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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921. Send for Recipe Booh, FREE! ;;; -| Qold in sanitary, air-tight Otins, the maker's package --that guarantees purity. Packed at the factory, the contents keep indefinitely. Economical. The ideal sweetener for table use and cooking Crown Brand Syrup "Che Great Sweetener" 28 The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. (Copyrighted) SYNOPSIS: j the last ten years. They feed and The story, written in 1916, begins! pamper the vermin who are eating with Lady Anselman's luncheon-party j away the foundations of the country, at the Ritz Hotel, London. Among the, and, damn it all, when we put a clear guests are Lord Romsey, a Cabinet j case to them, when we show them men Minister; Surgeon-Major Thomson, j whom we know to be dangerous, they Chief Inspector of Field Hospitals; his | laugh at us and tell us that it isn't fiancee, Geraldine Conyers; her bro-i0ur department! They look upon us ther, a naval lieutenant, and his J as amateurs and speak of Scotland fiancee Olive Moreton; Captain Ronald j Yard with bated breath. My God! If Granet, nephew of the hostess, home i had a free hand for ten m;nutes, i 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 Germany. Thomson calls at Granet's apartments to discover whether he knows anything about Lord Romsey's visitor. Granet denies any knowledge of the so-called American chaplain. Geraldine evades Thomson's plea for an immediate marriage. He expostulates with Conyers for disclosing Admiralty-plans to the two girls and Granet. After a walk in the park with Geraldine, Granet returns to his room to fine a bottle missing from a cupboard. H< warns his servant that a new hand has entered the game. CHAPTER IX. Considering the crowded state of the waiting-room and the number of highly important people who were there for the same purpose, Surgeon-Major Thomson seemed to have remarkably little difficulty in procuring the interview he desired. He was conducted by a boy scout into a room on the second floor of the War Office, within a fev minutes cf his arrival. A tall, grey-haired man in the uniform of a general looked1 up and nodded with an ah of intimacy as soon as the door had been -closed. "Sit down, Thomson. We've been expecting you. Any news?" "I have come to you for that, the other replied. The General sighed. "I am afraid you will be disappointed," he said. "I received your report and I went to a certain official myself --saw him in his own house before breakfast this morning. I had reports of three other men: occupying responsible positions in the city, Thomson, against whom there was really tangible and serious evidence. Our friend had the effrontery almost to laugh at me." There was a little glitter in Thomson's eyes. "These damned civilians!" he murmured softly. "They've done their besl to ruin Great Britain by crabbing every sort of national service during iyeast/i If RICH IN f" VITAMINES MAdt IN CAN AD. o The importance of | Vitamines in food is being recognized at I the present time to a -greater extent than ever | before. It has been con-I clusively demonstrated \ that yeast is rich in this I all important elements j Many people have re-i ceived great benefit j physically simply by tak-■ ing one, two or three Royal Yeast Cakes a day. I Sena nams^ria amress i for free copy "Royal Ye&st« ! r-- Belter Health COMPANY LIMITED H ISSUE No. 24--'21. there'd be two Cabinet Ministers eating bread and water instead of their dinners to-night." The General raised his eyebrows. He knew Thomson well enough to be aware how unusual such an ebullition of feeling on his part was. "Got you a bit worked up, Major," he remarked. "Isn't it enough to make any man's blood boil?" the other replied. "The country to-day locks to its army and its navy to save it from the humiliation these black-coated parasites have encouraged, and yet even now we haven't a free hand. You and I, who control the secret service of the army, denounce certain men upon no slight evidence, either, as spies, and we are laughed at! One of those very blatant idiots whose blundering is costing the country millions of money 'and thousands of brave men, has still enough authority to treat our reports as so much waste paper." . "I am bound to say I agree with you," Thomson," the General declared, a little hopelessly. "It's the weakest spot of our whole organization, this depending upon the civil powers. Two of my cases were absolutely flagrant. As regards yours, Thomson, I am not at all sure that we shouldn't be well-advised to get just a little more evidence before we press the matter." "And meanwhile," Thomson retorted bitterly, "leave him a free hand to do what mischief he can. But for the merest accident in the world, the night before last he would have. learnt our new