HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-6-24, Page 2THS FATE OF AZUMA;
Or, The South African Millionaire.
CHAPTER XV.—(Cont'd,)
"See, see 13aas, look."
She entreated him like a child.
"There is war, at great war." she
muttered, "and blood . , blood."
"War:,,
Was' this woman then really a
witch, or how was it that she uttered
the word which had wrung in his
ears ever since Gulling had departed,
but which had rung in his ears ever
but which neither had ventured so
much as to breathe openly to each
other?
He was growing interested, and
because he told her everything al-
ways, because she was the only con-
fidant he had, he told her all that
Gulling had told him in detail.
"It is not true," she said, "if he
wants them to come, then why does
he not send them himself?"
"But don't you see, Azuma, that it
must not go on like this, the Boers,
you hate the Boers, don't you—?"
The gleam which shot across her
eyes, which he could feel was there
even more than he could see it, told
him that she had given her answer
on that score.
"Well, soon they will have the
whole country under their control,
they pay no attention to the Eng-
lish, they oppress the natives, oven
now they treat the Uitlander with
contempt. Now listen, and I will tell
you what the scheme is."
She squatted down and listened till
the end while he, fired with the new
idea Gelling had inspired, told her
with all the excitement of a newly
kindled ardor of enthusiasm, the way
Kruger kept the country back from
civilisation in order to make money,
Mid because he felt instinctively that
for all his cunning, a civilized coun-
try would not tolerate him, that he
could no longer control it. And Lieb
told her, almost as if it were a fairy
tale of wonder, what would happen if
the British possessed it, how bridges
and railways would be built, and
schools and Churches, and how in
time even her race would fare better
and grow rich."
And though she listened with won-
der and amazement, for all that, at
the end, she shook her head.
"All that," she said "if the British
conquer, but if not, if the Boer wins
the battle, what then?"
Yes, he had thought of that, and as
she said the words, this wonderful in-
telligent being, he laughed.
" the Boers beat the British;" The
idea was absurd,
And Azuma swept her hand back-
eards and forwards showing him the
Veldt, the great tracts of land which
the Boers knew so we11i but which
neither the British soldiers, nor even
the Highland troops had any idea of.
They do not know this country,"
Me said, quietly, "they do not know
the Boer, the Boer knows every kopje
every klooft, every raad; they will
crouch in the valleys, and every man
and woman and child," she held her
hand out low to show how .small a
child she meant, "will carry a gun,
and they will shoot from behind, they
will shoot when your troops have
turned their backs,"
How had she thought of all this
this woman? And she went on. "Ancd
they will say, 'We came here first,
what right have you'?"
Yes, Azuma was right, what right
had they, the British or the Germans,
M come and take their country?
Their wealth, that was another thing,
they had never developed anything,
been too afraid to spend money, too
bestial to care for improving the
country, or the welfare of their bre-
thren, but their country!
Yet as one who cannot at once re-
linquish a new and deep, and power-
ful thought, he went on.
"But if we win, Azuma, what then
"You will not win, now with a
handful of men. There will be blood
everywhere, and the mines they will
go you will be poor.'
She spoke now in low tones, her,
eyes seeing once more the strange
numbers and signs into which the
sand had fallen between the pebbles,
talking like one in a dream, prophe-�
eying.
"With a few men you will lose, you
English, and the Boers will take the;
mines."
No one but one of her own race
could know how they dreaded the'
fuller power that might come to the:
Boers if they conquered and they I
would conquer, unless the English
brought such thousands as she, in her;
ignorance, could not imagine any
country possessed. Then presently
she looked un,
"And if they lose they will say it
was you, they will kill you, the Boers,
or perhaps the English, because you
did not win."
And without answering her
Adolphe had gone out into the gar-
den, He wanted to be alone with] I
his thoughts, with those former ones
which still clung, with these new'
ones this strange woman had, evoked,'
this strange woman who had come(
into his life seemingly so quietly, so
unsought, and yet who had brought!
him wealth beyond that of almost any l
mutt.
