Flesherton Advance, 6 May 1915, p. 6

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You get absolute purity â€" extreme fineness â€" uniform qualityâ€"when you insict on 100% Pure" Paint. SENOUR'S FLOOR P/UNT The old rtliablc. SCHOOL BOUSE PAINT for tbe bara and Bfacds MARTIN-SENOUR WAGON and IMPLEMENT PAINT for >\sS()i»» (ools, etc. We'll lend you, Ircc. "Former's Color Set" and our fine bcx>k, "Town and Country Hoiuck". if you write (or ibe name of our nearest dcaicr-ii£enl. ADDRIiSS ALL ENOIURICS TO VAe MARTIN-SENOUR Go. THE FATE^F AZUMA; Or, The South African Millionaire. CIlAITKll VIII. «ontiiiui'<l). Now htr miithrr rejoU-<^ that «hc had dorip â- Â»), i)in<'i> «(hi> had dono «« much bi»t- Xrr tor hcrn-lf. Lady (ilau<'uiiru bad ""t. hdtitatvd to li'iJ thif wor;d that her datiirh- trr had rcfUMpd Sir HiThcrt O.'CHhani; «h<? did not hc^itatt- to tfll Mr. Uaiivoro tho iTuno thing. Yd, for all thai, the week hrr lover had atvriilpd lo Btay at 01ay«Toft, glided Into three weekw, nearly a month, and it wan iu>t a time of unalloyed haiipinuiK. Thert" were momentH when it reemed lo Judith thai t>hi> euuld not go on. It wa« wonder- ful th.it at every tu.n vomu little phraxe, Boine little in<-idenl liroiight hack that cvMil lo her mind, and ii<-eine<l to iiaralyx^ her energy lo go on, while there were Dioniente when even her lover bH'unM} <iware that thero waw a voil of rtvervc between hini and her »hi<h would have lo be torn down i( Ibey were lo be really hapiiy af he hoiied thuy would lie, for, nolwitbi landing, lb.it ho hud kniM-ked â-  bout the w<»rld, ho had prewervi-d mrnc- thlng idyllic and old-fiiHhioned in hix idfao of niarrii-<l life, with \vlii<h her beauty wiix more in ket^piiig than lier UKinner. Onee when they had been in the g.trdeii in t.'h(> ovoning, by moonlight, he hud ktood xuddenly «till and huiiI: "J Moinetirnett wonder, Judith, whether you really <are for ine iiii >inu<'b uh you will ever earn for anyone. I want you to bH xiniire with mo l),d you . , . did you tare lor (irei'hain? " Her heart xtiKNl dtill. Ilaid «he e^ired for Orexhani.' It xeenied lo her iliiii nbe ha<l rared fo inu<:h, that «he had forgot tiMi that It Wile caring. It had niiniily xeein- rA part of hiT life, a xlatr, not a mood: and, bivauve xho wanted lo epeok the trulli when xlie could, not t.o lay up future ri-pr<rarh in lilllii brapM ail around hor, but to have only one duiiKbill of IrouliN' •tlori-d away iu the ha.kyard of lier life, •he told what xhe believed to be the trulb, what wii^ the l.iilli iiH a nuitter of laet. â-  1 think I cared for hiui very iniirh at on«* time but -but wben bo proni«ed to ine, I mean I felt that 1 could never marry him never." "And you don't (eel the «ame about mr?" It i« wonderful how people citn tortui'o u« when Ihi'y don'l know what Ik In our mind. "No, dear, I want to murry you very niiicli, She laid her hand upon hie tiriii very i«oftly. 1'hiH at Ic^it wax true, and hix content returned. And there were titnew when nntwlth- • tniiding the tacit rexorvo between mo- ther and <laiigtiter, both w€>re given over \fy a gnawing anxiety neitbi-r wouUl have lu'knowU><lge(|. tbe anxiety n«i to wliether. It the Inxt moment hn iihnuld lieiir. Ilolh thii women wlxhed that tbe weil- ding <-oul<l have taken pla^'e at once, hur- riedly, in tbe night even, before he left Olayconrt. bef(»rj» be <'finld xee anyone, •pi'ak to anyono. Iiixlead, he xpnke of going home for a week, to lei' hi« pe<»ple. r»f running to I'arix for a fortnight to tr.v and gel a couple of iiionlht.' leave for the tinueymonn, and when ho Hpokn of doing thot. the he:irl« of both women xi**nied t4> din within them. If h» went, w<iuld hn ever return? Hotb wore aware that they were living on tbe edge of a volcano And often on thone hot iiightH, Judith, unable to xleep. would get up from tho bed, imd go and kneol by tbn wlnilow, the inward need f<ir xtMU'ex or air arouiMt Iter thoughtx iiixpiring the i/hyxical need for cool biei'Xeii, And biildinir her bend in her two handx, tihii would anW herxelf What wiiH going to happen Wlint wan go- ing to ha/ppen, for it xis'ined lo her nx if all thiH could