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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., JULY 1, 1937.
"THE LOST PIzINC:
By
Frances Hodgson F urnett
SYNOPSIS to play a part in his life.
"Marco Loristan was the kind of a
iboy people looked at the second time
.when they had looked 'at hhn once.
.He was a well-built boy of 12, intern-.
.;gentlooking, and well -Mannered. Ile
,.and his father had travelled a great
..deal and the boy was proficient in
•several languages, so that he felt at
elnente in whatever country he was
..staying.. Marco knew that they were
«Samavians, that there was trouble
'and bloodshed in Samavia at present.
e13is father had told him the story of
the Lost, Prince, who might one day
,,return to Samavia and restore order
',and' Peace. At, present the Loristan's
.a,re in London,' England, and Marco
^•;had encountered several interesting
,people, among them, "The Rat," a
-.crippled boy who commands a group
of willing boys—the boys listen at-
qentiively as Marco speaks to :them.
'Later Loristan and Marco have a
Jong talk about Samavia, and the Lost
'Prince, who' had disappeared five
",hundred years ago. A secret society,
-With members in many European
..countries, were preparing to put his
descendant on the throne of Same -
..via and, end the civil wars and blood=
•.shed in the country. At .a meeting
*•of the Squad, The Rat 'forms a sec -
•.,ret society for Samavia among them-
vselves, perhaps a street in Paris or a hotel Loristan bent his head.
The Rat's father dies, and Loristan in Vienna, and Marco would at once Then he mentioned the name of
'invites the lad to live with him and make a rapid sketch of the face un- another street in another place -and
'Marco. The two boys plan to aid der whose photograph the name of the Marco sketched again. This time it
-the cause of the Lost Prince. Marco, locality had been written. It was not was the peasant with the simple face.
-while on an errand, assists a young long before he could begin his sketch The Prince bowed again. Then Lori -
'lady in distress; who seems very in- without more than a moment's heli- staff gave another name, and after
ti:erested in him. She seems destined tation. And yet even when this had that another and another; and Marco
become the case, they still played the hid his work until it was at an end,
game night after night. There was and Lazarus stood near with a hand -
a great hotel near the Place de la fel of sketches which he had silently
Concorde in Paris, of which Marco taken charge of as each was laid a -
With which is Incorporated felt he should never hear the naive side.
THE NEW ERA during all his life without there start- "Y o u would know these faces
"PERMS of SUBSCRIPTION ing up before liis mental .vision a wheresoever you say them.?" said the
ea.50 nor veer in advance, to Cana- tall woman with fierce black eyes and Prince. "If you passed one in. Bond
Bran addresses. $2.00 to the U.S. or a delicate high -bridged nose across Street or in the Marylebone Road, you
-ether' foreicn countries. No paper
sdiscontinucd until an arrears are paid which the strong eyebrows almost would recognize it at once?"
unless at the option of the publish- met. In Vienna there was a palace "As I know yours, sir," Marto ans-
war. The data to which every sub- µ.inch would always bring back at wered. •
crenation is paid is denoted on the once a hale cold -faced pian with a
Then followed a number' of ques-
heavy blonde lock which fell over his tions. Loristan asked them as he had
forehead. A certain street in Mun- often asked them before. They were
ich meant' a stout genial old ariSto- questions asto the height and build of
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Even this was, still called "the
game;" but Marco began to know in
his secret heart that it was so•much
more, that hishand sometimes tremb-
led with excitement as he made his
sketches over and over again. To
make each one many tunes was the
best way. to imbed it in his memory.
The Rat knew, too, though he had no
reason for knowing, but mere in-
stinct. He used to lie awake in the
night and think it over and'remember
what Loristan had .said of the time
coming when Marco might need a
cornrade.in. his work. What wet his
work to lie? Tt was to be something
like "the game." And they were, be-
ing prepared, for it. And though
Marco often lay awake on his bed
when The Rat, lay awake en his sofa,
neither boy spoke to the other of the
thing his mind dwelt on. And Marco
Worked as he had never worked be-
fore. The game was very exciting
when he could prove his prowess. The
four gathered together at night in
the back sitting -room. Lazarus was
obliged to be with then because a
second judge was needed. Loristan
would mention the name of a place, be mistaken."
pleasure •' of his father and his vis or.
