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THE FATE^F AZUMA; Or, The South African Millionaire. CHAPTER XVII.â€" (Cont'd). "Well, well, we must see what we can do. Ah, you ladies, when jewels are concerned, you have no hearts. You are all the same." He took a little case from his pock- et, on the white velvet cushion of which reposed three diamonds infin- itely more lovely than those he had g:iven awa^, and he hooked them on to the chain. "In my country," he said, "we al- ways give the biggest gift to the youngest person present, to-night I think that that is Lady Judith. Please Lady Judith accept a small remem- brance of my dinner party, and I hope that one day I may have the pleas- ' before"nie.'^ dulously; such innocence on the part of Judith with all her experience was difficult to believe in. Judith shrugged her shoulders. - "I don't see what it matters to any- one, as long as it doesn't to me, he says that if he were to part with her, he would lose all his fortune, she brings him luck or whatever it is." "Hm," Lady Glaucourt's lips seem- ed to have grown suddenly thinner. "Those kind of women are suppos- ed to bring luck, I believe." Judith laughed. "I am dying to see her, and I hope we shall." "I hope you will not mention her ure of welcoming you all at "Hid- away" (Hidaway was his place near Johannesburg). He turned and gave an order to one of the servants. So far as he was concerned the incident was closed. So might a Sultan have given jew- els to the woman he had chosen to swell the number of beauties in his harem, or a Pacha have thrown his handkerchief to a dancing girl, and that impression conveyed itself to everyone. This showed that her mother was going. In the carriage Judith told her mo- ther: "If we wander away mother, don't I follow us, because I believe that he'll propose to-day. I think that is why he asked us." "I suppose that it won't take long," said her mother a little wearily. Judith laughed. i "I can't time him, mother, but I'll try to make him do it as quickly as 1824 ' IS!' '•"^m, m^iii^m Detaining her by a gesture in the half shadow of the corridor leading to the boudoir he whispered: "After tea I want to ask you some- thing . . . you remember what I told you about my house, do you re- member?" Yes, she remembered so well that little runnels of joy seemed to fill themselves in her being, and to bring delicious thrills. "You have said so many things," she answered evasively, laughing a little from sheer relief of mind, and moving after the others. "This time I shall only say one thing," he spoke gravely. And the silence seemed to him as if she had answered. And here standing near the tea table stood Azuma, Azuma dressed in fantastic dress by her master, some- what after the fashion of an Arab wo- ^ man, with long draperies of exquis- I ite embroidered stuff and round her arms and ankles bracelets, of brut jewels uncut, barbarous, but of in- calculable value. The light from a window of Murano glass threw rain- bow tints across her, giving some- thing weird and unhuman to her ap- f>earance, while little odd patches of i^ht from the afternoon sun made high lights on her dark skin as if she were made of polished bronze. And she stood, too, as if she were made of bronze, motionless, yet a little defiantly, while her eyes seem- ed to scan Lady Glaucourt's ample ] knew Nietzsche by heart. "He glanced figure with wonder, and to /all with | ^t me coldly as he answered, 'I en- sudden swift inquiry upon Judith as , Ugt^d because I am an Englishman.' " she entered the room. „ â- â- â€¢j^.i^uii. This was the room in which some- ««â- â€¢Â« 'f .* ''"^'P '"".^f"' °* **'^J.*^* times of an evening Azuma brought I general inspection. While standing him his "cibouk" and came herself to I easy, the men compared their razors, squat at his feet and tell him the to find that 30 per cent, of them had 1915 CAltt IF you want sugar that is abso- lutely pure, and as deeui as when it left the refinery, you can depend on getting it in :::s>!l â- â€¢K'tig ,Mii^ ,W5 2-Ib. and 5-lb. Sealed Cartons. 10, 20, 50 and 100-lb. Cloth Bags. ''Canada's favorite Sugar for three Generations" CANADA SUGAR REHNINC CO„ UMITED. MONTREAI. 