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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-8-19, Page 2is the Sugar for Jams and Jellies. When you pay for good fruit, and spend a lot of time over It, you naturally want to be sox that your jellies and preserves will turn out just right. You can be, if you use fSugar.. Absolutely pure, and always the same, REDPATH Sugar has ter eizty years :roved most dependable for preserving, cans ing and jelly-rzal:lag. It is',•est as easy to get the best--ard well worth while. So tell your grwcer :t nnist be RE Q PA T EFi Sugar, in ane cf the packages originated for RED?ATh--- 2 and S lb. Sealed Cartons, 19, 20, SQ and 100lb.. Cloth Bags. 'Let CANADA SUQAR l ET 1t i;'M• • Co.. Waal). INION1 tE<.L. THE FATE OF AZUMA; Or, The cuuth African IMillionair 11 caught hold of Azuma's hand, , and took the letter gently from her. "Azuma,: how pretty you look in this room. I always think of you when I am here, do you remember the day when you gave us tea?" She was opening the letter as she spoke, talking with easy familiarity to Azuma, whom she was trying to win over in, these days. Yes, it was true that Azuma seem- ed to belong to this room, and to -night lit up, it was twice as pretty, the elec- tric light bringing out a little more vividly the golden tracery in the dark slashed grey and black and brown of the violet wood, and where she was standing the rich dull red brocade cur- tains made an exquisite background to Azuma's shapely dark head, For an instant, Judith without any repugnance .to the feeling of the dark cool skin held Azuma's fingers With her 'soft white ones while she scanned the letter, but Adolphe looking up at Azuma caught a look he had never seen there, not, at all events, so plainly visible. "Let her- read the letter," he half whispered, and Judith did as he told her, looking up suddenly a little sur- prised at his tone, "I can't read a word, the light some- how doesn't fall properly. Yes, Azuma, do read it to us and the ' two lay back on the big satin cushions. with their arms around each other, while Azuma read. "Isn't she wonderful the way she can read English ?" Judith said half aloud. "What time does he say?" He glanced at the clock. "By George, it's late, he says that he must see me to -night, you say? Azuma." "Eleven," Azuma repeated, "at eleven he must see the Baas," "Then the Baas .must go. I shan't be long my darling. He stooped and kissed Judith agates, and she sat up on the divan and rearranged her dis- ordered hair, while be sprang up the stairs to change Itis coat. In a few seconds he returned, and found Judith chatting with Azuina, "She's telling the all about the mine that night when you both went out in the night together, very improper I call it," she said' with a mischievous laugh, "Oh, we've done dreadful things, haven't we, Azuma?" He laughed, and Judith got up and followed him across the big hall to ;the front door and let him out her- self. "What an exquisite night, if I had thought about it, I would have slip- ped on something and driven with CHAPTER XXL—(Continued). if you don't want to do it, I'll hoe a to you," "Why, Azasatia, we aree both coming find somebody else." "Will you? I'll wait." in a few months, we are going to There was a little note os' irritation "No, it would make you late! you spend Christmas there, What shall in his speech, have only just time, and I'm tired. I bring you from London for Christ- "If the Baas tells me to go, I go," She yawned a little. "P11, go straight Inas, Azuma?" she said, presently. "When I go?" to bed." He spoke brightly, trying to make "Oh, well, we can talk it over by "Well, I shan't be long. She watch- what he told her of no importance, and by, to -morrow we'll see." ed him get into the carriage and drive ignorant of the storm which raged' And because the whole scene was off, then she stood still for two or within her, the hate, the grief, the ; distasteful, because he wanted to be three moments drinking in the night. impotent wrath and hate, and the kind, lie spoke of this and that, of his Then she pushed too the door and the, realization of prediction, fulfilling it- business, of a hundred things. sound rang out through the house like', self, filling her with dreary, dumb de -;1, hen lie left, she stood there gaz- a final doom pronounced. ing after,him for a few seconds, while! Then she stepped leisurely across pair. She had seen it in the sand,and thea hundred thoughts coursed through' the well -lighted hall. • pebbles that day, in the briht stars her brain. "Azuma!" that night, which for all the lamplight It was not the Baas who wanted At, the foot