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Or, The South Afrieau Millionaire,
Detaining her by a gesture in the
half shadow of the corridor leading
to the boudoir he whispered:
"After tea I want to ask you some-
thing. , you
omethingyou remember what I
told you about my house, do you re-
member?"
Yes, she remembered so well, that
little runnels of joy seemed to fill
themselves in her being, and to bring
delicious thrills,
"You have said so many things,"
she answered evasively, laughing a
little from sheer relief of mind, and
moving after the others,
I
CHAPTER VII.--(Cant'd) dulously; such innocence on the part ewe time I shall .only say one
' of Judith with all her experience was thing," he spoke gravely,
"Well, well, we must see what v.e
can do. Ah, ou ladies, when jewels , difficult to believe in. And the silence seemed to him as
are concerned, you have no hearts. l Juditshrugged her shoulders. e bad ane stand n near the tea
You are all the same." I don't see what it matters to any-
' he table stood Azuma, Azuma dressed in
He took a little ease from his pock-, one, as long as it doesn't to me, fantastic dress b her master, some -
et, on the white velvet cushion of says that if he were to part with her,
which reposed three diamonds infin- he would lose all his fortune she : what after the fashion of an Arab wo-
itely more lovely than those he had brings hint luck or whatever it is." , man, with long draperies of exquis-
! ite embroidered stuff and round
given away, and he hooked them on] "Hm," Lady Glaucourt, lips seem- . her arms and ankles bracelets, of brut
to the chain. r ed to have grown suddenly thinner. ( Jewels uncut, barbarous, but of in -
"In my country," he said, "we al -a "Those kind of women are suppos-1 calculable value. The light from a
ways give the biggest gift to the ` ed to bring hick I believe." window of Murano glass threw rain -
youngest person present, to -night I, Judith laughed. I bow tints across her, giving some -
think that that is Lady Judith. Please; "I am dying to see her, and I hope thing weird and unhuman to her ap-
Lady Judith accept a small remem-' we shall," pearaece, while little odd patches of
brance of my dinner party, and I hope "I hope you will not mention her light from the afternoon sun made
that one day Imay nave the pleas- before me." high lights on her dark skin as if
ure of welcoming you all at "Hid- Thin showed that her mother was l she were made of polished bronze,
away" (I -Tideway - "was his place near going, And she stood, too,as if she were
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far as he was concerned the incident "If we wander away mother, don't ed to scan Lady Glaueourt's ample
was closed,,follow us, because I believe that he'll figure with wander, and to fall with
So might a Sultan have given ew- propose to -day. I think that is why sudden swift inquiry upon Judith as
-tochosen to
woman he had cl .
els the he asked. us. she entered the room,
swell the number of beauties in his ..I suppose that it won't take long," This was the room in which some -
harem, or a Paella have thrown his said her mother a little wearily, times of an evening Azuma brought
handkerchief to a dancing girl and Judith laughed, him his "cibouk" and came herself to
that impression conveyed itself to "I can't time him, mother, but I'll squat at his feet and tell him the
everyone• try to make him do it as quickly as, story of her pebbles. Against the
But to Judith it was not repellent, possible, anyhow there'll be lots ford wall beneath an Indian cabinet,
After all, if it were not for the dia- you to look at."
stood a tray on which she spread her
monde they would none of them be "It is so fatiguing looking at other sand, while she gave him counsed
here to -night. people's things, that is the beauty of : about his investments, prophesied.
If lir never did propose she would one's own,one never looks at them.": about the Stock Exchange or whis-
at leaet have a beautiful necklace, Lady Gaucourt was relieved to' pared of future great enterprises. It
she said to herself, with a touch of find that the member of Parliament,. was a room whose beauty you could
humor, • who alone was in the secret, had been not gauge at once, on account of its
But surely after this he must pro- invited, and told oft to keep the ma-' discreet adornments, but it grew
pose• ther quiet. He was very fond of upon you like the mind of a person
When Lieb had joined the women Lieb, and quite delighted. He went of intellect who is reserved, but
in the next room, the men discussed very little into society, except whom yougrow steadily to admire.
