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\ THE FATE^F AZUMA; Or, The South African Millionaire. CHAPTER XV. "Dear me, what Is all this about? Brr . . rr! 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 out of a larger salon. It pleased her to affect being quite at home In this house, as if she had possessed her- self 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 ber new enthusiasm, everyone envied her, for African millionaires are not to be found every day. I'pstairs, mercifully. I.ady Glaucourt had lorgotten thai she wasn't at home, and was receiving her own friends with some show of cordiality, while â- he occasionally turned towards some acquaintance standing near, whenever the saw anyone approachng whom the Golliugs had insisted on asking, and whom she did not wish to know, more than that, whose presence she wanted your hospitality, for that we are grate- ful, 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 Golling insisted, becoming almost abusive, the other man hud turned and said: "Very well, then, my son will give up that mine, you can buy it of lilui at the price he gave for It." It was a daring offer and one which took the younger Lleb's breath away, but the older man knew what he was about. He knew that the Gollings had not the money to buy the mine, far less to exploit It, and old Golling had given In. What they could never for- give was that he made no further pro- posals, while every few months Adolp'.ie devoted the proceeds of the first mine to buy up another, till every mine worth speaking about, belonged to him, belonged to the firm of Golling and Lleb, while only the control of the first one belonged in any way to Goll- ing. "If you once let them know how to Ignore; for, In her quiet way, Mrs. I many diamonds you have," the older Golling 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 firm and their wives. The Duchess was there, and Lord Eustace, and apparently the party was a suc- cess, and Judith had come to look for the millionaire. Lady Judith's little conspiracy with Mrs. Golling had succeeded and be was them all on the market in order to rea- lize a big fortune, and ihey will ruin the diamond trade. You have enough diamonds now to Bell for three gen- erations, and by that time you will have found other mines." And the old man had been right in here to-nght, but it had needed some every one of his prognostications, and Skull Cap with Iluitw; Hair BruHhe»â€" Latest from Paris. manoeuvring to get hm to promise to at every turn almost, Adolphe Lleb come. He was not offended at not ; had had reason to rejoice at the fact having been asked sooner, but he had that with the other mines Golling, fa- an idea that he wasn't wanted. It had \ ther and son, had nothing to do. As b*en Lady Judith's mission to persuade he had perceived when he had stayed ' called hlni and she crept on to the him that he was. | with them as a boy, they were nel-'^.j^g verandah The luncheon had passed off very ' ther business-like nor scrupulous, and, ..yeg^ yg^ » ^^ gp^j^g ^ umg ,^pj^. pleasantly, enhanced by the presence : the very crisis of Lieb's power lay In tigntly, he was encased in thought, of Johanna and Madame Dufour, who ' the fact of the name for honesty borne impervious to all outer Impressions, while she had been the witness of Ju- by the Lleb's. | "England asks me to do this," he dith's most agonized moments, yet had i "I'd rather see Lieb himself," was murmured, almost aloud, and her dark a personality which smoothed and tlie oft-repeated remark when any , eyes sought his face, tiridged them over, rather than brought business transaction was on foot, and! She pointed to the moon. them to the memory Golling under once or twice Lleb had tried to buy I "Just like that It was the night the Impression left in his mind by , Golling out. He c.ldn'l like the asso- Azuma took you up there." I>ady Glaucourl's words, was a good elation of the name, and because Gol-| She pointed In the direction of the Glaucourt's words, was a good deal ling recognized thr.t it was a source of mine, which lay miles away, a differ- deal more corial than usual to his part- annoyance, even more than because ent place now, with Its machinery, and uer, and Adolphe Lleb 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, Golling had had been ten years ago, and yet be- b«auty. Probably because he was a clung to the original contract and re- cause It had b«en his first, Adolphe Jew, the Madonna presentment pleased fused the mqst alluring offers to be had built his house beneath the sha- him, and because he was an artistic be- 1 displaced. At one time Adolphe had dow of the mountain which sheltered found himself, after his father's