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The Brussels Post, 1921-12-22, Page 6BOVRIL IMP] )VES YOUR 11E The Kingdom o' The Blind By E. PHILLIPS OPPENItEIM. ithink blot 1 don't regret remetimea,r Hugh, that I didn't Det you ii little more completely. You are right about, so meaty things. But. Ilugh, will jou' tell me something?" I Of course!" "Why were you so chstinetely :;slant; when father spoke of poor Captain+ Granet's death?" "Because I oouad'n't agree with what, he said," Thomsen replied, "I think) that Geanet's death in exactly that; fashion wee the best thing that could; possibly' have happened, for hint andj for all of us," She shivered as she looked at him,, "Aree't you a little cruel?" she, murmured. , "I am not cruel at all," he wssured' her firmly. "Let me quote the words of a greater man—`I leave no enemies„ but the enemies of my country, and for them I have oto mercy.' " "You sold believe that Captain Granet-" "Ther: is no longer any doubt as to his eosnplete guilt, As yea know yourself, the cipherletter warning certain people in London of thecorn- ing raid, passed bhrouge. his handle, Ile even came here to warn you, There were other charges against hint which could have been proved up to the hilt. While we are on this subject,! Geraldine, let me finish with it abso-• lutely. Only a short time ago 1 con- fronted him with his guilt, I gave him ten days during which it was my hope that'he would embrace the only hon- orable course left to him. I took a risk leaving Lim free, but during the latter part of the time he was watched day and night. If he had lived until this morning, there isn't any power on earth could have kept him from the Tower, or any judge, however merci- ful, who could have saved him from for a few yards with the man who is I him over to keep the peace. I've never; being shot." •. ) - — CHAPTER X.XXVl.--(Contale ., trds between France and England at Admiral Conyers peid his usual the beginning of the war. There's no morning visit to the Admiralty, bench.; particular si :int about my position ed et hie club and returned !tome that: now. I've had a very hard fight to evening le a state of suppressed ex-! keep it, a very hard fight to make it a cement, He found his wife and Ger- useful one. Until last eight, at y recline alone as ed at once took up his :rate, it hasn't reamed to me that En g; favorite position on the hearthrng. ; lish people realized' that we were at "Among the other surprises of the: war. Now, I hope at last that we are last tweraty-fear hours," he announc-. going to take the gloves off. I)o you ed, "I received one to -day which al-iknow," he went on, a little later "that most took my breath away. It hada to France they think we're mad Hon - reference bo a person whom you both! eatly, in my position, if I had had, the know+, French laws at my back I believe that "Not poor Captain Granet?" Lady by to -day the war would have been Conyere asked. "You read about lti ever- As it is, when I started evens y s in 1 f had to. of course?" irrl' pest was a •farce. We i "Nothing to do with Granet, poor i knuekle under, the whole of the time. fellow," the Admiral coantinued. to the civil authorities, They wanted, "Listen I was walking• if yeti please i to fine a spy ten shillings or bo bind pnaetic:liy responsible to -day for the conduct of the war. At the corner ef Pall Mall, we came farce to face with Thonwon. I nodded and we were pass- ing an, When to nay astonishment my companion stopped and held out both his hands. 'Thomsen, my dear fellow,' he said, 'I camo, round to your rooms today but you wore engaged three or four deep. Not another word save this --thanks ". When we write ou+' bistoxy, the country will knew what it owes you. At rr 4er,:, ti ani ,' " •"•Major Tie:mscn? I sly Conyers gasped. "Hugh?" Geraldine e'hoed, Thc Admiral wailed. "We teasel on," he continued, "and 1 s•'" to hl ' 11h2, `Woo that Thom fie. thIn4pector Cf Field Me- i" cre- i sit'• Its n•p :ai rel as ere sty dent t 1. d.eeerely you karer that c a i,!ir:f? Thomsen is he;:3 r, th, entire 3111itary Ir gear,: I11•p -tin-nt. He has re, rank of a /leder •r• -(;Cr rd waiting for hire :lee, rlarce to take at. Ile prefer; a, "remain as far as piss a!e unkr wn a a unr±:•ogrrzed, because it helps him v-!tn ha work: Now, listen! You've rete in all tine papers, of course, that he had warning of what was conies;, last night, that the ma- ,' ia- u" u every ligh3 in London had been ex- t inguiehonry -re en • u .. d e n .station was g doubly aranned? Well. the warning we rete,'ve:l was due to Thomson and no one else!" "And to think," Lady Conyers ex- claimed, "that we were half afraid bo tell your father that Hugh WWI tem - nag to dinner'!" Geraldine had slipped from the room. The Admiral blew hue nese. "I hope Geraldine's going to be sen- sible," he said. "I've always main- tained that Thomson was a fine fellow, only Geraldine seemed rather carried away by that young Granet. Poor fellriw! One can't say anything about hint now, but fie water just the ordinary type of showy young soldier, not fit te'hold a :andle to a man like Thom- • , Lady Conyers was a little startled, "You have such sound judgment, Seymour," she murmured+. Thomson was a few minutes late for dinner but even the Admiral forgave Tum. "Just ourselves. 