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SORRELL AND JIM.
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(Author of "Gladys the Flower Girl," etc.)
In was evening, and many flaring parafin torches lit up the large oirous tout with a brilliant blaze; As the band struck up's waltz the ourtains at the performers* · entrance parted, and a handsome white horse cantered into the arena. On his broad sleek back rode a dainty girl, dressed in a low- necked bodies and short fluffy skirt of pale pink. The horse, knowing his work thoroughtly, cantered steadily round and round on the soft sawdust, while the girl danced, sat, or stood, or performed many clever tricks, as she rode him without saddle .or reins. Through paper loops over red, white, and blue ribbons, or wreathe of gandy coloured flowers, jumped the girl, her golden hair flying loosely behind her, a smíte on her little red lips, but her deep blue eyes fixed earnestly on her horse.
"I must go in, Sorroll. Don't worry," cried Jim, kissing her anxious little face. Sorroll hung frantically on to him, and tried to prevent his mounting. "Nill can't hurt me in the ring, dear. Now don't you worry, I'll take care of myself for your sake," and, pushing her firmly but gently aside, he disappeared into the large tent.
Sorrell was not at all happy. She lingered Jim's re- about the exit, longing for the applause, then with anxiety to the thud appearance. She listened with pleasure to
of the horse's hoof.
Suddenly her quick cars caught a subdued murmur, followed by shouts.
She rushed into the tent, in time to soo Jim rise out of the audience, apparently unburt, white in the ring lay his saddle, with both its girths torn in two. Borrall took it all in at a glance, and Jim's'acebunt after- wards only confirmed her opinion.
"I was riding round quite slowly," he said. "I jumped off, and took a leap straight on to the saddle, when it slipped from under my feet, the girths having given way, and I took a header into the audience. Fortunately, I fell among men, who broko my fall by catching me, and also saved their own necks. But how white you are, Borrell; there is nothing to worry about. It's all over now, and no one hurt in the least.” #That's where you are mistaken, Jim," cried Sorrell; "it is only just begun.. Don't you remember what I said before you went in? Oh I know it's Bill's doing. The coward! I wish I was a man, and could fight him. Bill will kill you, Jim I he will. Don't let him. Oh i dna't let him,
The tent was crowded, and the applause unstinted. It could easily be seen that the fair equestrienne was a popular favourite. She smiled and kissed her small white hands to the audience as the shouts of applause reached her ears; then, her performance over, she guided her mount out of the ring, through the opening in the canvas, into the field beyond. Here she sprang to the ground, hastened away, and lifting the flap of a small tent, disappeared from view.
At a table in the centre of the tent, three men, and a woman rebed as "Britannia," were playing with a dirty dog-cared pack of cards. The table, which was old and black-she cried wildly. ened with use, had lost ane of its logs in the many journeys of the company, and was kept upright by a rough stake, which had been nailed firmly, but clumsily, through the shining surface.
The girl now sat down and watched, the players.
"How's the place filled, Sorrell?" inquired Tom, the dog-trainer to the circus.
"Full, answered Sorrell gaily, resting her olbow on the corner of the table, and vory enthusiastic, too."
"Come, Sorrell," said Jim tenderly, "you are tired; come to your van for a bit, till you feel calmer."
Sorrell left the tent furious and terribly upset, and it was all Jim could do to quiet her, and prevent her openly denouncing Bill,
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A few months later, Sorrell, having_no-
thing to do, sat quietly at her caravan door locking out over the country and wishing she was independent of the show and her own mistress. Bill Watson had made no more attempts as yet to injure Jim, but Sorrell felt he was only a slumbering, volcano await-
Tom, with a nod of approval, played the ace and gathered up the cards. With a growl Bill Watson, his opponent, flung being his opportunity. on the table. He had been losing all along, and this always affected his fiory temper. He thrust his seat aside, and with a pullen expression on his face slouched towards the
door.
Why does Fred keep such a man?" asked Sorrell. Nobody likes him, and many hato him. He drinks fearfully, too, and will do some serious mischief some day, I'm cer- tain."
Don't mind him, Sorrell girl," said the eldest of the players, an old man with gray bair. He was called Daddy, by the younger members of tho show; and it was he who had found Sorrell twelve years ago, a tiny mite; lost in the streets of the town they were visiting. No one had claimed the child, so Sorrell had grown up among the circus children, sharing their games and their work, but as she grew older her tastes and ideas differed widely from those of her pro testors, and she would often slip away where she could be alone, and wonder. who she was and if she would ever find out her true name and station.
The only one who really scented to under. stand her was. Jim Carton, who played the jockey. He joined, the circus about a year hafore, at a large manufacturing town, Cartoni was practically penniless, and on his last legs, when he met Fred Smith, the proprietor of the show, and accepted his
offer.
