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THE FATE OF AZUMA;
Or, The South African Millionaire,
PROLOGUE --CHAPTER 11.
And late that evening, Adolphe Lieb
wne roused bye grating sound outside on
the shutter. The Boer had only two
email rooms to offer his guests, and even
those, his friends told him, he ought to
be thankful for, fie often travellers in
South At'rica, aro obliged to ebare a bed
with the Family, a doubilul pleasure; La
ler Adolphe teas glad that the two rooms
were not opening into each other. On the
contrary, they were on opposite sides of
tho vonrkamer, or hall, and the room
next to Adolphe teas the kibhen. All this
he did not notice at the time, but later
lie realized that it it had not been for
that fact, the noise, alight as it waa
caused by the events of that night, would
have aroused the Doer antl his family,
all of whew -were steeping in the one
other little room.
lie had been advised to keep hie revel.
ver loaded, but he bad laughed at the.
idea, as townspeople do, and the sound
filled him with a vague uneasiness. Pre-
sently it was repeated, and he eat up 1:1
bed.
"Arcs . . Boost" It was the voiee of
Alto Kaffir woman nvhom he had eaved
that morning. With a towneman'o ex-
Perieaee, he embed to himself; then be
looked annoyed. He raised the window
and motioned her to go away. Ws one
dread was lest hit friends should cane
00 hie nssiatance and find her there, but
she beckoned to hien to come, pointing
te the moon. It was impoceible to under.
eland what the meant.
"Site docent propose a midnight ramble,
I euopo00,'• he said to hlmseit, returning
la bell, But it was impossible to sleep
with the thought that perhaps this n•o.
man was on the stoop outeide, --Presently
he began to wonder 'whether ehe came to
warn him of anything, whether the man
he had struck that morning lead any de -
miens, and he slipped out of bed and drees-
ea in the darkness. When he !woe drese-
sd, he went to the window and opened it;
evidently it was what she hail expected
him to do, for she tivtas eta.nding there
waiting in the moonlight. Here was a
dilemma --df b0 tried to go to sleep again,
ehe might jt1ay thegell 1 fight.
And the'beauty of the night appealed
to lane, the stillness, the wonderful still-
ates0 of South Africa, which is like the
etiflucee of the desert. Nothing there it
scented but the moon and 1113 ]tills And
the lever, ell enveloped, embraced, by the
ea'pphire duct of the moonbeams. Young.
blood is always eager for adventure, and
eleep had vanished- from his eyelids for
good and all. The spirit which had made
old Lieb Baty that tbe word impocaible"
wee not in hie dictionary, wad awake .0
MEI son to -night, the eon who would not
have anything to do with the little jewel.
Jere shop, but who yet had dreams of
greatness beyond those of itis father. 1{e
slipped hie revolver into hie belt, and Poi -
lowed her. In those days he knew too lit-
tle to fear, and the wont -an -surely she
would not lead hiss into danger? He re.
membered that he had often heard that
the negroee were grateful for khtdnese, It
fen'` true, but it seemed true at the time.
as so many things which ought to be,
seem true.
Very softly, for fear of waking the
sleeping household, be slid out of the
window,and followed the woman. The
brt.ghtnese of tbe moonlight made their
shadows strong across the sand and arid
earth, and he thought bow strange they
looked, the shadow of the young German
and the Kaffir womatl following a few
elope behind, although she led him by
the eweep ehe gave with her hands, point-
ing towards the kine. Once he stopped
and shook hie head He didn't want to
go on, he said. But she smiled, and show-
ing her teeth littered 'Yes, yes.' one of
the few English words she know. And,
lest he should leave at the critical mo-
ment, ehe pointed further to a kraal, be-
tween two elopes of the hill.
"What on earth can she want?" he
asked. himself.
Once or twice he addressed her in Ger-
man or English, and he could set that
elle was at beet intelligent enough to try
io underetand, but it 'woe no good. Pre-
sently she pointed to his pocket, and with
an instinct to show that he had protected
himself, be showed ber the revolver; but
stili she shook her head. Then it dawned
upon him that she wanted money, and his
heart mlegave him. If that was all, he
'would soon show her all he had with him.
