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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-8-5, Page 2b THE FATE OF AZUMA; Or, The South African Milli©uaire. • CHAPTER XX.---(Cont'd). He was sure, certain that slie 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 ieeleas, It was what she had been trying to do for the last few weeks. Yes, the old Judith had awakened again, the old Judith grown more reckless, because of her security, the cid Judith who could not be content with love alone or even passion, who tnust needs throw down the gauntlet to adventure. Fer nothing on earth would he, Adolphe, put up with the position of eomptais ant husband, because he was net her equal in birth. And because File felt the power of the man, some- thing within her arose to defy him, insidit.us voices, which had been her un.:oirg when quite a young girl, whispered that it tuts amusing to play with fire. There had been more than one scene during the last two mouths, Once he had taken her away from. a dance, and once he had threatened to shut up the house in Park Lane, and take her to South Africa. "You wouldn't dare," she bad said to him, with that indomitable cour- age which he could not help admir- ing, the while tried to dominate Ler 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 bad noted the grow- ing gloomy expression of his face. Ile 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 laughed at his idea of a family din- ner. "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-' 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 usual tenderness, and she had given expres cion to the lurking jealousy by the taunting words: "'Are you quite sure that you aren't sorry 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- 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 srritated 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 to please her, the way he anticipated her wishes. But he had grown to realize that he was paying the penalty ef unlimited wealth, that he had giv- en her all that a woman could want, or even dream about, that it was no ,onger by gifts that he could win her, :hat the tussle now, was between his :rind 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 I want her to remember our first wedding day." "Oh, my dear Adolphe, for heaven's sake give it to her yourself, she posi- tively hates me, I know, and as for yea, why she adores you; for heaven's sake don't ask nee to do anything so distasteful. You know that -I can't bear the woman." Now in his office 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 tq, love beneath it. He had not cohne to. any resolution when he returned to luncheon, but she was in a charming disposition, and his anxieties and doubts were dis- 4ppelled. She even told him that she had overcome her repugnance, and given Azuma the gift. She didn't tell him 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: again, without waiting to hear what the girl said, or if she liked the gift. And the dinner had. passed off pleas- antly enough, and Adolphe' had tried to imagine that he had been over-,. anxious, that his love for Judith and I over -work, for he was very busy just how with a new scheme requiring all his attention, had inane him see things darkly. And now and then his eyes fell on the,dazzling figure of his wife h he d h at the head of the table, dressed in some sort of green stuff with silver and a magnificent . parrure of emer- alds and diamonds which had been his anniversary gift, or ane of them, with such infinite yearning tender- ness, as he pictured himself and her alone an hour or two hence, that Lady Glaucourt intercepting it by accident felt a shock, as if she had seen a. vision, the vision of a soul revealed. "I really believe that Judith is quite happy," she had said to Lord Glaucourt in the carriage, ""those lovely ernerals and all . . "I like the man, too," her husband had answered, and for the first time it occurred to Lady Glaucourt that the man and the emeralds were indivis ible. They had all gone now, and Judith was seated on her terrace wrapped in a soft dressing -gown with lace tumbling about it which would have been considered almost a sin to stitch upon a wedding gown. For once she had done as he wanted, and given up going out anywhere, though she was Bidden to quite a dozen places. ""No, this night is mine," he had said, in that strangely moving way ` of his, which was half domineering, half caressing, but which rarely failed of effect, although she would never, have owned it. How strange it was that as she sat" there and. waited, knowing that he" would come presently and smoke al eigar an the terrace and be, oh so; tender, because it was their wedding' night, the anniversary of it, her heart shauid beat so. S't"Iiy was it that she always felt like this about him, anxious for him to come to her, yet angry- with herself because it was so, venting on him the irritation she felt at having to go through London as the wife of a Jew millionaire, ra- ther than the wife of a man of her own world. Presently the soft cool evening be gin to do its work of soothing the ner. es, of calming her, the while thought revolved like the tunes of a ' barrel organ, now sad, now lively, now and then seeming to touch some- thing within which brought physical path, hideous remembrances like that of the little child who had died in the convent at Paris, hideous yet pathetic remembrances of agony and shame. G The sounds,'the sullen roar which had seemed to her so significant in the morning, reached her now as if grown soft beneath the velvet touch of the night, carriages wheeled by in the lane below, and not far away 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. 