The Exeter Advocate, 1915-6-17, Page 6TRE FATE OF AZUMA;
Or, The South African Millionaire.
CHAPTER XV.
"Dear me, what is all this about?
Err .. re; how angry everybody looks.
I'm really frightened."
The Collings' party was going on, - Then, as the older Galling insisted,
and Lady Judith had wandered away becoming almost abusive, the other
from the crowd into a little boudoir man had turned and said:
giving out of a larger salon. It pleased
her to affect being quite at Wane in "Very well, then, my son will give up
this house, as if she had possessed her- that mine, you can buy it of him at the
self of the African contingent. She price he gave for it
bad not so many emotions now but It was a daring offer and one which
that she had to make the most of them, took the younger Lieb's breath away,
and 'she was intelligent enough to but the older man knew what he was
know that while everyone scoffed at about. He knew that the Collings had'
her new enthusiasm, everyone envied not the money to buy the mine, far,
het. for African millionaires are not to less to exploit it, and old Golfing bad
be found every day given in. What they could never for-
t-ps tairs, mercifully, Lady Glaucourt give was that he made no further pro-
bed forgotten that she wasn't at home. goals, while every few months
and 1Nas receiving her own friends Adolphe devoted the proceeds of the'
with some show of cordiality, while : first mine to buy up another, till :every i
see "eae;ioneey turned towards sone mine worth speaking about, belonged
aetetaintar,ee standing neat•, whenever to him, belonged to the firm of Golfing
she ,-ass anyone approach:1g whom the' and Lieb, while only the control of the
tloilinge hed insisted on asking, and first one belonged in any way to Goa.
whom she did not wi-.it to knew, more 'lig.
titan_ :nat. whose ore °ence she wanted . "If you once let them know how h
to ig ...e; for, in her quiet way, etre. many diamonds you have," the older;
(telling had insisted on at least half a nina had warned him. "they are such
do ee acquaintances and one or two feels, those two, that they will launch i
of the firm and their wives. The them all on the market in order to sea-
Inuche , was there, and Lord 1 ustaee. b t' a big fortune, and they will ruin
and apparently the party was a sue- the diamond trade. You have enough,
tease and Judith had cone to look for' diamonds now to sell for three gen-
tle. millionaire. 'eratlone, and by that time you will
Lady Judith's little conspiracy with . Mayo found other mines,"' j Skull Cap with Morse Jitu
Mrs', (lolling bad succeeded and he was And the old man had been right in
hire to -right, but it had needed seine • every one of his prognostications, and A vexes chic -looking toque is tl
manoeuvring to get him to promise to at every turn almost, Adolphe Lieb of farts Shadow checked toff
conic. He wstraw,
a. n r
at offended e a
d d fi not had had reason to rejoice at the factand surmounting the bre
having been asked sooner, but he had that with the other mines Gelling, fa -1 ornate cups.
an idea that he wash t wanted. It had ther and son, bad nothing to do. As -- --_ ._- ___ __ . _
e-eri lady Judith's m. Sion to persuade he had perceived when he bad stayed: called him, and she crept on to the
thin that h+ was. : with them as a boy, they were net- wide veratidali.
The lui:(in on lead passed off very tiler busines -11he nor serupu!eus, and i "Yes, yes,"he spoke a little snips
p'etisantly. e:lllataee�ii by the presence On very crisis of lath': power lar' in, tiently. hew s
of Johanna and \itadann punier, who the fact of the name for Honesty borne a eouter i p thoughtn
impervious to all outer impressions.
while she bad been the nitre c of ate by the I -lege:;. "England asks nue to do this," he
diti.'• i e' t agouieed tamie ate, ,°c>t had "I'd rather ere Lieb i inuself, " sins murmured, ;almost aloud, 'ad her dark
a personality which snneattited and the oft -repeated remark when any, eyes sought. his face.
ereiged them over, rather than bror,glit butane se transaction was on foot, and; She pointed to the moon.
theme to the memory Golfing inde'r ()mice tie twice Lieb had tried to buy" '"Just like that it was the night
the impression. left in his mind by Gelling out. Ile c,idn't like the assail Azuma. took you up there."