133 But to Judith it was not repellent. : poggjbig^ anyhow there^l be lots for After all, if it were not for the dia- y(,jj ^^ i^q^ ^^ » monds they would none of them be ^ ..j^ jg g,, fatiguing looking at other here to-night. ..people's things, that is the beauty of If he never did propose she would „„„^ „^„ „„„ no,rn,- in^Uc of thnm " at least have a beautiful necklace. she said to herself, with a touch of humor. But surely after this he must pro- pose. When Lieb had joined the women in the next room, the men discussed it for a few moments over another cigar. "Why that necklace must be worth about twenty-five thousand pounds," remarked Lord Eustace. Lord Glau- one s own, one never looks at them. Lady Glaucourt was relieved to find that the member of Parliament, who alone was in the secret, had been invited, and told off to keep the mo- ther quiet. He was very fond of Lieb, and quite delighted. He went very little into society, except amongst the phenomena, as he called Lieb, and he had heard nothing. Judith was immensely relieved to see him, for she had told herself that Adolphe wasn't at all the man to be story of her pebbles. Against the wall, beneath an Indian cabinet, stood a tray on which she spread her sand, while she gave him counsed about his investments, prophesied about the Stock Exchange or whis- pered of future great enterprises. It was a room whose beauty you could not gauge at once on account of its discreet adornments, upon you like the mind of a person ! keep in his house: of intellect who is reserved, but "Well, it's like this whom you grow steadily to admire, began. The first impression it made upon "Have you been made in Germany There are a few good atawtg illus- trating the humors of billeting, a process which at first proved rather a strain upon the patriotism of the aloof, reclusive middle-classes. One day an officer asked a hostile elderly citizen, full of paunch and English Drag the Roads. "When the smiles of spring appear Drag the roads; When the summer time is here. Drag the roads, - When the corn is in the ear, . .- I .• •» u _ ,.. V ij "" the winter cold and drear, ^"^'I5r„'^ I ^i" .^: I?f„ ».!!?.t"y ^^^'^'^^ •"= <=°"''l ; Every season of the year, Drag the roads. the man spare court only said that he supposed that j^urried Judith would send it back in the ghe could see by her mother's ex- morning. He would certainly sug- pression as they drove through the gates of the magnificent house which ^, -.^ 1 1 J 1 1-1 .- â€" ''"y room to you was that it was dark, dusky like ^ere?" demanded the officer. Azuma s hair, yet conveying the illu- i.v-..â„¢-. « „«* „- *u_ _ * >> *i. sion of gold dust upon itf like her ^one, except on the mat," was the hair too. The walls were of violet ; '^°"?J'"= answer. wood, grey brown, or black grey, or 1 Two on the mat, then,' snapped grey black, the color of forest shad- the officer, and a pair of tittering gest that she should. 1 "A good deal more than that," over here, said the member of parliament. "It gives one an idea doesn't it of the enormous wealth of South Africa," said Mr. Spencer, who was dying to get some information about" the mines. were opened by a porter, and got down at the door, that her mother was ' satisfied with the appearance of , things. Lieb met them in the hall | with his friend, and took them , straight to the drawing-room, then ..., ^.. . J „ .. /, ,,- he disappeared, asking them to ex-' "Punny thing to do, said GoUing ,.use him I with a cigar between his lips. He I "Will you forgive me? I have al never could resist saying something man there, who has just come from' du^greeable about Lieb. ,.^ , I my office. I will give him a letter, ' ♦vPV^ .*^^ ^"""^r themselves didn't I anj <.„me back in an instant, if you ^P'lK 'I 0"I">' "' ""• ^^*y thought will allow me." While he was gone ows, with its own faint perfume ex- haling slowly, like suppressed scent- ed sighs. But as you remained in the room you saw that there were other things upon the wall, the wall which somehow reminded you of a dark scarab of Egypt. Presently your eye detected faint dead gold traceries let into the wood so delicately, that they were like graceful writing on Tommies were left at the door. To the adventure of the billet he soldier finds the working classes the most sympathetic. They under- stand him, and make him welcome. In the houses of the well-to-do "When you've nothing else to do. Drag the roads; If but for an hour or two. Drag the roads; It will keep them good as new; With a purpose firm and true. Fall in line; it's up to you â€" Drag the roads. burnt paper, like the hieroglyphics ' time they be askin' us about things on the scaral)s, yet barely discernible , that's no concern of theirs at all." Caring for the Little Calves. Everybody has a way of doing