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LOST LOST MINES
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It was, in fact, nowhere where-he on could find it. He had gone
into searching and searching up Darien, and down as far as Chili. Always he chased the dim, elusive, ever-alluring rumour, and always he failed.
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It became a passion, an obsession am.with him. He worked in civilised
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settlements merely that he might gather funds and be off again. He endured dangers most times, and torments practically always.
Down the coasts from the Carib bean to Tocopilla he became a sort of legend. He was the man blessed by God with madness, who sought The some wonder amid the hills. natives and half-breeds of half-a- dozen exotic States knew him, and regarded him with the mild and plous awe which is their attitude towards the insane. There was no who man on the Andes seaboard
Canter. knew the Innd so well He knew it like a book, its moun- tain valleys and jungle swamps, its hidden river headwaters, its realo- gical formations, its rare plants and its common mammalia, its produc- tive values, and. Its dangers in dis-
ease.
Princess on Political Stump
Princess Ileana, daughter of the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumans and wife of Prince Anton of Hapsburg, pictured as she gave the traditional Fascist salute at conclusion of her speech to Heimwehr and "Patriotic Front" members at Modling, Austria, recently The princess took rola of spell-binder to plead for a united Austris.
He had been hunting, for smiled Canter wearily but sympathe RHODESIAN TRADE gold, and had stared up a mine of tically. enormous value, within himself.
It was this factor in Canter that)
"Found anything worth while?"
"Only an orchid that's called Can-
WITH BRITAIN
attracted Donlevy. Donlevy was tereses, or something like that, after Mr. J. W. Downie Visits
fines.
"Not, a pile?"
"No," said, Canter. not a pile."
"Certainly
"But-but you have hopes?" "Have I?" said Canter. "I'm be ginning to wonder,"
"How long have you been at the
"
The Union
LONDON HIGH COMMISSIONER
Cape Town.
Mr. J. W. Downie, Rhodesian High Commissioner in London, arrived in South Africa on his first visit to Southern Rhodesia since he succeeded Sir Francis Newton in London three years ago.
orienf those big, industrial fellows.me." the head of a concern that is some- how something finer and mightier He was the than more business. head of an exploitation concern that had its interests all down the Paci fic coast from Panama to Magellan. Ita avowed intention was trade, and big trade, but it went much further game?" than that. It did not strive to ex- "Oh. quite a time. Let me see pand at the expense of the com-He told off the years in his mind, munities it traded with. It strove and. à startled look came into his "Good lord, it's more than to carry the communities along to face. prosperity with it.
ten years! I'm over thirty."
The object of Mr. Downie's He was shocked. He'd been It was, If you like, a benevolent
ten visit is to confer with the new concern, but on strictly practical chasing moon-beams, for over
Whenever it opened a new years-ten years-and was still as Government in the Colony in re- Ten gard to Rhodesia's trade with the European mar- 14th May agency in a new area it seemed to far away from success as ever.
set itself to make the beat of that years, a great slice of mortal life, Britain_and
He was over thirty.kets. The sale of Rhodesian to- area for the sake of the local inhabi- and wasted.
Donlevy read the dismay in his bacco and chilled meat in Eng- tants.
land is making headway, but Mr. Downie was not inclined to go Donlevy was characteristic of this mind, and said simply:
"Have you ever thought of using into details until he had seen Mr. 24th May concern, a finè old man, an aristo-
He had come to your specialised knowledge of these Huggins and his Cabinet at Sa- erat in trading,
parts? We've been looking for alisbury. Lima to settle the hash of a mana- ger who was sweating a half-breed long time for a man like you."
Canter was, if anything, even settlement, and also to try and get more startled at the idea of being of Mines and Works in the Rho- that settlement on a healthy footing.useful to anyone, and flattered, too. zoing to London, was requested desian Party Government before There was one thing that puzzled But Donlevy explained what he 6th May him, and that was to know how it meant, and proved that
was by Mr. Huggins when the Re- was that fever came down in what
right,
In the end Center joined form Party came into power last year to remain in London an- was apparently a clear mountain Donlevy's concern, which was called stream. Nobody could tell him any the Andes Exploitation.
other year after the official ex- of his term of office) thing, but somebody suggested that;
piration Donlevy planned to break Canter last October.-Reuter. he should talk to Canter.
In gently and wisely, He would have his wilds and his lonely roam longing on his final survey, but that
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He found Canter rather cadave- rous and fine-drawn after bitter, and unsuccessful search for would be broken up by necessary his lost mines in the arid ranges spells of office work in Lima, Guaya- near Cuzo. Canter told him at once quil, Begota. Panama, and like. why his mountain bred fever. towne, and there would be certain
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