Lady Glaucourre w. rd', was a good clition of the name, and because Gol-1 She pointed in the direction of the
Glauc•ourt's words, was a good deal ling uot'ognized that it was a source of,,mine, which lay miles away, a differ -
deal more ("oriel than usual to his part- annoyance, even more than because eat place now, with its machinery, and
nen, and Adolphe Lieb himself was he recognized the prestige the linking its crowd of miners' huts, to what it
;uc- 1 into admiration of Juditlu'e of the names gave him, Golfing bad bad been ten years ago, and yet be -
beauty. Probably because he was a clung to the original contract and re- cause it had been his first, Adolphe
Jew, the Madouna presentment plea; ed .fuu-crd the most alluring offers to be had built his house beneath the shta-
hini, and because he was an artistic be. , displaced. At one time Adolphe had dow of the mountain which sheltered
Mg her beauty satisfied him. Most of found himself, after lois father's death, it.
tilL icertiinip lieite in a city of t ompliete- -twit the two Collings arraigned , Ile threw away his cigar, walked
time so far as he watt concerned, putto
afiain-t pini, and without. his fathers the front of thea porch, folded his
him at his ease, for London had not, to guide him. hands behind his back and looked In -
yet proved the Mecca of his dreams,; More than once he lead just escaped to the night.
How ranch this was due to polling.' some nasty situations invented by "Yes, Azuma, that was a wonderful
how much to the stories set afloat a them to entangle his credit, or sully thing that you did." And then speech
about him by his insistence to pleaee , his financial reputation, and always, it deserted bin. Outside the night seem -
himself in the matter of the Kaffir we seemed to him, it rad been Azuma who ed to throw its .witchery upon him,
man, how much because be himself saved him. And Gelling, having the while within surged a tumult of
had failed to please, he had not yet ' advantage of being English, and mar- thought too great for utterance.
analysed. All he knew was that for all Tied to an English wife, had establish- "What did he say, the white man?"
his huge fortune he was not having ed himself in London three years be-� She hated. Coiling, and Adolphe
much of a time. This was the first fore Lieb, in order to spread abroad laughed.
year he had spent a season in London.. his propaganda of hate. Then a year, He did not count her inquisitiveness
Hitherto, his visits had been entirely' after old Lieb's death, the elder Gall- impertinence. She always asked him
nn business, and lie had not only met ing and his schemes had vanished to-' about his affairs, and he could trust
the men with whom he did business, gether, in the enfolding arms of death, her, he knew it, above everyone in the
ind those of the great who were direct. and Lieb had found the son, because world. He told her what had passed,
ey or indirectly concerned with South of their earlier friendship perhaps, al "And he has told you lies, lies."
Africa, with concessions, with cam- little easier to deal with, at least so I "Are they lies?"
mules, with mines. With these he had it seemed to him. I He turned suddenly.
made a favorable impression, More And It had pleased the younger, "I will tell you."
:ling one had suggested to his wife 1 Golling to go about London proclaim.' She drew from her belt a little bag
hat Lieb should be asked to dinner, ling that the scheme had been his, and and knelt on the verandah.
nit always the question arose: i that if it had not been for a low Jew 1 And laughing, Adolphe seated him
"Isn't there something add, isn't i trick it would be Galling and Galling, self on the parapet of the verandah
:Isere a black woman living wth him?" , instead of Galling and Lieb, and that and watched her. How often she had
end only the bravest, or those who he would have been the richer man, i done this and he had laughed, yet al-
teeded to be friends with him for their I Then one day Lieb had his eyes ways she had been right.
awn purposes asked him to their i opened by the woman who seemed to ' And she drew front the bag a quan-
tomes. So far he had nearly always preside over his destiny, the while he, tity of little white pebbles, that gleam.
seen entertained by the "he" of the led a life in which she had so small a ed in the darkness like marbles, bones
mouse at a club. For the Iast two years : part 9 she had told him they were of great
he had lived at an hotel. Now at last Coiling had told him that if he' African chiefs, and the bones of the
he had his magnificent house in Park !would finance the Jameson raid Eng- dead could speak of the future.
