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2 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921. The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. AUTO USED PARTS ADIOMOBIIE USED PARTS CO., XS30 DuadaB Sc. Wect, - Toronto and graceful. As she talked to her friends her eyes for the moment ed to have lest their seriousness. Her youth had reasserted itself--her youth and splendid physical health, watched her eagerly, and son seemed to pass from his Selecting Kitchen Utensils. In buying a utensil the first thing consider is whether it is really cessary. Fancy gelatine molds, e shadow j cabbage cu n face~ I which a~ - SYNOPSIS: The story, written in 1916, begins with Lady Anselman's luncheon-party at the Ritz Hotel, London. Amongthe guests are Lord Romsey, a Cabinet Minister; Surgeon-Major Thomson, Chief Inspector of Field Hospitals; his fiancee, Geraldine Conyers; her brother, a naval lieutenant, and his fiancee Olive Moreton; Captain ilonald Granet, nephew of the hostess, home with a wounded arm. Lieut. Conyers receives commission on a "mystery' ship and Major Thomson decodes a secret message from the battlefield. Lord Romsey receives a visitor and the conversation reveals the Cabinet Minister's secret dealings with viermany. Thomson calls at Granet's apartments to discover whether he knows anything about- Lord Romsey's visitor. Granet denies any knowledge oi the so-called American chaplain. Geraldine evades Thomson's plea for an immediate marriage. He expostulate:* with Conyers for disclosing Adnuralty plaws to the two girls and Granet. CHAPTER VII.--(Cont'd.) They all stared at him. Granet's face was expressionless, the girls were bewildered, Ralph was frowning. "Dash it all, Hugh," he expostulated,, "do have a little common sense. Here's a fellow like Granet, a keen soldier and one of the best, doing all he can for us on land but a bit worried about cur submarine danger Why Hwuldnt I try and reassure him eh?--let him see that we've a few little things up cur sleeves'.'" "That sounds all right, Ralph," Thomson agreed, "but you're departing from a principle, and I wouldn't do it. It isn't a personal risk you're running, or a personal secret you're sharing with others. It may sound absurd under the present circumstances, I know, but--" Granet laughed Might] y. His arm fell upon the young- sailor's shoulder. "Perhaps Thomson's right, Conyers," .he intervened. "You keep your old scheme at the back of your head. We'll know all about it when the history of the war's written. There's always the thousand to one _ chance, you know. I might, get brain fever in a German hospital and begin to babble. Tear it up, old fellow." There was a moment's silence. Geraldine turned to Thomson. "Hugh," she protested, "don't you think you're carrying principle almost too far? It's so fearfully interesting feir us when Ralph's at sea, and we wait day by day for news from him, to understand a little what he's doing." "I think you're a horrid nuisance, Major Thomson," Olive grumbled, "We'd just reached the exciting part." "I am sorry," Thomson said, "but I think, Ralphl you had better do what Captain Granet suggested." The young man shrugged his shoul-' ' s face was poachers the shadow' of his suffering or his«■•»««'.'»« -^™1 and seldom used "I might have gone into Regent's pain. He, too, seemed to grow young-] are a real extravagance, hie MU.n Park or St. James's Park," she re- er. The simplest and yet the most may be cluttered up with uten.-:i:s minded him. I wonderful joy in life was thrilling, which are not used cftener than twice 'Tn which case," he observed, "I him. At last she bade farewell to her a month. Ev*ry utensil must fulfill should have walked up and down until friends and came smiling towards him. an actual need. I had had enough of it, and then gone- "I am so sorry to have kept you all After deciding that the utensil is away in a bad temper." (this time!" she exclaimed. "Lady Anne, needed, next consider the size. A •Don't, be .foolish," .she laughed. "I; tof ™«ie tjme^andjj am quart capacity double iboiler is ,arge decline absolutely to believe that you had a single thought cf me when you j turned in here. Do you mind if I say that I prefer not to believe it?" He accepted the reproof gracefully. "Well, since we do happen to have met," he suggested, "might 1 walk with you a little way? You i for i hour and we have been here for Stop that taxi for me, please, ot spare the time even to walk He handed her into the cab and whistled for the dogs, who all scrambled in after her. along hei 1 alone." "Of course you may, if you like,' she assented, glancing sympathetically at his stick. "How is your leg getting on?" "It's better--getting on finely, far as my leg is concerned, I believe I shall be fit to go out again within ten days. It's my arm that bothers me a little. One of the nerves, the doctor