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Porcupine Advance, 9 Sep 1937, 2, p. 3

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2 Lynne stood gripping the crowâ€"bar with which she had helped to lever up the last stone, and felt physicallx sick with delayed tension. Julilan tossed the yellow hair back from his forehead, and pointing a shaking finger at the stone in the cenâ€" tre of the next row: "Lift that stone!" he said. The men looked at one another; hesitated, almost revolted against the A cold hcrror lest his hope should have been in vain crept into Julian‘s body; the men leaned wellâ€"nigh exâ€" hausted on their crowâ€"bars. If there was a cache under the paving he had expected to find it in the centre, as the most Oobvious place; now he was so nearly disappointed he wanted to rush ahead and get the rest of the paving stripped. But the men were muttering among themselves. He set the men to work to lift off theh upper layer of blocks; they were sixteen inches square and eight inches thick, and stuck fast to one another with the halfâ€"petrified slime of cenâ€" turies, and the icb was necessarily a slow one. Anxious as he was, Julian made them go about the matter in a methodical way, and the blocks were lifted row by row,; by early afternoon, when they had worked without pause since sunrise, half the lower layer of the paving lay exposed to the light. ‘"The blocks in the upper layer are thicker than those belowâ€"thicker than any of the blocks in the They were putâ€"in at a different time!" ‘"Do you thinkâ€"â€"â€"?" began Lynne. ‘"Don‘t talk about it. Take no notice," said Julian, his face and voice déliberâ€" ately expressionless, as he glanced at the Ilyats to see whether his exciteâ€" ment had attracted any attention. Covered in dust, and with the sweat running down his distraught face, Julian pointed this out to Lynne. The lifting away of the last mass of rubble which had been thrown into the basin of the well by the demolishment of the west wall, showed that the well was paved with two layers of stone blocks. The walls had only one. And indeed, the emotions of Lynne and â€"Julian were strange enough as the excavation went anead, ana Julian made the tirst discovery which gave them a definite expectation of success. _ DIGGING FOR GOLD Far above the old stones of faillen Praemnon, â€"as though brought by some instinct that there were strange doâ€" ings down below in the hot, yellow country, the vultures like in the blue. WV "Yes," said Julian tersely. "But they might have been just stones. I‘m not sure. We‘re going to eat, and drink, where the men can see usâ€"and then when they‘re resting we‘ll go back to the well. There‘s a sack in the tent and we‘ll lift whatever it is out and bring _‘ _ "*"SOMETHING ‘THERE?" The Ilyats, who had watched him examine the hole in the lower paving, turned away, apparentliy unsuspicious that the cavity contained anything worthy of note. They dropped their tools about the well, and trooped wearily across the sand to their enâ€" campment fifty yards away under the shelter of the cliff. The Ormonds‘ tent was set a little apart., They went to it together. ‘"Well! That will do for now! We will eat and rest for an hour, and afâ€" ter_that. we will_work again!" He drew back, and his arm came out of the hole dripping with muddy water to the elbow. He stood up, and turning away, moved towards the side of the well and said: Suddenly she saw the ‘blood mount in his face; beneath the dust and sweat it darkened in a burning flush. Though he said not a word, and deliberately repressed every sign of emotion that that Ilyats might see, his eyes, as Lynne stared at them, grew brighter and ‘brighter, deeper and deeper with triumphant meaning. Julian pushed his arm in further, quickly feeling about. He looked up at Lynne as he did so, and she stared into his face, trying to judge by his expresâ€" sion what it was he felt down there. Julian stepped forward, deliberately, with an assumed air of casual interest, while the men stood back, and fell on his knee beside the cavity. Lynne came to his side, and bent over while he thrust his hand into the dark space below. Her heart beat so hard in her throat that she felt that it would choke her. In the space left by the stone along the edge of the block next to it which had not been shifted, was a dark space about eight inches wide; the shifting of the block