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The Seaforth News, 1930-08-07, Page 2Tie Treasllro of the Bucoleon By A. D, HOWDEN SMITH. SYNOPSIS Hugh Ciiesby; on the death of his unole becomes Lord. Citesby, and shortl thereafter discovers the key to the Trea- sure rea sure of the Bucoleon, which was left by the first Lord Cheeby the Crusader. Truett • sets out 1n quest ofthetreasure, Which is hidden in-- house in Constan- -, tinopie. With him are Watkins, his ser- vant; Jaolc Nash, and Nikka Zaranico, They are set upon by a:band of desperate crnminats led by one Toutou, who hope to steal the secret and. purloin the trea- sure. Nikka and 3acIc gain access to the house Where tiro treasure Is hidden and which !s occupied by Tokalji, an ally of Toutcu's. Iii order to further their ends. they .oasent to -kiln Tokalji's hand of Young men, Sara,' a beautiful Gypsy. girl, is dancing for the young men when Touton arrives. Nash and Nikka are recognized, but escape.Thenext. night they come beak in the launch of Betty King, Tack's cousin, and enter from• the cIa wall, They are ambushed and Sluge, rack and Mirka are captured. Touton starts to torture ;Mira by crushing his bones with hishands; but. Kara knifes, Teuton. and chases himfrom the room. Watkins discovers a secret passage and they escape. Next day Watkins brings news that Betty Icing has been kid- napped. • CHAPTER XXL—(Cont'd.) A woman screamed again, horribly, so that it rasped your heartstrings. It was Maude Hilyer. She stood, with hands clutching her cheeks, her gaze fixed on the centre of thee room where Montey staggered against a pillar, the blood from a punctured lung gurgling in his throat. Hugh, relieved of the Englishman's attack, was taking pot-shots at Tou- tou and Hilnii. I saw Tokalji slip through the doo: into the rain, and as Vernon King ran up the stairs from the atrit m Hilmi followed the Tzigane and Toutou jurneed through a window, squawling like the big eat he was. Behind fine Watkins was scientifically roping Sandra, hand and foot, regard- less of the curses she spat in three languages. Vassilievich had fainted from the pain of his wound. Maude Hilyer eat on the dirty floor, under the single wobbling lantern that remained intact, end cradled the head of her dying husband. As I reloaded my pistol, I felt a pressure on my back. I turned and very nearly impaled myself on a long knife-bh,de. A tense, willowy figure, bare-footed and tumble -haired, stood over me. "You are Jakka," said Iiara in the Tzigane dialect—I could now under- stand simple phrases. "Where is Nikka?" Dumbfounded, I pointed to the courtyard. With n single leap, she vaulted from the window Toutou had escaped by. A whistle shrilled in the courtyard. "Hugh!" It was Nikka's voice. "Jack " "They seem to be waiting for us -out there," I said. "Yes" said Hugh, "Betty keep an eye on Mrs. HilYer End the Russian girl --and her brother." "Don't you worry about me," an- swered Betty reliantly. "I can take care of myself. Do hurry!" "Coining, Nikita!" shouted Hugh. And to us: "The big fight is the key to everything. We must break it up. They're got Nikka pinned in." Tokaljes gang faced aroand as we attack:d their rear; but we went clean through them and almost drove on to the krivee of leikka'o party. "A "lei them 1" panted Hugh. "We've got 'em ble'ttti n -." Nikko called to his men in their own tourer: and they Linde up with us in a thin file across the courtyard from wall to wall. There was a crackle of pistol -fire in front of us, and a knot of figures swayed into view, diotorted, indLLtii.ct Tout( and fiilmi Bey went for Nikka. He was bleeding from a cut in the arm, and all bis men were en- gaged. I started to go to Nikka's aid, but a man sprang at me from nowhere and 1 was obliged to dodge him until I had a chance to shoot, When I look- er agani. Nikka and Toutou were circl- ing• mei other, and I3ilnii was at grips with Kara. At first I thought ,he Levantine Alertness scores everywhere. Wrigley's creates pep and en. ergy and keeps you alert. A 5¢ package may save you from going to sleep at the wheel ' of your car. Makes pep ;t0. 30—'30 em The vaulted tool cod his words. the "dciedrir" of slime and fungi was a n•e'anchcij pun.^tuatlon for teem. But the ree, ,on loosened. our taut. nerees. 