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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, DEC. 15, 1921. By DOROTHY ETHEL WALSH. Artificial Flowers Are Applied to a Plaque and form a wall decoration. The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. jsi-'iWv have h ;>:>[,< >r all of us." She shivered "Aren't you -Thei > loner* CHAPTER XXXVT.--(C ciph "NV.hir.g • i Granet?' with Gra (CopXfcbted) I'd.) -ards between Fran usual |'th« beginning- of the war. There's no; certain people in London of the lunch- particular secret about my position| jng raid, passed through his handstj black and returned home that: now. I've had a very hard fight to; He even came here to warn you;| laquer. state of suppressed ex- ] k**P it, a very hard fight to make it a There were other charges against him found h's wife and Ger-1 useful one. Until last ncght, at any; which could have been proved up to ind at once took up his rate< ;t hasn't seemed to me that Eng-| the hilt. While we are on this subject, ion on the hearthrug j lish People realized that we were at Geraldine, let me finish with it ' ! other surprises of the™- Now'r hoJ,e f last ^at^'e are. lute!y. Or.Jy a short time ago I con-»ur hours," he announe- Koir.z to take the gloves off. Do you fronted him with his guilt, I gave him d one to-day which al-j know," he went on, a little later that; ten days during which it was my hope r -breath away It had' in France they think we're mad. Hon-J that he would embrace the only hon-' person whom you both! estly- in mv Position, if I had had the; orable course left to him. I took a j French laws at my back I bekeve that r;sk leaving him free, but during the Lady by to-day the war would have been! iafcter part of the time he was watched t him, OTer- As jt is> when 1 started even|day and night. If he had lived until my post was a farce. We had to, this morning, there isn't anv power on poor 'knuckle under, the whole of the time., earth could have kept him from the fellow," the Admiral continued ' to the civil authorities. They wanted. Tower, or any judge, however "Listen. I was walking if you p'ea»e/ to fine a spy ten shillings or to bind, f„j( wno could have saved him from for a few yards with the man who is him over t0 kee:> the Peace- l've neveri being shot." practically ",re-J,.;r.:V;i)ie to-day for the had to fiSht for anything so hard in j "it js too awful," she faltered conduct of the war. At the corner of i my life as Vve ^ to fight once ori yet ;t makes me so ashamed, Hugh, to PaH Mall we came face to face w'th ! twice for my fl!e of men at the Tower- think that I could not have trusted you Thomson. I nodded and-we were pass-! At the beginning of the war we'd, more absolutely." ing on, when to my astonishment mv c;vtch them absolutely red-handed. All; He opened his pocket-book and a companion stopped and held out both 1 t"^ had to do was to surrender to; little flush of color came suddenly into his hands. "Thomson, my dear fellow,' the civil authorities, and we had a city her cheeks. He drew out the ring he said 'I came round to your rooms I ma£>strate looking up statutes to see .silently. to-day but ycj w.-ic engaged three or | how to deaI with them." j "Will you trust yourself four deep. Not another word save this i "There are a good many things ■ firually, Geraldine ?" he asked, --thanks! When we write our history, WlV'l'h Vvili make strange reading after; she held out her finger, the country will know what it owes'!the war is over," the Admiral said «t g^all be so proud and so happy you. At present, thanks!' " ; grimly. "I fancy that my late de-(to have it again," she whispered. "I "Major Thomson?" Lady Conyersj Partment will provide a few sensa-| do really feel as though I had behaved gasped, tions. Still, our very mistakes arej]jk€ a foolish child, and I don't like "Hugh?" Geraldine echoed i our Justification. We were about as: tne feeling at all, because in these ■ The Admiral smiled. | ready for war as Lady Conyers there, days one should be more than ordi- "We passed on," lie continued, "and is to Plav Ru-?by football for Oxford."; n,ari!y serious, shouldn't one? Shall 1 I said to his lotttehdip--'Wasn't that! "lt has taken us the best part of a be able to make it up to you, Hugh, Thomson, the Inspector ,,f Field Ho=->'ear to realize what war means," do you think?" pitak?' He simply laughed at me. 'My 1 ,,fIKScn "-«<■•:'ted. "Even now there. He stooped to meet her lips, dear Conyers,' he said, 'surely youiare people whom one meet3 every day| "There is an atonement you might knew that was only a blind' Thomson' v"ho ffc"t'"n ,n b»- !'!V:nf;' !n abstractions, j make, dear," he ventured. "Do you is head of the entire Miiitan In-tcdli-! "Last ni*ht's raW ou«ht to wake remember a sugge< gence Department He has the rank| a few of them up," the Admiral grunt- 0f those historic luncheons of Lady of a Brigadier-General waiting for if- "I should like to have shown those Ansehna-n's?" him when he likes to take it." lie devus whtre t0 bave a few| She laughed, prefers to remain as far as possible j of their lltt!