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The Seaforth News, 1930-07-03, Page 6ti The Treasllre of the Biloolooll By A. D. HOWDEN SMITH BEGIN HERE TODAY Whilei e at• the Crusad s the original ga l Lord James Cheeby gained possession of the secret to the Treasure of. the Bucoleon, and left to his descendants documents concerning same. A desper- ate gent of bandits, in an effort to steal the key to the treasure, murder Hug'-. Chesby'.e uncle and the title des- cends to Hugh. The bandits, of whom an Italian, Touton, is head, shadow Hugh and his friends on their way to Constantinople, and on, the train going through Prance trap Jack Nash, a friend of Hugh's and the narrator of this story, and endeavor to- gain in- formation from him. Jack escapee, While Ilugh and 'Watkins lead their hhadowers astray, Jack Nash and a different standard of conduct from Gypsy friend, Nikka Zaranko steal that observed b our brother bachelors away and go to Sores, Tarkey, where Y Nikka meets his uncle, Wasso Mikali, we would prejudice our position in this who disguises thein as Gypsies. With strange community. i six others of Wasso's tribe theyproceed "What is good enough for them is to Constantinople. Nikka and Jack carry out a fake robbery of Watkins before the house of Tokalji, an ally of Teuton's. Tokalji .occupies the house where the treasure is buried, and when attacked those two, Giorgi Bordu. I. do not want them sneaking around here. They are after something that I want myself." He then motioned to the girl to shovv. us our room• Nikka and I pouched our shares of the loot we had brought in and followed the gypsy girl across the oourtyard to the building which fronted it on the left and was extended by the brick addition I have spoken of to shut in partially the rear of the court. "Here or above, .whichever you say," 1 she announced to us. "These are the quarters of the young men." I Nikka realized that if we set up a "If you breathe it to a soul, t Will Watch Your Baby! cut but your' heart' with my own knife, 1, Bean Tokalji," replied the Gypsy chief by of preface, "They have the secret to a ti•easure^ "What?", exclaimed Nikka, with great pretense of -astonishment, "Here in Stamboul?" "Close by, my lad, close by. They I 1• -.ow its location, but if we are smart we should be able to take it from them as soon as they reveal their knowl- edge.' It is for us to find out their secret or wring it from them, by'tor- t re if necessary." u "This is a job worth doing," cried Nikka, jumping • up. "Jakka and I I will be dilligent." "Very well, • Tokalji assured, "It will help you to await the return'of: the two I. have out watching these Franks in Perar You shall' eat heart- ily, and this evening' Kara will dance in the courtyard." He stepped aside, and waved us per- mission to go; and we walked through the courtyard' to the crumbling wall which rimmed the Bosphorus at one point, its base a rubble -heap, its bat- tlements in .fragments, its platform overgrown with weeds. "It would not be difficult 'to climb up here,' I said idly, pointing to the gaps be`•tivecri the stones, and the slop- ing piles of bowldees, We strolled over to theyoung men's quarters, and while I wraprerl myself in a gloomy atmos- phere, Nikka swapped anecdotes of Prime with the others who driftedin and out. Nikka and Jack plead for entrance after the fake robbery, he admits them. GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIII. There were two interesting char- acters close at hand. One was a stat- wart, black -bearded man, with a seam- ed wicked face that wore a habitual scowl.. The other was a girl of per- haps eighteen, whose tissotne figure set off her ragged dress like a Paquin toil- ette. She was very brown. She regarded me almost with con- tempt, but her eyes fairly devoured Nikka. "This is the one," she cried, "he ran like that stallion we had from the Arab of Nejd, and you Should have good enough for us," he decided, But where do you live, maiden?" Her face glowed rosily with satis- faction at this first evidence of his interest in herself. "Across the court," she answered. "Come ar.d you shall see." We descended the stairs into the big hall on the ground -floor, and crossed the courtyard to the building opposite on the right of the entrance and through a door. ,.'These are the quarters of the mar- BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON ried people," explained Kara. "And you?" asked Nikka. "Oh, I live where I choose, but most of all I like my garden." "Your garden? Where is there a garden?" "I will show you, Giorgi Bordu." Kara crossed the room and opened another door. This led to a pillared portico, and I gasped in wonder at the sheer loveliness of this morsel of im- perial Byzantium, buried in the frowsy seen him strip the old Frank." lanes of Stamboul. It was exactly as But the man only gl wered at BC, the first Hugh had described it in the his hand on the hilt of one of the long 'missing half of the Instructions which we had found. I dug my fingers into Nikka's arm. "Yes, ores," he said quietly in Eng- lish. "I see it, too. But do not let yourself seem excited." Involuntarily I repeated to myee f the concluding sentences of the In- structions which we had all memor- ized: "From the center of the Fountain f Began Tokalji in many