croaker you are ',serer I cried. "What in the world to be over you?" '�, "The corporal and I are a lithe gen- "I corn."- *nevem and lotvspitdted;' she tnrbed in our minds ]net now;' the gen- 'I feel n wing eloeer to my side and' oral explained, "but I have no doubt that answered, dreseel as if some great peril all will come right. After all, there is shivering. "I .,". -the heads of thee we nothing higher 1111u1 Providence, and we. were hanging over -me strange men wish are allin-Ste heads And bow hava veu' love. why ahould the to stay upon the coast: I said lightly. "What, the Buddhists?" tinned feast . "0h, these fellows have eo"sorts. They days and religious rites of all ,'Se/eying, have some very good reason for `., You may he cure." Don't you think," said Esther, in awe-struck whisper, "that it le ver, . strange that these priests should arrive here all the way from India just at the present moment? Have you 1103 gathered from all you have heard that the gen- eral's fears are in some way connected with India and the Indians?" The remark made me thoughtful. "Who', now that youmention it" I answered, "I. have some vague impression that the mystery is connected with some incident wbich occurred in that country. I am sure however,that your fears would van - lett 'ifyou Ram Singh. Ii i 'h0 sh sawg e a t very personification of wisdom and ben- evolence, He was shocked at the idea of our killing a sheep, or even aash for his benefit -said he would rather die than have a hand in taking the life of an animal." It le very foolish of me to be so ner- vous,'eaid my sister, bravely. "But yon must promiee mo one thing, Jack. You will go up to Cloomber in the morning, and if you cnn see any of them you must tell them of three strange ueighhore of ours. They are better able to judge than we are whether their presence has any significance or not," All right, little one," I anowered, ae we went indoors, 'You have been over- excited by all thesewild deluge, and you need a sound night's rest to compoee you. I'll do what you suggest, however, and our Mende shall judge for themselves whether these poor devils should be sent about their beat -nese or not." I made the promise to allay my sister's apprehensions, but In the bright sunlight of morning it appeared little less than absurd to imagine that our poor liege• tartan eastawaye could have any sinister intentions, or that their advent could -. hava-any eifeot 001011 thn tenants of Cloomber. 1" vas anximis .n, avlft- l:aw 1'tee v,,ir a: home. 1 don't think site will ever. to see whether I could see anything tt'ouble you long, Good -by I God bleee of the Heatheretoneo, so after breakfast yen! "Look here, general," I said, peremp- torily breaking off a piece of tvooti to slake communication more easy, • "thin sectof thing has beengoing 00 100 long. regard min se an intruder while I had Whet are these hints and athtaione and se much news to communicate. plain spett It is time ws had a little The place had the same dreary and plain speaking. }ghat is it you fear? boots and maneuvering bim to his bed- . room, furtheexciting events of the 1:et twenty-four hours had been too much for his weak frame and delicate nerves. I was sitting at the open porch in the gloaming, turning over in my mind the unexpected events which heti occurred so rapidly -the gale, the wreck, the rescue, and the strange character of the caeta- ways--wbeu my sister came quietly over to me and put her hand 111 mine Hasp t all this excitement driven their fears and their danger out of our heads?" "Out of our heads, but never ottt of our hearts," said I, laughing. "However, you are right, little one, for our attention has • certainlybeen distracted from them. 1 shall walk up in tbe morning and see if I can see anything of them. By the way, salute. "Well be right es the bank to. morrow." n • been, eh?" 4Ve have been very buoy for one thing,". said I, "I suppose you hate heard nothing of the great shipwreck?" '•Nat a word," the general answered lfetlesly. I thought the noise of the wind would prevent your hearing the signal guns. .911e came ashore 1n the bay the flight ire last -a great hark from India." m India!" ejaculated the general. h er. er crew were saved, fortunate - "Yes. 'rave all been tent 0u to Blue- ly, and 1: gm, "All sent 03 se. se a corpse. a face as Mena a rather strange char. "All except thfese be Buddhist priests. 0,1311 who claim. c •4 remain for a few They have decided days upon the coast. On t of my m outh The words were hardlp�n n hi sknees when the general dropped extended to with hitt long arm msa4he cried in a heaven. "Thy will be donaf'eed will be a crackling Volae. "Thy bier•. Nee crack done!" f could see through Slee had that Corporal Rube Smith's tel turned to a sickly yellow shade, an t11at hie he was wiping the perspiration frees. brow. 11 "It's like my luck!" he said. "After these years, to come Just when I hat got a snug billet." "Never mind, my lad," the general_ said, rising, and eanariug his ehonlders like a man who braces himself for an effort. "Be it what it may, we'll face it as Brit- ish soldiere should, D'3'o• remember at Chitlianwallah, when you had to run from your guns to our square, end the Sikb horse came thundering down on ourbay- onete? We didn't flinch then, and we won't flinch now. It seems to me that I feel better than I have done Inc years. It was the uncertainty that was killing me," "And the infernal jingle -,jangle," said the corporal, "Well, we'll all go togoth er--that s some consolation." "Good -by, Waste eteald the general. "Be a good hush r-/te