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, be doomed before they reached the (Copygznwd) Synopsis of Later Chapters. Captain Granet calls upon Mm:le I Guillot at the Milan Hotel and 2‘ 'e'-‘ him a document from the Kaiser ofâ€"l fering France a separate peace. The plot is discovered. Conyers sinks two, submarines. Granet dines with his uncle, Sir Alfred Ansclinan, at a club. CHAPTER XVI.â€"â€"(Coht‘d.) Sir Alfred ate soup for several mo- ments as though it were the best soup on earth and nothing else was Worth consideration. Then he laid down his spoon. ' “Magnificent!” he said. “Now lis~. tenâ€"these submarines. There was a Taube close at hand and I can telll you something which the Admiraltyl here are keeping dark, with theil‘l tongues in their cheeks. Both thosei submarines were sunk under water.” "I guessed it,” Granet replied cool-, ly. “I not only guessed it but I came very near the key of the whole thing." A waiter appeared with the next‘ course, followed by the wine steward, carrying champagne. Sir Alfred nodded approvingly. “Just four minutes in the ice,” he- instructed, “not longer. What you tell me about the champagne country is, I must confess, a relief," he added, turning to Granet. “It may not affect us quite so much. but personally I be- lieve that the whole world is happier and better when champagne is cheap. It is the bottled gaiety of the nation. A nation of ginger ale drinkers would second generation. 1900 Pommery, this, Ronnie, and I drink your health. If I may be-allowed one moment’s sentiment,” he added, raising his glass, “let me say that I drink your 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 our country.” They drank the toast in silence. In, a moment or two they were alone again. " “Go on, Ronnie,” his uncle said. “I am interested.” “I met Conyers the other day,” Granet proceeded, “the man who com- mands the ‘Scorpion.’ I managed to get an invitation down to Portsmouth to havelunch with him on his ship. I went down with his sister and the young lady he is engaged to marry. 0n deck there was a structure of some sort covered up. I tried to make in- quiries about it but they headed me off pretty quick. Tliere Was even a sentry standing'on guard before itâ€" wouldn’t let me even feel the shape of it. However, I hadn't given up hope when there came a wirelessâ€"no guests to be allowed on board. Con- Thc Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. I fur urgent incssams from lierln ‘12 :“orni :.' ‘ l‘ s j‘i‘tlty difficult." Granct ark: \\“t~l_r.:'-.‘.l. “The ‘Scorpion' ‘s out In the ("ii rhel or the North Sea. l‘x’o geltinp; :it llci‘ And I don't believe there's :i::;.<hc- destroyer yet filled with ilzis apparatus, whatever it may be.” “They must be making them sonic- where, though." Sir Alfred remarked. His neuhcw nodded. “To think," he muttered. “that we‘ve two hundred men spread out .it Tynesidc, Woolvich and Portsmouth, and not one of them got on in this! A nation of spies, indeed! They're ings. uncle.” “Not altogether that," the banker replied. “We have some reports, al- though they don‘t go far enough. I can put you on the track of the thing. The apparatus you saw is somethin in the nature of an inverted Lclescnpe, with various extraordinary lenses treated by a new process. You can see forty feet down under the surface of the water for a distance of a mile. and we believe that attached to the same apparatus is an instrument which brings any moving object within the range of what they call 3 (hey. aster. deepâ€"water gun.” “Did that come from Granet asked eagerly. “It did," Sir Alfred said. “Further than that, the main part of the instru- ment is being made under the super- vision of Sir Meyville Worth, in a large workshop erected on his estate in a village near Brancaster in Nor- folk.” “I take it back," Granet remarked. “The plans of the instrument would reports '2” Ibe worth a hundred thousand pounds," Sir Alfred continued calmly. “If that is impossible, the destruction of the little plant would be the next considâ€" eration. ‘ “Do I come in here?” Granet in- quired. “You do, Ronnie,” his uncle replied. “The name of the village where Sir Meyville -Worth lives is Market Burn- ham, which, as I think I told you, is within a few miles of Brancaster. Geoffrey, at my instigation. has ar- ranged a harmless little golf party to go to Brgncaster the day after to- morrow. You will accompany them. In the meantime, Miss Worth, Sir Meyville Worth‘s only daughter, is staying in London until Wednesday. She is lunching with your aunt at the Ritz to-morrow. I have made some other 'a ngements in connection with you "sit to Norfolk, which \Vlll keep for the present. I see that some strangers have entered the room. Tell me exactly how you came by the wound in your foot.” yers had to pack us all off back to the hotel, without stopping even for lunch. From the hotel I got a tele- scope and I saw a pinnace with halfâ€" a-dozen workmen, and a pilot who 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.” 