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6 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT., THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1921. The Kingdom The Blind of By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. the Sir Alfred frowned slightly. "Nothing very much," he said. "A1 there are distinct indi- (Copyjtehted) Synopsis of Later Chapters. "You Captain Granet calls upon Monsieur Guillot at the Milan Hotel and give3 him a document from the Kaiser offering Prance a separate peace. The ' discovered. Conyers sinks two submarines. Granet is commissioned by his uncle, Sir Alfred Anselman, to destroy the new sub detector, made by Sir Meyville Worth of Norfolk..When calling upon Isabel Worth he is mistaken bv the inventor for the captain of the guard and shown the marvellous invention. At midnight, with his accomplice, Collins, he lights a flare to guide a Zeppelin. Next day he is summoned to the Hall and questioned by Thomson. Isabel Worth cations of a change which I don't like. With certain statesmen here at the top of the tree, it was perfectly easy for me to carry out any schemes which I thought necessary. During the last few weeks, however, there has been a change. Nominally, things same. Actually, I seem to find another hand at work, another Wand which works with the censorship, too. Oi____ my very trusted agents in Harwich made the slightest slip the other day. A few weeks ago, he would either have been fined twenty pounds or interned, glad to Do you know what happened to him on Wednesday ? Of course you don't. He ""'They got Collins," Granet said, was arrested at one o'clock and shot dropping his voice almost to a whis- in half an hour. Then you soaped all right, I'n _s with a false explanation of Granet's presence at Burnham Hall. CHAPTER XXIV. Mr. Gordon Jones rose to his feet. It had been an Interesting, in some respects a momentous interview. He glanced around the plain but handsomely furnished office, a room which betrayed so few evidences of the ivor1 '-flung power of its ownei "After all, Sir Alfred,'" half shot by my side. They papers this morning ? All sailings caught me too I've been in a few between here and a certain little spot tight corners but nothing tighter than' we know of have been stopped without that. Who do you think was sent down a. moment's warning. I am compelled from the War Office to hold ah in-; to pause in several most interesting quiry? Thomson^that fellow Thorn-( schemes. gCni» Nothing for me, I suppose ? Gran- J , et asked, a little nervously. The banker frowned gir Alirfid , h * v n^;fe™ "Not fOT the moment," he replied, ^"luppos^d W« Granet answered! "J* there will be very soon Take hold grimly "I am beginning to wonder- i of yourself, Ronnie. Don't look down- !ltt%my0UhatTo'u^rd anything K&^^^^^S ^"7^," ^Alfred replied, Confess-youVe "^No-hin^txYent that I have an un- "* have<" Granet admitted, "not, Nothing except that 1 have an^ of death ^ rf e that m'ght follow upon discovery, to be '^aIf mcKned, if just one thing world came my way, to sail for New York to-morrow and start again." "When those fears come to you," niling, "I am not sure tiiat- : Downing Street which r touch our buttons and move armies and battleships across the face of the earth. You pull down your ledger, sign your name, and you can strike a blow as deadly i comfortable feeding about hi et went cn. "I wish I felt he was just what he profes He is the one man who seems to suspect me. If it hadn't been for Isabel Worth, I was done for--finished-- down at that wretched hole! He had , me where I couldn't move. The girl he remarked, j Hed and got me out of it." Sir Alfred drummed for a moment i, with his fingers upon the table. i1 "I am not sure that these risks are worth while for you, Ronnie," he said. The young man shrugged his shoulders. His face certainly seemed to - have grown thinnei during the last j few days. The banker smiled. ! "I don't mind it so much abroad;" "Let cs be thankful, then," he said, he declared. "It seems a different "that tne powers we wield are linked thing there, somehow, together in the great cause." jit's all wrong; it's th Mr. Gordon Jones hesitated. ! suppose. And that fellow Thomsun "Such things, I know, are little to means mischief--I'm sure of it." you, Sir Alfred," he continued, "but "Is there any reason for ill-feeling at the same time I want you to believe between you two?" the banker in-bhat his Majesty's 'Government will quired, not be unmindful of your help at this) Granet nodded, juncture. To speak of rewards ati "You've hit it, sir." such a time is perhaps premature. Ij "Miss Conyers, eh?" know that ordinary honors do not ap-1 The young man's face underwent a peal to you, yet it has been suggested sudden change. to me by a certain person that 1 should "Yes," he confessed. "If I hadn't assure you of the country's gratitude, begun this, if I hadn't gone so far In plain words, there is nothing you into it that no other course was pos-may ask for which it would not be our 1 sibie, I think that I should have been pleasure and privilege to gave you." i content to be just what I seem