it fora few moments over another amongst the phenomena, as he called The first impression it made upon
cigar. Lieb, and he had heard nothing, ! you was that it was dark, dusky like
••\ by that necklace must be worth Judith was immensely relieved to' Azuma's hair, yet conveying the illu-
about twenty-five thousand pounds," see him, for she had told herself that ' cion of gold dust upon it, like her
remarked Lord Eustace. Lord Glau- Adolphe wasn't at all the man to bei hair too. The walls. were of violet
court. Orly ,aid that he :supposed that hurried. ' wood, grey brown, or black grey, or
Judith weuld send at Back in the She could see by her mother's ex-, grey black, the color of forest shad -
morning. He would certainly sue- pression as they drove through the ows, with its own faint perfume ex -
gest thatshe should. gates of the magnificent house which; haling slowly, like suppressed scent -
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" geode deal more than that,"over were opened by a porter, and got; ed sighs, But as you remained in the
here, said the member of parliament, down at the door, that her mother was room you saw that there were other
"It gives one an idea daesn't it of satisfied with he appearance of things upon the wall, the wall which
the enormous wealth of South things. Lieb met them in the hall r somehow reminded you of a dark
Africa," s.;id Mr. Spencer, who was with his friend, and took them ; scarab of Egypt. Presently your
dying to get some information about straight to the drawing -room, then eye detested faint dead gold traceries
the mines. he disappeared,
them to ex. - asking, let into the wood so diicately, that
"Funny thing to de," said Golling cuse him. i they were like graceful writing on
with a cigar between his lips. He "Will you forgive me? I have a; burnt paper, like the hieroglyphics
never could resist saying something; man there, who has just come from on the scarabs, yet barely discernible
disa; t thele about Lieb. i my office, I will give him a letter,' except where the light touched them
But the women themselves didn'tand come back in an instant, if you revealing secrets of craftmanship.
think it funny at all. They thought, will allow me." While he was gone And rising nearly two yards in height
it delightful. I Lady Glaucourt chatted with Mr. El-' around the room a wainscotting of
Nott, and Lady Judith wandered round trelliced mussharabeah, of the old ap-
CHAPTER XVIII.t the room, 1 pie pattern which is now extinct,
`•'I'm not going to look at a thing' while over the two doors and win
But the day after she had engaged !
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Herself to Adolphe Lieb, which was till I have had a cup of tea," said dors hung curtains of rich brocade,
on the third of June, Judith awoke i Lady Glaucourt, She had reached a deep dull red with delicate embroid-
erin some of the ominous dread hor- j oifmiitsogrea epleasures,� becauquite
e las she impress os of nalit madeWhy
upon Judith wthe.
as
Bring aboutoher l had ch She said,if it was fleeting,it at least that of the inside of an exquisitely
ized her former love affairs. She was
again seized with that invincible de-" could be repeated 1 mde that impressionin'nolle lien before,
s back " said h's friend • but the darkness of this wood empha-
sire to tell her story which had pos-" I know you rvillhave at dincetl
y a
sessed her when she had realized that he come , i
the cheerfully resigned voice of one: sized the fancy?
Sir HubertthGresham was about to who knows that he is in for uite (To be continued,)
tell her that he cared for her, only, two hours of boredom, but who means] ?-
the
instead, thet ling decision thatsit was to make his martyrdom as pleasant as' HUMORS OF AMATEUR ARMY.
the right thing to do was missing, possible to himself and others, for his
as it had been when she engaged her -h' friend's sake., Lieb was gonlonger How Lord Kitchener's Raw Recruits
sell to George Daherse, while than he expected, and a sudden feel--
tried to persuade herself that this inn. of gene fell on the three. Judith} Were Made Into Fighting Men.
time the millionaire was doing quite realized afterwards that she had felt' Rifleman Patrick MacGill of the
well enough for himself, whether he a sudden return of the old gnawing Irish Rifles author of "Children of
lwilderec?, too cnew or not onfused,haI too handicap -had too be- dread. For something to do, she the Dead End," has written a jolly
ped, a life, to be able to recognize went to the window. How pretty* little book about "The Amateur
opiums ending as it were the green-;
what aroused this feeling again, to everything was, a ridge of pink ger-Army," giving glimpses of `every
see that it was the man who seemed
to exact sincerity,to deserve it. With cry visible from the Park opposite. stage in the training, from raw
Sir Hubert it ha
been her love which �
It would be good to live here if only—' "rooky" to finished fighter, based on
dictated sincerity, and her belief in Oh, she uttered a little cry and his own experiences. One day, out of
his; now she did not think that she drew back from the window, A man curiosity, he asked some of his mates
who had apparently just been shown' why they enlisted. "Well, matey,"
loved, and she had ceased to trust in
the love of others. No this time,she out of the front door, was. walking said his friend, the good-natured
would not tell, and something semed towards the gates, and he looked cockney, grinning sheepishly, "I done
to whisper that this time there would' like, could it be? No, not dressed so itshabbito get away from my old gal's joie
be no hitch of any kind; then wily t ed back' forsa moment as if hs. He e I ha ; —now you've got it!" Another type
did she feel so aiieven so suspicious.
forgotten something, and she had • in the most democratic army in his -
sometimes ? She even wondered now i seen his face and drawn back. tory was a pale, intelligent youth who
and then if Madame Dufour had ever
said anything about it to Mrs. Gelling: It was Hugh Glover.