He had loft a roll of paper money and a
little gold in hie coat pocket. He had
net thought to follow her so far, and
had merely slipped his trousers over hie
shirt. He took out a few piece, of money,
:and she smiled.
Once more ber idea in bringing him out
here aaeted upon him, then dissipated
again. She held out her hand, and he
laid the money in it. If that was all she
wanted, she could have it. And in the
moonlight she sat down on a jolting
atone, and counted the money, while be
,rood by and watched, It was s0 bright
that one could see the Queen's head on
the coins. Then she looked up. The
<oine lay gleaming oat her lap, fie with
both bands site made geeturee which
showed money upon money, pile upon
pile, heaped tip.
"Plenty, very much," ehe repeated,
pointing towards the hill beyond.
Adolphe Ideb could never have said why
suddenly something seemed to tingle in
hie veins, to obsess him, who ltad always
laughed at money -grabbers, even at men
who, like his father, worked early and
late to 0111066 a fortune; spending all
their best years he had said, in order to
enjoy ten minutes eternity. Yet now oud-
detidy, this dark girl with her specking
eros seemed to reveal something "which
he had dreamed of, The dreary expanse,
the river gilding, melting along like molt-
en 013101, tits dottelittese, the Mout•, and this
woman who oould not oiteak hie 100100,.
ware all para of it great a 0013101 1.0 by
unfolded, and hie Path bad been directed
here, $lio was taking him to it mine, ire
remembered that onl that day the father
of hie friend had soled:
"I believe that there aro diamonds
enough to South Africa to provide the
world for hundreds of-y0ar0, One da.Y
they will he ehetip fie dirt."
Adolphe forgot everything' --the ]tour,
the place, the lonellueee, the dengue be
luta heard of, his youth, hie inexpet'ienee.
Thee cph•it of old Lieb liovercd close, and
the woman, who had nothing tet guide bee
10 dile but whet ehe rend lu the eyes of
her fellow human boitrga, saw that he un-
derstood, and laughed,
She sprang to her .feet, and he 'follow-
ed. 11 seemed an eternity, and -the night
wee hot. leer away he couldhear the erg
of jackals, 'dthm0l lemming. .Haw often
einem he hae lived over again that night
when he walked 'with the Nagle girl to
the far envoy hill, the night which chang-
ed his whole life. Nowthey were nearly
at the top of a biltoolt, and with a ges-
ture which fmpreeee1 him 'by lie grace,
almost by les magnificence, she 1:•used
her arm, and ewopt it to right and left,
as if eomenanding him to study the land,
to dee for !remold how ft was situated,
where It was.
Jobanneeiburg." Bite pointed in the dl.
rection of the town ,forty mi)e0 away,
and hie eyo followed her pointed anger.
Then they resumed their walk. Now
she took l]1m a little to one side of the
low hill, and crouched down as if to keepB
their detached figures from ibeingg vieiblb,
then oho turned to the left .bringing him
nearly round agalp.
Then Oho etopped and clopped her hands
for glee, ee she,pofnted.to the ground. He
half grasped her meaning yet, for -fear
of his own thoughts, he held it back, re-
luctant to allow 'an unjustifiable optim-
ism to take possession of him, which
would end in albeurdity,.
'Very much -plenty .she repeated,
urging him ao it were to make hie own
discovery. Tben, because be gazed at
.her questioningly, obe stooped, and scrap-
ing away some of the loose earth and
stonee, picking up one little dark piece
aftec •mother, laid them in hie hand,
Evott fit the darkness he could eeo her
smile. They were standing beneath the
brow of•the lower hill now, and the moon.
shone on ber derk hair and forehead,
making her month and the lower part of
her face itt shadow, mysterious. Yet fie
she stood .there be cane that ehe was
beautiful, and that in her eyee gleamed
the fire of youthful enthueiaem, of digni-
fied restrained, excitement,
Viten as he looked at the little pieces of
hard substance, he uttered an exclama.
tion in German:
Ach Gold"
The son of old Heinrich Lief conuldnot
viako a mistake, the Hattie girl, bad
8101511 him a diamond mine.
