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SERIAL STORY
DONNA BIG TOP by BOULA
DEGIN REKE TODAY
DONNA GABRIEL and MADELINE SID- BAL who call themselves "The Gabriai Shiers" a traper performers with Renfroe's | elreus. CON DAVID, die animal trainer, še in love with Donna, who regania him mortix an friend. 'Madeline la In love, with Con.
When Madeline's grandfather writon, askin her to apend the week-end an his farm, sha prune Donna to take her blue. The grandfather to bind and DILL SIDDAL, GRAND- Madeline' ection; runs the fang
FATHER SIDDAL ↳ fine, lovable aid man and Donna in ṇabamed of desolving him. In spile of this she enjoys the visit and forty when the me come to lette
CHAPTEN V
The star performers were having luncheon in the cook tent when Donna arrived at the elreus lot. She had missed the parade but was in ample time for the afternoon performance. She dropped her travelling bag in the dressing tent, looked over her wardrobe which had been laid out for her by Ruth, washed some of the cont dust from her face and. thôn Joined! the others.
Madelin was sitting along at the hend of a long table. She entled out airily, H
"Hello" and Donna sat down beside her.
"Well, how did you get along?" "All right. I don't think they suspected anything."
"Still crazy about farm life?"
Donna did not answer,
"How's the good-looking rousin
on further nequaintance ?"
A
10
"I'd be proud and imppy if he were
relative of mine, but I'm too tired
tail about him or anything che." Madeline shrugged her shoulders. "Of course you were bored, pour darling. Has the price of hogs gone up? How many quarts of milk does oh Daisy give now? I suppose the chickens aren't laying well this year, and so much rain is going to the crops: My God, don't I know it all! The
convoraation every same
the Pray And the prayerfully. ers!" She laughed
"I'd rather marry Ned Trafford than go back to n life like that.'
"I hope you've lind sense enough to let Trafford alone while I WAN
es, deny. I have. Your boy friend and I spent the Sabbath together.”
"If you
mean Con, he's not my bay friend. Nothing would please me more than to have him transfer his affections to you."
"I believe you actually mean that," Madeline kald,
"I certainly do."
Ned Trafford was standing near the dressing tent when the two girls
POYNIER
The cage of lions and tigers was holding the centre of the
Arena,
You "No, grimly.
"Oh, he makes me sick! want a scene do you?" she flung at
bar act him. "Well, after the
Is
over you can make a big a scene us you please hit count me out of it! I'm through with you. Now call It
tiny,"
we can't," Donna
retorted
The great gilded cage of lions and tigers and a single, vicious panther was holding the centre of the arena when the two girls stepped into the entrance to wait for the music that She brushed past him into the tent was their cue. Madeline
whose with tha air of a tragedy queen. volatile spirits nothing could crush, Trafford spat viciously, Jammed his hummed softly under her breath, but hands into his pockets and started Donnu was icy cold and tense, with a towards the big tent. Donna called slek premonition she fought hard to after him, "Ned
He paused.
"You made her sore, but she didn't pexy,
all she said. You mustn't take it to heart."
overcome.
make
Rarely did she watch Con's net. When she did she gave him whole- souled admiration for his courage and dexterity, but the thought that some "I know where I stand all right,"day his mangled, lifeless body might he muttered and continued on his be carried out of the ring was al- ways with her. Try As she would way.
was never able to banish the Donna, frowning and far
more she
Con of her father's fate., perturbed than she liked to admit, men
memory
agile emerged into the bright sun followed the other girl to their fires was a young, so magnetic, no arte He was a tall, heavily built man pose
was sitting that the menace he confronted twice sessed of a flurid sort of good looks. sing room. Madeline
before the mirror, rocking with peals daily seemed all the more terrible. His hair, thick and dark and course of
striped "Can laughter.
that? Watching him
huge, you tlo curled tightly about his case-set ears Because I spent the day with Con- beauty cringe before him--a beast
Under and far down on his forehead.
