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The Seaforth News, 1930-07-10, Page 2The Troasure of the Buoolooll By A; D. HOWDEN SMITH SYNOPSIS Iiugh Cheshy, on. the death of his uncle, becomes Lord Cheslty, and shortly thereafter. discovers the key tc the Trea- sure of the Bucoleon, which was left by the nut Lord Cheeby, the Crusader. Hugh sets out in. quest or the treasure, hick, is situated in a house in Constan- tl• . ple. With him aro Watkins, his. ser- vant; Jack Nash, andNikka Zaranko. They are set upon by a band of desperate criminals led by one Touton, who hope to steal the secret and purloin the trea- sure, Nikita and Jack gain i 'cess to. the house where the treasure is hidden and which is occupied by Tokalit, an ally of Toutou's. They are disguised as Gypsies. In ord to further their endsthey con- sent to Join Tokalil's ba,cc of young men. I4ara, a beautiful Gypsy girl,is fascin- ated by Nikita. ! CHAPTER.XIV.—(Cont'd.) After supper the young m n moved to the courtyard, where they built a fire of driftwood. A buzz of talk arose. The primitive Gypsy fiddles end gui- tars began to twang. softly. "Kaon will dance," they cried. "Let Kara dance for the strangers." And Kara floated into the circle of firelight like a spirit tf the forest. She still wore only the Scanty madder -red skirt and torn bodice. The cloud of. her hair tumbed belsw her waist. Her tiny naked feet bar•.ly touched the ground. Slowly she whirled, and the Gypsy fiddles caught her time. A man with cymbals clashed an accompani- ment. A flute whistled soprano. She increased the tempo; she varied her steps. She was a flower shrinking be- neath the grass. She was a dove pur- sued by a falcon. She was a maiden deserted by her lover. She was a fairy hovering above the world Crash! boomed a knock on the street door. And rap -rap -rap! it was re- peated. Crash! again. The music stopped. "Heh!" said Tokalji. "Who can it be in such a hurry at this hour?" Crash! The cio,r resounded under the battering of a pistol -butt. Tikatji crossed to the entrance. I :s noise there!" he shouted that a ;•ningiy. "This is a peaceful house." But his u•aneer changed the moment he opened the wicket. What he said we eeuld not hear, but we saw him quickly turn the lock and throw back a leaf of the door. salaaming low as he stepped aside. Six men burst in, four of them in European clothes, 1 nd Nik- ita and I exchanged a glance of appre- hension as we recognized the broad shoulder•, of their loader and heard his snarling voice. Toutou LaFitte itte had arrived With him were Itilylr. Serge Vassilievich and Hilmi Bey. The two who brought up the rear, somewhat sulky and fear- ful, were the spies we had seen in front of the Pero Palace that morning. "Can I trust nobody to fulfill my orders?" whined Toutou, striding to- ward the fire. "I tell you to spare no efforts—and I come to find you singing and dancing around a fire!" Tokalji, having refastened the door, followed hint acmes the courtyard. "What could we have done that we have not done?" he retorted. "Was it our fault that you lost track of the two mi sine ones? As for the English lord and his servant, my two men that I see with you have shadowed them day and night." "And !'tat them today, as they ad- mit," .searin+i Toutou. "Lost them for a wh.t!c i'ay! Who knows what has been aecornph hzd in that time?" "You are siget there," agreed To- kalji ceelly, "and I have just picked two nen men to take their places. One h£ them is a Fr .n'; Tice yourself; the other is a Tzi'*.ane,' "Ha, 1••t me s ' that Frank," ex- claimed Taut u, "I know many of the Franks who live with the Tziganes." "Stets out, Giorgi Bordu and Jakka," called Tokalji. Nikka sunk his fingers in my arm in a warning grip, and we stepped forth from the group of Tziganes clus- tered in front of the fire- There was at least a chance that we should not be identified—but it value was de- monsti•a: ' 1 the instant the firelight When you need new energy, awhen you are hot and mouth hie dry -pep up with Wrigley's—it, moistens mouth and throat. '1{ The increasedflow of saliva feeds new strength to the blood, '';you kart do retire -- you feel , :better. L•n, ilial II I� i � Yp �. lf'li" y .ry �lll 1i ��'SG ring. R -l.`- pa" Keep awake with Wrigley', Cit i4 ISSUE No 26-'.30 splashed over Nikka's aquiline fa e and tease, febrile body. "Surely I have seen that lean fellow before," piped Hilmi Bey, pointing at. Nikka. CHAPTER XV. • Vassilievich pushed in front of the newcomers. "Is it my imagination," he inquired softly, "or does the stocky one bear a resemblance to the Amerikansky, Nash?" "By: jove, I think you're right i" ex- claimed Hilyer, speaking for the first time. "Be ready," hissed Nikka from the corner of his mouth, without shifting his eyes from our enemies. His right hand was thrust into his waist -sash. - "I do not like this .busines,," rasped Toutou, pulling a knife from inside his vest. I felt a pressure between Nikka and myself, and Kara's voice whispered: " Run, you fools! To the House of the Married!" Nikka's pistol flashed blue in the firelight. AShoot, Jack!" he cried. ruddy flame jetted