had exposed a cavity beâ€" low, where a stone, or stomes, were missing in the lower layer of the payâ€" ing. . Lynne gripped Julian‘s arm as she stifled the exclamation that rose to het lips. order, then drew their aching bodies to the task again. In ten minutes the stone was heaved out and it toppled over. ‘"What was it? There was something Hurriedly and carefully he tumbled the cups together in the bottom of the sack, closed the mouth, and stood. up. He looked across the sand, and. saw the Ilyats lying and sitting about their encampment. He brought out another dripping cup. This time with a handle on either side of the rim. Five of them were doubleâ€" handled, and on some Lynne had. glimpsed traces of conventional carving as she passed them into the sack. There were thirtyâ€"two altogetuer. Julian thrust about in â€"the hole, brought out pieces of stone, a ring half rusted away, and a length of chain. Blood was pouring from a cut in his hand when he finally withdrew his arm, and said: "I can feel the other side of the hole â€"there‘s cnly one block missing. 1 cught to be able to get them all from here!" "That‘s all!l There‘s nothing else there!" Julian bent still lower, thrust his arm in to the shoulder and gasped : Julian thrust his arm into the hole again and as he brought out the obâ€" iscts Lynne took them from him and slipped them into the sack. It seemed to her, as she took them from him, with the blood beating behind her eyes and a queer dreamlike quality about the silence and the hot, still sunshine, that the things were as heavy as lead. "It‘s a cup!" said Lynne, snatching up the sack, and in a moment the obâ€" ject was in and hidden. Fcr a moment he held it in his trembling hand and they stared at it. Lynne waited breathlessly, while he plunged his arm into the cavity; in a moment he dréw it out again, dripping. In his hand was a dull, streaky, tlackish object, hollow, and about six inches high, with a flattened base. Without appearances of undue haste, they lowered themselves into the fourâ€" foot depth of the well basin, and there, out of sight of the Ilyats, they set to work. At last Julian went into the tent to get the sack; he rolled it into a bundle under his arm, andt hey strolled back to the scene of excavations. He spoke as though he were short of breath,. And Lynne could well believe it. It required the greatest effort in both of them to sit down in front of their tent for ten minutes, eating tinâ€" ned beef and biscuits, so that the men might think their behavious just as usual. it away before they start work again."‘ he said to Lynne, and told They brought a box of wet clay into the tent, and sitting in its shelter, took the precious cups out of the sack. With the wet clay they coated each cup until it was hidden in m solid cylinder of clay. These they set to dry in a row in the scorching afternoon sun outâ€" side the tent; and while Julian kept a careful watch over them, Lynne went collecting the dry, strawâ€"like brush of the dead hoaâ€"scrub. | By the time nightfall came, and with it the NDyats back from the wells at Shasti, the cups in their clay cylm-f ders were neatly packed between layâ€" ers of dry brush into four ammunition boxes; nailing the lids down on the toxes was not yet done, and Julian purposely summoned Zoani to do this. . A few chips and pieces from the blocks of the excavated well deposited in the boxes with the lumps of clay, were calculated to convince the Hyats that here was nothing but those stomes for which archaeologists had their luâ€" [dlcrous enthiusiasm. ;. They might then be beiter trusted, Julian thought, not to spread tales to ‘the contrary in the locality. The Ilyats left; were out of sight, work. He sent five of the men down to Shasti to water the camels; while the remaining two he despatched to Memâ€" shi with a request to the headman of the village to prepare to send a caravan at Kashan at daybreak next morning The Ilyats left; and as soon as they were out of sight, he and Lynne set to However, when later on, Julian beâ€" gan making arrangements to smuggle them away, she was infected ‘by his desire to conceal their discovery until it could be sprung upon the world as theirsâ€"and theirs alone. There was an excitement about the secrecy of his preparations. him., she did believe that he would truly appreciate ‘the finding of this treasure for itself. She did not care, as Julian