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THE FATEOF MMA;
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Or, The South African Millionaire.
CHAPTER XVI.—(Cont'd).
The Jews marry early, and had
Adolphe continued to live in Frank-
fort, it is likely that he would have
married long ago some daughter of
"le haute finance," but something be-
side business bad keit him from it all ,
these years, the instinct hardly defin-
ed, that as his money increased so
his ideals would expand, and that the
wife who would suit Adolphe Lieb,
the son of old Lieb the jeweller. of
Frankfort at five and twenty would
not suit the multimillionaire at thirty
five, He was conscious not only that
he could now make a great marriage
but that in a sense on marriage de-
pended his greatness, that he could
not realize his dreams alone. Why
even the Gollings had made further
progress into the heart of London
exclusiveness than he had, and he
was certain that it was Mrs. Golling's
doing. He liked Mrs. Golling very
much, and had not minded when she
told him that having brought Azuma
to London, having her in the house in
Park Lane had done him harm. He
had even laughed, probably because
he felt so innocent, but he had yet
to learn that if the world doesn't care
how criminal you are if you don't
look it, it also doesn't care how inno-
cent you are if you don't look it.
And no matter how young or how
old, how pretty or how plain, of what
race and what color a woman is, no
matter what the links that bind
them, or if nothing binds them, a
man who lives in Park Lane with a
woman who is not his wife, must not
be surprised if society raises its eye-
brows.
In matters of worldly knowledge,
Adolphe Lieb was a babe, younger
if anything than he had been ten
years ago at Frankfort, because busi-
nese had abvorbed him to the exclu-
sion of everything else, and because
South Africa and dealings with men
outside the pale of cultivated and ad-
vanced civilization, had thrown over
him something of pristine savagery.
Lady Judith was conscious at once of
his simplicity of mind and of the
rugged savagery, which had become
second nature and which lent him a
charm he had not possessed as a
Young flaneur on the streets of
Frankfort.
Yes, they had met at the right mo-
ment, and when he saw Lady Judith
it seemed to him as if he had just
found something that was missing
from his house in Park Lane, which
he had always known was missing,
but which he had not known how to
give a name to. So a man might see
and recognize a picture which he
knows has once fitted into a panel
over his own chimneypiece.
Once during luncheon . without
knotting that he did so, he wondered
how a beautiful necklace would look
round her neck which ich he had
had
made from the neck,
diamonds ofhis
mine,a
necklace fa
lling in dropss in
double rows of drops ofwhich one
the connecting 'oin
could not see n n
g )
deof tear rolling clown
giving thea a axe g w
a cheek one after the other, and which
lay at his bank waiting like a guil-
lotine for a neck.
She pleased ]aim, pleased him as of
old Rebecca had pleased Tsaae. This
was the woman of his dreams, and
the only think that troubled him was
wh'ether the idea, the fancy, the de-
sires which had outlined themselves
during luncheon were destined to
end in dreams. Was she always as
nice as this to everybody? that was
what he wondered. That Lady Ju-
dith'Roach should marry him for his
money, that never entered his head,
his only doubt was whether he should
ever see her a ain. And when Mrs.
Gelling, with her fine perception of
the decorous .and the pleasant, had
left
them alone, while she
went to
the schoolroom and nursery, ,
lie liked
wayhe made him It beside het
Choa s
n the sofa while-they,talked of• • a
hundred things whish nterested him
0
telling u
Prosentty ho was nor about
the mutes, about his anxieties, the
fearful disappointments the crowning
successes, the charm of the Veldt,
He never remembered to have been
so drawn out by any woman forget-
ting that partly he enjoyed cher con-
versation because he so seldom
talked to a woman of the world, or a
woman at all, except Azuma, while
she, it only occurred to her after he
had gone, that she had never before
fprgotten that she wanted to marry
a man, in her interest in the man him-
self. Yet it was so. Away from her
home, from her mother, from the
surroundings which, till the end of
time, would each one be an associa-
tion with the terrible past, with the
sensation as of skimming the ocean
close to quicksands, or instead, tak-
ing perilous flights, she had been not
perhaps so much her real self as she
was now. Now she was more what
she might have been, and being an
intelligent woman, all he told her in-
terested hex, while the way he spoke
of billions where others talked of
thousands, had a strange fascination,
such as she had imagined great
wealth would bring, without being
quite able to picture it.
Yet slie knew that he had no wish
to dazzle her by what he told her.
