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Last week Cape Breton's Scots gathered to celebrate their heritage. In a small clearing along the National Park's Cabot Trail, a reproduction of a shieling-a rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...
...Government. The 34 cases were crammed with antiques: jeweled goblets, original Chopin manuscripts, Poland's storied coronation sword, Szczerbiec. Their intrinsic value was in the millions, their historic value above price. In Canada they were carefully stored: 24 cases with the Redemptorist Fathers at the Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré, eight with the sisters of the Precious Blood convent in Ottawa, two in the vaults of the Bank of Montreal in Ottawa...
Trailing clouds of E. Phillips Oppenheim, Dr. Zaleski raced to Ste. Anne de Beaupre. As he feared, he was too late. The 24 cases there had also been handed over. Dr. Zaleski sped to the bank. Ah, the cases were there. But the bank bluntly refused to give them up except jointly to the two men who had deposited them, Dr. Zaleski and his colleague, Jozef Polkowski, a London Pole...
...darkly: "The only man who had a tumor on his ear and also knew the password is Polkowski. I wrote Polkowski asking what he had done with the art. He replied that he had given his word of honor not to reveal its location." Who was the man at Ste. Anne's? "Babinski," said Dr. Fido. ". . . It is all Babinski...
...Ste. Adèle, whose opinion of the mayor is divided, Grignon is more unbelievable than Seraphim. He struts through the village, strikes poses for tourists or opponents. But he has an eye for new scenes or faces. He mines his town for plots and characters for Un Homme...