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The Seaforth News, 1927-08-11, Page 6aches t• 'As free from dust as tea can be . "What difference should the knowl- edge make? Is filial pity to be called into existence by the mere announces ment of relationship?" ' "The decision is with you, Andre," "Nay, it is beyond me. Decide it who can, I cannot." "You mean that you refuse even now?" "I mean that I roxbsent, Since I cannot decide what it le. that I should do, it only remains for life to do 'what a son should. It is grotesque." CHAPTER XI. Into the late afternoon of that end- less day of horror with its perpetual alarms, its volleying musketry, roll- ing drums, and distant muttering of angry multitudes, Mme. de Plougastel and Aline sat waiting. in that hand- some house in the Rue dei Parades. It was no'lenger; for Rougaoie they Welt- ed. They waited for whatever might betide. Suddenly inadame's young, foot- man, Jacques, the moat trusted of her servants,- burst into their presence uncerenioniously with .a scared fade, bringing the announcement that a rnan who had just climbed over the �+ y garden wall professed himdelf a friend feagi,hv P(tfjal Sabatini of madames, and desired to be r brought immediately to'her presence; CHAPTER X. (Geeta.) I condcience. But Mme, Plougastel ist '•`Being him 1n," she commanded Early hthe wife o£ M le Comte de Plougastel, breathlessly. • awakened th sections din of bells—the tae- crib accompanied h a tall matt in a sins of the sections ringing the alarm. agent between the Court and the long, shabby overcoat and a wide - To y in the morning bells ey were • Jac nes went out,to return . ree- kya whom all the world knows to be an qp' , To their startled' ears came later the emigres.". ad that was turned down wn rolling of drums,drums, and at one thne they "You must take the risk." brimmed hat tt adorned by andown heard the sounds of a multitude on • _ I must. he echoed. Why, must all rround, and •to mous tricolor cockade. This hat he removed as he entered. The young footman wondered what it was in the man's face, which was turned from him, that should cause his mistress to cry out and recoil. Then he found .:himself dismissed abruptly by a gesture. The newcome advanced to the mid- dle of the salon, moving like a man exhausted and breathing hard. There he leaned against a table, .across which he cenfronted Mme: de Plou- gastel. And she stood regarding him, a strange horror in her eyes. (To be continued.) the march. Paris was rising. The two women at the Hotel Pious gastel still waited far the return of Rougane, though now with ever lessening hope. And Rougane did not return. The affair did not appear so simple to the father as to the son. Rougane the elder was rightly afraid to lend himself to such a piece of deception. ' Late that night, as M. de Kercadiou sat gloomily in his brother's library, the pipe in which he had sought sol- ace extinguished between his fingers, there carne a sharp knocking at the door. A slim, young man in dark olive sur - coat stood at the threshold- He -wore boots, buckskins, and a small -sword, and round his waist there was a "tri- color sash, in his hat a tri -color cockade. M. de Kercadiou, startled in such an hour by this sudden apparition, greeted Andre -Louis in terms almost identical with those in which' in that same room he had greeted him on a similar occasion once before. "What do you want here, sir?" "I am a representative. I have cer- tain powers. I am very opportunely returning to Paris. Can I serve you where Rougane cannot? Aline should be placed in safety at once." M. de Kercadiob surrendered Uncon— ditionally. He came over and' took Andre -Louis' hand. .Andre -Louis continued, "About Aline?" he asked. And himself answered his own question: "She must be brought out of Paris at once, before the place becomes a rshambles. Young Rougane's plan is goed.' "But Rougane the elder will not hear of it." "You mean he will not do it on his own responsibility. But he has con- sented to do it on mine. I have left him a note over my signature to the effect that a safe-conduct for Mlle. de Kercadiou to go to Paris and return is issued by him in compliance with orders horn are." • M. de Kercadious