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ith t room. 0 d thing elee--n grea: inkling ye. more | Ste " remembered ns tht day the TaUBpr Ly membered t only that day the fa lights, & city like Frankfort, of his friend had alas, : Rgnine and 0 8 WAREON | "I helieve "that there are dinmonds with carved doors and m hal ; I in South Africa to provide the vases; the howe of Ado Iphe Lieb, orld for hundreds of years, One day pM Alre.. Ae they will be cheap ae dirt." oh hese Tues, Ai goin forget BF th Rg sundlce groups of pecple coming. hie inexperience. | 1€: 8 _chacse ero'se of throngs of 'B hovered close, and| 10% uniforme and magnificently Mothing to guide her| rower, and lackeys in vilk breeches, tpead 4a. the eves of rctaries and k ings, saw that. he un- Plant Yelle ad posiail 'WM. RENNIE Co. LIMITED, ADELAIDE and JARVIS STREETS, TORONTO, ONT, ; Also at Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver. ; amon, © 3 Fi of the fair woman &t ageant wae to uufold gent And then oun doen Tot Jeol he racial tosing. 19 'She sprang feet, and he follow: ed, . It seemed nity, and the night was og Far awa. could hear the cry of jackals; dis! warying. How often ince he has lived over: again that night when Ye walked with the Kaffir girl 10 the far away hill; the night which chang: ed his whole life, Now they were nearly at the top of a hillock, and with a ges ture which impressed him by ite grace, almost by i's magnificence, she raised her arm, and swept it to right and left, n does not ag the American and the ful and Had of higbdife 1 2 eujol 4 n t there eeem ne! ng stra 1g the fact that he wae in aouth Africa. standing out on the brow: of a hill, in the} iddle of the night, one hand itetehd mi THE FATE OF AZUMA; Or, The South African "Millionaire. I PROLOGUE--CHAPTER II. And late, that evening, Adolphe Lieb wae roused by a grating sound outside on the shutter. The Boer had only two small roome to offer hie guests, and even those, his friends told him, he ought to be thankful for, as often travellers in Bouth Africa are obliged to share a bed with the family, @ doubtful pleasure, La ter Adolphe was glad that the two rooms were not opening into each other. On the contrary, they were on opposite sides of the 'vocrkamer, or hall, and the room next to Adolphe wae the kitchen. All thie he did not notice at the time, but later he realized that it it had not been for that fact, the noise, slight as it was caused. by the events of that night, would have aroused the Boer and his family, all of whom were sleeping in the one other little roem. He had been advised to keep his revol- ver 18aded, but he had laughed at the idea, as townepeople do, and the sound filled him with a vague uneasiness, Pre- Bently it was repeated, and he sat up in ed. "Baise . , . Baas!" It wae the voice of the Kaflir womaa whom he had eaved that morping. With a towneman's ex- erience, he smiled to himeelf; then he ooked annoyed. He raised the window and motioned her to go away. His one dread 'wag lest hia friends ehould come to his assistance and find her there, but she beckoned to him to come, pointing te: the moon. It was impossible to under- stand what she meant. "Bhe doesn't propose a midnight ramble, I cuppoee," he said to himeelf, returning. to bed. But it wae impossible to sleep with the though' that perbape this wo: man .was on the stoop outeide. Presently he began to wonder whether ghe came to warn him of anything, whether the man he had struck that morning had any: de- signe, and he élipped out of hed and drees- ed in the darkness. When he wae drees- ed, he went to the window and opened it; evidently it was what she. had expected him to do, for ghe was setanding there waiting in the moonlight. Here was a dilemma~if he tried to go to sleep again, she might stay there all 'night. And the beauty of the night appealed to him, the stillness, the wonderful still: ness of Bouth Afriea, which is like the stillness of the desert. Nothing 'there it seemed but the moon and the hills and the river, all enveloped, embraced, by the sapphire duct of the moonbeame. oung blood is always eager for adventure, and sleep had vanished from his eyelide for g and all. The epirit which had made old Lieb say that the word "impossible" wae not in his dictionary, was awake in hig eon to-night, the son who would not have anything to do with the little jewel ler's shop, but who yet had dreams of greatness beyond those of his father. He slipped his revolver into his belt, and fol- lowed her. In those days he knew too lit- tle to fear, and the woman--surely she would not lead him into danger? He re: 'membered that he had often heard that the negroes were grateful for kindness. It jen't true, but it seemed