To him she had seemed like a su-
pernatural being, but:as a matter of
fact hers was simply .an illuminated
mind. In all centuries, in allages,
in every country, now and then there
is born a type like Anima's. Who
can tell by what chain of heredity
they are produced, what union of
complex intelligence, the right ap-
posites, .the right contrasts lived over
again and again, pf'oduce them, those
who seem to have the gift of seeing
only because they have the combined
gift of close observation coupled with
a mind given to thinking things out,
to solving problems, If she had been
born in teermany, a mare she would
haves been a great scientist perhaps,
or a great astronomer;,a Napoleon in
France, a Richelieu, a Charlemange;
in Italy a Maechiavelli, but instead,
born a Kaffir and a woman, het' illu-
minationwee limited to a close ob-
servanee of the character of the few
men and women she came across, of
the conditions of the country in which
she bad been born, of the actions of
the white and the black races, and
amongst those, of the diversity of
actions of different whites, the Ger-
mans, the English, and the Boer in
the dark races, the Zulu, the Kaffir,
the African, the Matabele. And she
was a woman of silence, given to in-
stinctively developing that utmost
,which lies within us all, but which so
many of us leave dormant till the day
of death. If she saw a thing of any
kind she wanted to know all .about it,
It had been so with household things
that Adolphe had bought at Cape
Town, or had sent from Germany and
Paris. When she had found out how
they worked, she tried experiments
till she had pushed them to their
furthest use.
Such minds as these are often born
in obscurity and amidst surroundings
which do not permit of their develop-
ment, and becoming warped or stulti-,
fled in one direction, find their vent
in subtle crme or criminal cunning,'
but in Azuma it seemed as if a na-,
Mural sweetness and meekness had
restrained all evil influences, while
her devotion to Adolphe had .seemed'
to concentrate her every thought on
the endeavor to guide him to ower,'
and to safeguard him from evil, i
And those little pebbles were but
j the instruments of her visionary pow-•
er. She was not in any sense a for-'
'tune teller; the art had been taught
her as a child, but she had but scant
belief in it on the lines on which she"
had been taught to use it they only,
assisted her thought, and she had
learned to reckon on the shapes and,
forms the pebbles took upon them as'
the answers only, to her prophetic;
meditations.
When Adolphe had settled down in',
his new home he had some difficulty
in persuading the Boers with whom I
she lived to let her go, they preferred
to beat the devil out of her with lea-
ther thongs, to handing her over to
the devil in the shape of Adolphe
Lieb, and they naturally misinter-1
Ipreted his desire that she should
come to his house. Of this he was
quite aware, it had been a sense of
I
justice, a means of rewarding her,
since he could not give her a share
in the mine, which had led him, al-
though slavery was not supposed toi
i be countenanced, to compromise with
the Boer farmer for a large sum of
money.
Since then Azuma had been looked,
upon with mingled awe and scorn
by the few Boers round about and'
as a wonderful and supernatural be-
ing by the Kaffirs, a sentiment which
had gone far to enhance Adolphe's,
popularity amongst them, and had
woven a spell of safety around him
of which be was himself unaware. All
attempts to find out something about
her had failed. That she was not a
Kaffir he was sure, her limbs and the
shape of her head were cast in finer
mould, yet the rich blackness of her
skin forbade the idea that she had
any white blood, and the Kaffirs told
different tales. Some that she had
come in a caravan of slaves from the
Soudan, that her parents had been
killed by the Boers, others that she
' was the daughter of a great chief,
who had been taken prisoner and
died in prison.
When he ever thought about it all,
Adolphe Lieb inclined to the latter
,opinion, on account of the quiet dig-
pity of ;her bearing, and her easy com
command over the other servants of
his household.
As a matter of fact it didn't much
matter what she had been for to mis-
apply a proverb if at night all cats
are grey all black women are in a
sense alike. And Azuma understood
that he wanted to be alone, and crept
away, crept away to wander forth
herself an hour later into the same
garden to listen under his window to
the strains of Adolphe Lieb's violin,
to the exquisite music in which he
strove to chase away the suggesting
demons which flaunted power, and
danced before his eyes in winged
words, the words of Gulling:
"The British government will be
very grateful, they will recognize it
even if they cannot absolutely sug-
gest it"
And he was hardly aware that the
music had a singing mysterious voice
a singing mysterious voice which had
put words to his music and turned it
to a song, the words of Azuma, the
African Maiden. "They will say to
you. 'We came here first, what right
have you?'"