from his 'nuz- zle, and the spy Petits dropped dead. Toutou LaFitte pushed Zlacho in the line of fire befor, himself, and dived into the encircling shadows and Zlacho crumpled up with a broken leg. Tokal- ji, Hilyer, Vassilievich and Hilnmi scat- tered. "Run!" I heard Nikka shout. We pelted for the house on our left, Kara running with us. We gained the door, dropped the bar into place, and the next minute the framework groaned under a weight of bodies. "No shooting," yelled Tokalji. "You fools, you'll have the Frank police in here!" "One hundred Napoleons a Had for them," barked Toutou, "Dead or alii'e•" "Conte," Kara said, as a crash sounded outside, "They have broken in .t window. Follow me." She led us into an adjoinin,-• loom, where in the thickness of the wall a narrow stairway corkscrewed upward, debouching on the upper floor. She turned to the right and entered one of the rooms. A !adder leaned against the wall below a trap door in the roof. In a corner stood a bedstead. which she stripped of its clothes, revealing th:, cords that served for springs. "Cut those with your knife," she said, "When we take to the roofs we will need them to help us Town again." Nikka did as she directed, while I shut the door, and piled the few ar- ticles of furniture against it, Tokalji's men were in full cry downstairs, "There is more than enough rope here," said Nikka, coiling it on his arm. "Some of it I am going to use for you." "What?" Passion dawned in her big oyes. "You menet go with us, little one. We have no place to take you." "I tell you I love yo' " she answered proudly. I'm not going to hurt you," pleaded Nikka. "But I must bind you so they will not suspect that you aided us." He boune her gently, hand and foot, without a word, • nd laid her on the floor of the bed. We ascended the lad- der and pushed back the trap-door. "Next house," I panted, and we set off across the room. Ahead was a drop of ten feet on to the adjoining roof. We made it without any difficulty. We shuffled on cautiously until we came to the courtyard, which ran clear from the street front to the old sea-wall. "No choice," grunted Nikka, "Here's a chimney. Knot your rope. It can't be more than twenty-five feet to the ground." He went down first, and I followed him, scorching my hands, for the rope was thin and had no knots to check one's descent. Nikka pulled the door toward us very slowly, and we peered into the street Not a figure showed in the direction of Tokalji's house. We sped out into the street, letting the door slam behind us. We had not gone fifty feet when ws were seen by Gyp. sies on the roof of Tokalji's house, and they, with the woman to help them, cried the rest of the pack hot on our trail. The only thing for us to do in the circumstances was to twist and turn without heed to direction and lose both pursuers and ourselves in the break- neck purlieus of Stamboul. We suc- ceeded in shaking off the Gypsies fin- ally, but we were hopelessly astray, and it was past midnight when we gained our cubicle. "So far, Jack, you and Mr. Zaranko seem to have had most of the fun," pronounced my cousin Betty, as we sat at luncheon in the King's private sit- ting room in the Para Palace, ikla N And I had finished. just i shed I'e - latinour g adventures of the night be- fore and of mg discovery of the treas- ure's lading plaes. Now that we had been discovered there was no more use of disguising ourselves, so we had re- turned to our street clothes. "Darn it all," I confessed- "You won't let up, will you? Well, have it I your own way What do you want to do?" "Run you down the Bosphorus after dark for a look at Tokalji's house from the water side," she answered prompt- ly. "Now tell us some more about the hiding place of the treasure." "Whatmore can we say?" I answer- ed. "There's the courtyard and the red stone," "It's not hollow, yoµ said?" spoke up King. "No" "That weuld indicate a task of eonle difficulty in prying loose the covering, of the treasure chamber," he remarked, "We have—or rather, I should say, Betty has—taken precautions to in- stall on board the Curlew anequip- ment of crowbars, pickaxes, shovels, chisels and other too o-" • Betty excused herself and in quarter of an hour returned dressed in a warm worts mit. Have you all got your pistols load- ed?" she inquiry"i. I£ the spies were still watching the hotel, as I have no doubt theywere, we gave them the slip. We went down- stairs together ,"ad shot into a closed car which was in waiting, Watkins sit- ting beside the chauffeur. Ten minutes later we drew upon the Curlew's dock and went on board. We chugged slowly through the glut of shipping in the Golden I3orn, edging away from the Galata shore toward the picturesque bulk of Stamboul, (To be continued.) What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern 3497 You'll like the unusualness of this se-uey little sports frock of tub silk. It is eggshell ground printed in tones of orangey-red. The scalloped collar, cuffs, pockets and belt are of plain crepe in eggshell shade. It gives the figure a beautifully moulded line through its long -waisted bodice and low -flared skirt fulness. 