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The Clinton News Record, 1939-05-04, Page 2PGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., MAY 4, 1939 Eden Phillpotts TOM AYLMER: ` At the, tivte the story opens is 'living in Peru, man- aging silver mines belonging to his .father. tFELICE PARDO: A Peruvian who, although young, has been fifteen years in the service of the Aylmer mining enterprise. He is the most trusted native employee. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS Mrs. MERCY AYLMER: Tom's mother; egotistical and ,exacting. JANE BRADSHAW: Tom Aylmer's fiancee. At the time the story opens, the expectation is that these two will marry on Tom's next leave in England. ANGUS MAINE: ,A young Scot on Aylmer's, staff, and close compare-. ion of Toin. JACOB FERNANDEZ: A rich, eld- erly South; American whose hobby- is the study of birdlife; He is a bachelor and is, engaged upon a 'monumental literary work on the subject of bird life. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS Tom Aylmer and Angus Maine are ',enjoying a holiday an the hills of Peru when Felice Pardo rides out to them -with a cabled message announc- ing the death of Tom's father. Tom knows that his father has bequeath- ed tohim the Peruvian silver mines of which he (Tom) is the manager. He decides to sail for England at once and to take Angus for company.. Before leaving Lima, Tom buys a panot, to give to his fiancee, Jane The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1,50 per year in advance, to Can- adian .addresses;. $2.00 to the U.S. or ether foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES — Transient .advertising 12e per count line for first insertion, 8c. for each subse- quent insertion. 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On the liner, the bird engages the attention ,of Jacob Fernandez, a rich man, of Lima, who is bound for Panama, whose life hobby is the study of birds. To Fernandez, the parrot talks, but the only words he can detect in a string of sounds are "Benny Boss." Fernandez says he knew a man of that name, and proceeds to tell Torn and Angus what he knows. Benny was a man of mixed parent-. age—English and Peruvian—who, for a time, fifty years earlier, worked for Fernandez. They parted company and after an interval, Benny tried, unsuccessfully, to sell to Fernandez a large ruby worth much more than the price he put on it. ,Piecing to- gether what he learned about Benny in later years, it seems that Benny had been engaged in, dredging on Lake Titicaca, and that he had dredg- ed up jewels thrown into the lake at the time of the Spanish conquest. Fernandez advises Tom td have the bird's speech investigated by an ex- pert. (Now Read On) CHAPTER IV (Continued) JANE BRADSHAW'S• NEW Jacob Fernandez Ieft the ship a day later, but not before he had ask- ed' a favour of Aylmer. Her brother esteemed Tom Aylmer) highly, but felt a little depressed' un- der present circumstances, because he knew that his sister must soon leave him—a prospect that made him' un- easy. Her new gift was made welcome and Jane soon won the Peruvian par- rot. He took up his quarters in a warm house, where the din of lesser parrots cheered him;' and he swiftly perceived the engaging qualities of his mistress, while sheer --an expert in bird physionomy - declared the blue and orange stranger to have a some- what human cast of. countenance: "He looks like an old num—but not a very niee old man," ,she said, and her remark. reminded Tom of some- thing that Signor Ferpandez had told him in a jesting moment. "If I were a Buddhist," Jacobi had declared, "and neelievetl in reinearna- ton and transmigration of the soul, T declared thather husband's will caus- ed her aus-edher infinite surprise and pain. "Your dear father was evasive con- cerning his means,'" she told the young man; "and ',looking back, I must confess to much natural grief when I consider that he did not let me into his, secrets. He was no doubt wise to conceal the truth front a greedy world, but it comes as a shock to me to know that he lived so ab- surdly within his means, when every -I thing that must have added to my pleasure and comfort lay 'within our reach. Such deliberate and calculated unkindness floods me with tears whenever I think of it—and doubt- less always will. For five -and -twenty years we lived together, and save for one cloud, soon after we were mar- red when, in a fit of temper, your dear father advertised that he would not be responsible for my accounts, no darkness has ever dimmed our married life. I was a good wife, Tom, and you must never think other- wise. It might have been more seemly and humane and usual to leave his money to me for my life, knowing well that no inducement could pos.' sibly tempt ire to leave a penny to. anybody but you in the future; but we must not doubt the provsion of the dead, and I well know that you will do what you can to heal the{ pain that he, doubtless unintention- alIy, . caused me when I beard what he had arranged. "Ile knew you were safe with me, mother," said Tom. "You and Jane are my world new." "Yes," she answered, "and nobody "I shall be