took the sheet of paper that Andre -Louis held out. "If you send that to Paris by young Rougane in the morning," said Andre - Louis, "Aline should be here by noon. If there is any other way in which I can serve you, you have but to name it whilst I am here." "But there is, Andre. Did not Rou- gane tell, you that there were others?" "He mentioned Mnie, de Plougastel and her -servant" "Then why .. ?" M. de Kercadiou broke off, looking his question. Very solemnly Andre -Louis shook his head. "That is impossible," he said. Mr. de ICercadiou's mouth fell open in astonishment. "Impossible!" he repeated. "But why?" Monsieur, I can do what 1 am do- ing for Aline without offending my Wo I? Your reasons, monsieur "I violate my words of honor, my oath, if I tell you," M. de Kercadious turned away, wringing his hands, his condition visibly piteous, then turned again to. Andre.. "But in this extrem- ity, in this desperate extremity, and since you co ' ungenerously insist, I shall have to tell you. God help me, I have no choice. She will realize that when she knows. Andre- my boy ..." He paused again, a man afraid. He set a hand on his god- son's shoulder, and to his increasing amazement Andre -Louis perceived that over -those pale, short-sighted eyes there was a film of tears. "Mme. do Plougastel is your mother." 1''oilowed, for a long moment, utter silence. This thing that he was told was not immediately understood. When understanding came 'at last Andre -Louis' first impulse was to cry I am a great lover of idleness my- self, though I never saw much about it, and I always love to hear that thereare- certain hours of the day when no one will ask me to do any- thing.—Lord Balfour. - "Ir YOU SEND THAT TO PARIS BY NOON." ALINE SHOULD BE HERE out. But he possessed himself, and played the Stoic. He must ever be playing something. • "I see," he said, at last, quite coolly. His mind was sweeping back over the past. Swiftly he reviewed his .memories of Mme. de Plougastel. "I see," he said again; and added now, "Of course, any but a fool would' have guessed it long ago." . He sat down abruptly, to conceal the too -revealing fact that his limbs were shaking. He pulled a handker-i chief from his pocket to mop his brow, which had grown damp. And then, quite suddenly, he found himself weeping. At the sight of those tears stream- ing silently down that face that had turned so pale, M. de Keresdiou came. quickly across to him. He sat down beside him and threw an arm' affec- tionately over his shoulder, "Andre, my poor lad," he murmur- ed. ," . ..I was fool enough to think r ou had no heart." "It is nothing, monsieur. I am tired out, and . . and I have a cold in the head." And then, finding the part beyond his power, he abruptly threw it up, utterly,, abandoned all pretence. "Why ... why has there 'r F been all this mystery?" he asked. "Was it intended that 'I should never 'a kite}v?" Tho reason, my boy, is that you were born sense three years after your mothers' marriage with M. de Plou- - gnstel, some eights p I;ionths Eke; 14, de: pleekastel ha been pay with the tiny, Arid nd seine four mon% s'lre- fore his return to his wife. It is a matter that M. de Plougastel has never suspected, and for gravest fam- ily reasons must never suspect. That is why the .utmost secrecy has been preserved. That is why 'none was ever allowed to know, Yoe .mother came betimes into Brittany, and under an assumed name spent some months in the village of ,Moreau. I1 was while she was there that you were. born." s "Then, who was myfather?". "I don't know. + She never told one. It was her secret, and I did not pry. It is not in my nature, Andre. "Arid now, what will you do, Andre?" he asked. "Now that you know?" , Com" -!•'-:'`"s r....ti,... fir:... . to V 0.„0 SPEARMINT' has a tang and zest to brighten your whole day! It keees teeth white, soothes the throat, and A aids digestion. After $ey Every Meal 1 ISSUE, No. 33—'27 God, Let Me Give ' God, let me be a giver, and not one Who only takes and takes unceas- ingly, God, let me give, so that not Just my own, - But others' lives as well, may richer be. Let me give out whatever I may bold Of what materials things life may be heaping, Let me give raiment, shelter, food, or gold, If ,these are,, through Thy bounty, in my keeping. But greater than such fleeting treas- ures, 'may I give my faith and hope and :cheer. fulness; . Belief and dreams and joy and laugh- ter gay. Some lonely soul to bless. —Mary Carolyn Davies. Motor Signs Signs noticed on the backs of ram- shackle touring cars:'.