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(Copyrighted) SYNOPSIS: ‘ 1 The story, written in 1916, begms with Lady Anselman's luncheon-patty at the Ritz Hotel, London. Amongfilm guests are Lord Romsey. a Cabinet. Minister; SurgeonvMajor ThOmSOE‘v, Chief Inspector of Field Hospitals; hm, fiancee, Geraldine Conyers; her bTQ‘: ther, a naval lieutenant. and his fiancee Olive Mereton; Captain nonald Granet, nephew of the hostess. home' with a.wounded arm. Lieut. 'lonyerfi: receives commission on a “mYStery ship and Major Thomson decodes 5‘ secret message from tlle‘battlelleld‘ Lord Romsey receives a visitor and the, conversation reveal- the ’Cabinet Mm‘ ister’s secret dealings with Gci‘inanY- Thomson calls at Granet's apartments. to discover whether he knows fluff; thing about Lord Ramsey‘s V'lSllCill- Granet denies any knowledge 0f t-e so-called American eha lain. Gerald- ine evades Thomson’s 13 ea 101‘ an iniâ€" mediate marriage. He exPOStlllates' with Conyers for disclosing Admiralty plans to the two girls and Granet! After a walk in the park With Gerald- ine, Granet returns to his room to fin a bottle missing from a cupboard. H6 warns his servant that a new band has entered the game. War Office reusefl to allow him to rejoin his l‘eglmwt- Thomson goes to the Front to inter- view Granet’s General. CHAPTER X. Surgeon-Major Thomson awoke abdut twelve hours later with .a start. He had been sleeping so heaVily that he was at first unable to remember his whereabouts. His mind moved slugâ€" gishly across the brief panorama of his hurried 'ourneyâ€"t‘he special train from Victoria to Folkestone; the des- troyer that lfitd brought him and a few other soldiers across the Channel, black with darkness. at a pace which made even the promenade deck impos- sible; the landing at Boulogne, a hive of industry notwithstanding the dark- ness; the clanking of waggons, the shrieking of locomotives, the jostling of crowds, the occasional flashing of an electric torch. And then the ride. in the great automobile through the' misty night. He rubbed his eyes and looked around him. A grey morning,‘ was breaking. The car had come to a standstill before a white gate, in front. of which was stationed a British sol- dier, with drawn bayonet. Surgeonâ€" Major Thomson pulled himself togeth- er and answered the challenge. “A friend,” he answered,â€"- our- geon-Major Thomson, on his Majesty's service." He leaned from the car for a mo- ment and held out something in the hollow of his hand. The man saluted and drew back. The car went on along a rough road which led across a great stretch of pastureland. On the ridge! of the hills on his right, little groups of men were at work unlimbering guns. Once or twice, with a queer, screeching sound, a shell, like a little] puff of white smoke, passed high over= the car and fell somewhere in the grey valley below. In the distance he could see the movements of a body of troops through the trees, soldiers on the way to relieve their comrades in the trenches. As the morning broke, the trenches themselves came into viewâ€"long, zig-zag lines, silent, and, with no sign of the men who crawled, about inside like ants. He passed a' great brewery transformed into a can- teen, from which a line of wagons, going and returning, were passing all the time backwards and forwards into the valley. Every now and then through the stillness came the sharp crack of a rifle from the snipers lying' hidden in the little stretches of wood- land and marshland away on the right. A motorâ€"omnibus, with its advertise- ment signs still displayed but a great. red cross floating above it, came rock- ' ing down the road on its way to,the field hospital in the distance. As ‘yet, however, the business of fighting seemed scarcely to have commenced. ' They passed several small houses and farms, in front of each of which was stationed a sentry. Once, from,in disgust. the hills behind, a. great whiteâ€"wingedl aeroplane glided over his head on its way to make a reconnaissance. Queer- est sight of all, here and there were peasants at work in the fields. One $3“ i li/ {- /. 