in your debt," he told knows better than I do that a wife Aylmer, "if you will inform me as to should be a man's first thought, but your future'decieions touching Mount we need not harp upon that. You Atajo. You will either keep it your- will marry, of amuse, as soon as self, no doubt, or put it in the mar- possible and plan your future; but I ket, ' and in the latter case, if you trust be included in that future, my have no objections; you can give me precious son. To be left out of it first refusal and acquaint me with would kiII me." what terns your advisers may sug- "Rather so—of course you will. You gest." need feel no anxiety whatever as to Young Aylmer was . elated. your comfort and happiness and "That I will certainly promise, sir," luxury for that matter." , he answered: "If I find that I am Under his father's will young Ayl- free to get rid' of the mine, I should mer found himself tole residuary leg - feel much disposed to do so. But my{atee of an estate running into three father may -have tied my hands." ,'hundred thousand pounds, without The voyage passed without event, such value as the Peruvian mine but they noticed that Tom's parrot aright represent. Legacies were Left grew snore taciturn as the ship went to old servants and certain' of the north, He seemed to miss the tom -i staff in Lima, while as to themine panionship of Jacob and he was., Ob-, itself, the late owner was explicit. He viously conscious of lowering temp -'left it to Tom, and directed that it eratures. But when he arrived at his might either be sold or turned into new home' andfound a warm 'welcome a private company. He added that and a warm corner awaiting him, it; if a purchaser could be found, so seemed that the bird cheered up much the better, but suggested not again. +From •the first he took, to less than fifty thousand pounds at Jane Bradshaw, knowing perhaps -by the selling price. Oif Merey, lie instinct that he had found an under- I wrote: "I leave my wife in the sole keeping of my son, Tom Aylmer," and said no more about her. PROSPECTIVE MOTHER-IN-LAW Jane Bradshaw dwelt with a broth- er at Chislehurst, They were orphans With small means, but every year the industrious pair bettered them- selves. Nicholas Bradshaw, like his sister, lived for the aviaries, and stood high in the kingdom of bird - fanciers.. Jane had made special culture of that exquisite Australian grass finch, the Gouldian, mastered the difficult requirements of these dainty and costly little gems, and crowned herself with glory when she produced 'a yellow -crested bird in- stead of the usual black or crimson headed varieties. Thus her name was reverenced where Gouldians were known, and she found .the cult in- creasingly popular despite such stiff prices as her treasures demanded. Nicholas specialized in budgerigars, and had achieved a new colour. He dreamed of -a scarlet budgerigar, and pursued hie quest with undying hope, despite scientific assurances that the achievement must be impossible., Jane was a dark girl, handsome rather than pretty. Experts decided that her -face showed too much char- acter and intelligence for beauty. Her eyese-were davit and not very large; her brow was .somewhat high, her countenance' distinguished by a per- fect mouth and nose, and a chin„ not massive . or particularly large, but finely moulded and firm ;of con- tour. Her colour was high, her hair black and lustrous. She took care of ,herself, but cared not much for clothes, and disliked the addition of cosmetics.. In' this attitude Tom, sup- ported her. Jane had a dimple on hese left cheek which her lover de- clared to be more precious than any possible decoration from a beauty parlour. She was twenty-one, •tall, slightly built, but strong, practical, not lacking in tact, and a sound woman of business. standing new friend. , Mrs. Mercy Aylmer welcorned her son gladly enough, but was concern- ed for the future and full of ideas that did not much commend them- selves selves to him, "You must not leave me again, Tom," she explained. "I cannot sup- port loneliness, and, since your dear father's death, I have suffered most 'severely and indeed trade Dr. Mason Suite anxious about me." She was a handsome woman still, and her eon knew that she demanded the - companionship of admirers for her happiness; but he also knew that Jane Bradshaw would not be number -1 ed in that circle; and when his mother declared her one wish and dream was now to share Tom's future home, the young man felt any such arrange- ment quite impossible. "We will live in London," :said. Mrs. Aylmer, "for I could not endure to' make my headquarters elsewhere. But; kriowing yourlove of the country and. your hobbies and Jane's devotion to queer birds in cages, there is no rea-1 eon why you should not have a country home also— on the Thames' perhaps—where you and she can go' from time to time and find rare plants and so on. But you mush never go far off again, The thought of you suffering the unnatural heat of the tropics and working away day and night at the mine has often diset tressed mc." I Mrs. Aylmer always talked in this exaggerated way, but it meant noth-' ing. The