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THE^OLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, NE, oyr. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1921. The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. lave You a Camera? Send u e negative and ) print FREE to show our quality work. This places you under no obligation to us. Judge from our one sample print If you wish to send us more of PHOTO FINISHING Developing and Printing Enlarging, Copying, Coloring Huntboy Mail Order Trig by accident," Olive explained, as the stepped' on deck, "and he insisted an b'.r.~ing us dawn." , "I haps I'm not in the way at all?" (granet asked anxiously. "If I am, you have on)/ to say the word and put me on shore, end 1*11 wait, with ■rteaanre, until the young ladies come off. I have a lot of pals down here, tod, I could Daok np." "'Don't be silly," Conyers replied. "Our dear old lady friend Thomson isn't here to worry so I think we can make you free of the ship. Come along down and try a cocktail. Mind your hearts. We're not on a faattle-, chip you know. You will find my TORONTO 'quarters a little cramped, I'm afraid." --1 They drank cocktails cheerfully, and afterwards Geraldine and Granet made their w<ay hack on deck. "How any one can live in that at- (Copyrighted) SYNOPSIS: I "I was looking for The story, written in 1916, begins bad* a telegram fwL with Lady Anselman's luncheon-party; us to go down to Portsmouth toy tine ships in commission are very strict, at the Ritz Hotel, London. Amoi-g the first train we can catch th i ' ng pcl-i s an extra visitor might em-guests are Lord Romsey, a Cabinet He says that if we can get down there barrats your brother." |w^„w«!»V v>; +„v Minister; Surgeon-Major Thomson, 15n tiTl,e to have lunch at two oY..,ck,« "How can >ou be so absurd!" Ger- ™» ?™l K ^ "T^nr T^wi Chief Inspector of Field Hospitals; his he call s]low U3 over the 'Scorpion.* aldine protested. "You--a soMSer! «*« * *°n?, br?at*- H Oto wewnl fiancee, Geraldine Conyers; her bro- After to-fta> r.he will be elored to vis;-: Why> of course he'd be delighted to 1 so, fearfnijy in love, taei be soffo-ther, a naval lieutenant, and -MS. l0rs, even bis own relations. I was }lavs y0u." fiancee Olive U etoi , Contain itonaU t ,, , to see if Geraldlr.a ccui'ij Gra.net tmvtng the car axwnu mw ... Granet, nephew of the nostess, homei ,on,e! the archway of a hotel opposite the h'™,ylth Granet was thoughtful for a mo-'dock. mi He ftet ! the little clock! "All right," he agreed. "We'll leave the as te to hm the car hereof course, I'd like to.^,, Lord Romsc i«tess. home Lieut. "diver? iSior. on a "mystery"! • Thomson decodes a i n from the battlefield.: o. •eives a visitor and the dated. around into', . Grar*?t paused and looked before puzzled frown. 'What in heaven's name i i Exactly opposite to them Fd "i'ke^to ejection of Light framework, obvious>-he siuaeeated ' cone all riefot " ' iJ** 'built around some hidden object for Min-! "why not .rt me motor 'you and Miss' They crowed' the cobbled street and ^T^L^^TL t ' ^fd^M;d^t Jel^eWs n^^wayto the dock The pin- ™ f ^ - ^iL^Zt Is at Granet's. apartments another^ Jx m be ««, >c; *, n e was waiting ^^01^ the .harbor. The "Seor-1 ran bgfrGly down the fore-part of the ^°dfeTOve^r"whetheT"he "knows any- ! and thing about Lord Romsey's visitov.! hours, Granet den:' knowledge of the o-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 find a bottle missing from a cupboard. He warns his servant that a new hand has entered the game. War Office refuses to allow him to rejoin his regiment. Thomson goes to the Front to interview Granet's General and has his suspicions confirmed CHAPTER X.--(Cont'd.) "That," Thomson explained, "is almost a personal matter with me. Three months ago I spent the night with the Third Army Corps up by Niemen. I was there on other buslines®, as you may imagine, but there was some hot fighting and I went out to help. I was attending to some of our fellows and got very near to the German lines. I became separated from the others a little and was groping about when I heard voices talking German within a few feet of me. I couldn't hear what they said but I could just distinguish two figures. One of them made off towards the German lines. The other, after standing still a moment, came in my direction. I took out my revolver, and to tell you the truth I very nearly fired on sight, for it would have been an exceedingly awkward matter for me to have been taken prisoner just then. Just as my finger was on the trigger, I became conscious that the man who was approaching was humming 'Tip-perary.' I flashed my light on his face and saw at once he was a British officer. He addressed me quickly in German. I answered him in English. I fancied for a moment that he seemed annoyed. 