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THE FATE^F AZUMA; Or, The South Africiui Millionaire. CHAPTER XX.â€" (Cont'd). He was sure, certain that she lov- ed him, but he was not satisfied with that. She was to let the world know that she loved him. She was to own that she was happy, satisfied, and above all she was not to make him jealous. It was what she had been trying to do for the last few weeks. Yesj the old Judith had awakened «gam, the old Judith grown more reckles.s, because of her security, the old Judith who could not be content with love alone or even passion, who must nee<ls throw down the gauntlet to adventure. For nothing on earth would he, Adolphe, put up with the position of complaisant husband, because he was not her equal in birth. And because Bhe felt the power of the man, some- thing within her arose to defy him, insidious voices, which had been her undoing when quite a young girl, whispered that it was amusing to play with fire. There had been more than one •cene during the last two months. Once he had taken her away from a dance, and once he had threatened to â- hut up the house in Park Lane, and take her to South Africa. "You wouldn't dare," she had said to him, with that indomitable cour- age which he could not help admir- ing, the while he tried to dominate her will. "All London would talk of it, they would say I had left you because of that Kaffir woman." , And he had laughed. But he was not laughing this morn- ing, but he was sad, and when he left the house Azuma had noted the grow- ing gloomy expression of his face. He was not happy, her "Baas," and it was the fault of his wife, this beauti- ful white woman who was the daugh- ' ter of a great English chief, but who had no heart. This morning she had been more than usually cold, and, Iaughe<l at his idea of a family din- 1 ner. i "Are we to be as German as all that?" she had said, and he knew, that what she meant was that it was not only German, but burgeois, mid- 1 die-class. | "Do you mind if I want the world to know that I am glad I married you?" he had asked her with his u.sualj tenderness, and she had given exprc8-| Bion to the lurking jealousy by the taunting words: ' "Arc you quite sure that you aren't Borry you didn't marry Azuma?" | Yes, this morning he was aware that there was an atmosphere of strained moods in his beautiful home,' strained, principally because Judith refused to be happy, and he had no- j ticed with a species of anxiety, that there was a tacit feud between the two women, that Judith treated Azuma with unveiled dislike, while Azuma's face changed whenever she caught sight of Judith or even heard her voice in the distance. And he^ knew that this was all that Judith ; could build her attacks upon him,, her j Irritated phases, her ever-increasing^ coldness. | He had lavished costly gifts upon her this morning, gifts not only which had cost thousands of pounds, but which each of them denoted the way he thought of her, the trouble he took i to please her, the way he anticipated her wishes. But he had grown to realize that he was paying the penalty of unlimited wealth, that he had giv- en her all that a woman could want, or even dream about, that it was no Jonger by gifts that he could win her, that the tussle now, was between his mind and hers, his pride and hers, his temperament and hers, a clashing of wills in which he would come out the eonquerer by force, if necessary, but only when he had exhausted every method of love. Even to-day, their wedding day, this morning, standing within sight of all he had given her, with his kisses on her lips still warm, she had almost quarrelled with him. He had purchased a little gift for Ju- dith to give to Azuma. "I wish you would give her this yourself," he had said. "She will ap- preciate it so much, and 1 want her to remember our first wedding day." "Oh, my dear Adolphe, for heaven's Bake give* it to her yourself, she posi- tively hates me, I know, and as for you, why she adores you; for heaven's sake don't ask me to do anything so distasteful. You know that I cnn't bear the woman." Now in his oflfice he asked himself whether it was his duty to send her away, his "Hagar," as Judith called her sometimes when she was in a good temper, asked himself this, giv- en over to perplexity and doubt, the while he told himself that the cruelty of doing so would in itself work his downfall, even if there was nothing in the luck she brought him. Had he tried too much, asked too much? that was what he was thinking this morn- ing, the while he knew, knew that when Azuma had gone, she would not be different, she would still treat him with scorn, pretending that she did not love, because it was the creed of her world not to love beneath it. He had not come to any resolution when he returned to luncheon, but she was in a charming disposition, and his anxieties and doubts were dis- pelled. She even told him that she had overcome her repugnance, and piven Azuma the gift. Sne didn't tell nim how she had given it, how she had almost thrown it at her, as if con- tact of her dark skin were distasteful and said, "Mr. Lieb wants you to have that, because it is his wedding day," and sailed out of the room Rgain, without waiting to hear what the girl said, or if she liked thn gift. And the dinner had passed off pleas- antly enough, and