• "Will trade this for slightly used Packard." "The Ghost of St. Louis:.. Master: "Narcise, didntt I, tell you Yesterday to call me at eight?" Maid: "Yes` sir." Master: "Then why didn't l'oir do so?" Mali: '`Because you were asleep, sir:' Radio station 4QG, Brisbane Queensland, announces: a "good will - day," when. in a message to the world it will urge ou all mankind "the spirit of service." This ,seems like -another step toward the brotherhood of man, • NURSES The Toronto. Hospital for' lneu-ahlaa. 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Patterns sent by return mail: • RADIO ON TRAINS A bteakeinan sitting in a caboose 01 a freight -train and an engineer in the cab of.a locomotive a`mile -ane a quar- ter down the trach tallied to one an- other by radio -at Schenectady, New York, on June 16, es : easily -as as two Tenons would carry On 'a conversa- tion by ordinary telephone. The testi; were matte by engineers of the Gen- ial Eletriso Company. Transmission was on a short wave -length and low power, to avoid interference with broadcast reception. Says Guy Bart- lett, in a press bulletin issued by the electric company "Caboose and engine carried idents cal apparatus—a transmitter and a re- ceiver. Both locomotive and caboose. ware equipped with a double antenna, one for transmitting and file other for receiving. Communication was,es- tablished at either end of the train by the simple act of removing a -receiv- er and pressing a button.. The pres- „urs of the button .called the other station by causing a howling sound in the reproducer or; loudspeaker -at the receiving encl. "The test demonstrated that come munieation may . be carded oh with comparative ease on a moving train.', • Radio -communication, according ` to railroad men, will be most valuable, particularly cn trains consisting' of 70 to 120 cars. On such trains. the engl neer and conductor are separated by nearly a mile of cars, and there is no positive means of comnntnication be- tween them. Signals are usually' ex- changed by means of whistle or flare. lights. which, often fall from curvature of the tracks -',or weather oonclitions. - Should'a defeet'deveiop ce.these long trains, the conduotor:,must either send a. brakeman okor the top' of the train or stop the train by operating the con- ductor-valve, either of which would cause a .demny,. "Radio-comunication, as provided. will by these sets, gives a' positive means of --instant'. communiaaticu. and materiitily expedite -trip movement ' on main lines as well at tri -the yercla. "AA sufficient number of sets have been constricted to permit road..de- monstrations of ooniniunicatioar be- tween the engine and cabooee'of long trains, communication between near- by fixed, points s. fetich as the signal tower) andthe.loconiotive engineer or conductor, `anti comniunication be- tween the yardmasterand the locomo- tives used in making; up a train in large classification yards•." Minard's Liniment for scaly scalp. A King Passes King Fern elad's illness, sage an: Associated Pressn. dlepateh - the -Roumanian : 'c epitalfrom, , "dates Back, scv eras yeers, Nand the, aquae cause. •off. 1iis,death -was cancer One in the New York 'I'inies we read ` "The death of King Ferdinand I puts the Crown, for the, present at any rate, ons the head of a five-year-old boa, Prince Miial, or. Michael, the,lson of Prince Carol, elder- son of Ferdinand and Queen, Marie. Prince Carol re- nounced hie rights to the succession . in December, 1925, and a royal- decree: was promulgated naming the young Prince Mihai as heir-presuinptive. During his minority "the )country will; be- administered by a regency au- thorized ,by the Parliament, composed of Prince Nicholas, second' son of,,tho King; the'• patriarch Miron >Christea, and M. Buzdegen, `First President of the Supreme Court. ' Perdinandl was one of the most pic- turesque of the, few European rulers