'Thomson," he said1 as they made their way into the dining -room. "What a shock•the Chief gave me to lar: You've kept things pretty +lurks In+.;terror of Hospitals,' indeed!" Thomsen smiled. "That was my excuse," he explain- ed, "for --arming backwards and for- zbetiE No. 59—'2i; had to fifor hing so hard in "It is tae awful "she faltered If my life es I've had to fight once or; yet it makes site so ashamed, Hugh, to twice for my file of men . at the Towerthink that I could not have trusted you ; At the beginning ef the war we'd' mere absolutely," eatrh them absolutely red-handed. AU, He opened his pooketebook and a they had to do was to surrender to tittle flush of color came suddenly into the civil authorities, and we had a city; her cheeks,, Ile dhow out the ring , magistrate !coking up statutes to see'siletntly, '-how to deal with them." "Will you trust yourself now and g) an yt "There are a good many things finally, Geraldine?" he asked, which will make strange reading after She held out her finger. the war is over," the Admiral semi "I shall be so proud and so happy grimly. "I fancy that my late de -1 to have it again," she whispered. "I partment will provide a few sense.- do realty feel as though I had behaved tions. Still, our very mistakes are like a foolish child, and• I don't like our justification. We were about se;; the feeling at all, because in these ready for war as Lady Conyers there, days one should be more than ordi- is to play Rugby football for Oxford," i naxity serious, shouldn't one? Shall I "It has taken us the best part of a'be able to make it up to you, Hugh, year to realize what war means, de you think?"' Thomxcn Laser:tel. "Even now there! He stooped to meet her lips. are people whom ore meets every days "There is an atonement you might meaning will Le conveyed to the baby mind. My two-year-old girlie was so ter- ribly frightened by a news account of some Belgian dhildren• who were asp-. arated from their parents and herded in a box car during the German in- vasion, that I had a serious time with her for more than a year. Some of us read the item aloud with no thought that it would affect the baby, but 1 saw at once that she was unduly alarmed and it soon dawned upon me that she expected something of the kind to ha to u . It u less Apert s was se to tell her that no one but herself wanted mamma. end no one but mam- ma wanted her, and that all these things happened so far away they couldn't came to us, She still had a haunting dread that they might. , I could sympatihize with her when I re- called with what horror I had heard an account of cannibalism in my vary early childhood and how surely I had expected to be eaten. The fact that the child is not easily reassured indi- cates no lack of confidence eibher in the veracity of the parents or in their care and protection; I know, because I remember distinctly thinking that my people did it belieye cannibals would get me and that they would surely protect me if they could, but I was horribly afraid the savages would aur - prise them some day and maybe eat us all. A child has no comprehension of distance and when he knows a thing happens anywhere, why not on mamma's lawn or in her garden? My own little girl's fear of German headers, took rather an amusing, but very annoying turn one day when had company. A friend and neighbor, who had spent several years in the west, was home with his ;bride. Be- ing a teacher and very much in de- mand, he began teaching here soon after his return. He wantod'to make friends with her but she was very sus- picious. The climax came when he told her he had a great many more little girls in his school' room every day. How she serealned9 She clung to me with all her might and was se evident- ly terrified that I didn't dare refuse to euddlc her. I had to take her to an,. other room and it was almost impos- sible to leave the baby to bid them good-bye. She streamed every time she saw that man, and the terribly frightened leek in her eyes warned me By POROTHd( ETHI:L WALSH. Artific €al Flowalre Are Applied to Piiteelee and foetus a well decoration. row blue band was placed en the grtamo. 