'Ptdent( thought. •f sit 'of us to comfort Hugh. BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON "Let's search the walls," said Nikita. Everyone agreed to this plan. King Illustrated. Dressmaking Lesson Fur - made a careful study of the stonework, stashed Trak. Every Pattern , in which T assisted hint, with a view of ascertaining beyond' any • doubt whether there was any sealed opening+ -n its walls. Hugh and Betty wearied of so unexciting a task and left us to explore- the upper end of the drain. We had beent thisforrather t a note than an hour, without the faintest hint of success, when wt were interrupted by a hail from Hugh. "Professor! Jack! Come here!" "Oh, Dad," called Betty, "here's a funny inscripti'er on the wall" • We dropped into the water and waded to where they were standing, with their torches bearing on a patch of marble let' into' the rough face of the right-hand wall. Hugh was work- ing with his knifepoint, scraping away the moss and fungi teat partially ob- scured the b-scured.the letters, "I saw it by accident," bubbled Betty. "My light just happened to catch on this piece of stone here as we passed it." The stone was about three or four feet square, and bele', it was another similar one. Abo-•e the Greek letter- ing was an elaborately scrolled cross. "What is it, Dad?" asked Betty. CHAPTER XXIII. "It says," began King, "and mind you I am translating roughly—"In the year after Christ 1185 and of the In- diction 2, .Andronicus, the scepter wielder, Christ -loving Emperor of the. Romans, built this drain new from the tide level." He broke off. "So far it is uo different from thou- sands of other inscriptions we night find, on the city walls. But now comes the part I cannot understand. "If there were tongues, many might praise hime" "Then there must be something in it," Betty insisted. `If there were tongues many might praise him.' Don't you see what it means? There were no tongues to praise him. This work was not known at the time. Why?" "He may have murdered all the workmen," replied her father slowly. "Exactly," triumphed Betty. "And why would he have murdered them, to order to keep this work a secret? You see he built the drain new from the tide -level, probably to this point. That means there was a drain, but it needed repair, and he seized the opportunity to hide his treasure. Hugh where are those thole? I'm going to get this stone out of the wall," (To be concluded.) Brains Brainwork seems to tend to long life. T. A. Edison, the famous in. ventor, is 83 years old: Sir Oliver Lodge, scientist, Is 79; Bernard Shaw is 74; Sir James Barrie is 70; and Sir Hall Caine is 77. "There are three things to be desir- ed on earth—life, happiness and liber- ty" -Gilbert K. Chesterton. Minard's Liniment for all Strains. What New York Is Wearing was scheming to throw the girl, but as I drew near I perceived that he hadclinched c ed wi' h her in t mortal te-•ror of her knife. She held his own power- less by her grasp of his wrist, With one, pudgy hand he strove to ward off he: blade, but he . could not control her lithe muscles. She tore her wrist free, the steel drove horn through hissodden froek-coat and he collapsed. Kara pulled out her knife as casu- ally as though it had been a familiar occurrence,- and turned to watch Nikka's fight with Toutou. Nikka from the corner of his eye saw the two of us, plainly waiting v chance to help him and he leaped clear of the circle of his enemy's knife longe enough to snap: "Let bed I finish this alone!" CHAPTER XXII. 1 couldn't have helped him, in any case, for as redoubtable a person as Tokalji, himself, attacked me that moment. Watkins loomed in the mist and brcught down his trusty crowbar on Tokalji's•knif:-wrist. He produced some rope from a pocket and deftly twisted the man's arms behind him. My one thought was of Nikka. Teu- ton had a huge advaatagee in reach, but Nikka had the benefit of lithe agility, a wrist of iion—the result eel years of bowing; a hawk's eyes; and all the tricks with the blade that the people of his race have amassed in centuries of bloody strife. Twice Nikka tried a certain trick, a combina- tion of lightning thrusts and clever footwork. But the Frenchman parried it each time and retaliated so quickly as to drive Nikka out of reach. My heart leaped in my throat when I saw that Nikka was trying for the third time the trick which had twice failed. His knife went up in the same way he shifted posture as he had in his other tries, and Toutou mechanic- ally side-stepped as experience had told him was safe and aimed a stab which should have cut Nikka's throat. But Nikka was not there. He had varied the trick. Stooping, his knife, Lad fallen, then sliced upward—and Toutou staggered and fell forward. Kant hurled herself into Nikka's arms, "You are the greatest knife -fighter of the Tziganes!" she cried triumph- antly. "You are a king! You are my man!" Wasso Mikali, his surviving young men, King and Watkins, were guard- ing thirteen shivering Gypsies in the lee of the bachelors' quarters. In re- ply to questions, Tokalji told Nikka that there had been fifteen of their band on the premise.. A