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b THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1921. The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. KURSES Ml Thjs Hospital 1 Superintender vith to all (Copygtehted) of Later Chapters. of his Synopsii Captain Granet calls UDcn Monsieur Guillot at the Milan Hotel and gives him a document from the Kaiser offering France a separate peace. The plot is discovered. Conyers sinks two submarines. Granet is commissioned by his uncle, Sir Alfred Anselman, destroy the new sub detector, mai' Sir Meyville Worth of Norfolk. »i his aunt's luncheon he meets the daughter, Isabel Worth. CHAPTER XVII.--(Cont'd.). "You mustn't draw too gloomy a picture of your home," Lady Ansel-man said. "I have seen it when it was simply heavenly." "And I have seen it," the girl retorted', with a note of grimness in her tone, "-when it was a great deal "I can assure vou that you will, Can tain Granet." she said. "If father cheeses to behave like a bear, well, I'll fry and make up for him." She glanced at him impressively and Granet bowed. A few minutes suppo later, in obedience to Lady Anselman's; thing f-.:<?nal, they all made their way into She led him cautiously to the wm- and t[]i dow and pointed downwards. About; ^ fifty yards out at sea was a queer | ' strong She opened her lips and closed them again. Granet, who had suddenly stiffened into rigid attention, felt a quick impulse of disappointment. "I have rung the bell fcr my own maid," she said. "She will show you out of the place. Don't let any one see ycu, if you can help it." "And to-morrow?" he asked. "You Testing Household Con ^I^g^^G* Club," she ^tT™ * "*S f member^ brorniised "at on= o'clock" I the story of the woman who had to memoer ot the Granet' was " conducted almost' ^ on beating eggs with a fork all her • any article she stealthily down the stairs and into the! i'^e, because her husband could not chase prcce is n avenue. Half-way to the gate he see any sense in spending paused to listen. He was hidden from 'ght now by the gathering twilight the arbi- cirele wishes to buy may do so. The pur-mcnediately reinvested a for so that the set of equipment may be those "new fangled egg beat- kept complete for as many communi-In the first place, the average ties as possible to benefit by. like From where they to be seen but a windowless 11 of framework and a rope ladder, being Underneath, a boat was tethered to erved. Granet made his"way to Ger-' one cf the supports. About thirty aldine's sice but she received him a yards away, a man was rowing leis-little coldly. I ure'.y around in another small boat. "I have' been doing my aunt's be-' "That's where father spends about hests," he explained. "My strict twelve hours a day," she said. "What orders were to make mvself agreeable he is doing- no one knows. He to a young woman who lives in a sort even allow me to speak of it. When of bl'uebeard's house, where no v-isi- we meet at meals, I am not supposed tors are allowed and smiling is prohi- to allude to the fact that he has been bited." I out in that crazy p'ace. If ever Geraldine looked across at Isabel happens to speak of it, he calls it Worth. | workshop." Worth before,"! "But he is not alone there?" Granet the other place-stillness that, she gaijL «j. .bei^e her father is won- asked, to stifle you, grey mists j derfuHy clever_ Did I hear you say iing out of town?" that choke your breath and blot out > that everything; nothing but the gurgling: of a little water, and the sighing--the most melancholy sighing you ever j aj heard--of the wind in our rugged . hjg Oh, i Granet nodded. "I am going away for a few days., the corn going away," he added, dropping i She pc )! There are two or three London, and an American vith him. Then do you see ' cf the garden there?" , nted to a long barn or boat-ice, "ostensibly for a change of house almost upon the beach. Before '» abou^ th8 autumn; air. I have another reason for going." the door two sentries were standing, ou must remember-. | He ]oo;:rii a1 ]ier steadfastly and she Even from where they sat they could id attractive, Gran-, f Qt her vaglie misgiving of a few, hear the faint whirr of a dynamo. ,dp minutes ago. After all, his percep-1 "There are twenty men at work t-ions were right. It was better for there," she said. "They all sleep him to leave London for a time. | the barn or the potting sheds. They "I hope the change will do you are not allowed even to go down to good," she said quietly. "I think, per- the village. Now, perhaps, you can 'begin to understand, Captain Granet, what it is like to be here." "Well, it all sounds very interest- Granet, a few days later, brought! his car to a standstill in front of an ordinary fivediarred gate upon^ which - -- - "It doesn' et admitted. "By-the-bye, which side of Norfolk are you? You are nowhere near Brancaster, I suppose?" "We are within four miles of it," the