A firm friendship had sprung up between Jim and Sorrell, and on the man's side was fast ripening into love.. Jim would have left the show when he had saved enough money to do so, but his admiration for Sorrell kept him by her side.
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Do & warm summer day, the morning performance was over, and Sorrell, in a picturesque, gipsy dress, was sitting idly on her caravan steps, when Jim the jockey appeared....
He seated himself by Sorrell's side as she mored to make room for him. They did not talk much, and after a while relapsed into silence. At length Jim spoke.
A
Sorrell," he said, "I want to ask you a question. May I 223.
Sorrell looked up shyly, and murmured, "What is it, Jim???
Encouraged by her tone, Jim drew her to him and said passionately, "Sorrell, you know that I love you above everything; I can never be happy unless you love me toe, and will marry me. Will you. Sorrell he added cagerly, his eyes searching her face to read her answer.
"Oh, Jim I do love you, cried Sorrell, but I really can't marry you." "Why, what do you mean? cried Jim in astonishment.
"I daren't, Jim," replied Sorrell, looking cautiously round.
"Daren't !" asked Jim bewildered. What can you be afraid of, dear?" "Of Bill, faltered Sorrell. "I don't like the threats, be made when I refused to listen to him last week... He said if I didn't marry him, I shouldn't marry, anyone?"
"Why, how absurd. You've quite fright- ened yourself, Sorrell," said Jim gaily You're all trembling. Our. Bill's too much of a coward to raise a finger against a man like me.**
"Not openly, perhaps," replied Sorrell, still unconvinced, but there are so many ways. I daren't, Jim! I really deren't!''
I tell you what, Sorrell, we'll keep it a secret. No one shall know about it till we are rich enough to go away together. There, that will satisfy you, won't it, darling?" said Jim triumphantly, and as Sorrell made no effort to stop him. Jim took an old-fashioned ring from his own finger and slipped it on to bor dainty one
Their opportunities for seeing one anothor alone were few and far between, but they were both thoroughly happy knowing that they belonged to each other.
One day Jim was preparing to enter the ring for the afternoon's performance, his horse ready saddled by his side, when Sorrell rushed excitedly up to him.
Jim, she cried. Oh, wait a minute. Don't go in to-day” she added," as "she reached his sido. I know something will happen to you, Bill swore he'd do for you, this morning when I refused to listen to him again. He knows our cooret, but how he found out I don't know. Do get your things and leave this horrid circus before he can do anything to harm you.";
As she guard out over the heather and pine trees a horse and its rider came slowly over the brow of the hill. When they neared the encampment Sorrell could distinguish that the rider was a remarkable pretty girl in a neat black habit, and the horse a well- bred; handsome bay, which cantered gently along the common edge towards the high road. The horse, as, it approached the camp, caught sight of the donkeys, aud swerved so suddenly that the girl was un- seated and flung heavily on the turf. horse, free of its burden, ran off down the lane.
The
Soroll sprang up, crossed the road, and wes soon by the girl's side, and raising her head from the ground. She whistled shrilly, and, brought several of the ripsies to her side, Mrs. Smith among them.
The rider's hat had fallen off, and her, long, golden hair hung loosely over her shoulders. A small. cut on her forehead was bleeding freely but no serious harm had been done as far as they could tell... Sorrell bathed the cut with her handkerchief soaked in fresh water which one of the children had time before their efforts wore rewarded by bright from the spring, but it was some the opening of two clear brown eyes.
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“Where am I?” the girl asked faintly. "Don't worry, miss," said Mrs. Smith, you're all right now, only a bit shaky and bruised-like, I dare say. "Will you tell me your name, then we could send to your friends?"
"I'm Lady Mary Dalton, and staying with my friends at Rudford Hall. If you let them know they will send a carriage for me, for I don't think I'd better ride back,'!
Sorrell crossed over to a group of gipsies
sented round the camp fire, and one of them koon detached himself from the group, and, saddling a horse, rode off to the Hall.
When Sorrell returned to Lady Mary's sido she was greatly surprised to see Jim standing beside the injured girl, in earnest conversation, holding the runway horse by the bridle, his face aglow with pleasure. A pang of jealousy flashed through: Sorrell's the pair. heart, but she quickly stifled it and joined
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and Lady Mary was borne quickly away, a *** The carriage from the Hall soon arrived, groom who had ridden up on the carriage The circus was stopping a week on the mounting her horse and riding after it.
common. They had been there three days now, and. Sorrell had been worried the last two days by Jim's absence from the camp after the evening performance.
Tonight for the third time, he had ridden off without saying where he was going, and Sorrell would not ask him. She began to feel uneasy. Where did he go? Bad his rides anything to do with Lady Mary?
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