not go on, uh If xoinelhing miiHt bappen. aa if, if tbe bo't did not eume from the blue, then it would cntne beonuxo xhe would go mad mid lelj li'cm "Tlohie'timt* ahfe tell M If ah* ittu»k Hfream And then In the tiinrnlng. with the glad- niwx of a bright day, her serenity would be r««t<ired her, and the night of her own i«auty In tho gla«B bring colni. ntid n re- turn of that fltrunge phlloBophy whicii had taken the place of religion in her iioul. After all. what mc.ro could he want than her beauty, her gra<-e. Iter position? Hhe had not appealed to him to marry her, ehe wan not iniirrying biin for hit< money, why, what man wan worthy of more than Hhe hod to give? Hhe xulficed. Hhe uuf- li<e<l. And the dayx glided by, the inward de- vaxtating feverixhnexH hidden by a hun- dred iK'cupationx of pleanuro, ridw through c<iol ghidcx in the cool of the af- ternoon, drrppiiig xweetiiexii from the hedgerowx, tout teufx in hix automobile, ilrive^. garden purtiex at tbe bouteu of country iiuigbburH, flower xhonx, a fete ch:iinpetre in her own home, all ibi- thiiig» that bad xeenied wearixonie other yeare, nnd Kbi<h had often made her peixnade her mother l<i go to Uonibiirg, i^agerly xoughl now lin>aUk.e they helped to cheat time, prevented tete-a-tete» with her fiance. Congratulat ioim every day. and all day prixentii pouring in, preparation* for the tnnirxeau, talka with her father about tbi'ir plaiix. choce of the liridtxi- niaide, and tbe liritloHuiaiilH' pri-xentH and gift", daily gifts from liini lilteri-i to write, all the pleaxant toil which a< <'oin- paiiicw the linking of two livex together, even in bumble i^jihercx, but which, where the linking in that of two niemberx of tbn urixt<Kracy of a ijoniilry, and accom- I iKiriied by wealth, rlncx to tbe importance I of an hi«toric event almont, like confer- I ring the frwdotn of a city, or the ^ignint of a charter. I .^iid underneath it all. like xonie devotir- ; ing iMoiirilcr â- leepiiig liineatb t hi- long \ grux, and making an aluioxl inipercept- I'ble, tbough oniiiioiiM «ound, denoting its prexeiici-. the feeling as if. while she I built up .ui e<litlee of xtrenglli, with cor- nices and tiirretx. ra.in|)artx, and terriUM-e of delight, xoinetbing Tvithin wax <-ruml>- liiig away wbii li h:id been ilx inaiiiKlay, and that x'mjii (be jiroiid lieaven-challeng- iiig sliepliw wiiiibl totter to the ground. And there were xeveral, if not many, who niadi' inwaiil comiiientx no tlioy rititl the jiniiouiifi-ineiit f>f the engagi-nient, and little Hiiipx of detail oblainisl tr<im the xervantx by Hm-iety pap<-rx, evidencing that preparatiiiMrt were to be on a la>rge Male, and advaining rapidly. "The lia<-e wbicb will he worn by Lady Judith Itoa<'h on her wedding gown ban been made in Ireland " "rile bridegroom bax .pr»ieiite<l hi« fu- ture bride with llie rainoiiN Clorioii ruby, wbicb il wax x;ii(l Agiien .Morel xenl to the Duke of TliMtforil iix a bribe to indti<e him to leave Pnrix, at the time of her <incend- eiicy ovi>r <:harl('fi the Hcveiitb, and whic'h wile the KUib.jeet of a fn-moun lawf^ult be- tween the DiK' (le Neveulllu and the Karl of ('roleiB)i, ill 1M7 ' "Tbe Karl of Oroleigh hiix given biB n«- |)1iew the beautiful cantle i»t Chililaxhie on the liiinhx of the Tweeal," WW., <*tc. And iiH tbexe lleinH brtiiigbt her iKinie be- fore the eyex of tbix olio and that, Dioiigh ebe knew it not, they were iuy-oinpanie<l by tbe riiinibliiigx of iliHtant' thunder of dixaxter, the faint utteringn of tbu earth- nnake wliia-b wile ho x«K)n to engulf h(*r. Miidanie Diifoiir wax 4[Ia<l. but xhe axk- inI biToelf, over the dictionary to which nbe wax <>c<'<ixliinally Olillged to refer <if late. becaiiHe xhe had forjfotlen French, nx Hhe corrected the exeNixpx of her pu- pile: "Knt-ce-'j)Oi«lbleP" While Kir lluborl wondered whnl kind of fuan IXanverx (Kmld be, who tilill married ler, nlthoiigh hn niuxt know, for sht would of <oiirxe have told her llnnco, oreil R« nhe lind told him, Hubert (ii<«fihani. And f.ir the llrxt t'^..p ne n«lied himB«H whether t';.^ .