Never •before, never since, has Adolphe
Lieb felt exactly the Some geneatiens as
that night. We have neatly all of us at
00100 time or other experienced some
mental emotion which stands out from
amongall others, and which -fromthe
impression it hae al•ado, manatee indeli.
bly graven upon our memory', enhanced
because, of its inteneity, with an atmos-
pbere of mystery, of the supernatural.
In the years to come, Adolphe told
himself that all the emotions of hie We.
all the delirium of happiness, all the.
ecstasy of living, had been gathered to-
gether in that moment; that love and
passion, 'wealth and power, health and
success, all these things were es nothing
compared to that one moment on the Af-
rican veldt, when bo realized that he
stood on the surface of a mine, a dia-
mond.mine of which the diamonds were
of the finest quality. He could tell that,
even in the moontlight, by the look of the
little Mecca of rough (China even If the
mane 'proved lees valuable than it eee10-
eel to him et tbat moment, yet the stones
that lay in hie palm repreoented a small
forte e.
Now a 'mutual understanding seemed
to be born •betaveen them, he uederetood
why ehe bad brought him hero, n. good
three miles from the Farm, what ehe had
meant when ehe counted out the money,
and seemed to pile it on ber lap. it was
fie if, at last, they understood each mit
ere speech even.
What he would do about it, what would
Dome later, and the wonder of it all for
one moment seemed to dazzle him, to be,
wilder him, yet to fill hie whole being
with visions of the future which were like
a revelation.
F1a0hes of scenes came before him, con-
fused, evanescent, giving way 10 fresh
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(inen. So seemed -to see 'tor an instant hie
old father's dame, ills mother's -she was
citt•hsg ktlii,ting, 1by a lumps iiia 0ieler"8
)ie eeeined t0 see111041toe, 001410 PAn+i
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Halitea. city like Frankfort, 701 priors
meggailicent, and screowllel'e a snanatoe
nvltlt huge carved 110010 and imitable stair'
mist's, the home of 'Adolpho Blab, the
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And there ere other vleiona, loo,
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all bnihed in the light of malty
0andlre. groups of people coining and go•
lag, n cheese eel:fee 0d throngs of glitter'
log uniforms and magnificently dressed'
women, and hickeys in aflir ,t)T9e0ltee, eec-
retartee and agents find .et/orbit and
atmonget .theta all, seated away 1r014 1113:
crowd with a recipient soib1o, the image
of the frill' woman at callose feet this
pageant wneto unfold fleet/. And then
because he wee young, beeanee the Nu-
ropean dew not feel the ra0in.l feeling so
strongly as the American and the Aiello
ender. becaueo she was young and grate•
ful and bad brought him Out great joy
of hbe life, the great emotion, 'because tee
night there eectned nothing strange In
the feet that he woe in South Africa,
standing out on the brow o1 a hill, in the
Middle of the night, ono band stretched
out, a 'white shapely hand needing syin'
ppa.lh1, salve deep emotion from his fel.
Iowa to etil. the tumult of lite awn, he
laid hie fingers. on 110r stmt and hor eery•
pie well -shaped evriet, and olid them down
into her patlm.
Never had the hand of the white man
touched beer except to strike, and she too
sat them entranced for et moment, halt
fearful, half enraptured, then be lot her
hao4 go. It seamed ee 11 some tension
of 'feeling had beon released, and be
breathed a sigh which was like the onde
ing of pa00iotn.
Now the 'woman Ladd her finger to her
Hips to Raid silence, then she pointed ones
more in tate direction of Jobanneeburg,
then waved her hand t,owaids the moon,
which motto elowiy falling towards the
further bills. And they started on their
homeward 1941.
When at loot he oltmbed olowly in at
the window sill, the dawn of a new day
was unrolling itself like bloodstained
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PROLOGUE--CIHAF'iER 1112,
"Starting tonight -Adolphe."
