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THE FACE OF AZUMA
Or, The South African Millionaire.
CI'IAPTDR. XV.
Dear rite, what le all this about?
Brr ; . ri'! how angry everybody looks.
I'm really frightened."
The Gollings' party was going on,
and Lady Judith had wandered away
from the crowd into a little boudoir
giving oat .qf e. larger salon. It pleased
her to affect being quite at home in
this house, as if she had possessed her -
sell of the African contingent. She
had not so many emotions now but
that she had to make the most of them,
and she was intelligent enough to
know that while everyone scoffed at
her new enthusiasm, everyone envied
her, for African millionaires are not to
your hospitality, for that we are g'ate-
fel, and for that we offer your son to
become his partner in the particular
mine which he found while he was
your guest."
Then, as the older Gelling insisted,
becoming almost abusive, the other
man had turned and said:
"Very well, then, my son will give up
that mine, you eau buy it of him at tbo
price he gave for it,"
It was a daring offer and one which
took the younger Lieb's breath away,
but the older man knew what he was
about. Ile knew that the Gollings had
not the money to buy the mine, far
less to exploit it, and old Gelling had
be found every day, given in. What they could never for -
Upstairs, mercifully, Lady Glaucourt give was that he made no further pro-
had forgotten that she wasn't at home, nasals, while every few months
and was receiving her own friends Adolphe devoted the proceeds of the
with some show of cordiality, while first mine to buy up another, till every
she occasionally turned towards some mine worth speaking about, belonged
,acquaintance standing near, whenever to him, belonged to the firm of Golfing
she saw anyone approachng whom the and Lieb, while only the control of the
Gollings had insisted on asking, and first one belonged in any way to Gott -
whom she did not wish to know, more ing.
than that, whose presence she wanted "If you once let them know how
to ignore; for, in her quiet way, Mrs. many diamonds you have," the older
Gelling had insisted on at least half a man had warned him, "they are such
dozen acquaintances, and one or two fools, those two, that they will launch
of the flint and their wives. e The them all on the market in order to rea-
Duehess was there, and Lord Eustace, ! lize a big fortune, and they will ruin
and apparently the party was a sue- Ithe diamond trade, You have enough
cess, and Judith had come to look for diamonds now to sell for three gen-
the millionaire.
Lady Judith's little conspiracy with
Mrs. Gelling had succeeded and he was
here to-nght, but it had needed some
manoeuvring to get hm to promise to
come. He was not offended at not
having been asked sooner, but he had
an idea that he wasn't wanted. It had
been Lady Judith's mission to persuade
him that he was.
The luncheon had passed off very
erations, and by that time you will
have found other mines,"
And the old man had been right in
every one of his prognostications, and
at every turn almost, Adolphe Lieb
had had reason to rejoice at the fact
with the other mines Golling, fa -
that
ther and son, had nothing to do. As
he had perceived when he had stayed called him, and she crept on to the] RED ('ROSS WORT.
with them as a boy, they were net- wide verandah.
ther business -like nor scrupulous, and "Yes, Yes," he spoke a little impa-
pleasantly entranced by the presence k the very crisis of Lieb's power lay in tiently, he was encased in thought, What Our Boys at the Front Most
Skull Cap with Horse Bair Brushes—Latest from Paris.
A very chic -looking toque is this skull cap of straw by COM Marsan
of Paris. Shadow checked taffeta runs through vertical bands of
straw; and surmounting the brim are two horse hair brushes set in
ornate cups.
of Johanna and Madame Dufour, who I the fact of the name for honesty borne impervious to all outer impressions. Need.
while she had been the witness of Ju -1 by the Lieb's. I 'England asks me to do this," he
dish's most agonized moments, yet had I "I'd rather see Lieb himsei:f, was murmured, almost aloud, and her dark Toronto, June 1.—Tile following
a personality which smoothed and the oft -repeated remark when any eyes sought his face.
bridged them over, rather than brought 1 business transaction was on foot, and - She pointed to the moon.