4,; fix: "I //I 0"] I Willilll - The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. ,and spoke to the old man. d “and one grows old and tired. off.” “The General positively can't spare him." only.man with an eye to a Heaven- ord-ained gun position. as old Wattles declared one day. wonders. Major,” he went on, turn- ing to Thomson, “but if I don’t get a nag/x f old man leaned upon his spade and, watched as the car prism-d. Not a. dozen yards from him was a great hole in the ground where a shell lizad burst, and a little further away a barn in ruins. The car was fort-cl to stop here to let a cavalcade of ammunition wagons pass by. Surgeon-, Major Thomson leaned from his seat “You are not afraid of tl‘c German shells, then?" he askcd. “l‘vlonsicur.” the old man answered. “one must live or dieâ€"ii. does not matter which. For the rest, if one is to live, one must eat. Therefore I work. Four sons I have and a nephew away yonder,” he added. wav- ing his hand southwards. “That is why I dig alone. Why do you not send us more soldiers, Monsieur l‘Angl-ais?" “Wait but a little time longer}, Thomson answered cheerfully. The old man looked sadly at his ruined barn. “It is always ‘wait,’ " lie muttered, Bon- jour, monsieurl" The car passed on again and sud- denly dropped into a little protected valley. They came to a standstill before a tiny chateau. in front of which stretched what might once have been an ornamental garden, but which was now torn to pieces by gun car- riages, convoy wagons, and every (lo-i scription of vehicle. From the top of the house stretched many wires. A sentry stood at the iron gates and passed Major Thomson after a per- functory challenge. An officer with mud-stained boots and wind-tossed hair, who looked as though he had been out all night, stood on the steps.‘1 of the house and welcomed Thomson.‘ “Hullo, Major,” he called out, “justr across, eh?” “This moment," Thomson assented. “Anything fresh?” - “Nothing to speak of,” the other replied. “We've just had a message in that the French have been givingl them a knock. We’ve had a quiet time the last two days. They’re bring- ing up some more Bavarians, we think.” “Do you think I could have a few words with the General?” Major Thomson asked. “Come in and have some coffee. Yes, he’ll see you, of course. He is in his own room with two of the fly- ing men just for the moment. I’ll let you know wl.en you can go in.” They passed into an apartment which had once been the dining-room of the chateau, and in which a long table was laid. One or two staff offi- cers greeted Thomson, and the man who had brought him in attended to his wants. “The General had his breakfast an hour ago,” the latter observed. “We’re pretty well forward here and we have to keep on the qui vive. We got some shells yesterday dropped within a quarter of a mile of us. I think we’re going to try and give them a push back on the left flank. I’ll go in and see about you, Thoni- son.” “Good fellow! You might tell them , to give my chauffeur something. The destroyer that brought me over is waiting at Boulogne, and I want to be in London to-night." l One of the officers form the other side of the table smiled queerly. “London! My God!” he muttered. “There is still a London, I suppose? Savoy and Carlton going still? Pall Mall where it was?" “And very much as it was,” Thom- son assured him. “London‘s wonder- fully unchanged. You becn out long?” “September the second,” was the cheerful reply. “I keep on getting promised a week but I can’t bring it “He’s such a nut with the tele- phones," the man by his side explain- ed, helping himself to marmalade. “Oh, chuck it.” the other exclaimed “What about you ?â€"the 4 We're all living l l i of Ossray. destinations? Send us one negative and we will make one prlnt FREE to show our quality work. Thls pl-ces you under no obliatlon to us. Judge from our one sample print If you wish to send us more of your PHOTO FINISHING Developing and Printing Enlarging, Copylng, Colorlng Huntboy Mail Order ll66 BAY ST. TORONTO jSole (‘olbcrt and a grill at the Savoy, and a front seat at the Alhambra. beâ€" ferv many weeks have passed, I shall got staleâ€"that's \vliat'll happen to me." “Ilcpe you’ll Love your hair cut be- fore you go back," a man from the other cnd of the table remarked. “Your own mother wouldn’t know you like thatâ€"much less your sweet- heart." The young man fingered his locks reflec’tively. “Chap who was going to cut it for niegot shot yesterday," he grumbled. “Anything doing as you came over ‘the ridge, Major?" Thomson shook his head. “One aeroplane and a few shells." “That would be Johnny Oates go- ing out in his Bleriot," some one reâ€" marked. “He'll be back here before long with a report.” 