1 “A busy life, yours, Ronnie," SirI Alfred remarked, after a moment’s; pause. “What about it now? 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He is the chief inspector of hospitals, I thinkâ€"Major Thomson, his name is.” “Did you happen to say that I was dining with you ?” ' Sir Alfred reflected for a moment. “I believe that I did mention it,” he admitted. “Why?” _Granet struggled 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 breath, “but 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 wme steward and pointed to his nephew’s glass. “The best thing in the world,” he observed drily, as he watched the wine king poured out, “for presentiâ€" ments.” - CHAPTER XVII. Lady Anselman stood once more in the foyer of the Ritz Hotel and countâ€" 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; Granâ€" et himself; and a tall, dark girl with pallid complexion and brilliant eyes, who had come with Lady Anselman anid who was standing now by her 51 e. “I suppose you know everybody, my‘ delar?” Lady Anselman asked her gen- 8 y. The girl shook her head a little dis- consolately. “We are so little in London, Ladyi An-selman,” she murmured. “You, know how difficult father is, and just'. now he is worse than ever. In fact,f 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- ‘ fog-bound vessels. ' man declared, “are great boons to the - country, but as parents I am afraid‘ they are just a little thoughtlessj Major Harrison and Colonel Grey. let me present you to my young charge â€"for the day only. unfortunatelyâ€" Miss Worth. Now, Ronnie, if you can be persuaded to let Miss Conyers have a. moment's peace perhaps you will Show us the way in to lunch." Granet promptly abandoned his whispered crnversation with Geral- ‘ine. The lit‘le company movel in and took their places at the round table which was usually reserved for Lady .‘.nselman on Tues-days. "Smrc people." the latter remark- ni, as she seated herself. “find fault ‘ith me for going on with my lunch- .‘cns this se‘i liven Alfred won‘t .ome exec: y: and. then. Personal- I have very strong views about it. I ‘liink we ri hi to keep on doing gust ‘he some :15. usuaLâ€"to a certain extent. of emirs’e. There is no reason why we in, 'should bring the hotel proprietors and shopkeepers to the brink of ruin he- cnuse We are all feeling more or less :eroble." ' . uite right," her neighbor, Colonel 'cd. “I am sure it Wouldn’t «lo 11:: any good cu'. there to feel that _\'<:'.l \VFl‘f‘ all sitting in sackcloth and ashes. B sides, think how pleasant this is to come home to,” looking around the little tzfi‘nl What a goodâ€"looking girless yers is!" Lady Anselman nodded and lowered her \'0iCe a little. “She hos just broken her engage- ment to Surgeonâ€"Major Thomson. I wonder whether you know him?" “Inspector of Field Hospitals or something, isn‘t he?" the other re- marked carelessly. “I came across him once at Boulogtte. Rather a dull sort of fellow he seemed." Lady Anselnian gsighed. “I am afraid Geraldine found him so,” she agreed. “Her mother is very disappointed. I can’t help thinking myself, though, that a girl with her appearance ought to do better.” The Colonel reflected for a moment. “Seems to me I’ve heard something about Thomson Somewhere," he said, half to himself. “By-the-bye, who is the pale girl with the wonderful eyes, to whom your nephew is making himâ€" self so agreeable?’ ’ Con- “ “That is Isabel Worth,” Lady An-_ “She is the daughter’ selman replied. if Sir Mcyville Worth, the great scien- tist. I am afraid she has rather a dull time, poor girl. Her father lives in an out-ofâ€"the~way village of Norâ€" folk, spends all his time trying to discover things, and forgets that he has a daughter at all. She has been in London for a few days with an aunt, but I don’t believe that the old lady is able to do much for her.” “Ronnie seems to be making the running all right,” her neighbor ob- served. “: asked him specially to look after her,” Lady Anselman confided, “and Ronnie is always such a dear at doingl what he is told.” Major Harrison leaned across the- table towards them. “Didn’t. I hear you mention Thom- son’s name just now?" he inquired. “I saw him the other day in Boulogne. Awful swell he was about something, too. A destroyer brought him across, and a Government motorlcar was waiting at the quay to rush him up to the Front. We all thought at Bou- logne that royalty was coming, at‘ least.” ’ There was a slight frown on Gran- et’s forehead. He glanced half un- consciously towards Geraldine. “Mysterious sort of fellow, Thomâ€" son,” Major Harrison continued, in blissful ignorance of the peculiar sig- nificance of his words. “You see him in Paris one day, you hear of him at the furthermost point of the French lines immediately afterwards, he re- ports at headquarters within a few hours, and you meet him slipping out of a back door of the War Office, a day or two later.” “Inspector of Field Hospitals is a ost which I think must have been reated for him,” Colonel Grey re-v marked. of chap.” “W-as Major Thomson going or