Adolphe had tried to imagine tnat he had been over- anxious, that his love for Judith and over-work, for he was very busy just no>«/with a new scheme requiring all his attention. ha<l made him see things darkly: And now and then his eyes fell on the dazzling figure of his wife and thoughts come and go, come and of Hugh Glover flit through her mmd ? go, pleasurable, tortured, calm, rest- I ""K^ Glover, seedy-looking, shabby, less, always restrained by the coun- 1 'alien, and content to have become sel and the consolation with which half messenger, half tout to the Gol- one's own inner argument always Jmg and Lieb Company, through Mr. deals with unrest, she hears the outer | Lorraine's introduction and influence, door of her bedroom open, and across! Hugh Glover, who hovered daily, the darkness, for she has ordered the around her husband's office and whom light to be left unturned, she hears: she had forgotten, yet who to-night, Adolphe come in, and passing through ' seemed to jump out at her with re- ] her bedroom, step out on to the ter- ! newed threats. How was it that he i race, and her heart leaps to meet his, had kept silence all this time? unrestrained. ; Something of ths old horror re- "Adolphe," she stretched her hand turned, the gnawing anxiety, the nau- ^ . , to his, as he stooped and kissed her, I sea. And by the glow of the many at the head of the tablCj dressed in yielding her lips. Her beauty seemeti ; lights, which while their radiance did some sort of green stuff with silver , to fill his being with rejoicing. Yet ' "o<- fall direct upon them, while they and a magnificent parrure of emer- j both knew, he and she, that when the i themselves were almost in darkness aids and diamonds which had been morning came, when the pyes of the o" the foliage-screened terrace, yet his anniversary gift, or one of them, crowd were upon her, the scoffing, I seemed to be illuminating the whole with such infinite yearning tender- ' cynical crowd of her own world, she j world outside, he could see the strange ness, as he pictured himself and her would treat him with her usual scorn, ' pallor which passed over her face, and alone an hour or two hence, that Lady j,,. wring his heart by seeming not to' his grasp tightened on her fingers.' Glaucourt intercepting it by accident care for him, worse by pretending to | "Yes, you remember that I excu3- felt a shock, as if she had seen a li^g the admiration and the adulation , ed myself, went away, kept you wait- There's sLplavour of Distinction in every cup of â€"something intangible but truly entrancing. Skilful blending of the finest 'hill-grown' teas and scrupulous cleanliness in preparation is the secret. This flavour constitutes the individuality of SALADA and will never changCj no matter how costs may rise. B 79 vision, the vision of a soul revealed. ^ of other men. "I really believe that Judith is , And to-night he had something to quite happy," she had said to Lord tell her, something which would Glaucourt in the carriage, "those prove his love, something which would lovely emerals and all . . .' , ' put her mind at rest he thought for "I like the man, too," }ier husband ever, and which she ought to know, had ansv/ered, and for the first time which he would like to tell her to- it occurred to Lady Glaucourt that the night, while the mood of surrender man and the emeralds were indivis- 1 was upon her, lest one day she should ibie. . try his patience too much, and he They had all gone now, and Judith should be led to tell her in a fit of un- was seated on her terrace wrapped (rovernable rage, ing.'" I "Yes, yes . . ." her voice, how faint it was. her lipsâ€" how dry they felt,' while ner heart seemed to stop beat- ing. I "I have always thought that it was Golling who sent him, Golling's last I bad turn," he gave a bitter laugh. She was looking away from him, one look, one word, might betray her,| and she might after all be mistaken, { she could not think even, only she] „- -_„â€" And she, because in a soft dressing-gown with lace ^ women are created in that way, be- j must keep quiet, keep quiet silence to tumbling about it which would have cause they can never leave well alone, | the end. Poultry Alphabet. A utility bird is rarely worth doc- axe being an excellent been considered almost a sin to stitch or rest content till they have probed i And he too hesitated, hoping that torine the ^jie ucn.ir nn exiHupm upon a wedding gown. For once she to the core of things, torn leaf from ; she would tell him herself, surrender gure-ickl in«tri.n,«nf tn n„nW »„ IsMr had done as he wanted, and given up leaf of the rose to see what kind of a" her past to him, as she had sur- ^"'^f'cal instrument to apply to sick going out anywhere, though she was a core lies within, pulled the sawdust! rendered her future, so that she could fowl? I over feeding, careless methods, or 'one-sided diet. Unless you give your flock regular care, they do not pay to keep. Very few poultrymen know so out of the doll, even if the destruction ' I've anew, rest on his love. Yet that Balanced rations supply maximum I much that they can learn nothing bidden to quite a dozen places. ^ "No, this night is mine," he had of the doll brings sorrow and despair [ she did not do so did not surprise him, of nourishment said, in that strangely moving way j and bitter