5" The officer who had met Thomson ,in the garden, re-entered the room. “General says he’ll see you at once,” he announced. Thomson followed his guide into a small back room. An officer was seat- ed before a desk, writin , another was shouting down a telep one, and a third was making some measurements upon a large Ordnance map nailed upon one of the walls. The General was standing with his back to the fire and a pipe in his mouth. He nod- ded cheerin to Thomson. “When did you leave London?” he asked. . “Nine o’clock last evening, sir,” Thinson replied. “Rather a record trip. We had a special down and a destroyer over." “And I'm to tell you what you want to know," the General continued, glancing at a document in his hand. “Well, close the door, Harewood. Out with it?” “It’s about Captain Granet of Har- rison’s staff.” Thomson began. The General frowned and knocked the ashes from his pipe. “Well,” he asked, “what is it?” “We’ve reasons of our own for wishing to know exactly what you meant by asking the War Office not to send him back again,” Thomson continued. The General hesitated. “Well, what are they?" "They are a little intangible, sir.” Thomson confessed. “but exceedingly important. Without any direct evi- dence, I have come to the conclusion that Captain Granet is a mysterious person and needs watching. As usual, we are in trouble with the civil authorities, and, to be frank with you, I am trying to strengthen my case.” The General shrugged his should- ers. ‘ “Very well," he decided, “under the circumstances you have the right to know what my message meant. We sent Granet back because of a sus- picion which may be altogether un- justifiable. The suspicion was there, however, and it was sufficiently strong for me to make up my mind that I should prefer not to have him back again. Now you shall know the facts very briefly. Granet was taken prisoner twice. No one saw him takenâ€"as a matter of fact, both the affairs were night attacks. He seemed ahead of his men, was his explana- tion. All I can say is that he was luckier than most of them. Anything wandering about loose in a British uniformâ€"but there, I won’t go on with that. He came back each time with information as to what he had seen. Each time we planned an atâ€" tack on the strength of that informa- tion. Each time that information proved to be misleading and our at- tack failed, costing us heavy losses! Of course. dispositions might have been changed since his observations were made, but there the fact re- mains. Further," the General con- tinued, filling his pipe slowly and pressing in the tobacco, “on the sec- ond occasion We had four hundred men thrown forward into the village pitch darkness, and silently. It was impossible for any word of their presence in Ossray to have been ‘Q ’3; l l l . coincidences known to the Germans. Yet the night of Granet’s capture the village was shelled, and those who escaped were cut off and made prisoners. Follow me. Major?” “Yes, sir!” Thomson acquiesced. “Those are pust the islets," the “General concluded. “Now on the other‘ ‘llaflfl, Granet has handled his men ;\vell, shown great personal bravery, and has all the appearance of a keen soldier. I hate to do him a wrong feven in my thoughts but there were others besides myself to whom these seemed amazing. simply decided that i‘lney’d better Granet a. billet at home. That’s the reason of my message." “I am very much obliged to you. sir." TlZOlllSOIl said slowly. “You have given me exactly the information ."rhieli we desire." I , The General was called away for a lllk‘.‘i‘:r3‘.i to give some instructions to lose é‘N’oi’szm. l l the young officer who was sitting in a distant ccrnrr of the room with a telephone band around his head. He signed to Thomson, however, to re- main. “Now that I have gratified your curiosity," lie when lie returned, “perhaps you will gratify mine? Will you tell inc just how you over in England have come to have suspicions of this man?" (To be continued.) _ _ At'ofi-..__ . The Dictionary. The most wonderful book in the . 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