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â€" A. THE FATEjOF AZUMA; Or, The South African Millionaire. T which blew louder and louder, roar 6(1 and fulminated and scattered CHAPTER XVIII.â€" (Cont'd). It carried one miles away, this room, for all that it was in the heart ! , ,.,^_ i„,„„„ ^^tt^r onfter n weird of fashionable London. It aroused : ower'w.-^^^^^^^ remembrances of pictures of the in- i _:,l__i terior of mosques, notwithstanding "^f/V,»«rf i whirlwinds of sand, then fell again tlie heart I , , .../.„ „„ff„, „ weird that it had no tessellated flooring, nor barefooted Mohammedans and Be- douins standing in silent prayer on holy carpets. Inspiration seemed to silence. "Ah!" Judith heaved a sigh and for an instant no one spoke. For an instant, they all seemed caught inmeshed by the spell of the music, then Adolphe Lieb's laugh, his and future, reminding one"o"f Ande't , wl',"^ »^« P'^'^^''' '°''''"'' ^"'^ Egyptology, of sphinxes and pyra- mids and buried sarcophagi, the -while she spoke from the heart of an be wafted backwards and forw^ards ^e",^^j,V ^ood-naZ ^d ikuVh brok^ nspiration idyllic, yet mystic as if ^«^ ^ « ^ ^ ^ ,, % them. It were a casket of great thoughts ^XheWo"" the bow ani the violin ^ le;?":;o^rn T^^r looted ,lkl ' to a--, -d -ved from whe^ the linking image, of a united past ha<>,^be^en ^st^^^^^^^^^^ dith. „ "I have something to show you, While she spoke from the heart oi an- | he said, "which ""Jy you must see, tiquity of fhe great dreams of the w.ll^you --ej^-om-t -th >nc7^ future, the great dreams which while ] ^.^V.^^^g^l;^^ Laj^ Glaucourt, they seem so vast as to envelope the | ary, ^'^^^^'r",,, ^ ' world, in reality make it shrink to i ^.."at can n oe . nfter- the size of a crystal ball small I ^.''''.^ff ^^,^^1 uiL L they enough to lie in the palm of one ; wards, he laughed back, as they man's hand, while the room seemed , two disappeared, full of delicious odors, the woodful /"'*'* TS'^ *LT«n.f Sin greeted them in African fashion, and j nervous ^questwn- Adolphe said something to her in her own tongue which made her look Bwiftly at Judith. Her look made Ju- dith feel uncomfortable. "What did you say to her?" she asked. Something exciting, disturb- ing, yet scintillating, seemed to come to her in this room, something which resembled the nervous exciting rest- lessness the desert air brings with it, the feeling of tingling flesh, and nerves pointed like needles which the desert wind, laden with tiny grains of sand, inspires. Adolphe laughed. "Ah. you must not ask questions. Azuma and I have many haven't we, Azuma?" The girl gave him a swift look What on earth are you going to show me?" leaning towards her and covering her two hands with his, as she sat on the low seat beside him and looking into her eyes, half whis- pered : "I have brought you here to show you my heart." CHAPTER XIX. And now a year had elapsed since Judith's marriage to Adolphe Lieb, a year which sometimes seemed as if only a few days had gone by, some- times as if it was long years ago that Adolphe Lieb had .said to her secrets, | with so much of sincerity, with so ' much expression of feeling: I am going to show you my heart. from under her dark lashes, which it i It had been a quaint proposal yet was impossible to read so much did , it had pleased her because it was so It seem to contain, adoration, grati- in keeping with the man. tude, wistfulness, doubt, and some- ; And now to-day they were both in thing else, which Adolphe Lieb alone . London, in the huge house in Park could read there. j Lane which since Judith had come to "Oh, do make her tell us our for- ' live there had lost much of its new- j tunes," Judith exclaimed, stirring her : ness, its desolate appearance. Gay , cup of tea and looking around the ' striped awnings at each window room, then at Adolphe, then at : threw little glades of cool shade upon Azuma, smiling with that wonderful the masses of pink and deep rose-col- smile of hers which held in it at once ' ored geranium in each window. On Bo much sadness and such arrogance, the air there seemed to hum the noise "She doesn't tell fortunes, Lady â-  of busy pleasure which is like the Judith, do you Azuma?" He said j hum of bees, and which in great something again to her in a language cities seems to give something of they did not understand, but Azuma ' blitheness to labor and of labor to shook her head. He had asked her ', blitheness. which joins with the sun- if she would show them her pebbles, ' shine and the chirp of sparrows, to tell them something, but she wasn't carrol forth the tra la la of life. And going to show ofl*. I Judith noticed this morning the con- "She won't,'' he said, it's no trast between the interior of the beau- good." Then he asked her if she ' tiful house and the exterior. Glare would sing? land sparkle and stir' outside, and But the girl looked down shyly, her j within cool darkness, and the con- whole body .seeming to writhe in pro- trast pleased her. It seemed the im- test against having attention drawn age of her life, the contrast of her to her. J deeper inner feelings with the super- "Not one little song, Azuma?" t fluity of her daily environment, super- 1 Instead Azuma walked past them, fluity of wealth, of social occupation, ! the rings on her feet tinkling faintly, ' of va ct vient