death. It. with the two Gollings arraigned He threw away his cigar, walked to against hlin, and without his father's the front of the porch, folded his I clairvoyant Intelligence to guide him. hands behind his back and looked In- More than once ho had just escaped to the night. How much this was due to Golling. ' some nasty situations Invented by| "Yes, Azunia, that was a wonderful how much to the stories set afloat | them to entangle his credit, or sully thing that you did." And then speech about him by his Insistence to please ' his financial reputation, and always. It deserted him. Outside the night seem- himself In the matter of the Katlir wo- seemed to him. It I ad been Azuma who ed to throw Its witchery upon him, man, how much because he himself i^aved hlin. 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 loo great for utterance, analysed. Ail he knew was that for all ried to an English wife, had establish- "What did he say, the white man?" hlfi huge fort\ine he was not having od liimHelf in London three years be- She hated Golling, and Adolphe much of a time. This was the first fore Lleb, in order to spread abroad laughed. year he had spent a season in London, his propaganda of hate. Then a year, lie did not count her inqulsltiveness Hitherto, his visits had been entirely after old Lieb's death, the elder Goll- Impertinence. She always asked him on business, and he had not only met \uf; and his schemes had vanished to- about his affairs, and he could trust the men with whom he did business, â-  gether, in the enfolding arms of death, her, he knew It, above everyone In the ind those of the great who were direct- ami Lleb had found the son, because world. He told her what had passed of tlieir earlier friendship perhaps, a little easier to deal with, at least so it seemed to him. And It had pleased the younger Golling to go about London proclalm- A very chic-looking toque is tibis skull cap of straw by Cora Marsan of Paris. Shadow checked taffeta runs through vertical bands of Btraw, and surmounting the brim are two horae hair brushes set in ornate cups. Ing her beauty satisfied him. Most of all, her simplicity in a city of complica- ; tlons so far as he was concerned, put him at his ease, for London had not ' yet proved the Mecca of his dreams. ] !y or Indirectly concerned with South Africa, with concessions, with com- (unies, with mines. With these he had made a favorable Impression. More 'Jina one had suggested to his wife Jiat Lleb should be asked to dinner, »ut always the ciueKiion arose: "Isn't there something odd. Isn't iiere a black woman living wth him?" »nd only the bravest, or those who 'he would have been (h leeded to be friends with him for their i Then one day Liel) "And he has told you lies, lies "Are they lies?" He turned suddenly. "I will tell you." She drew from her belt a little hag ing that the scheme had been his, and and knelt on the verandah. that If it had not been for a low Jew trick It would be Golling and Golling, Instead of Golling and Lieb, and that richer man. had his eyes )wn purposes asked him to their ! opened by the woman who seemed to lonies. So far he had nearly always i preside over his destiny, the while he been entertained by the "he" of the house at a club. For the last two years ' he had lived at an hotel. Now at last 1 be had his magnificent house in Park | Lane wlikli threw ail the other houses i Into the shade. It was a palace, a pal- 1 ice to which the glaringly white stone | work and the many porches and ter- ! led a life In which she liad so small a piirt. Golling had told lilni that If he would Hnuiice the Janu^soii raid Eng- land would be grateful, that the gov- ernment would recc.gnize his services, the services which, whoever set them on foot, and th(> truth will never b(! And laughing, Adolphe seated him- self on the parapet of the verandah and watched her. How often she had done this and he had laughed, yet al- ways she had been right. And she drew from the bag a quan- tity of little white pebbles, that gleam- ed In the darkness like niarbli.'s, bones she had told him they were of great African chiefs, and the bones of the dead could speak of the future. Always when she did this, she re- minded hlin of the way she had piled up his few coins on lier lap that night and said, "plenty, plenty, very much." And because she had been right that time, because she had established her power of bringing' luck once, she had RED CROSS WORK. What Our Roys nt the Front Most Need. Toronto, June 1.â€" The following official announcement has been made by the National Service Com- mittee :â€" Canadian soldiers at the front need comforts over and above the supplies provided for them by the ness. Government. Letters from the races gave an Oriental aspect, at least 'known till the grave gives up its dead, when the sun shone upon it. What It was the fir.'