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I tere‘d. Synopsis of Later Chapters. Captain Granet calls upon Monsieur-iii“. the clouds. it seemed, they could Jcolored lights. Guillot at the Milan Hotel and gives hear a faint him a document from the Kaiser of-,sound. SOHNtl‘llnif 1L. Theregular beating, yet faring France a separate peace. plot is discovered. Conyers sinks twolthroa'tinefs of . I Granet is commissmned cleavmg Its way through the resistess submarines. by his uncle, Sir Alfred Anselman. toiair. destroy the new sub detector, made by, er, Sir Meyville Worth of Norfolk: thn‘othcr. cslling upon Isabel Worth he is nus: _ V taken by the inventor for the 6319mm must hear it in a momeni,“ Gi‘aiiet‘looking for Collins. of the guard and shown the marvel-unnamed, 'lous invention. At midnight be pre- Pfll‘es to 021”? OUt hi5 P181 With the,berafions became louder and lo:1:ler.lio'c10c1(_" aid of his accomplice, Collins. CHAPTER XXLâ€"(Ccnt’d) Collins was already on his feet. He'of the road they heard tlze shout of a had straightened himself wonderfully, single you-c. and there was a new alertness in his: He, too, wore rubber slioesl and his movements were absolutely in this hand touched the dark sub- He carried a little electric'sta'nce which he had spread out upon manner. noiseless. torch in his hand, which he flashedfihe rock. placed scv-‘earthly green light seemed to rolll around the room while he eral small articles in his pocket. Then back the darkness. he pushed open the deer and Lstcned. workshop, the trees, the slowly flow- He turned back, held up his finger and ing :03, their own ghastly facesâ€" iiodded. The two men passed down the stairs, through the slitting-room. out on to the lawn b a door left un- fastcned, and round he house to the shed. Together they pushed the par down the slight incline of the drive. Granet mounted into the driving-seat and pressed the self-starter. Collins Look the place by his side. “Remember,” Granet whispered, “we heard something and I met you in the hall. Sit tight.” They sped with all the silence and smoothness of their six-cylinder up the tree-hung road, through 1- 9 sleep- ing village and along the nai ow lane to Market Burnham. When they were within about a hundred yards of the gate, Granet brought the car to a standstill. “There are at least two sentries that way," he said, “and if Sir Mey- ville told me the truth, they may have a special guard of Marines out to- night. This is where we take to the marshes. Listen. Can you hear any- thing?” They both held their breath. “Nothing yet," Collins muttered. “Let's get the things out quickly.” Granet hurried to the back of the car, ripping open the covering. In a few moments they had dragged ovr the side a small collapsible boat of canvas stretched across some bamboolleaned over ,fihe si e of the boat as They'though to dive after him. Then came joints, with two tiny sculls. clambcred up the bank. “The Creek must be close here,” blinding storm, the whole of the creek “Don’t Show a was suddenly a raging torrent. Granet whispered. light. Listen!” This time they could hear the sound of an engine beating away in the boat- house on the other side of the Hall. too, they could see faint fingers of light from the house on the sea. “They are working still,” Granet continued. “Look out, Collins, that’s the creek.” . They pushed the boat into the mid- dle of the black- arm of water andl pool and came out wet through to the stepped cautiously into it. Taking one of the paddles, Granet, kneeling down, propelled it slowly seaward. Once or twice they ran into the bank and had to push off, but very soon their eyes grew accustomed to the darkness.'By- degrees the creek,broad~ ened. They passed close to the walls of the garden, and very soon they were perceptibly nearer the quaintly- situated workshop. Granet paused for a moment from his labors. “The Hall is dark enough," he mot- “Listen!” ' . They heard the regular pacing of a sentinel in the drive. Nearer to them, on the top of the wall, they fancied that they heard the clash of a bayonet. Granet dropped his voice to the barest whisper. “We. are close there no 7. Stretch out your hand. Collins. Can you feel a shelf of rock?" ' “It’s just in front of me,“ stifled answer. “That’s for the stuff. Down with it.” For a few moments Collins was busy. Then, with a little gasp, he gripped Granet’s arm. His voice, shaking with nervous repression, was still almost hysterical. “They'rc'coming, Granet! My God they’re coming!" was the ute-Hun- .