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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1921. The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. NOTICE A postal card will bring to you our new-large Pall Catalogue, soon to be issued, containing Thousands ot Illustrations of Gifts in Jewellery, Silverware, China and Novelties. Write to-day. ELLIS BROS., Jewellers 96 - 98 YONGE ST. TORONTO "Do you mean that they don't want to give me anything at all?" he demanded anxiously. Sir 'Alfred shook his head. _ "You are too impetuous, Ronnie. They're willing enough to give you a 4.1, i n™„-M;™ : home command, but I have asked that the least, Geraldine told it ghouW be ]eft ^ for a ]ittle ^ ! so as to leave you free." Guiilotat the"Milan"Hotel ana gives: "It's my launy_ne a^ea -xne «You have something in your mind, him a document from the Kaiser of-: words all seem to beI then-something definite?" fering Prance a separate peace. The how and I dont know how to P** Sir Alfred looked out of the window plot is discovered. Conyers sinks two .m the right order Can t you see that ^ for a moment_ Then he Md hiihand (Copy^ffhted) Synopsis of Later Chapters. "Not i submarines. Granet is commissioned I love you Geraldme? I want you to I upon hig, nephew>S! shouMer. by his uncle, Sir Alfred Anselman, to; be my wife, and I want to get right, «j tMnk j can mige Ronnie," destroy the new sub detector, madeby j away as quickly as^ ever I can. Why he gaid, seriougly «that before m a„„ detector, made by j away as quickly Sir Meyville Worth of Norfolk. When; not America ? Why couldn t we be calling upon Isabel Worth he is mis-j married this week and get away from taken by the inventor for the captain; everybody?" of the guard and shown the marvel-j gke i,0Oked at him in sheer amaze-lous invention. At midnight, with his ment tempered just a little with a accomplice, Collins, he lights a flare gort of tremuious uncertainty, to guide a Zeppelin^ Next day he is "Rut, Captain Granet," she exclaim-summoned to the Hall and questioned You couicm't by The™""** t™v«i his Granet' Isabel Worth comes to th a false explanation of presence at Burnham Hall. but CHAPTER XXV. Geraldine welcomed her i ito'r that afternoon cordially enougi little shyly. "Why not?" he protested. "They won't let me fight again. I couldn't , i stand the miserable routine of home perted j soldiering. T>d to get away and forget it all." not in earnest," "I thought that you were going to ghe gaid qu,ietiy. "No Englishi stay at Brancaster for a week, she \co&d feel like that." remarked, as they shook hands. | «jje coui,i {f ^e care(j you," "We meant to stay longer," Granet; Granet insisted. "I'm afraid of every-admitted, "but things went a little | thing' herej afra;a that Thomson will wrong. First of all there was this \ come back and take you awav. afraid Zeppelin raid. Then my arm didn't j of a!! sorts of hideous things happen-go very well. Altogether our little,-mg <iurjngr the next few months." excursion fizzled out and I came back «You musn't talk like this, please," last night." .....'she begged. "You know as well as I "Did you see anything of the raid? i do that, neither you jior I could turn Geraldine inquired eagerly. 0U1, backs on England just now and be "Rather more than I wanted," he happy." answered grimly. "I was motoring j He 0Fened his lips to speak but along the road at the time, and I hadi stopped short, to attend a perfect court martial next she was deeply-day, with vour friend Thomson in the « a d s for tr^it Sffif i^TXi^iof'" f bitrand"?1 rf?°t "how It is that a medical major who 7°" d°. as* h^a y™"U P t " k inspector of hospitals, should beI ±?^J°l^t J™!*^! sent down from the War Office to hold i that n earnest. ! other thing y i inquiry upon that raid?" "Was Hugh really there?" she asked in a puzzled manner. "He was, and very officially," Granet replied. "If it weren't that I had conclusive evidence to prove what I was doing there, he seemed rather set on getting me into trouble." "Hugh is always very fair," she said a little coldly. "You can't solve my puzzle for me, then?" he persisted. "What puzzle?" ^ "Why an inspector of hospitals 'rl hold on inquiry upon a Zeppelin raid "I'm afraid I cannot," she admitted. "Hugh certainly seems to have become ! For a most mysterious person, but then, • boyisl , I haven't seen quite so'ted hi she added, may speak of it, but just now everything is so confused. I, too, seem to have lost my bearings. . . . You know that I am going out to Boulogne in a few days with Lady Headley's hospital? Don't look so frightened. I am not an amateur nurse, I can assure you. I have all my certificates." "To Boulogne?" he muttered. "You are going to leave London?" She nodded: "Major Thomson arranged it for me, a few days ago. We may meet' there at any time," she added, smiling, perfectly certain that the War CHAPTER XXVI. Surgeon-Major Thomson reeled for a moment and caught at the paling by his side. Then he recovered himself almost as quickly, and, leaning forward, gazed eagerly at the long, grey racing-car which was already passing Buckingham Palace and almost out of sight in the slight morning fog. There was a very snail cloud of white smoke