search of the courtyard disclosed two of them dead, The one lantern was still flickering whn we entered and Betty rose to greet us. "Thank Godi" she said soberly as her eyes envisaged ue all. "Only Mrs. Hilyer escaped," "Isn't she here?" asked Hugh. "No. I don't know just when she left." Nikka and I sped back to the street door. It was ajar. I was feeling very weak. My shoul- der throbbed. Nikka caught nie as my knees bent meter me, I felt the rain on my eye- lids and then everything was blotted out. When I opened my eyes Watkins was bending over me. "WeIl, I'nl going to get up," I an- nounced. "My shoulder feels better." Nikka strolled in from the court- yard. "Hullo, Jack!" he greeted me. "Tough luck you had to stop a bullet, although my uncle claims the bullet missed the bone." "Any news?" I said. "The police—" "No, the storm covered the shooting, Hugh has been to Pere with Betty in the Curley this, morning, and they heard no comments. Tho only danger,. I think, is from Mrs. Hilyer," Breakfast was soon over and we made preparations for the search. We set to wore and it was only a matter of a few minutes before the stone was detached from its neighbors, and Nikka thrust the tip of a crowbar under its edge. Below it was a second stone of equal dimensions, granite, un - n ortared, although the dust of ages. had sifted into the cracks around it. This yielded to our efforts much sooner than bad the cap -stone. We poked our torches into the hole. All they showed was a steep flight of stairs descending straight into black- ness, Hugh lowered himself, feet first. The others followed him, one by one and I brought up the rear. The pitch of the stairs was sharp and were bare- ly wide enough for one man, They terminated in a passage that led off. at right angles, with an appreciable downward slope. "Hold up!" Hugh called back to us a moment later. "Here's an opening into another passage. There's a step down, Why, this is the drain again!" Wo joined hie, incredulous, only to be convinced at once that he was right. The passage debouched on the sewer some distance inland from the grating of the dungeon. Concentrated flared fulness at left - side frontofthe skirt, distinguishes this slenderizing model of printed crepe silk. The surplice bodice contributes fur- ther slimming effect by detracting from breadth. A flat girdle encircles the hips. it creates a swathed movement caught with decorative buckle. The vestee has becoming rolled col- lar. Style No. 2533 can be had in sizes 30, 88, 40, 44, 44 and 48 inches bust. It is very pretty and wearable in printed chiffon cotton voile. 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'Fresh ' torn the gardens' 761 Northcliffe Left , His Mark where it begins to widen out, On Fleet Street For All Time ating in a bulb -shaped Chamber whoso termer - Pictish Houses emain Mysteries Certain districts of Scotland are rich` in the remains of Pictieb earth- houcos. They have ^omo uniformity of shape and construction but vary, considerably in dimensions. The 'largest of. them measure about 40 feet from the entrance to the extremity 00 the interior; the height from floor to roof is seldom more than five feet, of- ten -considerably less. The enttance. which is malty at ground level, is of the nature of a tun- nel, being stone Lined and sufficiently large to admit a man crawling on all fours. This narrow passage, sloping downward, extends for about nine or ten feet until it reaches a sharp bend All newspapers, certainly on the pro- duction side, bear testimony to the late Lord Northcliffe. They may differ in their methods of presenting policy, but with regard to make-up and gen- eral appearance, from the "Times" -- Lord Northcliffe was its proprietor when hedied—to the smallest daily or evening paper, his methods of pro- duction hold the field. Mr. Hamilton Fyfe; in his book, "Northcliffe: An In- timate Biography" (Allen & Unwin) brings this fact out. He writes: "We can say for certain that if Jamee Watt had not discovered how to use steam power, if Stevenson had not applied that power to a locomo- tive, if Cooke and Wheatstone had not invented the electric telegraph, 10 Mar- coni had not transmitted the first message by wireless, someone else would have done thes things. "They had to be done. Many were working along the same lines. The time had come for advances in man's mastery of the elements. Most great inventors have thus been agents for their age. They happened to be the first to put in practical working ideas that were in many minds. "But there Was in the nature of things no reason whatever why Bri- tish newspapers should not have re- mained very much as they were to• wards the end of the nineteenth cen- tury. German