At that instant the door opened
At another moment she told herself
and Adolphe Lieb returned, and the
that she was wicked, ungrateful to ,
those who eared for her, ungrateful t two sitting there had no time to ask
to the fates, which at last, if they had j her why she had exclaimed as she
not brought her the fairy prince of j turned with a white face to scan his
her dreams, had at least provided her features. Her heart was beating so,
with a colossally rich husband of
pleasing personality, and devoted to
herself.
Yet, till the moment when he act-
ually proposed, she was given over at
that she could not speak.
Why was Hugh Glover here, what
had he told him, why had he been so
long? Ah, it was the old story, the
Third great wave, she would never
times to moments of
of depression which climb it, never. Her heart, her very
were almost of de. ( soul seemed to die away within her,
And the feeling was revived with! grod whichans tore at in its dying to hee he to
er more
realistic force on the very day of her because she dared not utter e them.
engagement. He had invited her and . Was it her fancy, or was there a
her mother on the Sunday afternoon !troubled look.on his face? If she had
following the dinner, to come and' been alone with him, she would have
have tea at his house, and to see his, stretched out her two hands and said:
Pretty things.
Lady Glaucourt had hesitated, no I "Adolphe, you know, I know that
one ever went to his house, but Lady; you know, but you must not desert
Judith had over -ruled her as usual. , I s�
"You'll have to come when I'm `momentell w
quiteimpossible
ts towas passing in
there, I suppose," she had said a , his mind. He talked for' a few in-
little brutally, and with a finality] stants to. Lady Glaucourt, and he rang.
which took her mother's breath away. , for tea. It was quite ready, the but
Evidently Judith meant to marry this 1 ler said, and he, Adolphe, led them to
man, the back of the house. Mr. Elliott
"But supposing after all that he' pioneering Lady Glaucourt.
"No, not that way, up here, now.
down that passage, here we are."
"He knows the house better than I
"Well,of course,if do," Adolphe called out to Lady
you think, but Glaucourt, who was inthe front,
do you suppose that that woman will while he walked beside Lady Judith,
be there ?" -
"Certainly she will he there, she is
always going to be there."
means nothing."
"Oh, my dear mother."
Her mother's want of perspicuity
always irritated Lady Judith.
Lady Judith silent, horror-struck.
"I never saw such a house, why it's
like a huge country house, you really
Her mother couldn't believe her ought to have chairs to take us about,
ears.. those things on wheels, they have
"Why, Judith, I never heard any- at exhibitions," exclaimed Lady Glen
thing so immoral, why it's .as if you court; pausing on the threshold of the
were marrying a Mormon or a Turk door of an Egyptian boudoir, leading
or some Mohammedan, or other, who onto a terrace, screened from the back
are the people who have lots of of the other houses by flowers and
wives?" plants interspersed with bird=cages
Judith laughed.. full of birds.
"Hoitr absurd you are Mamma, why "Now you are going to see Azuma,"
f 1 e's ,'- hind; but 'a sort of servant, a he whispered to Judith.
kc u- n .n- tells his fortune, who ad- Was she mistaken or did he speak
vi: r i':711. about his speculations, he just as usual?
1.,,..1."' , ..111 about it." Yes,in another moment she was
o v::u believe ail that?" quite'sure, and the reaction almost
h,.Ltc,;Lrb looked 'at her, inane -1 made her faint.
knew Nietzsche by heart. "Ile glanced
at me coldly as he answered, 'I en-
listed because I am an Englishman.'
Here is a comic incident of the last
general inspection. 'While standing
easy, the men compared their razors,
to find that 30 per cent, of them had.
been made in Germany.
There axe a few good stories illus-
trating the humors of billeting, a
process which at first proved rather
a strain upon the patriotism of the
aloof, reclusive middle -classes. One
day an officer asked a hostile elderly
citizen, full of paunch and English
dignity, how many soldiers he could
keep in his house;
"Well, it's like this--•-," the man
began,
"Have you any room to spare
here?" demanded the officer.
"None, except on the mat," was the
caustic answer.
"Two on the mat, then," snapped
the officer, and a pair of tittering
Tommies were left at the door,
To the adventure of the billet he
soldier .finds the working classes
the most sympathetic. They under-
stand him, and make him welcome.
In the •houses of the well-to-do he
feels out of it. As one Tommy put
it; "There's nothing we can talk
about with the swells, and 'arf the
time they be askin' us about things
that's no concern of theirs at all:"
The young officer in the new
armies, who is perfectly amazing in
his intelligence, adaptability, and
thorough grasp of detail, is the butt
of perpetual pokes and biting sar-
casm during his training. "Shout!"
yelled the adjutant to "Eyeglass,"
the platoon sergeant, whose voice
_vas so low that his men could not
hear the command.. "Don't mumble
like a flapper who has just got her
first kiss. It's not allowed on par-
ade." Another manwho gave a
platoon the wrong direction in dress-
ing was told "to be careful, and not
shove the regiment over." A fiery
Welshman's snub for getting unreas-
onably angry with two of his men
for a slight mistake was conveyed in
the remark that "he had only got
them on appro'."
