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Bn Im The Collings' party was g {ng on, and Lady Judith had wandered away | from the crowd into a little boudoir glving out of a larger salon, It pleased her to affect being quite at home in this house, as if she had possessed her. self of the African contingent: She had not so many emotions now but that she had to make the most of them, and she was intelligent enough to know that while everyone scoffed at her new enthusiasm, everyone envied her, for African millionaires are not to be found every day. Upstairs, mercifully, Lady Glaucourt had forgotten that she wasn't at home, and was, receiving her own friends with some show of cordiality, while she occasionally turned towards some cquaintance standing near, whenever she saw anyone approachng whom the Gollings had 'insisted on asking, and whom: she did not wish to know, more than that, whose presence she wanted to ignore; for, in her quiet 'way, Mrs. Golling had insisted on at least half a! dozen acquaintances, and one or two | of " the firm and their wives. The Duchess was there, and. Lord Eustace, and apparently the party was a suc- cess, 'and Judith had come to look for the millionaire. Lady Judith's little conspiracy with Mrs. Golling had sucteeded and he was here -tought, but it had needed some manoeuvring to get hm to promise to come, He was not offendéd at not having been asked sooner, but hé had an idea that he wasn't wanted. It had 'Then, as the older Golling insisted,| becoming almost abusive, the other # that mine, you can buy i of price he gave for it." "It was a daring offer took the younger but the older man one which knew what he was Il give up him at the. Lieb's breath away, | about. He knew that the Gollings had| not thé money to buy the mine, far less to exploit it, and old Golling had given in. What they could never for glye was that he made no further pro- posals, 'while every few months Adolphe devoted the proceeds of the first mine to buy up another, till every mine worth speaking about, belonged to him, belonged to the firm of Golling and Lieb, while only the control of the first 'one belonged in any way to Goll*| ing. 5 i "If you once let them, know how, many diamonds you have," the older man had warned him, 'they are such® fools, those two, that they will launch, them all on the market inorder to rea- lize a' big fortune, and they will ruin the diamond trade. You have enough diamonds néw to sell for three gen- erations, and by that time yon will have found other mines." And the old man had been right in every one of his prognostications, and at every turn almost, Adolphe Lieb had had reason to rejoice at the fact that with the other mines 'Golling, fa- ther and son; had nothing to do. As been Lady Judith's mission to persuade | he had perceived when he had stayed him that he was. with them as a boy, they were nei- The luncheon had passed off very [ther business-like nor scrupulous, and' pleasantly, enhanced by the presence |the very. crisis of Lieb's power lay in of Johanna and Madame Dufour, who | the fact of the name for honesty borne while.she had been the witness of Ju-|by the Lieb's. 3 dith's most agonized moments, yet had "I'd rather see Lieb himself," was a personality which smoothed andthe. oft-repeated remark when any bridged them over, rather than brought | business transaction was on: foot, and them "to the memory = Golling under | once or twice Lieb had tried to buy the impression left in his mind by | Golling out. He cidn't like the asso: Lady Glaucourt's words, was a good | ciation of the name, and because Gol Glaucourt's words, was a good deal deal more corial than usual to his part- ner, and Adolphe Lieb himself was awed into admiration of Judith's beauty. Probably because he was a Jew, the Madonna presentment pleased | him, and because he was an artistic be- ing her beauty satisfied him. Most of all, her simplicity in a city of complica- tions so far as he was concerned, put him at 'his ease, for London had not yet proved the Mecca of his dreams. How much this was due to Golling, | how much to the stories set afloat about, him by his insistence to please | himself in the matter of the Kaffir wo-' man, how much 'because he himself bad failed to please, he had not yet analysed. All he knew was that for all his huge fortune he was not having much of a time.. This was the first year he had spent a season in London. Hitherto, his visits had been entirely on business, and he had not only met the men with whom he did business, and those of the great who were direct- ly or iadirectly concerned with South Afrfea, with concessions, with com- panies, with mines. With these he had made a favorable impression. More thna one had 'suggested to his' wife that Lieb should be asked to dinner, but always the question arose: "Isn't there something odd, isn't there a black woman living wth him?" and only the bravest, or those who needed to be friends with him for their . own. purposes asked him' to their homes. So far he had hearly always been' entértained by the "he" of the house at a club. For the last two years he had lived at an hotel. Now at last he had his magnificent house'in Park Lane which threw all the other houses into the shade. It was a palace, a pal- ace to which the glaringly white stone work and. the many porches and ter- races gave an Oriental aspect, at least when the sun shone upen it. What it needed to complete the illusion was an arid desert stretched behind it. It is the want of space for its buildings which makes London so hideous. But the house because of its size depressed him, the silence