Gabriel, and give my I" cried the general, wit-li . I walked up to the Hall. In their se- elnai0il it was imp0seible for theist to have learned anything of the recent evante. I- felt, 'therefore, that even if I should meet the general be c0u111 hardly Out with. iii Are you in dread of theca onelanebelY appearance whieh always Hindoou? it you are I amable, on MY characterized it. .Looking through be. father's authority to have them arrested tweeu the thick iron bare of the main as rogues and vagabonds;- , gateway there was nothing to. bo seen of 'No, no, that would never doe' be an - any of the Geenpants, Ono of the greatsevered, shaking his head. "'You will learn ' Scotch fit's had been blown down in the tlbont the wretchedbnelne1e seen enough. gale, and its long ruddy trunk lay right yfordnunt lnlows wbere to lay his band across the geasa•growu avenue; but no upon the import bearing on the matter. attempt had been made: le remove . it yon can consult him abeut it to -mer. Everything about tho property had :the row e swine aleof deeolatlon and neglect, with LgsT oar Outing Shoes hill . �N For . .tet}` , ici Everybody y THE PERFECT SHOO/ ig,a FOR SUMMER SPORTS '.. Ask *OUR DEA1.L•1' `Duisurely," 10r10t1, "if the peril le so imminent 00mething may be done to evert it. IP you would but tell me what you fear I should lcnow how to act," "My dear friend," he geld, "tlie5'e 10 nothing to be done, so ealM yourself and let things take their oeuree. It has bean folly on my part to elicitor myself be - bind mere barriers of wood and stone. The fart is, that inaction wail terrible to 110, end I felt that to do anything, how• ever futile, in tee nature of a prscantien, wan better than passive resignation, Itly thimble friend here end I have plecoa 111l'selv03 to a position la which, I t01101, no poor fellow will ever And hlm0011 again.. We can ones: rec0mrn1nd our, eofvee to the unfailing gcodnees of the Inflate', ,nnd trust trnt awh at W( hare ndnrcd in this WoiId new leaven one atonement in the world to come ,I Must, leave you now, for I Have many pnl:0re alestroe and lunch to arrange, bend• v," 110 Meshed hie hand through trio A Tea possessing exquisite freshness and fullness of flavour not found in other Teas. Pure and clean to a leaf. IN SEALED LEAD PACKETS ONLY. Bleck, Green and Mixed. 030 !tole which I had made and grasped mine in a solemn farewell, after which be I waltzed bask to the Hall with a firm and decided step. still followed by the clip - plod corporal. I walked back to ldrnnksome much dis- turbed by this interview, and extremely puzzled as to wirer 008rse T should pttr- sue: - it was evident now that my Over a -at,spleiOna .were coryect, and thatthere was some very_ intimate connection be- tween the peeseuce of the three Orientals and the mystei•i0us peril tvh1e11 hung over the towers gf. Cloolnber..It wee dilikult for me to aseot'iate the noble -faced Item Singh'e gentle, refined manner and words of wisdom with any deed of violence: yet now that I thought of it I could see that a terrible capacity for wrath lay behind his ellaggy brows and dark, piercing eyes.. I felt that of all men whgm I had ever met be Ino the one whose displeasure I should least care to face.. But hew could the men su widely dim:heated. as the fonl- n.outhed old corporal of artillery -and the dietingtlished Anglo-Indian general. have each earned the ill -will of these strange easlaw•ays? And if the danger was a nisi- tive physical one, why should 11e not eon. sent to my proposal, to have the three men placed under my custody? though I confess it would have gone much against my grain to net in so inhospitable a manner upon ouch vague and shado,vy grounds. These questions wereabsolutely unorewerable; and yet the solemn tvorde and the terrible gravity whieh I had seen in the fuer of ,both the old soldier's for- bade me from thinking that their fears were entirely unfounded. It team all a pt:sale to obaolutely iueoluble puzzle. One thing at tense was clear to me -and that was that in the present state of rn1 k„otvledgo, and after the goneral's dis- tinct prohibition, it was impossible for me to interfere in any way. 1 could only v:ait and _pray that, whatever the danger might be. it might pees over, or at least that my deaf' Gabriel and her brother night be protected against it. I w•as walking down the lane lost in thought, and had got as far as the wicket gate which opens upon the Brankeome lawn, when I was surprised to hear my father's voice raised in most animated and eseited com•etse. The old eau kat! been of late so altstraeted from the daily affairs of the world, and so absorbed in his own special studies, that it was 11101 cult to engage his attention open nuy ordinary mundane topic. Curiona to know what it was that had drawn him so far cut of himself, 1 openedthe gate softly, and walking quietly round the laurel bnahos, found him sitting, to my astonishment, with none other than the vary man who was occupying my thoughts, Ram Singh, the Buddhist. The two were sitting upon a garden bench, and the Oriental ap- peared to be laying down sono weighty proposition, checking every point upon his long quivering brown angers, while my father, with his bands thrown abroad and his face awry, was loud in protestation and in argument. So absorbed were they in their controversy that I stood within a hand -touch of them for a minute or mere before they became c0nactoua -of my presence. On observing m0 the priest sprang to his -feet andgreeted me with the same lofty 0ourt0ay and dignified great which had so impressed me the day before. "I