who succeeded in retaining their thrones during and after the World Vicar. -He was tall, and despite his broken health- during the last year or two, carried himself with dignity. He was born in Prusefa on August"25, 1865, and ascended the throne on the death of bis'uucle, King Charles I, on October 11, 1014. • . .:'For the past two y ` King Ferdinand- had been in p fi•healeh, but owing to a rigid censorable es- teblished over the press of Roumania, authentic reportsof his physical condi- tion were not available. The King's illness took a serious turn early this year. - ".Toward the partMay, atter of l how- ever, he recovered suffieivently to per- mit his removal to his summer resi- dence on the Black Sea•. Specialists were summoned' from. other European capitals last month .to treat the Ring,' 'but after an examination of the mon- arch they made a statement that it was impossible to operate on the can- cer from which bo was suffering, be- cause bf his frail constitution. "The death of :the King; while it places the regency in the bands of three others, 'virtually leaves the coun- try with Premier Jon Bratiano as its ,strong span. With Prince Carol still inexile,in Paris and the center cf the discontented forces of the eoontr'y, there is the possibility that an attempt at a coup d'etat in his favor may some time be made." Have You Noticed It? Girls might stroll for a simple good time, With hairy a hook nor a line, They need not take bait' Nor a sinker with a weight But they'll catch a few suckers each time A man was, giving an address to a very' small 'audience. After talking an hour he decided to wind up say- ing, "Friends, I fear 'I am keeping you too long." -A man in the gallery shouted. out: "Go on, old man; it's still raining. FOR ALL • `CLEAN I G; Golf Gadgets The :World's Most Miserable Game Genially "Guyed" by _Exponent — An Old Country View Statistics prove that more. men .play golf nowadays than ,kiss their wives berlafn. Theirs was the meeting','of goodbye" when they go to work oftreat importance. yr a nvariving, and this includes, baehe Meanwhile the rich standards of tors. If 1 add that the grawth•ef goof the Grenadier Guards dipped and has synchronized, vnith an appalling crept the ground in salute. Seen the jump in the number of certified lima - cause unfit for any Household Cavalry moved off at'a tics, no 'reflection is intended en the smart trot through a lane between . Scotch 'race. - applauding hands passed two sever- • The Scots adopted the game be- eigns who have litile,in common ex - cause their country. cept that they both collect stampp. other, except looking'far. eagle's eggs: EGYPTIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM and dancing an crossed s'vordts with As the procession moved along, tho,fin•gers crossed., bands blared the Egyptian National es Golf is the dourest of games, not Anthem, and hundreds of Britons "' excepting' knitting and, cross -word suddenly caught' themselves bumming puzzles. The man who says "Good the snatch of an old song: putt, Mac," lays himself open to the just rebuke of "Chatter-r-rboxl" You can't begin golf too early—if you must begin it at all. The best players are those who have been taught to Wisp "niblick" at their another's knee and, to get an ever lapping grip din their bottles. At the age of 2 they are given pink tassels to their socks and pinnies several sizes too big for them, as it is advisable to.get acclimatized as early as possible 10 the ferocipus leg wear —blend of Ktlliecrankie and the Can- nibal Islands—which golf convention demands. If you weren't born to golf, and haven't got a 'clause permitting you to indulge in the vice incorporated in your marriage settlement, it's a pretty serious affair to take it up in later life. The only way is to make your- self so unpleasant to your wife (it conies naturally to most husbands) that she thinks it a geed riddance. But first you mast becomes profi- cient in bad language. You can't hope to play golf -unless you have taken the big D.D. degree. If is a curious fact that lots of the best -dressed people who patrpnlze'golf clubs- never play golf. There le a a.,cial side to golf Brough you see pre- cious;littl'e of it on the actual