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The Kingdom of The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPEN‘HEIM. # (oopygsmem Iil.Lll‘l(eiS of the world, he saw exchang- Synopsis of Later Chapters. Captain Granet calls upon Monsicu Guillot at the Milan Hotel anti, Elves him a document from the Kaiser 0f- fering France a separate peace. plot is discovered. Conyers sink. submarines. Granet is commissm 5 two destroy the new sub detector, made by Sir Meyville Worth of Norfolk._ ll hen calling upon Isabel Worth he is misâ€" taken by the inventor for the captain of the guard an . lous invention. At midnight, With his acComplice, Collins, he lights a flare to guide a Zeppelin. Next day ' summoned to the Hall and questione by Thomson. Isabel Worth comes hJs rescue with a false explanation o Granet’s presence at Burnham llall.‘a CHAPTER XXIV. Mr. Gordon Jones resc to his respects a momentous interview. He glanced around the plain but hand- somely furnished office, a room which betrayed so few evidences of the world-flung power of its owner. "After all, Sir Alfred," he remarked, smiling, “I am not sure that it is Downing Street which rules. We can touch our buttons and move armies and battleships across the face of the earth. You pull down your ledger, sign your name, and you can strike a blow as deadly as any we can conâ€" ceive.” , The banker smiled. _ “Let us be thankful, then," he‘said, “that me powers we wield are linked together in the great cause.” Mr. Gordon Jones hesitated. “Such things, I know, are little to you Sir Alfred," he continued, “butI at the same time I want you to believe that his Majesty’s Government will not be umnindful of your help at this juncture. To speak of rewards at such a time is perhaps premature. I know that ordinary honors do not ap- peal] to you, yet it has been suggested to me by a certain person tht I should? assure you of the country’s gratitude. In plain words, there is nothing you may ask for which it wouldnot be our pleasure and privilege to give you.’ Sir Alfred bowed slightly. “You are very kind," “Later On, perhaps, one may reflect. At present there seems to be only one’ stern duty before us, and for that oneI needs no reward." The two men parted. S‘ir Alfred rose} from the easy chair in front of his‘ desk and threw himself into the easy- chair which his guest had been occupy-' ing. A ray of city sunshine found its way through the tangle of tall build- ings on the other side of the street, lay in a zigzag path across his carpet, lines of his and touched the firm thoughtful face. his pudgy fingers. So a great soldier might have sat, following out the pro- gress of his armies in different coun- tries, listening to the roar of theiridc guns, watching their advance, their faltering, their success and their failures. BRAD 1'5 physicians have pre« at?" scribed yeast for the '0. correction of certain : physical disarrange~ ments. such as boils. constipation. pimples ‘3 and intestinal troubles. E d shown the marvelâ€"I : ; es rise The! l nedl ' ta nt r d by his uncle, Sir Alfred Anselman» mthls secre ‘ry e e e ' l l l l l toglan I szr. Williams for three o'clock this feet. b It had been an interesting, in someth l he said! He sat there, slowlyl tapping the sides of the chair with Sir Alfred’s vision was in a, sense more sordid, in many ways more' complicated. yet it, too, had its dramaâ€"i tic side. He looked at the money- 's“ 5 He wafs looking at his nephew as a 7, i' ’ man 0. science might have looked at For many Yea-rs “‘5 some interesting specimen. ’ I and fall. He saw in the dim vista no khaki-clad army with flashing bayonets, but a long, thin line of black-coated men with sall'ow faces, clutching their money-bags. There was a knock at the door and “Captain Granet has been here for so The banker came back to the pres ent. He woke up, indeed, with a little start. “Show my nephew in at once,” he directed. “I shall be engaged with him he islfor at least a quarter of an hour. deindl y go around to the Bank of Eng- d and arrange an interview with fternoon.” The clerk silently withdrew. Granet entered, a few minutes later. The anker greeted him pleasantly. “Well, Ronnie," he exclaimed, “I ought that you were going