promised myeelf yesterday," he said, "the pleasure of calling upon your father. You see I have kept my word. I' have evou been daring enough. to question his views upon some points in cennecteen with the Sanscrit and Hindoo tongues, with the result that we hate bean argu- ing for an hour or more without either of us convhlting ale other. Without pre- tending to ae deop a tlteoretiaai k1100" ledge as that which has wade the name - of John Hunter West a household word among Oriental scholars,I happen to have given conelderable attention to this one point, and Indeed I am in a position to say that I know bis view to be unsound. T assure you, sir, that tip to the year 700, or even tater, Sanscrit wan the ordin- ary language of the great bulk of the in- habitants of Indira." "And I assure you, sir," said my father warmly, "that it was deadand forgotten at that date, save by' the learned, who. used it as n vehicle for eoientiiic hnd re- I!gioue works --Just as Latin was used h1 the middle ages long after it lied ceeeed to -be molten by any Europeen nation.' "If you will commit the pu1'anas you ,will find," said Ram Singh, "that this 'h`em'y, though commonly received, bre en - sly untenable." 1 'ad if you will consult the Ramsyaaa, re partlonlarly the canonical books and�n hist dieeiplino," cried my father, on Bu -1 find that the theory is unassahl "you 0 ' - able." 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St. Catharine's Church, Mit- cham, New Cross, London, wars de- stroyed by fire on the 0th mist, The damage is estimated at 220,000. Mr. .Robert Steele, naval archi- tect and consulting engineer, died on the 2nd inst. at his house, 12 Kensington 0O1rt Mansions, Lon- don. In odd corners of a cottage at Colchester recently occupied by a widow, who died in poverty, there has been found over £1,000 in gold and - silver, - Lord Haldane believes that 200 years hence people will look track on the twentieth century, with all its boasted inventions, rte a bar- barous age. ' The number of places of worship in England is 49,970. giving a ratio of one building to 722 people, In London alone the proportion is one to 2,227. Mr. James Bryce, late British Ambassador at Washington, pro- poses to live in retirement in Sus- sex. where he will complete - his book on Australia. A eat in Devon which gave birth to four kittens in a hen's nest has been driven away by the hen, which refuses t0 give up possession .of the young. Rev. Henry Thomas Fletcher, aged 94, vicar of Bicker, Lincoln- shire, died 'on .the 4th inst. u:a had been a clergyman 69 years and a magistrate ever half a century. "Wily not confiscate everything a man has over a million 1 Multi- millionaires are a positive peril," said Sir W. Byles.. M.P., at Whihe- fhelcl's Tabernacle;4,``,onclon. - Rural workers in various parts of the country are adding to their incomes by catching moles for their skins. ,As much as 5d. a skin is being paid in Herefordshire. - Lord Norton writes to the Post to suggest that the centenary of peace is a golden opportunity for America, Britain and Germany to enter into an international arbi- tration convention. He urges that these three nations could reduce armaments and enforce peace upon the world, and that a heavy respon- sibility rests upon the statesmen of the three 'nations to find .out a way. A London doctor says Hutt "the best cure for influenza when the patient can spare the time is to lie up for a few clays; take the usual medicine, and try to feel as cheer- ful as possible in view of the fact that any one of the seven "influ- enza," symptoms is severe enough to lower the system and cense a. despondency which makes the pa- tient imagine that the attack is more serious than it really is." 1' 1111.AT 10 EAT AT 60 YEARS.' Stoina.ell is Not the Main Consid- eration. Dr. Chalmers Wilson, of London, has written a little volume call eel "The Book of Diet," in which he says: 'The diet should be selected to agree with the constitution rather than with the stomach. A true food must be .either a tissue builder or a source of energy. Fate are the most important fttel foods. Pro, coins (meat, fish, eggs, etc.). are the tissue builders. But a sufficiency of salts are essential to health, and if salts are cut out of the food death Occurs in a few weeks." Very useful information is given concerning the nutritive properties of meat, fish, game, - etc., from which a few hints may be cited; Beef isbest when got from an ox two year's old. Veal is much less nutritious than beef and not so easily digested. Mutton is generally considered to be more easy of digestion than beef La.mb greatly exceeds mutton in its proportion of fat and fe corre- spondingly less digestible, . Tongs e, tripe and sweetbreads arc botlinntritious and easily young, d'i- ed. -- Hare, when young, is very Len- dgeer', emit awell-led chicken is the most digestible of. all ananimalfoods.te One of the commonest dietetic error's is taking, too little- water. On an average the daily require- :Dents is about four pints' One- fourth of this is contained in the solid food, and De.. Chalmers ad- vises that eine and 0, !half or two pints of plain' water should bo tak- en daily In many people the digestion is too good for the kidneys, Heart and other organs. They exit eat abund- ance and with relish, but they can- not get rid with cort'espwndingewse of, the waste products, In middle life and old age this foot needs parte ticultarly to be kept in mind. "Mid- dle-aged people should take less food than younger ado 1ts, and 'ole1 er•In- persons require lees team the middle-aged." �e.