The descriptive words fell by acci-
dent here and there, when he spoke
of the new railway he was building,
of his plan to build another town in
South Africa.
When he left, Lady Judith tried to
find out within herself why she had
been actually happy during that
hour's talk, and she unagined that it
was because by the feehng that the
man was beneath her in position,
that there would be no striving to
catch hold of him, that she had only
to put out her hand, that, as she de-
scribed it to herself "it was all go-
ing so easily." And at the Gollings'
party to which they had persuaded
him to come, Judith telling him, chaf-
fingly, that if he didn't go she
wouldn't, she had seen the quick
bright gleam of recognition in his
eyes as they met hers again, and they
had seemed to resume the conversa-
tion where they had . left it. 'That
was what gave her a feeling of re-
pose and certainty when she went in
search of him when later he was
missing from the bigger rooms, and
which gave a note of joyousness to
her tones when she exclaimed:
"Dear me, what is all this about?
Bra-rr. How angry everybody
looks. I'm really frightened."
Anyone less frightened -looking
could hardly be imagined, but the joy-
ousness pierced, as her eyes alighted
on Adolphe Lieb, arguing . with the
Premier's secretary, who seemed real-
ly annoyed.
"What has Mr. Lieb done?"
The way she seemed to protect him
from the aggressiveness of her own
class, her radiance (for she looked
radiant to -night), the way she seem-
ed to envelope him with the same
camaraderie which she assumed to-
wards Mr. Du Canep leased him. He
raised his eyes to hers,with an ex-
pression
cession of ischief, as if he appeal-
ed
p pp
ed to her to come and save him from
the rating he was getting and the
look pleased her.'If only alis ances-
try had not been quite so ancient and
more Saxon, he really would have
been quite like any other man, she
told herself.
"Come here and persuade him to
listen to me." In Lady Judith's pre-
sence the Premier's secretary drop-
ped the aggressive tone which was
almost a bullying one, in which he
had been talking to Adolphe Lieb, It
was impossible to withstand Lady
Judith's beauty, even when one didn't
approve of her morals, and of late
she had found herself entering an
older clique, a more serious one, per-
' lisps, anyhow one which suited the
new ese which had succeeded h
et the
p , s
eof a Jenne fills andwhich
hesitations hl
3 ,
gave samethyn, almost matronly to
her appearance. She Was more' like
a young married woman now, and
she was intelligent enough for men
of intellect to enjoy a battle of argu-
ment with her.
"I don't know whether T shall, per-
haps it would be far better if you lis-
tened to him,"
She came nearer, and her look
seemed to say to Adolphe:.
"Don't mind him; take your own
line."
"He won't believe that if he per-
sists in his Cape to Cairo project that
we shall all be plunged in a. second
African War,"
"Perhaps he isn't at all certain
that you political people aren't al-
ways glad of a war of you can only
pull it off properly."
Adolphe Lieb laughed, and the sec-
retary looked very annoyed. He was
one of those men who are so fussy
and important about things that no-
body can control, that when anything
occurred which he might have con.'
trolled, nobody paid any attention to
him. He was dreadfully serious, and
Judith's flippancy annoyed him. He
had come here to -night on purpose to
meet this man, -and to bring him
round to his opinion, he had not
wanted to give the meeting the im-
portance of an interview -at a club
but this opportune party of the Gol-
lings, fostered by Lady Glaucourt,
had seemed just exactly the thing.
Now Lady Judith took off from the
solidity of the discussion. Women
were always so dreadfully unreliable.
To Mr. Du Cane she seemed almost
like a traitress to her own country.
"After all, I suppose that in time
there will be railroads everywhere,"
she went on, "and if Mr, Lieb likes to
take the trouble, why not?"
She smiled sweetly at Adolphe Lieb
who stood away from the conversa-
tion as it were, listening to these
two, who belonged to the same world,
dealing with the things which he
alone understood.
"It will mean a rising of the whole •
of Egypt against it, and we shall
either lose Egypt or—"
"Or have to take it"
Adolphe Lieb put in the words
suddenly with a flash of fire.
"Which would mean war with the
world," put in the secretary coldly.
"War with the world, oh, Mr. Lieb,
that you must not allow."
"I, what have I to do with it? I
merely suggest what I know we shall
have to do presently, it is for the
Government to accept or refuse," he
shrugged his shoulders.
At that moment a group of people
entered, chatting and laughing. Gol-
ling was amongst them and Mr. Du
Cane turned towards him with relief.
Golling was so much easier to man-
age, but then as everyone knew, Gel-
ling would have sold his soul to be-
long to the Carlton Club.
