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...good when she discovered his secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic fine Ralegh was not allowed at court for five years. From that time on, his schemes went wrong. His expeditions to Guiana brought back little but tall tales. His part in the raid on Cadiz was creditable but he got less than his share of prize money...
Finally, on payment of another fine, and because Ralegh convinced the King that there was gold in the hills of Guiana, he was freed and allowed to fit out his last, most disastrous expedition. Ralegh was 64 when he took this final fling at fate. Everything went wrong. Though he leaned over backward to keep from embroiling himself with the Spaniards, his men were attacked by them, his son killed. In revenge, while Ralegh lay sick aboard his ship, his men stormed and sacked a Spanish town. Yet they found no gold mine...
...complete his twelfth trek for the movies. This month we learn about the salvation of the new-fangled fishermen of Boston and the old-fashioned fishermen of Gloucester through the retention of the anti-Canadian tariff; the contemplation by the French authorities of abandoning the penal camp in French Guiana (Devil's Island being the famous part) because of the new racket of facilitating escapes; and the psychological and social reasons for the recent militaristic coup in Japan...
...were still plugging ahead, when there came an event which first blew the lid off the yarn, then clamped it back more confusingly than ever. In a Paramaribo newspaper appeared the tale of one Alfred Harred, newshawk and alleged member of an expedition to determine the boundary of British Guiana: "Art Williams, two Indians and I took off, landed on a tributary of the main Amazon . . . started to trek across the Tumuc-Humac Mountains. . . . After several days we came to a village where all Indians were completely nude. We saw an airplane caught in the branches of a big tree...
Said Art Williams in Georgetown, British Guiana: "I never saw Redfern or his plane. I do not recall meeting Harred...