course, where the grinding of teeth and the breaking of _blood vessels is lei the exception than the rule. The best people roll up at, meal o ratertaa a Vaad JLL An Idea of "I:3cyi a' I ii g Must ,-be''Entertained and Why London Spends So 'Much on Doing it POMP AND PAGENTRY ,Half a rtinilion golden pounds (32,- 433,000) were spoilt to provide, re- cently, :in London, a welcome for Ahmed Fuad I., King of Egypt. His Majesty crossed the Channel from France- in a British warship, escorted- by five i destroyers and five • airplanes. Edward of Wales mets him" at Dover, and they traveled swiftly by special train to Victoria Station, London. There "the KingrEmperor and Premier. Stanley Baldwin waited'. Few noticed that Premier Sarwat Pashaof Egypt stepped from the train only'to slip off in the company of Foreign Minister Sir Austen Charnel( Said the Old Obadiah To the Young Obadiah, "I am dry, Obadiah,. "I am drys" -- Said the Young Obadiah ' To the Old Obadiah, "So am I, Obadiah, "So am'Ir The hummers hummed not wanton- ly, not scurrilously, but with excellent reason. Sixty years ago "Obadiah" was the rage in London when that capital was visited by King Fund's father, the late Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha. • Upon returning to Egypt the Khe- dive summoned a great composer, . Verdi. "I with you to write music for a national anthem," said Ismail. "Like this! Listen. I shall whistle." The great Verdi listened. The Khe- dive whistled "Obadiah." Soon the Egyptian National Anthem was com- posed. AT THE PALACE. On to Buckingham Palace whirled the twice royal cavalcade. Portly. Ahmed Fuad was sdon shown'ihto a suite in what is technically known as "Wing V." There the Egyptian Great Chamberlain marshalled Ahmed Fuad's numerous attendants—not the least of these being a chemist to test his food, a taster to- simple it; and two of George. V.'s physicians skilled in antidotes, - When the dinner was served, the Wises, knock the "1'a out of luncheon Britannic 'lackeys `vera able to sot with their -molars, and after - of King Fuad a very fair example mashie -molars, practice what the pro. tolls of his favorite entree, tender, lus- them—at the bar. "Scientific investigation has. now es- tablished the period of the pre-school cious little steaks of horse flesh. HOSPITALITY RETURNED. For three days Fuad I. was the years, to., from birth to sox, es the guest of George V. who entertained him in aurenner altogether.sumptuous, most Important in the lite of the even distributing in his guest's honor chill. 'As the twig is bent the tree's in- clined.' 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MEN ONLY. To the Egyptian Erpbassy purred automobiles containing George V., Edward of Wales, the Duke of Yorke Prince Henry, the British Cabinet and a very few peers who brought the total, up to exactly 50 persons, all men. Tey' strolled through huge, sump- tuns rooms, perfumed with the heavy scent of hundreds of orchids, pverlaid with deep, priceless rugs, hung with silken tapestries, sot with rich fueni- ture—one piece a piano of gold, stud- ded withn ge ts, All hadbeen assem- bled for this single State Visit. The guests sat down et a great horseshoe table, the Emperor on the '4, King's right hand. No ladies, no wine—Mohammedan custom forbade. Huge Numidians, • each six feet tall and more, served the Egyptian food on plates' of gold. THE REAL 1013. As the State Visit.lunibe'ed through .. pompous display what was the subject of 80 many' quiet conveY- satiens at the dim, higheceil4r ged For- eign Office between Premier' Sarwat '• The Sir .. Pastia' and Sr :,Austen Chamberlain? ' They were believed to have spoken chiefly of the Sudan.' This, the great ]teacltvaterland of Egypt, is so thor- oughly under British dominance and exploitation that its annexation by the. British Empire is not believed permanently remote.. Meanwhile there exist numberless pinpricks of conflict between the Brit ash high Commissioner` to' Egypt, . Baron George Ambrose Lloyd, and the nominally independent Egyptian Gov- ernment. Since Sarwat knows well enough that he Is Premier by the of theBritish Foreign Britir O£fice, his conversations witlt Sir Austen were tinged deep with a wholesome 'respect.