scheme for keeping the Channel communication free from submarines." The General frowned. "Who's been talking?" he demanded. "No one who is to be blamed," Thomson replied. "Can't you realize the position? Here's a fellow Service man, a soldier, a D.S.O., who has been specially mentioned for bravery and who very nearly got the Victoria Cross, comes here with the halo of a brilliant escape from the Germans, wounded, a young man of good family and connections, and apparently as keen as mustard to get back again in the fighting line. Good Heavens! The most careful sailor in the world might just drop a hint to that sort of man. What nearly happened last night may happen a dozen times within the next week. Even our great secret, General," Thomson continued, dropping his voice a little, "even that might come to his ears." The General was undoubtedly disturbed. He searched amongst the papers on his desk and brought out at last a flimsy half-sheet of notepaper which he studied carefully. "Just read this, Thomson." Thomson rose and locked otfer his shoulder. The letter was an autograph one of a few lines only, and dated from a village in the North of France-- My Dear Brice, This is a special! request to you. Arrange it -any way you please but don't send me Captain Granet out again in any capacity. Keep him at home. Mind, I am not saying a word against him as a soldier. He has done some splendid work on more than one occasion, but notwithstanding this I do not wish to see him again with any of the forces under my command. Ever yours, F. "Did you show this to our friend?" Thomson inquired. "I gave him a digest of its contents," the General replied. "He smiled in a supercilious manner and said I had better do as I was asked." Thomson said nothing for a moment. His face was very set and he had the air of a man desperately but quietly angry. "As a matter of fact," General Brice continued, glancing at. the clock on his desk, "Granet is in my anteroom at the present moment, I expect.. He asked for an interview this afternoon." Have Wm in. if yon don't mixiiy" the "other Suggested", ""f can s]t at the empty desk over there. I can be making some calculations with reference to the number of hospital beds for each transport. I want to hear him talk to you." The General nodded and touched a bell. "You can show Captain Granet in," he told the boy scout who answered it. Thomson- took his place in the far corner of the room and bent over a sheaf of papers. Presently Granet was ushered in. He was leaning a little less heavily upon his stick and he had taken his arm from the sling for a moment. He saluted the General respectfully and glanced across the room towards where Thomson was at work. If he recognized him, however, he made no sign. "Well, Granet," the General inquired, "how are you getting on?" "Wonderfully, sir," was the brisk reply. "I have seen my own doctor this morning and he thinks I might come up before the Board on Saturday." "And what dees that mean?" "I want to get back again, sir," Granet replied eagerly. The General stroked his grey moustache and looked searchingly at the young officer. He was standing full in the light of a ray of sunshine which came streaming through the high, curtained windows. Although he still a little haggard, his eyes 1 bright, his lips were parted in an ticipatory smile, his lole c-xpi i was engaging. General Brice, studying him closely, felt compelled to admit the improbability of his vague suspicions. •'That's all very well, you know," he reminded him quietly, "but you won't be fit enough for active service for The young man's face fell. "I am sure they must be wanting me back, sir," he said naively. The General shook his head. "I don't want to disappoint you, young fellow," he continued, "but I heard from your Brigadier only yesterday. He has been obliged to fill up your place and I don't think he ha room for any one on his staff." Granet looked a little hurt. "I thought he might have made 1 temporary appointment," he sai gloomily. "This is no time to consider indi viduals," the General pointed out. "What about finding you a billet at home for a time, eh? You've seen a bit cf the rough side of the war, you "I'd sooner go out and dig trenches!" Thomson had risen slowly from his place and, with a sheet of foolscap in his hand, closely covered with writing, "You might get taken prisoner again, Captain Granet," he remarked drily. There was a moment's rather tense silence. The young man's lips had come together, his eyes flashed. "I did not recognize you, Major Thomson," he said calmly. "Have you found a new toilet?" "My old one is sufficiently absorbing just at present," the other replied, laying his calculations on the General's desk. "Forgive my interrupting you, sir, but you told me to let you have this as soon as I had finished. That ' my estimate of the number of beds t could stow away in the cubic feet y offer us." The General glanced at the paper and nodded. "Don't go, Thomson," he said. 