And a few days later because he
wanted to find out the truth, because
something made him distrust Gel.
ling, he started for London, and
Azuma said
"If you do not take me you will
have no luck," and he had laughed
and said,
>' will soon come back."
But it was because she had thrown
herself at his feet in a ,passion of
grief, because rho had said:
"If you do not take Azuma she
will die," that he had taken her with
him to London,
CHAPTER XVI.
It was perhaps just as well that a
mood of sweeter content had come to
Lady Judith at the time she met
Adolphe Lieb for the first time, just
as well that she met him in surround-
ings which made for well-being and
restfulness and that she was amongst
those who admired her and liked her
and thought well of her, and that the
new interest of "running these Af-
ricans," as Lady Glaueourt put it,
had brought some vivacity back, sumo
vivacity and vitality which respond-
ed to the unused in him. For there
was a good deal of. the Unused in him.
He had not yet grown weary of life,
nor even met many of its stronger
emotions. The emotion of great and
ever increasing wealth had been his,
and in experience of treachery he
had knocked against Gelling's das-
tardiy and unpardonable suggestion.
The first he had not Pound to bring
with it WI the dlation the intoxica-
tion even he had expected; and the
second, oh, that was wiped out now,
bone, forgotten almost, That had
een seven years ago and since then
the Jemeson Raid had convulsed Eng.
land, dazed it, blinded it, sent it mad,
and its madness had taken the shape
of the Boer war and restored its san-
ity. There had been ea moment when
Golling and Lieb had loth trembled
for the welfare, the continuance to
exist even, of their mines, and there
had been the sudden resurrection
which had brought millions, and all
that remained now was outwardly a
great historic secret more wonderful
than the Dreyfus mystery, because it
existed amongst (Englishmen, who
are supposed to be neither mysterious
nor untruthful, above all because it
avored a little of those historical i'oe.
finances which so many laugh at, and
which resemble tales of the day of
the first Bonaparte, without the
graceful heroine who throws roses
or smiles from some turret window'
and— that between Gulling and
Lieb, it had left the remembrance, on
the one side of a great 'treachery, a
great injury suggested, and on the
other the sense of having .been dis-
covered in an unworthy and abomin-
able act, For Adolphe, through the
intermediary of a powerful• man in-
terested in the mines, had obtained
an interview with the authorities, in
Downing Street and at -the War Of-
fice, and been assured that nothing
was known about the scheme, that
it would not for a moment be toler-
ated. With his unusual loyalty, he
would not give the name of the per-
son who had suggested to him that
this would be acceptable to the Brit-
ish government, and Gulling, when he
could do so without fear of its get-
ting back to Lieb, would hint that it
was what Lieb wanted to do. That
was the impression Lieb, quite un-
consciously gave to the government
also, which did not add to his general
good repute, while Lieb congratulat-
ed himself that he had listened to
Azuma's warnings, and to the insist-
ence of the passion for justice which
lies at the heart of every Jew, prin-
cipally because he gets so little of
it.
But he had had none of the wear
and tear of life, even as a young
man. Home life, his good old father
and mother, had had their restrain-
ing influence, and since the develop-
ment of the mines he had been given
over entirely to business, occupied
himself with matters which generally
fall to the share of older men, trav-
elled ,backwards and forwards be-
tween Germany and Paris and Lon-
don, forming companies, engaged on
the Stock Exchange, making huge
loans for vast undertakings, always
under the guiding prognostications
of Azuma. Then had come his fa-
ther s
ather's death, and six months spent
looking after his mother, his pro-
perty and his younger brothers and
sisters, journeys to South Africa, the
stay prolonged each year longer and
longer, as he built and embellished
his house, and finally became obses-
sed with the Veldt itself and rarely
left it except for short trips to his
home. And on these occasions Azu-
ma had said nothing when he came
or went. He had been twenty-five
when be first went to stay with the
Gollings, now he was thirty-five, ten
years older than Judith, who was
twenty-five "well rung out" and he
possessed some of the freshness of
youth, of boyhood almost, and all. its
vigor.