grieving tears, because she 't was natural that any woman, waste. with minimum of of his, which was half domineering, l of all women morbidly enjoyed play- ' even without Judith's pride, should ^^,, half caressing, but which rarely failed ! ing around truths she dared not ut- ' nu^se the terrible secret of her life hoard" idwr of effect, although she would never iter, hurried what he had to tell her â-  till the end. ' """• have owned it. I what he had not even made up his "What on earth could anyone have How strange it was that as she sat| mind to tell her, much as he wanted told you?" there and waited, knowing that he to know. I To herself her voice sounded like would come presently and smoke a jjg had exhausted now the fulness that of someone else far away, cigar on the terrace and be, oh so | of his vocabulary of love, reminded ' "He, a man told me that once you tender, because it was their wedding her of the days which seemed so dis- had been very unhappy, that a great night, the anniversary of it, her tant and yet so close when he had ' wrong had been done you, that heart should beat so. Why was it fondly loved her and dared not tell had had a child." that she always felt like this about her, and yet felt that if she did not him, anxious for him to come to her, i marry him no other woman would ever yet angry with herself because it was , satisfy him. He had reminded her of so, venting on him the irritation she nights like this in South Africa, when felt at having to go through London the still moon had been the only wit- as the wife of a Jew millionaire, ra- ness of his passion, when he had play- ther than the wife of a man of her ed to her upon their wide verandah, own world. and the voice of the jackal far away Presently the soft cool evening be- had seemed to answer with a wailing gan to do its work of soothing the call. ner/es. qf calming her, the while He was her lover to-night, an thought revolved like the tunes of a ardent, picturesque, poetic lover, and | When Italy joined the Allies (To be continued.) -* m ;3? What Italy Gives the Alliea Cull closely, for it does not pay to ard idlers. Do not attempt too much to accom- plish thoroughly. Every insect left to mature will de- crease the profiits of the flock. F-i-1-t-h spells failure. Good stock is the best foundation you but it must be handled with common sense. Hens are not magicians; so cannot raaunfacture eggs unless given the proper materials. Indolence and poultry-breeding make a combination which would bankrupt a wealthy financier. Just a little observation will prove that the I-know-it-alls never make successful poultrymen. Kindness shown to fowls pays in from the experience of others. barrel organ, now sad, now lively, his voice thrilled her. Here, far away , other figure was added to the column '"creased egg-supply „^,., „„.! .K»„ .„„™.„„ t« t„.,^v, e,„«o. j-^^^ everybody, with the conscious- 1 ^ '• '*â- -' = now and then seeming to touch some- thing within which brought physical ness of revels going on in this p!aceld„„tri pam. hideous remembrances likethfct and that where she was expected and i k- • of the little child who had died in the would not appear, with a hot breeze \ *^a'8ei which will ultimately disprove ne of force alonf which the the aiser adopted, convent at Paris, hideous yet pathetic almost i[ke"t'hat'of the deserT raishig ! ^^ explaining what he considered remembrances of agony and shame, here and there a leaf from a plant, or , the perfidy of Italy, Chancellor von The sounds, the sullen roar which the laces from the wrist which lay Bethmann-Hollweg said in a speech had seemed to her so significant in so close to his lips, she allowed herself , before the Reichstag: the morning, reached her now as if to glide along the stream whose mur- "Germany's word guaranteed the grown soft beneath the velvet touch muring fascinated her at night, while ! Austrian concessions and there was of the night carriages wheeled by in in the broad daylight she repudiated „„„""" i^nrSi^rth^ „^^^^ ♦u. •„„„ K.i,..„ ,.„-• „„» fa. away it, afraid almost of whither ft might I "°°"f'°"'\**''*'^"** *'''=°'^«'\ . lead to. Yes, it was her own voice' J^^ ^'"'} ^^^} Germany guaranteed which invited him to tell. I '^he Austrian offers seemed to the Ger- "And then, when, when did you '"an Chancellor sufficient. Jo moat feel that you could speak to me, what of the rest of the world that guaran- led you to propose that day ? Was it tee would not be held so. If the Azuma who told you that I would , Teutonic allies lost, they would not Now and then she would l""'"^ T '"'-•" ^-^""^a J*'''?"^^' « be in a position to guarantee or de- iNow arid men sne wouui touch of cynicism pierced again, and i:„„- __„rui„„ (.„ n.