said, must be wrong. I car only just lift it. You've no idea," he went on, "how a game leg and s trussed-up arm interfere with the little round of one's daily life. I can't ride, can't play golf or billiards, and for an unintelligent chap like n wound up with a sigh, "there a great many other ways of passing the time." | "Why do you call yourself unintelligent?" she "protested. "You couldn't have got through your soldiering so well if ycu had been." "Oh! I know all the soldier stuff," he admitted, "know my job, that is to say, all right, and of course I am moderately good at languages but that finishes me. I haven't any brains li' your friend Thomson, for instance. "Major Thomson is very clever, I believe," she said a little coldly. "And a little censorious, 1 afraid," Granet added with a slight grimace. "I suppose he thinks I am a garrulous sort of ass but I really can't see why he needed to go for your brother last night just because he was gratifying a very reasonable curiosity on my part. It isn't a: though I wasn't in the Service. The Army and the Navy are the thing, any way, and we are always glad to give a Navy man a hint as to how we are getting on." "I really couldn't quite understand Major Thomson myself," she agreed. "May I ask--do you mind?" he began,--"have you been engaged, to him She looked away for a moment. Her tone, when she replied, was meant to convey some slight annoyance at the question. "About three months." Captain Granet kicked a pebble away from the path in front of him with his sound foot. I should think he must be a very I as they shook hands. "You mustn't ' grudge the time. Doing your duty to the country, you know." He tactfully avoided any mention of a future meeting and was rewarded with a little wave of her hand from the window of the cab. He himself left the Park at the same time, strolled along Piccadilly as far as Sackville Street and let himself into his rooms. His servant came forward to meet; him from the inner room, and took his cap and stick. "Any telephone messages, Jarvis?" Granet moved toward the easy- "Nothing, sir." chair. On the way he stopped. The door of one of the cupboards in the sideboard was half open. He frowned. "Haven't I told you, Jarvis, that I wish those cupboards kept locked?" he asked a little curtly. The man was staring towards the sideboard in some surprise. "I am very sorry, sir," he said, certainly believed that I locked it last Granet opened it wide and looked inside. His first glance was careless enough, then his expression changed. He stared incredulously at the small array of bottles and turned swiftly around. "Have you moved anything from here?" "Certainly not, sir," was the prompt reply. Granet closed the cupboard slowly. Then he walked to the window for a moment, his hands behind his back. - "Any one been here this morning at all, Jarvis?" he inquired. "A man for the laundry, sir, and a person to test the electric light." "Left alone in the room at all. "The electric light man was here for. a few minutes, sir." The master and servant exchani quick glances. The latter was ' ' pale and nervous. ^Is anything- missing, si: "Yes!" Granet replied. "Did you notice the gentleman who called last evening--Surgeon-Major Thomson? "You haven't seen him since? H hasn't been here?" ds the _ . at sorry," he said "Good night, everybody!" They all wished him good-might-- nobody stirred. He walked slowly into the fronit hall, waited for a moment and then accepted Ms sured tone. "Looks as though he had lots of nerve, and that sort of thing. ~~ tell you the truth, though, he rath- er frighten I don't took the plan up and tore it into' good surgeon,"he remarked pieces. "If you weren't my prospective brother-in-law, you know, Thomson," he exclaimed, "I should call your interference dammed cheek! After all, you know, you're only a civilian, and you can't be expected to understand these things." Thomson was silent for a moment. He read in the others' faces their sympathy with the yoi complaint. He moved "No, s Granet stood, for i g. The servant n «s. The silence ir ominous; hat from Lady Conyers he has much sympathy with my type.' She became a little more indulgent and smiled faintly as she looked at "I wonder what your type is?" she asked reflectively. "Fairly obvious, I am afraid," he confessed, with a sigh. "I love my soldiering, of course, and I am ashamed to think how keen I have been on games, and should be still if I bad the chance. Outside that I don't read much, I am not musical, and I am very much predisposed to let the future look after itself. There are thousands think that] look of disquietude i moment, think-nained motion-the room is the strange the two m waved to him from the staircase. "Where's Geraldine?" she asked. Thomson turned away. "They are all in the smoking-room, Lady Conyers^" he said. "Good night!" In i CHAPTER VIII. . , their meeting the