girl replied quickly. "You don't ever come there, do you?" Granet looked at her with uplifted eyebrows. "This is really rather a coincidence!" he exclaimed. "I've never been to Brancaster in my life but I've promised one or two fellows to go haps, you are right to go." CHAPTER XVIII. down to the Dormy House there, to- I morrow or the next day, and have a week's golf. Geoff Anselman is going, ked, "but I should think st be deadly for you. Your father ^end of wonderful things, painted in white letters "Market Burnham Hall." A slight grey mist was falling and the country inland was almost blotted from sight. On The girl was for a moment almost1 *e_°ther side of the gate a sandy good-looking. Her eyas glowed, her tone was eloquently appeal;' "You'll come and see i you?" she begged-. "If.I"la>-' re-,be dl!lguted'" GlMet rirtt5"Granet"mutterecf to 'himself i" Granet resumed his seat and lit the promised heartily. "When are y0Uj ^l,,rS|Ll™_" j cigarette which she insisted upon going back?' You're quite s you'll com "" "I shall nured her. as some of the fellows, and Btill a little dicky, but. I'l with London, and I'm not allowed "If he does, he never speaks about it," the girl answered, a littfe bitterly. "All that he wants from me is my absence or my silence. When I came drive disappeared into an avenue of ^,ac,k ,*hf, othir'night he was furious ragged and stunted elm trees, which H he d thought about it I m sure he d "of the have had me stay m London. Now I that I am here, though, I am simply a ""Seems as though the frirl were! Prisoner." ^ght," Granet muttered here goes." n>t' effectually c that .H®.ba£k«i his . of the hedge, and laying his hand' " ■ .,, ■----------- all right," Granet as-U™ the latch of the gate, - prepared E/hZd TreX K?her°int«e , „nt , , keen on eoll to swln2 lt °Pen- Almost immediately °™f* a;, ir..really '? ratherinter- mn mv arVq a figure stepped out from the shrubs, esting, isn^ it, to think that y j "Haiti" I Granet looked with surprise at the rolling mists. From behind man particuiariy 'the "'farmer/ has Twelve groups of articles of SthpCant £ n.f shown hiime!f more than eager to pro- chosen in Cascade county for two cir- . oi tne pete sweeping in, «u»j,. .. j. . , eauinment «les to work with over a two months' wit i ; harper insistence, the whirr of- , . nome wren equipment , ... machinery frcm the boathouse. Gran- »h:ch will render the work easier, and, Period. Each woman baa the privilege et lit a cigarette and walked thought- the time for the work shorter. j 01 taking- one aruo.e heme at a time fully away. Just as he climbed into: On the farm, as anywhere, the in-, to test for a period of ten days. The peculiar light through the telligent husb-i.nd interprets the word articles then rotated in a previously trees startled him. He stood up and watched. From the top of the house a slowly revolving searchlight played upon the waters. (To be continued.) Pertinent. Hurrying along his job to meet, Whether he's toiler or millionaire Whether he's homely or whether fair, I can't help thinking, as I go on "Will those who are yours be happ day?" Did you leave them this morn wi pleasant smile? Were the words you scorn or guile? Did you do the act that you needed To help the e folks who depend Did you give them some cheer their way? "Will those who are yours You know that it matters, 1 the street, Whether you're pleasant to ind the word isking as you go on your 3 yours be happy 'father is such a man of mysteries?" The girl sighed. c '-khaki rind fimirp i suppose so," she admitted., "bu to come before the Board again for a ngure. then vou «pp father t- o1™,-.^ h-^„+oi fortnight so I rather welcome the! "Your name and destination?" the tn^en, you see, lather is a.-mos. brutel fortnight so l lather welcome the demanded I about taking any one into his confi- tok^^^u^^- ^R^^^^^Ro^PMi-l^- He never tell, even me t lm"Wonder?ut" S Worth agreed Hers, home from the Front on leave," i W, or --urages me to ask - - -......■ . Granet replied. "I was going up to tlon- 1 tnink tor that reason I have I the Hall to call on Miss Worth." j grown rather to re-sent has work and "Stay where you are, if you please,1 the ridiculous restriction he pla, sir " the man replied j upon my freedom because of it." He stepped back into the sentry box L A Parlormaid entered with tea, and spoke through a telephone. r eagerly, "and I think the club-house is very comfortable. There are often some quite nice men staying there. If only father weren't so -awfully peculiar, the place would be almost tol-' ' i the season. That reminds the ," she fent cn, with a little sigh, must warn you about father. He's it unsociable person that ever a moment or two he reappeared. "Pass on, please, sir," he said. I fowed. Granet walked slowly up the I happenings. avenue, his hands behind him, a frown' c°nversatio. upon bis forehead. Perhaps, after all, | l°™U^l things were not to be 'ther side he linutes later, and Granet ______ to his hostess' side upon the sofa. He nore interest in outside He was an adept at light and he made himself . igreeable for the next for him:jho(uTr' Then he rose quickly to his feet, lee the! 1 mu.st g0> "e declared. "I'm not shy," Granet laughed. "By-the-bye, pardon me, but isn't your father the Sir Meyville Worth who ^n eitner siue ne coum see uwi . invents things' I'm not auite sure1 stretches of sand, and here and there! «t! -u ^ whai Vort offings" he°ldf^L«Per- the long creeks of salt water As he'^,.