them to the memory Gelling undernight
official announcement has been
made by the National Service Gom-
once or twice Lieb bad tried to buy "Just like
that it was the n g mittee
the impression left in his mind by Grilling out. He aidn t like the arse Azuma took you up there. Canadian eeoldiens at the front
•..4t..., nP ll,a
Lady Glaucourt's words, was a good ciation of the name, and because Gol• She pointed in the dare
Glaucourt's words, was a good deal ling recognized that it was a source of mine, which lay miles away, a differ -
deal more corral than usual to his part- annoyance, even more than because ent piece now, with its machinery, and
ner, and Adolphe Lieb himself was he recognized the prestige the linking its crowd of miners' huts, to what it
awed - into admiration of Judith's of the names gave him, Galling had had 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 Madonna presentment pleased fused the most alluring offers to be had built his house beneath the She -
him, rind because he was an artistic be- displaced. At one time Adolphe had dow of the mountain which sheltered
ing her beauty satisfied him. Most of found himself, after his father's death, it.
all, her simplicity in a city of complica- with the two Gollings arraigned He threw away his cigar, walked to
time so' far as he was concerned, put against him, and without his father's the front of the porch, folded his
hint at his ease, for London had not clairvoyant intelligence to guide him. hands behind his back and looked in-
yet proved the Mecca of his dreams. More than once he had just escaped to the night.
I -low• much this was due to Galling,
how much to the stories set afloat
about him by his insistence to please
some nasty situations invented by, "Yes, Azuma, that was a wonderful
them to entangle his credit, or sully thing that you did." And then speech
his financial reputation, and always, it deserted him. Outside the night seem -
himself in the matter of the Kaffir wo- seemed to him, it tad been Azuma who ed to throw its witchery upon him,
man, how much because he himself saved him. And Golling, 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 ried to an English wife, had establish -I "What did he say, the white man?"
his huge fortune he was not having ed himself in London three years be- She hated Gelling, 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 Goll- impertinence. Site always asked him
on business, and he had not only met t ing and his schemes had vanished to- about his affairs, and he could trust
the then with wham he did business, gether, in the enfolding arms of death,' her, he knew it, above everyone in the
and these of the great who were direct- - and Lieb had found the son, because' world. He told her what had passed.
ly or indirectly concerned with South I of their earlier friendship perhaps, a "And he has told you lies, lies,"
Africa, with concessions, with cam- little easier to deal with, at least so "Are they lies?"
it seemed to him. He turned suddenly.
And it had pleased the younger "1 will tell you."
Gelling to go about London proclaim- She drew from her belt a little bag
ing that the scheme bad been his, and and knelt on the verandah.
that if it had not been for a low Jew I And laughing, Adolphe seated him -
panics, with mines. With these he had
made a favorable impression. More
thna one had suggested to his wife
that Lieb should be asked to dinner,
but. always the question arose:
"Isn't there something odd, isn't
trick It would be Golfing and Gelling, self on the parapet of the verandas
there a black woman living wth him?" instead of Golfing and Lieb, and that and watched her. Ylow often she had
and only the bravest, or those who he would have been the richer man. I done this and he had laughed, yet al -
needed to be friends with him for their Then one day Lieb had his eyes ways she had been right.
own. purposes asked him to their
homes. So far he had nearly always
been entertained by the "he" of the
house al a club. For the last two years
he had lived at an hotel. Now at last
he had his magnificent house in Park
Late which threw all the other houses
into the shade. It was a palace, a pal-
ace to which the glaringly white stone
ware and the many porches and ter -
opened by the woman who seemed to: And she drew from the bag a quan-
preside over his destiny, the while he tiny of little white pebbles, that gleam -
led a life in which she had so small a ed In the darkness like marbles, bones
part. I she had told him they were of great
Gelling had told him that if he African chiefs, and the bones of the
would finance the Jameson raid Eng- dead could speak of the future.