camps. A ke f aces west toward the wall great thief, they said. an d le who of the atrium. Then walk three paces north. Underfoot is a red stone an ell square." The center of the Fountain—where could that be? The pool stretched side - (To lie continued.) What New York Is Wearing knives in his waistseeh- "Be still, Karol You jabber like a crow " ` A e 1 you snarl like a wolf, Old One." she retorted. "I say I caw them." "Somewhat of it I saw myself," he admitted, "but :s ,at a reason for tak- ing strangers in from the street?" "My comrade and I are new to Stain- boul,'• state -1 Nikka. "We have heard o ti, our r p o. treater his people well." "How do you kn ,w that I am To- kalji?" demanded the bearded man, plainly flattered by Nikka's speech. The. girl thrust Herself scornfully to wise to us, as we stood in front of the the fore. atrium. Plainly then, it was intended "Gabble, gabble, gabble," she mock- to mean from the center of the pedes ed. "Are we old wives that we mouth tel on which the lion was perched. I over everything? These then robbed, stepped out from the portico, mouser they fled unseen, they have their loot, ed with my eye the distance from the Foster -father, you tore not so keen as pedestal west toward the wall of the you once were. Something was said atrium, and walked north on the paved of a division" walk which rimmed the central grass - A greedy light dawned in Tokalji'.s eyes. "Yes, yes," he 'insisted, "that is right. So you said, my lad, and if you would have shelter you must pay for it." "So will I." Nikka flung the money -belt, some loose change and a watch down on the ground, and squatted beside them. The rest of us did the sante. The girl seized the belt and emptied the compat•tutents, one by one. ` I:nghvh gold," she exclaimed. "This was worth taking. You are a clan of judgment, friend. What is your name?" "I ant called Giorgi Bordu. My friend is named Jakka in the Tzigane camps. 1 -be name he bore in his own country is burned under a killing," She looked at me more respectfully and began shifting the money into three equal piles, "Did lie -have any papers, that Frank?" asked Tokalji abruptly. "All that he had is there," replied Nikka. 'Humph!" The Gypsy thought for a Moment. "It was strange that you WRIGLEYS Alertness scores everywhere. Wrigley's creates pep and ern ergy and keeps you alert. A 51t package may save von from going to sleep at the wheel of your car. Makes pep oq,a 1:7J7 N.a 25-30 plotTh, eli worn by even as day, I red and brown granite in a checker- board pattern, but they seemed to be only a foot square. It was not until I passed the center of the fountain that I discovered that at regular in- tervals a larger stone was inserted in the design. And sure enough I found a red one about three and a half paces, and I roughly made it, ho a northerly line from the point I had calculated es four paces west of the center of the fountain. Kara had no eyes for an;' one save Nikka, and I ventured to stamp my sandaled heel on the stone as I trod over it. It gave back no different sound from those on either side of it, but when my first disappointment had passed, 1 told myself that this was no more than could have been expected, Had it sounded hollow, surely, some person ih the course of seven centur- ies would have noticed it, and whether possessed of knowledge of the treasure or not must have had sufficient enter- prise to attempt to find what it con- cealed. Nikka and Kara soon returned and we proceeded back to our quarters. On the way, we met. Tokalji who dismiss- ed Kara and escorted us up the stairs into a large chamber where he himself slept. Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern A precious frock for wee maids of 1, 2, 4 and 6 years is pictured in pale pink batiste. egging here, while naturally It is strikingly smart and yet as the passage of time, was as simple as can be. though 1.: had been aid yester- The cartwheel ruffle trimming is t was composed of blocks of amusing. This ruffling of self -fabric CHAPTER XIV. "Sit," he ordered roughly, motion- ing to several stools. "I have some- thing to say." "Theses two Franks you robbed are an English lord and Ids servant, They seek something which I also seek and with them in their venture are two others, an Amerikansky, Nash, and one named Zaranko, who, they say, is a fiddler and was one of our people in his youth. "Good! Above everything else we wish to learn what has become of the Amerikansky and the fiddler and when they are to arrive. Also, there are two more pranks at the hotel, a man nam- ed King and his daughter. They, I think, are Amerikansky like Nash. We. do not understand how they come to be in this business. If they are really in it, perhaps it would be worbh white to kidnap the girl. We might hold her to blackmail her friends." "But what dothey seek that you also seek?" asked Nikka, has picot edge, It is sewed to the dress following perforations for same, Style No. 3485 makes up beautifully in taffeta for parties. Georgette crepe and crepe de chine are very dainty. Sprigged dimity, printed lawn, sheer linen, organdie and voile also. appropriate. It may also be made of checked gingham without the cartwheel trim- ming. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson ,Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St,, Toronto. 