of the stairs Azuma and electric flashes across the sky her to go, it was the white woman, was standing watching her with a from the roofs of shops and buildings, Lady Judy, and she hated her. strange expression, an expression yet twinkled mysteriously, secretly' When Adolphe told Judith what he"which made Lady Judith feel uncom-' communicative, above, that she and, had done, she was silent for a ..ew mo- ` fortable. the Baas were going to part, that they' meats, then she said, with si,mething "Take care, Azuma, I am coming would never see each other again„ off dread in her manner. upstairs." and that with her departure his for- perhapsehow, w a oughtn't toy I feel as if These send her away, because shedidnotressed to m move out theofher tunesirl would mange. not if she says all that. You know way, with a slight, very slight return S,,. had seen it, and yeth she louattr that somehow I feel as if she were of the autocratic tones of former buteaf her departure to the jealousy of the beautiful white woman who really wrapped up in our fate, rndi- treated her Azuma the daughter visible from it, and she has brought too, of a great chief, as if she were s me luck, too, you know." dirt, or at least a servant, a common CHAPTER XXII. woman, and they would never have been rich, never, if she, Azuma, had The next time Azuma and Judith A terrible cry rang out across space not known the secret of the mine. met, Judith was in Adolphe's arms, and seemed to lose itself behind the And that morning when Lady Ju- seated by his side, on the wide divan porphyry pillars, and to vibrate across dith had come to fasten on the brace- in the little room where they had tea theavement of the hall. let it was because she was afraid, the day he proposed. She was, feel- When, two hours later, Adolphe re - afraid that she would tell the Baas ing tired lately, and had not gone out turned full of all sorts of little bits ofre- afraid things which the pebbles and so much. London had grown very gossip and news for Judith, and open - the sand had told her, and which she hot, and in a few days they would be ed the front door with his latchkey, had read in the stars, things about the leaving London, going abroad for a he found the body of Judith lying dead past of the beautiful white woman, few weeks and then returning to take at the foot of the stairs, and a little which if he knew would make him up their abode in the exquisite coun- streak of crimson reaching from her hate her. try home which Adolphe had been side to the door. And in her silence he read some- busy adding to, and embellishing thing ominous. Then gradually some- whenever he could run away from thing of the, old feeling for her had town. returned, the pity which had been al- To -night she had persuaded him to most love in the old' days when she go to a party without her at which he was the only woman near him, and he wanted to meet someone on business, days, with just a shade of impatient annoyance at the fact that ,her pro- gress was impeded, and she was weary, anxious to get to her room to liedown, and to be undressed. "Ah!" had not known Lady Judith nor thought of marriage. And he took her silence for stony grief. "Don't you want to help me, Azu- ma, don't you want to go? but for which he did not like to de- sert her. Now and then lately she had said: "I feel so lost in this big house when you are away, although there "If I go, trouble," she said stretch- are so many servants, I always feel ing out her hand into the night. that it is so huge,, that something It was as if she were uttering a dreadful might happen at one end of curse. it while no one would hear at the For one instant her manner, her ut- other." terance alarmed him, he had been so Adolphe had laughed at the idea, a long accustomed to take her serious- detective was always on watch guard- ly, and she had proven herself so often ing the beautiful things, and the in - right, that her words sent a cold valuable jewels he had heaped upon shiver down his back. This matter his bride, while at night a watchman was going to be more difficult to walked about the house from roof to deal with than he had anticipated. cellar, while every modern device He felt inclined to be stern, while against burglary and fire had found something else made him feel that the its way to the palace in Park Lane, supreme sorrow of Azuma's life had putting aside the fact that outside come to her, that he must deal gently burly policemen patrolled the streets, with this girl who, because her skin and that a small side door opened was black, yet had a heart lite other straight on to Park Lane itself. women, perhaps a