land would be grateful, that the gov- Always when she did this, she re-
ernment would recognize his services, minded him of the way she had piled
the services which, whoever set them up his few coins on her lap that night
on foot, and the trutbwill 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 was the first herald of the doer war. time, because she had established her
needed to complete the illusion was an
arid desert stretched behind it. It is
the want of space for its buildings
which makes London so Stideons, But
the house because of its size depressed
him, the silence emphasized by its lis- that it must be true. I Ped across the verandah deacendmg
tances; all corridors with doors shut That night remained indelibly im- the steps with her bare feet, with oa-
th. 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 bean on which ambition bad 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 Gelling had trodden.
loved him, who would not leave him, of wealth, and whispered that 1f he did' He had seen the performance so of -
who had convinced him that divided this thing he would be like a king. I ten, that he never paid any attention
from her his luck would depart. On just such a night as this, Azuma to her t111 she was ready. Instead,
And hitherto it had seemed so, All had awakened him from sleep and with a sceptical smile, he lit a cigar,
That lietouched turned to gold, and al- told him to fallow her, and he had Now she returned, and laid the little
ways it had been the result of follow- followed her to the very foot of the' white halls in patterns on the veran-
ing Azuma's advice. Azuma who was rainbow, it seemed to him, where he dah floor just where the moonbeams
atonce a prophetess and a sootbsayer, had found the pot of gold lay across it, and poured the sand
yetwho had not the least appearande
of a witch.
Old Heinrich Lieb was dead now,
but as 11' with sheltering wings, his ad-
vice, his assistance followed on, hov-
ering about his son, and for all that it
was only ten years ago, it seemed a
long, long time suite that memorable
(lay when Lieb had found the money
for his son to corner the diamond mar-
ket, It had not been =fraught with
trouble, that great act which had be-
come a matter of epoch 1n the history
of gigantic finance. There had been
opposition from everyone, most of all
perhaps from Gelling, from the two
Gollings, who because he had treated
them so honorably, mistook, over -
fitness th
It
Gelling had come all the way from power of bringing luck once, she iia
London to tell him this at his lovely, obtained an ascendancy over his su-
Villa near' Johannesburg, and it seem-: perstitiousness, so that he had inter -
ed to him atter reading letters from' woven her image with all his dreams
people whose names he did not know,' of wealth and power. Then she step-.
rated, perhaps the nee , e as
quiescence of the Jew.
"You must let them," his father
had said.
"Yes, your father is right." His par-
ents' words had clinched the matter,
They had let the Gollings in, but with
reservations, and the reservations had
constituted' a grievance, tnaddened' the
Gollings. He, Adoiphe, owed it" to
them, they said, that he had found the
mine, and old Lteb with firmness and
calm had said to them:
"My son owes nothing to you except
Galling had left hint but an hour upon them, a little after the fashion
ago in order to sleep at Johannesburg of the sand readers of the deeert,'Now
and catch a morning train. 1 she took a stick from the corner and
The very fact that he had come all beat the floor close to the pebbles and
this way merely to spend the day had the sand fell info queer shapes, into
impressed Lieb, Lieb who cared noth-i numbers, as if they had been cunning-
ing for London, who had been caught
by the spell of the veldt.
"Why didn't you cable me? I would
have come, I could have seen alt these
people," Lieb had said, and Gelling
had given signs of impatience,
e I
"Oh, you wouldn't have come,
knew tbat"
And all that gelling had said linger-
ed around him while he could still
hear the feet of his horses ringing out
on the white road.
It was a gigantic scheme, and yet
why did it not seem to inspire him,
why did he hold back?
England, a grateful England,
l
crouching a!, his feet. At art there
seemed some reason for his wealth,
some purpose, some goal, a glorious
one for all his ambitions,
"Baas, Baas." She sttf.aiways .call-
ed him that, although he bad taught
her English and German, and could
now at least understand her own lan-
guage.
"Baas, Baas," so she had always
ly put together by devising fingers.
(To be continued),
need comforts over and above the
supplies provided for them by the
Government. Letters from the
front are full of appreciation of the
soldiers in the Canadian Contin-
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.
In this connection, an interesting
letter has been received by Mrs.
Plumptre, Secretary of the Nage-n-
al Service Committee, from Mr. J.