"Come away from such serious
topics."
Lady Judith could hardly have torn
him from the group that was advanc-
ing towards them, and from the tire-
some secretary, with more outward
display, if she had taken him by the
coat with her hands and pulled him.
It was positively indecent, a woman
had said who was of the little party;
disgusting.
But she and he understood each
other. If there was no love, there
was at least that complete entente
which might lead to it, and as fox
him, he could only explain her friend-
liness to' him by the sincerity of lik-
ing. She had no reason to be so nice
to him since she was so beautiful, he
thought, since she- held a position
which had made the Glaueourts of
sufficient importance to be sought
outb o
G s to run them in
Y the llin g
London.
Andbreezy the bwhich she
Y wa Y in
had dealt with the Premier's secre-
tary had given him an insight into
the immense potency of a woman of
the world in assisting a man's career.
Somehow to -night he could imagine
them both sitting ogether on the ter-
race of the house in Park Lane
screened from the eyes of the crows{
by panels of green leaf, or driving
together, and discussing the great
schemes which his brain thought out
which he was equipped now to deal
with, and which, for all Azuma's in-
telligences had been restrained, limit-
ed in their vastness by her savagery
and want of tuition.
Judith had led him to a little room,
within another of medium size, which
gave from the large room on the
ground floor. It led into a coriserva.
tory where a fountain reaalied,
andd
tall plants gavean illusion of sum
merr, summ&and
country seen
through is and foga, .er a
mists n h a
through tears, but she was too en-
grossed with theese forthe
lash of water tremind her f e
past, the small room, the low divan
on which he threw himself' by her.
side, "seemed to hese them in from the
world beyond Far away the votee
of a prima -donna engaged to sang
for the night at.an increased fee of
a hundred pounds, if she agreed not
to insist on being listened to, sound-,
ed like a cry from someone perishing
in a distant sea, while occasionally
through the open doors one could
hear a laugh, or the sound of a Mao's
or a woman's voice, as thoY came or
went up and down the stairs.
"Wes it tireaonye of me to bring
you away, did You want to go on dui -
aiming Grape to Cairo, or whatever
the thing is?"
"No, I was very glad, I couldn't
understand him' he'seemed' to want
the railway, and yet not to want it."
"1 suppose that he wants the rail-
way but not the war."
"Ah they are always ready for
war, 'You were quite right, Lady Ju-
dith, onlyI know that they would
like me to do it, and then if anything
goes wrong to put it on to me."
Lady Judith laughed.
"You mustn't let them frighten you
into anything," she eaid demurely,
and he laughed. He wasn't the kind
to be frightened, yet he took what
she said as she meant it. She seem-
ed to say clearly:
"Because you are not one of us,
they will, of course, try and get
everything out of you, wring you dry
lilts an orange, and throw you away."
"I want someone to take care of
me," he said laughing.
"(Yes, I really think you do."
"I shall always consult you first,"
"You are laughing at me,"
"No, indeed I am not, I think that
you would always advise a man very
wisely.
She half closed her eyes as, she ut-
tered the next words, as if she were
alarmed at her own audacity, fearful
of how he might take it.
"They say that you are very well
advised."
"Oh Golling, I never take his ad-
vice,"
"I didn't mean Golling. I meant
well, are you going to be very angry
if I tell you what I meant?"
"Do I look angry?"
His manner, his words, his voice
were almost caressing, they seemed
to say:
"Could I ever be angry with you?"
And she thought that hie blue eyes,
"so unjewish," she said to herself,
forgetting that some of the most
beautiful eyes in the world have be-
longed to Jews, were very, very
pleasant to look into.
"Well you know everyone says that
you have an adviser a woman ad-
viser too, a dark lady you brought
from South Africa."
There was a moment's silence. It
had never seemed to matter so much
whether he had or not, as to -night
with Lady Judith beside him.
He wondered why she had men-
tioned this, whether it was in order
to warn him of the attitude of Lon-
don, or whether it was the barrier
which would come between him and
her, whether she was trying to break
.it down, whether she was asking for,
an explanation, and in the face of
her friendliness, it seemed as if she
had a right to know.
Fora few seconds as he told her
the story of Azuma, his loyalty
swerved ever so slightly. Rather than
lose this woman, Lady Judith Roach,
he would part with Azuma, he
thought; then as he talked, his
strength came back, he would never,
never part with Azuma, never. It
would kill her, it would bring him
ill -luck, it would be infamous. Ile
loved her loved her as he might have
loved a dear, sister, whom some ab-
normal phenomena iiad produced with
a dark skin, but he would never turn
her away.
