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JL I r THE FATE^F AZUMA; Or, The South African Millionaire. CHAPTER XV.â€" (Cont'd.) , "See, see Baas, look." She entreated him like a child. "There is war, a great war." she â€" atuttej-^d, "and blood . . blood." "War." Was this -woman then really a witch, or how was it that she uttered the word which had wrung in his ears ever .since Golling had departed, but which had rung in his ears ever but which neither had ventured so much as to breathe openly to each other ? He was growing interested, and because he told her everything al- ways, because she was the only con- fidant he had, he told her all that Golling had told him in detail. "It is not true," she said, '"if he wants them to come, then why does he not send them himself?" "But don't you see, Azuma, that it must not go on like this, the Boers, you hate the Boers, don't you â€" ?" The gleam which shot across her eyes, which he could fuel was there even more than he could see it, told him that she hud given her answer on that score. "Well, soon they will have the whole country under their control, they pay no attention to the Eng- lish, they oppress the natives, even now they treat the Uitlander with rontempt. Now listen, and I will tell you what the scheme is." She squatted down and listened till the end while he, fired with the new idea Golling had inspired, told her with all the excitement of a newly kindled ardor of enthusiasm, the way Kru^er kept the country back from civilization in order to make money, and because he felt instinctively that for all his cunning, a civilized coun- try would not tolerate him, that he could no longer control it. And Lieb told her, almost as if it were a fairy tale of wonder, what would happen if the British posses.sed it, how bridges and railways would be built, and schools and Churches, and how in time even her race would fare better and grow rich." And though she listened with won- der and amazement, for all that, at the end, she shook her head. "All that," she said, "if the British conquer, but if not, if the Boer wins the battle, what then?" Ye.s, he had thought of that, and as she said the words, this wondeiful in- telligent being, he laughed. "'I he Boers beat the British!" The idea was absurd. And Azuma swept her hand back- wards and forwards showing him the Veldt, the great tracts of land which the Boer.s knew to well, but which neither the British soldiers, nor even the Highland troops had any idea of. They do not know this country," she said, ouietly, "they do not know the Boer, tne Boer knows every kopje, every kloott, every raad; they will crouch in the valleys, and every man and woman and child," she held her hand out low to show how small a child she meant, "will carry a gun, and they will shoot from behind, they will shoot when your troops have turned their backs," How had she thought of all this, this woman? And she went on. "And Ihey will say, 'We came here first, what right have you?" Yes, Azuma was right, what right had they, the British or the Germans, to come and take their country ? Their wealth, that was another thing, they had never developed anything, been too afraid to spend money, too bestial to care for improving the country, or the welfare of their bre- thren, but their country! Yet as one who cannot at once re- linquish a new and deep, and power- ful thought, he went on. "But if we win, Azuma, what then . . .?" I "You will not win, now, with a handful of men. There will be blood everywhere, and the mines they will go, you will be poor.' | She spoke now in low tones, her eyes seeing once more the strange numbers and signs into which the «and had fallen between the pebbles, talking like one in a dream, prophe- I sying. I "With a few men you will lose, you F.ngiish, and the Boers will take the Tiines." j No one but one of her own race could know how they dreaded the Tuller power that might come to llie Boers if they conriuered, and they would conquer, unless the English brought such thousands as she, in her ignorance, could not imagine any , :ountry possessed. Then presently j the looked un. { "And if they lose they will say it was you, they will kill you, the Boers, ! Dr perhaps the English, because you I did not win." ; And without answering her Adolphe had gone out into the gar- den. He wanted to be alone with | his thoughts, with those former ones ' which still clung, with these new ones this strange woman had evoked, I this strange woman who had come into his life seemingly so quietly, so unsought, and yet who had brought him wealth beyond that of almost any man. To him she had seemed like a su- pernatural being, but as a matter of fact hers was simply an illuminated mind. In all centuries, in all ages, ' Jn every country, now and then there ; • is born a type like Azuma's. Who ; can tell by what chain of heredity ' they are produced, what union of lomplex intelligence, the right ap- 1 positcs, the right dontrssts lived over , tgain and again, produce them, those \ tvlio seom to have the gift of seeing, ' sniy because they have the combined (fift of close observation coupled with' R mind given to thinking things out, j In solving problems. If she had been horn in Germany, a tpan, phe would ^ nave been a gr6at scientist perhaps, i or a great astronomer; a Napoleon in ] P'rance, a Richelieu, a Charlemange; ! ^n Italy a Macfliiavelli, but instead, born a Kaffir and a woman, her illu- 1 nination was limited to a close ob- servance of the character of liie few men and women she came across, of the conditions of the country in which she had been born, of the