It was the day he met Judith, that
he told himself that life had really
begun.
(To be continued.)
GOLDEN SENTENCES.
The only way to live in this age and
get any pleasure out of life is always
to take more time than you need for
every job you tackle.
You'll see strength enough in the
people some day.
The trouble with all your big men
at the top is that they're trying to do
for the crowd what the crowd wants
to do for itself.
The age we live in is changing so
much faster than any age before it
that a man, if he's to be vital at all,
must give up the idea of any fixed
creed, in his office, his church or his
home. If he holds himself open to
change, and news that' change is his
very life, then he can get a serenity
which is as much better than that of
the monk as living is better than dy-
ing.
Were we sent by our rulers to die
only in order that they in their scram-
ble might take more of the earth for
themselves?
The bead, like the stomach, is
most easily affected by poison when
it is empty.
Woolwich Arsenal possesses the
largest steamhammer in the world. It
is capable of striking a blow of near-
ly a thousand tons; and yet it is so
carefully adjusted and accurately
timed that it is possible to place a nut
under the huge hammer and to crack
the shell without injuring the kernel.
.FRENCH INVENT A GRENADE
ALO GOOD BOMB THROWERS
AT SMALL EXPENSE.
Femme From These Missies Which
are Charged With Chemicals
ITave Overpowering Effect,
Tire. widespread use of trenches in
the present war, writes a corres-
pondent with the French army,
has brought the opposing amities
into closer proximity than ever.
heel been considered possible since
I the development of firearms, and
the result has been that uew meth.
ods have had to be devised todeal
with 'unexpected conditions, ,
1 "At first,', Gays tine correspond-
ent, the Germans were probably
better prepared for this kind of
warfare. Their `minenweafen' are
oxeellently made and well design-
ed, as I have been able to assure
myself by tine examination of some
of those captured on the Oham-
1pagne front. There is no sugges-
tion of improvisation about these.
On the .contrary, they are, if any-
thing, over -complicated. Experi-
ence has shown that they are far.
too heavy. The largest of them,
indeed, are cemented into the
trenches, so that they cannot be
removed, and none of them is near-
ly so effective as .the simple weap-
ons that the proverbial ingenuity
of the French has invented under
the pressure of circumstances.
`The Germans have been scoring
to e, certain extent, by the use of
asp eixiatimg bombs in utter de-
fiance of the oblrgations they had
accepted under The ague Con-
vention. The French have not been
long in finding a reply to these
weapons. If the Germans mean to
use poisonous gases in warfare, the
French are ready to retaliate with
a weapon that should prove very
1 effective, though it in no way con-
travenes the regulations accepted
by all civilized nations except Ger-
many.
"This weapon consists of a hand
grenade filled with certain chemic-
als which when released produce
gas that has no deadly effects but
es quite powerful enough to para-
lyze a man for several minutes. As
an experiment two of these gren-
ades were thrown into a narrow
bane between two walls that might
fairly be taken to represent a
trench. When the gases had been
released a company of infantry was
ordered to advance up the lane,
and I accompanied them.
"When the first ranks name with-
.
ir the zone of the fumes they step-
ped suddenly and heat a hasty re-
treat, fighting their way through
the men behind, absolutely blinded
by the tears running down their
cheeks. The smell of the fumes is
not unpleasant. It is suggestive of
pear drops combined with very
strong ammonia, and it produces
such violent smarting of the eyes
and nose that it would be hopeless
to try and use a weapon while, un-
der its influence. These bombs
have not yet been used, and will
only- be employed if the Germans
make any further nee as asphyx-
iating gas
French hand Grenades.
"Besides the newly invented gas
bomb the French have various
forms of bombe and bomb throwers
for use in the trenches. The hand
grenades are of two kinds. The
larger kind, whioh looks like a
rocket with a stick sawn off short
and a vary large head, contains
more than a pound of explosives.
