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4f GREENMANTLE BY JOHN BUCHAN. (Copyrighted Thomaa Nelson and Sons. Ltd.) CHAPTER IV. (Cont'd.) . The man at the table was speaking. ' We looked very glum and sullen. "A pair of dumb dogs," he cried. NURSES The Toronto Hospital for Incur- ablea, In affiliation with Bellevue and Allied IlPf.piU.ls. New York City. nfivm a thrna yeara' Course of Train- ing to young women, having the re- quired education, and desirous of be- coming nurses. This iloxpltal has o<lo|)td the sight-hour ystem. Tho pupils receive uniforms of the School, a monthly allowance and travelling exprnaei to and from New York. For furthpr Information apply to the Superintendent. Woman's Sphere I took him to be a civilian official of j "A thousand Bradenburgs would have of knowing no German, and, if you orts, pretty high up from his sur- ; won in a fortnight, Seitz hadn't much understand a language well, it is not roundinga, perhaps an Under-Secre- j to boast of, mostly clerks and farm- very easy when you are interrupted tary. His Dutch was slow and care- ers and half-castes, and no soldier not to show that you know it, either ful t but good too good for Peter. He worth the name to lead them, but It by a direct answer, or by referring to had a paper before him and was ask- took Botha and Smuts and a dozen the interruption in what you say next. ing us questions from it. They did generals to hunt him down. But Mar- 1 had to be always on my guard, and not amount to much, being pretty well Itz!" His scorn came like a gust of yet it was up to me to be very persu- a repetition of those Zorn had asked wind. asive and convince these fellows that us at the frontier. I answered fluent-! "Maritz did all the fighting there I would be useful. Somehow or other At any I had to e t ' n *' their confidence. " ly, for I had all our lies by heart. I wn s," said Peter sulkily. ..., Then the man on the hearthrug ra t e he wasn't afraid of the sight of "* have keen for years up and down broke in. "I'll talk to them, Excel- khaki like your lot." .in Africa Uganda and the Congo lency," he said in German. "You are "Mavbe he wasn't" an id the o-ionr and tne Upper *f-le. I know the waysi too aciidcmic for these outland swine." in _ M * * " w? m,vho h t fw. of the Kaffir as no Englishman does.; He began in the too/, with the thick ,"":.. , ?_ ?{.,,.' ma / DC "J? " aa " 3 We Afrikanders see into the black guttural accent that you get in Ger- have alwavs a feather bed to fnllTn mun>s heart > and thou K h he ma y hate man South West "You have heard You C an alwav/turn trnTnr MiriS us he does our will. You Germans of me," he said. "I am the Colonel now htoJjf Robinson -ind I has a Bre like tne En S Iisn ; vou ure too &'**: von Stumm who fought the Hereros." npn _.- nT1 <__, ',- . , T,'A._ folk to understand plain men. 'Civil-; Peter pricked up his ears. " Jft> P^onf'-oni his friend Botha. i to/ you cry. 'Educate/ say the Eng-! Baas, you cut off the chief Baviaan's ^ V ,? aia ^ eter > ls a ver y lish. The black man obeys and puts head and sent it in pickle about the ownnea lie. iaway his gods, but he worships them! country. I have seen it" "I asked for information," said all the time in his soul. We must get The big man laughed. "You see I Stumm with a sudden politeness. "But his gods on our side, and then he will am not forgotten," he said to his that is all past and done with. Maritz move mountains. We must do as John : friend, and then to us: "So I treat matters no more than your old Cronjes Laputa did with Sheba's necklace." my enemies, and so will Germany and Krugers. The show is over, and i "That's all in the air," said Stumm, treat hers. You, too, if you fail me you are looking for safety. For a new but he did not laugh. by a fraction of an inch." And he master perhaps? But, man, what can j "It is sober common sense," I said, j laughed loud again. you bring? What can you offer? You "But you must begin at the right end. There was something horrible in and your Dutch are lying in the dust ] First find the race that fears its that boisterousntss. Peter was watch- 1 with the yoke on your necks. The Pre- j priests. It is waiting for you the 1 !ng him from below his eyelids, as I : toria lawyers have talked you round. ' Mussulmans of Somaliland and the' have seen him watch a lion about to You see that map," and he pointed to ' Abyssinian border and the Blue and charge. a big one on the wall. "South Africa ; White Nile. They would be like dried He flung himself on a chair, put is colored green. Not red for the grasses to catch fire if you used thej his elbows on the table, and thrust his English, or yellow for the Germans, flint and steel of their religion Look face forward. ! Some day it will be yellow, but for a I what the English suffered from a I on have come from a damned little it will be green the color of crazy Mullah who ruled only a dozen muddled show. If I had Maritz in my neutrals, of nothings, of boys and villages. Once get the flames going power 1 would have him flogged at a young ladies and chicken-hearts.'' wagon's md. Fools and pig-dogs, | I kept wondering what he was play- they had the game in their