actions of the white and the black races, and amongst those, of the diversity of actions of different whites, the Ger- mans, the English, and the Boer, in the dark races, the Zulu, the Kaffir, the African, the Matabele. And she was a woman of silence, given to in- stinctively developing that utmost i which lies within us all, but which so i many of us leave dormant till the day I of death. If she saw a thing of any ! kind she wanted to know all about it. i It had been so with household things ; that Adolphe had bought at Cape i Town, or had sent from Germany and j Paris. When she had found out how 1 they worked, she tried experiments ; till she had pushed them to their , furthest use. I Such minds as these are often born in obscurity and amidst surroundings , which do not permit of their develop- â-  ment, and becoming warped or stulti- fied in one direction, find their vent in subtle crme or criminal cunning, but in Azuma it seemed as if a na- i tural sweetness and meekness had ' restrained all evil influences, while her devotion to Adolphe had seemed to concentrate her every thought on the endeavor to guide him to power, and to safeguard him from evil. I And those little pebbles were but 1 the instruments of her visionary pow- er. She was not in any sense a for- tune teller; the art had been taught her as a child, but she had but scant belief in it on the lines on which she had been taught to use it they only assisted her thought, and she had learned to reckon on the shapes and forms the pebbles took upon them as the answers only, to her prophetic meditations. When Adolphe had settled down in his I'.ew home he had some difficulty in persuading the Boers with whom she lived to let her go, they preferred to beat the devil out of her with lea- ther thongs, to handing her over to the devil in the shape of Adolphe I Lieb, and they naturally misinter- I preted his desire that .she should come to his house. Of this he was quite aware, it had been a sense of justice, a means of rewarding her, , since he could not give her a share ; in the mine, which had led him, al- ' though slavery was not supposed to be countenanced, to compromise with j the Boer farmer for a large sum of money. Since then Azuma had been looked upon with mingled awe and scorn by the few Boers round about and as a wonderful and supernatural be- ing by the Kaffirs, a sentiment which had gone far to enhance Adolphe's popularity amongst them, and had woven a spell of safety around him of which he was himself unaware. All attempts to find out something about her had failed. That she was not a Kaffir he was sure, her limbs and the shape • of her head were cast in finer mould, yet the rich blackness of her skin forbade the idea that she had any white blood, an<l the Kaffirs told different tales. Some that she had come in a caravan of slaves from the Soudan, that her parents had been killed by the Boers, others that she was the daughter of a great chief, I who had been taken prisoner and died in prison. I When he ever thought about it all, j Adolphe Lieb inclined to the latter j opinion, on account of the ([uiet dig- i nity of her bearing, and her easy com command over the other servants of ' his househobl. 1 As a matter of fact it didn't much matter what she had been for to mis- I apply a proverb if at night all cats ! are grey, all black women are in a I sense alike. And Azuma understood that he wanted to be alone, and crept I away, crept away to wander forth herself an hour later into the same garden to listen under his window to the strains of Adolphe Lieb's violin, to the exquisite music in which he strove to chase away the suggesting demons which flaunted power, and danced before his eyes in winged words, the words of Golling: "The British government will be very grateful, they will recognize it even if they cannot absolutely sug- gest it." And he was hardly aware that the music had a singini? mysterious voice, a singing mysterious voice which had put words to his music and turned it to a song, the words of Azuma, the African Maiden. "They will say to you. 'We came here first, what right have you?'" And a few days later because he wanted to find out the truth, because something made him flistrust Gol- ling, he started for London, and Azuma said: "If you do not take me you will have no luck," and he had laughed and said, "But I will soon come back." But it was because she had thrown herself at his feot in a passion of grief, because she had said: "If you do not take Azuma she will die," that he had taken her with him to London. The first he had not found to bring with it all the elation the intoxica- tion even he had expected; and the second, oh, that was wiped out now, gone, forgotten almost. That had been seven years ago and since then the Jameson Raid had convulsed Eng- land, dazed it, blinded it, sent it mad, and its madness had taken the shape of the Boer war and restored its san- ity. There had been a moment when Golling and Lieb had both trembled for the welfare, the continuance to exist even, of their mines, and there ha(} been ^he sudden resurrection wnich had brought millions, and all that remained now was outwardly a great historic secret more wonderful than the Dreyfus mystery, because it existed amongst Englishmen, who are supposed to be neither mysterious nor untruthful, above all because it savored a little of those historical ro- mances which so many laugh {it, and which resemble tales of the day of the first Bonaparte, without the graceful heroine who throws roses or smiles from some turret window: and â€" that between Golling and j Lieb, it had left