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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1935.
SERIAL STORY:
DONNA BIG TOP-
HEGIN HERE TO-DAY
DONNA GABRIEL MADELINE SID
""The Galisel DAL who call themanives Blater" are trapeze performen with Hedfroe's Fircus. CON DAVID, the animal trainer, a in love with Danns who regards him merely as a friend. Stadeline, in love with Can has been Birtles with NED TRAFFORD, bow ennysamih.
When Madrine's grandfather, AMOS SID-
•DAL, ngka her to spend the week-end on his Jarm sho porades Donna to take her place. Bonna ja much attracted by BILL SUDAL, Madeline's musin.
Two weeks Inter Donna falls from the tropez and taken to hospital, atly Infured. Madeline ends word 'to Bl that "Mmielino in l. She leaves note telling Ikone to continue the impersonation unti whe ip welt. Then Madeline goes on with the elre.
Bill arrives and tells Donna that as soỚN zah etrong enough he is doing to take her. to the farm
CHAPTER IX
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"Twouldn't surprise me never saw hide nor hair of Bill Siddaj again," Mr. Panter suid, empha Bizing her words by planking a wish of string beans boned with bacon on the table before her son. Nub Planter, a tall, raw-boned, angular man of 40, had taken Bil's pince after the young man's hanty departure. Nub was thoroughly enjoying the three square meals a day that went with the job. Usually he had to scratch" for one meal.
He grinned slyly, exposing to- A cavity teeth and baeco-stained
where two molars were
missing.
"That'd sult you proper, old Indy, ch? With that young upstart out-a
about do an tho
way you'd please with the old geezer,
Tain't fittin'
that way to your
Huh?" you to talk An" retorted his
by BEULAYNIER
Nub grinned slyly, "With that young upstart outa the way," he anid, "you'd about do as you please with the old guezer, huh?"
but she smirked like a school but never did he say the one thing, the other girl! She could not ask anyone else to put down the questions Siddal is right fond, that was foremost in his mind.
that were puzzling her and it would be weeks before Donna could use her right hand.
Two short, cheerful notes had come from Madeline but they contained al- was nothing most no news. There
mind, the about Madeline's state of reference to the deception she had real cause of the accident, or forced on her partner. The notes speak
any
mother: As girl. of me, if I do say it myself. And Each day while Donna waited for sometimes it's better for ail concerned him she rehearsed in her mind just for all folks to marry than to be what she would say. She made an beholden on their kin. That stuck-effort to remember everything Made- up circus piece ain't ever goin to line had said about her struggle to bother with him and f Bul don't secure her first engagement; her acute show up again I reckon Amos will embarrassment when she appeared appreciate, what a good friend I've for the first time in lights: the long, been to him."
arduous hours of rehearsal as
and "Friend! I reckon you've been chorus
the tiresome round girl;
cak of Con David. He had a new paid and paid plenty for everything of agents' offices, only to hear
over
cat-a huge, untrained tiger that was you've done. You're too Amart and over, "Nothing doing to-day." a besuty. Con was taking Modeline
enough woman not to it everything that's She could describe easily
to dinner almost every night now. between
Madeline and comin' to you. Listen, Mom, if you the meeting
or someone write to me," indeline do hitch up with the old man, what herself that had led up to the forud Bill arrived yet? "Do have bill
Describ- are you gon' lo do for me?"
mation of their serial act.
"I'm frantic for news." The day Bill agnounced to Donna Planter scowled. Since bang life in the circus was easy, too.
and She dwelt at great length on spoiled her son, destined
b. Air, whe
the
had from birth rivist metent cork of circus performers that they would depart for the larm:
want
Bro
sensible.
on the morrow she summoned courage to ask him to write a letter for her.
Her voice was low and strained as she delated:
arc
10 b a ne'er-do-well and all-around and explained why it is necessary.
"Maybe checus people aren't rapscallion. Though she adored him (the
only persun
sun the ever ind loved) pood, Bill, but they she knew him to be untrustworthy. A girl can't be having affairs and My dear Donna:--Bill and I She knew, too, that if the management keep a clear head. Cocktails and leaving for the farm to-morrow. I
accidents of the farm were left to Nub these wild parties would make
have lo
stretcher and Ko on never abundant neres would soon be in the so common that they could
understand they will have to shove performance hands of receivers and she herself keep
schedule. the
it through the car window to get me
good to reduced to the poverty she had known Family life in the clean life, so circus inside the be before Atmos Siddal hired her as
families with their out of the hospital. They have been housekeeper.
"We'll cross no bridges until we
"And yet in spite of everything very kind to the here and my bones have healed qulekly, but being in Led come to 'em," she muttered.
accidents do happen," Bill said.
so long is pretty hard for anyone as Yes. We play with death all the active as I have always been. me and when we Lime
get too fearless "Bill has been marvellous. I'ni something happens."
Aside from strange people
what she told about her sure the farm will he lovely now.
Don't
you wish you were out in the bow-tie genist voice he called a greeting interested Bill most. He thought it country --Cau'l-you-come-later?
Grandfather Siddal would love La Grandfather Siddal.
auch horrible that
monstrosities
have That
Lem?" the aged man should be exhibited to the pulle and
writing this for ne. The answered.