They were speaking together in ow
tones and he waited several minutes.
What The . Rat noticed was what he
had noticed before—that the big boy
could stand still in perfect ease and
silence. It- was notnecessary for
him ,to'say things or to ask questions
--to look at people as if he felt rest-
less if they did not sneak to or notice
him. He did not seem to require no-
tice, and The Rat felt vaguely that,
young as he was, this very freedom
from any anxiety to be looked at or
addressed made hien somehow leak
like a great gentleman.
Loristan and the Prince .advanced
to where he stood.
"L'IIotel de Marigny," Loristan
said.
Marco began to sketch rapidly. He
began the portrait of the handsome
woman with the delicate high -bridged
nose and the black brows which al-
most met. As he did it, the Prince
drew nearer and watched the work
over his shoulder. It did not take
very long and, when it was finished,
the inspector turned, and after giving
Loristan a long and strange look,
nodded twice.
"It is a remarkable thing," he said.
"In that rough sketch she is not to
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been secretly ready to answer any
call that he sat up straight in bed
at the first touch.
"Dress quickly and come down 'co knows."
stairs, Lazarus said.. "The Prince Marco looked at his father.
is . here and wishes to speak with
you.'
Marco made no answer but got out
of bed and began to slip on his
clothes.
'Lazarus touched The Rat.
The. Rat was as ready as Marco and
sat upright as he had done.
"Come down with the young Mas-
ter," he commanded. "It is necessary
that you 'should be seen and spoken
to.» And having given the order he
went away.
'No one heard the shoeless feet of
the two boys as they stole down the
stairs. •
An elderly man in: ordinary clothes,
butwithan .unmistakable face, was
sitting quietly talking to Loristan ing in • his readiness of reply and his
who with a gesture called both for- exactness of mammy.
ward. "I can't draw," he said at the end.
"The Prince has been much inter- "l3ut I can remember. I didn't want
ested in what I have told hin, your any one to be bothered with thinking
game," he said hi his lowest voice. I was trying, to learn it. So only
"He wishes to see you make your Marco knew,'
President, ' Alex. Broadfoot, Sea sketches Marco." This he said to Loristan with ap-
'forth; Vice -President, Thomas Moya Marco looked very straight into the peal in his voiee. I'
Ian, Seaforth; Secretary -Treasurer, Prince's eyes which were fixed intent- "it was he who invented 'the
M. A. Reid, Seaforth, ly on him as he made his bow. g ,
ame"' said Loristan. "I showed
Directors — Alex. Broadfoot, Sea "His Highness does -me honor," he o plans."
'forth; Janmes'Sholdice, Walton; Wil -You his strange maps and
lam. Knox, Londesboro; Chris. Leon- said, as his father might have said "It, is a good game," the Prince
ibardt, Dublin; James Connolly, God- it. He went to the table at once and answered' in the manner of a man ex-
'erich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. took from a drawer his pencils and traordinarily interested and impres-
•R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. McEw-
<iing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. pieces of cardboard. sed. "They know it well. They' can
List of Agents: W. J. Yeo,- Clin- I should know he was your son be trusted."
'ton, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; and a Samavian," the Prince remark- :+No such thing has ever been' done
�iLbhn E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. ed. before," Loristan said. "It is as new
'f'io. 1; R. F. McKercher, Dublin, R. R. Then his keen and deep, -set eyes as it is daring and Simple."
"No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; turned themselves on the « boy with the
'OIL, G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1.Therein lies its safety," the Prince
Any money to be paid may be paid crutches, answered.
..to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of "This,". said Loristan, "is the one <pe haps only boyhood, said Lor-
Commer e, Seaforth, or at Calvin who calls himself The Rat, He is istan, "could have dared to imagine
:Cutts Grocery, Gedericlr.1'
Parties desiring to effect insur- one of us. it."