drifting away into space, and a faint smell of gunpowder in the air. He felt his cheek and, withdrawing his fingers, gazed at them with a little nervous laugh--they were wet with blood. . He looked up and down the broad pathway. For nine o'clock in the morning the Birdcage Walk was marvellously deserted. A girl, however, who had been driving a small car very slowly on the other side of the road, suddenly swung across, drew up by the kerb and leaned towards him. "Hugh--Major Tlapmson, what is the matter with you?" He dabbed his cheek with his pocket handkerchief. "Nothing," he answered simply. "Don't be silly!" she exclaimed. "I felt certain that I heard a shot just now, and I saw you reel and spin round for a moment. And your cheek, too--it's all over blood!" He niled. "A bullet did come my way and just graze my cheek," he admitted. "Most extraordinary thing. I wonder whether one of those fellows in the Park bad an accident with his rifle." He glanced thoughtfully across towards where a number of khaki-clad figures were dimly.visible behind the railings. Geraldine looked at him severely. "Of course," she began, "if you really think that I don't know the difference between the report of a pistol and a rifle shot--" He interrupted her. "I was wrong," he confessed. "Forgive me. You see, my head was a little turned. Some one did deliber-1 ately fire at me, and I believe it was from a grey racing car. I couldn'1 see who was driving it and it was out of sight almost at once." "But I never heard of such a thir.j!' she exclaimed. "Why on earth should they fire at you? You haven't enemies, have you?" "Not that I know of," he assured her. ■She stepped from the car and came lightly over to his side. "Take your handkerchief away." she ordered. "Don't be foolish. You forget that I am a certified nurse." He raised his handkerchief and she looked for a moment at the long scar, Her face grew serious. "Another half-inch," she murmured, --"Hugh, what an abominable thing! A deliberate attempt at murder here, at nine o'clock in the morning, in the Park! I can't understand it." "Well, I've been under fire before," he remarked, smiling. "Get into my car at once," she directed. "I'll drive you to a chemist's and put something on that. You can't go about, as you are, and it will have healed up then in a day or two." He obeyed at once and she drove off. "Of course, I'm a little bewildered about it still," she went on. "I suppose you ought to go to the police station, as really a deliberate attempt at ssination, wasn't it? If you had ~~ie paused and he completed her sentence with a humorous twinkle PREVENTS THAT SINKING FEELING n only reach the much of him lately. Your change, Cap-, tain Granet, doesn't seem to have done j you much good. Has your wound been : i troubling you?" He rose abruptly and stood before j Office will find you something abroad a moment that queer look of strength which had first attrac-serted itself. His teeth togethi "Yes," he agreed, "there's work for e somewhere. I'll find it. Only-She checked him hurriedly. "And I am quite sure," she i , ipted, "that when you are yourself "Do you care whether my wound is again you will agree with me. These troubling me or not?" he asked. "Do are not the times for us to hav( you care anything at all about me?" selfish thoughts, are they?" There was a moment's silence. ! "Until a few weeks ago," he "I care very much," she confessed, her, "I thought of nothing but tin He seemed suddenly a changed per-1 and my work in it--until you < son. The lines which had certainly that is." appeared in his face during the last' She held out her hands to check few days, became more noticeable. He him. Her eyes were eloquent, leaned towards her eagerly. j "Please remember," she begged, "Miss Conyers," he went on, "Ger-; "that it is too soon. I can't bear to aidine, I want you to care--enough for 'have you talk to me like that. After-the big things. Don't interrupt me, wards--" pi Listen to what I have to say. j "There will be no afterward: Somehow or other, the world has gone me!" he exclaimed bitterly, amiss with me lately. They won't! A shade of surprise became mingled have me back, my place has been filled with her agitation, up, I cant get any fighting. They've' "You mustn't talk like that," she shelved me at the War Of Ice; they talk , protested, "you with your splendid about a home adjutancy. I can't stick courage and opportunities! Think what it, I nave lived amongst the big things'you have done already. England wants too long. I m sick of waiting about,1 the best of her sons to-day. Can't you doing noihing--sick to death. I want.be content to give that and to wait" '=« _ There s some work I; We have so much gratitude in ou You under- j hearts, we weak women, for those wh are fighting our battle." - ! Her words failed to inspire him. He took her hand and lifted her fingers deliberately to his lips. "I was foolish," he groaned, "to think that you could feel as I do. Good-bye!" Geraldine was alone when her mother came into the room a few minutes to g! could do stand?" iYEASTi I MICH IN 1 VITAMINES "Was that Captain Granet table where the upper layer. Dry cleaning is a term used for any form of cleaning without water