1 Always, there was something of ter- : ror mingled 'with. her excursions into eiety. Now and Hien she waukd come across Sir Hubert Gresham, and his stiff bow would give her a feeling of discomfort for the whale evening.; Once she had met George Danvers and. wondered haw he had interpreted her silence, whether he knew. Now and then suddenly, she would ask her- self how many of the crowd which surrounded her knew, whether every -4 one knew and laughed at her pride, at her insolent manner, at her exclu- siveness. Now to -night, she felt a return of ; her terror, lest one day Adolphe' should hear, and the while she longed to have the courage to tell him, and she told herself that because she was' she, and he was he, she would never tell; an intense doubt of what he would do if he found out that he had been duped. And with the doubt, a feeling of reliance, of comfort, which' seemed emphasized and expressed now and then by comfortable little ' sounds issuing from the cages of sleeping birds, as they•drew clo... to each other on their perches. And while "The Day about to yield his breath, Utters the stars unto the listening Night" and thoughts come and go, come and ! ee Hugh Glover flitthrough her mind go, pleasurable, tortured, calm; rest4 Hugh Glover, seedy -looping, shabby, less, always restrained by the coon-. • fallen, and content to -have become set and the consolation with which half messenger,, half tout to. the Gol- one's own inner argument always ling and Lieb Company, through Mri 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 whceeto-night Adolphe come in, and passing through •seemed to jump out at her with° re hex bedroom, step out on to the ter -newel threats. How was it that he race, and her, heart leaps to meet his,; had kept silence all this time? " orror re- "Adolphe," she stretched her- hand ;turned,, the gnawing anxiety, the eau - to his, as he stooped and kissed her, ! sea. And by the glow of the many yieldingeher lips. Her beauty seemed' lights, which while their radiance did to fill his being with rejoicing, Yet not fall direct upon them, while they both knew, he and she, that when the themselves were almost in darkness morning came, when the eyes of the on the foliage -screened terrace, yet crowd were upon her, the scoffing, " seemed to be illuminating the whole cynical crowd of her own world, she, world l outside, he could see the strange or wring heart by seeming not to which passed over her face, and would treat him with her usual scorn, , pallor his•g has grasp tightened on her fingers= care for him, worse by pretending. to i "'Yes, you remember that 1 excue-. like the admiration and the adulation ed myself, went away, kept you wait-. of other men. : xng?" 1 And to -night he had something to "Yes, yes ... ," her voice, how faint' tell her, something which* would. it was, her lips—how dry they felt," prove his love, something which would while her heart seemed to stop beat-, put her mind at rest he thought for' *ng• i ever, and which she ought to know, i "I have always thought that it Was which he would like to tell her to Golfing who sent him, Golling's last`- night, while the mood of surrender bad turn," he gave a bitter laugh. was upon her, lest one day she should t She was looking away from him, try his patience too much, and he one tool., one word, might betray her, should be led to tell her in a fit of un- • and she might after all be mistaken,' governable rage. And she, because she could not think even, only she" women are created in that way, be- a must keep Quiet, keep quiet silence to ° Poultry Alphabet, cause they can never leave well alone, the end. K A utility bird is rarely 'vt�t th doe - or rest content till they have probed And he too hesitated, hoeing that tering, the axe being an excellent to the core of things, torn leaf front she would tell him herself, `surrender surgical instrument to a ! to sick leaf of the rose to see what kind of all her past to him, as she had ear- , pp y a care lies within, pulled the sawdust, rendered her future, so that she could fo' •5* out of the doll, even if the destruction live anew, rest on his love. Yet that Balanced rations supply maximum of the doll brings sorrow and despair shedidnot do so did not surprise him, of nourishment with minimum of and bitter grieving tears, because she it was natural that any woman, waste. of all women morbidly enjoyed play even without Judith's pride. should CuII closely, for it does not payto ing around truths she dared not ut-' nurse the terrible secret of her life hoard 'idlers.. I Do not attempt too much to aceom- min to tell her, much as he vvantecl, to know. Til herself her voice sounded like Every trisect left to maturo will de - He had exhausted now the fulness that of someone else far away, I crease the profiits of the flock. unrestrained. Something of the old h There' s a Flavour of Distinction i every cup of -something intangible but truly entrancing. Skilful blending of the finest `hill -grown' teas and scrupulous cleanliness in re Preparation is the secret. This flavou> p P constitutes the individuality of SALADA and will never change! no smatter how costs may rise. B g� ter, hurried what he had to tell her till the end. what he had not even made up his "What on 'earth could anyone have dtold you?" push thoroughlg of his vocabulary of love, reminded He, a man told me that eine you :, 1' -i -1 -t -h spells failure. her of the days which seemed so div had been very unhappy, that a great Good stock is the best foundation tart and yet so close when he had ° wrong had beendone you, that you but it must be handled with common sense, Hens are not magicians; so cannot irnaunfacture eggs unless given the i proper materials. tfai Indolence and poultry -breeding hat Italy Gives snake a combination which would t bankrupt a wealthy financier: the Aries Just a little observation will, prove that the I -know -it -alis never make successful poultrymen, fondly loved her and dared not tell had had a child, her, and yet felt that if she did not (To be continued.) marry him no other woman would ever .... , . _._ satisfy him. He had reminded her ofl. nights like this in South Africa, when the still moon had been the only wit ness of his passion, when he had play- ed to her upon their wide