seemed to ~care, about getting them away to London. That the cups were found was enough. She did not want to go on quarrelling with Guthrie over the matâ€" ter; whatever else she might think of She remained in the tent, lying on the campâ€"bed, tense with her consâ€" ciousness of the contents of the sack ‘underneath. What a glamour and roâ€" mance there was about those aged treasures, brought out all dripping and black as the darkness itself, into the light of day! Empires had arisen and fallen, nations come into being and vgnished, and history had told such a log, long story, since the stones had been lowered over the hidingâ€"place of‘ the cups, to shut them away from bhei sun. â€"â€""Take them to England with usâ€"you say? No, my dear Lynne, that would never do. Once we go down to Tehran taking this load with us, Guthrie will be sure that. we‘ve found something. He‘ll ‘be hard.onmâ€"our .heels, he‘ll probâ€" ‘ubly get to London by air days before we do, and let the press have his own version of the finding of the cups beâ€" fore we arrive. I‘m not going to give him a chance to ‘have anything to say about the business at all! It‘s going to be my find, and I shall spring it on the world. I‘m going to get the cups ‘to London before he even knows that this is really Praemnon and not Diala!" ‘â€" Lynne had nothing to say against this. She had no doubt that he was right. ' Julian paused with a farâ€"away look in his eyes, as though he had hardly heard whet she said, before he replied: "But why to Enzili?" asked Lynne. "Couldn‘t we. take them to Tehranâ€" and take them back with us to London ourselves?" "Phew! What a day!" he said, mopâ€" ping his brow. "And we haven‘t by any means finished. What we have to do is to get the things packed up without the Hyats seeing them; and then we‘ll get a camel convoy from Memshi, and take them down to Kashan. IT‘ll get them delivered, as geological specimens. to some agents I know thereâ€"the Parâ€" ker Jarvis Companyâ€"and then sent on by air to Enzili. Once we get bhem‘ there, there‘ll be no more trouble of getting them to England." "No; noâ€"of course not!" said Julian, echoing her laugh in a mirthless way. NOW FOR HOME He pulled the sack over to the campâ€" bed, pushed it underneath, dropping the blanket so as to hide it, and sat down on the bed. The fancied sound of a step outside brought Julian to his senses with a start; and in a miment, with sweepâ€" ing, grasping hands, he was gathering up the cups and tumbling them into the sack again. He crouched there, clutching it, watching the flap of the tent with such a desperate look that Lynne laughed. ‘"We are a pair of conspirators!" she said. ‘"There‘s no one thereâ€"and if there were, it wouldn‘t matter! Guthâ€" rie can‘t take the cups from us nowâ€"â€" we‘ve found them, and they‘re ours!" They set the cups in a row and lookâ€" ed at them. Lynne was conscious of her grimed face and stained hands, of her disâ€" hevelled hair full of the white dust of the desert; it was only when she noâ€" ticed the jubilation in her stepâ€" brother‘s face, the wild triumph, and the gleam of greed in his eyes, that she realized that she too, no doubt, had much the same expression as she sat and gazed in wonder at their find. they had lain for so long, had corâ€" roded te surface of the cups, but Julian scraped the blackened metal with the blade of his knife, and showed Lynne the dull gleam of the gold. af stone and putting them in k; and then at last they both oitered round the well, picking back to the tent. There, in its her jerkily, well: "Don‘t here. Stop bits of stone them in the what we‘ve They 1 Jp pieces he sac ‘ind; something acid in the water which had crept into the hole in which ADVANCR. TIMAMINB, ont. Padre Scott Speaks for Unity Venerable Archdeacon Scott chose an appropriate occasion to speak for naâ€" tional unity when he was addressing the veterans at Timmins, men who fought and sacrificed for a larger unity, that of the Empire and democracy. He found a striking contrast between the spirit of jloyalty and devotion which bound men together in one cause on the battlefield ad the unrest that seems now to be "splitting the Dominion into 4 patchwork of separate provinces." Elsewhere in this issue The Advance reprints a lengthy editorial from The Northern Tribune of Kapuskasing in regard to Archdeacon Scott‘s plea for unity among Canadians. The words of the