re- turning from France when you saw him last?” Geraldine asked, looking across the table. “Coming back. When we left Bou- logne, the destroyer which brought him over was waiting in the harbor. It passed us in mid-Channel, doing about thirty knots to our eighteen. Prince Cyril was rather sick. He was bringing dispatches but no one seemed to have thought of providing a de- stroyer for him." “After 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- self very agreeable indeed tn Isabel “He’s an impenetrable sort he midellg "Jove! - “'orth. ‘in her chucks than at the commenczh, ment of lunchern. and her; manner had, become more :Iniinatcl. } “Tell me about the village where, you live‘” he inquire.’l-“l\‘lurket Burnhmn, isn‘t it?" 1 “When we first went there," she re-. plied. “I thought that it was simply‘ Paracise. That was four years ago, though, anl I scarcely counted upon? spending the winters there." “You find it lonely. then?" She shirrred '1 litl'o half closing, her eyes as fhunch to shut out some' unpleasant In" cry. “The house," :“2c explained, “is on a sort of trzngue of i: n, with a tidal river on "her sf-le fin! the sen not fifty yard :l\‘.‘.'l\' from our drawing~ room window. When there are high tides we are simply cut off from the mainland altogether unless we go across on a farm cart." (To be continued.) ' v UQOOrA . Bits of Canadian News. ‘ An indication of the enormous tour- ist traffic which nnnuully visits Bri- tish Columbia from the Pacific. coustl states, is the unnouncement made by ‘U.S. Consul General Frederick M. ‘Itider that over two hundred and fifty thousand visited the provmce in 1020. The use of travelling vans equipped ,ot render dental service in rural com- lmunitles has been suggested by the .Munitoba Dental Associationn to the provincial board of health. The use of such vans, which have proved very ‘successful in Ontario, is urged by tnurses engaged in public health work. 1 Claim is made by Norman Ross, superintendent of the Dominion For- estry Farm at Indian Head, Sask., that i all fruits can be successfully growr. in ithe province of Saskatchewan. Mr. .Ross has grown on the eperlmental farm apples, plums and hybrid cher- ries, to say nothing of strawberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberrles and .other bush fruit. During the present season 3,000,000 or more trees have been distributed to farmers from In- dian Head. According to a directory census re- ,cently complied the population of Greater Vancouver is estimated at 222,618, exclusive of Orientals, who are said to number at least 15,000. The estimated increase during the year past is sllghtly over 20,000. This I ranks the Pacific city as the fourth of . the Dominion. A new fiour mill, costing thirty thousand dollars, with a capacity of fifty barrels per day, is being erected at Mossbank, Sask. It is expected that the mill will be completed and in 1operation by the first of October. l The total area sown to wheat in iCanada for the _harvest of 1921 is lplaced at 18,654,000 acres, accordfiig 'to preliminary estimates issued re- cently by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Last year’s final estimate was 18,232,000 acres, and the average 1'of the five years 1915-1919 was 16.343,- 000 acres. The estimate for fall wheat is 709,000 acres and the area. sown un- der spring wheat totals 17,945,000 acres. Announcement has been made that the Italian government has withdrawn restrictions against the importation of lCanadian motor cars to that country. As a result of the removal of the em~ bargo Canada will be placed upon the same footing as Great Britain, and it will no longer be necessary to obtain licenses for the shipment of Canadian automobiles to that country. The Prince of Wales is exhibiting Ihis Shropshire sheep from his ranch at High River at the Calgary, Edmon- ton and other western Canada fairs this summer. Already they have won many Alberta ribbons. l ..____ . _ Length of life is desirable, but even more desirable are breadth, height and depth. ...__â€"I.â€"â€"â€"--â€" o A room ten feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high contains seventy- ifive pounds of air. 0"â€" ,Minard’s Jnlmenffor Dandruff. (77777.. . . Radio Bind niill‘elies’hig ._.__.â€"_._â€" Fog has been since time immemorial the greatest peril of the mariner. It envelops his ship, he loses his bear- ings and goodness knows what may happen to him. , More lives and more ships have been lost at sea on account of fog than through any other cause. But now this menace is to be done away with, thanks to a “radio beacon" system which has been developed by the United States Lighthouse Service in cooperation with the Bureau of Standards. The system is to be installed in lighthouses along the coasts and also on board of light-ships to give aid to Recently the Sea Grit light station, the Ambrose Chan- nel lightshlp and the Fire Island light- ship were thus equipped; and only the other day the lighthouse tender Tulip was sent out to make a new kind of test. It was a great