^ Jj".^£ .have you ' - - came nearer to the house, the smell ?ere' ..^ s,al .' but if you only knew of the sea grew stronger, the tops 0f: h°w difficult it was to arrange it, the trees were more bowed than ever,!y«>ud understand why I hesitate to sand was Mown everywhere across the ask y*u *» c°"1% a^am' , " hopeless flower-beds. The house' .,Why fhouldn t you come and lunch itself, suddenly revealed, was a grim,1]™ me to-morrow at the Golf Club? weather-beaten structure, built on the, "ea3^- very edge of a queer, barrowlike!She hesitated. It was obvious that tongue of land which ended with the I the suggestion appealed to her. house itself. The sea was breaking on; „_ 1 tbeherT1e ,T couid> she assented, the few yards of beach sheer below! Captain Chalmers has a small motor-the windows. To his right was a wall- i Mr ne o 'end me, and if I go out with ed garden, some lawns and greenhous-: m? ^0'f 1clui>^ :t w°uld, be all right, es; to the left, stables, a garage, and! YerJ hkel? fa*er will sleep out there two or three laborers' cottages. At | and, !'1f,ee anything of hi the front door another soldier stationed doing sentry duty. haps you'd better post me up before "I shan't tell you a thing," Isabel Worth declared. "Just now it's very much better for you to know nothing whatever about him. He has what I call the inventors' fidgets, for s reason or other. If a strange person comes near the place, he simply I his head." "Perhaps I sha'n't be welcome, then?" Granet remarked disconsolately. There was a flash m the girl's eyes as she answered him. 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She did; thl;l$' remarked' . not wait for Granet to announce him-1 , Yes> *hey, ™v.e a ware from the self but motioned him to follow her! ?hed' fhe ,toId hlm' "Whatever he's into a large, circular, stone hall,: trying to do, he needs a very intense across, which she led him quickly and , and J:o"_(ien1trated J'.'ght at times." threw open the door of the drawing-room. Isabel Worth was standing just inside the room, as though listen-, .. ing. She held out her hand and there j _ as no doubt about her welcome. "Captain Granet," she said almost i a whisper, "of course you'll think e are all made, but would you mind ymAng upstairs into my little sitting- Granet drew a little sigh. "Well, I hope it's s " lo us a bit of good," h The Germans are 'IE No. 33--'21. If course not," Granet acquiesced, conic anywhere, with pleasure. What a view you have from here!" He glanced through the high windows at the other end of the room. She laid her fingers upon his arm and led him towards the door. "Quietly, please," she whispered. "Try and imagine that you are in a house of conspirators." She led him up the quaint stone staircase, spiral-shaped, to the first floor. Arrived there, she pau ed to listen for a moment, then breat' ed a little more freely and led him to a small sitting-room at the end cf a long passage. It was a pleasant little apartment and looked sheer out over 'ie sea. She threw herself down upon sofa with a sigh of relief, and pointed to a chair. o sit down, Captain Gir.net," she begged. "I am really not in the least e but father is. You know I got back on Wednesday night and v met at once with stern orders that visitors of any sort were to be d, that the tradespeople were iterviewed at the front gates-fact that the house was to be in state of siege." "5rr.net appeared puzzled. 'But why?" nething that'll :aid. "We need liles ahead of Darkness That Makes Light. for light- j places A new type of lantern houses has been perfected. The light is started automatically at ight time or in foggy weather, switch-ig ftseif off when it is no longer needed. The invention will enable us to set up many more lighthouses for the guidance of seamen. The old type of lighthouse is a very expensive affair, for at least two people must be kept upon it constantly ,and boats sent out at freuuent intervals with food and stores. . inaccesible at ear that it has been out of the question to erect man-controlled lighthouses there. The new automatic lantern will work tin-tended for months on end. does it work? Well, it is really quite simple. Large quantities of : stored under enormous pres-steel cylinders, which are connected by pipes with the burner of the lantern. There are certain substances which ;pand when light falls upon them, and