Orland Zenith, Volume 17, Number 12, Orland, Steuben County, 28 June 1916 — Page 2

THE ZENITH, ORLAND. INDIANA

months my brother, who had the care of the shrine itself, had litlie trouble in secreting the wealth that we had hidden (or nigh four hundred years. "We had the stone— no. senor, not the five; only one—the greatest and most valuable. So rich it was—Is I — that I am told men's hearts turned to water at the mere sight of it. I know right well that 1 would have given much to see it for only one little moment: but it was not to be. "They came, senor, by night—as beasts of prey altrays come —and they looted the temple and burned It after they had looted. 1 was not there at the time, but when 1 returned 1 found my brother dying of a gunshot wound and my mother— It is best not to go into particulars, senor. "They had no fear of God. It is lacking always, they say, in a mob that knows neither law nor leader. And the stone was gone—looted—taken, as everything else was taken, with the raiders when they lied to the north.

rolled out on the ground, Kynastot promptly picked it up.

“H-m! Three rifles that have no business here and a hundred rounds of ammunition. Wait a bit! Sergeant, look at the arsenal mark on those rifles and see where they were made." The sergeant scrutinized them carefully in the early light.

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"Sir, there’s some mark on 'em that 1 can't make out. It looks like some sort of a (lower as well as I can see "

Kynastou took the gun. As far as its appearance was concerned it resembled every other military rifle that he had ever seen, but when he turned the under side to the light he saw stamped Tn the dark wooden forehand of the piece the full-blown chrysanthemum that was tlie emblem of only one nation "H-m! An Arisaki rifle! Now bow the deuce did that come here? It was made as far east as one can get without tumbling over to the westward again. How the deuce did a Japanese rifle come into Mexican hands?" He had no opportunity to solve the problem, for even as he spoke Dorothy gave an exclamation and stepped back a pace as the covering of a package broke and a flood of silver pesos ran out at her feet.

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the wonderful emeralds that Queen Isabella asked for in vain and that made Cortez the most courted man in all Madrid. Hast thou heard of them?”

Automobile of Miss Dorothy Upton and friend, Mrs. Fane, breaks down at New Mexico border patrol camp commanded by Lieutenant Kynaston. The two women are on way to mine of Miss Upton’s father, located & few miles across the Mexican border. Kynaston leaves women at his camp while he goes with a detail to Investigate report of Villa gun runners. Villa troops drive small force of Carranza across border line and they surrender to Kynaston. Dorothy and Mrs. Fane still at camp when Kynaston returns with prisoners. A blind Mexican priest appears in camp.

Mrs. Fane and Dorothy looked their interest. All people are interested in the mere mention of jewels or precious stones —even those who do not possess them.

"Always, senor. our raiders have come from the north, from the days of old when the Toltecs came down upon the land, and when following them the countless thousands of the red savages drove the Toltecs in headlong flight, bringing death and desolation upon the laud. And then the Spaniard came, a > thou knowest the rest, senor. "I do but speak the empty vaporings of age. 1 am seventy-six years of age, and 1 have tracked that stone northward—northward ever since that day when Zapata's men robbed the shrine. “Those men who fled yesterday across the line, and who found refuge with thee have the stone. They took it in fair tight from the rebels, who were moving toward El Paso with it in the hope of selling it for gold with which to purchase arms and ammunition for their cause.

"I have heard," said Kynaston slowly, “the same tale all men know, the tale which Gomara wrote to the effect that Cortez received as a part of the ransom of the Emperor Montezuma five great emeralds, and that when payment was made to the Spanish king of the royal fifth part of the treasure the stones were kept by the conqueror as a part of his own share."

