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In this Royal collection, of which the King is very proud, you will see swords of every conceivable type and form. In one case you will see an old Crusader's blade which laid many a Saracen low in Palestine seven cen- turies ago; and by its side, sheathed in a scablmrd of purple and gold,~_in- laid with diamonds, rubies_. and emer- alds. the sword with which 'Bahadur Siraj slew himself rather than yield to his enemies on the plains of Indore. in Stuart days. with whic did dougl' In this the King swords 01 form. In Crusader' “I will willingly,” agreed Francois, and the two went into the cafe of the hostelery. The “sword of peace" recently pre- sented to King George by 421 Japanese editor is the latest addition to a col- lection which is said to be without a rival in the world. other man, perhaps fifty or even ai The place was quite pretentious, little more, seated at a writing table but little was known of the former oo- in thought. It was a congenial mo- cupants 0f the house‘by those who ment to Francois when the other man then made it their residence. Some took a seat beside him and began talk- time ago it was believed that a Ger- ing. He needed a little companion- man general had made it his head- ship, and he felt that the old chap quarters, ‘but the story was vague. was indeed hospitable when he invited The same man said that from What he Francois to partake of a glass of had learned this Boche had been re- wine. tired after the first year of the war “I will willingly,” agreed FrancoiS, because his rowdy and boisterous wine ._ .1 LL . L._, , , It was a fine afternoon when Fran-f cois arrived at the Gare du Nord in the Belgian capital How things had changed since he last saw the city! He carried his belongings, which were not‘ much, to the same hotel he had stayed: at in more prosperous days when he was a happy young bridegroom; It seemed so long ago! He lugged his' two bags into the hotel and asked for a room. The young man behind the desk, who had been there only since the armistice had been begged for by- Germany. allotted a room to Franâ€" cois, saying that as he was a soldier.’ of France he could have it at old ratesâ€"three francs seventyâ€"five cent- inies a day. Francois was then in a quandfiy as _‘ to what he should do next, and he was é; rolling a cigarette when he saw an- . other man, perhaps fifty or even at little more, seated at a writing table 3 in thought. It was a congenial mo-.< The first chance that Francois ob- tained to leave France was in Janu- ary, 1919, and not having gained any information about Jeanette be pro- ceeded on a special permitâ€"he was a soldier who had won the Medaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerreâ€" to Brussels, having vowed that the rest of his life would be. spent in seeking the German responsible for his daughter's death. - After these stories, Francois, in the thickest of the fray, found satisfaction in ki’xling Germans, praying every time he dug a bayonet into a Boche that he would be spared to aven whatever had happened to his daugh- ter_,_eve_n after the war was ended. wicked temper and trusted that Jeanâ€" ette would let him slay the offspring, but his friends knew that he would be so elated at the sight of his daugh- ter alive that he would bow to any- thing she wished. PART I. La gygne, or bad luck. had followed Francm‘s Lefevre for the Last twenty years and he attributed the constant ill fortune to an opal he had purchasâ€" ed when a youth at a small shop in the Rue de Richelieu, Pails. Yet he still wore the stone in an ir0n ring, that setting having been made while he was saying in the French trenches near Verdun. Since he had bought the opal his wife had died, his business had failed and at the time war start- ed he was earning a meagre income in Lille. It was not long after the’ war that he heard that his daughter Jean- ette. was the victim of a German officer, who, so the story went, after he had lashed and whipped the girl, caused her to be shot as a French. spy. The news came to him in an indirect way from Belgium, where. .it was said, the girl had been incarcer- ated for months in a Brussels house. Some women who had seen Jeanette when she was taken away from Lille believed that the German officer actu- ally was infatuated with the pretty French girl. They had heard a report of Jeanette biting her captor for at- tempting to embrace her. When this was told to Francois, a man of fortyâ€" two, it made his face passion. Still until and after the sig'ninil of the armistice he held out a faint ope that Jeanette might be alive, even if she was the mother of a AQerman’s child. He was a man of grow pale with: An Interesting Peep at the Treasures of the Royal Armoury Here Lhas When the Poliu Took the :Trail to Find Revenge How a French Soldier of Lille Refused to Let the Armistice Foil His Plan to Make a German General Pay in Full for the Torture of His Daughter. By MORDAUNT HALL. firusades by an English kn our King John was ox nu is s a Persian blade, once worn go 2: Cum; mm a. m g; d, encrusted with diamon 5 *ing the inscription, “I' was slay, but in me is mercy”; 5 for near neighbor a scimitar h the Maharajahs c ty deeds in mm a nturies before Clive soil. oubIe-groove s. “I.H.S..” w Sword of Peace 3d sword was taker h knight mercy”; scimitar t Indore :lundred )t throne; and, after