contract when they are in dark-A lever controlling the valve of the lantern's burner is connected with a rod made of one of these sensitive substances. So long as it is light rod is expanded, and the valve which allows gas to pass from the containers to the burner is closed. But darkness sets in the rod As it does so it pulls on the lever, the valve opens, and the gas is ignited by an automatic lighter. "home" properly, as a place' of peace arranged order. Thus, at Vaughn, it which he and his family are to enjoy works something like this: While together after the day's work is done. Mrs- Brown is trying out the value of Appliances which help to realize this the sewing screen, Mrs. Black is satis-ideal are sound common sense, wheth-' fying her doubts about the gasoline er they happen to be egg beaters or: ircn, and Mrs. White is using the fire-washing machines. The problems of !css cooker. Mrs. Green has the kit-supplying the best household equip- chen grindstone for ten days, while ment hangs not upon the spirit of Mrs- Gray decides whether she will either husband or'wife toward the. 8^® UP dish towels and use the dish home but on the financial limitations drainer exclusively. The slaw cutter, of the family purse which makes it the double boiler, and ths cream whip necessary to weigh the merits of one 8X6 tested simultaneously by Mrs. improvement againsc another, and Smith, Mrs. Jcnes and Mrs. Robinson, often to choose one at a time because At tne end cf the ten days the articles both can not fee had at once. ' are sent on to the next person who There is another consideration ap-]is to try them. pMcaible to the fork and egg beater; Each member of the circle is asked controversy. Many persons could be to keep a record so as to be able to j found who would contend, even minis give a written report of her opinion without' day of enlightenment that a fork of the articles tested. This report j beats eggs lighter than a beater, al- j goes to the project leader, then to the though it takes longer; that they pre-j home demonstration agent, and finally fer their meringues and egg whites to the state and federal extension offer cake beaten with a fork and in- j fice3. The individual judgment de-tend to go cn using one. Perhaps this j termines whether or not the tested was the real explanation of the old I articles will be purchased. It is hoped, man's apparent stinginess! j of course, that the trial may result in Much is heard to the effect that' the placement in the homes of Cascade women have been very slow in revolu-1 county of a large number of worth-tionizing the kitchen. Since most wo-: while conveniences, all of which will men lack mechanical instincts it is; have been given a thorough prelimin-probably true that the majority of the' ary test. labor-saving devices have been invent-i Another Cascade county testing erred by men. At the same time it is'cle at Monarch, also true that, not having much to do with the washing and care of house hold utensils, men have invented in numerable contraptions which make i more work than they save. 1 tical woman wants every coi possible in her home, especially if she! ladder stool. An iceless refrigerator, is one of the ninety-six per cent, who! and a vegetable dryer will be added to docs all her own work. But she wants: the equipment in summer time, to be convinced cf the utility of each! At the end of the two months' pe-tool she adds to her equipment, and,: riod there will be in each community if she must be limited in her spend- a general demonstration of the arti-ing, to select only what wall be of the cles tested at which each woman will greatest possible aid to her. The best talk about one article. Then the two housekeeper is seldom the one who groups will exchange, so that every-has the largest collection of conven-: one has a tdiance to see and test for iences, hut the one who has suitable. Herself everything on the list. A lit-devices for all the frequently recur-' tie imagination can picture the compe- i equipment the kitchen jitney, the pressure cooker, the ironing board which clamps on the table, a pan lifter, a ing eu.p, spatula, rubber plate scrape, kitchen clothes reel, long-handled dust pan, potato ricer, step- ring tasks. ' tition to be first possessor of certain The women in Cascade county, Mon-1 favored tools or the arguments for tana, have worked out an admirable! and against those of doubtful conven-way of testing home conveniences be-! ience; the counting of pennies or dol-fore selecting them. During the winter lars by those who wish to purchase the project leaders in the various com- many, but must content themselves munities met with the county home with a few new household helps; and demonstration agent to discuss the'the satisfaction in all the different best way of working out a "home con-| homes because the mother has at last venience" project. It %vas evident found a way to cut down