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1 ~+which : : Synopsis of Later Chapters. . which the Tange of of what hat thoy T tain Granet calls upon Monsieur Gu at the Milan Hotel and gives him & document from the Kaiser of- Granet ask fering France a separate peace. The} uj did," Si od ¢ plot ds discovered. Conyers sinks two! pan that, the EE submarines. ~ Granet - dines - with his |yient is being made iris the super- unelgy Sir Alfred Anselman, at a club. | yision of Sir Re ila Worth, in a fr , large workshop erected on bis estate 'CHAPTER XVI--(Cont'd.) in @ village near Brancaster in Nor, 1 Sir Alfred ate soup for several mo- 0 ments as though it were the best Hie i 5 Back," Grant remarked. soup on earth and mothing else was The plans the instrument would worth consideration. Then he laid be worth a hundred | red Housing a down jis spoon, "Now lis-|i8 impossible, the Bod ealualyl" of the. i Yen ig Rg was a little lo Dank would be the next consid- eration, Th a Dart 120 LIE com tn bese" Grn ere 'are keeping dark, with their, 1 4 tongues in their cheeks. Both those oa ou do, Rongle, unitle le replied; ge submarines were sunk under water." M 8 an ne in a) * Bu. "I 'guessed it," Granet replied cool- eyville Worth. lives is et Burn- ly. not only guessed. it but I came {ham, which, as I think I told you, 1s very near the key of the whole thing. | within a few miles of | Brancaster. A 'waiter appeared with the: next, Geoffrey, at my insti otiony has has ax course, fehowad by the wine steward { ranged a-harmless 1 ° 8 9 rok = carrying champagne. Sir Brancaster the day T the instru- "bid To from "reports" nodded 'approvingly. ~ "Just four minutes in the ice," instriicted, "not longer. Aired £7 10) he What you will accom any them. In the "meantime, Miss Meyville: Worth's. 'only daughter, 1s tell me about the champagne country | So in London until Wednesday. he add: is, I must confess, a relief," turning to Granet. lieve that the whole world is hay and better when champagne is cheap. It is the bottled gaiety of the mation:: A nation of .ginger ale drinkers would! oun 1 In your, Toot," be doomed "before they reache second generation. 1900 Pomm ery, this, 'Ronnie, and I drink your health. | There was a ) | i | may, be allowed one moment's raising his glass, "ulet me say that I drink your sentiment," he added, health from the bottom of my heart, with all the admiration which a man of my age feels for you younger fel lows. who are fighting for us and for In a moment or two they were alone "1 our country. They lk the toast in silence. again. "Go on, Ronnie," his uncle said. am interested." "I met Conyers the other day," Granet proceeded, "the man who com mands the 'Scorpion.' I went down with his sister and the young lady he is engaged to marry. On deck there was a structure of some I tried to make in- quiries: about it but they headed me off pretty quick, = There was even a sentry standing on guard before it-- wouldnt let -me even feel the shape of it. However, I hadn't given up hope came a wireless--no guests to be allowed on board. Con- vers had to rack us all off back to he hotel, without stopping even for lunch. From the hotel 1 got a Jele sort covered up. when there scope and I saw a pinnace with ha a-dozen workmen, and a pilot lr was evidently an engineer, land on board. They seemed to be completing the adjustments of some new piece of mechanism. Then they steamed away . out of sight of the land." "A busy life, yours, Ronnle," Sir Alfred remarked, after a moment's "What about it now? this morning." "It's pretty acknowledged. in the Channel or the Nort getting at her. there's another destroyer yet difficult," Sea. "They must be making them some- where, though," Sir Alfred remarked. "that we've two hundred men spread out at His nephew nodded. "To think," he muttered, Tyneside, Woolwich and Portsniouth, and not one of them got on to thi af They're "Not altogether that," the banker the; "We have some reports, al-| Mi 1 me present you to my young charge A nation of spies, indeed! mugs. uncle." replied. though they don't go far enough. can put you onthe track of the thing. "It may not affect us quite so much, but personally I be- ier I managed to get an invitation down to Portsmouth to have lunch with him on his ship. pause. I've ad two urgent messages from Berlin Granet "The 'Scorpion' 's out No And I don't believe fitted with this apparatus, whatever it may She is lunching with your aunt at the Ritz to-morrow. I have made' some other arrangements. 