The telegram had thrown tbe Lieb
family into the greatest state of melte-
intent because 'they had, not expected hem
book dor another month at Seast. 01d
Lieb looked grave; he hoped that his son
had not, got into any trouble with the peo-
ple he was staying with; be didn't think
eo, Adolphe was a good boy, but he was
sorry that the young man hankered ee
after Frankfort lila,
Ile will never do anything," he said
to himeelf. He bad all a ee.,P-made mane
horror of a loafer.
f could Chari' a in
Yet his father col detect a g
hie son 'whop he did arrive, an air 01 sum
pressed excitement, a breezy, enthusiastic
lock'which had not 'been there before. He
was -novo manly in his appearance, and
the bronzed look which had begun to
wend over his countenance made hien
decidedly handsomer, dor he wee good•
looking and not aggreesively Semitic In
appearance.
It had been evening when he arrived,
and he epeut a couple of hours nvith rho
whole aeoembled t'aartily, answering Isis
mother's questions, dtotributing the gime
he had brought them to hie siatere,ask-
i.ng questions about their frieode, atbout
Frankfort; but Ilia father, whose busf-
ttete experience had acquainted him with
pllaee0 and expressions of character and
moods, beyond the knowledge of the or-
dinary man, could eee that he obaled at
tate procrastination of something lie had
to tell. He could read the expression on
his sone face almost as if it had 'been hie
o`wn face in the glees, and devoutly hop•
ed that it w'ae not some trouble,
Now Adolphe grew quite absent-minded
while they talked to him, then made an
effort to gather Itis scattered thoughts.
And after dinner his father said to hie
tavo daughters and to his son Wilhelm:
"None children, run away," be always
spoke to theca 0e le they were children
still, and with a Dort of patriarchal nal"
thority en the hearth.
They all .01 up to go, even his mother.
She too had read something in Adolpbes
face,
I'll come dna few moments," he told
his mother, as he held the door open, and
she laid her hand on his nem, looking for
a moment anxiously into hie face -then
he stooped and kissed her. He was excit-
ed, agitated. It does not often fall to the
lot of a young man of five and twenty to
inform hie father that he has found o.
diamond mune.
"Well, •what is it?" His father lit a
cigar at te candle, and sat down again,
look 'i hi son's fa some-
thing
i nott a6 CO G
dda s
n ft imparted
thing of the youth's dxe rdby p
itself to him he could hardly 1011 why.
"I expect you are surprised that I came
back so much earlier, eh, father?"
"Yea -•I suppose you were tired of it, in
those countries where there i0 not much
luxury there le aleo nob much pleasure.
ndt ,much to do for a young man, eh? I
had hoped , . ."
At this moment bis ey00 fell on Adolphe.
He had taken te pocket book from hie in-
ner coat pocket, and was opening it very
cautiously, laying it first ott the table,
then he dt'ety out some small pieces of
dark -looking coaly substance, which his
father know well by sight; then be opree<i
them in front of hie father 'without speak-
ing, planted hie two elbows on the table,
eloeped hie hands and looked at his fa-
ther without speaking.
1110 :tether took up each little piece one
by one, then be laid them down again.
They are good." Then, after a mo.
meet's mimeo: So you are going to -be
your fotter'0 son alter ail, eh?"
"Wait a moment," Adolphe got up
andwent out of the room. And 'while he
wee absent the old man got op and paced
the room with some emotion, (tapping
every nary attd then -with une00ing eyes
to look at, one or the other of the beauti-
ful piettnreet be had collected here and
there, often buying them from sheer good
nature to cavo a starring artist, wee -
atonally taking one in payment dor long
overdue nceounte. And while he walked
no and down, nulenneelouely he thanked
God for this moment, title crowning m10-
ment of his Life, only -with half the glory
of which he was aotivatnted with.
Only thee° who have bad a hobby for
yenta know how dietreesing it ie to find
no sympathy lit one's children. It mat.
tern not if it be <liamondo or bacon, or
the writing of an opera, the only thing
which can make our endeavors have a
little pree0ntm0nt of immortality is if
cur children are to continue it. All our
striving and herd work, all our despair
and aptkmiem, what do these seem, too
long ns w0 see those of our blood ream-
ing the benefit of it? Diamonds -they
had. become part of the Iife of Heinrich
IAA, not only for their worth, for the for-
tune that they brought him, for the in.
tercet, the knowledge, the bard work, the
slow progress. an the gradual suecese,
bnreting forth at last into triumph, but
for themeeteeo he had grown to love
them, 0e a. man loves hie doge, almolt his
children. Ile understood theln he thought,
and in him they spoke a mysterious lan-
guage, darling little swords of colored
tire towards Its heart, audaelone, tbai•
longing.