hands and ing at. they flung it away. We could have I Then he and they will lick up the pagans of the west and south. That is the way raised a fire that would have burned the English in_to UTC s t a, nnd for lack of fuel they let It die down. Then they try to fan it when the ashes are cold." He rolled a paper pellet and flicked of Africa. How many thousands, fixed his eyes on Peter, ; think you, were in the Mahdi's army "What do you come here for? The 'who never heard of the Prophet till game's up irr your own country. What they saw the black flags of the Emirs can you offer us Germans? If we ! going into battle?" gave you ten million marks and sent] Stumm was smiling. He turned his you back you could do nothing. Stir'fuce to the official and spoke with his up a village row, perhaps, and shoot a hand over his mouth, but I caught his U.\ , ' (/m. T 1 1 I I ** WTWi 1110 IIIUUlll, UUL 1 CaUKlIb "o into the nlr. That is what I think | policeman. South Africa is counted words. They were: "This is the man of your idiot general," he said, "and of all you Dutch. As slow ns n fat vrow nnd as greedy as an nasvogel." wonderf cleansing fo hands, faces a out in this war. Botha is a clcverish , for Hilda." The other pursed his lips man and has beaten you calves'-heiuls of rebels. Can you deny it?" Peter couldn't. He was terribly hon- est in some thing*, and these were for certain his opinions. "No," he said, "that is true, Baas." "Then what in God's name can you do?" shouted Stumm. Peter mumbled some foolishness about nobbling Angola for Germany and starting a revolution among the and looked a little scared. Stumm rang a bell and the lieuten- ant came in and clicked his heels. He nodded towards Peter. "Take this man away with you. We have done' with him. The other fellow will fol- low presently." Peter went out with a puzzled face and Stumm turned to me. "You are a dreamer, Brandt," he said. "But I do not reject you on that natives. Stumm flung up his arms account. Dreams sometimes come and cursed, and the Under-Secretary true, when an army follows the vision- 1 laughed. It was high time for me to chip in. I was beginning to see the kind of fel- low this Stumm was, and as he talked I thought of my mission, which had got overlaid by my Hoer past. It look- ed as if h might be useful. "Let me speak," I said. "My friend nry. Rut who is going to kindle the flame?" "You," I said. "Whut the devil do you mean?" he asked. "That is your part. BLOOD PRESSURE. So much has been written in popular articles about blood pressure by which is usually meant high blood pressure that the term has become a regular bugaboo. If a person is told he has high blood pressure, he imme- diately conjures up visions of heart disease or apoplexy, and his life is embittered with the fear that it is soon to end. If a little more were known of the causes and consequences of high blood pressure, perhaps the condition would excite less apprehen- sion. Increased blood pressure may come from a variety of causes, which are associated with one of the following conditions: obstruction to the flow of blood in the minute blood vessels; spasm of the larger blood vessels; increased volume of the blood; in- creased action of the heart. Any or all of these conditions may be owing to disease; more often they are just temporary. Thus the diameter of the blood vessels, influencing the pressure within them, is changing constantly under varying mechanical or emo- tional conditions. Often the mere fact that the blood pressure is being mea- sured will in a nervous person cause it to rise; and it is onry after such a person has been examined many times that the doctor can determine j the true degree of pressure. Exercise' such as walking to the doctor's office, especially on a cold or windy way or soon after a moal, will have the same! effect. Fear, elation, mental depres- j sion, in fact any strong emotion, I will cause a temporary rise or fall in | blood pressure; and as a result ofj overeating or of an excessive meat| diet or even of habitually drinking [ too much water there will be an in- crease in pressure that will persist ns long as such unhygienic habits are continued. . All those causes are either temper- j ary or easily remediable, and cases of i that kind constitute the majority ofj those found on first examination. On ' the other hand there are of course dis- ( eases such ax Bright's disease, arterio- ; sclerosis and diabetes in which high blood pressure is a symptom of seri- ous import, but even then it is not the ; blood pressure thnt is serious, but the underlying disease. If the disease' can be cured, the high blood pressure \ must be regarded as conservative, en- 1 abling the circulation to go on in spite of the obstacles that the disorder has put in its way. 