'We'd better get out of this,' he whispered. 'We're within a hundred yards of the German trenches and they are bringing searchlights up.' 'Who were you talking to just now?' I asked, as we stole along. 'No one at all,' he answered. I didn't take the thing Seriously for the moment, altb:i!?,h it seemed to me queer. Afterwards I regretted, however, that I hadn't set myself to discover t' -meaning of what was apparently deliberate lie, The next time I met Granet was at a luncheon party al the Ritz, a few days ago. I recognized his face at once, although I had only seen it by the flash of my electric lamp. From that moment I have had my suspicions." The General nodded. He was looking a little grave. "It's a hateful thing to believe," he said, "that any one wearing his Majesty's uniform could ever play such a dastardly part. However, on the whole, I am rather glad that I passed in that request to the War Office. Anything more we can do for you. Major?" Thomson took the hint and depai ed. A few minutes later he was in 1 car and on his way back to Boulogi CHAPTER XL Olive Moreton gave a little start the long, grey, racing car came nois lee-sly to a standstill by the side of the kerbstone. Captain Granet raised his hat and leaned from the driving scat towards her. "Hope I didn't frighten you, Miss Moreton?" "Not at eH," she replied. "What a perfectly Jovely car!" „ He assented eagerly. "Isn't Lr.ie! My uncle's present to me to pass away the time until I can do some mere sc.'diering. They only brought it leund to me early this morning. Can I take you anywhere?" oing to see Geraldine ing for, a good stretch into the c try." "I should love it," the girl exclaimed, "and I should think Geraldine would. Will you wait while I run ir "Of < ; ptlon" was jylng well away from other ; craft, her four squat funnels emitting faint wreaths of smoke. She rode i very low in the water and her appear-j ance was certainly menacing. "Perscnany,' Geraldine observed, w, ■ ' ,/vt a(W there ' Granet replied. "Hcc loaning a little forward to look at her, ship, and saluted. "Very sorry, sit," he said, "fo would you mind keeping to the otb side? This deck is closed, for the present." "What on earth have you got Granet asked good-humored- steps, and there's Miss Conyers at the window. You go in and talk her over and I'll just see that we'i „ lots of petrol. I'll have you down there within two hours', all right, if we can get away before the roads are crowded." She huirrlcd into the house. Geraldine met her on the threshold and they talked together for a few moments. Then Olive reappeared, her face beaming. "Geraldine would simtply love it, she announced. "She will be here i five minutes. Could we just stop at my house for a motor-coat?" "Certainly!" Gramet agreed1, gh ing at his watch. "This is absolutely ripping! We shall be down there by one o'clock. Why is this to be Conyers' last day for entertaining?" "I don't know," she answered in-differently. "Seme Admiralty regulation, I suppose.'-He sighed. "After all," he declared, "I am not sure whether I chose the right profession. There is so much that is mysterious about the Navy. They are always inventing something or trying something new." Geraldine came dow: waving her hand. "This is the most delightful idea!" she exclaimed, as Granet held the door open. "Do you. really mean that you are going to take us down to Portsmouth and come and Ralph?" "I aim not going to worry your brother," he answered, smiling, "but I am going to take you down to Forts-mouth, if I may. We shall be there long before you could get there by-train, and--well what do you think of my new toy?" 