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CHAPTER XVIL--(Contd). | dulously, such int Well, well, we must see what we difficult to believe Judith shrugged ! "I doit gee w at ft me one, as lo i paes that Bort the would lo brings him luck or "Hm," { for tever it itely. more lov ) Glaucourt"s FS hr try," he said, "we al wor An count #7 Han kind of worieh are suppos- ys give the biggest gift to the! oo ring Tuck T believe" gt Toingest person present, to-night 1 Judith: laugh than he had id he hooked them on seem- that that is Lady Judith. Please; « Lady Judith accept a small remem- |. Lam dying to see brance of niy dinner party, and Ihope| * «1. hope you will not mention her that She Sl may have the eas | before me." : ure of welcoming you a - ; > why" (ii oo vay = is: place near | fiils showed that her mother was ohannesburg). He turned and gave ith t an order to one of the servants. So! In the carriage Judith fold her mo far as he was concerned the incident| * a1f we wander away mother, don't was closed, follow us, because I believe that he'll So might a Sultan have given Jew- | propose to-day. 1 think that is why els to the woman he had chosen e asked us." swell the number' of beauties in his| "«f suppose that it won't take long," harem, or a Pacha have thrown his gaiq her mother a little wearily. handkerchief to a dancing girl, and| "ydith laughed. } that impression conveyed itself to | "I can't time him, mother, but Tl everyone. i i But to Judith it was not repellent. to make him do it as quickly After all, if it were not for the dia- monds they would none of them be here to-night. you to look at." "It is so fatiguing looking at other : ! people's things, that is the beauty of If he never did propose she would one's own, one never looks at them." at least have a beautiful 'mecklace,| "7,4 Glaucourt was - relieved to she said to herself, with a touch of fnd that the member of Parliament, humor, 4 who alone was in the secret, had been But surely after this he must pro-| invited, and told off to keep the mo- Jose. 3 aly | ther quiet. He was ve fond of When Lieb had joined the women fio 'and quite delighted. He went in the next room, the men discussed gory little 'into society, except | i Tad a few moments over another, amongst the henomens, as he called . - '| Lieb, and he had heard nothing. "Why thet necklace must be worth| judith was immensely relieved to about twenty-five thousand pounds," | see him, for she had told herself that remarked Lord Eustace. Lord Glau-| Adolphe wasn't at all the man to be court only said that he supposed that hurried. Judith would send it 'back in the] She could see by her mother's ex- morning: He would certainly Sug- pression as they drove through the gest that she should: x gates of the magnificent house which "A good deal more than that," over | were opened by a porter, and got here, said the member of parliament. down at the door, that her mother was "It gives one an idea doesn't it of | gatisfied with the appearance of the enormous wealth of South|things. Lieb met them in the hall Africa," said Mr, Spencer, who Was with his friend, and took them dying to get some information about ! straight to the drawing-room, then the mines, Ei , | he disappeared, asking them to. ex- "Funny thing to do," said Golling" cuse him. p : ; with a cigar between his lips. He| «will you forgive me? I have a never could resist saying something man there, who has just come from disagreeable about Lieb. .. | my office. I will give him a letter,| But the women themselves didn't! and come back in an instant, if yéu think it funny at all. They thought! will allow me" While he was gone it' delightful. Lady Glaucourt chatted with Mr. El-| liott, and Lady Judith wandered round CHAPTER XVIII She room. re to Took" at a tal But the day after she had engaged, .. *'™ ToL going 00K ata Lhi herself to Adolphe: Lieb, which was | till I have had a cup of tea,' sai] on the third th June, Judith Suthe te. of life hen tea NS aite Hs with some of the ominous dread hov- ering about her which had character- vii Front Pleagures, because, as she ized her former love affairs. She was| 52! i 5 it was 3 ceting, it at least again seized with that invincible de- had De repeated, have. that direct] size to tell her story which had pos-|, "° b ko said hie friend Wy sessed her when she had realized that | i ipa y Sal ii dyin Jd Sir Hubert Gresham was about to hg Se ; Sm YO! Be of he tell her that he cared for her, only, rity pik £ Ae el 18 ba or qui Anstead, the frm decision that it was to make his Bese ih a bpd i. ihe High 4 ing Fis do Was