...wee or transact other business will The Rat saluted.' "The Prince thanks you," he said
' ibe promptly attended to do Retake-
' Ion to any of the above officers ad -
respective
post .offi-
e to their s
' dressedp P .
ees. Losses inspected by the director
' who lives nearest the scene.
the originals of the pictures; of the
color of their hair and eyes, andthe
order of their complexions. Marco
answered them all. He knew all but
the names of these people, and it was
plainly not necessary that he should
know them, as his father had never
uttered them.
After this, questioning was at an
end the Prince pointed to The Rat who
had leaned on his crutches against
the wall, his eyes fiercely eager like
a ferret's.
"And he?" the Prince said. "What
can he do?"
"Let me try," said The Rat. "Mar -
"May I help him to show you," he
asked.
"Yes," ' Loristan answered, and
then, as he turned to the Prince, he
said again in his low voice: "He is
one of us."
Then Marco began a new form of
game. He held up one of the pictur-
ed faces before The Rat, and The Rat
named at once the city and place con
fleeted with it, he detailed the color
of eyes and hair, the height, the
build, all the personal details as Mar-
co himself had detailed thein. To
these he added descriptions of the
cities, and points concerning the po-
lice system, the palaces, the people.
His face twisted itself, hiseyes burn -
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"Please tell him, sir," he whispered, after a few .more words spoken aside
"that the crutches don't matter." Ito his visitor. "We both thank you.
"He has trained himself to an ex- You may go back to your beds."
traordinary activity," Loristan said.) And the boys went.
"He can do anything."
The keen eyes were still taking
The Rat in. •
"They are an advantage,"said the
Prince at last:
Lazarus had nailed togethet a I ' A week had not passed befoise
Tight, rough easel which Marco used Marco brought to The Rat in their
in making his sketches when the bedroom ;an envelope containing a
game was played. Lazarus was stand -j number of slips of paper on each of
ing hi state at the door., •and he camel which was written something.
forward, brought the easel from its l "This is another part of the game,"
corner, and arranged the necessary he said gravely. "Let us sit down
drawing materials upon it. together by the table and study it."
Marco stood near it and waited the They sat down and examined what
CHAPTER XIX
"That I's One"
head of each was the name of one of
was written on 'the slips. At the
the 'places with which Marco had con-
nected a face he had sketched. Be-
low were clear anil concise directions
as to how it was to be reached and
the words to be said when, each indi-
vidual was encountered.
"This person is to be found at his
stall in the market," was written of
the vacant -faced peasant, "You will
first attract his attention by asking
the price of something. When he is
looking at you,, touch your left thumb
lightly with the forefinger of your
right hand, Then utter in a low die=
tinct tone the words 'The Lame is
lighted,' Thai is all, you are to da."
Sometimes the directions were not
quite so simple, but they were all in-
structions of the same order. The
originals of the sketches were to be
sought out — always with precaution
which should conceal that they were
being sought at all, and always in
such a manner as would cause an en-
counter to appear to be mere chance.
Then certain words were to be utter-
ed, but always without attracting the
attention of any bystander or passer -
The boys worked at their task
through the entire day: They con-
centrated all their powers upon it.
They wrote and re-wrote—they re-
peated to each other what they com-
mitted to memory as if it were a les-
son. Marco worked with the greater
ease and more rapidly, because exer-
cise of this order had been his prac-
tice and entertainment from his baby-
hood. The Rat, however, almost kept
pace with him, as he had been born
with a phenomenal memory and his
eagerness and desire were a fury.
But throughout the entire day nei-
ther of them once referred to what
they were doing as anything but ,'the
game
•
At n:"
ight, it is true, each found him-
self lying awake and thinking. It
was The Rat who broke the silence
from his sofa. '
"It is what the messengers of the
Secret Party would be ordered to do
when they were sent out to give the
Sign for the Rising," he said. "I
made that up the first day I invented
the party, didn't I?"