to be down in Norfolk for a week! come in. Bring your chair up to my Side, This is one of my deaf mornings.” Granet silently obeyed. Sir Alfred glanced around the room. There was no possible hidingâ€"place, not the slightest chance of being overheard. _“What about it, Ronnie ?" “We drid our share,” Granet answer- ed. “Collins was there at the Dormy House Club. We got the signal and we lit the flare. They came down to within two or three hundred feet, and they must have thrown twenty bombs at least. They damaged the shed but missed the workshop. The house that out." “You escaped all right, I’m glad to see?" “They got Collins‘,’ Granvet said, dropping his voice almost to a whisâ€" per. “He was shot by my side. They caught me, too. I‘ve been in a few tight corners but nothing tighter than that. Who do you think was sent down from the War Office to hold an in- quiry? Thomsonâ€"that fellow Thom- son!” The banker frowned. “Do you mean the man who is the head of the hospitals?” “Supposed to be,” Granet answered 'grimly. “I am beginning to wonderâ€"â€" Teil me. you haven‘t heard anything about him, have you?” “Not a word,” Sir Alfred replied. “Why should 1?" “Nothing except that I have an unâ€" comfortable feeling about him,” Gran- et went on. “I wish I felt sure that he was just what he professes t.) be. 7 pect me. If it hadn’t been for Isabel Worth, I was done forâ€"finishedâ€" down at that wretched hole! He had me where I couldn’t move. The girl lied and got me out of it." Sir Alfred drummed for a moment with his fingers upon the table. “I am not sure that these risks are worth while for you, Ronnie," he said. The young man shrugged his shoul- rs. His face (ertainly seemal to have grown thinnei during the last few days. “I don't mind it so much abroad.” he declared. “It seems a different thing there, somehow. But over here it’s all wrong; it's the atmosphere, I suppose. And that fellow Thomson means mischiefâ€"I’m sure of it.” “Is there any reason for ill-feeling between you two?" the banker in- quired. Granet nodded. “You've hit it, sir.” “Miss Conyers, eh?” The young man’s face underwent a sudden change. “Yes,” he confessed. “If I hadn’t begun this, if I hadn’t gone so far into it that no other course was‘pos- Slble, I think that I should have been content to be just what I seem to be-â€"- because of her.” Sir Alfred leaned back in his chair., “‘Well,” he said, “I suppose you simply confirm the experience of the ages, but, frankly, you amaze me. You l me time. sir," he announced softly.. caught fire, but they managed to put, He is the one man who seems to sus~1 NOTKC A postal card will bring to you our new large Fall Catalogue, soon to be issued, containing Thousands of Illustrations of Gifts in Jewellery, China and Novelties. \Vi‘ite to-day. ELLIS BROS., Jewellers 96 - 98 YONGE ST. TORONTO 1 l was content to accept it, but thankl heavens I have been Oriental enough: to keep women in my life where theyI belong. I am disappointed in you, Ronnie." , The young man shrugged his shoulw lders. "I haven't flinched," he said. “No, but the soft Spot’s there," was the grim reply. "‘llowever, let that‘ go. Tell me why you came up? Wasn‘t 'it better to have stayed down at Bran- castcr for a little longer?" "Perhaps," his nc ihew assented. “My arm came on a little rocky and I had to chuck golf. Apart from that, 'I wasn't altogether comfortable about | l E' i lion for the chance that may come any I day. ’i esenf the third great force of‘ I rcpr , war, and there isn’t a single member if the present Government who doesn‘t look upon he as the most importajt {person in the country. Yet I, too, have enemies, Ronnie. There is the halfpenny Press. They'd give a mil- Silverware, i . They'd print my downfall in blacker lines than the declaration of, war. They’d shriek over my ruin with a more brazenâ€"throa‘leu' triumph. even than they would greet the her- alds of peace. And the threads are there, Ronald. Sometimes I feel one, shiver a little. Sometimes I have to" stretch out my arm and brush too curious an inquirer into the place where curiosity ends. I sit and watch and I am well served. There are men this morning at Buckingham Palace with a V.C. pinned upon their breast, who faced dangers