but the method usually referred to is th French dry cleaning which employ gasoline, benzine, naphtha or a similar agent to dissolve the grease and dirt. Dry cleaning may also be accomplished in some materials by the use. of bran meal or powders which absorb the dirt, and sometimes more satisfactory results can be obtained by combining the two methods. There is real danger in the careless use of these liquids which are very inflammable but by taking every precaution one need not be about their use. First, always work where there is nojlame or fire of any kind and where there is a good circulation of ferably out of doors. Never, this work indoors with closed Second, always have the cleaning liquids clearly labeled, tightly sealed and stored in a cool safe placi Gasoline, being the cheapest, ferred for home cleaning, but it must be of a high grade to give satisfaction. That of low specific gravity will leave a very disagreeable odor which never completely evaporates greasiness is left in the garment which soon collects dust and makes it dirtier than before it was cleaned. To test gasoline sprinkle a few drops upon sheet of pure white writing paper, gently shaking it, then let it run to the bottom of the sheet, and if it evaporates within a few minutes leaving no streak upon the paper, it is of sufficiently good quality to give satisfaction. If the paper appears greasy and has a disagreeable odor, a higher grade should be procured. Automobile gents will usually order this higher grade in five-gallon containers for their customers if they do not egularly carry it. Next in importance to quality is quantity. Just as necessary as plenty ng cloth or upon tne of water in regular laundering, is plenty of gasoline in dry cleaning, to both cleanse and rinse. Deep vessels " 'cumferences than larger shallow "If I had been a person of ice, eh ? Well, you see, even have been in somebody's way, (To be continued.) Keep Minard's Liniment in the fr ger. Wring and rinse again a second time, and1 if necessary even a third time. Then wring, shake well and hang upon clothes hangers in the open After'airing, press the silk upon the wrong side with a moderately warm iron.. Press wool under a heavy pressing cloth, dampened and placed upon the right side, raising the pressing cloth before the woolen material is entirely dry. As the steam rises, brush with a soft brush to raise the No Fairies Allowed. Fairy tales are no longer allowed to be told to children in Russia. The Minister of Education for the Bolshevists has issued an order that fairies or princely heroes are- not to be mentioned in fairy tales. They are wicked, and do harm, and are therefore forbidden. Instead of fairies, children must be told of "scientists and leaders who have served humanity." Aladdin must not be misrepresented as a good-hearted prince who used his magic lamp for the good of all the e shown P: his mnd him; he therefore fo.r he i weave pres j. wrong side. Some heavy-lustered silk yjso easily take the impression of tb 5_ | weave of the pressing cloth as to re- with mei i heavy paper covering on the gas bett Renovating the Winter Wardrobe. Time and energy are just as wort while saving as materials, so eve garment that can be used in its pre ent shape should be utilized to co.. serve labor. A little re-enforcement j ironing board. i sils, as it takes less liquid to c< under the most worn spots will re-1 Wool fibres are covered with tiny the garment and there is a sm; lieve the strain and prolong the use-|scal«s which expand and contract in; surface exposed to evaporate, fulness of many articles. Others may j hot and cold water just as the pores of; There are prepared soaps which need only such slight repair ful darn or a well-matched patch. Mother's skirt may need to be altered to bring it up to date,»the childr: New Verbs. A boy who left the farm to go to the city wrote a letter to his brother, telling of the joy of city life, in which he 'Thursday we auto'd out to the country club, where we golfed until dark. Then we motored to the beach and Fridayed there." The brother on the farm wrote back: "Yesterday we buggied to town and baseballed all afternoon. Then we t to Med's and pokered till morn-To-day we muled out to the cornfield and gee-hawed until sundown. Then we suppered and then we piped for a while. After that we stair-cased up to our room and bedsteaded until the clock fived." s Liniment used by Physic Certainly. : of his a and close old bath. Because of this infraction, woolen n should be washed and rinsed mav need lengthening because of the i of the same temperature. Much chang- The dry clet year's growth. Some bands will need|m^ of the water temperature ox dry-,.solved in the enlarging, others must be taken in. j mS in extreme cold after a warm the garment Sleeves require special attention and water washing o should not cnlv be repaired but should heat wl»le sti11 be adjusted to fit both in width and cause shrinking, length, for an ill fitting sleeve wears> wm]e the f'bre 1 out much more quickly than one which I are expended -is comfortably loose and does not draw' "iteriock either at the elbow or the armseye. Jonas was inclined to boast great knowledge of the city's streets, alleys, and every nook and comer of the place, so much so that Smith de-i a hot soluble in gasoline and though not ab-. cided to take him down, expan-' solutely essential to successful clean-; Smith said to Jones one day. "You iterials ing, they facilitate the work so great-; know the town fairly well, don't you?" ■ ter ly that it is profitable to employ them.; "Rather," answered Jones. 