„i,, i* n, ss Sir Hubert Gresham, and he shrugged his shoulders impa- ''/^'^ "^^"1*"^ ^oj^f'^- " ^hey the lane below, and not far where a party was going on at a house in Park Lane, she could hear the strains of music. Yet to-night she did not regret that she was not with the throng. Always, there was something of ter- ror mingled with her excursions into society, come across his stiff bow would give her a feeling tientiy. ""^^ '^" i they might not be in a disposition to of discomfort for the whole evening.] "Oh,' Azuma," he didn't want toM" **•• However, the war should Once she had met George Danvers talk about Azuma, she never could | come out, the German guarantee of and wondered how he had interpreted understand the part Azuma played in : the Austrian promises was a slender her silence, whether he knew. Now his life, or pretended not to and then suddenly she would ask her- ..jt was a coincidence, a chain of self how many of the crowd which thought, perhaps." surrounded her knew, whether every- "Something I said then, vou hadn't one knew and laughed at her pride, meant to propose that day, not the at her insolent manner, at her cxclu- ,iay we came to tea, the day you play- siveness. , ' ed the violin to us." Now to-night, she felt a return of ; ghc gave a little inward laugh at reed for the Italians to lean on, par- Lice multiply rapidly in uncleanly surroundings. May chicks pushed to maturity, make fall layers to fill in the time when earlier hatched birds are rest- ing. No mixed flocks can give the satis- faction of a single breed. One's favorite breed is usually the best with which to win success. Pullets should be separated from cockerels as soon as sex can be dis- tingfuished. Qtrfckly kill the chicks which are dwarfed or crippled when hatched. Rush^ young birds tovrards matur- ity if you wish large profits. Select breeders early and dispose of all other male birds. Try to waste no feed, either by Hens are Profitable Assets. Possibly no farm live stock pays, as big a profit for food as do hens.; Seems strange, but true, that one egg will pay for the keep of a dozen hens one day. A hen if given a chance to forage will find a large part of her feed and during certain seasons of the year will be able to lay a goodly num- ber of eggs without any further feed. This fact has caused the hen in a great many instances to be neglected and shift largely for herself. Of course when thus disregarded she cannot be expected to be as profit- able as when given good care and attention. The refuse from the kitchen can be profitably turned into eggs rather than given to some worthless cats and dogs. The table scraps are excel- lent diet for fowls. Care must be exercised in feeding refuse from the kitchen or the outcome may be fatal. If foods where large quanti- ties of salt were used in their pre- paration are given to the fowls they may gorge themselves on this salty food and great loss of fowls may be encountered. One party who had salted a quantity of sweet corn found late in the spring that this corn was no longer wanted for cooking pur- poses and thoughtlessly threw it to the chickens. An excessive amount of it was eaten and in a few hours many of the fowl had died. In much the same way a farmer lost a fine bunch of young chickens by feeding them salted mash potatoes. versa. When Turkey entered the war 250,000 men were called from the Al- ticularly with Belgium staring them ,4^3. Hn^ to take care of Turkey. This in the face. I was all gain to Germany. When Italy A nation cannot go through the joined the war 500,000 men left the world invading other people's rights Austrian-German lines. This was and breaking its own word, trusting | ^^in to the Allies. Of course, part , , , ^ , A , , , '. " -f>" "w.only in the mailed fist of its land ' "f'Vhese men were on theAu'strran **^'" uV'"""' '''^S .r" 1,' "^ », 1 'P 1 »*'« '''«« "^ '•"^ ""â- *«'" «*^« ^""^ been forces and fleet, without losing nearly ' f'nti!/ -iithrtimr bit^ should hear, and the while she longed that day that he would propose, how all its friends. And no possible army I u 1 l ?• 1 • * \ to have the courage to tell him, and uttle after all one could read what ^ ^ """' '^°"'' '" '^° ""â- '"" -'""^â€"'^ she tol( herself that because she was was going on around one, guess at the The Italian declaration of war took half a million men from the German- Austrian lines against France and Russia, and establishes a precedent for Roumania to do likewise, not to mention releasing a portion of the Al- lied fleet which had been blockading the Adriatic. possible army and navy can recompense a nation for the loss of the friendship of the she, and he was he, she would never thoughts of others. She might after , , . r .1. , . tell; an inten.sc doubt of what he all have come and gone and he said rest of the world would do if he found out that he had nothing. ... I ""t from whatever combination of been duped. And with the doubt, a| "i hail not intended to do so unless reasons Italy entered the war, its ac- feeling of reliance, of comfort, which something occurred to make me think j tion has a great significance both seemed emphasized and expressed , hat you would accept me. I shouldn't from military and political points of now and then by comfortable little have liked to have been refused you sounds issuing from the cages of know." "And what made you think I would accept you?" , "Something someone told me." "Someone told you?" Why did something clutch at her now have to be continually reinforced ; and fed with ammunition. On the sea, too, the Italian fleet, Did a Marathon. "So papa jumped from his chair which is more than a match for the Y'*^" ^^^ "f:^ ^'^ /,?'' ""^ hand. And what did he say? "I'm not sure he said anything." "Not sure? Didn't you hear any- sleeping birds, as they drew closer to each other on their perches. And while "The Day about to yield his breath. 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