- i I» 'I. l. 1 l 1 l i ll li ll The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OI‘PENHEIM. N~~_ .â€" (Copygghtcd) _ Through the closely-drawn curtair.s,_ l 1 ’We pulled iz-p to with it and Collinsr jumped out. lie said he'd go as furl as: ibc Hail and I sat? in the car, watching. round and seemed to ho'cer over those queer sort of outbuilding: there are at Market lhirniiam. All :it oii:e the‘ bombs began to drop." 1 “What are they 111:0?" Geoffrey .\ll5‘0lll‘iall exclaimed. . Granet poured out his cofl'ce care. fully. warn them. ‘min them down. Then all of a sud- den there was a sort of glureâ€"â€"I don't1 ,know what happened. Both men turned smward. Far away ‘tliouc'li some one had lit one of those The. Hall was just 331 I could ‘ humming, some .ianicnl in with cinniorous human new lclcarly visible as at noonday. ,and the soldiers tumbling out of their force lquarters. All the time the bombs were cominn‘ down like bail and a corner of; the Hall was in flames. Then lighted stuff, whatever it was, out and the darkness some With every :‘cc'iiid it grew loud- The men stood clutching one an- Tlicn I went up, 1 Collins assented silently. The rever- ‘ the fil-e_ ’Somi the air was full of echoes. From “What about Collins?" young] ‘far ("away mlfmd dogs were bal‘klpgi Anselman asked. “I was playing him ifl‘C'll'l a farm somevdnere the other Side at golf." ’ i “Better send up and see," Granet proposed. “I waited till I couldn‘t stick it any longer.” They sent a servant up. The reply came back quicklyâ€"«Mr. Collins’ .bed had not been slept in. Granetfrowned a little. “I suppose he‘ll think I let. him The house: the 'down," he said. “I waited at least an hour for him." “Was any one hurt by the bombs ?” Geoffrey Anselman inquired. “No one seemed to be much the worse,” Granet replied. “I didn‘t think of anything of that sort in connection with Collins, though. Perhaps he might have got hurt." . “We'll all go over and have a look for him this afternoon if he hasn’t turned up," Anselman suggested. “What about playing a round of golf this morning?” “Now,” Granet whispered. Collins leaned forward. The fuse In a moment a strange, un- ’ everything stood revealed in a blaze of hideous, awful light. For a moment they forgot themselves, they forgot the miracle they shad brought to pass. Their eyes were rivetted skyward. High above them. something blacker than the heavens themselves. stupenâ€" dous, huge, seemed suddenly to as- sume to itself shape. The roar of ma- chinery was clearly audible/From the house came the mingled shouting of many voices. Something dropped into the sea a hundred yards away with a sci‘cech and a hiss , and a geyser-like fountain leapt so high that the spray reached them. Then there was a sharper sound as a rifle b‘ullet whistlâ€" ed by. “My God!” Granet exclaimed. “It’s time We were out of this, Collins!" He seized his scull. Even at that. moment there was a terrific explosion. A stream of lurid fire seemed to leap from the corner of the house, the wall split and fell outwards. And then there came another sound, hide- ous, sickly, a sound Granet had heard before, the sound of ,a rifle bullet cut- ting its way through flesh, followed by an inhuman cry. For a moment Collin’s arms whirled around him. Then, with no other sound save that one cry, hefcll forward and disap- peared. For a sin vie second Granet “I'd meant to lay up because of my arm, but it’s better this morning. We'll start early and get back for the papers.” They motored down to the club- house and played their round. It was a Wonderful spring morning, with a soft West wind blowing from the land. Little patches of sea lavender gave purple color to the marshland. The creeks, winding their way from the sea to the village, shone like quick- silver beneath the vivid sunshine. It was a morning of utter and complete peace. Granet, notwithstanding a lit- tle trouble with his arm, played careâ€" fully and well. When at last they reached the eighteenth green, he holed a Wonderful curly putt for the hole and the match. “A great game,” his cousin declar- ed, as they left the green. “Who the devil are these fellows?” There