* ta^s- Tll8re are on"3 moment and then looked away, unknown and unrecognized, because it! or tw0 men who were H!akm« a lot of! "I wa» wondering whether you had helps him with his work.' Now, listen IP**8 not so ,om? a'S°> who'd have had forgotten that," she confessed. You've read in all the papers, of;a b°le ,j" thf "*>'■■" M (The End.) course, that he had warning of what! Geraldine laughed softly. i----*--- was coming- lasi night, that the rea-! "J really think'that dad feels more Out of Her Poverty. SALESMEN eekiy and offer steady em-Ulng our complete and ex-of whole-root frash-dug-and plants. Best, stock We teach and equip you ney-making opportunity, s' Nurseries Montreal I that I must be careful with her, f •ll't generally supposed that; was no common fear. I soon disco babies or young children pay any at-jed that she thought he was the i tention to news items or other matter, man who stole those Belgian children , which their elders chance to read j and now he had come for her. j aloud, or that they would understand: Let us think twice before we it if they did. but it would often be | sensational news where the baby well to be much more careful than we, hear--it won't sound to baby ear: are about these things; the little brain ; it does to us. is alert and active, the child hears --;-- what we least suspect, and no human j Mary's Little Lunch, being can anticipate what unexpected Mary had a little lunch meaning will be conveyed to the babyj To tell the honest truth, mind,. Too little; quite inadequate; My two-year-old ginlie was so ter-j It wouldn't fill a tooth! ribiy frightened by a news account of '■ T. ..--- , . , l&BBa Belgian children who were sep-j U ™* W]th huer> «»* ^ lunch, ryes-fur i< . , j j their parents and herded „ Th\a Pf^r, bread and bacon, „i VOU wiU b!- astonished "| Y suits we got by our mod I of dyeing and cleaniiif light i I.oi .bloodthirsty when he talks about somei it was a cold, dark vening, and the ana than he does about city lights only intensified by their she declared. ! the Gei p poll! t the gloc , anyway," Sir Seym ► dim ere ha'f afraid to t Hugh was eom- Geraldine had slipped from room. The Admiral blew his nos "I hope Geraldine's going to be : sible," he said. "I've always m tained that Thomson was a fins fell-.., only Geraldine seemed rather carried vvasr,'t it? »e see™s to be the or away by that young Granet. Poor, Servl0e man' who suffered at all." fellow! One can't say anything about' .Lady Conyers shivered sympathet him n3*v, but he was just the ordinary, type of showy young soldier, not fit to hold a candle to a ma.n Hke Thorn- ,nurea- son." | "A very promising young officer, I Lady Conyers was a little startled I should think," the Admiral continued, "You have such sound judgment/ "and a very sad death- Brings things. Seymour," she murmured-. '.home to you when you rem Thomson was a few minutes late for [t was only yesterday he was here, dinner but even the Admiral forgave poor fellow!" him. ' I Geraldine and her mother rose from "Just ourselves, Thomson," he said.' their Pjaees a few minutes later. The atjit was the time when wealthy shop-insisted, pers were eating hot dinners, and "and we shall never get on with the | when the shop-girls were plodding war till we've weeded them out." j home, many too poor to ride tired with "Where did the nearest bomb to youi the long day's standing and work, drop?" Thomson inquired. | One girl was hurrying home through "The comer of St. James's Street," j the slush, after a hard day's work. She Sir Seymour replied. "There were two houses in Berkeley Street alight, and j and wholly unable to keep out the a hole in the roof of a house in Hay; winter's cold, with a thin fall cloak. Hill. Tne bomb there didn't explode,! She was evidently very timid and self-though. Sad thing about young Gran- absorbed. during the German invasion, that I had a serious time with her for mere than a year. Some of us read the item aloud with no thought that it would affect the baby, but 1 saw at once that she was unduly alarmed and it soon dawned upon me that she expected something of the kind to happen to us. It was useless to tell her that no one but herself wanted mamma and no one but mam-ted her, and that all these things happened so far away they couldn't come to us. She still had a ;h, after a Hard clay's work. She I hau^ d"ad that *ey mJght'T 1 delicate girl, poorly dressed, I could sympathize with her when I ras perfectly gha they pretty dark, indeed!" Thomsoi de thei >m.^"What a ■ay into thi latter looked i hock the Chief, heId °Pen the door. Thomsor Inspector of Hospitals, A blind man was' sitting in an alley by the pavement, silently offering pencils for sale' to the heedless crowd. The wind and sleet beat upon him. He had no overcoat. His thin hands clasped with purple fingers the wet, sleet-covered pencils. He looked as if the cold had congealed him. The girl passed the man, as did the ber that!rest 0( the hurrying crowd. When ' she had walked half a block away she fumbled in her pocket, and turned and walked back. For a moment ahe looked intently at the vender of pencils, and when she saw that he gave no sign, she quietly dropped a ten-cent piece into his fingers, and walked on. But she was eviden'ly t her steps grew slower. Then she stopped, turned, and walked rapidly back to the daralley, and the man half hiding in it. Bending over him, she said softly, "Are you really blind?" Thorn' The man Iifted his head and showed j her his sightless eyes. Then with an "Of course " the latter assented "1! indescribable gesture he pointed to his a t lea^ve etVlv myf l7 I have 4' go Th6re h"ng ^ dUU ^ °f 'k to the War Office " "le Graml Army of the RePublic- "I beg your pardon, sir," she said humbly. "Please give me back my You won't be long, will you begged. "You can take him with you, if you like," the Admiral declared, ako rising to his feet. "He doesn't drink port and the cigarettes are in your room. I have to take the Chair at a recruiting meeting at Hoi born in a quarter 's waiting now. n't yoi called with what horror I had heard an account of cannibalism in my very early childhood and how surely I had expected to be eaten. 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