the remembrance, on I the one side of a great treachery, a I great injury suggested, and on the j other the sense of having been dis- I covered in an unworthy and abomin- I able act. For Adolphe, through the ] intermediary of a powerful man in- I terested in the mines, had obtained ] an interview with the authorities, in ! Downing Street and at the War Of- ! fice, and been assured that nothing j was known about the scheme, that i it would not for a moment be toler- I ated. With his unusual loyalty, he : would not give the name of the per- â-  son who had suggested to him that i this would be acceptable to the Brit- ish government, and Golling, when he i could do so without fear of its get- ' ting back to Lieb, would hint that it was what Lieb wanted to do. That j was the impression Lieb, quite un- I consciously gave to the government also, which did not add to nis general good repute, while Lieb congratulat- ed himself that he had listened to Azuma's warnings, and to the insist- ence of the passion for justice which lies at the heart of every Je\v, prin- : cipally because he gets so little of But he had had none of the wear and tear of life, even as a young man. Home life, his good old father ' and mother, had had their restrain- ing influence, and since the develop- ment of the mines he had been given j over entirely to business, occupied ! himself with matters which generally fall to the share of older men, trav- I elled backwards and forwards be- : tween Germany and Paris and Lon- ; don, forming companies, engaged on : the Stock Exchange, making huge \ loans for vast undertakings, always [ under the guiding prognostications I of Azuma. Then had come his fa- [ ther's death, and six months spent ' looking after his mother, his pro- I perty and his younger brothers and i sisters, journeys to South Africa, the I stay prolonged each year longer and longer, as he built and embellished his house, and finally became obses- I sed with the Veldt itself and rarely i left it except for short trips to his home. And on these occasions Azu- , ma had said nothing when he came or went. He had been twenty-five I when he first went to stay with the i Gollings, now he was thirty-five, ten : years older than Judith, who was twenty-five "well rung out," and he possessed some of the freshness of youth, of boyhood almost, and all its vigor. It was the day he met Judith, that he told himself that life had really begun. (To be continued.) FRENCH INVENT A GRENADE' .ALSO GOOD BOMB THROWERS AT SMALL EXPENSE. Fuiiips From Thow Miaslen Whieh arc Charged With ChemieulH Have Overpowering Effect. Tlie widespread use of trenfthes in the prcaeot war, writes a corres- pondent with the Frencih anny, has brouigiht th© opposing armies into closer proximity than ever had been considered possible nines from tibe brenohes when the enemy is attacking. For offensive work a lighter and more handy bomb is required. This grenade contains about halif a pound of explosives, and a soldier can easily carry half a dozen of them in a bag when he leavew his trench for the charge. "When the trenches are 250 to 300 yards apart the range is too great for hand grenades. For tbie work a bomb thrower called the 'crapauillot' has been devised. Its name is derived from the crapaud, a, toad. It is a squat, toadlike thing, painted gray and consosting of a wooden stand mounted on it. The German Fihrapnel cases have only U) b" sihortened and to have a l',)Ut'Ii l"))(' btred in them.. A dharge the development of firearms, and of powder is placed in them, and the result has bcien that new raeth ods have had to be devised to deal «ith unexpected conditions. "At firet," says the correspond- ent, "the Germans were proibably better prepared for this kind of warfare. Their 'minenwerfen' are excellently made and well detidgn- ed, ae 'I have been able to assure myself by tihe examination of some of those captured on the Cham- pagne front. Tliere is no sugges- tion of improvisation about thean. On the contrary, tliey are, if any- thing, over-complicated. Experi- ence has Eihown that they are far too heavy. The largest of them, indeed, are cemented into the trenches, so that they cannot be removed, and none of them is near- ly so effective as the simple weap- ons that the proverbial ingenuity of the French has invented under tlie pressure of circumstances. '"The Germans have been scoring to a certain extent by the use of a.sphyxiating bombs in utter de- fiance of tihe oblrgations they had accepted under "The Hague Con- vention. The French have not been long in finding a reply to these wea,pons. If the Germans mean to use poisonous gaseis in warfare, the French are ready to retaliate with a weapon tliat should prove very effective, though it in no way ccm- travenes the regulations accepted by all civilized nations except Ger- many. '"Iliis weapon consists of a hand grenade filled with certain chemic- als which when released produce gas that has no deadly effects but is quite powerful enough to para- ly/^ a man for several minutes. As an experiment two of tiiese gren- ades were tihrown into a narrow lane between two walls that might | fairly be taken to represent a trench. When the gases ha<l been released a company of infantry was ordered to advance up the lane, and I accompanied them. "When the first ranks came with- in the zone of the fumes tlliey stop ped suddenly and beat a hasty re above it a bomt containing three pounds of explosivvi. Inexpensive Bomb Throwers. "Two salvoes of six 'crapauil- lote' were fired in one (hour. Six sauFage-like bombs were thrown into the air and exploded with tre- mendous