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There s no proof of stealing in these." commented Kynaston. “Bven if there were the stealing was dona in Mexico, and the thief was not within our Jurisdiction. What is this?" It was a plain, dirty canvas sack perhaps a foot in depth and it bore the marks of rough handling. Ha picked it up and juggled it from hand to hand. The officer of the Carranza forces was obviously uneasy at the scrutiny. "That, senor,” he said, “is the greatest prize of all. It was stolen by these rebels across the line and was to be used by them to purchase arms." Without waiting for any explanation as to what the contents of the sack might be, Kynaston cut the string and poured the contents out upon the saddle blanket which the sergeant had spread upon the ground. Certainly there was nothing in the roll of rags that rolled out to presagt great value. Hut on turning over the mass with his foot a glow of green '-aucht uiq eyes. Ther a/

An aged and blind priest tells Kynaston and his guests an amazing story of wonderful jewels and a looted shrine and of a long and heart-breaking quest for one rare treasure. You’ll wonder, as you read, whether or not the old nadre is wandering in both mind and body—for truly his tale is strange.

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"Dost thou know then, or does any man Know, what afterward became of the stones?"

The old man leaned forward in his eagerness, turning toward the sound of Kynaston's voice. His interest was obvious.

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CHAPTER II —Continued.

Dorothy and Mrs. Fane took no pains to hide their interest now. “It was said, of course—what thou knowest —that the emeralds were taken home by him to Spain, and that when he married a seconc time ho gave these to his wife. The queen had hinted that she herself was not unwilling to receive as a gift these most wonderful stones.

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While they were eating the appetizing meal that the trumpeter spread for them upon the camp table beneath the solitary live oak that stood before the tent, they watched the cergeaiH help the stranger down the hill. Taking the blind man to the fire, he seated him upon a saddle that lay near the cooking tent, and came forward with a salute.

"And they in turn have lost the stone to thee; for a passing cowboy told me that these men had surrendered to the Americanos and guided me the greater part of the way to thy camp. “1 am no rebel, senor. I am a churchman, not a soldier. But—I seek the stone —I. now that my brother is dead; I, the Blind Priest of Trecante, am the lawful guardian of the shrine." Just then the deep voice of the sergeant broke in. "Sir, if the is ready I’ll bring up tlreV'ckg an’ the lieutenant can go tycf- ■ A.”, Kynaston. c»4ed 'baefe' to earth, looked up amj'nodded “Bring ’em |all up in. front of my tent, sergeanti" The three pack mules, tired and ungroomed, were led up and their packs decanted in front of the tent where Dorothy and Mrs. Fane sat in Interested observation.

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"They were, senor. as Gomara says, like this: One in the shape of a great rose, the second a fish with eyes of gold, the third an emerald cup, and the fourth a man's head with ruby eyes set in the green surface. With none of these, senor, are we concerned.

"He’s a priest, sir—a padre; and from what little I can make out of his lingo he’s had a pretty bad time of it, sir. Shall I bring him up?” "Yes." Kynaston sprang up. “Mrs. Fane, do you and Miss Upton object to my asking the old fellow to take his breakfast here with us? I hardly like to send him down among the prisoners to eat. Me seems a cut above them, don’t you know?” "Why, of course not, Mr. Kynaston. Please do exactly as you would if we were not here. I am sure he will be very interesting." So Kynaston went down to the fire, where the old man was explaining in broken English and Mexican patois to the prisoners, for them to translate to the Americans, that he was more tired than hungry.’but that most of all he desired to hold converse with the commanding officer. Having introduced himself, Kynaston asked the old man to coma to his tent and Join him in coffee. They found th*, two ladies already at their meal. Kynaston seated the old man between the two and poured him a cupful of steaming coffee that woke him into speech. “Never before, senor. have I crossed the line. A Mayan am 1, as all my people were for twelve generations that stretch their hands back even unto the days before there were Spaniards in Tenochtltlan “For the space of twelve men’s lives have we lived under the shadows of El Tio, seeing always the surf break on the outlying bars. Two years ago 1 came north, even as Coronado came, part of the way on my feet, part on asses; always with pain, tor to the blind, senor, all paths are hard. And at last my dream vanished." | "Thy dream?”

“The fifth and the most beautiful of all was a great bell, made of solid emerald, that stood, perhaps—so they

Nothing Serious. detectives were on duty at the In reception.”