Lane which threw all the other houses I land would be grateful, that the gov-° Always when she did this, she re -
into the shade. It was a palace, a pal -1 eminent would recognize his services, i minded him of the way she had piled
ace to which the glaringly white stone :the services which, whoever set them up his few coins on her lap that night
work and the many porches and ter -1, on foot, and the truth will never be and said, "plenty, plenty, very much."
races gave an Oriental aspect, at least ; known till the grave gives up its dead, And -because she had been right that
when the sun shone upon it, what it l was the first herald of the Boer war. time, because she had established her
needed to complete the illusion was an' Coking had come all the way from power of bringing luck once, she had
arid desert stretched behind it. It is I London to tell him this at his lovely: obtained an ascendancy over his su-
the want of space for its buildings 1 Villa near Johannesburg, and it seem- perstitiousness, so that he had inters
which makes London so hideous. But ed to him after reading letters from woven her image with all his dreams
the house because of its size depressed,people whose names he did not know, of wealth and power. Then she step -
Inn the silence emphasized by its dis-that it must be true. f ped across s the verandah descending
tances; all corridors with doors shut; That night remained indelibly ins- the steps with her are feet, with cat -
in his face, slammed it seemed to him, ' pressed on Adolphe's mind, the night like, rapid tread, and began scraping
at the end of them. It would have been on which ambition had flaunted her - the sand from the front pathway over
still more for Azuma, Azuma who self in his face, following on the heels: which the hated'Golling had trodden.
loved him, who would not leave him, of wealth, and whispered that if he did' He had seen the performance so of -
who had convinced him that divided
from her his luck would depart. this thing he would be like aking. , ten, that he never paid any attention.
On rust such a night as to her till d
your hospitality, for that we are grate-
ful, and for that we offer your son to
become his partner in the particular
mine which he found while he was
your guest."
r Brushes—Latest from Paris.
ire skull cap of straw by Cora Marsan
eta runs through vertical bands of
m are two horse hair brushes set in
RED CROSS WORE,
, What Our )cloys at the Front Most I
Need.
Toronto, June I. --The following
official announcement has been
made by the National Service Com-
mittee :--
j Canadian soldiers at the front'
need comforts over and above tete
supplies provided for them by the
Government, Letters from the
front are full of appreciation of the 9
soldiers in the Canadian Contin -6
gent for comforts sent to them
through the Canadian War Contin-
gent Association, of which the Na-
tional Service Committee is a re-
presentative in Canada.
hitherto itphad so. All g this, Azumashe was ready. Instead,
that And hitherto
turned seemedo gold, and al- had awakened him from sleep.and with a sceptical smile, he lit a cigar..
ways ite had been the result of afnd - , told him to follow her, and he had Now she returned, and laid the little,
followed her to the very foot of the white balls in patterns on the reran-
ing Azuma's advice. Azuma who was rainbow, it seemed to him, where he dah floor just where the moonbeams
at once a prophetess and a soothsayer, had found the pot of gold. lay across it, and poured the sand
yet who had not the least appearance Coiling had .left. him but an hour upon them, a little after the fashion
of a witch. ago in order to sleep at Johannesburg of the sand readers of the desert. Now -II
Old Heinrich. Lieb was dead now, and catch a morning train. i she took a stick from the corner and
but as if with sheltering wings, his ad- The very fact that he had come' all . beat the -floor close to the pebbles and
vice, his assistance followed on," hay- this way merely to spend the day had the sand fell into queer shapes, into
ening about his son, and for all that it impressed Lieb Lieb 'who cared notli numbers, as if they had been cunning -
was only ten years ago, it seemed a ing for London, who had been caught ly put together by devising fingers.
long, long time since that memorable by the spell of the veldt. (To be continued). I
da.y when Lieb had found the money "why didn't you cable me? I would
for ltis son to corner the diamond mar- have come I could have seen all these
hot. ft had not been unfraught with people," Lieb had said, and Coiling Why He is Disliked,
trouble, that great act which had be- had given signs of. impatience. "I know why nobody, loves a fat
come a matter of epoch in the history "Oh; you wouldn't . have come, I man."