to be-- Sir Alfred bowed slightly. j because of her." "Ycu are very kind," he said. Sir Alfred leaned back in his chair. "Later cn, perhaps, one may reflect. He was looking at his nephew as a At present there seems'to be only one man of science might have looked stern duty before us, and for that one some interesting needs no reward." "Well," he said, The two men parted. Sir Alfred rose simply confi: from the easy chair in front of his ages, but, frankly, you amaze me. You desk and threw himself into the easy- are moving amongst the big places of ;bair which his guest had been occupy- life, you are with those who are making. A ray of city sunshine found its ing history, and you would be content way through the tangle of tall build- to give the whole thing up. For what ? ing* on the other side of the street, You would become a commonplace,( lay in a zigzag path across his carpet, easy-going young animal of a British end touched the firm lines of his soldier, for the sake of the affectior thoughtful face. He sat there, slowly of a good-looking, well-bred, common- Alfred continued slowly, "consider I run a greater risk than you. There are threads from this office stretching to many corners of England, to many corners of America, to most cities of Europe. If a man with brains should seize upon any one of them, he might follow it backwards--even here." Sir Alfred touched his chest for a moment. Then his hand dropped to his side and he proceeded. "For twenty-eight years I have ruled the money-markets of the world. I No Cabinet Council is held in this nit over *ere, country at which my influence is not tmospnere, 1! represented. The Ministers come to see me one by one for help and advice. I represent the third great force of war, and there isn't a single member of the present Government who doesn't look upon he as the most important person in the country. Yet I, too, have enemies, Ronnie. There is the halfpenny Press. They'd give a million for the chance that may come i day. They'd print my downfall blacker lines than the declaration of" war. They'd shriek over my ruin with a more brazen-throated triumph even than they would greet the heralds of peace. And the threads there, Ronald. Sometimes I feel shiver a little. Sometimes I hav< stretch out my arm and brush too 'nquirer into the pla< ..ipping the sides of the chair with place British young his pudgy fingers. So a great soldier understand you, Ronald. You have the might have sat, following out the pro- blood of empire-makers in your veins. grass of his armies in different coun- Your education and environment have tries, listening to the rear of their developed an outward resemblance to guns, watching their advance, their the thing you profess to be, but be-faltering, their success and their hind--don't you feel the grip of the failures. Sir Alfred's vision was in a other things?" tense more sordid, in nrr.v ways more "I feel them, right enough," Granet complicated, yet it, too, had its drama- replied. "I have felt them for the last tic side. He looked at the money- seven or eight years. But I am feel-markets cf the world, he saw exchang-1 ing something else, too, something es rise and fall. He saw in the dim which I dare say you never felt, some-vista no khaki-clad army with flashing thing which I have never quite be-bayonets, but a long, thin line of, lieved in." black-coated men with sallow faces,' Sir Alfred leaned back in his chair, clutching their money-bags. ! "In a way," he admitted, "this is There was a knock at the door and disappointing. You are right. I have his secretary entered. | never felt the call of those other "Captain Granet has been here for things. When I was a young mai some time, sir," he announced softly, was frivolous simply, when I felt ... The banker came back to the pres- clined to turn from the big things of ent. He woke up, indeed, with a little life for purposes of relaxation. When start. j an alliance was suggested to me, I "Show my nephew in at once," he was content to' accept it, but thank directed. "I shall be engaged with him, heavens I have been Oriental enough for at least a quarter of an hour, j to keep women in my life where they Kindly go around to the Bank of Eng- j belong. I am disappointed in you, land and arrange an interview with j Ronnie." Mr. Williams for three o'clock this i The young man shrugged has dioul-afterncon." , ders. The clerk silently withdrew. Granet: "I haven't flinched," he said, entered, a few minutes later. The j "No, but the soft spot's there," was hanker greeted him pleasantly. I the grim reply. "However, let that "Well, Ronnie," he exclaimed,, "I go. Tell me why you came up ? Wasn't thought that you were going to be it better to have stayed down at Bran-down in Norfolk for a week! Come caster for a little longer?" In. Bring your chair up to my side, I "Perhaps," his nephew assented. eo. This is one of my deaf mornings." i "My arm came on a little rocky and Granet silently obeyed. Sir Alfred I had to chuck golf. Apart from that, glanced around the room. There was, I wasn't altogether comfortable about no possible hiding-olace, not the' things at Market