tenderer one than many. But he laughed at her suggestion, it seemed the only thing to do, while morbid timidity to her state of health. he told himself that she, of course; And this evening she felt particularly did not know how he had protected loth to let him go, while she knew his fortune, placing fends in this bank the necessity for his do ng,so. and that, in this country, and the To -night she looked, particularly. otheii, in schemes all over the world, lovely, dressed in a tea gown of some and he held the concession of every yellow shimmering stuff ' with a girdle available mine in South Africa. He! of amber round her waist, and he might not make all he expected to, rhad never known her so caressing. but he was already' the richest man: in 4 "Hulloa, Azuma." • He had stooped Europe, and if he lost some money he to kiss Judith's lips, as she lay with could never lose all, unless the world her head so close to him, and as he it, elf came to an end. To -night he raised his head Azuma stood in front gladness, that told himself withnew g , of him holding out a letter. ' even if all failed, the love of Judith, He looked at the direction. while she her new gentleness and meekness were held it, because one arm was around "Why, little woman, you are as safe as if you were in an iron safe your- self," he had told her, ascribing her the most valuable things he possess- ed, that with it he could even meet re- verses, that without it life would not be worth livin "You mustn't let trouble come, Azuma," he said lightly, "you must prevent it." But she shook her head. "What can Azuma do?" she asked, and he noted the sadness in her voice. "Well, there's no hurry, of course, Judith, and the hand of the other held a cigar. Judith had not'moeed when Azuma entered, treating her with a sort of lazy indifference, as the white races generally treat the dark ones. "From Elliott, perhaps I needn't go to -night, read it to me, Azuma, will you, there's a good girl." "oh, let me see what he says." Ju- dith had meant nothing by her words, nor by the gesture with which she render, .complete, entire, unreserved of a proud and beautiful woman. If he lived, how would• it "be with him, what would he live for? To make money, for whom? To love again, never, never; then why live?, ; He did not want to set eyes again on Azunta, he did not want to hear why she had done this thing, for be knew, Love, jealousy., hate, these had been .the instincts which had prompted her, and Judith had said truly when she had pronunced the words: "I feel that our life is irrevocably mixed up with her;" And as if in death he defied Golfing,. defied the English government, all those who had striven to cheek and thwart' his gigantic plans, after pro- viding for his. family in Frankfort, he. divided his fortune into two halves. One to build a Cape to Cairo railway, the other for the civilization of South Africa, Madame Dufour had said rightly when she called Judith 'Tette pauvre enfant:' THE END. CHAPTER XXIII. London was convulsed when it heard the first thing the next morning of the murder . of Lady Judith, but it reached the fever pitch of excitement the same evening, when a late edition,. and little newspaper boys shouting in the street, announced the further tra gedy that Adolphe Lieb, the South African millionaire, had committed suicide. The following morning there was a sudden panic on the Stock Ex- change, and all African bonds and mining shares went down. There was evidently going to be some dreadful. revelation. If Adolphe himself could have come to life again, it would have been difficult for him to explain ex- actly what his motives had -been for taking his, life. Yet the lawyers said that he had seemed to do it with method. Papers Still wet upon. the writing table in the room, where only two hours ago he had held her in his arms, gave evidence to the world of changes in his will by a revoking codicil, while a fewbrief lines stated that he had taken- his own life, that rio one was to be blamed. • Itwould have been impossible for anyone ' to guess" at what his motive had been, for only he. knew two things, one that all his mil- lions, all his wealth, all his schemes and dreams of ambition and power had turned to dead sea fruit, become valueless without Judith to share them with him. Judith, whose love he had •always been sure of, and who loved. much because so much had been for- given her. Judith who had climbed the third wave, and who must not be left alone on the other side. The other that the next " day he woliid have to be the one on wiose'eviclence depend- ed the fate of Azuma, the woman from whom his whole being now recoiled, vet to whom he owed so much, even indirectly Judith Azuma would be hung, and some- thing seemed to whisper that without these two women, life contained no- thing; that his life had come to an end. to -day, together with his luck, that, he had known what life so rarely gives together, great colossal wealth and deep, deep love, the love, the •sur - 'is ALEXANDER OF SERBIA: Formerly Crown Prince, Is Prevent- ing a Balkan Agreement. It is one of the little jokes of fath that the young man, Crown Prince Alexander of Serba, who was treated! with suck contemptuous condescen- sion by the exalted personages as- sembled at London in Tune, 1011, for the coronation of George V.