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' i Make Accurate Measurements of His Physical; Manual, Social and Mental Powers 13y Rowena Ripin, Lecturer in Psych- ology, Barnard College. There are tests for arithmetical reg- soniug, stenographic ability, ethical discrimination, emotional instability and`manu:' dexterity, not to mention tho so-called intelligence tests and others :which are calculated to mea- sure various aptitudes and traits in men, won and children. Now comes a series of tests for the baby, stand- ardized to ineasure Misr -accomplish- ments. This will enable the parent t,i. know, long before the child's entrance into school, whether his general de-• velopinent is retarded or accelerated, and how he stands with respect to physical, mental, social and manual traits. And grandmother's boasts of the bright baby can now 'be checked uP by exact measurements. For the first time also in the his- tory of tests, a soned,picture has been made of a sample demonstration for educational purposes. It is to be shown in training schools for teachers to familiarize them with the child's development prior to the school-age, and to enable them to grasp the se- quence of his growth as a whole. The mental tests begin by measur lug the child's sense -perception, his reactions to light and sound. To trace this development with respect to vis- ual stimuli we have the following series. The 2 -mouths test is focusing the glance at an Object; at 3 months the child follows a moving object with hie eyes and looks after the examin- er's face when -he makes it disappear. By this time, too, he distinguishes be- tween the examiner's face and a mask which she places over it. At 4 months he looks about actively in a new situa- tion,, and at 5 months he looks for a Joel toy. When presented at 10 months with a toy behind a glass plate his perception is so developed that he reaches around the glass instead of trying to go through it in order to pro- cure the top. At i year he prefers fig- ured surfaces to plain and by the end of the second year he recognizes sim- ple pictures. 1'1ie'ehild's powers of imitation also come In for their share of testing. Whet, there Is the imitation of siugle sounds and easy facial expressions, such as ticking out the tongue. Then from the eventh month on there is imitation of actions involving ma- terials—knocking against the crib with. a rattle, opening and shutting a picture book, etc. When the child is 2 months old the tests show that he should be able to bold his head up when placed in the prone position, to focus his eyes on a moving, shiny object, to return the glance of the adult and to show by his reactions that he distinguishes be- tween the adult's natural and his growling tone of: voice. At the one- year level he should be able to hold. something while standing and, while walking with support, should observe his reflection in the mirror and grasp at a tracker he sees there. 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Experiments on human beings were made comparatively easy by the char- acter of the disease; ninny persons were willing to take a chance on catching a cold and submitted them- selves as subjects for experiment, Dr. Pfeiffer inoculated several of his own patients and other physicians carried out similar experiments with their pa- tients. 0 The World Speaks 4 The only way you can fight booze Is. by ceasing to malts life chronically painful for the masses.—George Ber- nard Shaw. A soft answer lets the other fellow show himself up.—Mayor Walker. All the disasters which overtook Samson and Delilah were du@.to im- posing a' foreign nationality on De- Blah.—Doris Stevens. Mouogainy was bound up with the agricultural life; now the industrial revolution threatens to sweep it away along with monarchies and theologies. —Will Durant. A combination of different tempera- ments is more likely to succeed In partnership than any pairing of the .- same temperaments.—James H. Col- lins. 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Young people today are suffering from a fund of unexpended serious- ness.—C. 17, M. Joad. Trust youth, Thera has been too much repression. — Rev. Ambrose Evans. .A. custom among ns out in the Afri- can bush is Forgiveness Week, when every ono pledges to forgive his neighbor any wr,mg, real or faneled. Harrington Smyth. Cats appear enigmatic only to those t" who are not sensitive to the express sive power of silence—Paul Morand. Submarining under polar ice is an undertaking that would bring Soles Verne into the twentieth century. -17, L. Jahnke, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Always on Time The black and white ilying squirrel of Asliauti, West Africa, appears to have been exceedingly well trained by bis parents,O5r he never arrives tato for his appointments. A resident in that region remarked to a co-worker that he had noticed three of these squirrels appeared at exactly the same time every evening. Out of curiosity they took the trouble to comspare the arrival of the squirt ;els with the ohmic, and discovered that he was right—the, punctual alb male put in, an appearance at exactly a quarter to seven each evening, After that it was quite easy to set their watches by the squirrels Instead Of by the clock!