emphasized by its dis- tances; all corridors with doors shut in his face, slammed it seemed to him, at the end of them. It would have been | still . more for Azuma, Azuma who loved him, who would not leave him, who had" convinced him that divided] from her his luck would depart. » And hitherto it had seemed. so. All that hetouched turned to gold, and al- ways it had been the result of follow- ing Azuma's advice. Azuma who was at once a prophetess and a soothsayer, yet who had not the least appearan€e fa witch. y Ta Old Heinrich Lieb was dead now, "but as if with sheltering wings, his ad- vice, his assistance followed .on, hov- ng about his son, and for all that it was only ten years ago, it seemed a wer > at > Ta Tot fay ho Lieb had found the money r his son to corner the diamond mar- { It had not been unfraught with 'that great act which had be: '{ago in order to sleep at J ling recognized thet it was a source of annoyance, even more than because he recognized the prestige thé Hnking of 'the names gave him, Golling had clung to the original contract and re- fused the most alluring offers to be displaced. At one time Adolphe had found himself, after his father's death, | with the two Gollings arraigned against him, and without his father's clairvoyant intelligence to guide him. More than once he had just escaped some nasty situations inventéd by them to entangle his credit, or sully his financial reputation, and always, it seemed to him, it I ad been Azuma who saved him. And Golling, having the advantage of being English, and mar- ried to an English wife, had establish: ed himself in London three years be- fore Lieb, in order to spread abroad his propaganda of hate. Then a year after old Lieb's death, the elder Goll- ing and his schemes had vanished to- gether, in the enfolding arms of death, and Lieb had found the son, because of their earlier friendship perhaps, a little easier to deal with, at least so it seemed to him. And it had pleased =the younger Golling to go about London proclaim. | ing that the scheme had been his, and; that if it had not been for a low Jew! trick it would be Golling and Golling, | instead of Golling and Lieb, and that | Then ohe day Lieb had his eyes opened by the woman who seemed to preside over. his destiny, the while he os would have been the richer man. iled a life in which she had so small a part... ¢ 3 Golling had told him that if he would finance the Jameson raid Eng- land would be grateful, that the gov- ernment would recognize his services, the services which, whoever set them on foot, and the truth will never be known till the grave gives up its dead,! was the first herald of the Boer war. Golling had come all the way from London to tell him this at his lovely Villa near Johannesburg, and it seem- ed to him after reading letters from people whose names he did not know, that it must be true. ; .That night remainéd indelibly im- pressed on Adolphe's mind, the night on which ambition had flaunted her- self in his face, following on the heels of wealth, and whispered that if he did this thing he would be like a king. On just such a night as this, Azuma had awakened him from sléep and! told him to follow her, and he followed her to the very foot of rainbow, it seemed to him, where he had found the pot of gold. ] Golling had left him but an hour 'ohannesburg and catch a morning train 'The very fact that he hac this way merely to spend th jmpressed Lich v Lie ho Skull' Cap' with Horse A very chic: Tooking 'tote is this skull cap of straw Td, | of Paris. ' Shadow. checked taffeta runs through vertical 'bands alr Brshes-- Latest trom Paris. of by Cora Marsan of straw, .and surmounting the brim are two horse hair brushes set in ornate cups: called him, and she crept on to the; wide verandah, br Yes, yes," he spoke a little impa- tiently, he was encased in thought, impervious to all outer impressions. "England 'asks me to do this," he murmured, almost aloud, and her dark eyes sought his face. She pointed to the moon. "Just like that it was - the night Azuma took you up there." She pointed: in the direction of the mine, which lay miles away, a differ- ent place now, with its machinery, and its erowd of miners' huts, to what it had been ten years ago, and yet be- cause it had been his first, Adolphe had built his house beneath the sha- Jow of the mountain which sheltered gt : : Ars He threw away his cigar, walked to the front of the porch, folded his hands behind his back and looked in- to the night: ENG "Yes, Azuma, that was a wonderful shing that you did." And:then spee deserted him. 'Outside the night seer] ed to throw its witchery upon him, while within surged a tumult of. thought too great for utterance. "What did he say, the white man?" She hated Golling, and Adolphe laughed. oe 4 He did not count her inquisitiveness impertinence. She always asked him "about his affairs; 'and he could trust her, he knew it, above everyone in the world. "He told her what had passed. "And he has told you lies, lies." "Are they les?" He turned suddenly. "I will tell you." She drew, from her belt a little bag and knelt on the verandah. And laughing, Adolphe seated him- self on the parapet of the verandah and watched her. How often.she had done this and he had laughed, yet al- ways she 'had been right. And she drew from the bag a quan- tity of little white pebbles, that gleam- ed in the darkness like marbles, bones she had told him they were of great African chiefs, and the bonés of the dead could speak of the future. Always when she did this, she re- minded him of the way she had piled up his few coins on her lap that night and said, "plenty, plenty, very much." And because she had been right that time, becausé she had established her power of bringing luck once, she had obtained an' ascendancy over his su- 'perstitiousness, so that he had inter | woven her image with all his dreams of wealth and power. - Then she step- ped across the verandah descending the steps with her bare feet, with cat- like, rapid tread, and began scraping the sand from the front pathway over which the hated Golling had trodden. He 'had seen the perfo 50-0! ten, that he never 3) lay across it, and poured the upon them, a ttle after the fash: RED CROSS WORK. What Our Boys at the Front Most ; Need. Toronto, June 1.