milsing, ossible to himself and others, for his as Jt had been when she engaged Ner-| $300 sake. Lieb was gone longer self "to George Danvers, while she ti ble Be of & Hh ic 1 tried to persuade herself that this Tog of a Fell ' Ae (hee pT dith time the millionaire was doing quite nee 1d Te € on a oh at 3 well enough for himself, whether he aa ib * the Kg a i i knew or not. She had had too. be-|® ny re n 4 e0 gh ng ere, os confant, 1 hardin dra For something todo, she ped, a life, to be able recognize ; pW. y Thc 'weoutod this fning pratt to SeTYOHSE as idgs of pink gor see that it was the man who seem 8 to exact sincerity; to deserve it, With SY oasible from He Park 5 posite. Sir Hubert it had been her love which | "* Jay 55 CF & Storod n Ltt ar dictated sincerity, and her belief in|, "fy She HHEERG BEE COFCARC) his; now she did not think that she! CHW S TO tly ou phan loved, and she had ceased to trust in out: of rn jy was nd the love of others. No this time, she | 2° 0: Mio or Bye Fw ng would not tell, and something seemed like, could it be? No, not dressed ed) to whisper. that this time there would sh abbil * "He had look be no hitch of any kind; then why 72 Je5, 10, Ves. le 008 did she feel so anxious, so suspicious ad bask for a moment as if je had! sometimes? She even wondered now | L0fBotten something, and she and then if Madame Dufour had Bow] 45 Dis Saco and drawn back. \ said anything about it to Mrs. Golling. 38 PEN 2 OVER At another moment she told herself At that instant the door opened that she was 'wicked, ungrateful to and Adolphe Lieb returned, and the those who cared for her, u teful two sitting there had no time to ask to the fates, which at last, if they had i not brought her the fairy prince of | soir or Viv 8 Wii ace Scan her dreams, had at least provided her features, Her heart was beating so, with a colossally rich husband of that she could not s; leasing personality, and devoted to Ay bir fiugh O et til the moment when he act- one l, Ab, i was ae ere ually proposed, she was given over at climb it, hever. Hi er heart, het .very times to moments of depression which| J 1 sceined to die awa: within ; were almost of despair. . 2} andin its dying" ta y rod the feeling was revived with| groans which tore at her the more, : c force on the very day of her|pocauss she dared not utter them. A Jhgagement. He had f) od her and woe it her fancy, or was there a oe er 1) afternoon | troubled look on his face? If she had I eT te mes Tig | been alone. with him, she would have ve a hie use, an Bee 2 siyetehed om her two hands s and said: » i : olphe, you know, ow ola Glascoust had hesitated, dy | You, know, but you must not desert $udith had "You'll have to come there, lover here, what had he been so e old story, the 'tory was a pale, intelligent youth who ve birth to rine, he Mad lo enn er. | 5 her, and I hope d she stood, too, as made of bronze, motionless, little defiantly, while her eyes ed to Sen ady Glaucourt's figure i wonder, and to fall sudden swift inquiry upon Judith a e entered. the room. == = This was the room in which som mes of an evening Azuma him his "cibouk" and came her! squat at his -féet and tell "him | t | Doosible anyhow therell be lots for wall "When the s |. Drag sand, while she gave him w on about his = investments, prophesied strain Spor" "of thi about the Stock Exchange or whis- 3 Sve: afm. 9 | When the ! pered of future great enterprises. It Sloat; zeclusive Dlddleclathes. One . Drag the 1 : was a room whose beauty you could | day an officer asked a hostile elderly | When the corn is in J not gauge at once on account of 'its citizen, full of 'paunch and English | 1; the cold and drear, discreet - adornments, but it grew | dignity, how' many soldiers he could Every season of the year; Tpon you like the mind of a person keep in his house: id "Drag 'the road y of intellect who is reserved, but| "Well, it's like this----," the man ; ght whom you grow steadily to admire. | hegan. , "When you've. nothing 'else to do, °| - Drag the roads; If but for an The first impression it made upon| « : A ae that it vas dark, dusky Tike Non i ddan, ig Spare Zuma's hair et conveying - sion ,of soa dost upon it, like her "None, except on the mat," was the i too. The walls ware of violet | "#1, ae mat, then" sna Wo ey brown, or black grey, or . _ mat ," snapped. grey black, the color of forest shad- | the officer, and 'a pair of tittering ows, with its own faint perfume ex- | Tommies were left at the dopn Sik haling slowly, like suppressed 'seent-| To the adventure of the billet he ed sighs. But as you remained in the soldier