"Yes," answered Marco.
After a third day's concentration
they knew by heart,everything given
to them to learn. That night Loris -
tan put, them through an examina-
tion.
"Can ,you 'write these things?" he
asked, after each had repeated them
and emerged safely from all cross-
qustioning.
Each boy wrote thein correctly
from memory.
"Write yours in French—in Ger-
man—in Russian—in Samavian," Lor-
istan said to Marco.
"All you have told me to do and
to learn is part of myself, Father,"
Marco said in the end. "It is part of
me, as if it were my hand or my
eyes—or my heart."
"I believe that is true," answered
Loristan.
He waspale that night and there
Was a shadow on his face. His eyes
held a great longing as they rested
on Marco. It was a yearning which
had a sort of dread in it.
Lazarus also did not seem quite
himself. He was red instead of pale,
and his movements were uncertain
and restless, He cleared his throat
nervously at intervals and more than
once left his chair as if to look for
something.
It was almost midnight when Loris -
tan, standing near Marco; put#his
arm round his shoulders.
"The Game"—he began, and then
was silent a few moments while Mar-
co felt his arm tighten its hold. Both
Marco and The Rat felt a hard quick
beat in their breasts, and, because of
this and because the pause seemed
long, Marco spoke,
"The Game—yes, Father?" he said.
"The Game is about to give you
work to do—both of you," Lorsitan
answered.
Lazarus cleared his throat and
walked to the easel in the corner of
the room. But he only changed the
position of a piece of drawing -paper
on it and then carne back.
"In: two days you are to go to Paris
—as you," to The Rat, "planned in
the game."
"As I planned?" The Rat basely
breathed the words,
"Vase' answered Loristan, "The
instructions you have learned you
will carry out. There is no more. to
be done than to manage to approach
certain persons closely enough to be
able to utter certain words to them,"
"Only to young strollers whom no
pian could suspect," put in Lazarus
in an astonishingly rough and shaky
voices "Thep could pass near the
Emperor himself without danger. The
young Master—" his voice became so
hoarse that he was obliged to clear
it loudly—"the young Master must
carry himself less finely. It would
be well to shuffle a little and slouch
as if he were of the common people."
"Yes," said The'Rat hastily. "He
must do that. I can teach hint. He
holds his: head and his shoulders like
a gentleman. He must look like a
street lad."
"I will look like one," said Marco
with determination.
"I will trust you to remind him,"
Loristan said to The Rat, and ise said
it with gravity. "That will be your
charge."
(Continued Next Week).
c
"Is there hot water in your house?"
asked one small boy of another.
"There is,," replied the other, "and
I am always in it."
OUR FOREST HERITAGE
A SERIES OP TALKS BY JOHN C. IIiWIN, B.Sc.F.,F.E, •
1. "BUT ONLY GOD CAN MAKE A TREE."
2. "TIIE DESERTED VILLAGE."
3. "WHAT POOLS THESE MORTALS 13E."
"The Deserted Village"
Last week I spoke about the im-I
portance of wood in our civilization,
and how from the cradle to the grave
we are surrounded and served by
wood in its various forms. As an in-
teresting • dives•sion try some time to
list the articles you know that are
made of or derived from wood. I
think you will be surprised at the to-
tal number•.
I mentioned also some popular mis-
conceptions about the growth of trees,
and what is necessary to secure their
reproduction. I tried to outline brief-
ly the.ideal of the forest engineer=
to grow the best possible crop of trees
on land that cannot profitably be used
for anything else. I said also that
we have in Canada a tremendous area
of such land, much of it fortunately
still covered by forest growth, but
a great deal of which is, as a result
of fires, not bearing any useful crop
of trees, and some of which is en-
tirely barren. This barren land is so
stripped of trees that it will not pro-
duce a forest, without aid, for hun-
dreds
undreds of years.