affairs of his late parent prov- ed to be far more prosperous than; Tom had expected to find them. AI man can no longer hide the truth of his financial status after the grave; has claeedupon him,' and Tom dis-; covered that unexpeeted wealth was; his. Jane Bradshaw did not hesitate to explain -the mystery,' and, posses- sing no great admiration for her future mother-irt-law, guessed cor-' redly at 1115 origin; but Mrs. Aylmer should be much disposed to think than Benny Boss was peering at us from under his parrot's purple eyelids," Jane approved. "Quite likely," she declared: She heard the odd story, of her; bird, but Tom was toe busy for some. time to think again about: it. Everything proved to be in order, and,' at his sweetheart's advice, he determined to sell the mine if a purchaser were for- thcoming. He wrote to Fernandez accordingly, and in the course of ,a few weeks learned that Jacob. would dispatch competent persons to snake investigations. Tom;, communicated with Felice Pardo also, and wrote letters to cer- tain older men who had been re- membered by his. father. Guessing, however, ,that his friend , might be alarmed at the prospect of coming changes, and ask as' to his own future if the mine were sold, young Aylmer begged Pardo' to feel no :sort of un- easiness for himself. "Needless, to say that Angus and you will 'be all right whatever , happens," he told Felice. Pardo, he guessed, would stop with the silver mine in any case and prove his value to a future possessor; while as for the Scot, Toni had always seen in him a great explorer, and guessed that presently Angles and himself, and, "possibly, Jane, might probe the ruins of buried cities, and add to the knowledge of the world concerning them. Upon' the subject of the future Jane had spoken quite definitely, and after hearing Mrs. Aylmer's wishes decli- ed to consider them for a moment. "To live with your mother, 'Tom, is utterly unthinkable," she said. "We're very good friends - as far as - two women can be without a single ideal in common — but if she were as angelic inside as she always looks outside, I still ,wouldn't risk it. You must tell her it couldn't work. She loves society and we loathe it. She is more sophisticated than anybody ,I ever met, while you and I are utter ruffians when it comes to social life. To live in a torn house with your mother would be Hades, and now she is going to have money to burn, you'll be up to your neck in financial bother from the start anyway. She told rite herself that she was going to make up for lost time and assume the posi- tion she was entitled to. You can guess what that means. Tom laughed. "Of course we couldn't live in Lon- don, and she couldn't live anywhere else, .se she'll understand her wishes in that matter can't take shape. She is assumng that about three-quarters of the estate's income will be hers. She told me that since 1' could rely on thecapital, it would only be seem- ly for her to enjoy the interest dur- ing the few years ^ that remain to her." "She's not fifty and the beet pre- served woman I ever saw," declared Jane. "If your mother had twenty thousand te-morrow, she'd feel .con- vinced that decent life was impossible under thirty thousand, and feel you Were your father's son and treating her with eruelty. Whatever you ar- range for her, you'll have to keep a tidy reserve to meet the inevitable shocks she'll arrange for you." "Mustn't' take our fences till we come to 'em, Jane. Howe's the parrot and what have you called him?"' he asked. "Too soon, to name him yet," she answered, "though it doesn't" seem possible to call him anything but 'Benny'. That remind's - me. You remember Mr. Fernandez believes that he's talking to us all the time, and laughing because we can't under- stand him. There may be some truth in"it, and I want you to do what he advised. t've listened jolly carefully fir the) bird and I'm sure he's saying something in human language of some sort. He says ten things that appear to be words. Pour of them are two syllables long; two are three syllables long; three are one syllable only; one is four syllables They mostly ,sound perfectly mad to me; but there's Gregory Barbour at the Brutish Museum, a great swell, on languages — and an old pal of my fatheti's. I'm going to ask' him to come and listen. He lives quite close and often visits us, You remember him?" "You'd better not be there if he doss come," said Tom. "If Benny has taught the parrot tens words, the betting is they are to foul for your delicate ears:" "Oh dear no. You've given me a lurid picture of Benny and he may have beeiv a bad hat; but I'm sure, he,was much too bright to waste time teaching his parrot to swear. Here INTERNATIONAL S. S. LESSON MAY 7 Lesson Text—Acts 18:1.11; 1 Cor. 2:1-5. by REV. GORDON A. PEO!ME, B.A. It is a common human error that salvation wore they able to cry out, we regard the so-called 'great' men' Whom shall we fear ? Only because of the past as men who were in some the, Lord was the strength of their way free from the weaknesses and life were they able to exclaim, 01 fear .which assail rind -oppress us, Whom ehall we be afraid? (Ps. 27). We adopt