for ten minutes, less than I face day and night.” Granet rose to his feet. “For a moment," he exclaimed, “I had forgotten! . . . Tell me.” he add- ed, with sudden vigor, “what have we ‘things at Market Burnham. I was obliged to tell Thomson that I saw nothing of Collins that night, but they lknow at the Dormy House Club that he started with me in his car and has ,never been heard of since. Then there {was the young woman.” “Saved you by a lie, didn't she?” the banker remarked. “That may be awkward later on.” “I'm sick of my own affairs,” Gran- et declared gloomily. “Is there any- thing fresh up here at all?” Sir Alfred frowned slightly. “Nothing very much," he said. “At the same time, there are distinct indi- cations of a change which I don‘t like. With certain statesmen here at the top of the tree, it was perfectly easy for me to carry out any schemes which I thought necessary. During the last “few weeks, however, there has been a change. Nominally, things are the jsame. Actually, I seem to find another jhand at work, another hand which iworks with the censorship, too. One of 3my very trusted agents in Harwich ,niade the slightest slip the other day. ‘A few weeks ago, he would either have ,been fined twenty pounds or interned. Do you know what happened to him on 'Wednesday? Of course you don’t. He was arrested at one o'clock and shot in half an hour. Then you saw the papers this morning? All sailings ,between here and a certain little spot we know of have been stopped without a moment‘s warning. I am compelled to pause in several most interesting schemes.” “Nothing for me, I suppose?” Gran- ,et asked, a little nervously. Sir Alfred looked at him. “Not for the moment,” he replied, “but there will be very soon. Take hold of yourself, Ronnie. Don’t look down- ,wards so much. You and I are walk- ing in the clouds. It is almost as bad ‘to falter as to slip. Confessâ€"you’ve been afraid." “I have,” Granct admitted, “not 1afraid of death but afraid of what might follow upon discovery. I am r world came my way, to sail for New York to-morrow and start again.” “When those fears come to you,” Sir Alfred continued slowly, “consider me. ,I run a greater risk than you. There 'are threads from this office stretching fto many corners of England, to many icorners of America, to most cities of ,Europe. If a man with brains should seize upon any one of them, he might follow it backwardsâ€"even here." Sir Alfred touched his chest for a moment. Then his hand dropped to his side and he proceeded. “For twenty-eight years I have rul- ed the money-markets of the world. No Cabinet Council is held in this country at which my influence is not lrepresented. The Ministers come to i see me one by one for help and advice. are movmg amongst the big places of life, you are with those who are male-l ing history; and you would be content,‘ to give the whole thing up. For what" You would become easy-going young _ l commonplace, ? animal of a British soldier, for the sake of the affection . (1 half inclined, if just one thing in thei done it for? You made your great name in England, you were Eton and Oxford. Why is it that when the giant struggle comes it should be Ger- many who calls cven to me?” Sir Alfred held out his hand. His eye had caught the clock. “Ronnie,” he said, “have you ever wondered why in a flock of sheep every lamib knows its mother? Gerr- mamy was the mother of our stock. Birth, life, and education count for nothing when the great days come, when the mother voice speaks. It isn’t that we are false to England, it is that we are true to our own. You must go now, Ronnie! I have an appointment.” Granet walked out to the street a little dazed, and called for a taxi. “I suppose that must be it," he mut- tered to himself. (To be continued.) oh.â€" Minard's Llniment used by Physicians. .0â€"_â€"â€" Washing With Ashes. Soap. as we know it to-day. is quite a modern invention. It consists chief- ly of two ingredientsâ€"ash and oil. Our ancestors used the two separate- ly. Wood ash was employed for the preliminary scrubbing. and when this was finished the body was rubbed down with olive-oil. This custom is‘ almost as old as the hills. 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