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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 80,
SERIAL STORY.
DONNA BIG TOP by BEULAH
DEGIN BERE TO-DAY
DONNA GAEL. and MADELINE sin. DAL who call themselvom "The Gabriel Blators are circus performers. Years earlier Madeline ran away from her grandfather
home,
When Donna Sa Injured In a fall from the
POYNIER
1935.
realized that she was enclosed behind (If there had been he wouldn't havo iron bare with three huge, vicious let me do it." beasts that could rend her into tatters As usual Con resented Interference with one atroke of clawed pawa, from outsiders and said brusquoly everything went black before her. when she told him of the delegation
She caught Con's arm and clung that had approached her with advice, trapets Madeline Arranges for her to be to him, not for protection but to keep "Tell them to find their own business. teles to GRANDFATHER BIDDAL's farm. from falling. The cage
evemed To please her partner Donna pretends to be
to Every one of them does an net that Madeling. She fails in love with BILL 911 rack as though it were being tossed is just an dangerous. I haven't asked.
anhamed of dezokring Bil) and Grandfather Shia tried to do as Con whispered, to you one but Madeline knew how DAL. Madriino's cousin, and though she is about on the billows of a stormy sen, you to tickle Lucy under the chin look at the cats. But she couldn't..
marries CON
who fraid to tell them the truth,
Meanwhile Mndeilne DAVID, animal trainer with the eirem. The tells ber he le going to put her in his animal act and the day after their weekling, in ple of her protenti, inalets also must enter the lion rage,
CHAPTER XV
She felt that the beasts know her she suffered during the two weeks terror and if she looked at them they that followed. No one would spring upon her.
ever know of the nightmares that made her Her wavering gaze focused upon sleeping hours a veritablo hell. A the bars. They danced crazily, came thousand times hetween midnight towards her, receded, twisted and and daybreak sho endured death writhed.
In the jaws of Sander or Lee or Curlo.
before the
Com produced a pair of leather
"Steady." Con whispered. "Stendy
Again and ngoin ske relived
the trousers, leather leggings al & Everything's fine!"
moments that seemed like centuries heavily padded leather jacket from!
Then he called, "Carlo Come, when she entered the gided cage one of his trunks. He gave them to
Carlo."
and learned to The yellow beast cringed, alusis and inshing tails of the jungle cats. ktand without Madeline and told her to put them on.
siathering Jaws "Tuck your hair under this cap," backward. Con called again, this and he added. "There's never been time with a rasping command. The The night after she first faced Lucy, woman in the enge with old Sander cat snarled, lashed its tail. Made the Bengal tiger, she jerked with and Lea and I don't know what their line's muscles tautened. Then the hiccoughs until day-light and vowed
lina reaction will be, wo we'll take no lattened unti! his shaggy stomach the man she loved, would she enter
started to draw nearer, his body that never again, thoug
though it lost her chances."
He did not wait
to hear what rested upon the floor. Madeline could the cage with the tiger. But she did Madeline might say, but strode of odour of him and her reeling senses through the iron-barred door and feel his fetid breath, smell the rank it. Again and again she' walked to give some instructions. The great, seemed to congeal. gilded cage that housed three African
not even Con realized what it cost) lions was pulled into the arena and small
hall steps, While Madeline dressed, perspiration
from her body. She feltally ill that ho] wondered if she could walk from the dressing room to the
fet "big top," alone enter the lion cage. Nothing but the fact that she know half the commanded. On the steps her legs- crew was standing by, with amused, caved in like jelly, the fog of black incredulous grins on their faces and nausea swept her along with it, and bets that she would never do it, in-she did not know what occurred un- duced her to step out of the little til long afterward. dressing room at all.
wore placed being to. the door, roar. Con smothered an oath, thrust |
it.
cold
Con met her half-way across the arens and smiled approval at her "There's not a thing to be afraid of," he said. "A child babies and not
In vain were
#
*
Suddenly the animal retreated, her. croucherl and emitted a blood curdling
Con's reassurances Madeline from him, jammed his chair that the cata fenreil his pistol and full in the face of the beast and with chair and whip far more than she his free hand unlatched the door. feared them. She pretended to agree Back out! It's
"Get out," he uttered. "Get out, with him, but she knew that, given
smell!" your Somehow she contrived to do as helleb from limb.
the opportunity, they would rend her
•
*
Above everything in the world Con cherished his reputation for fear- lessness and his ability to control the beasts. He was obsessed with anbition and far from satisfied with his position as star performer with a snill travelling circus. When he sonked with the water that
She revived with her clothing aw that Madeline seemed to enter had thrown in her face.