'in ' connection' keep, for the present. I see that some strangers have entered the room. Tell me exactly how you came by the turned a little around. quest change in his face as, he looked | ack at his uncle "Do you know the man at that corner table?" he asked Sir Alfred glanced across the room. "Very slightly, «1 Spoke to him an hour ago. e thanked me for some ambulances. He is the papers inspector of hospitals, I think--Major Thomson, | of his name is." "Did you happen to say that I was dining with you?" Sir Alfred reflected for a moment, "I believe that I gid mention it," he admitted. "Why? Granet struggl for a moment with an idea and rejected it. He drained his glass and leaned across the table. "He's a dull enough person really," he remarked, a little under his brea "hut I seem to be always running up against him. Once or twice he's given me rather a start." - Sir Alfred' smiled. He called the| Princ wine Seward 'and pointed to his nephew's in the world," he "The best rd observed drily, as he watched the wine being poured out, "for presenti- ments." CHAPTER XVII. f-| Lady Anselman stood once more in the foyer of the Ritz Hotel and count- ed her guests. It was a smaller party this time, and in its way a less dis- tinguished one. There were a couple |? of officers, friends of Granet's, back | from the Front on leave; Lady Con- yers, with Geraldine and Olive; Gran- et himself; and a tall, dark girl with pallid complexion brilliant eyes, who had come with Lady Anselman end who was standing now by her side. "I suppose you know everybody, m Sone 1 Lady Anselman asked her pen. The girl shook her head a little dis consolately. "We are so little in London, Lady Anselman," she murmured. "Y know how difficult father is, and Yi] now he is worse than ever. In fact, if he weren't so hard at work I-don't| believe he'd have let me come even now." "These scientific men," Lady Ansel- man declared, "are great boons to the country, but as parents I am afraid are just a little thoughtless. r Harrison and Colonel Grey, let --for the day only, unfortunately-- with your visit to Norfolk, which will} Phe apparatus you saw. is something Miss Worth. Now, Ronnie, if you can in the nature of an inverted lelescope, | be persuaded to let Miss Conyers have with various extraordinary lenses 8 moment's peace perhaps you will treated by 'a new process. You can show us the way in to lunch." see forty feet down under the surface| Granet prompily abandoned his 'of the water for a distance of a mile;| whispered conversation with Geral- and we heliove that attached to the dine. The jee company moved | and same apparatus is an 'instrument tool eir pl al e Tou © which was usually reserved for Lady Anselman on Tuesdays. 1 "Some people.' the laf 'od, as she seated Peete, "and dav alt with me for going on eons this season. Even Alfred won't come except Row and then. Personal- ie : bee trong views about it. I nk we oug! go ual--to a cause SE oa a er neig! G pesmi, "I am sure fous 2 a vo folk Home tn" use we are all feeling 'more or ou! k Jom. pleaser! sont but I don't believe that fady' is uble"ty Gammel for her." "Ronnie seems making the: Tuning all pr her neighbor oj an rved. "1 "T asked his k attr {her," Lady: nada toon a del. Sand "and | th Ronnie is eis Slwayaaeh, a on ab doing Maar Harrison loned. cross the what he too, A destroyer brought him Sars, and a _ Government motor-car Jaiting at the quay to rush him hs the Front. We all thought at Bou- Jogue 'that royalty was coming, at east. " > There was a slight frown on Gran. et's forehead. He glanced half un- consciously towards Geraldine. "Mysterious sort of fellow, I Thom son," Major Harrison contin blissful igriorance of the polar ig. 'sig- nificance of his words, " in Paris one day, you hear of a at the furthermost point of the French lines immediately afterwards, re- ports at dou mest A op a few os ba and you meet him & ing out Soo of the a Bi Soy. or a later." "Inspector of Field Hospitals is a post which I think must have been eréated for him," Colonel Grey res marked. "He's an impenetrable sort 0: » "Was Major Thomson going or ig turning from France when you saw him last?" Geraldine asked, looking across the table, "Coming back. - When' we left Bou. 3 +| logme, him over was It pasted | us in mid-Channel, doing knots to our heen. | was rather sick. He was the destro; waiting Tn which bringing to eine thought of providing a de- stroyer for him." it {ter all," Lady Anselman mur- mured, 'there is nothing very much more important than our hospitals." The conversation drifted away from Thomson, Granet was making him- gelf very le indeed to Isabel Worth. There was a little' more color in her cheeks than at the commence- ment of luncheon, and her manner had more ani "Tell me about the village where | paid ou live?" he inquired--"Market urnham, isn't it?" "When we first went there," she re- lied, "I thought that it was simply aradise. That 'was "pod Years ago, though, and I ted upon spending the winters Tico i "You Jyh it lonely, then?" She shivered a little, half closing her eyes as though to shut out some unpleasant meniory. The house," she explained, "is on a sort of