"Shut
whose snarls had brought thrills to Donna rasped: "I hows his eyes were shaggy,
bright warned you! Over
up,"
the hourts of thousands--Donna and over I china blue and penetrating. He
wondered why she had never been sidered himself something of life in
warned you. That man has your able to love him. He was better. Adonis and took great pride in his!
in his bands and-"
looking than Bill Siddnl. He was with women. But Trafford SUCCERS
"Don't be silly!" was a dangerous man, as Donna had "Silly, um 17 What's to prevent clean and fine and belanged to the only world she really knew. Never- warred her partner. Since Madeline screw coming loose while we're in and broken the circus code to flirt the air? Who could prove Trafford theless something about him repellest with him his conceit had convinced I'd rather be in the cage with Cor's A-Donna-contrasted the two..men
hind tampered with the apparatus? her, just as something about
bad drawn her to him. own passion, fired genuinely for the eats than in your shoes right now
Madeline's laugh died abruptly first time, brooked no from another.
con-
-bin-she-wag-it-love-with-hin.—His.
какой
interferee sny that if you were
the best she forgot the ominous presence of convunmalt, scowling at Madeline from a few feet away. could still hear Bill's melifluous She coulding aloust the twenty-third psalm, and the words of enduring
Donna's hands were un- Though incapable of any love ather stendy as smeared cold cream voice
han a schauni, possessive
one, he over her
faco
areno.
was capable of a deep, intense hatred Madeline, with slitted eyes, watch-faith and encouragement beat against and at that moment he hated the ed the other girl put on her make her consciousness as she stepped into slender, dark-eyed girl tripping blithe-up-the
the of coat
KTCB print,
"Ned's looking at is " ly neross the lot. Up to a certain the heavy ochre powder, rouge and said
with a point the affair with the younger then the lengthening of
shiver. "Gosh, the long Gabriel sister and progressed beauti-black lashes with skiiful dubs of
scared! Do you think he" fully, Trafford had visioned himself
us.
Madeline
I'm
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melted black wax. Finally Madeline "Keep your mind on your work," FLOTTE RIUNITE LLOYD, TRIESTINO MARITTIMA ITALIANA-SITMAR
her husband and had not hesitated to said. "Let's tell Nonfroe."
Danna told her. "Ite hasn't had a chance ef his
"And get our notice because you better make your peace with him to do anything but you'd conquest to others. When, Madeline had waved him broke
rules of the show? No, after the show. Say, anything but
at given her attention to the thanks." animal trainer Trafford's affection "But good Lord, it Ned should-oh, bo sure you convince him you weren't had turned to bitterest anger. you're kidding! He'd never do any-playing with him and that you
didn't Throughout the hours she had spent thing that would be a risk to his own mean what you said!"
Trafford at slood in the entrance with Con David the boss canvasman had endured in silence the jibes and aneers of his companians who cordial ly resented and disliked the star per formers-u feeling caused more less by Jonlausy of the performers Ruth, the wild west rider, came into in her soul. Donna fervently hoped በሱ. Madeline needed a lesson if she Lalent. These taunts, augmented by the room. seething jealousy, had bandshed every-. feel kind of sick," Madeline was to continue in this hazardous
precious neck, Tampering with the trapeze would be murder. If any way, a sardonic smile on his thick thing hamend and you, too, ip, when the girls left the arena.
be intended mleht be killed!"
or
to
zenay
"That's what I and.. Hush," as by putting the fear of God
זיי
thing that tended to fineness. Inmonned. "Can't we cut the act until career. Trafford's nature.
At
A wisp of a girl had made him the laughing stock of his crew! one glance from the animal trainer | Muteline had thrown him over, Traf-¦ ford was sture Con David would never f marry her; everyone knew Con was crazy about Donna. Well, he'd show her! Big Ned Trafford would show she couldn't make, a fool of him, The two girls drew nearer
and Trafford moved
obstructing slightly, their entrance to the tent
"Pardon me," Madolino said lightly. Donna gave a little gasp at what she rend in the man's glowering face.
"I want to talk to you." he blod, looking down at Madeline.
"Sorry, but I I can't stop. now, Ned. Got to dress.
"You'll talk." He caught her wrist
her close to
him A cried Donna,* "That's all right, Mina This girl and we have got to come to a showdown. She's been trying to make a monkey out of me and I won't stand for it."
and
*
mum-
Donna.
"Let go my wrist, you bruto!" Madeline gasped. There's no need to try to make a monkey out of you. You're an apt already."
He flung her from him with a onth. "So that's how I smothered stand, is It?
"Yes, that's how you stand. Bo- causo I tried to bo decent to you, did you get the iden in your thick head tint I had a crush on your My God, a crush on you! A canvasman! A common, low-lived workman! And because I wouldn't come at your beck and call you beef all over the Int and make a bigger fool of yourself than you were bofora.”--
"Matoline!" Donna cut in
Travel Chats
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