of gigantic finance. There had been knew that." "Why is it?"
opposition from everyone, most of all . And all that Gelling had said linger- "Because whenanything goes
perhaps from Gosling, from the two ed around him while he- could .still wrong with the car he • can't crawl
Goslings, who because he had treated hear the feet of his horses ringing out under to fix it"
them so honorably, mistook, over- on the white road.
rate -d; perhaps the meekness, the ac- It was a gigantic scheme, and yeti
quiescence of the Jew, why did it not seem to inspire"'him,i kii't1t en the 'Train,,
" uet must let them" hie father v.}tyy did he hold back? r'. "What book, is that you. are
lion said. ' g grateful England,! readssna ,Jim 1"
sL e;n lana a
esits'e , ids had your chis rig tt' Iitts par- crouching at his feet. At last there' iT•jaa a;,i•ryaws of satan;''l,
fibs had let theCollingsseemed some reason for his wealth; 1>St'ell, 11.1 sa this for 31611;;Tim;
y in, but witil some purpose, saute goal, a 'to sous
reservations .and the reservations hada g x you al�faye do take an interest in`
one for all his ambitions. " I the'troubles of `your friends.''
const toted a grievance, maddened the "Baas, Baas," She still always call-
Collings. He, Adolphe, owed it to ed him that, although he had taught!
them; they; said, that he had found the her English and German, and could Only crx thousand Europeatus are.
mine,; and old Lieb with firmness and now at least understand her own Ian inettiel=d in tolls population of the
calm had said to them: guage. (l Ca 7
"My son owes nothing to you except ''Baas, Baas," 'so she had.always aver cfouu�a millionen s a h totals weld
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In this connection, an interesting
letter has been received by Mns.
Plumptr e, Secretary of the Nation-
al Service Committee, from Mr. J.
G. Colmer, Hon. Secretary of the
In the course of his letter Ms'.
Colmer says :—"The arrangements
of the War Office for the supply of
clothing°and food to the troops are
excellent, and the men are able to
get what they require as and when
it is needed from the official stores.
This information comes from the
Government, and it is confirmed by
our communications from the front,
both by letter and in person. There
is no doubt, however, that large
and regular supplies of socks and
colored handkerchiefs will be wel-
comed in addition to the Govern-
ment supplies, for reasons that are
obvious, and also other extra com-
forts which cannot be obtained
from the Government stores, and
it is just such articles that we are
sending to them."
Mr, Colmer states that the fol-
lowing articles or money to provide
them are specially needed: Tobac-
co, pipes, cigarettes, matches, soap,
cocoa, cake, toilet paper, writing
paper, bootlaces, bachelor buttons,
insect powder, games, boxing
gloves, football, and baseball out-
fits, magazines, books, newspapers.
' "While we ,shall, no doubt receive
regular supplies of socks from C}sn-
ada through the good offices of the
National Service Committee and
others," continues Mr. Calmer,
"money will also be very useful to
use for the purchase of the other
articles that have been specified`
and enable requirements of the
kind to be supplied promptly and
regularly.
"I may tell you . that we are. in
daily communication with the offi-
cers commanding the differe
units. They let us -know regular
what articles they would like t
have, and we sent out consig
meats several times a week, a
will continue to do -so as far as o.
Denounces will permit, Everythi
we send out to France is addresse
to the officers commanding, and
distributed by the Quartermaste
or some other officer to .the men
the eases or bales are received,
"We are receiving,". concludes
Mr, Calmer, ""the most cordial co-
operation from the military for-
warding officers, both on this side
and in France, and considering
everything, the transpor•ation ser-
vice.is being performed splendidly.
There is somedelay of coun-se in the
conveyance and in the delivery of
our consignments, but it is a marvel.
to all of us that it is done so well,
and our shipments .appear to be
arriving with fair regularity at
their destination."