'TH talk to you about this later on. Well, Captain Granet," he added, "you'd better leave things in my hands. I'll do the best I can for you." "I shall be very disappointed . if I don't get out to the Front again soon, sir," the young man declared simply. "I'll do the best I can," the General repeated, touching his bell. Granet was shown- out andi the door was closed. General Brice turned-fco--wards his companion. "Thomson," he said, "frankly, I can't believe it. However, we'll find him a bill I where he can't possibly do any mischief." "If you found him a billet where I should like to see him," Surgeon-Major Thomson observed bitterly, "he would do any more mischief in this world! Any dispatches for the Front, General Brice raised his eyebrows. "Are you off again?" he asked. "I am going to sea that young man's General," Thomson replied. "I shall cross over to-day and be back to-morrow night or Saturday morning." General Brice nodded thoughtfully. "Perhaps you are right," he assented. "Yes, I shall have a few reports. You'd better let them know at the Ad- ralty, and what time you want to go 0 Surgeon-Major Thomson shook hands with the General and turned the door. "When I come back," he said, "I hope I'll be able to convince even you, (To be continued.) Shadi lows. A mosiac dancing and darting Before the bright rays of the sun, A shrouded, dark figure imparting, What the powers of sunlight had done. A rainbow of sweet hidden shadows In the'depths of a deep, blue lake! The flittering, glittering, shadows That only the sunshine can make! At first it seemed only a phantom, Of colors, deep down in the sea; And then a bright Japanese lantern Of lights, that were wondrous to see. Again, in the depths of the water I looked, 'twas a shadow, but faint, What wonderful visions of rapture-- The dreams of my fancy can paint! Keep Minard's Liniment in the house. "Equinoctial" a Myth. 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Foods depended on for sugar: Sugar, molasses, syrups, honey, candies, fruits preserved in sugar, jellies and dried fruits, sweet cakes and desserts. Group 5. Foods depended on for fat: Butter and cream, lard, suet and other cooking fats, salt pork and bacon, table and salad oils. A Lemon-Aid Lawn Party. new kind of lawn .party they wanted--partly for fun and partly for funds. Imagine then the anticipation aroused in town when pale yellow posters lettered' in black appeared in various local windows: LEMON-AID! Fes- -and by the Ladies' AID) Society of the Methodi Church, Eingsbi COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlota TORONTO 8ACT WORKS 0. J. OUFF - TORONTO Too little fat makes a very porous cake which dries out quickly. For most butter cakes a safe rule to follow is to use one-third to one-half as much butter as sugar, and one-half as much liquid as flour. Shortening counts as so much liquid. Eggs give lightness and fine texture to a cake and help hold the ingredients together. 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AIDS TO JOY Plain Lemonade............ 10 cents Lime Lemonade........."...10 cents Strawberry Lemonade ......15 cents Grape Juice Lemonade......15 cents Charged Lemonade (strictly cash) .......................10 centsj You could either stroll up to the \ counter and sip your "aids" through a straw or else sit down at a little table to toe served toy a butterfly waitress, who offered you your choice of crisp lemon cookies or a wedge of luscious lemon meringue pie to accompany your lemonade. Presently a boy in a yellow clown suit appeared on the scene with a great bouquet of bobbing yellow balloons, which even the grown-ups couldn't resist, to say nothing of the children. A sign post pointed its finger toward a corner of the lawn where Oir-Lemonade was promised. Here a large tub of genuine pink lemonade delighted the youngsters, incidentally keeping them out of the way of the people. It was ladled out by the tincupful toy a jolly "barker," and of course there were peanuts to sell, hard by. Another sign directed to the Lemon Tree. "Don't expect peaches where only lemons grow" was the warning. Two girls dressed as farmerettes, wearing remarkably becoming wide-brimmod hats, stood beside a syringa (Shrub which had somehow or other grown a crop of lemons. Crepe paper they proved to toe when exchanged for a dime each, and under the cotton wool stuffing was some small toy or "grab." A girl in a yellow sweater went about with a ribbon-slung wicker tray, filled with tiny tin boxes painted lemon-yellow, containing candied orange, lemon., and grapefruit peel. A very popular attraction "proved to be lemon sticks stuck in oranges ready to suck. 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