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The Clinton News Record, 1937-07-08, Page 2re -AGE 2. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., JULY 8, 1937. "THE LOST PRINCE" By Frances Hodgson. Burnett SYNOPSIS Marco Loristan was the kind of a boy people lookedat the second time ',when they had looked at him once. ,He was a well-built boy of 12, intelli- gent looking, and well-mannered, He :and his father had travelled a great •deal and the' boy was proficient in :several Ianguages, so that he felt at rtonie in whatever country he. was -staying. Marco knew that they were ' amavians, that there was trouble :aael bloodshed in Samavia at present. ;His father had told hint the story of the Lost Prince, who might one day return to Samavia and restore order and peace. At present the Loristan's .are in London, England, and Marco had aneountered several interesting ,people, among them, "The Rat," a ierippled boy who commands a group ,ei; willing bays -the boys listen at- tentively as Marco speaks to them. Later Loristan and Marco have 'a '!long 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 adescendant on the throne of Same- -via and end the civil wars and blood- •ahed in the country. ' At a meeting 'of the Squad, The Rat forms a sec - wet society for Samavia among them- taelves. The Rat's father dies, and Loristan invites the lad to live with hint and Wareo. The two boys plan to`'aid • the cause of the Lost Prince. Marco, while on an errand, assists a young ''lady in distress, who seems very' in- terested in him. She seems destined The Clinton News -Record With which ig, Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION mi1,60 per year in advance, to Cana- Alan addresses, $2.00 to the U.S. or -ether foreign countries. 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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY As he lay upon his pillow that night, it seemed to Marco as if a load had lifted itself from his heart. It was the load of uncertainty and longing. He had so long bornethe pain of feeling that he was too young.' to be allowed to serve in' any way, His dreams had never been wild ones -they had in fact alwaye been boyish and modest, howsoever romantic. But now no dream which could have passed through his brain would have seemed so wonderful as this -that • the hour had come - the hour had come -and that he,. Marco, was to be its messenger. He was to do no dramatic deed and be an- nounced by no flourish of heralds. No one would know what he did. What he achieyed could only be attained if he remained obscure and unknown and seemed to every one only a com- mon ordinary boy who knew nothing whatever of important things. But his father had given to him a gift so splendid that he trembled with awe and joy as he thought.of it."The Game had become real: He and The Rat were to carry with them The Sign, and it would be like carrying a tiny lamp to set aflame lights which would blaze from one mountain -top to another until half the world seem - led on fire. As he' had awakened out of his sleep when Lazarus touched him, so he awakened hi the middle of the night again. But he was not aroused by a touch, When he opened his eyes he knew . it was a look which had penetrated his' sleep -a look in' the eyes of his father who was standing by his side. In the road outside there was the utter silence he' had noticed the night of the Prince's first visit -the only light was that of the lamp in the street, but' he could see Lori- stan's face clearly enough to know that the mere intensity of his gaze had awakened him, The Rat was sleeping profoundly. Loristan spoke In Samavian and under his breath. "Beloved one," he said. "You are very young. Because I ant your father just at this hour I can feel nothing else. I have trained you for this' through all the years of your life. I am proud of your young ma- turity and < strength but -Beloved - you are a child! Can I do this thing!" For the moment, his face and his voice were scarcely like his own. He kneeled by the bedside, and, as he did it, Marco half sitting up caught his hand and held it hard a- gainst his breast, "Father, I know!" he cried under his breath. also. "It is true. I am a child but am I not a man also? You yourself said it. I always knew that you were teaching me to be one - for some reason. It was my secret that I knew it. I learned well because I never forgot it.' And I learned, Did I not?" He was so eager that he looked more like a boy than ever. But his young strength and courage were splendid to see. Loristan knew him through and through and read every boyish thought. of him. "Yes," he answered slowly. "You did your part -and now if I -drew back -you would feel that I had fail- ed you --nailed you." "You!" Marco breathed it proudly. "'You could not fail even the: weak- est thing in the world," There was a moment's silence in which- the two pairs of eyes dwelt on each other'with the deepest meaning, and then Loristan rose to his feet.: "The end will be all that our hearts might` wish," he said. "To -morrow you may begin - the. new part of 'the Game.' You may go to Paris." When -the train which was to meet the' boat that' crested from Dover' to Calais steamed out of the noisy Char- ing Cross. Station, it carried in a third-class carriage two shabby boys. One.of them would have been a hand- some lad if he