'rhe result you cab -eco In tea Flower pictures are much In vogue, lend decorated plaques are taking emir places also es wall decorations. A clever women,! know, however, solved the problem of an overmantet decors- Oen In a moat original manner, The plaques on sale In the shopsshe found R little more eapenslvo than she could afford, and yet they were so 102511' that she hated to give up the idea. The style that meetly Intrigued her was that, with an urn In bas re- lief, with Cho artificially prepared 'flowers emerging from it and the en- tire thing placed against an ova! black .wooden plaque framed' in red Januar, The artificial flowers were witabi the limit of her auras, so gibe purchased n most delectably colored bunch, and on thename shopping tour she secured a sheet of black mind - board and Homo white. When at home elle secured an Illus- tration of an urn of pleasing lines and traced It onto the white cardboard. She then clipped the stems of the flowers as close as possible and glued them (the stems) as flat as she could onto the black cardboard, She then cut .out the white cardboard urn and glued it !n turn on to the black' and over the stems of tho flowers casing it a little at that point. A black wooden frame was tho next step and to make It complete a nar- picture, I think the woman Is Justified In feeling proud, 0 crkilf Don't Frighten the Baby. It isn't generally supposed that babies or young -children pay any at- tention to news items or ether natter' whidh their elders chance to read aloud, or that they would understand it if they did, but it would often be 1 well to be much more careful than we are' about these things; the little brain is alert and active, the child hears what we least suepect, crud no human being can anticipate what unexpected that I must be careful with her, for its was no common fear. I soon diseover- 1ed that she thought he was the Ger- ' man who stole those Belgian children and now he had come for •her. Let us think twice before we read sensational news where the baby can hear—it won't sound to baby ears as it does to us. Mary's Little Lunch. Mary had a 'little lunch, To tell the honest truth wh,, seem to be living in abstractions." "Last night's raid ought to wake e few of them up," the Admiral grunt- • ed. "I should like to have shown those devils where to have dropped a few of their little toys. There are ono or two men who were making a lot of laws not se long ago, who'd have had a hole in their roofs." Geraldine iattghed softly. "I really think that dad feels more bloodthirsty n hen he talks about some of our politicians than he does about the Germans," she declared. "Some of our worst enemies ere at !tome, anyway," Sir Seymour insisted, "and we shall never get on with the war till we've weeded them out." "Where did the nearest bomb to you deep?" Thomson inquired. "The corner of St. James's Street," Sir Seymour replied. "There were two houses in Berkeley Street alight, and a hole in the roof of a house in Hay Hill. The bomb there didn't explode, though. Sad thing about young Gran - et, wasn't it? He seems to be the only Service man who suffered at all." Lady Conyers shivered syinpathetio- aa:ly. "It was perfectly ghastly," she mur- mured. "A very promising young officer, I should think," the Admiral continued, "acid a very sad death. Brings things home to you when you remember that it was only yesterday he was here, poor fellow!" • Geraldine and her mother rose from their places a few minutes later. The latter looked up at Thomson as he hold open the door. "You won't be long, will you?" she begged. "You can take him with you, if you like" the Admiral declared, alto ris- ing ' -ing clar to his feet. "Ifo doesn't drink port and the cigarettes are in your room. I have to take the Chair at a recruit - Ing meeting at Holborn in a quarter of an hour, The car's waiting now, You'll excuse me, won't you, Thom- sen?" "Of course," the Iatter assented. "1 most leave early myself. I have to go back to the War Office." Geraldine took his arm and led him into the little morning-a'ooin. "You see, I am carrying you off in the most bare -faced fashion," she be- gan, ,motioning hint to a seat by her side, "but really you are Such an elusive person, and only this morning, in the midst of that awful thunder of bombs, when we stood on the roof and :looked at London breaking out into flames, I couldn't help thinking— remembering, I mean—how short a time it is since you and I were face ,to face with the other horror and you saved my life: Do you know, I don't thinik khat I have ever said `thank you' -mot properly" "I think the words may go," heanswered. smiling. "It was a hersi'ble time while at Lasted but it was soon ever. The worst .part of it was