he , things and this is my way of taking feels out of it. As one Tommy put i <^«re of the calves, it: "There's nothing we can talk I I have ten good cows which I raised about with the swells, and 'arf the â„¢ysel'. and I found out that to raise it delightful. CHAPTER XVIH. But the day after she had engaged gone Lady Glaucourt chatted with Mr. EU liott, and Lady Judith wandered round the room. | 'I'm not going to look at a thing except where the light touched them ! revealing secrets of craftmanship. And rising nearly two yards in height around the room a wainscotting of trelliced mussharabeah, of the old ap- ; pie pattern which is now extinct, while over the two doors and win- good cows you must begin at the be- ginning. No good results will come from a half-starved, stunted calf. I let the calf suck the cow the first two days. It is better for him and herself to Adolphe Lieb, which was:*'",' hf^e had a cup of tea,' said on the third of June, Judith dwoke ; ^«"y Glaucourt. She had reached a, with some of the ominous dread hov- ^'"'.•^ "^ '"e when tea was quite one ering about her which had character- "'.'t". 5''?^'^ pleasures, because, as she ized her former love affairs. She was 1 ""'9'. 'J '*^ ^as fleeting, it at least again seized with that invincible de- sire to tell her .':tory which had pos- sessed her when she had realized that Sir Hubert .Gresham was about to tell her that he cared for her, only, instead, tho firm decision that it was could be repeated. "I know you will have that directly he comes back," said his friend in the cheerfully resigned voice of one who knowa that he is in for quite two hours of boredom, but who means the right thing to do was missing, *" '"."I'e his martyrdom as pleasant as as it had been when she engaged her- Possible to himself and others, for his self to George Danvers, while she 'â- â- '«"•'* »"''«• Lieb was gone longer tried to porsuade herself that this ?""" j'^ expected, and a sudden feel-; time the millionaire was doing quite '"<?,."' P"/ fe" "" the three. Judith well enough for himself, whether he realized afterwards that she had felt knew or not. She had had too be- 5 sudden return of the old gnawing wildered, too confused, too handicap- '''â- *'"'• ^^l something to do, she ped, a life, to be able to recognize "'«"* 'V t"" window. How yrotty what aroused this feeling again, to everything was, a ridge of pmk ger- see that it was the man who seemed ""'"m? .eji^'ng as it were the green- , to exact sincerity, to deserve it. With ' ff^ visible from the Park opposite. Sir Hube.t it had been her love which | 'M^"."!? ''^ l^""'' to live here if only- dictated sincerity, and her belief in , "",• ?"•-! uttered a little cry and his; now she did not think that she 1 ''''^w.""'''^ *'"""' t*!" w'ndow. A man loved, and she had ceaBcd to trust in I ^'l" had apparently just been shown the love of others. No this time, she ! ""t "f the front door, was walking would not tell, and something seemed' towards the gates, and he looked to whisper that this time there would! "Ke, could it be? No, not dressed so be no hitch of anv kind; then why ! "^''.''''''.y'.ye-''' ""' ye"- "^ had look The young officer in the new armies, who is perfectly amazing in his intelligence, adaptability, and thorough grasp of detail, is the butt j the mother, too, and the calf is more of perpetual pokes and biting sar- j apt to get all the milk than I would casm during his training. "Shout!" | be, thus getting it out of the cow's dows hung curtains of rich brocade, yelled the adjutant to "Eyeglass," bag and into the calf's stomach where deep dull red with delicate embroid- the platoon sergeant, whose voice | it should be, with less trouble and eries of gold. Why was it that the was so low that his men could not i better results. impression it made upon Judith was hear the command. "Don't mumble At the end of this time I milk the that of the inside of an exquisitely like a flapper who has just got her , cow and feed the calf; tie the calf prepared coffin, panelled rooms had fl^st kiss. It's not allowed on par- I where it cannot see its mother, and made that impression on her before, 'j. 1. A„_i.i,._ _„„ ...i, „ . _ 1 :* iu »-"''""i. bcc iin mumer, nim but the darkness of this wood empha- ^^\ Another man who gave a f the weather is cold I wrap some- sized the fancy? ' platoon the wrong direction m dress- j thing round her when the barn doors ing was told "to be careful, and not â-  are open. Never allow a calf to shiver