In the time at my disposal I can-
not begin to tell you in any detail
what has led up to the present state
of affairs. It is a very interesting
story, but it would take many broad-
casts the length of this one to tell
it in full. I can only say that two,
major factors . have contributed: first,
the activities of the lumbering indus-
try, and second the urge on the past
of colonists and colonizing agencies
to open up the country as rapidly as
possible. Settlers from the British
Isles and Europe were lured by adver-
tisements which painted the country
in glowing colors, praising the fer-
tility of the soil, and offering one
hundred acres of free land to each
settler . As will be imagined, the sys-
tem led to many abuses, as it does
even today; many settlers took up
land merely for the timber upon it,,
and when the timber was sold the land
was abandoned. All of then cannot
be blamed, for a large part of the
area settled was not really fit for
agriculture. Practically anywhere
one goes in Ontario one finds land
that has been cleared, land from which
the trees should never have been re-
moved, and in some of the more
northerly and easterly sections of the
lower part of .Ontario, one can see
literally miles of fences built of
stones gathered from the fields—
fields and houses have now been
abandoned, and the trees are again
making a foothold—mute evidence of
the tremendous energy of the early
settlers and their misguided optim-
ism. It is saddening to reflect upon
the struggles of two generations of
settlers in hewing their farms out of
the forest—farms which have been
abandoned in the exodus to the towns
and cities, to the western provinees
and to the United States,
It must not be thought, however:,
that at the time such settlement was
being most actively promoted every-
one was in favor of the polity of
clearing ,what were essentially forest
lands. In the legislatures of, the day
many protests, were voiced, and it
was urged that the areas of icon-ag-
riculturalland be reserved for the
growth of trees. The protests were •
not heeded, and it seemed to be the
general idea that the forest was a
kind of extra. bounty nature had
thrown in with the land. Apparently
it had not occurred to the majority
that a forest properly maintained
could be a perpetual asset to the na-
tion.
In view of our own indifference,
however , regarding the tremendous
resource we as a nation have in our
forests, and the inexplicable inertia of
our leaders in carrying out any forest
policy that is worth more than the
paper it is written on, we should not
judge our predecessors too harshly. It
was a rigorous age—there was still
something of the feeling inherited,
they say, from the first pioneers, that
the forest was an enemy, concealiy„
the foes -who lurked in its fastnesses.
The supply of trees seemed inexhaus-
tible. Perhaps a man in those days
could be excused if, when burning the
brush and probably even the logs he
was unable to sell, he allowed the
fire to get out of control and run in
the green timber.
Nor should we be too ready to
point the finger of scorn at the ear-
ly lumbermen. Vast areas in this
province are silent witnesses to their.
carelessness in not taking,lirecautions
with fire in woods full of dried -out
slash and tree -tops left after logging.
But thousands of acres are still being
burned in Canada through sheer
carelessness. It seems unfortunate
that many of those who enjoy smok-
ing should be so reckless when in
the woods, and flies jeopardize hum..
dreds of thousands of dollars' worth
of timber belonging to ather people.
It is a rather sad reflection on the
hold the smoking habit has an so
many otherwise respectable human
beings. Someno doubt salve their
or cigarette, but as an. example to
those who may not be so careful, the
right-minded citizen should abstain
consciences .by .thinking that they
are always very careful about mat-
ches and the ashes from a pipe, cigar
altogether in the woods. It is a
small price to pay for one's pleasure
there. Not only is the timber destroy-
ed or rendered much less valuable.
Fire has far-reaching effects on the
nearby communities and the country
as a whole.
In the settlement of Ontario
throughout the area bounded in the
north by a line drawn from the north
end of Georgian Bay east to the Ot-
tawa River, land settlement and the.
lumbering industry developed togeth-
er. Communities sprang up . around
the saw -mills, and these, together
with the camps, furnished a market
for the extra produce the farmer was
able to raise from his land, such as •
it was. In addition, the men from
the farms went to work in the lumber
camps in the fall and winter, and on
the "drive" in the spring.
While the forests lasted, the set-
tlers by these various means made a
hard-earned and meagre livelihood.
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