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He came back from Oberam- mergau that summer full of enthusi- asm for the wonderful power of..the Passion Play, which' he had just wit- nessed, and with his blazing enthusi- asm wrote his book; "The' Story That Transformed the World," . This did much to makethe powers' of these Bavarian villagers and their devotion, to their high task widely known in this Country. I have just returned from witness- ing the Play for the fourth time, hav'-" ing been one of the few Englishmen who'saw it 1. 1900, 1910 and 1922. It may, therefore, be of interest to give some impressions of the presentation of this great drama on this occasion. In the first place, it is important to emphasize the change that has taken place in the couditious under which the spectatori passthe se -:n and a half hours which, the Play occupies. The theatre has been rebuilt. The seats are very comfortable, and, ex- cepting foe a few 5e. and 108. seats in, the very front, allure now ander cover though the people of Oberammergau have wisely preserved the open front of the theatre through which one looks up the mountain which, when I was there, still carried the remains of the winter's snow. The new theatre, which has cost a million and a half marks, is a triumph of good taste and excellent architecture; its acoustic properties are admiral • and the players can e ' :ard and seen by every member of the audience in every part of the vast building, which will seat 5,400. The Christus of 1870, 80 and '90 was Josef Mayr, a great genius, and none who saw and heard him will ever for- get what a remarkable man he was. When I first saw him he was the Chor- agus, who gave the Epilogue and led the choir. His place in that. capacity has this yea: bead taken by Anton Lang, who also has the remarkable privilege of taking the part .of the Christi's for three successive Passion Playa, 1900, 1910 and 1922. He also is a great persmality, and like Josef Mayer now`s,asks the Er" igue and acts as Choragus, 00 all rhos . ,tors in the first plays that I saw the man who was out- standingly a genius from the historic point of view was Hans Zwink, who now takes only a .minor part in the Play. Anyone who was at those ear- lier .days and hears the name of Zwink mentioned wilt at once respond because of his recollection of the ability of that player, The ;arts of Mary, the Mother of our Lord, and Mary Mag latent are admirably filled respectively by Anni Rutz and Johan- na Preisinter. Guido Mayr, who took the part of the betrayer, was an excel- lent actor, and had be not been pre- ceded by Hans -=•,yank he would have been in the front rank. Melchior Breitsamter made ti most effective Pilate. The highest tribute to tee skill and devotion of the players Is to be found in the fact that 5,000 people sat 31A hours in the morning and 3e hours in the afternoon, scarcely stirring in their places, and showed a rapt atten- tion—surely the highest tribute which the players could have desired. During my visit to this first public Performance of 1930 I heard a good deal about the burden the peasants had to tarry. They had incurred a liability of a million and a half marks for their theatre and half a million marks for the extension and Improve- menu of the roads, rendered necessary by tate immense increase in motor traffic. An influential man who knows the villagers intimately :told me that he assessed.. their `own private mort- gages, resulting in large -measure from the tremendous losses of the inflation period during which the Play of 1922. took place, at the large stun of a fur- ther two million marks, making ' a total indebtedness of the v: -'8.;i col- lectively and of the people individual- ly amounting to something like four million marks, or £200,000 If the viilags is to succeed in pay- ing this sum, the current expenses and the small payment to the respective actors to compensate them for their loss of time, out of thereceiptsof the Play, they will not have much over, and anything that remains will be de- voted- to public ends. A certain amount has been said abort the vil- lagers making a great deal of money out of receiving the, visitors for board and lodging, A careful, calculation re• veals that fact that they remunera tion from this source will he very in- significant after they have defrayed the expenses of putting their homes 1n order and have received any com- pensation whatever for all the time. spent in preparing for the arrival of Chthee9 visitorser p andy endo the disa in comfortothat all r son rwlg�;' give up their rooms to their visitors. Many of the players who are acting for so Inapy ;naphoursand undergoing the iiid'tt tenne strain are sleeping on the floor of their own houses in order' that their own beds may be occupied' so that they may be able to discharge their debts, debts which have hung over thein ever since 1922. Of course, there is always a grave 236,52 pounds increase in Canada alone in last five weeks TEA 'Fresh fr nss the Gardens' danger with a great 'aux of etch:peo- ple from America and Europe that the simplicity of these villagers should be damaged, and even destroyed, but those who witnessed the Play on Sun- day, May 11, will agree with me al- most unanimously that there was a devotion which could only be shown by those whose simplicity was as yet untouched. Much is to be hoped that nothing will 'ccur to prevent the vil- lagers clearing themselves and the vil- lage of Oberammergau from their op- pressive debt. The first Play was per- formed in the year 1634, and there is a possibility' that a centenary Play may be acted in 1934, but the general belief is that the next Play will take place in 1940. 