true at the time, ae $0 many things which ought to be, seem true. Very eoftly, for fear of waking sleeping household, he slid out of window, and followed the woman. The brightness of the moonlight made their vhadows strong across the sand and arid earth, and, he thought how strange they looked, the shadow of the Jouus German and the Kaffir woman following a few steps behind, although she led him by the eweep shs gave with her hands, point. ing towards the hills. Once he stopped and shook hie head. He didn't want to go on, he said. But she emiled, and show- ing her teeth uttered 'Yes, yes, one of the few English words she knew, And, lest he should leave ®t the critical mo- ment, she pointed further to a kraal, be: tween two slopes of the hill, "What on earth can she want?" asked himself. Once or twice he addressed her in Ger: man or English, and he could see that she was at least intelligent enough to try to understand, but it was. no good. Pre: sently she pointed to his pocket, and with an instinet to ehow that he had protected himeelf, he showed her the revolver; but still she shook her head. Then it dawned upon him that she wanted money, and his heart misgave him. If:that wae all, he would soon show her all he had with him. He had left a roll of paper money and a little gold in his coat pocket. He had not thought to follow her so far, and bad merely slipped his trousers over hie shirt. He took oat a few pieces of money, and she smiled. Once more her idea in bringing.him out here -flaghed upon him, then dissipated again. She held out her hand, and he laid the money in it. If that was all she wanted, she could haye it. 'And in the moonlight she sat down on a julting stone, and counted the money, while he stood by and watched. It wae so bright that one could see the Queen's head on the coins. Then ehe looked up. The coins lay gleaming on 'her lap, as with both hands 'she made gestures which showed money upon money, pile upon pile, heaped up. "Plenty, very much,' ehe repeated, pointing towards the hill beyond. Adolphe Lieb could never have eaid why suddenly something seemed to tingle in his veins, to obsess him, who had always laughed at money-grubbers, even at 'men who, like hie father, worked early and Jate to amaes Bn fortune; epending all their beet years he had eaid, in order to enjoy ten minutes eternity. Yet now sud- denly. this dark girl with her speakin eyes séemed to reveal something which the the he as if commandin to see for himse where it was. "Joh gburg." She p rection of the town forty and his eye followed her pointed finger. Then th resumed | she took him a little to one side low hill, and crouched down as if t nearly round again. Then she stopped and clapped her hands for glee, ae she pointed to the ground. He half grasped her meaning yet, for fear of his own thoughta, he held it back, re. lugtant to allow an unjustifiable optim. take ession of him, which ism to would end in urdity. "Very much-plenty . iecovery. Then, stones, picking wu after. another, laid them in \ his Even in the darkness he could eee smile. hand. shone on her dark hair and forehead making her mouth and 'the lower her face in shadow, mysterious, ehe stood there he eaw. fled, restrained, excitement. Then as he looked at the hard substance, he uttered an exclania tion in German: "Ach Gott!" The son of old Heinrich Lieb could not had make a mistake, the Kaffir girl shown him a diamond mine. Never before. never since, has Adolphe Lieb felt exactly the eame sensations' 16 'that night. We have nearly all of us at experienced some mental emotion which stands out from and which from the remaing indeli- enhanced because of ite intensity, with an atmos some time or other among all others, impression 'it hae made, bly graven upon our memory, phere of mpyetery, of the supernatural, In the years {o come, gether in that moment; passion, 'wealth and power, Success, compared to that one moment on the A rican. veldt, when he realized that he stood on the eurface of a mine, a dia. mond mine of which the diamonds. .were of the finest quality. He could tell that, even in the moonlight, ib; mine proved dees valuable than it .eeem: od to him at thet moment, yet the stones' that lay in his palm repredentéd a small fortune, Now & mutual understanding seemed to be born between them, he under why ehe had brought him here, a go him to study the land, how it wae situated inted in the di miles * away, their walk. Now the keep their detached figures from being visible, then ehe turned to the left bringing him . ."" she repeated, urging him as it were to make his own because he gazed at her questioningly, ehe stooped, and scrap- ing away some of the loose earth and one little dark piece her They