^t herald of the Hoer war. needed to complete the Illusion was an cioliilig liad come all the way from arid desert stretched behind it. It Is j London to tell liini tliis at bis lovely obtained an ascendancy over his su the want of space for Its buildings villa near .loluinneslinrg, aiul it sei-rn- perstitlousness, so that he had Inter- wliich innkes London so hideous. Hut | pj to hlin nfliT reading letters from woven her image with all his dreams the l;<)iis<' because of its size depressed pcopli" wluisi' names hi' did not know, of wealth and power. Then she stop- him, the silence emphasized by Its dis- ' that It must be true. I ped across the verandah descending toiices; all cnriidors with doors shut: That night remained indelibly im- the steps with her bare feet, with cat- In his face, slaninied it seemed to him, ' prosHcd on Adolphe's mind, the night like, rapid tread, niui began scraping on which amiiitlon had fiauilted her- self In his face, following on the heels of wealtli, and wliispered that if he did tills thing he would he like a king. at the I'lid of them. It would have been mil more for A/.uma, Azuma who loved liini, who would not leave him, who iiad convinced him that divided fruni tier his luck would dt^part. And Ilitlierto It had seemed so. All that helouehed turned to gold, and al On just such a night as this, Azuma had awakened liiiii from slei-p and told him to follow her, and he had the sand from the front pathway over which the liated Golling had trodden. He had seen the perl'orinance so of- I ten, that he never paid any attention wHvs It had been the result of follow- , followed her to the very foot of the Ing Azuma's advice. Azuma who was rainbow, it seemed to him, where he ut once a proplielesK and a sooth.-^ayer, I had found the pot of gold. j Golling had left him but an hour ago in order to sleep at Johannesburg and catch a morning train. I The very fact that lie had come nil yet who had not the least appearance ' of a wllch. Old Helnrlch Lleb was dead now, but as If 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 seeined a lonp. long time since that memorable day when Lleb had foiinil the money for Ills son to corner the diamond mar- ket, it had not been unfraiiplit with Iroiible, tllat great act whicli had-be- conif a matter of epoflji In the history of gigantic llnance. There liad been oppii.sitlon from everyone, most of all perhaps from Golling, from the two Gollings, who because he had treated fliem BO honorably, mistook, over- rated, perhaps the meekness, the ac- quiescence of the Jew. "Vfiii niiist let them," his father had said. "Yes, your father l;t right." His pnr- ftnls' words had clinched the matter. They had lot the Gollings In, but with reservatlouH, and the reservations had constituted A grievance, maddened the 'Qollings. He, Adolphe, owed it to them, they said, that he had found the mine, and old Lleb with firmness and calm had said to them: "My son owes nothing to you except this way merely to spend the day had inipri'S'-ed Mi'b, Lleb who cared noth- ing t(jr London, who had been caught liy the spell of the veldt. | "Why (liiln't you eable me? 1 would | have come, I could liiive seen all these i people," i,lel> had said, and Golling i had given signs of Impatience. I "| "Oh, yon wouldn't have come, 1 man." knew that." I "Why Is It? to ber till she was riMidy. Instead, with a sceptical smile, he lit a cigar. Now slie returned, and laid the little white balls In patterns on the veraii- dali floor just where the moonbeama lay across It, and poured the sand upon them, a littler after the fashion of the sand renders of the desert. Now she took a stick from the corner and beat the floor close to the pebbles and the sand fell into iiuci'r sliapes. Into numbers, as if they had been cunning- ly put together by devising fingers. tTo be continued). , >!• Why He is Dialiked. know why nobody loves And all lliat (iolliiiK had said lliiRer ed around liim while lie could still hear the feet <'f ''.'