'1`o be continued.)
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RELICS OF OUR BRUTE PAST.
When Alan i,ivetl Hundreds of
Centuries Ago.
Run your forefinger around the
rim of each dor, You are almost
sure to find in one of them, and
luaquite possibly in 'both, a tiny hard
P.
It is only a relic of the days
when, innlanerable hundreds +of
centuries ago, man leas 111111 one of
the animals of the wild, and had a
pointed ear, like a wolf's or dog's.
What good is the little furrow
that cutis down from the nose to
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the middle of the upper lip? None,
Hut it, too, has a history. It is
a legacy from the time when the
human upper lip was in two parbs-
alhare lip, like that of the rat tribe.
The split has healed up long ago,
but the new skin is so recent in the
history of the race that hair re-
fuses to grow on that furrow.
When a fly settles on you any•
where, can you serenely twitch that
patch of skin and shake him off 7
Probably not, 'but once these e1Nn
muscles, -now almost dead after
centuries of clothes wearing, were
as active as those of a horse. A
few -a very few -people can twitch
their ears like a clog, and do so
instinctively when startled, and
cases do occasionally oeenr in which
the scalp can 'be moved at will.
But, generally speaking, our
skin muscles are even more dead
nowadays than our ear muscles.
We've neglected them. The only
set still in use are those we em-
ploy when we went' to raise our
eyebrows.
The appendix is another thing we
could do quite well without. It is
a relic from old vegetarian days.
It has 'been workless ever since
mankind started eating meat eat-
ing and is apt -Co get in the way.
The large intestine, too, is a
thing we don't need nowadays. The
many coils of this long tube are
kind to the doctors, quite unneces-
sary, now mankind has tbeconi.e a
flesh -eating animal, and merely
provide a resting place for germs.
Surgeons have often cut out a few
old coils and stitched the ends -to-
gether. We don't really need to
carry a great intestine about with
11s.
Another thing we don't steed
much nowadays is the instinct to
walk' on bands and feet together.
You think walking upright the only
natural way for man 1 ' It isn't. If
everyouhave to make your way
along some narrow dank or some
narrow, dizzy mountain ledge, you
will find the old instinct strong in
you.
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King Alphonso of Spain is a gen-
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There are twenty-four clubs ex-
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Australia possesses 1,172 steam-
ers as her mercantile marine.
In Great Britain last year 872,-
220,000 calls were made by tele-
phone.
British troops serving in India.
are +paid by the Indian Govein
ment.
British yeomanry forces were
first instituted by Ford Chatham in
1701.
India contains- at least twenty-
nine .cities with populations ex-
ceeding 100,000.
The earliest record of any life
insurance policy 'bears. the date
June 101311, 1883,
The British Army states, as a
standing 'force, from the Restora-
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Every month a thousand tons of
firewood are sent to the British.
troops in France and Belgium
Ordinary elementary education
n Englund and Wales costs nearly
twenty millions sterling a year.
Each cavalry horse in the British
Army carries 18 stone, allowing
101A stone for the- weight of the
`rider.
The total strength of the Army in
India exceeds 380,000 meta, and
costs about 19X millions annually,
Frankfort -on -the -+Main saw the
signing of. the treaty of peace after
the Franco-Prussian War, on May
10131,, 1871.
Germany numbers among her
population 39,000,000 Protestants,
23,800,000 Roman- Catholics, and
288,000 Ohristians of other deno-
11'-nati0119.
Aeronautics has been recu8nixed
t.s a branch of military instruetdlo
in the British Army, since 1879, when
'balloon school was ,started for
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On the farm
Ifeep Sheep Out -of 'tate Main..