G. Colmer, Hon. Secretary of the
C.W.C.A.
In the course of his letter Mr,
Colmer says:—•"The arrangements
of the War Office for .the supply of
debiting 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 largo
and regular supplies of cocks and
colored handkerchiefs will be wel-
com;ed 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, haehelor buttons,
insect powder, games, boxing
gloves, football, and baseball out-
fits, magazines, hooks, newspapers.
"While we shall, no doubt receive
regular supplies of socks from Can-
ada through the good offices of the
National Service Committee and
others," continues Mr. Colmar,
"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.
may tell you that we are in
daily cenoanunication with the off1=
Oars commanding the different
units, They let us know regularly
what articles they would like to
have, and we sent out oonslgn-
ments !several times a week, and
will continuo to do so as far as our
resources will permit, Everything
we send out to France is addressed
to the officers commanding, and is
distributed by •the Quartermaster
or some other officer to .the men as
the easels or bales are received.
"We are receiving," concludes
Mr. Colmer, "the most cordial eo-
operation from the military for-
warding officers, both on this side
and in ]?ranee, and considering
everything, the transporation ser-
vice is being performed, splendidly.
There is some delay of course in the
conveyance and in the delivery df
our consignments, but it is a marvel
to alt 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-
sioner in Serbia for the British Red
Cross Society and 5t. John's Am-
bulance Association. Those who
read what Captain Bennett says
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 well as the soldiers
are to be saved, and if the infection
is not to spread all over the world.
The following is a description of
an Austrian prisoners' camp, where
750 Austrians have been collected:
"Disease has fallen like a blight
upon the camp. At -an earlier date
one doctor was in charge of this
camp, but be is now struck down
with typhus and various for'nts of
infectious malady are raging un-
checked. Typhus, dysentery, small-
pox, diphtheria, have swept over
the place with devastating effects.
Last week only 20 men out of 750
could 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 us water, give us bread."
Why He is Disliked.
"I know why nobody loves a fat
man."
"Why is it?"
"Because when anything goes
wrong with the car he can't crawl
under to fix lt"
]leadoff on the Train.
"What book is thatyou are
reading, lin?"
" `The Sorrows r s of Saban.' "
"Well, I'll say this for you, Jim;
you always do take an interest in
the troubles of your friends,"
Only six thousand Europeans are
included in the population of the
island of Ceylon, whitlh totals well
over four millions.
There they lie in utter wretched-
ness. Here and there one finds a
mattress, here and there a little
straw, but the bulk of the sick men
are a 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 Attetrian
takes 'his chance with the rest, and
lihis chance is sometimes a .sorry
one.
Since this commencement of the
war 63 Serbian doctors have died
in the course of their unequal strug-
gle with disease. One young man
of 23, a medical student, died re-
cently. Another Serbian doctor
r'ecentiy, 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 sorely
needed, 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 Maclaine Grotiitch 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.
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And many a man who is capable
of giving good advice isn't capable
of earning his salt,
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Why Yeast is Needed.
Why is yeast used in bread? This
question may sound foolish to most
housewives, but let them try to
answer it scientifically 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
edible, 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-
bles, and some of it' escapes into
-the air. The part that cannot es -
cense causes the dough to rise and
make ;bread light.
The holes in the bread are the
little pockets which held the car-
bonic 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.
d•
now ltiit'robee Sour ill.ilic,
If it were possible to keep mills
from the air it would not tarn
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 microbes turn the
milk sour] you ask. Well, they are
very fond of 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 is kept cold.
Boiling mill: changes the sugar
in such a way that the microbe
cannot feed upon it.
II fashion Hints
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Spanner Style.
Taffeta, crimp and cool look'ng,
though recognized only in its sup'
pie qualities, has a certain bt op
ancy bhat gives it the necessary ull
appearance for this summer's st'id
A letter from abroad speaks of
several new taffeta outside gar-
ments that are being made fel
Parisians, one a sport or sweater
coat,,, whichever you niay be Pleas:
ed to eall it, and the other an Blab'
01100 Cant to go over modish sum-
mer afternoon gowns.