had not carried' him- self slouchingly and walked with , a street lad's careless shuffling gait. Thee other was. a cripple who moved slowly, • and apparently with difficul- ty, on crutches. There was nothing remarkable or picturesque enough about them to attract attention. They sat in the corner of the carriage and neither talked much nor seemed to be particularly interested. in the jour- ney or each .other. When they went on board the' steamer, they were soon lost among the commoner passengers and in fact found for themselves a secluded place which was not advan- tageous enough to be wanted by any one else. "What can such a poor -looking pair, of lads be going to Paris' for?" some one asked his companion. "Not for pleasure, certainly; per- hape to get work," was the casual answer. In the evening they reached Paris; and Marco led the way to a small cafe in a side -street where they got some cheap food.' In the sae' side - street they found a bed they' could share for the, night in a tiny room over a baker's shop. The Rat was too much excited to be ready to go to bed' early:He beg- ged Marco, to guide him about the brilliant streets. They went slowly along the broad Avenue des Champs Elysess under the lights glittering among the horse -chestnut trees. The Rat's sharp eyes took it all in - the light of the cafes among the 'embow- cring trees, the many carriages rol- ling by, the people who loitered and laughed or sat at little tables drink- ing wine and listening to music, the broad stream of life which flowed on to' the Are de Triomphe and back a- • gain. "It's brighter and clearerthan Lon- don," he said to Marco.- "The • people look as if they were having more fun than they do in England." The Place de la Concorde spreading its stately spaces --a world of illum- ination, movement, and majestic beau ty-held him as though by a faacina tion. He wanted to stand still and stare at it, first from one point of view_ and then from another: It was bigger and more beautiful than he had been able to picture it when Marco had described it to 'him and told him of the part it had played in the days of the French Revolution when the guillotine` had stood in it and the tumbrils had emptied them- selves at the foot of its steps. He stood near the Obelisk a long time without speaking. - "I can see it all happening," he he said at last, and he pulled Marco away. Before they returned home, they found their way to a large house which stood in a courtyard. In the ir- on work of the handsome gates which shut it in was wrought a gilded cor- onet. The gates were closed and the house was not brightly lighted. They •walked past it and round it without speaking, but, when they neared the entrance for the second time, The Rat said in a low tone. ! "She is five feet seven, has black hair, a nose with a high bridge, her eyebrows are black and almost meet across it, she has a pale olive skin land holds her head proudly." I"That is the one," Marco answered. • They were a week in Paris and each day passed this big house. There were certain hours when great ladies were more likely to go out and come in than they were at others. Marco knew this, and they managed to be within sight of the house or to pass it at these hours, For two days they saw no sign of the person they wish- ed to see, but one morning the gates wore thrown open and they saw flow- ers and palms being taken in. "She has been away and is coming back," said. Marco. The next clay they passed three times -once at the hour when fashionable women drive out to do their shopping, once at the time when afternoon visiting is most likely to begin, and once when the streets were brilliant with lights and the carriages had begun to roll by to !dinner-partiesand theaters. Then, as they stood at a little dis- tanee from the iron gates, a carriage :drove through them and stopped be- fore the big door which was thrown open by two tall footmen in splendid livery. • "She is coming out," said The Rat. They Would be able, to see her plain- ly when she came, because the lights over the entrance were so bright. Marco slipped from under his coat sleeve a carefully made sketch. He looked at it and The Rat looked' at it. A. footinan' stood erect on each side of the open door. The footman who sat with the coachman had got down and was waiting by the carriage. Marco and The Rat glanced again with furtive haste at the sketch: A handsome woman ,appeared upon the threshold. She.peusedand gave some order to the footman who stood on the right. Then she. carne out in the full light and got into the carriage which drove out of the courtyard and quite near' the .place where the two boys waited. - When it was gone, Marco drew a long breath as he tore the sketch into very small pieces indeed. He did not throwthem away then but put them into his pocket. The Rat drew a long breath also. "Yes," he said positively, "Yes," said Marco. When they 'were safely shut up in their 'room over the baker's shop, they discussed the chances of their being able to pass her in such a way as would seem accidental. Two common boys could not enter the courtyard. There was a back entrance for trades- people and messengers. When she drove, she would always enter her carriage from tl$e same place. Un- less she sometimes walked, they could not approach her, What should be done? The thing was .difficult, Af- ter they had