success. The captain of the Tulip found that he could determine with accuracy the ;directions from which the radio sig- lnals (different for each of the above- lmentloned stations) were being sent; land with a chart before him l.3 was lable, solely by the aid of the signals, Th‘r.a was a little more color‘ _ to plot his position at any time. This. he was enabled to do by the; i use of a "radio compass," the develop- iment of which for the purpose here: ,described is entirely new. ‘I The Navy Department during the; war developed to a considerable ex-‘ tent the possibilities of this lnstru-' ment, and there are already many‘ shore stations, operating in groups,l which, being equipped with radio com- passes, are able, in response to a cry 1 from help from a fog-bound ship. to. tell the skipper exactly where he it “at.” ‘ The system as newly perfected, how- ;ever, makes it possible for the skipper 1 lto determine his location with the help to “radio beacons" signals from eta-l ltlons or lightships. NUfiSES The Toronto Hespltol for Incur- nblns. in affiliation with Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, New York City. offers a three years’ Course of Train- ing to young women. having the ir- quired education, and desirous of be- , coming nurses. This Hospital has , adored the eight-hour system. The . l pup ls receive uniforms of the School. a. monthly allowance and truvelllnw . expenses to and from New York. For l further information apply to the ) Superintendent. The Call. I hear the voice of summer calling me To drop my burdens, bid my cares be still, And follow her o’er valley and o’er hill Unto the ways of glndness. Happily The daisies star the meadows and the free, Gay morning winds the forest path- ways fill “'ith keen delight; silver-shrill A thrush dings wide his joyful eeslacy. and wild and The treetops weave upon a magic. loom Green mysteries to tempt the lyric birds, The gardens breathe a spell of Ira- grant words, The bees go buzzing to their honeyed doom; And Love cries all his promises once- more . ‘ When summer beckons at my open door! 0 cats That Meant Cash. “The days of our age are threescore years and ten,” sold the Psalmist, showing that our forefathers reckoned by scores, a system of keeping account of figures based probably in its origin- al form upon the practice of counting upon the fingers and toes. The word “score” itself comes from the AngloSaxon, being nothing more than the word “scoren,” which is the- past participle of “sceran"â€"â€"meaning to out. It indicated a notch or incision made upon a tally-stick for the purâ€" pose of keeping a record of financial transactions. The “score~mark” was the twentieth notch upon these primitive “account. books"â€"a out which was longer and deeper than the others. Hence the expression. "to pay off old scores," means not only the repayment of old debts, but the revenging of grievances which have cut deep and left a lasting impression. It is for the same reason, that of reckoning, that we speak of the “score” of a gameâ€"meaning the re- cord of the points madeâ€"and the “score” or musical record of an opera. g .â€"â€"o o Minard’s Llniment for Burns, etc. __4:._. Telling the Time at Sea. The sailor’s day is divided into watches of four hours each. These begin at four, eight, and twelve o’clock, day and night, and every half-hour of the watch is sig- nalled by the striking of the ship‘s bell. By night or by day, four o'clock, eight o'clock, and twelve o’clock are known as eight bells. Then, begin~ ning at the. next halthour, one hell is struck; the following half-hour two bells are struck; at the next, three; and so on up to eight bells, when a new watch begins.’ For instance: eight am. is recorded by eight bells, half-past eight by one hell, nine o’clock by two bells, half- past nine by three bells, ten o’clock by four bells, half-past ten by five bells, eleven o’clock by six bells, halfv past eleven by seven bells, and twelve o'clock (noon) by eight bells. During the next watch (from mid- day to four pm.) this formula is re- peated, beginning with one bell at half-past twelve, and so on. o 0 To Some He Wrote. The church was in urgent need of repair, and Sandy McNab, a very popu- lar member, had been invited to col-. lect subscriptions for the purpose. One day the minister met Sandy walking lrresolutely along the road. 1 The good man at once guessed the cause. “Sandy,” he said earnestly, “I'm sorry to see ye in this state.” “Ah, wee], it's for the good 0' the cause," replied the delinquent, happily. “Ye see, meenis- ter, it’s a’ through these subscreep- tions. I’ve been doun the glen collect- : in’ fun's, an' at every house they made me hae a wee drappie.” “Every house? Butâ€"but surely. Sandy, there are some of the kirk members who are teetotalers?” “Aye, there are: but I wrote tae those." 300 MIL BREAKEY The used car dealer who shows you how they run instead of talking about what they are like. USED AUTOS 100 Actually In stock 402 YONGE 8T. Percy Breakey TORONTO Mention this paper. ,__.~..