seeing those others, whew we could net help, deiftitr'g by." "I should have been with them but for you," she sold quietly, "Don't think that I don't know it. Don't 1 Intake, dear," he ventured. "Do you. remember a suggestion of mine at one of those historic luncheons of Lady Anselman's?" She laughed into his eyes for a moment and then looked away. "I was wondering whether you had forgotten that," she confessed. (The -End.) Out of Her Poverty. It was a cold, dark evening, and the city lights only intensified by their sharpcontrast the loom of the storm. g It was the time when wealthy shop- pers were eating hot dinners, and when the shop -girls were plodding home, many too poor to ride tired with the long day's standing and work. One girl washurrying homeme through the slush, atter a hard day's work. She was a delicate girl, poorly dressed, and wholly unable to keep out the winter's cold, with a thin fall cloak. She was evidently very timid and self. absorbed. A blind man was sitting in an alley by the pavement, silently offering pen- cils for sale to the heedless crowd. The wind and sleet beat upon him. He had no overcoat. His thin hands clasped with purple fingers the wet, sleet•covered pencils. He looked as if the cold had congealed him. The girl passed the man, as did the rest of the hurrying crowd. When she had walked half a block away she tumbled in her pocket, and turned and walked back. For a moment she looked, intently at the vender of pencils, and when she saw that he gave no sign, she quietly dropped a ten -cent piece into his lin- gers, and walked on. But she was evidenly troubled, for her steps grew slower. Then she stopped, turned, and walk- ed rapidly back to the dare alley, and the man half hiding in it Bending over him, she Bald softly, "Are you really blind?" The man lifted his head and showed her his sightless eyes. Then with an indescribable gesture he pointed to his breast. There bung the dull badge of the Grand Army of the Republic. "I beg your pardon, sir," she said humbly. "Please give me back my ten cents." "Yes, ma'am," he answered, and held out the coin. She took out her purse, It was a very thin one. It contained but two dollars, one-third of her week's hard e earnings—all she had, She put one dollar of it into his hand saying, "Take this instead and go home now; you ought not to sit here in this bitter wind," No Improvement. Four-year-old Hilda had been visit- ing her two comets, romping, bolster. ons boys, who had teased her sadly the whale time. When she came book and was telling her tattier about her visit', she said: "Duddy every night whoa Jack and Boger say their prayete they ask God to make theta good boys." "That's quite right," said her father. "But," she added significantly, "he hasn't done 11 yet," Too little; quite' inadequate; It wouldn't fill a tooth! It went with her, this little lunch, This paper, bread and bacon, To school each day; she lost her punch, Her health was sadly shaken! 'Til Mary's school served every day A warm milk soup nutritious. Now ask her how she feels; she'll say, "0h, boy, I feel auspicious -I" Everyday yda Uses for Common Salt. 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Canada has Melly end valuable ltnown copper deposits which en. their present purely partial stato:•of,•develop• meet are already aoeoueting for four per Cent, of the world's copper produce tion, Native Copper occurs In Canada in a number of different localities, widely spread over the Dominion, It has been found to occur In the Mari- time Provinces on both sides of .the Flay of I{'undy; at is known to occur In Ontario along the eat Coast et Lalte. Superior: it has been found in Central British Colutnbla; and in Quebec, es- poelally in the Eastern Townships, numerous occurrences of copper sul- phide minerals, have been dise4yored. More recent explorations have eon - firmed old information of important deposits along the Arctic coasts of Canada near Coronation Gulf and Vic- toria Land. None of these deposits are being exploited commercially, Copper at the present time, is de- rived in Canada from tate Eastern Townships of Quebec, from Sudbury and Cobalt distracts of Ontario, from the Mandy Mine et Northern Mani- toba, from the Whitehorse district of the yukou Had trotu many mines in British Columbia. Smelting is en. gaged in by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Trail, the Canada Copper Corporation of Copper Cliff, Ont„ and the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company of 4anooulier, B.C. The smelter at Trail produces refined copper also and also treats in its re- finery blister deeper (rent the other ameltore, Total Production for 1920. 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