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He Was fres to tease his sisters to his complete satisfaction and our' unmitigated dis- comfort. Sometimes he terrified *le all with his latest make-up as an In- - dian on the war path—we were very young—at other times he tried out en his helpless victims the latest of his terrorizing weapons of warfare. We actually dreaded these occasional visits to the city. When Father and Motherreturned, we were loud in our protests and harrowing descriptions. Father, who was the . disciplinarian in the home, paid little attention to these complaints. I dare say, they seemed very childish to.him. I remem- ber often hearing his say, "Oh, never mind, he will out grow it." But Moth- er evidently felt that something really should. be clone; she must have con- vinced Father, for he took steps; first ofremonstrance and thou of punish- ment, but to, little purpose. Meanwhile TOm was growing up. He was, not improving as Father had hoped. Indeed things became steadily worse. He nowregarded' us as an enemy camp, as it were: he became resentful and actually revengeful. Likewise, we became fearful of his re- venge if•we "told," We complained no more, This state of affairs had been reach- ed when during one of these dreaded absences on the part of our parents Tom imprisoned us all in a closet. Wo were there entirely too long tor health and indeed safety, for it was a small closet. Let it here be said for Tom, however, that he did not, I feel sure, realize the element of danger. The culprit was standing guard while we screamed and cried inside the door, when Mother walked in most un- expectedly. Caught in the act, Tom quickly opened the door and we all tumbled out. It .was altogether disc acefgi. We knew Mother thought so, ao.a.1 feel sure Tom knew it, too. I shall never forget Mother as she stood there a moment and looked at us, then turned slowly and looked at Tom. Her words seemed to come" straight from her heart as she fixed her steady blue eyes on hint and said, "Toni, my dear, I cannot believe it of you. Why, you are a road now, you know," It must have been a difficult ma• ment for that would-be young man.. He slid one hand and then the other into' his pockets, shifted from one foot to the other uncomtortaly, and then shamefacedly turned and slipped away. As for us, we were all verymuch disappointed, for we hoped to see him once more properly punished. 13111 Mother had chosen a better way. His manhood had beet' chal- lenged by the. one whom he most de- sired to consider him a man, and in the presence of those by whom he most dreaded to be thought a boy. Of course, it worker„ Never again had we a moment's discomfort when Father and Mother went to the city.-'" Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York City, These articles are appear- ing weekly in our columns, Off F'or a Picnic? When you cut sandwiches choose a sandwich or tin loaf and always out along the oblong way et the loaf, not the smaller square way. Thla will halve your labor. If your knife sticks, keep a jug of hot water beside you, and dip it into this, or keep a damp clout handy, and wipe the knife as you cut each slice. Bread that crumbles is best buttered before it is cut, If your filling le a fish or meat paste, mix the butterandspread in one. An- other simple attd savoury filling is made by ,healing cress or watercress into the butter. Mix a little mayonnaise with your. egg filling to keep from spilling and to snake spreading easy, or mix eggs with tomatoes, or make a filling of ogg yolks to which a few drops of an- chovy have been added. Always mince ham or meat for sand- wiches. Minced ham and tomato cat- sup is a good combination; a little sweet chutney mixed with beef is an improvement„ If possible, pack your sandwiches ba a Lin, otherwise wrap them in a damp cloth. If you include lettuce in your picnic -basket, wrap this .also in a damp cloth. A military.drama itt aid of the Red Cross Fund was being produced, and the supers had to be particularly to evidence as sentries, orderlies, march- ing companies, etc. One man, how- ever, did hot seem to understand the echeine of the ((rata, "Look here," said d rho ata - e mous r e atlength, g`un- g , less you improve we, shall have to do.. without you! I thought you said you'd been a soldier?" "So i 'ave!" return- ed the super. "But I was rely a pri- vate, Did you expect a Meld -Marshal /or quartera a night.?" Visitor—"T suppose everyone In the hotel dresses for dinner?" Oluimber.. maid—"Oh, yes, madam; meals in baa are charged extra."