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The first step is a careful sorting as to m terials, type and amount of soil, col and the best method of cleansin Some garments will need only a goi airing and thorough brushing to r surface dust, others will need stains or spots removed and still others must be completely immersed some solution to remove the dirt. Some silks will wash but unless designated as washable when purchased, they are usually more satisfactory if dry cleaned. All woolen materials can be washed but require careful handling and the style garment often makes dry cleaning more desirable because of the greater ease in pressing after this treatment. Therefore, we must divide the soiled garments into those to be washed those to be dry cleaned. These groups should again be sorted so as to clean the lightest in color and the least soiled first and finish with the darker and more soiled. Spots requiring special attention should be outlined with basting thread as they are less conspicuous after the garment is wet. Both silk and wool are animal fibres and are destroyed by alkalies so should silent for a moment, i be washed in soft water with a mild 2 said at last, "only j neutral soap which has been melted lv^:"K^'e.™"St a,ld whipped into a good suds before "^jthe goods is immersed. The use of a ,»jgood brand of soap flakes is a great convenience and' time saver. A gentle squeezing and kneading rather than| rubbing 'is the correct handling for wool and both are most washed in moderately should be dis- 'i ishing gasoline before s immersed. Using this I exposing to intense solution and a * ush, give special at-' ei :ry wet will surely' tention to the spots marked by bast-' n Rubbing woolens ings, then immerse the whole garment n wet and the scales and gently knead to force the cleans-: = .11 cause them to' ing agent through the fabric. If one' /-l they contract and, has a hand plunger it is especially dry the material will be felted and i helpful for the heavier articles and stiff. .For the same reason, the goods! saves the hands much burning. One should not be twisted in wringing. | can be easily devised by corking the A warm breezy day is ideal for; end of a funnel. This process dis-drying woolens as the circulation of solves and loosens the dirt but the warm air is most conducive to the! garment is not yet freed from the evaporation of moisture. For this rea-' soil. It must be thoroughly rinsed as son a piece of cheesecloth or some! well. other thin material tightly stretched' Wring as dry as possible. Much of so as to form a. flat support, is a much, the cleaning agent may be saved by better surface upon which to dry allowing it to drain into a tub or dish-knitted and crocheted woolen articles, pan by placing the garment over two which the weight of the water would [ sticks laid across the top. Rinse in to stretch if hung up, than a | clear gasoline, again using the plun- T)o v f Jews' Walk?' Lfter a pause, when Jones an: in the negative and said there such place, Smith replied. "M ; but they do." Halloween Novelties Don't overlook these in buying. Our Travellers have the Samples. We have the Stock. Toroan Fancy Goads Co., Ltd. Wholesale Only. 7 Wellington St. E., Toronto. Geraldine nodded, anxiety deepened. ■ "Well?" "I have sent him away," Geraldine I said quietly, "until the end of the | Granet brought his car to a stand-outside the portals of -that very august club in Pall Mall. The hall-porter took his name and in a few utes his uncle joined him in the strangers' room. "Back again so soon, Ronnie?" Granet nodded. "America's off," he announced shortly. "I thought I'd better let you know. It must be the whole thing Sir Alfred wa "Very well," remember this, j be no more risks. You've been _ j quite close enough to the wind. "Did you call at the War Of! Granet asked quickly- uncle assented. | "I did and I saw ; He admitted in confidence that they both silk weren't very keen about your rejoin- satisfactoiny in.g. Nothing personal," he went on warm water j quickly, "nothing serious, that is to lRilt ia ~ 'v | say. There is a sort of impression | out there that you've brought them : bad luck." j Granet shrugged his shoulders. I "Well," he said, "they know their ; own business best. What I am afraid j of is being saddled with some rotten ; home duty." j "You need not be afraid of that any Ronnie," his uncle told him 1 calmly. ■ned quickly ; ,-und. Silk is a very delicate fibre and to add to its weight it is treated with metallic salts, consequently friction is apt to break the thread and separate the threads. Heat yellows white silk. Thorough rinsing is very necessary and best results are obtained if the moisture is absorbed by a heavy cloth rather than evaporated in the air. It should be ironed before completely dry, either under a smooth