and French newspapers have altered little. It could not be said that a revolution lit journalism was In the air. .Northelidu was not. 1one among many who were planning 0 P t improve it. I - "He stood along; his notions Were scoffed at. Ile had to convert all who worked with 'him to faith- in his re- velation; he had to teach .them the new technique, Thus be revolution- ized journalism. He created a new type of newspaper. In nc editorial particular of any moment has that type been altered since he died. "Lord Northcliffe in his youth fought and won a gallant fight against ad- versity. He quickly attained a pre- dominant position iu the Press and °beyond, and his influence war largely to ameliorate the position of his fel- low -workers by shortening• hours and increasing rewards. "In quality of power, valour, ' and imagination, he was - t the line of the great adventurers. He cleared new ways. "In some direction• the energy that he breathed. into journalism has no- ticeably slackened. Newspapers have settled down to doing mechanically what he did with vigour and enthusi- asm. Ile left a mark on his age which cannot be overlooked, whicl never will be. For the newspaper was among that age's most prominent and•powerful in- stitutions—powerful, that le to say, in its influence on the public mind, the national character; and the news- paper as we know it was the creation of `ibis one non. Contrary Mary You aelc why Mary was called con- trary? Well, this is why, my dear: Site planted the most outlandish things In her garden every year: She was always sowing the queerest seed, And when advised to stop, Her answer was merely, "No, indeed— Just wait tilt you see the crept" Aad here are some of lite crops, my child (Although not nearly all): Bananarcissus and cucumberrles, And violettuce Antall; Potatamatoes, minions rare, And rhubarberries round, With po'eupineapples prickly -rough On a little bush close to the ground. She gathered the stuff la mid-July And sent it away to se11— And now you'll see how she corned her name, And how she earned it well, Were the crops hauled off in a farm- er's cart? No, not by any means, But in little June -buggies and automo- beetles And dragonflying maclslnesl —Nancy Byrd Turner, in "Zodiac Town." Scots 'Will Restore Historic Old House EdIullurgh,--Plans were passed re- cently by tate Dean of Guild Court for the restoration of Huntly House, one of the Cdnongate's most historic build- ings. It is tos be used as part of the new city museum, The scheme includes the restoration of the wing behind Huntly House that contained the Canongate Hammer - men's convening room. Later, 10 is hoped to tale into the scheme Ache - son's House,a notable seventeenth century mansion, and other buildings adjoining. Tho present exterior, which is dated 1570, stands some seven feet forward from the older front, which is believed to date from the time of Flodden. "The Biggest Dam" The olergyman who always said "As- suan' when things went wrong on the golf course, because Assuan was "elle biggest dam in the world," will have to change his "swear -word." A great clam hasjust 'been com- pleted on the Gatineau River, Quebec, Which has a capacity nearly double that of the Assuan Dam on the Nile. It bas been built to ensure sufficient Water -power for industrial purposes even in dry season$. The Assuan Dant `was constructed in order to retain water for irrigation. It ie interesting to note that, when it was opened 1a 1902, he Capacity of.the reservoir was Tose than half what it is to -day. Since then the dam has been made higher, thus increasing the ca- pacity.—Answers. She: "I've changed my mind." lie: "Well, does it work any better?"` i Inard's Liniment Checks Colds. - • Carman's Boyhood Home Preserved Memorial Tablet Marking "Old Shore House" is Unveiled i Fredericton, N.B.— The boyhood home of Bliss Carman has been pre. served for posterity through the ace tion of the provincial chapter of the Imperial Order of Daughters of tate Empire, A bronze memorial tablet marking the "Old Shore House" in Shore street where the poet spent his youth was unveiled recently. The province whose natural beau- ties he Immortalized in verse, the' LO.D.E„ and the profession which' brought frim fame were represented at the ceremony. 