Burnham. I was uightest chance of being overheard. I obliged to tell Thomson that I "What about it, Ronnie"" where curiosity ends. I sit and watch I suppose you aIKj T am ^:A\.vrve.L There are men, the experience of .the|this morning at Buckingham Palace/ with a V.C. pinned uDon their breast,' who faced dangers for ten minutes, less than I face day and night." Granet rose to his feet. "For a moment," he excla'i had forgotten! . . . Tell me," I ed1, with sudden vigor, "what have it for? You made your great Making the Most of Meat. The high cost of meat, even to thej producers of meat, makes the careful, housewife seek ways and means ofi making the daily meat ration go as possible. Then, too, the great agitation on the subject of health that j has brought to even the most careless; people the knowledge that less meat] and more fruits and vegetables will prolong life and make the individual more comfortable and efficient while he does live, has had its effect on the cooking in all progressive homes. Forty or fifty years ago it was common to have three or more kinds of meat on the table, and too much of , each kind, but nowadays people know mu^S||M||^r> My grandmother always, said inv„ ^^^hax in her day peop!« would have mortified to death," her own , if they had not served id ham and beef to guests welcome, and they are really cheaper id better than so much meat. re also great savers. Ms served with bu-t-r syrup will so fill women' either, that ; meat and potatoes, •innamon loaf served dessert, but as a bread at dinner or -supper will also take the! place of meat. Sugar supplies energy: appears to as well as meat, and all people like it. \ tonsiiitis. Generally speaking, hot bread is not soi who should wholesome as that which is twenty-j complaints four hours old, but once in a whih Warm breads A pan of light ter and honey I hungry men, o: they forget to e A warm, sugary painful there is usually little or no swelling. The child may be feverish and disinclined to play, but it does not seem to be ill, and its mother is likely to attribute the slight pains to fatigue, or to think of them perhaps as "growing pains^" The muscles that are usually affected are either those of the neck and thes'hou'ders or those at the back of the thigh or in the calf of the leg. When the child feels pain in its neck and shoulders, its mother is likely to think it has a "stiff neck"; when pain is in the thighs or legs, the mother is likely to conclude that it has been running or jumping too much. In either case she has made a serious Occasionally rheumatism in a child appears to be merely an attack of Sometimes the physician, be called whenever a child even for a day or two of barm to serve it. Hot baking joints, is helped in making a correct powder biscuits are a welcome dish diagnosis by finding little nodules be-summer and winter, and they will help neath the skin near the elbows, the out any kind of meat that seems in- knees, the ankles, the finger joints or sufficient for the farm workers. 'Hot the spine. They are little fibrous bails toast served with milk or poached that may arise from other causes, but , eggs makes a nice change from the! that are most commonly the result of Oxford. X^TthTwS SlSST^t^tU'S guests Citable meat dish at breakfast or rheumatism Chorea, or St. Vitus's giant struggle comes it should be Ger-lat the seme meal. ■»»«• J .v v , ! dance« lf ' f°Mows such slight pains many who calls even to me?" ti, ■ w a Dishes made with cheese are also, as we have described, conclusively Sir Alfred held'out his hand. His' f1'6 certami vegetables and d substitutes for meat. Cheese proves the presence of rheumatism, eye had caught the clock. j br&ads and deserts that will help out; n,0,odle3> macaroni with cheese, cheese But by that time the heart has prob- "Ronnie," he said, "have you ever »hort «W*?" of meat, and ma ve th m ,u reamed hot i tees with ably been affected, wondered why in a flock of sheep poorer pieces appetizing. For example, chee3,e am, other Kimi!iar disfee3 will The treatment of rheumatism in every lamb knows its mother? Ger-| if hash must be served, or croquettes, ajways prove app.etizrng. The milk and 1 children is mainly aimed at preventing cheese used in their composition take heart disease. For that purpose the the place of meat and are really bet-, most important thing for the child to ter for workers in hot weather than have is absolute rest in bed. Its diet many was the mother of our stock. Birth, life, and education count for nothing when the great days come, when the mother voice speaks. It isn't that we are false to England, it is that we are true to cur own. You must go now, Ronnie! I have an appointment." Granet walked out to the street a little dazed, and called for a taxi. "I suppose that must be it," he muttered: to himself. (To be continued.) Rubber. up the remains of a roast id ends of steak, tl.n a t uet pudding well stuffed with will make up for al'l deficit cies, and the poorer meat will be quite cheerfully eaten. In the same w; rich mince pie will help out a sc; portion of either beef or pork and will supply the needed nourishment for hard