verandah, and the voice of the jackal far away had seemed to answer with a wailing call,. He was her lover to -night, an! ardent, picturesque, poetic lover, and, When Italy joined the Allies an: Kindness shown to fowls 'pays in his voice thrilled her. Here, far away, other figure was added to the column increased egg -supply from everybody, with the conscious -9 which will ultimately disprove the Lice multiply rapidly in uncleanly ness of revels going on in this place doctrine of fo•:ce alone which the surroundings. and that where she was expected and aisex Rdopted, May chicks pushed to maturity, would not appear, with a hot breeze In explainin what he considered make fall layers to 1111 in the time almost like that of the desert raising,. g when earlier hatched birds are rest - here and there a leaf from a plant, or ; the perfidy of Italy, Chancellor von the laces from the wrist which lay Bethmann-Hollweg saki in a speech xng. so close to his lips, she allowed herself before the Reichstag: No mixed flocks can give the satis- to glide along the stream whose mur-""Germany's wore} guaranteed the faction of a single breed. One's favorite breed is usually the best with which to win suceess. Pullets should •be separated from cockerels as soon as sex can be dis- •And then, when, when dtd you.. man Chancellor sufficient. To most tinguished, feel that you could speak to me, what of the rest of the world that guaran Quickly hill the chicks which are led you to propose that day? Was it tee would not be held so. If the dwarfed or crippled when hatched. Azuma who told you that T would . Teutonic allies lost, they would not ; . Rush young birds towards mater- bring you luck? A faint jealousy, abe in a position to guarantee or de- xty ffyou 'wish large profits. touch of cynicism pierced again, and liver anything to Italy. If they won ti he nThrugged his shoulders imps- they might not be in a disposition to y. "OIi, Azuma," he didn't want to do so. However, the war should talk about Azuma she never could come out, the German guarantee of muring fascinated her at night, while Austrian concessions and there was in the broad daylight she repudiated no occasion to distrust the offer." it, afraid almost of whitheri.t might i The fact that Germany guaranteed hto. Yes, it was her own voice, the Austrian offers seemed to the Ger- Select breeders early and dispose of all other male birds,•. Try to waste no feed, either by understand the pari Azuma played in the Austrian promises was a slender I versa. When Turkey entered the war his life; or pretended not to. reed for the Italians to lean on, par- 250,000 men were called from the Al- thought,as perh PS ;:deuce, a chain of ocularly in the face. with Belgium staring them lies' line to take care of Turkey. This w s n to hen - id u meant tahproposoathat then, day,: not at he _ A nation• cannot go through the • tied all thex war 500,000-Germany. en left Italy day we came to tea, the day you play world invading other people's rights Austrian -German lnes. This was ed the violin to us." and breaking its own word, trusting gain to the Allies. Of course, part She gave a little inward laugh at only in the mailed fist of its land of these men were on the Austrian the idea of how certain she had been forces and fleet, without losing nearly frontier all the time, but they will that day that he would propose, how all its friends. And no possible army 'vas going on around one, guess at the and navy can recompense a nation and fed with ammunition. for the loss of the friendship of the thoughts of others. She might after On the sea, too, the Italian fleet, all have come and gone and he said rest of thee world. which is more than a match for the nothing. . . . But from whatever combination of Austrian fleet, will make the marine I had not intended to do so unless reasons Italy entered the war, its ac- preponderance of the Allies greater something occurred to make me think tion has a great significance both that you would accept me. I shouldn't from mn ever. ilitary and politica points of thPol'tically, the Italian declaration knowhave ?�ed to have been refused you view: of war seta precedent for Roumania " The deciding military ' little after all one could read what now have to be continually reinforced the g m i ary pointin t o "And what made you think I would accent you?" "Something someone told me." "Someone told you?" Why did something clutch at her heart as he spoke, why did the vision war is the pressure that the Allies which covets a slice of Austrian ter: can put upon the . German lines in Prance. Every man added to the Al- lies' line or every man taken from the German line helps the Allies, and vice A GERM Art TEA OAR -TY on -rt-CE "°,;i%? -w -_s„•..._.,,,,,,,__......._ cru (rnosawae,?... un.+e>c.Yaco WESTERN FRONT thispicture• Kaiserbrother,HenryPrussia,visit to the headquarters In the and his Prince -Hent of are. seen on a of General 'von 'Ileeringen, who is in command opposite Rheims. The three sat down to tea and discussed the plans of campaign, ritory that is inhabited by Roumani- ans as Italy covets Austrian territory that is peopled by Italians. 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 much that they can learn nothing from the experience of others. are Profs. table Assets. - Possibly no farm live stock pays: as big a, prgflt for food as do, h5ns.! Seems strange, but true, that one egg will pay for the keep of a dozen bens 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 zvorihless' 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 making 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. The Italian declaration of war took. half a million men from the German- Austrian lines against Prance 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. Did a Marathon. "So papa jumped from his chair when you asked him for my hand. And what did he say?" "I'm not sure he said anything." "Not sure? Didn't you hear any-, thing?" 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