^|,, ,v|,„j i),^ „ught to havo dOiie, Kfi wrnto a very friendly loiter, ana aonl, her a heaullfu! prexont. And Hugh (Hover, over n eup of oofTee, which ho wax drinking In bed, with •a. ball, iff (ritting in Ilio neit room, leaned back on hix iplllow, and xuldi "flood lliviveiiHl" And Itievo were othcrw whe, while they did not ^Mutitlvnly know, xu^pivMed ii good deal. kiMl proclaimed vleiotuily that it waa a wonderful piece of good luck, or that they hoped he knt^w what he wax doing. MrH. Lorraine merely xaid: "Poor Hugh." Yew, it certainly xeemed ax if there wax an end of Hugh. Arid prexently the end came xo «wiftly. BO unerringly, pointing ilx mpier at the very heart of thingx, that It xeemed to Judith that xhe could feel thi« point of the blade of fate entering her xoul. It wax the end of Auguitt now, and Dan- verx, while loth to loave 1il« lady love, ini- preixed upon her that the xooner he went the Hooner he would return. He noted her ghaxtly pallor, when he told lier that the day after to-morrow he inuxt go home. If only for a lew dayx, und put it down to tile fact that she really eared for him. "Why can't we Jum he married here cjuietly in the village church, and go back to your work in IHtrix without any fu*x ? " Hhe knew, while «he axked the (iuexti<in, that it could not l)i\ that the fa<H of her urging thin would be coiinteit ag«iinxt her in the future, that terrible future -which xhe knew, ax il «he hod Keen the moving Anger write it, wan holding fomething In htore for her. xomething whii*h xhe would not have the courage to face or to bear, hut which xhe felt inxtinctively would not be out of pro|M>rtion with her ill-luck, and with the judtice of fate, which we ac- knowledge when wo conininne with our soul, even when we have ma4le an arraiiBi>- meiit with that xoul to inveigh iigaiiixt her. She was unlucky, and there ix xuch a thing ax ill-luck, there in no lUnibt about it, if tbe guerdoiiM of tbix world are to be re<>koned ax the ultimate rewardx and final endingH to life. There ix ill-luck, apart from the reaping of our own whirl- wind, apart from tbe rixultn of our own folly, opart from the nuHking xiiccexxes of foolixh iimhitionx, apart from purity anil endeavor, and the xanity which men call goodiii>fx; the patience which men have nicknamed vhiloxopliy, there ix ill- luck iH-liick, the turning to xalt tea fruit with one what with another bet^omee a 'blo«tiumlng rod, and mcxt of all Judith woii unlticky, in that f<he had early been Kurrounded by "des vcrreux." There are •people whotie whole livet* eeem to bo tbrowu amongst the "verreux," Uttlo won- der if they are tainted. "Qui s'as'xetnhle so rfxeemhle" ix true, but aluo there 1« the rexeinblaiK'e Tiiade by Vhe eyll one, grad- ually moulding the weaker character to itH own in order to "raxxembler" with it, till at last it kiiowx no other natures but tho <trumped or vieiouo ones. It hud been Judilh'u misfortune to know no really giKHi woman well, and tho one good in- fluence near her at aXI was her father's, and in London she rarely saw him. Hhe had. told herself onco with intelligent in- tuition, that she wag always much better in the country where she uaw much of her father, and felt his influence, hut he wan not by any means a man of strong char- ai ter, although xo many men are count- ed etrong because they do not indulge in vices. It had never beon the faxhioii of the Olaucourtx, nor their instinct to drink and swear and ganuilile nnd flirt. Ah a matter <A fact they were a ilttic dull. a char.-icter of goodneMX. which has done il (food deal of harm lo the cause of right- cou'incefi. Yci, xhe was unlucky, and the "mal- lieur" evidenced tlrx, for there arc girls who have been far more evilly deposed than Lady Judith, who yet hwve not had tho inicfortune to come across unxcrupu- lo.i-i men. There in no rule for life, no method in Its aividents, its adventure, and the sci- ence ot good'iving hax no more control over shaine, than the iKienco of learning h.ia over the race of the earth with the 6t".rs or the renasoeiu'e of t.pring. And tMfau.o she was «o unlucky, Judith liud grown, as «o many unlucky people do. Buperatitioux. grown to note the dayH and hours and times of year that were propitioun, the