worker, particularly if served hot. Indeed, the country housekeeper should always have a supply of rich mince meat canned in order to help out scanty meals, for there is nothing iked than this dessert by Columbus reported that he found natives of Haiti playing with balls that j better bounced, which is the first reference I folks. to rubber or caoutchouc. Priestly, the j Dumplings are the mainstay of the English chemist, erased lead-pencil housekeeper who economizes on meat, marks with the substance and called j and a close second is the rich biscuit it rubber. Mackintosh, a canny Scot, j crust of meat pies. Chicken with in 1823 dissolved some rubber in naph-1 dumplings goes twice as far as plain tha and spread the solution on a slab j chicken, and chicken pie with rich to dry. He then fastened a rubberized I gravy j,s a most economical dish for sheet between two pieces of fabric j the farm. rjse a fat old hen r.ud make plenty of rich gravy and the chicken ntroduced the raincoat But most important, Goodyear s of a rubber-and-sulphur mix-on the lid of a hot stove and noted with amazement that it hardened without melting. He had discovered that it was possible to vulcanize We did our share," Granet ^Ji^ft°^^l\^^ SSI ™«~. *-> "Collins was there at the Dormy he started "' --- Club. **' We got the signal and t the flare. They came down to j r three hundred feet, and . .s car and1 has r been heard of since. Then there ^as the young woman." "Saved you by a lie, didn't she They damaged the shed but'awkward later o _ workshop. The house j "I'm sick of my own affairs," maged to put et _ declared gloomily. "Is there _ l thing fresh up here at all?" t^ anadll , There are tnore than ^ I50 brands of baking , powder in Canada; and thefact that there is moi MAGIC BAKING POWDER used than, all the other Brands combined shows why Magic , Baking Powder is known as Canada's best baking powder. tive to the changes of the season sand increases its strength and elasticity. British Made Broader by War. r of the Board of The chief e: Education say have brought not only but increased earnestness in men's minds toward professional training, says a London despatch. In every subject under examination there is a marked upward tendency, he says. The men who served in the war have a greater consciousness of the significance of history and the power of knowledge. r the tend* nilk it s Linim d by Physic much meat. Even oheese and bread should be 1 and butter served plentifully go a"long ' should take freely, way toward reconciling men and wo-! curative treatment i: men to less meat, and cottage cheese ' ter for the physician, who must be rich in fat is to be had cn every farm, j called early. Though the disease may Pies, doughnuts, crullers and rich occur at any period cf life, it rarely cookies take the place of meat also, i attacks a child under four year3 cf A quarter section of fine berry pie! age. looks better to the average man than J --<•-- anything else, and when topped with, min a doughnut cr two, fresh and good, the ! meatless meal will pass without com- , ment. Rich fruit cake, "Dutch cake," made by filling a loaf of bread d with sugar, raisins, currants and aj 1 lost them pesterday sprinkling of spice, apple dumplings ' Among the fields above the sea, with rich milk, peach pudding, berry! Among the winds at play, shortcake with cream, and dozens of! Among the lowing of the herds, other hearty sweets, will make up for] The rustling of the trees, the absence of meat or will smooth Among the singing of the birds, over the leftovers, and hash and meat1 Tne humming of the bees: balls so necessary to use up the scraps Tne foolirg fears of what might hap-in every home. Then, cn days when , plentiful supply of meat is served, n the gravy j C!h3an dessert can be used and thing f stew with j evenly balanced. It takes help out planning to ' Out in the Fields. High! The little cares that fretted me, will hardly be touched will enjoy the dumplings i light brown crust more wi than they do the meat. " dumplings, or 'beef pi. when an extra number cf people are! keep hired help well fed to be served. A ham bone with a nice! but it pays. supply cf lean meat clinging to it will when there are growing childr. furnish the basis for a nice potpie or be considered it is necessary to the ham can be cooked, removed frcm \ vide plenty of milk, fruit and 1 the bone and eked out with a small; tables with good bread and butvr quantity of potato m a nice meat pie.; crjy a moderate amount of meat Eggs are also handy to help out! is no mean task to feed poop;a wt and a very small portion of bacon or j as small cost as possible, so ham can be made to go a long way j business woman in the kitchen platter with eggs feel sure she is serving hei I cast them all away Among the clover scented grass, Among the new mov:i hay. an(j Among the hushing of the corn ited I Where the drowsy poppies nod, .' I Where ill thoughts die and good s n to born' .,,.„.! Out in the fields with God. No Wonder. District Visitor-"Well, something for the sufferi Friend--"But are you 1 A Full Stop. 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