padre of the Canadian troops has also roused The Globe and Mail to ediâ€" torial reference. On Friday of last week the Gobe and Mail had the folâ€" lowing editorial article:â€" About Padre‘s Scott‘s Plea for More Unity in Canada 10. When you step out of an autoâ€" mobile or street car, you become a pedestrian. Don‘t dart out suddenly from behind the car. There are plenty of accident stories in the newspapers already. Look sharp. Play fair. Perhaps our readers may thing that the last admonition in these rules should, with a lot of other wholesome advice, ‘be directed solely toward the motoris‘, But if you feel so inclined remind ,'oursell of t in x o i lke Ephraim Gray, Who died to preserve the right of way; He was right, quite right, as he bowled alcng, But he‘s just as dead as if he‘d been wrong." 4 9. When you decide it is safe to cross the road, don‘t waver halfway between stopping and starting. Either stop or start, so the approaching motorist can slow down or go ahead. 8. Eternal vigilance is the price of safety when crossing the road. 7. It may be a little irritating to be crdered around by a traffic cop. But watch him a few minutes, and you‘ll find he‘s just as uncomplimentary to the careless automobilist. Besides it‘s better to be ordered by the traffic cop than inquested by the coroner! as long as it continues to move. He often speeds up as the car slows down so that he won‘t be stalled behind it. Remember this when you plan to hop off a moving trolley on a crowded street â€"and then don‘t hop! 4. At ordinary walking speed you can easily stop within the limit. of your stride. At fifteen miles an‘hour an automobile requires at least thirty feet. If one or the other of you must stop, put on your brakes; yours work more quickly. 6. Dark clothes make you almost inâ€" visible at night, especially if an autoâ€" mobilist, coming up behind, is blinded by the glare of another car. Show someâ€" thing white when walking along a road at night. And don‘t count too confiâ€" dently that every car will dodge you. Do your â€"own dodging. 5. When you must leave the sidewalk at a point where parked automobiles line the curb, go easily and look careâ€" fully both ways. The motorist is not exâ€" pecting youâ€"you must expect him. 3. The automobilist considers it quite within his rights t_o_ pass a trolley car 2. "Left foot, right foot," is the rule for marching. "Left look, right look," is the rule for crossing. + 1. You feel sore when an automobile the sidewalk. So does the autoâ€" mobile when you get in front of him. Play fair! Stick to the crosswalk. These Ten Commandments, formuâ€" lated by an insurance company, â€" are probably no less valuable because their motive may not be a strictly humaniâ€" tarian one: one from Guthrie‘s camp come to inâ€" vestigate, he and Lynne set off with the camel drivers from Memshi. (To Be Continued) Afer this was done they remained in camp for the night at Praemnon; and soon after sunrise the camel convoy came up from Memshi. They were three days‘ journey from <Kashan. The amâ€" munition boxes, which were exceedâ€" ingly heavy, were placed one on each saddle of the pack camels. Meanrwhile, Julian gave minute instructions to zZoani and the other Ilyats about clearing and sorting the debris of the excavated well; he strictly forbade any further removal of the remaining three sides of the well; and leaving the .men at work to act as a blind should anyâ€" Headaches can generally be traced to a disordered stomach and to the unâ€" suspected retention in the system of stagnating waste material which poisâ€" ons the blood. Remove these poisons prevent them forming againâ€"and you‘ll never have to worry any moreâ€"from that cause. And that is just how Krus. chen Salts bring swift and lasting relief from headaches. Kruschen aids Nature to cleanse your body completely of clogging waste matter. How do you deal with headaches? Do you just take something to deaden the pain, without getting rid of the trouble which causes the pain? Now She‘s Free From Them Ten New Commandments for the Motorists These , Days. DATED THIS 30TH DAY OF AUGUST, A.D, 1937 tude toâ€"day to save the structure they The remedy, in the opinion of the Archdeacon, is creation of a Dominion First National Party, a group of men with the welfare of the Dominion at heart. Neediess to say, he does not sugâ€" gest unity through the application of army discipline, but