tongue of op with a tidal fou | ier on either side the S58 not y yards away from our wine. room window. en there ave hig! tides, we are simply cut off from the mainland altogether unless 'we go across on a farm cart." (To be continued.) pd ly ma ab "An Eternal Peace. Gaphliata Pass, {ii the snow-clad heigh of the Andes, the point where the y crosses the border line between Argentina and Chile, stands the famous Christos statue, the sym- bol of eternal peace between the two countries. "The Icy, merciless blasts of winter have bent the bronze cross, but at the base of the statue are these words: Sooner-shall these mountains crum- ble into dust than shall the people of Argentina and Chili break the peace to which they have pledged them. selves at the feet of Christ. the Re- deemer. o Minard's Liniment fo Burns, ete. a Hy ack jek Ami 'Daniel. "A well-known actor was called upon, In Vihar ta fe it he don brought | ting in the Harbor, Fi Bi but. fio one séemed | of boar 'hors i a Sica who, dre. more stock than if restricted to oe germs of Jis eS eed was | game protection and. the "forest off tt a mb alms Sad : cers co-operate in enforcing the pro: at| Vincial game laws. Many forest re. serves have been constituted game preserves, so that the supply of both large and small game fs increased for the benefit of the people. of the differ. ent provinces. The forest reserves re. in! gulations are framed with a view to the maintenance of a supply of fish in waters within the reserves, |" the forest officers see that .the anglers carefully observe these regulations. Thus these areas, which if cut over and burned over ruthlessly, would be- come dseerts of drifting sand, menac- unlike the venom snakes their fangs from into their victims. Its}: first effects. are 'oni the brain; and nerves. Sor of it come directly into the mouth and mixes with the food. ing the surrounding districts, are, un: |. der the forest reserve system, made to add to the wealth and tort of all the people and also to provide sport land recreation. ¥ SVR Andrw Caruegle's First 1h pay, he thinks, like Bdmond Dantes, that the world is his. The sensations of a boy at such an hour are-graphi- cally pictured by Andrew Carnegie, The incident fn my messenger life that at once lifted me' to the seventh heaven, He says in his Autobiography, occurred one Saturday evening when Colonel Glass was paying the boys their month's wages. We stood in a row before the counter, and Mr. Glass paid éach in ture. I was at the head and reached out my hand for the first eleven and a quarter dollars as they were pushed out by Mr. Glass. To my surprise he pushed them past me and paid the next boy. I thought it was a mistake, for I had heretofore been paid first, but it followed in turn with each of the other boys. My heart be- gan to sink within me. Disgrace seem- Whén a boy Raise. his first increase | have : iety and imagine that misfortune to "fall the = contrary, Our bread "bleached white, and so robbed of ite most nourishi the husk. In the husk is the ed 'coming, What had I done or not| done? I was about to be told that there. was no more work for me. -I was to disgrace the family. That was the keenest pang of all. 'When all had been paid and the boys were gone Mr. Vi Glass took nie behind the counter and said that I was worth more than the | other boys, and he had resolved to pay me thirteen and a half dollars a month. y head swam; I doubted whether | i I had heard him correctly. He count- ed out the money. I don't know "I'whether I thanked him; I don't believe 1 did. 'I took it and made one bound for ghe door and scarcely stopped uns |' til T got home. I remember distinctly running or rather bounding from end to end of the bridge 8Cross the Alleg- heny River--inside on the wagon ack because the footwalk was. 100 narrow. It was Saturday night. handed over to mother, who was the) rer of the family, the eleven 8 and a quarter and said nothing two dollars otal. iis will foots. fk Sli from fingers. "|". The water in which potatoes have hash Sofled will clesn fu. silver Vary 'well, Ajrproof Pr 'miistureproof con- | fainers should be-used to store coff fabric, spread it with cream and heat graduslly to Bari bball h commodity, Washing Vegetables. Children 'should be drilled in the of Jushitg fruits and vege- s before eating. All market pro! du when Vedking' to remove dirt nd dt S H fruits and sally the best-looking' fruits are those from trees which have 7,| been properly sprayed while the fruit; | was it early stages, and somatimes' dh 'not have wea ed. Te te Joy. ee sda br Minard's Liniment fo Dandru. whole world was moved: to tears of woodlot of a few acres would, other / conditions sidered equal, gol]: for ws remove iron rust from a ticles of spray residue, The best: of; = it "loth to. keep cream of tartar ai place; UE Ina pamcf Sood wat; 3