'Simply wonderful," Geraldine declared. "Olive told me that your uncle had just given it you. What a I lucky person you are, Capt. Granet!" He laughed' a little shortly as they glided off. "Do you think so?" he answered. "Well, I am lucky in my uncle, at any rate. He is one of those few people who have a great deal of money and don't mind spending it. I was getting bored' to death with my game leg and arm, and certainly this makes, one forget both of them. Six cylinders, you see, Miss Conyers, and I wouldn't like to tela' you what we can touch if we were pressed." "You won't frighten us," Geraldine assured him. Granet glanced once more at the clock in front of him. "For a time," he remarked, "I ani your chauffeur. I just want to see what she'll do--to experiment tie." Cong "Do yoi , I guessed that," he fact," she told him, . lit- _ m that point conversation became scanty. The girls leaned back in their seats. Granet sat bait upright, with his eyes fixed upon the road. Shortly before one o'clock they entered Portsmouth. "The most wonderful ride I ever had in my life!" Geraldine exclaimed. "Marvellous!" Olive echoed. "Captain Granet., Ralph promised1 that there should be a pinnace at number seven dock from one until three." Granet pointed with his finger. "Number seven dock is there," he paid, "and there's the pinnace. I shaW go hack to the hotel for lunch and wait for you there." "You will do nothing of the sort," Geraldine insisted. "Ralph would be furious if you didn't come with us." "Of course!" Olive interposed. "How could you think of anything so ridiculous! It's entirely owing to you that we were able to get here." Captain Granet looked for a moment doubtful. "You see, just now," he explained, "I know the regulations for visiting IWe are more than »_-___1 . , ■. 1 " |,-«f-- iBowflcr 111 v. fln*\citi\ tiiiti «.-.. . - . _ * h«it rhei'tf is moit** G POWDER M 111 I think a destroyer is one of the most vicious, hideous things I ever saw. I do hope that Ralph will be quick and get a cruiser." "Is that the 'Scorpion' just ahead of us?" Granet asked. Geraldine nodded. "Did you ever see anything so ugly ? She looks as though she would spit out death from every little "She's a fine boat," Granet muttered. "What did your brother say she could do?" "•Thirty-nine knots." Geraldine replied. "It seems wonderful, doesn't it?" The officer in charge of the pinnace smiled. "Our speeds are only nominal, any way," he remarked. "If our chief engineer there had the proper message, there's none of us would like to say what we could get out of those new engines." He turned and shouted an order. In a moment cr two they swung around and drew up by the side of the vessel. E dph waved his hand to them from the top of the gangway. "Well done, you people!" he exclaimed. "Hullo, Granet. Have you brought the girls down?" "In the most wonderful racing car yen ever saw!" Geraldine told him, as they climbed up the gangway. "We shouldn't have been here for hours if we had waited for the tram." "I met Captain Granet this morn- that is if it's anything a landsman may know about?" The young officer piloted them across to the other side. "It's just a little something v> not permitted to talk about just he replied. "I didn't know the mander expected any visitors to-day or we should have had it roped off. Anything I can show you on this deck?" he inquired politely. "Nothing at all, thanks," Geraldine assured him. "We'll just stroll about for a little time." They leaned over the rail togeth( The young officer saluted and withdrew. A freshening breeze blew in their faces and the sunshine danced upon the foam-flecked sea. The harbor was lively with small craft, an aeroplane was circling overhead, and out in the Roads several warships were lying anchored. "I was in luck this morning," Granet asserted. "So were we," Geraldine replied. "I never enjoyed motoring more. Your new car is wonderful"' "She is a beauty, isn't she?" Granet assented enthusiastically. "What she could touch upon fourth speed I wouldn't dare say. We were going over sixty plenty of times this morning, and yet one scarcely noticed it. You see, she's so beautifully hung." (To be continued.) Cheesecloth sack and tie, then cook slowly in equal parts of salted suim-milk and water. Drain, dry in the oven five minutes, and finish with a white sauce. Salmon Puffs.---Flake one can of salmon and mix with a half-cup ofi bread crumbs, two well beaten eggs,; a tablespoon of melted butter, and i salt and pepper to taste. A tablesgoon of vinegar or lemon juice improves ] the flavor. Mix all well and pack in old cops, round-bottomed jelly glasses, or molds. Place in a pan of hot water and fcake io moderate oven one-half hour. Remove from molds and arrange bottom side up on a platter. Pour over them the horseradish sauce. Horseradish Sauce.