were standing beneath the brow of the lower hill now, and the moon art of et aa that she was beautiful, and that in her eyes gleamed the fire of youthful enthusiasm, of digni- little pieces of Adolphe told himeelf that all the emotions of hig life, all the delirium of happiness, all the ecstasy of living, had been gathered to- that love and health and all these things were ae nothing the look of the little pieces of rough glass, even if the out, '@ white shapely hand needi pathy, hits deep nonon from ie fel: we to etil' the tumult of hie owm, he Jaid his fingere on her arm and her sup- ple well-shaped wriety and glid thém down into her ov Ee ¥ Never had the hand of the white man touched her except to strike, and she too .gat there entranced for a moment, half fearful, half enraptured, then he let her «hand go: It seemed ae if some tension of feeling had been released, und he '| breathed a eigh which wae like the end- ing of paesion, ow the woman laid her finger to her lips to bid eilence, then she pointed once more in the direction of Johannesburg, then waved her hand towards the moon, which was slowly = falling towards the further hills. And they started om their homeward way. oo When at last he climbed slowly in at the window ill, the dwn of a new day was unrolling iteelf like /loodstained parchment acroee the eky, the dawn of a new day in Bouth Africa, PROLOGUE--CHAPTER IIL "Starting tonight--Adolphe." Tho telegram had thrown the Lieb family into the greatest state of excite ment because they had not e h back for another month at least. Old Lieb looked grave; he hoped that his son had not got into any trouble with the peo- ple he was staying with; he dida't think ®0. Adolphe was a good boy, but he was ~| sorry that the young man hankered #0 after Frankfort life. "He will never do anything," he said to himself. He had all a eelf-made man's horror of a loafer. Yet hie father could detect & ehange in his son when he did arrive, an air of sup- reseed excitement, a breesy, enthusidistic look which had not been there before, He wae oore manly in hie appearance, and the bronzed look which had begun to wpread over his countenance made him decidedly. handsomer, for he wae good: looking and not aggressively Semitie "in Appearance. 3 It had been evening when he arrived, and he spent a couple of houre with the whole assembled family, anewering hie mother's .questions, distributing the gifte he had brought them to hie # , Aeke ing questions about their friends, about Frankfort; but his father, whose busi: nese experience had acquainted him with phases and expressions of character and moods, 'beyond the knowledge of the or- _| dinary man, could eee that he chafed at the procrastination of scmething he had "to tell. He could read the expression on his son's face almost as if it had been his own face in the glass, and devoutly hop: .| ed that it was not some trouble. Now Adolphe grew quite absent-minded while they talked to him, then made an effort to gather his eonitered thoughts, And 'after dinner his father eaid 16 his eg danghisie and to hie son Wilhelm: "Now children, run away," he always three miles from the Farm, what she had meant whe: ehe counted out the money and seemed to pile it on her lap. ae if, at last, they understood each. oth ers epeech even. What he would do shout it, what would come later, and the wonder of it all for one moment seemed to dagsle him, to be wilder him, yet to fill his whole being with visione of the future which were like a revelation. Flashes of scenes pame before him, con- od, agitated. It does not ree fused, evanescent, giving way to A Seaforth, Ont. 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'he Soule hardly tai: f by "1 expect you are surpr that: I: ® back £0 much earlier, eh, father?" - ° "Yes--I suppose yoi were tired of it, in those countries whers"there is not much n then hi dark-looking onaly. substance, 'father knew well by sight; then he spread nt of his father without speak: ing, DI 'hig two 'elbows on the table, clasped his bands and. looked at hie. fn | ther without speaking, g a Sy father too up, such little piece one by (one, then he laid them down again: "They are good." Then, after a .mo- ment's pause: 'Bo you are Seine to be your father's son 'after all, eh? 3 "Wait a moment." A got up and went out of the room. And while he wae absent the old man' got up the recom wi m Eooyes autl- nd o0CR- every now to look at one mally nt for lon verdue accounts. - and . 7. he thanked ful- pictures: oh i nature sionally taking ls moment, this crowning rt men crowning mao- ment of Apo only with half the glory of acquainted with, = thers, ow i it la to find phone." 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