â- '' horses ringing out on the while road. | It was a giganlli scheme, and yet why did It not seem to Inspire him,' vviij' did he hold back? I England, a gratefnl England,^ crouching nt his feet. At last there , seemed some reason for his wealth,' Homo pur|H)S<», somo goal, a glorious one for all his ambitions. "Haas, Ilans." She still always call- ed him that, although he bad taught] her English and German, and could now at least understand her own lan- "Hecause when anything wrong with the car he can't under to fix It." Heard on (ho Train. "What book is that you reii.d'na, Jioi ?" ' 'Tde Sorrows of Satan.' fat goes crawl front are full of appreciation of the soldiers in the Canadian Contin- gent for comforts sent to them througih the Canadian War Contin- gent Association, of which the Na- tional Service Committee is a re- presenta.tive in Canada. In this connection, an interesting letter has been received by Mrs. Plumptr.', Secretary of the Nation- al Service Committee, from Mr. J. G. Colmer, Hon. Secretary of the C.W.C.A. In the coursie of his letter Mr. Colmer says: â€" "The arrangements of the War Office for the supply of clothing and food to tlie trcK)ps are excellent, and the men are able to get what they require as and when it ifi 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 large and regular supplies of socks and colored handkerchiefs will be wel- comed in addition to the Govern- ment supplies, for reastms 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 : Tob.oc- co, pipes, cigarettes, niaU^hes, soap, c<H()ji, cake, toilet paper, writing paper, bmitlaces, bachelor butt'ons, insect powder, games, boxing gloves, football, and baseball out- fits, magazines, IxMvks, newspapers. "While we siliall no doubt receive regitlar suiiplies of socks from Can- ada through the g<Kid offices of the National Service Committee and others," continues Mr. Colmer, "money will also be very useful to use f<vr the purchase of the «>ther articles that have been specified and enable requirements of the kind to be supplied promptly an<l regularly. "I may tell you that we are in daily communication with the offi- cers commanding the different units, fhey .let im know regularly what articles they would liJie to have, and we sent out consign- ments several times a week, and will continue to do so as far as our resources will permit. Everything we »end out to France is addressed to tihe officer* commanding, and is distributed iby the Quartermaster or some other officer to the men as the cases or bales are received. "We are receiving," concludes Mr. Colmer, "the niost cordial co- operation from the military for- warding officers, both on this side and in France, and considering everything, the transporation ser- vice is being performed splendidly. There is some delay of course in the conveyance and in the delivery of our consignments, but it is a marvel to all of us that it is done so well, and our ^hipment« 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 St. John's Am- bulance A.=sociation. 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 aji earlier date one doctor was in charge of this camp, hut he is now struck down with typhus and various forms of infectious malady are raging un- checked. Typihus, dysentery, smaJl- 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." There they lie in utter wretched- Here and there one finds a mattress, here and there a little straw, but the bulk of the sick men are 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 wlien the grip of typhus or enteric has fastened upon him the Austrian takes his chance with the rest, and this chance is feometimes a sorry one. Since th-e commencement of the war 63 Serbian doctors have died in the course of their unequal strug- gle with disease. One young mmi of 23, a metlical student, died re- cently. .\nother Serbian doctor recently died of typhus, and as he was being buried his young wife died at home of the same dread iiiala<Iy. 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 soreily needed, and those may be sent to 77 King Street East, Toronto, whence they will be ft^rwarded to Lady Boyle, who is in charge of the Serbian Red Cross Society in the absence of Madame Grouitch in the United States. Donations for the Serbian Relief Fund may be sent to Sir Mward Boyle, Bart., 63 Queen's Gate, London, S.W., Eng- land. And many a man who is capable of giving good advice isn't capable of earning his salt. More than half a Century of QucJity is behind every package of BENSON'S Com Starch Always order by the name BENSON'S in order to get what you want ».T.BDISW4Ca'S PREPARED CORN Practically every grocer in Canada has BENSON'S. Why Yeast Is Needed. Why is yeast used in bread I 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 ;« 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- capse causes the dough to rise and make bread light. The holes in the bread are the little pocketa which held the car- bonic acid gas. The effect oi the bubbles is to lift the body of dough so that the heat can penetrate readily and bake it properly. How Microbes Sour Milk. If it were possible to keep milk from the air it would not turn 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 th» milk sour? you ask. 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