talked some time, The Rat sat and gnawed his nails. "To -morrow afternoon," he broke out at last, "we'll watch and see if her carriage drives in for her -then, when she comes to the door, `I'll go in and begin to beg.. The servant will think I'm a foreigner and don't know what I'm doing. You can come after meto tell me to come away, because you know better than I do .that I at the - Pekingese,` which, catching shall be ordered out. She may be a 'sight of their mistress at the shop - good -natured woman and listen to us door, began to leap and yelp for joy. -and you might get near her.' Their mistress herself smiled, and "We might try it," Marco answered. was smiling as Marco drew near herr. "It might work We will try it" "May we look at them, Madame?" The Rat never failed to treat him he, said in French, and, as she made as his leaden/ lie had begged Lori- an amiable gesture of acquiescence slam to let him come with Marco as and moved toward the carriage with his servant, and his servant he had 'him, he spoke a few words, very low been more than willing to be. When but very distinctly, in Russian. Loristan had said he should be his "The Lamp is lighted," he said. aide-de-camp, he had felt his trust The Rat was looking at her keenly, lifted to a millitary dignity which up- but he did not see her face change at lifted him with it, As his aide -de- all, What he noticed most through - camp he must serve him, watch him, out their journey was that each person obey his lightest wish, make every- to whom they gave the Sign had eom- thing easy for him, Sometimes, Mar- plete control over his or her c'ounten- co:was troubled by the way in which epee' if there were bystanders, and he insisted on serving him, this queer never betrayed by any change of ex - once dictatorial and cantankerous lad pression that the words meant any - who had 'begun by throwing stones at thing unusual. The great lady merely went on «. T' You must not wait on me, he said smiling, and spoke only of the dogs; allowing Marco and 'himself to look at them through the window of the carriage as the footman opened the door for her to °enter. "They are beautiful little Crea- tures," Marco said, lifting his cap, and, as the footman turned away, he uttered his few Russian words once more and moved off without even glancing at the lady again. "That, is one!" he said to The Rat that night before they went to sleep, and with a match he burned the scraps of the sketch he had torn and put into his pocket. to him. "I must 'waitupon `myself." The Rat rather` flushed, "He told me that he would let me come with you as your Aide-de-camp," he said. "It -it's part of the game. It makes things easier if we keep up the game.' It would have attracted attention if they had spent too much time in the vicinity of the big house. So it hap- pened that the next afternoon the great lady evidently drove out at an hour when they were not watching for her. They were oe their way to try if they could carry out their plan, when, as they walked together along the Rue Royale, The Rat' suddenly touched Marco's elbow. "The carriage stands before the shop with lace in the windows," he whispered hurriedly. Marco saw and recognized it at once. The owner had evidently gone into the shop to buy something. This was a better chance than they had hoped for, and, when they approach- necessary to pass through the bak- ed the carriage itself, -they saw that er's shop itself. The baker's wife was there was another point in their fav- a friendly woman who liked the two or. Inside were no lessthan three boy lodgers who were soquiet and beautiful Tittle Pekingese spaniels gave no trouble. More tthan once she that looked exactly alike. They were had given them a hot roll or so or a all tryingto look' out of the window freshly baked little tartlet with fruit and were pushing against each other. in, the center. When Marco came in They were so perfect and so pretty this evening, she greeted him with a that 'few people passed by without nod and handed him a small parcel as looking anthem. What better excuse he passed through. • could two boys have for lingering a- "This was left for you this after= bout a place? noon," she said. "I see you are mak- They stopped and, standing a lit- ing purchases for your journey. My tie distance away, began to look at man and I are very sorry you are go - and discuss them 'and laugh at their ing." excited little antics. Through the "Thank you, Madame. We also are shop -window Marco caught a glimpse sorry," Marco answered, taking the. of the great lady. parcel. "They are not large pur- "She does not look much interested, chases, you 'see,' smiling. She won't stay long," he whispered, Birt neither he nor. The Rat had and added aloud, "that little- one is bought anything at all, though the or - the master. See how he pushes the dinary-looking little package was others aside! He is stronger than' plainly addressed to him and bore the other two, though he is so small." the name of one of the big' cheap "He can snap, too," said The Rat.: shops. It felt as if it contained some - "She is coming now," warned thing soft. Marco, and then laughed aloud as if: (Continued next week) CHAPTER XX Marco Goes To The Opera Their next journey was to Munich, but the night before they left Paris and unexpected thing happened. 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