little foretelling incidents, which, if sometimes noted after the event, imvtead of Nefcre, «tni 1)oro witncts to the fact that theie was something super- iMtural in its happening. She had noted that her lucky day was Friday, and be- cause of the aBswiation of that day, im- agined that it was perhaiw bccau«e, a« i'he expressed it, given over to the devil, that day of «11 others hrought her luck. And this last Friday in August when Mr. Danvers informed her that he must leave on the following Sunday, if he wa* ever to come hack and claim her for hie own. it seemed as if there must l)e something in her uuperstition after all. Who was not dretsed on that Friday morning when her mHid came to aek her to go to her mother's room immediately. "My dear, the best fhlng on earth for you has happened-the poor little thing i« dead. " Hhe handed the letter to Judith, who took it and opened it without understand- ing what she meant. It was written In Madame Dufour's pointed French hand- writing, with "Private" marked every- where, and it told how she h«d heard from i'vtt boniii's .Soeurs, the nuns, where the child had been deposited, that it had died of a meningite. French children al- ways eeem to die of une meningite. Judith seemed turned to stone, but her mother went on : •Oi course it's dreadfully s-id, but junt the best thing that could have hanypened; I really wondered what you would do. It would have been most dixagrwable li.v!"8 in Paris under the circumBtances if I remember, the convent i< almost back to ba4k with the Embas.-y, besides-" low- ering her voice, "cne never knowx, no douht the nuns are ejcelleiit people, but when they knew that you were living there, and the priexte and all, don't you know . . Lady Olaucourt <-ould not believe her eyes. Judith had moved towards the win- dow, and from her bed. her mother could (lee the teari falling, those 'big swollen tears which hurt to, whicli c<>me t.T«gicaI- ly slowly, as if they are distilled . from very pain. "My dear Judith " Lady Olaucourt put one foot out of bed, a very shapely foot, by the bye. She supposed that it certiiin- Iv was her buxinewj to go and put her arm around Judith. »he had never imag- ined that she gave the child a thought. "Oh. don I don't, mother, can't you un- dertitand?" . . "My dear, you ought to oo very thank- ful : I'm sure it was the very best thing that oould have happened. And you mustn't cry think of your eyes." Kver since Judith had been a bahy xhe had taid "tliink of your eyes" every time she crie<l. It had not been often. But Judith was not thinking of her eyes. She xeemed to see thot little path- etic, lonely form, stretched out. the form of fhat pretty, pretty baby, which ehe had Jeld for one 1>riet moment in her arms, and then relinquished it for ever, deserted, it xeenn-d t-o her. Had they been kind to it? And now, did it know, did U When Judith went down t<> breakfast, tbe relief whii-h had aiuveeded the one moment of feeling, had brought some- thing more natural and le«s constrained into her manner than there had beeii since her engagciiient, and Danvers told himself that uhe was «hy. although she pretended that ehe waen't, and that the xhynees was beginning to wear off. Breakfast passed off with more than us- ual gaiety, and Judith e«-«>med as uncon- oerne<l us her mother wan or her father, in the xuprenie uiu-onwiouxness of the fact that a griuidchild of hi-* had lived nnd died. Lord (llttucourt -was in the best of svirilB this morning. He had heard from hie son that he would be with them the next night. They had fried to get him before, but he had been KtJiyiiig with some friends, with the fam- ily of a charming girl, as a matter of fa<-1, whom ho wante<l to marry princip- ally Iwaiiso she was different fr<ini hix mother and siBter. He didn't think he was likely lo bo taken with Danvers. He h.tdn't muc'h faifh In what hia sister call- ed "a charming man. " But his father had ln«ieted that he should •^ome, and make his acquaintance before he left them on Sunday, so he was going to run down for the shortest time possible. It was difficult for Lady Judith to de- cide whether whe was always correct in her pandering to superstition, when on Saturday, returning from an expedition with her fiance her brother advanced to meet her from beneath the copper boa<;heB on the laTvn, followed by another man, a man who seemed to step out of the shad- owe to meet her, as it he wero the deniicn of some dreary corner of her life, which only he and she knew of and from which he only came forth after dark. The man who folkvwed her brother acroft] the lawn wan none other than Hugh (ilover, the father of the little dead child. CHAPTER IX. .