violence when they reach- ed tJie ground 250 yardis away, hurling niitraiUe in everj' direc- tion. A piece of mitraille, like a heavy, rouglily made nail, came hurtling through the branches of the tree bethind which I was siiel- tering and fell at my feet, while another piece was driven deep into the^ trunk of the same tree. One bomb fell into a stream and threw up a column of water some fifteen feet into the air. The Germans, when they capture a trench, liave an ingenious way of describing these bomb-tihrowers, which cost about a doLlar each, as guns, to impress the readers of their com- muniques. "We also witnessed the test of some smoke bombs from these en- gines. They produced a curtain of smoke wihich was quite sufficient to mask an advance, and their suc- cess was the more remarkable as there was a strong wind blowing. The output of these bombs and bomb-throwers is practically un- limited. The energy and method with which the men, who, of course, are mobilized under military law, were working was quite remark- able. The factory has been com- mandeered by the State, which pays a rent for its use to its pro- prietor." Silver Gloss UUNDRY STARCH means perfect starching, vrhether used for sheer Laces, dainty Dimities, deK- cate fabrics, Lace Curtains or Table Linens. ••Silver Gloss" has been tha {avoriteinthe homefoimore than 50 years ATQROCERS MORE WARS TO FOLLOW. Prophecy of Vast Series of Struggles For Existence. Professor Ridgeway, speaking at a meeting of the Eugenic Society in London, said that the nation had been brought into the present struggle by a combination of millionaires who were frequently alien in origin, and their dupes the masses, while the .- 1 • , I same forces were exercising a bane- treat, fighting their way through ] f^, influence on the prosecution of the the men behind, abs<)lutely blinded j^^^ GOLDEN SENTENCES. The only way to live in this age and get any pleasure out of life is always to take more time than you need for every job you tackle. You'll see strength enough in the people some day. The trouble with all your big men at the top is that they're trying to do for the crowd what the crowd wants to do for itself. . The age we live in is changing so much faster than any age before it that a man, if he's to be vital at all, must give up the idea of any fixed creed, in his office, his church or his home. If he holds himself open to change, and nows that change is his very life, then he can get a serenity which is as much better than that of the monk as living is better than dy- ing. Were we sent by our rulers to die only in order that they in their scram- ble might take more of the earth for themselves ? The h('a<l, like the st^imach, is most easily affected by poi.son when it is empty. Woolwich Arsenal possesses the largest steamhnmmer in the world. It is capable of striking a blow of near- ly a thousand tons; and yet it is so carefully adjusted and accurately timed that it is possible to place a nut under the huge hammer and to crack the shell without injuring the kernel. by the tears running down their cheeks. The smell of the fumes is not unpleasant. It is suggestive of pear drops combined with very strong ammonia, and it produces such violent simarting of tjie ej-es and nose that it would be hopeJerss to try and u.se a weapon while un- der its influence. These bombs have not yet been used, and will only be employed if the Germans make any further use as asphyx- iating gas French Hand Grenades. "Besides the newly invented gas bomb the French have various forms of bombs and bomb tlirowers for use in tiie trendies. The hand grenades are of two kinds. The larger kind, which liH>ks like a rocket with a stick sawn off short and a very large head, conta^ins more than a pound of explosives. Tliese explo.sives are contained in a black steel case cioLsed by a wood- en oaj), witJi a fuse at the bottom end. The man w'lu) is to throw the greniule breaks off tlie seal which covers this fuse and sets light to it with a match or cigarette. Wlien the fuse begins to splutter he has five seoondw befo-re the ex- plosion, and with a gcKxl swing can throw it twenty-five to thirty yards. Men ot all amis are being trained to use this weapon, and the experi- ments whidi I have been permit- ted to witness were carried out by a number of infantrymen just back from tJie front. Its effects are very deatlly, as it will sweep an area of fifteen yards, and though we wert< fifty yards away from the point where one of them exploded it was advisable to take cover be- hind a tree, as several splinters reactlied u«. "This large grenade is used for defensive purposes. It is thrown CHAPTER XVI. It was perhaps just as well that a mood of sweeter content had come to Lady Judith at the time she met Adolphe Lieb for the first time, just as well that she met him in surround- ings which made for well-being and restfulness and that she was amongst those who admired her and liked her and thought well of her, and that the new interest of "running these Af- ricans," as Lady Glaucourt put it, had brought some vivacity back, some vivacity and vitality which respond- ed to the unused in him. For there was a Kood deal <'f the unused in him. He had not yet grown weary of life, nor even njet many of*^ its stronger emotions. Th« emotion of great and ever increasing v^uh had been his, and in experience of treachery he had knocked against tV>ning's das- tardly and unpardonable sng|(eBtion. Pl(i»iiig (he SiindH; or, Hate'H liabor IiO»t. A clever cartoon by Walker in "The London Daily Graphic." 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