this same attitude, most They feared Ilim who had power to particularly perhaps, to :the 'great' destroy both soul and body in Hell, figures of the Scriptures. We for -gene) they were delivered from every get that these -men, in themselves, other temporal fear (Matt, 10:28). were by no means of exceptional' Take the case of Moses, for ex - strength and courage. And just be-. ample, Called of the Lord to lead cause the. Scriptures, unlike much of out the children of Israel from the the history of mankind,' are not at cruel oppression of Pharaoh and all concerned with `heroes,' the men from the bondage of Egypt, Moses of whom they speak are seen to be, is so overcome with the immensity after all, just men, and very much 61 the task and with his , own weak - like ourselves. ;nese and incompetence that he ,can If the ,men of .the Scriptures were only say, "Who am I, that I should strong,ad courageous, if they stood go unto Pharaoh, and that r should tmtnoved before. the threats and the bring forth the children'of Israel out assaults of men, it was ,just because of Egypt?" And when, in spite of they steadfastly refused to regard his' weakness and bis fears, Moses themselves as great and fearless, and does go forth to obey the call which turned again and again to seek help; comes to hits, he goes only in the outside themselves in the power of, strength of the mighty promise which the Lord their God. They are men; he receives from the Lord, "Certainly like the Psalmist who declares, "If I will be with thee." <Ex. 3:11,12). + it had not been the Lord who was on Or again, look at Jeremiah. "I our side when men rose upr against am in derision daily," he said, "every ins, theft they had• swallowed us up one mocketh me." He curses the; quick when their wrath was kindled day of his birth. But yet he is con- ,against .us .,.:.'Our help is in the strained and upheld in the face of, naine of the Lord, who made heaven his enemies by a strength, a zeal,) and earth" (Ps. 124). • Only because a perseverance utterly beyond .and the Lord ivas their light and their foreign to himself; "I said I will not make mention of Him; nor speak are ten possible words and it must any more in. His name; but His word; have been hard work and needed was in mineheart as a burning fire much patience to make the bird get shut up in my bones, and" I' was, them right. Anyway I'll' ask Gregory weary with , forbearing and I could to come to lunch on Sunday. He not stay." (Ter. 2Q:7,14,9). ; lives at Sevenoaks. Hers vain, but As men, with all the impotence and exceedingly clever and always kind all the doubts: and all the fears of to me. He'll take it quite seriously. men, the prophets and the apostles He takes everything seriously. Most were called to their tasks—as Hien British Museum people do so M my they were M no point fundamentally experience." different from ourselves. But as Aylmer agreed, and a week latter servants of the Lord, by God's came to spend the day at •Chislehurst, mighty grace, they are made to hear, bringing Maine with him. Angus had believe, and obey His call; through; spent a fortnight with relations at HIM they are what they are; through Aberdeen and now waited on his HIlV1 they are men <marvellously de-' friend's decisions. He cared much livered front all their fears. for Peru and was anxious to return Perhaps towards none so much as to it. towards the Apostle Paul are we; (To be continued.) tempted to take up an attitude of 'hero-worship';, regarding him as a matt always in h}rrtself strong and courageous, devoid of all our doubts and fears, At Philippi, for example, Paul, with .Shins, is cast into prison having been beaten; and yet at mid- night he sings praises unto God with prayer Acts 8:22f). On another occasion, in spite of the pleadings of his friends to change Isis mind, Paul asserts'.with boldness, "I am ready not to• be bound only, hut to die at. Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." (Acts, 21:13. But this forti- tude and' determimateen belong no more to the Apostle Paulhimself than they were characteristic of the other men of Scripture. When Paul asserts, "I oan .do all things';' he makes it very plain that this power is "through 'Christ: which strength - math me (Phih 4:13). Our lesson for this week ought to provide us with a marvellous correc- tive to any ideas 'of 'hero-worship' which we might have with regard to Paul. This Apostle is a man; as such he is no exception to the weak- nesses .and fears of men, It will be best to take Paul precisely at his word when lie writes to the Corin- thians saying, "I was with you in v*ealmees, and in fear, and in much trembling" (1 Cor. 2:3). We must take it that it was not without reas- on that the Lord appeared to Paul in a vision at Corinth and declared to him, "Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: for I am with thee, and no man shall •set on theee to hurt thee...." (Acts 18:9, 10), In the strength of this' promise Paul laboured, believing that the Lord had much people in that city and continued a year and, six months teaching the word of God" (v 10,11). 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