“There ought to be guns an' revolvers an’ ammunition." commented Kynaston. “Button! Button! Who’s got the button? I wonder what they've got packed away in those aparejos." He soon found out. tor under the quiet orders of the sergeant the guards slipped the packs and opened them in front of the wondering eyes of the little group, t "I thought at least we wmuld find that the arms manufacturers of the country had shipped rifles and pistols to them across the border.” commented Kynaston. “And I find nothing: absolutely nothing. A petate—sleeping mat —and a lot of dried red peppers, together-with a package of beans —frijolcs— VVait a bit! What’s that under your hand. Miss Upton?”

ire say a great many costly jewre worn.”

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Miss Upton, startled, looked curiously at the package under her hand which she had been resting upon the pack. She gave it a twitch, and a bundle wrapped In a rough, red blanket

“H’m. An Arisaki Rifle! How Did That Come Here?”

tell me, at least, for how can a blind man see? —the height of a man's thumb; carved, mark thee, from the solid emerald —the tongue is made of a pear-shaped pearl, and about the base, carved and set most probably by some skilled workman of Seville, these words, let into the Jewel in letters of gold: “Blessed is he who created thee."

of the type that you see working on the railroad track or mixing concrete for the foundation of the road on which you run your automobile. He Is a better soldier than you are.

"Aye, senor, my dream, for know thou that 1 came not without an aim. That aim has been to follow and recover what these thieves of the world have taken.”

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Few, probably, know tbe history of “There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip." which is a translation of a Greek proverb. Ancaeus. an ancient king of Samos, was fond of gardening, and planted come vines in his garden. But he was told by a prophet that he would never taste wine from them.

“But, padre, we all know —the world knows—that when Cortez went with his king—Charles—to fight the Moors he took the stones with him. and when he was wrecked at sea off the Algeclras coast the stones were lost—” The old priest sat back clicking bis tongue softly. “Then, senor, If this be true, 1 and my family for ten generations have been made fools of. for during ten men’s lives some member of my family has always kept the shrine of Our Lady of Olvidados down in Yucatan, where the old faith still holds, and where men have not gone after strange gods—” “But how In the world If you live In Yucatan did you ever work your way so far north?" “When General Zapata rose In rebellion after President Diaz had fled to Prance, the whole country rose with him. Every place was looted, and what tew treasures we had were taken.

He pointed his thumb over his shoulder toward the fire, where the prisoners still sat over the bacon and hard bread that were being cooked for them by the cooks of the troop. "And art thou really blind?” “So that, senor; for fifty years 1 have not seen the light of day." Mrs. Fane and Dorothy murmured their sympathy.

a squad trench and do your duty as muzhiks and other peasants of monarchical Europe have frequently done? My own opinion of you is that you could not, and my opinion has the strength of a conviction, 1 do not care whether you are a clerk or a college professor, a lawyer or a laborer. Suppose you were advancing in open order of attack, and had reached a point where, with your captain killed, your platoon commander wounded, your line, unable to go forward, was lying In the open, and your only chance for life was to find’the range of the enemy and shoot at him so correctly that he In turn could no longer shoot correctly at you. Would you listen to the orders of your corporal? Would you take the range he gave you. carefully adjust your sight, and fire every shot as carefully as If you were trying to ring a cane at Coney Island or make a new step In a dance? No, you could not do It. and tailing to do It. yon would bn killed by some Peasaat

Time went, and the wine being duly made, Ancaeus was lifting a cup of it to his Ups, at the same time asking the prophet mockingly where his prophecy was now. “There’s many things between the cup and Up,” replied the prophet As he spoke a loud tumult was beard outside, and Ancaeus was told that a wild boar had broken In. Hurriedly putting the cup down without drinking, he rushed out to join the bunt against the boar, and was killed. And the prophet’s remark. turned into a hexameter versa, passed into a proverb.

"So I have come, senor. For now three hundred years I and my fathers before me kept the shrine where It has been deposited since the days when Cortez came back from the courts of the old world to hold his court at

Cuernavaca, and, finding there In power the evil man, Pedrarlas, his enemy. retired to live upon his estates. “Ye know, senor and ladles, how it was said that the conquistador poisoned his first wife sd that be could marry a second wife who should sivance his fortunes, it was to this second wife that be gave those wonderful teweVe, as an the world knows:

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“We in Trocanto managed to hide the wealth of the shrine, and for

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