shove the ^ regiment over." A fiery | if you want it to keep well. Welshman's snub for getting unreas- j For the first two weeks I feed new __ I onably angry with two of his men milk as soon as milked, and then I How Lord Kitchener's Raw RecruiU f.""" » sl'pht mistake was conveyed in begin to mix in separated milk by PRESIDENT SUSPENDER NONE SO-EASY did she feel so anxious, so suspicious sometimes ? She even wondered now and then if Madame Dufour had ever said anything about it to Mrs. Golling. At another moment she told herself that she was wicked, ungrateful to those who cared for her, ungrateful to the fates, which at last, if they ha<l not brought her the fairy prince of her dreams, had at least provided her with a colossally rich husband of pleasing personality, and devoted to herself. Yet, till the moment when he act ilespaii And the feeling was revived with realistic force on the very day of her ed back for a moment as if he had forgotten something, and she had seen his face and drawn back. It was Hugh (;iover. At that in.stant the door opened and Adolphe Lieb returned, and the two sitting there had no time to ask her why she had exclaimed as she turned with a white face to scan his features. Her heart was beating so, that she could not speak. Why was Hugh Glover here, what had he told him, whv had he been so long? Ah, it was the old story, the never very her, and in its dying to give birth to groans which tore at her the more. engagement. He had invited her and ^^"T v, / *"â- "' ""' ""^'".u ^''^'"• her mother on the Sunday i^tt^rnoon\^,Zh^JZl''Z\''% JV U^^^ 1 following the dinner, to come and ^"l^^^^^^.l jrlth h 1 l, " l*^'^, •"«' tTtv^'^rhCf '"""'*"' '" ''" *>-, s^Ttctr^uT'^'er't'^I'o hUndra'i!:! s'^idt pretty things. , , . , .^ , , "Adolphe, you know, I know that on^"el^e>^vl"er?rhl's'*tu^^rK:ad^j;7„''"-' ^^ ^^ --^ not desert '""Y\mMrt,T''r'lm';'" whT^L I " *«« ^uite impossible for a few .hoi I i^.l »" T^\ Y i I „ moments to tell wkt was passing in &'..r„.X'^ !'nH wi.w T 1, hi" ">*'"'• »e talked for a few in- httle brutally, and with a finality ^ ^t^^tg t„ Ludy Glaucourt, and he rang Which took her mother 8 breath away. \ f^^ tea. It was quite rea.iy, the hut Evidently Judith meant to marry this ,er gaid, and he, Adolphe, led them to "liut supposing after all that - ^ *''•' '""^'' "^ '*•" ''""««• ^r. Elliott means nothing." Were Made Into Fighting Men. Rifleman Patrick MacGill, of the Irish Rifles, author of "Children of the Dead End," has written a jolly little book about "The Amateur Army," giving glimpses of every stage in the training, from raw "rooky" to finished fighter, based on hia own experiences. One day, out of curiosity, he asked some of his mates why they enlisted. "Well, matey," said his friend, the good-natured cockney, grinning sheepithly, "I done it to get away from my old gal's jore â€" now you've got it!" Another type in the most democratic army in his- | Cause for Dislike. "I don't like that man." "Don't like him? Why, my fellow, you don't know him!" , . , „. , .u L I ' 'That's why I don't like him. tory was a pale, intelligent youth who refuses to meet me." the remark that "he had only them on appro'." got She Knew. "I aiq collecting for the suffering poor." "But are you sure they really suf- fer?" "Oh, yes, indeed. I go to their houses and talk to them for hours at a time." dear He FRENCH WOMAN AVIATOR WAS CHASED BY A TAUBE AIRSHIP "Oh, my dear mother." Her mother's want of perspicuity always irritated Lady Judith he pioneering Lady Glaucourt. "No, not that way, up here, now down that passage, here we are." "He knows the house better than I do," Adolphe called out to Lady .^." :..'!/jl"?u'::/!ur.'"...l'lL"'l' .^."^ Glaucourt, who was in the front, while he walked beside Lady Judith, Lady Judith silent, horror-struck. "I never saw such a house, why it's like a hv.ge country house, you really ought to have chairs to take us about, I those things on wheels, they have .. . â-  , â-  .,, .. - i at exhibitions," exclaimed Lady Glau- thing so immoral, why it's as if you | court, pausing on the threshold of the do you suppose that that woman will be there?'' "(Certainly she will be there, she is always going to be there." Her mother couldn't believe her ears. "Why, Judith, I never heard any were marrying a Mormon or a Turk or some Mohammedan, or other, who i are the people who have lots of I wives?" Judith laughed. ' i "How ab.surd you are Mamma, why ! rhe'r. in (hinn: but a sort of servant, ai women wh^i tells his fortune, who ad- 1 vise- li ni about his speculations, he' ti!" t . all »:bout it." •0 veil believe ail that?" ;.i;.'