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The Kingdom of ||: The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. smi (Copygigttod) CHAPTER XXXIII.--(Cont'd.) "Push yourself away from every- thing as well as you can," he whisper- ed, "and, Geraldine--if anythin should happen to us, I never is, ~not for a moment." "I don't believe I ever did, either," she sobbed, holding out her hand. ; Another wave broke over them. They came up. however. He gripped her wet hand for a moment. All around them were articles of ship's furniture, broken planks, here and there a man swimming. From close at hand came! the shriek of the vanishing siren. "Look!" Geraldine cried. Barely fifty feet away from them | was the submarine. The captain and! four or five of the men were on deck: | Thomson shouted to him. "Can't you save some of these wo- men?" ' The answer was a laugh--hoarse, brutal, derisive. The submarine glid- ed away. Thomson's face, as he looked after it, was black with anger. The next moment he recovered himself, however. He had need of all his strength. "Don't listen to anything, Gerald- ine," he begged her. "They will near- ly all be saved. Can't you hear the sirens already? ,There are plenty of ships coming up, ! Remember, we can't £0 down so long as we keep hold here." "But. you've no lifebelt on," she' faltered. | "I don't need it," he assured her. "I can keep afloat perfectly well. You're not cold 7" | "No," she gasped, "but I feel so low down. The sky seems suddenly fur- ther away. Oh come!" There were sirens now, and plenty, of them, close at hand. Out of the niist' they saw a great black hull looming, "They're here all right!" he Tz "Courage, Geraldine! other five minutes." Thirty miles an hour into a fog of mist, with the spray falling like a fountain and the hiss of the seawater like devil's music in their ears. Then' the haze lifted like the curtain before the stage of a theatre, ard rolled away into the dim distance. An officer stood' by Conyers' side. "Hoepital ship 'Princess Hilda' just borpedced by a submarine, sir. They're picking up the survivors already. We're right into 'em, gir." | Even as he spoke, the moonlight shone down. There were two trawlers | and a patrol boat in sight, and twenty! or thirty boats rowing to the scene of the disaster. Suddenly there was a shout. "Submarine on the port bow!" They swung around. The sea seem-! It's only an- | ed churned into a mass of soapy foam, | Conyers gripped the vail in front of i him. The orders had scarcely left his lips before the guns were thundering out. The covered-in structure on the lower deck blazed with an unexpected. light. The gun below swung slowly, downwards, moved by some unseen. in- strument. Columns of spray leapt into the air, the mar of the guns was deaf- ening. Then, there was another shout|came in without even the usual vere-|t0 Spare you the ~--a hoarse yell of excitement. Barely a hundred yards'away, the submarine, wobbling strangely, appeared on the surface. wp the white flag. "We are surrender!" For a single second Conyers hesi- {bed Then he . looked domme: rds. corpse of a woman went float; ;.a child, tied dn to a table, was i against the side. The red fires A efor his eyes; the thunder of : momentary still- In: obedience to his command, if some one would: else land at times full of detail. An officer in the stern held |he ;sinkingl" he shouted. "We! the guns belched fai thors was nothing more left of the submarine, or of the men cl ing on to it like flies. Conyers watch- ed them disappear without the slight- est change expression. "Hell's muttered. "8S out the boats, John- son, and cruise around. There may be something else left to be picked up. The word of command was passed forward and immediately a boat was "A 'man and a woman clinging toa table, sir," an officer reported to Con- yers, "We're bringing them on board." Conyers moved to the side of the ridge. the boat, and Thomson, as soon as she was safe, clamber in after her. He watched them hauled up on to the deck of the destroyer and suddenly he recognized them. "My God!" he exclaimed, as he dash- ed down the ladder. "It's Geraldine!" She was standing on the deck, the wet streaming from her, supported by a sailor on either side. She a little when she saw him. She was quite conscious and her voice was steady. "We are both here, Ralph," she cried, "Hugh and I. He saved my life. Thank heavens you are here!" 3 Already the steward was hasten forward with brandy. Geraldine sipped a little and passed the glass to Thom- son. Then she turned swiftly to her brother. There was an unfamiliar look in her face. "Ralph," she muttered, "don't bother about us, Don't stop for anything Can't you find that submanine? I saw them all--the men--Ilaughing as they passed away!" Conyer's eyes blazed for a moment with reminiscent f Then his lips parted and he broke into strange, dis- 1 cordant merriment. "They'll laugh no more in this world, Geraldine," he cried, in fierce triumph. sea, every man and dog of them!" She gripped him by the shoulder-- Geraldine. who "had never willingly hurt even an insect. h "Ralph," she sobbed, "thank God! Thank God you did it!" CHAPTER XXXIV. It was towards the close of an un- usually long day's work and Major Thomson sighed with relief as he real- ized that at last his anteroom was SPER. He lit a cigarette and streteh- mself in his chair. 