were two soldiers standing at the gate, and a military motor-car drawn up by'the side of the road. An orderly stepped forward and ad- dressed Granet. . “Captain Granet?” he asked, salut- mg. Granet nodded and stretched out his hand for the note. The fingers which marshland, and from there stumbled drew it from the envelope were per- his Way‘towards the road. The house fectly steady, he even lifted his head behind him was on fire, the air seemed lfor a moment to look at a lark just hoarse shoutings. He turned overhéad‘ Yet the few scrawl- and ran for the spot where he had left e1 lines were like a message of fate;-- the car. Once he fell into a salt water The office‘r in command at Market Burnham Hall would be obliged if Captain Granet would favor him with an immediate interview, with refer- ence to the events of last night. “Do you mean that you want me to go at once, before luncheon ?” he asked the orderly. The man pointed to the car. “Hands up!” was the hoarse order. “My instructions were to take you Granet calmly flashed his own clec- 137:1: at once, sir.” tric torch. There were at least 3‘ “Come and have a drink first at dozen soldiers standing around, and a ra e u Geoff-re A em, - . httle company were hurrying d°w.n al‘The torderly shobk begaltiiselestsigi frog: fife gftfs' 1:? “fuelled Off 113.5 soldiers were barring the gateway. Igul 3 mos “Em? 91;?“ 3" “Some one from the War Office has 5 any one mt‘ be asked _ arrived and is waiting to speak to .There W515 3 dead Ellenfe' \He 19” Captain Granet,” he announced. his arm seized on either Side. “We’re an coming over after lunch,» “The captain's coming down the . , n i road,” one of the men said. “Lay on young Anselm“ pmtesmd' *Woumnt - . that do?” [n to him, Tim. - The man made no answer. Granet, with a shrug of the shoulders, step- ped into the motor-car. The two sol- diers mounted motorâ€"cycles and the little cavalcade turned away. Granet made a few efforts at conversation with his companion, but, meeting with no response, soon relapsed into silence. another roar. The sand‘ flew up in a The boat was swung on a precipitous mountain of salt water and as quickly capsized. Granet, breathless for a moment and half stunned, found his way somehow to the side of the Iwaist. Inthe end, however, he reached the bank, clambered over it and slip~ ped down into the road. Then a light ,was flashed into his eyes and a bay- onet was rattled at his feet. There were a couple of soldiers in charge of his car. »» CHAPTER XXII. Granet sauntered in to breakfast a few minutes late on the following morning. A little volley of questions and exclamations reached him as he stood by the sideboard. ’ l the ground!" I , {have known a lot more about it. 1 1 1 1 l l ed. lCollins out. in the garden. . 'ilike anything. coming from over the, {marsh there. I got the car out and iwe were no sooner or. the read than.“ {I could see it» distinctiy, right above \'v :usuu huge, cigar-shaped thing. lraced along after it, along the road {towards Market Bui‘nhnni lfore it reached the Hull it seezui ‘ ' turn inland and then come back :2 " In less than twenty minutes the car was slowng down before the approach to the Hall. The lane was crowded with ' villagers and people from the. neigh- boring farm houses, who were all keptl Granet sighed as he crossed the back, however, by a little cordon of room and took his seat at the table.i$01€li€r5- Granet. closely attended by “If you fellows hadn't slept like‘his escort, made his way slowly into oxen last night," he remarked, "you'd 1 the avenue and up towards the house. 11A corner of the left wing of the build- saw the whole show.” ling was in ruins, blackened and still ex-gsmouldering, and there was a great claimed. fhole in the sandâ€"blown lawn, where 3; “Tell us all about 1!?” young Ansel-jbomb had apparently fallen. A soldier; man begged. ,admitted them at the front entrance- “I heard the thing just as I was and his guide led him across the hall beginning to undress.“ Granet explain-911d into a large 1‘00!“ 0" the other “Heard about. the Zeppelin raid?” “They say there‘s a bomb on the ninth green!" “Market Burnham Hall is burnt to “Nonsense!” Major Harrison "I rushed downstairs and found Side Of the house, an apartment Will-Chi . . Wherelseemed to be half library, half morrv, lingâ€"room. Sir Meyville aii:l_a man in! 