Con into the training and appeared to be Could pet those into tears und Robbed her contrilion. visions of achieving fore with her She burst anxious to add to his fame he had She managed a wan smile and tried fainted before in my life. But I done alone. This increased his re-
"Ok, Con, I'm so sorry! I never assistance
than : he could ever have to walk steadily beside him, but her was so seared. I never knew any gard for her far more than beauty or courage did it increase when she one could be so scared." realized he was going into the rage
love could have dene. "You were fine," he assured her unarmed and that none of the men "Carlo got nasty, but everything helped repay the girl for the sick After each rehearsal his caresses who usually stood close at hand with is going to be all right. Mayla panic she suffered.
week's time to
come refractory, was pres when you'll be playing with the old boy.rame seldom and, though once Coni
on fit
WILS
Q revolver, in case a beast should be I rushed you into it too soon. We'll Fortunately there was no occasion
go slower and in a "Stand by," Con 5ኪ.
Lo mention Donna's name. Letlera call, come in the door."
He picked
See if you aren't. Next time you handed one of them to Madeline, he up a chair, mounted the won't be afraid at all." 1 stairs, turned the key in the lock, "Oh Ged," she thought, "I' al-or ask what she was doing. He took id not inquire about the other girl opened the door a trifle and slid his ways be afraid. How can I go body through, slamming the door with
this? How
for granted that Donna tightly after him.
can he take it married and happy. Waves of nausea swept over Made- this way?
Often Madeline wondered what Before dinner. time every one in Con would do when he learned the Limes she had the circus knew of the incident, truth. Several times she was tempted do this thing. Hundreds Con David had forced his bride to to write Donna and beg her to write of times she had seen him stroke the enter the lion enge and she had head and beard of the great shaggy fainted when Carlo attacked her. Bill or bad fast broken an engage- letter saying she was engaged to beast, Sunder, and the danger of it The accounts of what actually had ment to had not occurred to her. Now, with happened were garbled in her limbs like lead, her hands clammy, different versions. her heud swimming, all she could think of was Donna's warning The ents always got them sometime."
line. Hundreds of winte{ril him
IL
him, but she hesitated. dozen The rehearsals went on, and the day for her public appearance in the Most of the women wore indignant. cage drew near. Then one afternoon Madeline was an aerial artist and Con what business had Con trying to put evening performance Madeline Gabriel announced that during the her into an animal act? Every one Never before, ladies and gentle.
would couldn't control wild beasts.
enter the enge of jungle cats. opposition fanned Madeline's men, pride. "I don't suppone
a woman fored a enge of was ever exactly, Joyous when he Never before has a woman dared such. one lions and tigers, sworn enemies. first went into a llon enge," she a death-defying stunt!" exclaimed. "But I wasn't so awfully "God help you!" ruttered Mazje afraid either. I hadn't slept all Vale of the Flying Vales as she stood it," he said. "quick.” night, for one thing,
and I wasn't beside Madeline." "I'd rather fall The magic of her love for him feeling nee high. That's why 1 from the bars than step into the care moved her weighted limbs. When fainted. the door clanged behind her and she real danger with Con beside me.
I knew, there wasn't any with that Bengal,"
That Sander purred like a kiiton and seemed to love the touch of Con's Their hand meant nothing. He would be sure to hate her. llc would sense her fear. Oh God, she couldn't do it Con turned, beckoned to her an unlockerl the cage door,
***Conto it,"
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