the dish-that, owing to the distance of some of washing or ironing drudgery, how to the communities from large stores save her back, by means of a long-with up-to-date stock, and to the gen-! handled dust pan, or to make the era! lack cf time for individual shop- j "kitchen jitney" save steps for her. ping expeditions, some way should be' For, after all, every minute saved devised by which articles -cn the mar-' on routine drudgery by the mother is labor-saving devices could be; squandered recklessly on the rest of id at home and given a trial | the family in companionship, help, before bsing actually purchased. The and the things of the spirit that only a result was the organization of "test-1 mother can give--the things without rcles" Variations of this idea could be applied anywhere. This plan is also being tried out in several counties in the state of Washington. many cases the equipment for ng circles is purchased by the County Farm Bureau. The women which the home is a blank unmeaning place. Investment in mother-saving equipment, therefore, means attaining one of the fundamental goals for which the entire work of the home is carried on. Put the scrubbing brush to dry with e bristles down, preventing the water from soaking into the back and causing bristles to come out. Minard's Lin lent for Burns, < Who is England? When Cat Meets Dog. Most of the instinctive actions of domesticated animals may be traced back to what they did in the days when they roamed wild, and were forced to defend themselves at a mo- For example, even a Pomeranian dog will turn round and round before curling up to go to sleep--a reversion to the days when its ancestors had to trample down the grass, in order to make a bed for themselves. The instinctive arching of back when traditional enemy. voluntary position of defence against ! or the expected attack. The fact that j thl the cat is terrified is apparent by the I bristling of the fur, while arching the j back brings the feet close togethi :nd gives the claws a firmer grip When you're down and out and hopeless, and a demon at your side Whispers, "What's the use of trying? chuck it up and let things slide," Just sit down and think of England; she whose cradle was a grave, She who had to win to freedom from the bondage of a slave. Tell yourself her tale of glory, then let England's dead reply To the question of your spirit, "Who is England if not I ?" England, once the least of nations, where the Roman Eagle flew,1 the ground, thus permitting exception-1 Where the sons of Thor came burning, where the mighty Nor- ally rapid movement in any direction., man slew, j Moreover, the cat knows instinc-1 See how now, supreme in splendor, leading all the world's ad-'tively that the dcg win seek t0 slnk i vance | its teeth in the back of its neck, so it ' First to crush the Prussian serpent, first to save the soul of j withdraws its head as far as possible. France, Standing like a granite lighthouse where the fiercest waves are! Minard's Linirr>ent for Dandruff. hurled, *-- In herself secure and giving light to all the trembling world. A Gentleman Defined. What is England's glorious story but the story one by one | a man who is clean both outside and Of her children sternly minded that their duty should be done ? I inside, who neither looks up to the Each for ever holding firmly to the simple rules of right, ! rich nor down to the poor: who can Each with dauntless heart believing wrong can never win a fight, Iose without squealing and win with These were England, and they fashioned all the grandeur that They Liked Leeks. It is owing to the fondness of the Celtjc tribes for the leek that their descendents, the Welsh, retain it as an emblem of their, nationality. ^ The leac or leek was an important table vegetable among the Anglo-Saxons, for they called their gardens "leac-gardens," and the gardener was a "leek-ward." As other species of the same tribe were introduced into the country, they also were called "leeks," with a prefix denoting some peculiarity of the a dog with which Plant. Thus, garlic was formerly "gar-it is not on friendly terms is an indi- leac," or "the leek with a spear," from cation that the cat has recognized its 1 the spear like stem and head of the seed pod. The o ne-leek," because off side-bulbs. did not Why He Came. Joan--"Mummy, was baby s> from Heaven?" Mother--"Yes, dear." Joan--"They do like to have up there, don't they?" Pews were first placed in churches for the use of Norman nobles. Ordinary worshippers sat on three-legged stools. And their blood that v boasting, who is considerate to children and old people, who the triumph flows for God in you and ^eat! anl who tikes Lta swTthe world and lets others have theirs.-- --Harold Begbie. l. a. o'Mara. 300 MILE BREAKBY how thev run Instead of talking- about what they are like. USED AUTOS 100 actually ln stock. n D 1 402 YONGE 8T. Percy Breakey TOROnto