These explosives are contained in.
a black steel case closed by a wood-
en cap, with a fuse at the bottom
end. Ile man who is to throw
the grenade breaks off the seal
which. covers this fuse and sets light
to it with a ma el or cigarette.
When the fuse begins to splatter
he has five seconds before the ex-
plosion, and with a good awing can
throw it twenty-five to thirty yards,
Men of all armrs are being trained
to use this weapon, and the experi-
ments whioh T have been permit-
ted to witness were carried out by
a number of infantrymen just back
from the front. Its effects are
very deadly, as it will sweep an
area of fifteen yards, and though
we were fifty ,mels away from the
point where one of them exploded
it was advisable to take cover be-
hind a tree, as several splinters
reached us.
This largo grenade is used for
defensive purposes. It is thrown
Piowl ng the Santis; t1 i•, 111111 's Labor I,ost.
A clever cartoon by Waller in "The London Daily Graphic,"
know the trenches when the enemy
10 attaoloing, For offensive work a
lighter and more handy bomb is
required, This grenade eontains
about halt a pound of explosives,
and a 'soldier Can easily oarry halt
a dozen of them in a bag when he
leaves his trench for the charge.
"When mule Menace are set to
300 yards apart the range is too
great for hand grenades, For this
work a bomb thrower called the
'cnapauillot' has been devised. Its
name is derived Irani the erapanel,
a toad, It is a squat, toadlike
thing, painted gray and consisting
of a wooden stand mounted on it.
The German ahrapnel eases have
only to be shortened and to have
touch hole bored In theist, A dharge
of powder is placed in them, and
above it a bomb eontaining three
pounds of explosives.
Inexpensive Bomb Throwers,
"Two .salvoes of nix 'erapauil-
lots' were fired in one (hour: Six
saneage-like bombs were thrown
into the air and exploded with tre-
mendous violence when they reach-
ed the ground 250 yards away,
hunting ntitraille in every three -
tion. A piece of tnitraille, like a
heavy, roughly made nail, came
hurtling through the branches of
the tree behind whioh I was shel-
tering and fell at my feet, while
another piece was driven deep into
the trunk of the same tree. One
bomb fell into a stream and threw
up a column of water some fifteen
feat into the air. The Germans,
when they capture a trench, have
an ingenious way of describing
these bomb -throwers, which cost
about a dollar each, as guns, to
impress the readers of their. com-
muniques.
"We also witnessed the test of
some smoke bombs from .these en-
gines. They produced a curtain of
smoke which was quite sufficient to.
mask an advance, and their suc-
ceas was the more remarkable as
there was a strong wind blowing.
The output of these bombs and
bomb -throwers is practically lin-
limited. The energy and method
with which the men, who of course,
are mobilized under military law,
were working was quite remaa'k-
able. The factory has been com-
mandeered by the State, which
pays a rent for its use to its pro-
prietor. "
MORE WARS TO FOLLOW.
Prophecy of Vast Series of Struggles
For Existence.
Professor Ridgeway, speaking at a
meeting of the Eugenie Society in
London, said that the nation had been
brought into the present struggle by
a combination of millionaires who
were frequently alien in origin, and
their dupes the masses, while the
same forces were exercising a bane-
ful influence on the prosecution of the
war.
Far from this being the last war,
the hard facts pointed rather to its
being the first of a vast series of
struggles different from those yet
known. The earth's waste spaces
were now getting filled up and the
struggle for existence, not merely
kingly ambitions, was the great stake
for which Germans and British were
now' fighting. Henceforward each
new struggle would be more desper-
ate.
Most of nus who attempt to wear
the mantle of greatness are dis-
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Rankin: "Have you ever been to
the Trosachs?" Phyle: "Yes; but 1
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Hubby: "My dear, if all that I hear
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myself. You don't suppose I went
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Madge (reading letter from bro-
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A clumsy carver once sent a goose
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Mrs. Ryan: "They do be afther
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Agent: "1 came to deliver your
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Lady: "But I didn't order any."