'uniform were talking together near, :the window. They turned around at 1Grmiei‘s entrance and he gave a little. start. For the first time a thrill of fear chilled him. his self-confidence as suddenly dissipated. The man .0 stand watching him with cold scrutiny was the one man on earth the devil is Collins, by‘theâ€"bye ?" They glanced at his vacant place. “Not down yet. Go on." “Well, we could hear the vibration We - the: bUI‘MjEuglaiul. has been fitted up as a tra- smmOd “5 blaCklvelling kitchen, selling meals to pen. “Have you got the frse ready? They as pitch. I hungr around for some limegwns who “V9 along its route to the house to help them extinguish? , . I didn‘t get back ti” foul. , Frenchman has invented a carding ma- “Suit me all right," Granet agreed." The Latest Inventions. For cooking small anisziiit; of food is just large enough to stand in n hole of a regular stove. Hawaiian plunlf-rs have found that waste material. make good stock tot-d when properly dried. Improvements in the United States "I‘ve seen 'ezii before~plomv of;iiu\'y's radio SltlliC-ll at (‘avile enable, ilieni.1oo," he remarked, “but they (lid the transmission cf messages to Sun ‘ Francisco without relay. 01’ European invention are glass It “'33 5““ aslbeuds so formed that they {it closely together to insulate wire no matter in what form it may be bent, For household use he placed over electric change the Jiglitiiig effects of rooms. An electric street car in Halifax, After years of experimenting a ‘chine with which kapok fibres can be prepared for weaving into textiles. The blade of a new safety razor is a circular disk which is revolved by;a spring inside the handle, controlled ,by a thumb piece on one side. Porcelain money is being made in 3Saxony for Kualcmala, which plans to experiment with it in place of the hard rubber currency now in use there. Electric heat drawn from a light socket presses trousers after they are clamped in a new device. A new beater of the crank-operated Itype can beat a single egg in a cup or lwliip cream in the bottle in which it " is sold. Experiments with motor snow plows have been so successful in Norway that several municipalities expect to use them to keep the roads open next winter. ' . Its inventor has patented a com- bination engagement and wedding ring, the latter part being added at the proper time to form a single piece of jewelry. The Brazilian Government is erect- ing an experiment station for com- .bustibles and mine products and will extensively test coal produced in that country. A o Hedges and Gardens on the Prairies. and especially around Winnipeg and at such places as Indian Head, some of the finest gardens that could pos- sibly be seen’ anywhere in Canada, I say the time will come when these prairies will be hedged and dotted with gardens of blooming flowers, of ripening fruits, and of delicious vege- tables. They exist to-day. I may men- tiou, especially the Dominion Forestry Head, because that does not come un- der my own department; nothing could be more exquisite, more perfect than is that magnificent garden. before the prairies can have gardens they must have hedges for their wind- breaks. Set your badge and you may look for your garden. The hedges are coming. The Dominion Experimental Farms have far more than paid for themselves by the wide distribution which has been given to the caragana hedge which the Department of Agri- culture at Ottawa, introduced from Russiaâ€"Prof. W. T. Macouu, Domini- on Horticulturist, Ottawa. Hun: Ask for Minard's and take no other. Rapid Tree. Growth in Southern Ontario. At the meeting.of the Council of Norfolk County, Ontario, at which it was decided to purchase a block of 500 acres for reforestation, one of the councillors gave an instance of a 25- acroâ€"l-ot in North Walsingham town- ship owned by a man who lives five miles away. Seven years ago it was a sand plain, decorated orly with the dry stumps of a primeval pine forest. To-day it is entirely reforested in growths ranging from fourteen feet downward. It was first fenced and each year a portion was planted to pine. The planting was done by plow- ing a furrow straight as might be and row. The entire plot is thriving. and the first year’s planting is now begin- ning to undergo thinning out. - ..._._ ._.-._. 