ག are you?"
felt they should be cared fur by the
right wing is still incapacitated but ean use it I'll write to you when "Why, they re happy,
The rural delivery postman, driv ing a shining new car, appeared at the-bend-of-the-road-In-n lusty,
Jojow
"Letter for Grundpop. Seems
you,
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you're gettin' a right smart lot ore. Donnn did not agree. ↑ mean myself. Meanwhile.be good and be
mnil these days. How's your grand happier earning a living than they careful. daughter that's with the circus?" could be any other way. Most of sny.
Pine, Lem. Jest fine."
Lem sprang from the car, sprint-ever think of their afflictions, and discovers what a lovely minx
el the letter to the old man.
ed up the tree-shaded path and hand make
"Want
never
He his
How is the net? You didn't hope Con comes to his sensca them They ve
have a separate life from us.
pau Bre. love me their fortunes and and have chil-
"Your loving partner, Madeline," Bill addressed the envelope with
Donna. I should read it to you, Grandpop?" retire and unless their abnormality out direction from
asked
is caused
dicense caused by
carried a little route card in "If you'd be sa good, Leni," "It's from Bill. I seen him the don't. Why, the side show is a
suifer. At least the old troupers pocket mul knew without consulting it where the circus would be the day he went away. Asked what his
Blessing to then! O
One of the following week. hurry was and he said business! weetest women I ever knew was
(To Be Continued). Some slepper, Bill" The postup frenk! Her whole life was -
the letter, read the contents opened
of unselfishness and sympathetic nogm himself fle then drew a deep understanding and love. She breath. He glanced apprehensively married But mothered Koveral
to
n
коней
at the placid features of the patient generations of cirgus kids. She had "Grandpol, you gotta the loveliest face I ever saw but she
uld his
here ain't very weighed 100 pounds and couldn't walk
brace good
"Bill-Bill's'not coming back?”.
ሰነ
Couldn't the doctors do anything
"No, it's not tint. It's about for her?" Madeline. She
Doma laurbed. "Her fat was her
"Mudeline! Read it. Lem. Read livelihood. Maybe she bit Wire
reduce in the beginning, when I Slowly, dwelling on each word, Lem knew her she was always trying to Holden read Bill's letter informing take on more weight. She didn't! Anus Siddal of his granddaughter's mind it."
injury.
another week,
wrote, "I will bring her back with! back with!
*
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me to stay alwayı, I hope. She But B was not Donna's only isn't suffering much pain now, but it aller. Some of the townsfolk, drawn will be some time before she recovers partially through curiosity but more: completely and we must feel thankful through kindlinews, came to help is her
injuries were not more serious," the tedious hours. During the second
week Tears streamed down Amos Siddala
of Donna's stay in the hospital wrinkled cheeks. "God is good," he Bill often found her surrounded by mumbled. "My little girl, my little young girls, eagerly listening to her girl"
Lales of the circus and most of them Lom helped him into the home. ready to risk life and limb for the opportunity to win applause as n Donna's recovery was almost mira- circus performer. For the time being!
their culous. Her perfectly trained body
had turned from responded to treatment in a way that movie stars to nerobatle headliners. amazed the doctor, but little forgot her own identity. When she Lulled into security, Donna' almost
was
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10 Kayling backstage "musical, which should +bé, tops whésever; they | zaï-turizmusical Sirspertastes dekh`a_ {ationKeeler «picture
(all the way and they give 'plantys Jolson's 2. jainging in, bir big stuli and he shines; with' "Ruby's dancings a standout especially; in the Latin from Manhattan" number Party „Kally, must be mentioned for her comedy
moments, which "stdlly ́dae too few. “The ̧- -ansemble"numberi are made-to-mean some › Gadhing, because the danceci dance instead" at moxing about; on' mechanical, pirces Lobby, Conally deserves much cředů for. these numbers · Waszem and 'Dubin's music list is mieste, especials" "hatım from Manil hattan", "Aknul a Quaiter to Nine" and "Mammy. I'll Sing About. You", "itrian tichie : Morgag „Ja in for a lorek song Sijs Maya's - direction is smooth,, with-werke, a
·Jirdown,
"CASINO de PARIS” at the
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Saunders, with her romantic eyes, was with Bill the feit she was Made IN LONDON saw more clearly than the physician line. Only once did she come close Regardless of the fact that Bill was supposed to be a close relative of her to giving away her secret. She had
to begun patient,
tell him convinced that love death not the narrowness of this of her father's ahe was the healing power.
"For a cousin he certainly is the escape made her watch her tongue
more most attentive man,' she said to
carefully than ever. Ske
Madeline's Donna, and smiled whon n
wondered what colour tinted the sick girl's checks. Madeline had said once that sho resembled her mother but she had
Roscoe
"I think he's handsome, too."
warm father and mother had been Uke.
a
"Yes, Bill's good-looking ". Dennn admitted, "but he's more than that. An enlarged portrait of Rome Saphi He is good."
Yet the barrier that her sudden hung in the farm house dining room withdrawal had reared between tiem Donna discounted it as
but it was a crayon atrocity and likeness. was never lowered. Each after Madelino's father had died of ho arrived at the hospital and renoumonia and his wife had lingered mained until the dinner hour. Sometimes he and Donna talked. for years afterward, making her home with her father-in-law. That was all magazines or books he brought, He
More often ho read alood from Donna know.
to
If she was spoke of incidents, amusing or tragic,
carry on the mos- that had occurred during his years atquerade for on indefinite period, sho school. He told her of college pranke, information. If only she could write decided, Madeline must' supply more of friends he had modo in Lebanon, i
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