Agent.: "Haven't you a next door
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Whether or not the • skirt is worn
with a lace drop skirt or ,something
of the . sort our informant does not
say. If not, we fear that Premet's
latest creation will be suitable only
for the stage, where almost nothing .
is more "voguey" than something
that is more.
- Rumors continue to the effect that
the return of the princess gown is in-
evitable this coming winter. In fact
it may come' during the summer. Cer-
tainly it is being made up in the
style shops of Paris where models'
for fall wear are well under way.
Sixteen inches from the floor would
convert a skirt into a mere frill, yet
it is said that we are coming to such
abbreviated raiment. With it will be
worn the Russian boots with crink-
led tops of soft leather—that is, if
women are willing to put themselves
into such ugly things, which is doubt-
ful. Some few women will follow
the, style, no matter where that mad
impulse leads, but the great major-
ity combine new ideas with their own
good judgment of what is fitting and
correct, The Russian boots catch
into the hem of the frock and are al-
together clumsy and awkward.
Avoid as you would avoid trouble
all the putty shades, the tan and the
beige of early spring. They are out,
out and yet more out. Bluish grey.
is an excellent color of the moment,
and a gabardine of this shade trim-
med with a strong marine blue
makes a splendid gown. Fashion
keeps us jumping these days. By tho
time one has decided upon a thing,
whisk; it is passel For that reason
it is best to regard the extremely
popular materials and styles as
things to be feared. A touch of con-
servatism is a great help toward
"safety first" ' in shopping. Make
haste slowly in your selections.
At a recent wedding the brides-
maids wore gowns of blue taffeta,
with silver lace about the hems of the
skirts and 'pantalettes of blue taf-
feta trimmed with silver lace. The
basques were embroidered with yel-
low baskets of flowers, and some
of the decorative scheme was` hand-
painted—a combination of painting
and embroidery, The necks were cut
round, the sleeves scalloped and, with
these unusual and striking costumes
were worn Watteau hats of white
Neapolitan braid, with long stream-
ers of light blue taffeta, 'weighted at
the ends with clusters of pink roses.
Light blue hosiery and gold slippers
completed these picturesque outfits..
Adjustable collars for. coats are
seen, which means that one. may have
several collars for one's coat, which
is decidedly handy for cleaning and
refurbishing. The high coat collar
that rubs against the face and gath-
ers powder often ruins the entire gar -
met. Unless one has detachable col-
lars white plaited protectors of or-
gandie should be worn.
Woman's Voice Is Never Hearth
On Mount Athos, called the Holy
Mountain by Greeks and Slays,
there exists a republic of 0,000 or
7,000 souls, and every ;one of the
inhabitants is a man, Not one wo-
man has ever been there, and, even
stranger still, not a female animal
of any kind is permitted within its
lioundaries. It is a republic of
males.
For hundreds of ye ass soldiers
have 'guarded the gates that no wo
man might stead :through and pro-
fane the cloistered holiness in
which the good monks live, Com-
prising twenty monasteries, a doz-
en villages and many scores of
lonely dwellings, this monks' re-
public governs itself after the rules
of the Greek churoh as a. true theo-
cracy.
ICaryas, reached by boat from
Salonica, is the Capital. It is a
picturesque village on the eastern
slope of the holy mountain, Over-
hanging rocks are studded with
hermitages, and :honeycombed with
lonely cells. Th,e council dheariber
ie at one end 'of idle single street.
To the synod the monks send
twenty-four delegates, who tient a
president every four years, He,
with a privy council of four, rules
the tiny republic and administers
its foreign ,affairs,
Located in the heart of the feria
tory so recently wrested by -Greece
1reen Turkey, tine foreign relations.
of Athos have been enmpietely in-
terwoven with the Balkan trembles,
and 'Bulgaria and Serbia have
contended vs that eeteh other for nom -
{nal possession,
Yee through an the s life of scar
the one'11' herniate ;and the silent
moults have not broken their drila
eotrb,ne ni pi•ayere anti service dna
this strange woneenaees theocracy
still persists, a picturesque and
rornanbio relic of the 'middle ogee.
London's' Monument is the loftiest
isolated column in the world.