A graphic description of the ter-
rible conditions existing in Serbia
at the present time is given by
Captain E. N. Bennett, commis -
signer in Serbia for the Brit/eh. Red
Cross Society and St. John's Am
bulanee Association. Those wit
read what Captain Bennett say
about the terrible ravages of ty-
phus and other diseases in the
cities and towns of.Serbia cannot
fail to realize that urgent assis-
tance must be given if the lives of
the civilians as we/1 as the soldiers
aceto be saved, and if the infection
is not to spread all over the world.
The following is a desoription of
an Austrian prisoners' camp, where
MO Austrians have been collected:
"Disease lies fallen like a blight
upon the camp, At an earlier date
one doctor was in charge of this
camp, but he is now struck down
with typhus and various forms of
infectious malady are raging un-
Checkcd. Typhus, dysentery, small-
pox, diphtheria, have swept over
the place with devastating effects,
Last week only 20 men out of 750could stand on their feet. The
silence of the camp is broken only
by sighs and groans, but when a
stranger comes in sight the sick
raise themselves if they can and
cry pitifully, "For the love of God
give its water, give us bread."
There they lie in utter wretched -
nes. Here and there one finds a
mattress, here and there a, little
straw, but the bulk of the sick men
are stretched out on the muddy
ground. Their clothes are foul and
alive with the vermin which spread
the deadly typhus. The Serbs are
kind to these prisoners, but when
the grip of typhus or enteric has
fastened upon him the Austrian
takes his chance with the rest, acid
this chance is sometimes a sorry
one.
Since the commencement of the
war 63 Serbian doctors have died
in the course of their unequal strug-
gle with disease. One young mall
of 2a, a, medical student, died re-
cently. Another Serbian doctor
recently died of typhus, and as he
was being buried his young wife
died at home of the same dread.
malady.
This heart-rending description of
conditions existing in one of our
allies' countries cannot fail to touch
the generous hearts of the Cana-
dian people. Surgical supplies and
comforts of all kinds are sorelyneeded, and these may be sent to
77 King Street East, Toronto,
whence they will be 'forwarded to
Lady Boyle, who is in charge of the
Serbian Red Cross Society in the
absence of Madame Grouitch in the
United States. Donations for the
Serbian Relief Fund may be sent
to Sir Edward Boyle, Bart., 63
Queen's Gate, London, S. W., Eng-
land. -
And many a man who is capable
of giving good advice isn't capable
of earning his salt.
ly More than half a
o Century of Quality
re
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Practically every
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Why Yeast Is 'Needed.
°s Why is yeast used in bread'? This
question may sound foolish to most
housewives, but let them try to
answer it eeientificaUy before pass-
ing judgment.
In the dough from which bread
is made there is a lot of sugar,
which contains carbon, hydrogen
and oxygen. It is necessary to fer-
ment this sugar to make bread
Iedible, and yeast is used because it
has the power to do this.
It is made from the plant having
this' quality. Fermenting sugar is
equivalent to burning it, and there
are two results. One is the forma-
tion of carbonic gas. A great deal
of this gas is caught in the dough
in the form of large or small bub -
files, and some of it escapes into
the. air, The part that cannot es -
copse causes the dough to rise and
make bread light.
The holes in the bread are the.
little pockets which held the ear-
bonie acid gas. The effect of the
bubbles is to lift the body of dough
so that the heat can penetrate
readily and bake it properly,
How Microbes Sour Mak.
If it were possible to keep milk
from the air it would not turn
sour. But the mischievous microbe,
say those who study its ways and
ravages, is constantly in the air,
alive, though invisible, and ready
to drop into the milk when it can.
But how do nuierobes turn the
milk sour'? you ask. Well, they are
very fond cif sugar and delight in
gratifying their liking by turning
the sugar in milk into an acid
which sours the milk.
Warm milk is particularly invit-
ing to the microbe and favorable
to its operations. The microbe
does not get along well under chill-
ing conditions, and that is why
the sweetness of the milk can be
preserved if it kept cold.
Boiling milk changes the sugar
in such a way that the microbe
cannot feed upon it.
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