--The following official ~ announcement. has been made by the mittee -- appreciation of the 'Canadian .Contin- s sent to them y War Conti , of which the N: tional Service Committee is a re- presentative in Canada. i In this connection, an interesting letter has been received by Mrs. 4 Plumptre, Secretary of the Nation- al Bervice Committee, from Mr. J. G. Colmer, Hon. Secretary of the C.W.C.A. . In the course of his. letter Mr. Colmer says ;--"The arrangements of the War Office for the supply of clothing and food to. the troops are excellent, and the men are able to get. what they. require as and when it i8 needed from the official stores. This information comes from the Government, and it is confirmed by our communications from the front, both by letter and in person. There is no doubt, however, that large and regular supplies of socks and colored handkerchiefs: will be wel- comed in addition to the Govern- ment supplies, for reasons that are obvious, and also other extra com- forts which cannot be : obtained from Jovernment stores, and it is just suchtartioles that we are nding to thém." : Mr. Colmer Jowing-articles or money to provide them are specially needed : Tobac- coy pipes, cigarettes, matches, soap, cocoa, cake, toilet paper, writing paper; bootlaces, bachelor buttons, insect powder, . games, boxing Slaves, football, baseball out- ts, magazines, books, newspapers. 'While 'we shall no doubt 'receive: regular supplies of socks from Can- ada throu National others," rvice Committee and continues Mr. 'Colmer, "money will also be very useful to | ase of the other hee i use for the pi articles dine' National Service, Com- |. tates that the fol: the: good offices of the has the power to do thi SF At is made: from the plant | this quality. . Ferment ¢ ron equivalent to burning it,' with typhus and various forms of infectious malady. are checked. Typhus, dysentery, smail- pox, -diphtheria, have swept over the place with devastating effects. Last week only 20 men out of 750 'could stand on their feet. The silence of the camp is broken only by sighs and groans, buf when a mes' in sight the sick! 8p if they can and ory pitifully, 'For the love of God give us water, give us bread." , There they lie in utter wretched- ness. Here and there one finds a raging, un- 'here and there a little | a tress, straw, but the bulk of the sick men are stretched out on the muddy ground. Their 'clothes are foul and. alive: with the. vermin which spread the dead] "typhus; The Serbs are kind to these prisoners, but when fhe : of pus or enteric has astened upon. hir e - Austrian takes his noe with the rest, and this is sometimes a sorry one, ip Since the commencement of the war 63 Serbian doctors have died in the course of their unequal strug- gle with disease. One young man' of 23, a medical student, died re- cently. 'Another Serbian doctor recently died of typhus, and as he was being buried 'his young wife died at home of the same dread ay. s This heart-rending description of conditions existing in one of our allies' countries cannot fail to touch the generous Seana of she Oana, dian people. urgical supplies an comforts of all kinds are sorely needed, and these may be sent to 77. King Street East, ron are we Sosults One 8 the: ion nic gas. A great. of this gas'is caught in the d ughe in the form of large or small bub- bles, and some of it escapes info f the air. The part that cannot es: capse causes the dough to rise and make bread light. and r : The holes in the bread are the . little pockets which held the car- boni¢ acid gas; . The effect. the bubbles'is to lift the body of dough so that the heat cam penetrate readily and bake it properly. . ite Md x How Miorobes Sour Milk. lf it were possible to keep milk trom the air it would mot turn spur, But the mischievous microbe say those who. study its ways and ravages, is constantly in the air, + siive, "though invisible, and ready to drop 'into 'the milk when it can But, "how de-mierol on the : milk sour? you ask ell, they are very fond of sugar and delight in gratifying their liking®by turning the sugar "in milk "into an acid which sours the milk: : arm milk "ig particuls ing to the microbe and fa to its operations; The™ mic does not get along well under chi! ing conditions, and that is yh the sweetness of the milk can preserved if it is kept cold. ° Boiling 'milk changes the sug in such a 'way that. the microbe" cannot feed upon it. ¥ 'whence they will be forwarded to | - Lady Boyle, who is in charge of the Besbian. lad 'Cross Society in the absence of Madame Groui @ United. States. Donations Berbian Relief Fund may be sent to Bir Edward yle, Bart., 63 Queen's Gate, London, 8.W., Eng- ren a And many a man 'Who is capable of giving good advice isn't capable of earning his salt \ 'Sure cure and "at any 3 |ngetme ro "Chol, Ciires La 0 b : 3 ns for the| EE SUSPENDER Bud NONE -SO-EAS "" DISTEMPER =5:5%.2 at any age re rood or Ey Sh Tink ws era in Poultry. Li >