'He had been Fer. He seemed to be pondering over | | interviewed by all manner of people; had listened to dozens of suspicions stories, His work had been Witieate n whole, a good day's work, he decided, and he had been Fermi} thanked over the wires by a Brigadier-General at Harwich for his arrest and exposure of a man who had in his possession a very wonderful pin of the Felixstowe land defences, i glanced at his wateh. Just then the door was hurriedly opened. Ambrose mony. of knocking, He held a worn piece of paper in his hands. There was a triumphant ring in his tone as looked. up from it towards his chief, "I've dome it, sir!" he exclaimed. Stumbled across it quite by accident. a he ole ed ite n the in the eta ater Here's this last mer. Sage--TLaave London, June 4th. © Have es fidnigh ngham Palace St. Paul's steps, gardens 'in front of Savoy. last 3 RU out a level line of| He saw Geraldine lifted into |"! to-night WE | She They're down at the bottom of the! Ps eraldine is in, ot believe," said. hhe is in the bo Bebe 8 ni Bhi # Gercldine rose slowly ; couch 'on' which she had been seated. Standing only 4 few feet away | her was Granet. The three lo one another for a moment and no 'word It was who the only place for theni!" hel "I should not have time," mother would do. ; "TI am not in the least eng: Geraldine assured him, "and 1 ® been expecting to hear from you all Gay got back from Boulogne last "None the worse, I am glad to see," Thomson: remarked. She shivered a little. Then she looked him full in the face and her eyes were full of en things. "Thanks to you," she murmured. "However," she added, with a little laugh, "I don't want to you away, end I know what happen if I n to talk about our adventure, I am sorry, Captain Granet," she went on, turning towards where he 'was standing, "but I canmot possibly ac- cept. your aunt's invitation. It is very good of her to ask me and very kind of you to want me to go so much, but I could not leave 'my mother. been ha rather a fit of nerves about Ralph the last few days, and she hates being left alone." "Captain Granet is ying to per- suade you to leave London this even- ingl" Thomsdn asked quietly. e wants me very much to go down to Lady- Anselman's at Reigate to- night," Geraldine explained. "I really accepted Lady Anselman's invitation some days ago, but that was before mother was so unwell. I have written your aunt, Captain Granet," she con- inued, turning to him. "Do please explain to her how disappointed T am, and it was very nice of you to come and ask me to change my mind." here was a brief el curi- ous silence. Granet had turned away from Geraldine as though to address Thomson. He was meeting now the silent, half contemptuous challenge of the latter's eyes: "Captain. Granet i8 showing great consideration for your comfort and safety," Thomson remarkel. Granet for a moment forgot himself. angry, His eyes flashed. He was half jarvifed } a & "Wha you mean?" he demanded. Thomson made no immediate ans- is words, his expression was inscrut-! the other. "There is something between you two which I don't understand," she! "There is a very t deal about Captain Granet which I am only just beginning to understand," mson mly. "You should find his elit a cigarette and | Solicitude about your movements this! evening a great ent, Gerald- ines It arises entirely from his desire shock of what may turn out yet to be 4 very laméntable catastrophe.' 'Nou two men are hensible," Geraldine sighed. "H oni eitlker of you would speak plaini (To be continued.) Ann How to Avoid Winter Colds, - influenza, pneumonia, and only | | With a large wooden ook, crochet the rug into the shape desired, using the strips just as you would use thread. . form of use end To make a Tou 5, sur vith a Traprint of the paticat a and sewed, washed and dyed,' chain of four, gle crochet stitch for widen the rug just enough to keep i) flat. The oval rugs are made in the, same way except that a long Shain is used fpr the centre. 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