disappearing for three. or four centuries, somehow came into the hands of Sivaji, the tree- booter, who with it hewed his way to the Mahratta throne. In a neighboring case we see a scabbard, 'ablaze with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, ,which sheathes a. sabre worn for many a generation by the Rajahs of Mandi. Near to it are a goldâ€"hilted sword, with this inscription in Persian, “There is no saint but Ali, no sword but Zulficar." which, five centuries ago, was held in superstitious awe as the deadliest weapon in the East, against which no, warrior, however brave and skilful, could hope to live; and a mu derolxs weaponâ€"sword and pistol com inedâ€"said to haye been in- vented by the infamous ’Fippoo §ahib. Another sword is the very weapon with which Mir Nureef struck 03 the right .hand of the treacherous brother who had stolen his wife from him dur- ing his absence from the Court of Ak- bar; and this blade, with its hilt of rock-crystal and diamond-studded gold, saw centuries of fighting in India ag, ter it had received its baptism of blood in the Crusades. To this wonderful collection the Japanese sword comes as the first emâ€" parties interferéd with his duties. The saddest report was one 1 “My girl was older,” said the Belâ€" gian. “She must haVe been twenty~ two, a fine strapping girl. But war is ‘war, and now that we are bereft of ‘our daughters we must make the best [of life. You perhaps still have a ,chance of avenging your daughter, but it strikes me as a hopeless one.” “You think it is?” said Francois. l The Belgian pondered, and then ob- ‘serving the intent look upon the iFrenchman’s face, voiced the opinion Ithat perhaps there was a chance. Did [Francois know the name of the Ger- ;man officer?” ,____. -v-..b. They arose arid the Belgian an- nounced that, naturally, Francois Le- fevre could count upon him for any assistance it was in his power to give. With eyes Welling with tears Fran- cois shook the Belgian’s hand and walked slowly out of the hotel, 1bent on looking over the house in the Rue Royale in which Jeanette was said to have been confined for so long. I “So am I,” said Francois, who now that he had met a friend on the first .day of his search for Jeanette believed 1that there must be something in the ‘idea prevalent among some supersti- Etious folk that the opal’s .ill fortune mas often followed by great good for- ‘tune when its power for evil was ‘spent, so Ion-E as it was retained by the same owner. However, not wish- ! ing to own up to a casual acquaintance that he was superstitious, Francois ‘said nothing regarding this belief, but |confined himself to the stories he had lheard about Jeanette. “I do,” said Francois, “but ‘I shall keep that a secrgt‘fqr the_ti§m_e being.” “She was a most beautiful girl on the eve of seventeen when I last saw her in the station at Lille. I remem- ber how she stood, her hair caressed by a breeze and-"a black shawl around her shoulders.” “Mine,” said the Belgian, “was murdered from the skies. She was in Louvain when, as I was told, she was killed either by a bomb from an air- plane or one of the enemy’s shells. It is strange that we should have met, is it not? I am now alone in the world.” The speech was made .in passion, and the Belgian nodded sympathetical- ly. He remained silent for a few m0- ments and then in a husky voice re- marked that it was strange that both of them should have 'lost their daughters. “I am on a strange errand,” replied Francois. “I have come from France to look for my daughter or ,to avenge her death. My heart is filled with hope for revenge, and would to God that I could learn where this German criminal resides in Germany, for his agony would be ended the sooner.” “It is merely a fancy with me, per- haps,” said the Belgian. “And what brin_g-s you to Brussels, if I may ask?’f Francoislooked at him fixedly and observed that neither of them had unusual countenances and that there were probably many men who re- sembled himself and also no end of others who were not unlike the other. “Of course it’s stupid,” declared the Belgian as they sipped their bever- ages, “but I believe I’ve seen you be- fore. ] think ” :xf. peat-A The “daisies” in their lithe bed Beneath the “hawthorne” tree, Know they will grace a May Queen’s head Ere they much older be. Wizard‘s Liniment Cures Garget 1n Cows ,All Brazilian husbands are expected to wear their wedding rings as con- scientiously as their wives, and gen- erally they do so. The ring is a plain gold band, the same as that worn by the wives in Canada. The women in Brazil unanimously are of the opinion that this is about the last word in equality, and it is doubtful if they would exchange the custom for the right to go to the polls. “Spring Memories." Just a farmhouse garden Back in my old ’shire, But to visit it in springtime Is always my desire. The “daffodils” and "ribbon-grass" Are growing side by side, And there you’ll see “sweel William take A "Wallflower" for his bride. And by that path of cockle shells I heard a “prlmrose” whisper That just at dusk, as evening fell A “bluebell” stooped and kissed her. Brazilian Women Wouldn’t Swap That Equality for 'Vote. The women in Brazil have not equal suffrage, but they have an equality with the men of their country which is not enjoyed by their North American sisters, says a Rio de Janeiro des‘ patch. I've learnt to love