The Jews are more moral than
other men' when they are not, they
invariably ;look after their mistresses.
An Abraham casting out a Hagar
and an Ishmael, with nothing but a
cup of water, would not be tolerated
by modern Judaism but Azuma was
not his mistress. Delicately he told
Lady Judith this, and she thought it
was the most wonderful story she
had ever heard. It fascinated her,
I feel somehow that all my good
fortune is connected with her, that if
I were ever to treat her badly, to
send her away I should lose my
money, my luck." He laughed a lit-
tle nervously. There was no know-
ing what effect his story would have
on this beautiful girl, with the Ma-
donna's face.
"No it would be very wrong of
you. You must never never part with
her, not even if—if you married,
don't you know. After all a woman
who really likes you would not wish
you to do so. Why she is evidently
your mascotte, and one day you
really must lot me see her."
He breathed a sigh of relief.
(To be continued.)
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maids wear' shepherdess' frocks and
carry crooks topped with bouquets of
flowers tied with huge bows of wide
satin ribbon. -
These bridesmaids' gowns vary in
material, but the effect of all of them -
is much the same—plain narrow skirt,
paniers, pointed bodice, square neck
and short ruffled sleeves and a flat,
flowered shepherdess hat.- At one
wedding of national importance the
attendants carried large leghorn hats
filled with marguerites and other
old-fashioned flowers. The effect was
very charming, as the hats were sus-
pended from the -arms by wide rib-
bons of yellow satin.
Blouses of Canopy Patterns':
The
attef/i .The blouses which the summer girl
will select for golf, tennis, boating
and the like may be of plain linen or
madras or may run to striped de-
signs, of which the most popular are
the broad canopy patterns or the
candy striped effects. In fact, many
of the blazer stripes aro reproduced
for shirtwaist models,
SONG OF THE COLONIES.
James L. Hughes, Toronto.
"We are sons in our mother's house,
We are :masters in our own,"
And when mother shall need her sons
She shall never stand alone.
We are partners with her for aye,
We are bound by love sincere,
And her faith in the right and true
We shall evermore revere.
We shall prove that we're brave and
strong,
As her sons should ever be,
When she calls us in honor's cause
To fight for liberty.
THE FRENCH TRICOLOR.
Has Been the. National Banner of Our
Ally Since 1830.
-The French have always favored
the colors of red, white and blue, and
throughout their history red banners,
white plumes, and blue scarves have
been largely used in connection with
royalty and the army. The French
national flag, the tricolor, however,
which combines the three popular
colors of France, is comparatively
modern. The flag was first adopted
about 17,94. A decree was issued
which gave to all flags a knot of tri-
color ribbons at the top of the staff,
and later the red, white, and blue
design waschosen for the national
flag. Some years after it was abol-
ished for the white flag of France Henryade ,for
byV , r I and it
was not until 1830 that the tricolor
came into its own again. Since then°
the flag has been the national ban-
ner of France. The divisions on the
tricolor are not all the same size.
The red occupies the largest space,
the blue is slightly smaller than the
red, and the white is the narrowest
stripe of the three. The space occu-
pied by the colors has been scientific-
ally worked out in order to make, the
flag visible at long distances, a ne-
cessary asset for naval purposes.
France had numerous national flags
before it adopted the tricolor. Al-
though its present banner is not par-
ticularly artistic, its predecessors
ranked amongst the most beautiful
sin the he world. 'The first French
flag
was
extremely quaint.
rnt, It `
con-
sisted oa bluhood hung on a cross
bar and represented the cloak of St.
Martin, a saint greatly revered by
the French, and years ago his helmet
was carried by our allies in their
wars to inspire the soldiers.
The second French ' flag was . a
beautiful banner of red, with its loose
end cut into three tongues, resemlr
ling flames, between each of which
was a green tassel.
Some picturesque bamlers were at
one time carried by the French war-
riots before the tricolor waved over
the French battlefields. There was
the sky-blue cavalry standard with,
the golden sun of Louis XIV., the
white end gold banner of Joan 4
Arc, magnifieently embroidered with
and lilies and
the Madonna angels,
banner of the city of
theamens oldh r
ftY
Iris with ship
1 ice white on a blood-
ied
red field Tho tricolor forms the base
of nearly every flag connected with
the army, navy, and merchant ser.
vice of France.