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SE The Kingdom of The Blind CHAPTER XXXIIL--(Cont'd.) "The 'Princess Hilda' from South- ampton, brains io at m nl "he repeated thoughtfully, " , it's a big business: "taken incredibly short space of time it gpou 5% ngs oT. the passenger had steam climbed un the rope ladder, the pin- 4 had sheered off and the steamer the si i ne more heading towards the go She Tioment t's worth it," Granet assured him, [Chan " i The Re owly swivel passenger was "began 10, shriek , nie! a 3 8 po fal hip one [making his way towards the saloon Lyre Simpin The aor man who is more dai s to us|When a voice which seemed to come gray h ngerou i from behind a pile of rugs "Dont wet hurry," he begged. Herel" than sug other Englishman, will be 18 steamer-chalr, rugs heaped; a x ibid LY the ot « sabin " » pr wl iy eaned over them, 0 kL aben, be done," the other [Ff Jah! Major Thomson!" lifebelts from the berth and He looked upward to the flag and!, He stopped short. Geraldine shook Coil fastened one on her. : There saluted Granet. A great sea bore herself free from her rugs and sat UD. | was some semblance of order on deck them a -little apart. Granet pulled They dooked at one another in aston: naw that the first confusion had had pass- ied up a stone Shme 3 men were all ru So he So oh due, tied] Re next|, Why, Gersidine," he exclaimed,! quarters, 'Three of the boats oe wie HS S00 OT an. Bo i tre pon ht Gavi. k e bi w,"' he 0 y, Bb ~The fourt! rribly over , was le Tn Juke mg: bask no wered. "Don't pretend that you are joing lowered. Thomson worked like They were four hours making the Surprised. Why, you got me the 8p-| 5 madman, was tying some spare belts I harbor. Three times they failed to, Pointment yourself. on tosa table which had floated out| every package of Diamond Dyes. Just! get round the last point, met at each 'Of course," he agreed, "only I had fro the cabin. than once the toy 'your druggist whether the mas] time by clouds of hissing spray. When No idea that you were going just yet,! boat gave a great plunge and they| ii vou wish to dye is wool or silk, at last they sailed in, there was a|°T, that you were on this boat." had to hold on to the cabin doors. A or whethef It Is linen. cotton, or mixed: little crowd to watch them. Nichols "They told me to come out this huge "wave broke completely over. Diamond Dyes never "st and Lethbridge stood on one side with| Week," she said, as he drew a chair, {them, drenching them from to | Bo0ds. om! r streak, gloomy faces. to her side, "and so many of the Tite foot. The top of the rail now was on' spot, fade, or-run. "It's a queer day for pleasure sail- = Fad doctors NET Bouse by : is = ing," Nicholas remarked to Job Row-| beat that I thought I would come, too. Buy "Diamond { Dyes" no other ng "then perfect home dyeing is guara: teed. (Even if you have never d fore, you can put a new, rich, fadeles color into your worn, shabby dresses, skirts, waists, stockings, coats, sweat- | ers, draperies, hangings, everything, by following the simple directions in 5 Jhetion | oe 'Union Stock : Yards. Fit >, inden ou can' Write MEXIA 704 W. Fort Worth TH > IX peti Fit Christmas Cheer PRETTY PR "PRESENTS IN PROFUSION SEE OUR SAMPLES rae Por ARR TE Ee 5 Fe bbe. CR SIA ey Tera RA Y I feel quite a professional already. sell, as he came up the wet steps of Nearly 'all the women here' are nurse's uniform and three-quarters of the men on board are doctors. Where are you going, Hugh?" "Just to the Base and back again to-morrow," he told her. "There's a court-martial I want to attend." "Still - mysterious," she ldughed. "What have you to do with courts- martial. Hugh?" "Too mu just for the moment," he answered hightly. "Would you like some coffee or anything?" She shook her head. "No, thank you. I had an excellent supper before we started. I looked at some of the cabins but I decided: to spend the night on deck. 'What about you? You seem to have arrived in a hurry." "I missed the train in London," he the pier. "It's all T want of it for a bit, any way," Rowsell muttered, pushing his way along the quay. "If there's any of you for a drink, I'm your man. What-ho, Nichols--Lethbridge ? 1" Lethbridge muttered something and turned away. Nichols, too, declined. "I am not sure, Job Rowsell," the latter declared, "that I like your money nor the way you earn it." Job Rowsell stopped for a minute. There was an ugly look in his sullen face. "If you weren't my own brother-in- law, Matthews Nichols" he said, "I'd shove flicse words down your throat." "And if u weren't my sister's husband," Nichols retorted, turning away, "Pd the a lttle trip over to|® Penzance and say a few words at the Police Station there." Granet laughed good-humoredly. "You fellows don't need to get bad- tempered with one another" he ob- served. "Look here, I shall have three days here. I'll take one of you each day--make a fair thing of it, eh? You to-morrow, Nichols, and you the next; day, hbridge. I'm not particular, about-the weather, as Jcb Rowsell can | tell your, and I've sailed a boat since I was & boy. I'm no landlubber, am I, Rowsell 7" "No, you can gail the boat all right " Rowsell admitted, looking back over his shoulder. "You'd sail it into Hell itself, if one'd let you.. Come on, you bays, if there's any one of you as fancies fo drink. I'm wet to. the skin. Nichols" boat was duly prepared at nine o'clock on the following morn- ing. Lethbridge shouted to him from the rails, "Gentleman's changed his mind, I reckon. He went off on the eight o'clock boat for Penzance." Nichols commenced stolidly to furl his sails again, "It's" my. thinking, Lethbridge," tie | od said, ag he clambered into the dinghy, | ha "that there's things going on in this island which you and me don't under- stand, I'm for a few plain words with Job Rowsell, though he's my own sis- ter's husband. "Plain words is more than you'll get from Job," Lethbridge replied gloomily. floor at