'visit relatives, and an aunt took him with a gay group of young cousins to a circus that had three rings, j Benny's circus had had but one. Bobby on his return enjoyed one, glorious and exultant week of bossing | Benny, and then he came down withj measles ; and, though the case was so light that he hardly felt sick, he was i informed that he would be housed for I some time and kept away from the other children. The family feared that he would accept the decision only with protest and tears; but they were mistaken. It was his grandmother that had broken the news to him; and he ans- wered after only a short pause, adapt- , ing one of the old lady's phrases that he had picked up : "Well, gran'ma, it's a sore affliction, but strength has been ', given me to endure it. I can keep ! remembering hard my circus had three rings 1" I After Every Afol WRKLEYS THAT HEAVY CAKE. The bride's first cake didn't disap- pear particularly fast, so she threw it into the duckyard. After an hour or so there came a loud knocking at the kitchen door. It was a horrified little girl. "Well?" said the woman. "Your ducks have sunk," gasped the little girl. Chew your food well, then use WRIGLEY'S to aid digestion. It also keeps the teeth clean, breath sweet, appetite keen. The Great Canadian Swtetmeat Mlnard'c Liniment for Corni and Wart, You are the cleverest people in the world. You hnvo already half the Mussulman is u great huntur, but he fights better lands in your power. It is for you than he talks. Ho is no politician.! to show us how to kindle a holy war, You speak truth. South Africa is a (for clearly you have the secret of it. closed door for the present, and the , Never fear but wo will carry out your key to it is elsewhere. Here in Kur-j order." ope, and in the East, and in other! "Wo have no secret," he said short- 1 parts of Africa. We have come to ly, and glanced at the official, who help you to find thu koy." Stumm was listening. "Go on, my lit Hi- Boer. It will be a new thing to hear a tuakhitnr on world-politics." "You are fighting," I said, "in Knst Africa; and soon you may fight in F.gypt. All the east coast north of the Zambesi will be your battle- ground. The English run about the world with little expeditions. I do not know where the places are, though I rend of them in the papers. But I know my Africa. You want to beat thrm here in Kuropc nnd on the seas. Therefore, like wise genernls, you try to divide them and have them scatter- ed throughout the globe while you stick at home. That is your "A second Fulkenhayn," .Stumm, laughing. "Well, England will not let East stared out of the window. I dropped hy jaw and looked the| picture of disappointment. "I do not; believe you," I said slowly. "You play I a gumo with mo. I have not como' six thousand miles to be made a fool of." "Discipline, by God," Stumm cried.! "This is none of your ragged com- ' mamloH." In two strides he was above me and hud lifted me out of my seat, i His great hands clutched my shoul- ders and his thumbs gouged my arm- pits. I fult as if I were in the gr\p of a big ape. Then very slowly he shook me BO that my teeth seemed loosened and my head swam. He let me go and I dropped limply back in RESIGNED. Bobby nnd Benny were respectively the sons of the one doctor and the one i lawyer of a small, remote and ex-j trcmely quiet little community. They were next-door neighbors, constant; playmates and devoted chums. They [ never quarreled; nor did one seem to dominate the other; they wore equals in the pursuit of happiness. Then Benny visited an uncle In a larger town and was taken to the circus and all was changed. An a man of the world who had visited far regions and hail seen strange sights he asserted a leader- ship that Bobby did not question, but neither did he enjoy. Some weeks later he in his turn went away to the chair. "Now go! that I am your master. Futsiickl And remember _ I, Ulric von Africa go. She fears for Egypt and i Stumm. who owns you as a Knfflr Hhe fears too for India. If you press owns his mongrel. Germany mny have her there she will send armies and some use for you, my " more armies till nho is so weak In Kuropo that a child cun crush her. Thnt Is England's way. She cares some use for you, my friend, when you fear me as you never feared your Cod." As 1 walked dizzily away the big more for her Kmpire than for what man was smiling in his horrible way may happen to her allies. So I say and that little official was blinking I | press and still press there, de.stroy the nnd smiling too. I had struck H dash- J I railway to the Lakes, burn her capital, ' ed queer country, so queer thnt I had' pen up every Knglishnmn in Mom- ' had no time to remomber that for tho Island. At this moment it is first time in mv life I had been bul- lied without hitting back. When I rcali/.e.d it 1 nearly choked with linger. .insa worth for lands." you a moment thousand Dumara- Tho man was really interested and the Undcr-Secretary too pricked up But I thanked Ilenvon I had shown no temper, for I remembered my mis- SMART'S The Mower uaranteed The material] from which imairj Mown are made * <h*way they are made guarantee durable and satisfactory serrlce. IkllNMeiMMm JAME SMART PLANT MOCKVIUI (XT. bin cnrs. I H |on. Luck .seemed to havo brought me "Wo can keep our territory," Raid Into uapful company, tho former; "but for pressing, how (To be continued.) thi> devil arc we to press? The ac- cursed English hold t.n flen. We cnn- not Hhip men or guns there. South nre thu PortuKiic.il' nnd west the Medians. 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