A few days ago, while returning
from out' home town, I was str•udk
by the cad and forsaken a pearaalce
of a flock of sheep su'biedted to a
heating rain, writes Mr, E, Hender-
son,
Their back's were humped' up,
their heads dropping and the 'gen-
eral appearance gave the impres-
sion that 13110y were the victims of
a oarelees and thoughtless fanner.
It is true that the fleece of a'
sheep le quite .long and dense and
in an ordinary rain it is quite im-
probable that the fleece shouldbe-
come thorotghly saturated, but it
is also true that all rains are not
ordinary ones, and we can never
tell juot when one of these -heating,
driving rains will come to canoe
misery to the ewes and loss to the
farmer's pocketbook,
It is at once apparent that the
wet ewe is not one to do the best
for her owner. As long as she is
soaked she will not graze, or if she
does it -will be.'only enough to fur-
nish the actual needs of the body.
This is not,.enough. The breeding
ewe should secure more feed than
maintenance requires if she is to
do well for her owner -she must be
continually gaining in flesh.
Probably the greatest damage re-
sulting to a ewe on account of ter-
rain le the discomfort that %Bowe
the wetting. Think holt unpleas-
ant it is to work in wet McAbee I
How much worse it ie, therefore,
for the ewe who is naburally of a
tender nature, to undergo the die -
comfort resulting from carrying
around a damp fleece. In the sum-
mer time when it is warm it is bad
enough,' but in the winter it is aw-
ful it
The fleece, being very dense,
le days ,before the water will en-
tirely evaporate. Then the greatest
amount of evaporation is caused by
.the heat of .the animals body.
Just try to think of the heat ne-
cessary to evaporate the large
amount of water that a thoroughly
saturated fleece would hold, Many
sheep have caught colds from this
very cause that resulted in inflam-
mation, even 'worse, catarrh.
Rheumatism is often one of the
results and a sheep once the victim
of this disease is of very little '
value.
'What, thea, is the remedy 1 It is
simple. Provide your sheep with
dry shelter close to their pasture.
It need not be a costly barn. A
shed is plenty good enough provid-
ed it is 'watertight, and it need not
be especially warnllif it is only dry.
Care of the Brood Sou'.
As the breeding season ap-
proachee it is necessary to have the
sows in the best of condition. Ani-
mals intended for breeding pur-
1 poses should be matured, not fat-
tened; if immature animals are to
be used at all, they should be at
least eight months old before being
bred.
During pregnancy, sows should
have abundant exercise and a var-
iety of feed. During the winter
months, unless extra care be taken,
brood sows are particularly liable
to lie in their quarters and become
inactive. Effort should be made to
induce them to exercise. This may
he accomplished by having them
travel around the barnyard for
feed, or by housing them some tis-
tanoe from their feeding place, or
by making them root for grain scat-
tered under litter on a barn or shed,
floor.. They should not be given tbo
much of any kind of feed,; If exces-
sively fed, corn is partioularly o1-
jectionlDble.
What Paint Will Do.
Too mnany'farmers have the habit
of putting off the painting until a
house fairly screams for it -and
they perhaps figure that they are
economising. Not so, Good pa',13,
applied at regular intervals not too
far apart, is the true economy in
that is not only actually raises the
value of a /building by improved ap-
pearance, but through preservative
ingredients prevents and arrests
decay. The man who lets his house
become an eyesore in an otherwise
well-h;ept locality should' be taxed
for the heavy damage he is doing to
that community,
The new Pitt River bridge at
Fort Coquitlam is onen; it cost
5800,000.
The arithmetic- lesson that day
had been hard and trying, and naw,
at 'the closing hour, Tommy stood
before the teacher waiting to hear
the results, "Your problem is
wrong," wars the verdict, "You
will have to std after school and
do kb again," Tommy looked at
the aleck. "Tell me, please, haW
much at,m I out?" he asked, `our
aniewed' is too cents short," om'
uiy a hand dived into the pookeb
where his vin t treasured pow -
Mous were stored, ,Stwiftly he set a-
ratted 'two 'penylea from a tlunoh 'of
slrin'tr, , a penknife, comp marbles
and pieces of chalk. ''Z m lli,
hurry," be saki; "if you don't mind
1'11 pay the tiifferenoo."