the 'Blue Crown,' and he's there this .morning - clamoring for brandy and pawing the air. He's got the blue devils, t at's what he's got." "There's money," Nichols declared solemnly, "some money, that is, that does no one any good." CHAPTER XXX1I. . There was. a shrill whistle from the swung slowly up towards it hough the nists ig. al little naval 1s "He Kept last night on the; Govergment car and we couldn't quite catch up. Any news from Ralph" "I had a letter three days ago;' she|' told him, "It was posted at Harwich but he-couldn't say where he was, and of course he couldn't give me' any! news. Father came back from the | Admiralty = very excited yesterday, | though. He says that we have sunk | four or five more submarines; and | that Ralph's new ih ment is an im- mense success, e-bye, is there any danger of submarines there?" "1 shouldn't #0," Thomson answered. "They are very busy round the Scilly Islands but we seem to have been able to keep them out of the Channel. I thought we should have been convoyed, though." "In any case," she remarked, "we are a host pital shi 1 rapect they'd leave us ajor Thomson," she yeu on, of wonder, do you really be- lieve all these stories of the horrible doings of the: ns--the way they have treated drowning people attack- i their' submarines, and thes ul stories of Weg? Some- hates it seems to be as though there were a fog of hatred which had sprung up between the two countries, and we could neither of us quite see clearly what the other was doing." "I think there is something | in that," Major Thomson agreed. "On the other hand, I think it is part of the German principle to make awr ruthlessly. I ve seen things in Belgium wi 1 t! shall never forget. hit ine 'the _sub-| marine business, if hal the things are true that we have read seem to have behaved like brutes. t's queer, too," he went on, * or as a Tule sea men are never Cru so They were silent. for a time. reason io avoided me 'which was in the mind +A Mother's Experience. ; Though free information concerning the care and feeding of infants may be had from so many sources, the most important item of feeding 'babies in the courttry and small towns is often left out. This is the care of the milk to make it safe for an infant'y food.] In the eity; where certified milldmay be procured, the above mentioned in- formation is all, that is needed,<but explained. "They kept me at the War | living in the country it has been mec- Office. Then I had to-come down in al asgary for me to solve the problem (myself, by expcrinenting (think of it!) with my babies' food. I can make myself more clearly | understood, perhaps, by telling the story of my three babies, whose ages are two and a half, sixteen months, and three months, 'They were the same weight at birth, and apparently had the same strength and vitality. They were fed one of the proprietary foods, combined with fresh milk for the first three months, then milk pre- pared with lime water and sugar. The sterilized Tor each feeding, the food kept: covered in a cool place in' & sterilized fruit jar; they were fed at regular intervals, the right amount of food according to age and weight, but thére was a vast difference in their development, due to the handling ro of the milk. baby was fed skim-milk, as' The rst. 1 thought the stomach trouble she de- veloped was due to the cream, though I now*am certain it was caused by milk taken from the general supply in a.tin pail. Though 1 took particular paing"with the cleaning of the pa there are too many seams where the germs lodge, to make it a safe baby's y milk container." This baby's legs 'oanig bowed as a result of the skim- milk, «This trouble is a form of rick éLs, ¢ ¢ in this case, I have been in- £ to lack of butter-fat, which essential to the proper growth of the fi 'by givin been perfectly well from-the first and |" if nothing happens to interfere, I be- lieve he will be a model bottle baby. 'He lies in his crib and kicks and plays or sleeps, and all he asks is his food at the proper time, his reghlar bath, fresh 'air and plenty of "clean, -dry clothes, My care of 'him is mgstly hard work in: the kitchen, but ¢ seems much better and. easier to ws ; than the constant care of a fretful baby. 1 believe I have proven satisfdactor- ily that this is true: the cleaner the milk the better the baby. There ure three things always to keep in mind| concerning it: Clean, Cool, Covered. I have a large porcelain kettle with a cover which I use only for the pur- pose of sterilizing, and I have lots of faith in my keftle. Everything that comes in contact with baby food must be boiled, Milk kept in this way has a delightful fragrance and taste. We use about a gallon a day for the three, the older ones drinking &ll they want. One has to. experiment at first to} not. Mf so, it may be skimmed a little, | though my babies take very rich milk. During the day the food is warmed by setting the bottle in v "wate: and testing for the righ temperature, 'but the nipple should never be put in one's mouth. The problem of warm- ing the food at night may be solved buying a baby bottle warmer; by Which heats i¢_in wash: water alco, oy thus avoiding the danger of tion, My milk-fed babies are my gu ny le 1 and though I must work so hard "keep them well and growing, in ND ? ct ng right oyo8 1 find al blessed reward for my labor. - Household Hints, BA a for the, school lunch Torean Fancy Goods Co., Ltd. 7 Wellington St. East 1 TORONTO Goi Lift Off with Fingers M6700 - Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a litle "F ne" 'on an aching in 4 stantly that corn stops Bi snort) you lift it right off w Tru i A 'druggist sells a tiny. wits ok o! Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the' Iuses, without soreness of Irritation. PL FE SE SC most delicate eticlon in. sen. at' -sultsiwve get by our modern syst - of d ge cleaning. Fibres : ity 'or We 'can 'restore he Send one article ora parcel 'of goods We will 2d ff