20,000 students, is the largest in the wcrld; it includes 65 institutions scatâ€" tered over the metropolitan . whom he featsi~Surgeonshlrijor Tli~‘n:r: 4:! l Jzis’ :u2. chy be cantin‘iclJ lSSUE No. 37â€"'21. 1: its ‘see the men runring 'ibout. shoutintr ‘v'nlored 31355: _ A k ‘ "'lcovcrs have been invented that caiilfltmfl‘ed’ according to Dr‘ Charles lamps to 3 Because I have seen on the prairies, , Branch Nursery Station at Indian. planting the seedlings along the fur-l London University, with a t1.|t_l.i of, aloe MILE 1 She came right ‘ n coal stove has been invented \hzit B R E l [The used car dealer who shows you. ', how they run instead of talkan about lsugzir C(lll‘.’ iops, formerly regarded as what they are like. 1 USED AUTOS i 100 Actually in stock 7 402 YONGE ST. Percy Breakey TORONTO Mention this paper. Battles of the Eye’s Rays. 3 When you look straight at someone- else's eyes and then find it necessary to blink on, turn away you are being Russ, by a force or ray that emerges from the human eye. ments that this force is actually cap- able of setting an instrument in nio- ,‘ lion. ' "The fact," he explains in the ‘Lan- cel.‘ “that the direct gaze or vision of ,onc person soon becomes intolerable. ,to another person suggested to me that there might be a ray issuing from the human eye." ducc an uncomfortable effect on the »ctlier person's retina or by collision with the other person's ray." port of some experimental evidence, he decided to try to evolve some in- strumnt which should be set in mo- tion by nothing more than the impact of human vision. “Within a metal box," he Writes, "1 suspended a delicate solenoid (that is, 1 Iper wire. his solenoid was wound up- on a cylinder of celluloid and suspend ed by a silk fibre (unspun silk) 14 in. long. “The box was 3 ft. by 8% in, by 7 in.. and lined with sheet aluminium. The far end of the box was closed by a sheet of window glass, and the near or obser’ver‘s end was furnished with a thin glass or celluloid Window which, was screened by a sheet of aluminum with a slot 3 in. long ahd 1 in. wide. “A conducting wire connected the silk fibre with the aluminum of the box, which was earthed. The solenoid was held steady by the magnet which naturally came to rest in the magnetic meridian." The human eye was then brought to bear through the slot in the observ- , log window on the suspended solenoid, 'aud it was found that if a steady gaze ,were maintained on one end of the ‘solenoid it was seen to start into mo- tlon, usually away from the observing ,eye. When the gaze was transferred to the true centre of the solnoid it stopped, and when the vision was ap- plied to the opposite end of the sole- hold it moved in a reverse direction“ . The Eating Test. I supposeâ€"and venture to hopeâ€" : that one day France and Germany will i forget their differences, but at the mo iment not a great ‘deal of love is lost ibetween them, and Lord Montagu of lBaulieu relates an incident which is alleged to have taken place at the din- .ner-table of an hotel in Switzerlandâ€"‘ that meeting-place of the nations. A Frenchman and a German sat op- posite each other. “You are a Frenchman, I suppose?" said the German. “Yes” replied the Frenchman. “How 'did you find that out?" “Because you eat so much bread," said the German. After a silence the Frenchman ob- served: “You are a German, I presume?” “I am; but what made you think so?” . “Well.” answered the Frenchnm"a “you eat so much of everything!” ' o“ 1' Fish Aid Forest Protection. The policy of restricting methods of fishing on Dominion Forest Reserves ; to those of angling and trolling is pro! ’ ducing results. in the improved fishing to be found in the lakes in the vicinity of the summer resorts. There is no ‘doubt that good fishing doubles the , attractions of any summer resort, and {the fact that the development of re- ' crea'tional use of the forest reserves is us means of securing public sympathy good support for forest protection is -not overlooked in the. administration iof these resortsâ€"Annual Report, Di- rector of Forestry, Ottawa. Minard's Liniment bsed by Physicians.’ 0 .4... _._.~ Nobel, the founder of the Nobel ‘prizes. owed his vast fortune to his {discovery of dynamite. “If there is sue‘n a ray it may pro-i In order to give his theory the sup-- He claims to have shown by experl-- magnetized wire). made of fine copu