just like i thing, it is spl able soldier. You ai country wants to-day. "Jarvis," his master said "remember this. I am not finding fault. I know you are always careful. But from to-night be more vigilant than ever. There is a new hand in the game. He may not suspect us yet, but he will. You understand, "Perfectly, sir." The man withdrew noiselessly. Once more Granet walked to the window. He looked down for a few minutes at the passers-by but he saw nothing. Grave thoughts were gathering togethi itinued thought- fully. "We don't do any particular travelling along the road of h< harm in the world but I don t suppose and. at the further end of it a man we do much good. stood waiting. He saw himself draw Don't be silly,' she protested. "For nearer and nearer to the meeting. His idid to be a cap- fa,ce unwittingly darkened, he cleneh--e just what the ^ his fists. A name almost framed apart from itseif up0n his lips, the name of the that ; morning was fortuitous enough, yet it had- also its significance for both of them. Geraldine's greeting was almost studiously formal. "You are not going to scold my memory, are you?" Capt. Granet asked, looking down at her with a faintly huihorfius uplrifting of the eyebrows. "I must have exercise, you know." "I don't even remember telling you that I came into the Park in the mornings," Geraldine replied. "You didn't--that is to say you dddn't mention the Park particularly," he admitted. "You toli me you always took these five dogs out for a walk directly after breakfast, and for the rest I used my intelligence." "Have Minard's Liniment used by Physic lurmured. "Perhaps I lack." They were silent for a few moments. Then they began to talk more lightly. • •-*----- They discussed dogs and horses, their Very Mean, mutual friends, and their engagements _ h discussing- the for the next few days. They did not Tw0 small boys were discussing the once refer to Thomson. Presently vanous attributes of their respected Geraldine paused to speak to some parents, and the conversation had friends. Granet leaned upon his stick reached the highly critical stage, and in the background and watched her. threatened to get even warmer still. She was wearing a plain tailor-made j "Well," remarked Tommy Stubbs, suit and a becoming little hat, from: "you can say what you like, but I underneath which little wisps of j reckon your father's about the mean-golden hair had somehow detached! t man that ever iived » Sfwas 5a deSS tToffnj "*> ***** ~t mean!" screamed her cheeks, the movements and lines I Bobby Roberts- of her body were all splendidly free! "Yes, he is mean!" repeated Tommy, __ I "or else why does he let you go about in such shabby boots when he is a bootmaker by trade?" "All right,' 'answered Bobby; "but, at any rate, he is not so mean as your father. 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If you allow an egg to stand in the questionable piece of agateware and the egg becomes discolored, it is best to discard the utensil rather than risk lead poisoning. Dish pans and wash basin; that she was putting an extra leaf the table; she must have been swin ing the leaf over her head! She felt so dreadfully I hadn't the heart to scold her. I knew that we were bound to have a third accident after she broke my favorite olive dish and of mother's gold-band plates. I hope at least that it's three times and "Aren't proverbs stupid things, when you come to think of it?" Miss Clinton remarked. the accumulated ins. I've proved • friend said Used Autos Inspection. Very larpe stock: always Breakers Used Car Market «02 Yong-e Street, - Son danger ( f be t ISSUE No. 23--'21. en after they ight weight an ductor of heat. It is very good for pie and cake tins. It must be thoroughly dried and kept in a dry place to prevent rusting. Iron and steel are strong and dur-able. 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The pleasant quiet of Mrs. Pollock's living room was suddenly shattered by the crash of falling glass in the dining beyond. Mrs. Pollock started, quivered and then turned a rigidly attentive face to her caller. The caller was frankly amused. "Beautiful, Julia! You are certainly the perfect lady, 'mistress of herself, though china fall!' But since I've known you for forty years, you don't > be polite with me. Run out d see what's happened." Mrs. Pollock drew a breath of re-I as she vanished through the door. Miss Clinton, amusing herself with new magazine, was aware of a faint tinkle of glass, then of voices in the kitchen. She looked up smilingly as Mrs. Pollock returned. "I hope it wasn't as big as it sounded," she said. "It wasn't," Mrs. Pollock replied a "It was only one globe, and it might have been four. But it might just exactly as well have been the four, since those were the last of the pattern, and I'll have to buv a new set. 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