--Whip one cup of cream and add two tablespoons of freshly grated horseradish and a half teaspoon of salt. Mix well. Season Salad.--If spinach or fresh beet greens are not handy any plant used as greens may do. Cook the greens, chop, and mix with vinegar, lemon juice or French dressing. Form nests of the greens on salad plates and fill with hard-boiled egg yolks, or cheese balls. To make cheese balls, put one-half pound of cheese through food chopper with two pimentos, add melted butter to make it cleave together and form in balls with the hands. One-crust Rhubarb Pie.--Peel and cut up sufficient rhubarb for one pie. Beat two egg yolks and slowly add one cup of sugar sifted with three level tablespoons of flour. When these are thoroughly mixed turn in the rhubarb and stir until the rhubarb is thoroughly coated with the egg and sugar mixture. Then fill uncooked crust and place in cool oven, heating gradually. Cook until a soft custard forms. If the pie is put in a hot oven the crust will burn before the filling cooked. Frost with the whites of eggs. The Perfect Brew. When the tea has been grown on the heights of Ceylon, hand-picked and journeyed half way round the world, sheltered in aluminum packets, to reach your teacups, blended under conditions of exquisite air-swept cleanliness, it is a shame to spoil it in the making, but this is what is too often done. For perfect tea you should have a heavy porcelain or earthenware teapot. (Scald it well before using.) Put level teaspoonful of tea to the add freshly boiled water; and means "the third boil when the billows surge wildly in the kettle." 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Mothers can interest children brushing their teeth either by making it an amusing game or by appealing to their pride. The point is to establish it as early as possible. When the child is a little older his mother should tell him that little pieces of food stick between the teeth and that •if not removed tihey soon putrefy and act as a poison to the pretty white enamel. In that way she can make him understand that .his teeth need attention just as much after one meal as after another and that it is foolish to wait until bedtime to clean them. She should point out, however, that bedtime is the most important time for him to brush his teeth because the night gives the poison so many hours in which to work harm. The mother should also teach the child that his teeth need exercise just as much as any other part of his body and that they can get it only by properly biting the food. Of all good physical habits slow and careful mastication is perhaps the most valuable one a mother can teach her children; it is valuable not only in childhood but all through life and it is valuable not only for the teeth but for the health in general.' - Bathing for Beauty and for Health. Indifference as to the cape of one's ■::cjy b I-"-'" ■:.r:+--;'--.*.-!f m jbwqer than in winter, therefore, the _ who neglect.? his or her bath is not an attractive h--A wr\,Jier companion. Where running water is available, the tub bath is easily accomplished; but in homes where th,e fully appointed bathrccm is "one of the things the future is to bring, portable bathtubs can be used or the sponge hath have to serve. It is sometimes possible to rig up a shower-bath in an outside shed, but a shower-bath seems to be more popular with boys than with girls. A bath serves several purposes, for not only does it cleanse the surface of the skin, but it facilitates the removal of dead cuticle and opens the pores, allowing many impurities to esca.p Because of this, I prefer the hqt ti bath to foe taken at night when fr< perspiration is allowed to follow. The daytime bath is usually a hurried affair, followed by the use of talcum powder in order to check perspiration, thus clogging up the pores and defeating one purpose of the bath. On the other hand, sponging the body with lukewarm water has a cooling effect and is very refreshing on s warm day. Such a bath can well become part of the afternoon toilet and can be followed by a liberal usi talcum powder in order to check the perspiration which would be so ui comfortable an accompaniment b> a afternoon or evening toilet. Choose powder having a delicate scent, £ heavy perfumes are unpleasant at all times and especially so in warm 1 ,ther. 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