finds the working classes room you saw that there were other, the most sympathetic. They under< things upon the wall, the wall which! stand him, and make him welcome. | . Everybody has a way 'of doing L somehow reminded you of a In the houses of the well-to-do~ he ; and this is my way of taking | scarab of Egypt. Presently * your fool tof it. ne T. t| care of the'calves. ~~. : |! eye detected faint dead gold traceries | 0 0 As one Tommy put| $476 9% 136. Lh 0.4. UX : nothing' we can talk| Ihave ten good cows which let into the wood so delicately, that tout valle, and o| myself, and I found that hour or two, est weights, | " : f On the eve of a Caring for the Little Calves. dark they were like graceful writing on R Torn paper, like. the Neer shics time they be askin' us about things | &00d cows you must on the scarabs, yet barely discernible | that's no concern of theirs at all." No good re except where the light touched them | The young officer in the new|from a half-starved revealing secrets of craftmanship. ! armies, who is perfectly amazing in} I lét the calf suck the And rising nearly two yards in height yi - intelligence, 'adaptability, and|two It is better' ; around the room a wainscotting of 'iy rough of detail, is the butt | the mother, too, and the n ) trelliced mussharabeah, of the old 82-| of perpetual pokes and ' biting sar-| Spt to get all the milk than I wo : ; ged if Pm. ple pattern which ls, new exUBCh| um Quring Tis training. "Shout! be, thus getting it out of the cow | [BE fo if that thing over, the fence. dows hung. curtains of rich brocade, | adjutant to "Eyeglass," | bag and into the calf's stomach where| *0-MOO™" © : deep dull red with delicate embroid- the platoon sergeant, whose voice|it should be, with less trouble and} Le eries of gold: Why was it that the] was so low that his men could not|better results. . © - : 3 Only ame, Poet impression it made upon Judith was:.hear the command. "Don't mumble At the end of this time I milk the been elected Pope that of the inside of an exquisitely like a flapper who has just got her | cow and feed the calf; tie the ealf ERE : first kiss. It's not allowed on par-| where it cannot see its mother, and ade." Another. man who gave aif the weather is cold I wrap some-| platoon the wrong direction in dress-| thing round her when the barn doors ing was told "to be careful, and not |are open. Never allow a calf to shiver of shove the regiment over." A fiery |if you want it to keep well. © = | uu Welshman's snub' for getting unreas-| For the first two weeks I feed new onably angry with two of his men: milk as soon as milked, and then I i for a. slight mistake was. conveyed in| begin to mix in 'separated byl J the remark that "he had only got| degrees, adding at first a third, then them on appro'. half and when a month old I give all} = Te separated and take care to She Knew. : x So "I am collecting for the suffering| Buckwheat shorts and bran are poor." good, but never put them in the milk. "But are you sure they really suf-|Have a small box nailed in a conveni- fer?" : : ent place on the manger or side of "Oh, yes, indeed. I go to their|the wall and fill with dry feed. houses and talk to them for honrs at| calf will soon learn to help itself. a time." © : | When six weeks old put clo i within reach; this will aid the : Cause for Dislike. tion and increase growth. "1 don't like that man." If eggs are plenty "Don't like him? Why, my dear] two in the milk, and yi 'ellow, you don't know him!" prised at its 'That's why 1 don't like him. He . refuses to meet me." A prepared coffin, panelled rooms had made that impression on her before, but the darkness of this wood empha- sized the fancy? \ (To eontinged.) HUMORS OF AMATEUR ARMY. How Lod Kitchener's Raw Recruits Were Made Into Fighting Men. Rifleman Patrick MacGill, of the Irish Rifles, author of "Children 'of the Dead End," has written a jolly little book about "The Amateur Army," giving glimpses of every stage in the training, from raw "rooky" to finished fighter, based on his own experiences. One day, out of curiosity, he asked some of his mates why they enlisted. "Well, matey," said his friend, the good-natured| cockney; grinning sheepighly, "I dohe it 'to get away from my old gal's jore --now you've got it!" Another type in the most democratic army in his- £5 the growth much blood, should be protected: from FRENCH WOMAN AVIATOR WAS | be re ero mer with | CHASED BY A TAUBE AIRSHIP |& did not, depend en-| 3 put ny calves in " e barn every afternoon during the | warmest weather ans av Aer hay. | wt ing } Hag is dehornit "Tia pi