and f rou f rou and j muffled on the thick Persian carpet, i laughter and chatter and, transient and opened a cabinet. The eyes of : emotion, and perhaps occasionally a the three visitors followed her, fascin- ', flash of real amusement, ated, while Judith noted how at home The inside â€" how cool it was. how she seemed in the house of the mil- given over to breeze and shadow, yes. lionaire. there was almost a solemnity, a grav- 1 But Adolphe Lieb only smiled, he | ity of demeanor in the darkness which i knew what she was going to do as i the shaded windows threw on the | Azuma took out his violin and brought j marble staircase, on the panels of it to him silently, putting it into his different woods in the different rooms, hands and making a gesture which ' on the great tessellated hall floor, on seemed to invite him to do his best the porphyry columns which sustain- to entertain his guests. j ed the staircase and the upper corri- "Do you play the violin?" Judith dors, on the carpets which were thick could not tell why it surprised her. â-  and raised like moss and on the flow The Charm of Eastern Fragrance is typified in every seeded packet of II Selected leaves from the finest plantations, faonous for teas of subtle dcliciousness. SAL ADA is fresh and free from dust. BLACK, MIXED OR GREEN B77 New Millinery Model From Paris. An undyed satin toque trimmed with rabbit ear bows of black velvet. Sorelli, of Paris, considers this one of the smartest creations of the season. The lower hat is a straw turban with broad band of blue, taffeta trimmed with large silk poppy on either side.^Designed by Eliane. Then she remembered that Mrs. Gol ling had told her that he did. "How very interesting." Lady Glaucourt remarked, taking another cake from the table, in the semi- ironical tone in which she always commented on what she didn't under- stand. "Yes, you must, you must. Azuma was quite right, make him," she said, smiling sweetly at the girl. And without much protest Adolphe ers which bloomed everywhere, on the pictures on the walls, the lovely pictures in which the landscape seem- ed to have been suddenly steeped in twilight, and the eyelids of the men and women in the portraits half clos- ed by the all enveloping shadow growing drowsv, while little canopies over the bird-cages threw tiny stripes of sunlight between the bars, casting the shadow of the bars across the flooring, and catching the rad took his violin and tuned it, screwing iant plumage in fla.shing gleams as it two strings a little tighter, rapidly, did from here and there through ere with an accustomed hand. Then he began to play a rhapsodie hongroise, while Azuma squatted on the floor, falling silently, noiselessly into a vices between the blinds, on the soft pale yellow dress she wore. Cool like the inside of a grotto, in- viting to repose of thought to intro graceful position, her eyes fixed on snection, to meditation, while outside, her master, absorbed, enthralled. though muffled and dulled like a far- Could it be that they were in Lon- away drum, came the faint roar of don, in Park Lane? The music, ex- 1 a hundred different moving things, quisite music which might have | reminding of the boiling in a pot of a brought the performer fame as an i score of different herbs. She could artist, seemed to deny that they imagine it all outside, at the back of were, as the notes rose and fell. ' the house, in South Audley Street seeming to seek an exit at the open ! narrow and congested, and in Oxford window, or to feel with tender an- Street, far away to the right; in Pic- tennae of sound for breezes which ' cadilly not so far away to the left, drew in and out, breezes which had ' and closer along Park Lane, on the come from far away where flowers ] other side of the Park railings be- grew and the sun fought duels, light with light on dancing waters. Now it seemed as if horses galloped, tear- ing along mountain paths, down hills, down, down; now little rivulets sang and streams gurgled, and fountains plashed, and birds sang, sang in lit- tle' spurts with chirping, twittering hind the greenery a thinner stir, less closely packed, lighter in kind, but still moving always, the panorama of vehicles and humans, heavy and light, ponderous and maliciously diaphan- ous, great heavily laden wagons, mo- tor cars, and electric cabs and han- soms, open victorias with their bur- gladness, with sna.smodic- notes | den of butterfly-apparelled women, caught upwards to hide the dirge, the ; omnibuses and water carts, here anci dismal wailing dirge, which was the | there an American spider looking like theme of the music, which seemed as some insect, some monster mosquito if somewhere hearts were breaking, I darting hither and thither over the breaking in the sunshine, souls moan- ! surface of a thjckly weed-entangled ing in inner hollow caves, hidden ' pond, and weaving through, in and away beneath stratas of shadow, ! out amongst the traffic the human which the sparkling sunshine and the ants, some busily hurrying, some music could not reach. Now it seemed to Judith that pain and joy galloped side by side, li^ht and shadow danced together, playing hide and seek, while the surroundings. the whole presentment of the room seemed to make the music speak of Eastern scenes, of deserts, sand up- on wnd, vaster and vaster