—that he'. Prince Alexander, should be, in June, 1915, the arbiter of the immediate destinies of Europe, Bulgaria's entrance into the war on the side of England, France, Rus- sia, and Italy would, it is quite open- ly stated in each of their capitals, help to bring about an early termina- tion of the war. It would release Rumania, now fearful of a Bulgarian attack on her flank if she flung her - Prince Alexander of Serbia self at Austria's throat in Transyl- vania. It would furnish the allies with a veteran Bulgarian army to march upon Turkey through Thrace, and it would give the allies the ,Bul- garian port of Dedeagateh, on the Aegean Sea, for the landing of their own troops to co-operate with the allied navies at Constantino'ole. Bulgaria's Demands. Bulgaria makes no secret of her willingness to be bought for such assistance. But she has only one price. The Crown Prince of Serbia. Regent in his country, can alone pay it in full. This he persistently re- fuses .to do. Bulgaria demands, above all else, that part of Macedonia which is in- habited by Bulgarians and which is in the possession of Serbia. To re- claim Macedonia from Turkey, and in pursuance of the ideal of national- ity. Czar Ferdinand began the first Balkan War, fortified by a solemn agreement with Greece and Serbia that, in the spoils, Macedonia was to• go to. Bulgaria. The blood of thous - Prince Alexander 'of Serbia. ands of Bulgarian patriots was shed must be used for aperfectly satisfactory Perfect infusion. Tea is the acme of perfection, being all pure, delicious tea. Ick, Mixed or Green. Taints for the Farmer. There isbig difference between economy' and stinginess, We have seen a man treat a $160 horse as though he was worth only $1.60, The telephone cannot take the place of a hired man, but it helps wonder- fully. Crows eat ants, beetles, caterpil- lars, bugs, grubs„ etc., which do much damage. Charcoal in a granulated form should always be kept before fowls of all ages. 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Greece and Serbia became fearful of Ferdinand's ambitions to. dominate in the Balkans.They pre- ferred toentrap and betray him. Alexander, the twenty -f our -year- old commander-in-chief of the Serbian army, captured Monastir from Tur- key, thus bringing about the fall of the whole of Macedonia, and from Monastic the Bulgarians were bar- red by the sword as from Salonika. Prince Stands Firm. Rumania is to -day feverishly eager to restore the Dobrudja if "thereby she can quiet the dogs of war upon her flank and rush her force of a mil-, lion men into Transylvania. It com- prises thousands of acres of territory and millions of inhabitants, Rumanian in blood, to the thousands of the Do- brudja, Austria-Hungary, at the pre- sent moment, could not defend Transylvania. Greece will not give up Thrace to Bulgaria, but England, France and Russia have offered com- pensation elsewhere which is accept- able. It is only Serbia which is the stumbling block, because it is Mace- donia which Bulgaria demands first and last, and for which she will not be compensated elsewhere. June 24 of last year King Peter a man of seventy-three and weak in health, left his capital and the Crown Prince was appointed Regent. Alex- ander has coldly rejected every com- promise which included the giving up of a foot • of territory now held by Serbia. His father is ensconced at some watering place away from Bel- grade. His elder brother, Prince George, has been -dancing and dining in the hotels of the Riviera. Canaries sing best in the subdued light. ,Fine Grata Medium Crain Come Cratn. FOR YOUR NEXT BATCH OF PRESERVES Buy good Fruit which must not be over -ripe, andwhat is equallyianportant, use good Sugar. The slightest impurity (organic matter) In the Sugar will start fermentation in the jam., and preserves which were, well cooked and carefully bottled, become acid and uneatable after a few months. 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