the “maple” trees Of this Canadian clime, But that old farmhouse garden Still haunts this heart of mine. Then there is marble, which is lime‘ stone that has undergone crystalliza~ tion by volcanic heat Without vol- canoes we should have no amethysts and other gem stones, including the ruby and the diamond. The diamonds of South Africa come from ancient vol- canic “pipes,” in which they were crystallized from carbon by tempera- tures approaching the celestial. The city of Naples is built of lava, an admirable structural material. And for the adornment of buildings and other valuable uses, there are such beautiful stones, of volcanic manufac- ture, as jasper, chalcedony. and porâ€" phyry. The Bible speaks of jasper as of ornamental use in heaven. Sulphur, which is so indispensable for a great variety of purposes, is ex- clusively a volcanic product. Like- wise gypsum, which, in the form of plaster of paris, is a. necessity to sculptors. makers of casts and many other industrial workers. Pumice- stone, deriVed from volcanoes, is used in various arts and crafts. ltold 'by other Belgians to the effect {that this same German had been shot by order of the Kaiser. This, Fran- c’ois sincerely hoped, was not the case, as he felt that desire fer revenge keener every Aday Aherwas alone. Volcanoes are enormous producers of glass, derived (just as we get it) from the melting of quartz rocks. It is a right good quality of glass, too, though black as ink. In Dre-Colum- bian days the aborigines of Mexico and Central America used it for ra- zors and other implements. Our own Indians found it valuable for arrow- heads, immense deposits of it being found in the far West. The pigmy Andaman Islanders. in the Indian Ocean, get their fire from a volcano on one of the islands of that archipelago. A fresh supply is needed only once in a while because they know how to keep it, alive indefinitely in decayed logs. The primitive natives of Tierra del Fuego obtain fire from a like source. There are few things that the in- genuity of man is not able to turn to some useful account. Take volcanoes for example. They sat at dinner together that night and Francois took from his pocket a photograph of Jeanette and showed it to his Belgian friend, whose hand trembled as he gazed at the, pic- ture of the beautiful girl. It affected him. he said, to look at such a picture and know that she. the original, had met such a terrible end. Several Industrial Products Are the Result of Volcanic Heat. “Ah, I have seen so much killing in the last year.” said the old Belgian, “that I would almost prefer to have the man who dropped the bomb or fired the gun which slew my daughter sent to a filthy jail for life.” “And that’s the way/I will kill the murderer of Jeanette," declared Fran- cois. “The soldier may not have me__ap_t i’E gs literally as I do.” He returned to the hotel and related some of the rumors he had heard dur- ing the day to the old Belgian, whom he caused to shudder when he! remark- ed that he had once heard a soldier vow to kill a, Boche by cutting out his heart. WEDDING RINGS FOR MEN. USES FOR VOLCANOES. (To be concluded.) The total trades union membership reported at the end of 1917 was 204, 689 for the Dominion, being comprised in 1,974 local branches of trades union organizations of all types, as stated in the Canada Year Book for 1918. Minard’s Liniment Cures Diphtheria. With Me," were sung. At the conclusion of the service the procession was reformed and again made an impressive progress to the Liverpool Street Station, where the casket was placed on a train and sent to Dovercourt, the home of Captain FryatQ, where the remains will be in- terred in the quiet parish churchyard, All flags which are floating over the public buildings of London in honor of the signing of the treaty of peace were half-masted during the cere- monies. With a naval escort and a band, the procession passed slowly through the crowded streets by way of Trafalgar Square, Northuniberland Avenue, the Thames embankment and Ludgate Hill, arriving at the cathedral at noon. The coffin was hidden under a mass of flowers, among which were many magnificent wreaths from the towns- people and authorities of Bruges and Entwerp. Only the steady tramp of feet and the solemn strains of funeral music broke the silence as the cortege passed through the streets. Memorial ServiCe at St. Paul’s. At the cathedral the, ceremonies were generally a repetition of those in memory of Miss Edith Cavell. The clergy received the body at the west door of the edifice, an orchestra play- ing a funeral march as the coffin was placed in position. The burial service was read and the hymns: “Eternal Father, Strong to Save," and “Abide With Me," were sung. A national tribute of honor was paid on July 8 to‘ the memory of Captain Charles Fryatt. executed by the Ger- mans ln 1916 for attempting to ram a U-boat, by a national memorial service at St‘ Paul's Cathedral, says a London despatch. After lying in state at the Dover station over night, the body ar- rived at Charlng Cross Station at eleven o‘clock. and was placed on a gun carriage drawn by blue jackets. A cortege was formed, headed by re- latives and including representatives of the Admiralty, War Office, other Government departments and all sea- farer's organizations. EMPIRE’S TREBUTE [ TEE (IAN. 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