.)urt looked at her incre- door of an Egyptian boudoir, leading onto a terrace, screened from the back of the other houses by flowers and plants interspersed with bird-cages full of birds. "Now you are going to see Azuma," he whispered to Judith. Was she mistaken or did he speak just as usual? Yes, in another moment she was qufto sure, and the reaction almost made her faint. He Struck at That Mike was employed as handyman at a big ship-building yard in the North of England. On him fell most of the disagreeable jobs, and he was much in request for lifting the heavi- est weights. On the eve of a recent launch, wh*n the huge vessel was standing ready, on the stocks for the morrow's grreat event, Mike went to the foreman and demanded his pay. "What for?" asked his foreman, in astonishment. "Surely you're not thinking of leaving usT" "'Deed, and I am," replied Mike sourly. "Since I've been here I've done some heavy lifting, but" â€" and^ he pointed first to the finished ship,' and then to the barricade on the banki of the river â€" "I'm hanged if I'm go-j ing to lift that thinff over the fence. to-morrow." * Only one Englishman has evcTi been elected Pope of Rome. degrees, adding at first a third, then a half and when a month old I give all separated and take care to have it warm. Buckwheat shorts and bran are good, but never put them in the milk. Have a small box nailed in a conveni- ent place on the manger or side of the wall and fill with dry feed. The calf will soon learn to help itself. When six weeks old put clover hay within reach; this will aid tho diges- tion and increase growth. If eggs are plenty break one or two in the milk, and you will be sur- prised at its sleekness. Flies are the worst things to stunt the growth of calves as they take so \ much blood, and the young animals | should be protected from the pests. ! I tried spraying last summer with ' fair results, but I did not depend en- ' tirely upon this. I put my calves in the barn every afternoon during the warmest weather and gave them hay. Another thing that stunts the growing heifer is dehorning. I avoid this by rubbing on caustic potash when the horns first start, first clip- , ping away the hair. It will smart ' for a while but that is all and no horn will ever grow. j My heifers usually come in when 2 Ml or three years old and make ex- cellent cows, and this is how I raise them.â€" N.A.B. netL UNHl lloh'iio Diiti'lcii Is |irnli«lily llio only \voninn nvlaliir who h:;.s iiiirlU-ltmt- i-i\ 111 (III- pi-osfnt «nr. llt-r aercplniic \v«n cluisctl In iui«!-»li' Ity a (•oriiion 'niiilM-. TIiIn woinuii took imit In iJic uu<->ul dcXouuc ut I'uiis, but she Is now Ui Uie United Slates. Stop and Think First Before buying new machinery, it is well to consider the following ques- | tions: i Will the use of the new machine^ give me a larger net return from the crops on which it is used? | Will the new machine reduce the ' demand for man labor? Where a machine is required only a few days each year, can it not be ; rented more cheaply than purchased? Will the money to be invested re- turn more in some other way? Has the machine been thoroughly tried by others and found satisfac- tory. ^1 Her Mistake. The small girl walked thoughtfully into the house from the vegetable garden. }- "Mother," said she, "have green â- â€¢ gooseberries legs?" Mother laughed. j "Of course they haven't, darling. â-  What made you think so?" The child looked more solemn than over as she replied: "Well, then, I've been eating cater- I pillaial" imw Home Jam -Makers This hint may Save your Jam ! No matter how fresh your berries.norhow thoroughly tho Jam is cooked, nor how clean the Jars are, preserves are absolutely sure to spoil If the sugar used contains organic matter,â€" lmpurllle»â€"a»(/ many sugars do â€" Home Jam makers should profit by the experience of others and insist on being supplied with Extra CranalaUd Sagtir which has always, and for many years, given satisfaction. It teats over 99.90 per cant pure and is refined exclu- sively from cane augar. â€" Bay In r«flnery sealad packaees lo avoid mlsultsa and naura absoluU cleanllnosa mndcorraclweiiehtiâ€" 2 lb. T^,^^ l*"- =*^'ona: 10, 20. 25 and lOOIh. hits, and yoiircholcooHhraa alias of enln: fina, madlum, orcoarsa. â€"Any food dtahr can fill yovr ordtr. n. unnu mu mmam, umitiil MoMrari. y \m%w au»«».