The sport coat, with its Wide
blazer stripes of color and 'white
facings, though utterly inappropri-
ate for the city street; has the ne-
cessary garish quality to cope with
nature's eltrong colors of country or
shore scenery. It has just the dash
that shows up well on the tonnia.
courts, in the shady lanes or
against the white sands of the bath-
ing beach. Such coats 'are also
made in plain bright colors. The
belt'or sash is always tied or fas-
tened, whether the coat edges are
left widely open or -simply buttoned
up to the chin.
Something is lacking in the style
of the ensemble, however, if the
wearer does not have a rakish look.
ing sport hat matching the coat in
color. Boylike straw sailor shaped
with turned down brims are woven
like the seat of a cane seat chair;
-and must certainly he worn on q
dark day or a moonlight night it
one does not wish to be sun burn-
ed in polka dots.
There is sounebhing naive and
young about these latter hate, with
their over -bound brims, narrow
ribbon band and long streamers to
the waist.
A eo:at that is between a sport
and an elaborate afternoon taffeta
coat has just been made bye, New
York dressmaker. It is of white
taffeta, built exactly on the lines of
an up to date masculine coat of to-
day` and modified just enough to
follow feminine contours. This
sort of coat has the advantage of
adapting itself to any time of day
or costume—a thing in which
American fashions stall. differ. `roil
those on the Continent in tinges al
peace.
Lengthening a short bolero taf-
feta top by en added full skirt gives
a most attractive shape for an out-
side coat and one that an extreme-
ly stout woman can wear by modify-
ing the skirt part into a scant gor-
ed flare.
Patting a band of ribbon or a
tulle fold on the edge of a hat rim,
as if to ovel•bind it, and then let-
ting the lower edge fall free, is a
new wrinkle in millinery.
Brim facings of silk, straw or
whatever may contrast with the hat
material itself are almost. a rule in
this year's millinery. The all chif-
fon hat has its filminess a bit dis-
guised by a heavy velvet ovcrbrinr
facing, tulle ruche or overlays of
tulle or chiffon. China beads, in
rolled strands, often replace the
gros grain ribbon on the more tail-
ored type of summer hat. these
strands hanging in rather short
streamer ends, with tops of the
beads forming tasseled ends.
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Discoveries Show Great :Antiquity
of Canine Species.
There probably is not one fancier
in a hundred who ever gives a mo-
ment's thought to the past or the
future of the animal he is interested
in. All in this strenuous time are
devoted to the present, and outside
of a superficial study of the com-
parative recent -history of the breed
they are interested in made for the
purpose of breeding to the best
advantage and an occasional glance
into the future • to see which variety
Dame Fortune is to make her fav-
orite they are but. little interested
in these subjects.
Most people have a hazy and gen-
eral idea that man is responsible
for the dog and that it is, compara-
tively* speaking, a recent arrival in
the animal kingdom, It is general.
ly believed that the dog is only a
modified ,and domesticated wolf,
e possible infusion of fox and jack.
al blood and that he owes even hire
existence to his lord and master.
Geology, which has taught us se
much of the early history of this
globe and its inhabitants, has, how-
ever, brought forward some evi-
dence which seems to disprove this
seemingly natural and long cherish-
ed theory. French scientists, whose
activity along these lines always
has be -en great, recently have ex-
humed fossil rock of the Pliocene
era near Puy, fossil remains dis-
playing remarloable resemblance to
the dog of to -day. In fact, a jaw-
bone shows unmistakable tooth for-
mation of thedog
of to -day,
,
This would seem to prove that the
clog was an inhabitant of the earth
before man made his appearance
here, for the Pliocene strata of
rock is 0f the la, t of the tertiary
age or the age of mammals, which
precedes the time of the advent of
man, and it will be necessary to go
still further tacit into prehistoric
ages to w�e00ver lire parent rout
frown witch the wolf, t11 "1ca1'
the dog and their <lOttsin9 1111153
come,
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soldier receives tobacco -money and
no wages.
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