like in- cvvasing uttermost thought, deserts with waving palms reaching out gi- grantic denunciating arms to the wind, stopping to chat or gaze into shop wintfows. some leisurely sauntering along, unconcerned with the web and woof of life, watching it from a dis- tance, or through spectacles of illu- sion, or with criticising, incredulous, scoffing wonder or disdain. That in the streets, and yonder in the Park the throng of men and wo- men, the little children seeking to imagine themselves in pastures of green and gold, riding, driving, teaf- teufing, chatting, walking, laughing, and the air seeming to condense emo- tion and sound into one great roar of life which rolled ' in subdued, re- strained thunder over the great city from one end to the other, giving the impre.ssion that rolled it over the whole world and under it, coming back again in dense coagulated waves, thick, heavy with smoke and dirt and stench of decay as the sea is laden with shell and weed, to roll over it once more, again and again,, in endless â€" flux and reflux of eternal muffled sound. And this morning she seemed giv- en over to meditation because it was her wedding day, and Adolphe had insisted in German fashion that they should have a family party. Her fa- ther and mother and brother were coming, and other relations who had at one time been cold, but who had become tremendously related, since her marriage, n few intimate friends, and of necessity the Gollings. What she wondered this morning was why Adolphe wanted to celebrate this day, whether he was sincere in re- joicing over it? It seemed to her as if it were not possible that he should. She, went further and asked herself whether she herself rejoiced or not. A year, how quickly it had gone, yet how full it had been. She had behaved very well at first, insisted on going during the honeymoon to Frankfort to see his old mother and sisters, and been very nice to them, not giving herself airs, but taking them by storm by her charm and beauty and winning simplicity. Some- times she had wondered since, what had prompted her to do all this, it was so unlike her, that she could not herself discover whether she had done it as in a dream, or because she was herself, her real self, the while she had been conscious of something mo- therly and tender and protective in old 'Frau Lieb which was missing in her own mother. Then they had spent the winter in South Africa returning later by Cairo, and Judith had folt the charm of the Veldt and been delighted with the house Adolphe had built there. She had even taken an interest in the Mines, and in his great schemes of cornering the diamonds, and in Cairo she had been an interested partici- pator in the conversation and discus- sions with high government officials, with the Khedive, and expert engin- eers on the feasibility of establishing a Cape to Cairo railroad, and through- out the whole ten months, for they had been away ten months, stopping at Paris on their way home, linger- ing everywhere that pleased them, Judith had felt the allurement, the strahge satisfying content and ela- tion which nis gigantic wealth brought to her, and he had begun to reap some of the benefits of her posi- tion, while he wondered at her ready acquiescence in many matters. Yet, now it seemed to Judith that why she had enjoyed these months, why she rejoiced in this flrgt anniversary of their wedding, was because she had glided with the stream and been satis- fied to be happy. (To be continued.) + ^ WOMAN DOCTOR DOING FINE WORK ORGANIZES AND MANAGES MILI- TARY HOSPITAL. Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson Has Served Prison Term as SuflTragette. Since September Miss Louisa Gar- rett Anderson, an Englishwoman of note as a suffragette, has been doing great things for the wounded. Early in the war she and the British Gov- ernment felt mutally shy of one an- other, and her first hospital was opened under French authority. Her next hospital was at Wimereux, where she was among her own peo- ple, and where the rations (most in- contestable of all evidence of recog- nition) supplied to her patients were the official rations of the British sol- dier. The mutual shyness having been dispelled, the War Office asked Miss Garrett Anderson to return home and make a hospital in London. Out of her own resourcefulness, experience, and initiative she makes her hospital. It has five hundred beds; it is to be in working order in record time; it is to be wholly self-sufficient â€" that is to say. Miss Garratt Anderson her- self is wholly self-sufficient. How has she come by the necessary abil- lity? Not, certainly, by the fostering I foresight of a paternal Government I No count was taken before the war I of the possibility of a woman doing I the things she is doing, and even af- ter the war was well in hand there was still no effort made to secure the services of the whole group of ex- traordinary young Englishwomen to which she belongs. She now holds authority equal to that of a Major in the R.A.M.C, and the Press is eager to give her the sajute. She ra- ther relishes the humor of the situa- tion when she tries to persuade the public, against its will, that she is not a Major â€" that no woman can hold a commission in his Majesty's Army. Once In Jail. 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