1Ion. C. D, I#!chards, Minister of Lands and Mines for New Brunswick,' delivered the chief address and use veiled the simple but impressive plaque. The tablet is the first memorial erected to Bliss Carman, who spent the latter part of his life in the ted States and died a year ago in Connecticut. His ashes were brought to Fredericton and interred at a state funeral in Forest 11111 Ceme- tery here. A movement is under way to erect a statue to hint in Fred- ericton. Scotland For Sunshine "It's smiler farther North" is the paradoxical promise that Scotland is making to holiday folic this summer. Paradoxical—but true) The farther north you go, the longer grow the sum- mer days, and therefore the more sun- shine you may expect to get. Already, figures show that, during a number of months this yeas', Scotland. has been sunnier—and evert warmer —than "ngiand. In one month Aber- deen actually headed the sunshine ,1st, with six hour's' more sun than. Penzance has enjoyed; while, the month after, Tiree, in the Hebrides, came first for sunshine. When the sun does shine in Scot- land, apparently it does so whole- heartedly.—Answers. Needless pains like headaches are quickly relieved by Aspirin tablets as millions of people know. And no matter how suddenly a headache may come upon. you, I you can always be prepared. Carry the pocket tin of Aspirin tablets with you. Keep the larger size at home. Read the proven directions fpr pain, headaches, neuralgia, etc. extreme Width may be little more than -its ilatest. At the bend, the lining stones take the form of lintels for the purpose of forming a blocking doorway of some sort. The naripw tunneled entrance is regarded by sone as an inheritance from the arctic peoples with their snow -built dwellings. The picture shows clearly the masonry of, the in- terior and also that the stones have. been well and truly laid; no mortar has been used. It is surmised that, in forming these structures, a trench was first dug straight into the ground. and the walls built as the digging proceeded; that the roof was titeu laid across, of either stone basis or wooden beams, after which the excavated earth was heaped on the top and the whole surface fln- Ished off to look like a natural eleva- tion of the ground. Use is Not Quite Known Concerning the purposes of such'un- derground houses, archaeologists are not agreed. As human habitations they have been definitely ruled out! so' also as places of retreat in tunes of danger. One plausible theory is that they were used either as cellarage or as hiding places for goods when the own- e ers were compelled to flee before in- vaders, quite a -common occurrence in the barbaric ages. That they were ettaehed to the evergreen(' dwellings of the inhabitants is shown by the frequency with winch the entrance is found within the walled hut -circles of early Pictish settlements. Dates are somewhat speculative, for accounts of the origins of this primi- tive race are largely legendary. From relies found during excavations 11 is clear that earth•houses were in use for some time after the Roman with- drawal from Britain; indeed certain of them have been built with stones taken from Roman forts and dykes. Still, whatever their age, these rude stone walls. as we see them to -day. are old enough to capture our imagina- tions and to carry us back to those primitive times when man lived so much closer to tate earth than he does today, From the burrowing earth - house of ancien, Pletland to :the soar- ing edifices of the New World, is it not the measure of the rise of man him- self? Success If you want a thing bad enough To go out and OSLO for it, Work day and night for it, Give ap your time aucl ram' peace and your sleep tor it; If only desire of it Makes you eo mad You'll never tire of it; Makes you holo everything else taw clry Anil cheap for 11; If Ali that you scheme and you dream is about it; If you're willing to sweat for it, . Fret for it, Plan for it, Lose all terror of God o• man for it; If you just go out for that thing that you want With alb your capacity, Strength and sagacity, Hope, faith and confidence, stern per- tinaci ty; If neither coito poverty, famished and gaunt, Nor sickness or pain Of body or brain Can turn you aside for the thing you want; If clogged and grim you besiege and beset it - YOU'LL GET IT, little Street" 1 know a street called "Little Street" It's very, very small— Where little ho•tses 'white and neat IIave gardens round them all; And little chimneys softly smoke On roofs of russet brown, And little feet of little folk Pit -patter up and down. In "Little Street" long, long ago, When I was little, too, The little windows used to glow With visions ever new; And now I wish that I could see Such magic through a pane, And be the child 1 used to bo in "Little Street" again! —ElizaHbeerth ald. Fleming, in the Glasgow Owing to the anticipated reduction In the number of American tourists this year the Goulette Antique Manu- facturing anufactu ing Company are redncieg their factory staff,—English paper. "Looey, vy do you want be luau - eyed?" "lfuzz vy? Ven I'd look et lt, q dulia, it vould be two duuae!"—Judge,.