She Knew.
"I am collecting for the suffering
poor."
"But are you sure they really suf-
fer?"
"Oh, yes, indeed. I go' to their
houses and talk to them for hours at
a time."
Cause for Dislike.
"I don't like that man."
"Don't like him ? Why, my dear
fellow, you don't know him!"
"That's why I don't like him. He
refuses to meet me."
FRENCH WOMAN AVIATOR WAS
CHASED BY A TAUBE AIRSHIP
Li:e:ene I ntrieu is probably the .only Woman aviator -who L,.•.
Bet in the present 'Mir. ; :ger siei•C i lane ww':is chased in nil.±-a.ir by a
(.^union Tauhe. This woman tools part' in the neral defence o,2 A"aari;•,
but she is now In the. United.' States.
On the Farm
Drag the Roads.
"When the smiles of spring appear
Drag the roads;
When the summer time is here,
Drag the roads;
When the corn is in the ear,
In the winter cold and drear,
Every season of the year,
Drag the roads.
"When you've nothing else to do,
Drag the roads;
If but for an hour or two,
Drag the roads;
It will keep them good as new;
With a purpose firm and true.
Fall in line; it's up to you -
Drag the roads.
Caring for the Little Calves.
Everybody has a Ivey of doing
things and this is my way of taking
care of the calves.
I have ten good cows which I raised
myself, and I found out that to raise
good cows you must begin at the be-
ginning. No good results -will come
from a half-starved, stunted calf.
I let the calf suck the cow the first
two days. It is better for him and
the mother, too, and the calf is more
apt to get all the milk than I would
be, thus getting it out of the cow's
bag and into the calf's stomachwhere
it should be, with less trouble and.
better results.
At the end of this time I milk the
cow and feed the calf; tie the calf
where it cannot see its mother, and
if the weather is cold I wrap some-
thing round her when the barn doors
are open. Never allow a calf to shiver
if you want it to keep well.
For the first two weeks I feed new
milk as soon as milked, and then I
begin to mix in separated milk by
degrees, adding at first a third, then a
half and when a month old I give all
separated and take care to have it
warm.
Buckwheat shorts, and bran are
good, but never put them in the milk.
Have a small box nailed in a conveni-
ent place on the manger or side of
the wall and fill with dry feed. The
calf will soon learn to help itself.
When six weeks old put clover hay
within reach; this will aid the diges-
tion and increase growth.
If eggs are plenty break one or
two inthe milk, and you will be sur-
prised at its sleekness.
Flies are -the worst things to stunt
the growth of calves as they take so
much blood, and the young animals
should be protected from the pests.
I tried spraying last summer with
fair results, but I did not depend en-
tirely upon this. I put my calves in
the barn every afternoon during the
warmest weather and gavethem hay.
Another thing that stunts ' the
growing : heifer is dehorning. I avoid
this by. rubbing on caustic potash
when the horns first start, first clip-
ping away the .hair. It .will smart
for a while but that is all and no horn
will ever grow.
My heifers usually come in . when
23 or three years old and' make ex-
cellent_cows,. and this is how I raise
there, N.A.B.
Stop . and Think First.
Before buying - new machinery, it is
well to consider the following clues -
tions:
Will the use of the new machine
give me a larger net return from the
crops on which it is used?
Will the now machine reduce 'the:
demand for man labor?
Where a machine is required only
a few days each year, can it not be
aerated more cheaply than purchased?
Will the money to be invested, re-
turn more in some other way?
Has the machine been thoroughly
tried by others and found satisfac-
tory.
He Struck at That.
Mike was employed as handyman
at a big ship -building yard in the
North of England. On him fell most
of the disagreeable jobs, and he was
much in request for lifting the heavi
est weights.
On the eve of a recent launch, when
the huge vessel was standing ready1
on the stocks for he morrow's great,
event, Mike went to the foreman and;
demanded his pay.
"What for?" asked his foreman, in'
astonishment. "Surely you're not.
thinking of leaving us?"
"'Deed, and I am," replied Mike
sourly. "Since I've been here I've,
done some heavy lifting, but" --and'
he pointed first to the finished ship,'
and then to the barricade on the bank
of the river—"I'm hanged if I'm go-
ing to lift that thing over the fence
to -morrow."
Only one Englishman has ever;
been elected Pope of Rome.
Her Mistake.
The small girl walked thoughtfully
into the house from the vegetable.
garden.
"Mother," said she, ' "have green
gooseberries legs?"
Mother laughed.
"Of course they haven't, darling.
What made . you think so?"
The child looked more solemn than
ever as he. replied:
"Well, then, I've been eating cater-
pillars!"
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