\11 that followed, it seemed to Judith, â- when she saw Hugh O!over on the lawn of Glaycroft was what she expe<rted. How did he dare? That was the question which it seemed to her she had asked aloud. The ruBh of fearful thought bewildered her. and lihe could not remember an hour later, how s/he h.id been aible to greet her brother or extend her hand to the man she had never loved, and now hated. Why had become? That was the thought whicli dominated. Why had he come? .â- fhe saw her brother.,30 rarely, that she did not know that they were acquainted. As a matter of fact, till that week, they had hardly known each other. Hugh Olover had been invited by the people where Judith's brother was staying, and the young man, the son of the house, a brother officer of hi^;, had told him some of Olover's troubles, calling them "a Iteaetly shame" and young Lord Frewley had invited him to spend Saturday till Monday at Glaycroft, with absolutely no idea of the tragic character of the ac- quaintance concealed under Glover's un- compromising statement: I think I've met your s'ster. " That the man should have had the au- dacity to accept eeemed extraordinary, even to himself, but Hugh Glover's affairs had reached a pitch when great strokes of audacity alone could save him, and even these had bi->* a fighting chance. If his creditors would only not be "in such a hurry," he would say to his friends, Td pay the last farthing," nobody quite knew how, least of all himself. But the fact remained that his creditors, being like all others, always prone to cut their own throats, as well as their debtors', would not wait. "What the deuce are you going to get bv hurrying mo so?" he asked one man. And the man was quite unable to answer, not even having the intelligence to see that hie own lawyer was hurrying him on to his own distruction. for the i^ke of re- pleni^Jiing his puree. Writs had become so plentiful that as ho said, if he could only have afforded a new house, he could at least have been spared the expense of papering it, and bankruptcy notices ho no longer noticed more than an advertisement for a new shoe polieih. handed him in the street; while the -word security, was like the hum- ming music of an ugly tune, we can't get out of our heads. At this juncture, all that saved hie nerves from utter destruction, were 8at- Why. I urdays till Monday, spent in the country at the ihuuses of a few frienda who re- ceived him, and it had been with a cer- tain elation, almost with a renewed faith in an intelligent fate, that he had Jumped at Lord Frewley'e suggestion. "If you have nothing bettor to do. come to Glaycroft with me and stay over Sun- day. " It was <s, long time since ffugh Olover had stayed In any house go reputedly re- spectable, or so magnificent. In his bach- elor days he had gone every-where. and it was hie habit to a«icjibe hie decadence to his marriage. He h.ad married a woman for her money, who had no particular po- sition in society, and who. after the birth and death of her child, had become an in- valid. Gradually Hugh Olover had taken to going out alone to places where he would not have taken his wife, or rather it would perhaps be more correct to say, where she would not have gone, and where she would not have been invited. It had always amuiied his friends immensely when he talked of Mrs. Glover as "my kill-joy." instead of 'my wife." Yes, peilhaps in her way ohe had been a kill-joy, but then there had been so little to kill. (To be continued ) BENSON'S Com Starch In the famous Yellow Package W. T. 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