confines his anaâ€" logy to loyalty for a worthy cause. This was the policy of the Fathers of Conâ€" federation when they sank party differâ€" encés in a spirit of compromise. There is need for the same democratic attiâ€" ‘The esteemed padre was right in his references to unrest. Not since Confedâ€" eration was launched has there been so much provincial unrest, so listle apâ€" parent urge for teamwork in the naâ€" tional interests. Evidently this is not due to political cleavages, but to lack of willingness to view the whole picâ€" ture instead of the part. The spirit of democracy, on which was founded hope for the common interests, is being forâ€" gotten. AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that such apâ€" peals must be by notice in writing in the prescribed form, signed by the complainant in duplicate and given to the Clerk of the revising Officer or left for him at his address as stated above. it joined us together in one Why, the greatest ammunition we had over there was our comradeship. Why can‘t we have it here toâ€"day?" It is a question worth asking. Is there less inspiration in the constructive aims of peacetime than in warfare? AND FURTHEHR TAKE NOTICEâ€"that any voter who desires to complain that his name or the name of any person entitled to be entered on the said list has been omitted from the same, or that the names of any persons who are not entitled to be voters have been entered thereon, may, at least two clear days beâ€" fore the sittings of the Revising Officer, apply, comâ€" plain or appeal to have his name or the name of any other person entered on, or removed from the list. TOWNSHIP OF CALVERT On the 14th day of September, 19837, at 2 p.m., at the Township Hall, Ansonville, ..Clerk of the Revising Officer, 8. E. Lefebvre, whose address is Ansonville, Ont. J. A. Clermont will be Revising Officer for the above mentioned municipality. On the 18th day of September, 1957, at 1 p.m!. at the Township Hall, Kirkland Lake. ..Clerk of the Revising Officer : J. W. McBain, whose address is Kirkland Lake. Ont. J..A. Clermont will be Revising Officer for the above mentioned municipality. AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that the list to be so revised is Parts I and III of.the voters‘ list preâ€" pared for the g#bove municipalities. TOWN OF MATHESON On the 13th day of September, 1957, at 11 a.m, at the Town Hall, Matheson. Clerk of the Revising Officer : P. G. Whitehead, whose address is Matheson, Ont. J. A. Clermont will be Revising Officer for the above mentioned municipality. ; TOWNSHIP OF WHITNEY On the 15th day of September, 19837, at 2 p.m. at the Township Hall, Porcupine. Clerk of the Revising Officer: J. M. Nlcolson whose address is Porcupine, Ont. J. A. Clermont will be Revising Officer for the above mentioned municipality. On the 13th day of September. 1937, at 3 p.m., at the Council Chamber, Ramore. ..Clerk of the Rev1smg Officer: Alibert St. Aubin, whose address is Ramore, Ont. J. A. Clermont will be Revising Officer for the above mentioned municipality. TOWNSHIP OF TISDALE On the 16th day of September, 1937, at 10 a.m. at the Township Hall, South Porcupine. Clerk of the Revising Officer: Frank C. Evans, whose address is South Porâ€" cupine, Ont. J. A. Clermont will be Revising Officer for the above mentioned municipality. On the 14th day of September, 1937, at 11 a.m. at the Town Hall, Iroquois Falls. Clerk of the Revising Officer: Frank K. Ebbitt, whose address is Iroquois Falls, Ont. J. A. Clermont will be Revising Officer for the above mentioned municipality. Take notice that sittings of the Revising Officers for the purpose of hearing complaints or appeals with regard to the voters‘ lists to be used at the election of a member of the Assembly pending for the Electoral District of Cochrane South will be held at the timges and places set forth in the schedule hereinafter set out: The Voters‘ List Act Notice of Sittings of Revising Officer TOWN OF IROQUOIS FALLS (Referred to in Section 58) Powassan New:â€"We frequently creâ€" dit a long sober face with wisdom, when the cause is indigestion. the expense of the provinces, but to bind them more closely as members of a family functioning for the common good. If the spirit of Confederation is lost, the motive power behind Canadian democracy has departed. built from toppling over. 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