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SERIAL STORY
*
DONNA BIG TOR~
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
with BILT BIDDAL, Mudelise's cousin, and
partner is married Con, tellering Donna ket to him, marries Madoline. Though torrified) of the lions and tigers she takes part in hia animal act
Con see one of Donna'“ letters in Madoline; pol discover how he tricked him
Inlo marriage.
CHAPTER XIX.
by
BEULAH
POYNIED
1935.
you'd snap out of it and begin to might have given her as much affec-
tlon an ho was capably of giving any
one.
the
rotton
DONNA GABIUEL and MADELINE SIngot something out of life DAL who call themselves "The Cabriol "With you?" Alsters are elrena performers. Yours warlier "Yes, with me. It's only your But Madeline was a woman in love. Madaline rRN' AWAY from her grandfather's darned pride and concelt that's eating After a week's coolness, when she When Donna be fadored by a fail from a now. That's all it ever was alternated between hating Con and
you trapeze Madeline arranges for her to be between you and Donna-and don't aching for him, she smothered her taken to GRANDFATHER BIDDAL'S farm tell me any different. I've lived with pride and begged his forgiveness. to recuperale. To please her partner Donna you long enough to know you'll never "It was because loved you," sho uretends to be Madaline, he fails in love love any one but yourself. The only sobbed. "I know It was though she is ashamed of denizing Dil and reason you wanted Donan was be thing to do but I was just crazy and Grandfather she is atrás to tell the truth. cause you couldn't have her. I wish I knew Donna would never marry
CON DAVID, alreus animal trainer, leves to God she'd married
I don't truthi Donna had a crualton I'm telling you truth, the that her more!'"
She dropped Into a chair, laid her Bill Siddal the first time she went head on the shelf before the mirror to visit my grandfather and I knew and burst into angry tears.
if she and Bill were thrown togelner Tears were defence Con could they'd get married. You've got to not conbat. He pured the little room, forgive me, Con. I can't go on like whistled. disconsolately and then this! It's just killing mo to have
on his heels and left,
you trent me this way." Madeline picked up the letter, read "I suppose it was your idea to have through and then destroyed it. She Donna go to the farm after the ac When the animals had been driven and Con had both spoken in the heat cident back through the covered runway and of passion but they had said things the uproar had suballed Renfroe that were not easily forgiven noring her stay in a hospital and it hinted Con. "What's the iden ?" he forgotten. With her success in the saved expense
"And threw her and your precious demanded. Trying to commit suicide animal act, Madeline had hoped to
Just what does or pull a new net 7"
win her husband's love. Con's fury cousin together! The animal trainer over discovering that Donna had been your grandfather think of Donna's Neither
until sponging on him the way?" strode through the sawdust-covered neither engaged nor married
Why, he thinks she is me-cr-he| corridor that led from, the "big top" after his own wedding showed Made- to the dressing tent, brushing nside line only too plainly that he did not loves her because
So chend you the first time. everyone who stood in his way. love her, that he still cared for the
your grandfather thinks Donna is Madeline was waiting at the door other girl
me he is of her dressing room. Under the Con was well aware of his conceit you! Haven't you told rouge her cheeks were pale and her but he did not want any one else wall-to-do 7
"Yes. Not rich, but the farm is eyes black. "Say, what's the matter to mention it, least of al the woman with you?
you?" she began.
who bore his name: Madeline had worth something. He's comfortably Con caught her wrist, jerked the added insult to injury and he could fixed. Why 7!! door, open with his other hand and not forgive her." almost flung her into the room. The
"It strikes me that in your anxiety. both who shared the because the scene still rankled and
atubborn, the to marry your partner off so you two other women
strained situation continued. dressing room stared at him in
Con could get your clutches on me you've Ind never known humility. Never thrown away your inheritance." amazement.
"I don't know what you in his life had he admitted himself
werd
"Well, it was a lot better than hay-
•
嶼
mean.
"Get out," he told them. Both left quickly, without n word. In the wrong. The overtures toward Donna would never-you don't think Occasional quarrels and even fights
reconciliation would have to come Donna would influence him into leay- were to
to be expreted between married from Madeline, and Madeline, in the ing her the farm, do you?"
Would she have to do any in- was notoriously throes of jealousy, convinced herself couples and Con
wanted a If he temperamental,
that she hated Con and did not care fluencing? He thinks she is his showdown, fight and all, it was name if they never spoke again.
granddaughter, you say. She's mar. of their business Madeline looked
Consequently the breach widened. rying your cousin. You don't sup- Con treated Madelino with capable of taking care of herself.
superpose he is going to ict the fortune, Alone with Madeline, Con
became clilous
her such as it is, slip through his hands? courtesy that Infuriated calm. A smile that distort and fanned to a higher Hame her If Donna isn't unscrupulous enough ed bis features, robbing them of all hatred and jealousy. Probably dur- or clever enough to get the old nun's aitenetiveness, spread over his face. Ing those days when she completely will worded in such a fashion that "So Donna is to be married?" he gnored him he came nearer to lov- the money will bo hers, this cousin drawled.
ing her than at any other time. She will think up a way to do it.
"And where will you be? You "Why-why, yes. I told you that had spoken truly when she said it a long time ago.
was lietuse Donna cared nothing for could swear until doomsday that you "Yes, you toki me! You told me Con that he had been so determined were the granddaughter and entitled before she had even thought of such to win her.
to what is left, but with two against thing. Let's ser-how
Lucy, the Bengal, was the only one you you'd just be out of luck.' months ago was it? Long
before of his beasts Con really cared for, Madeline's lips curled scornfully, you trapped me—“
Lucy could not be tamed. She could "And you claimed to love Donnal I "Don't you say I
trapped you!" be driven into the great barred ring, don't know
Bil anything about Madeline
but no persuasion, threats or whip Siddat, but I do know Donna. She "Why sped
You knew that if 1ping could make her mount a stool wouldn't tob me and no man could hadn't thought Donna was going to and sit there as the other animals Induce her to try to cheat me out of Grandfather might leave." marry that rube cousin of yours did. Beautiful as some evil troplent anythdn't be too sure! I wouldn't have married you.
suppose So you ower, she would stand dedant,
lotter Bed. You told me she'd written you snarling and lashing her tail, her you
yellow eyes gleaming with mallee
you kont that
I destroyed it. But just to that they were engaged-"
"You just said they're going to be and contempt for her brothers that satisfy you I'll write Donna and ask married, she broke in. "I don't bowed before the crack of Con's her what she intends to do if Grand.
father should die." know what you're talking about! pistal, the lash of his whip.
"You think she'd tell you!" Now you say I lied-"
many
*
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that
Con
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"I'm talking about this." Coni And it was because he had met "I know she would
"If she does, for your own pro- extracted the letter from his pock-his match in this jungle ent et and flung it at her. "Oh, I read Con loved her. He gloried in her tection be sure to keep the letter." that undefeated.spirit while he swore he Until this conversation Madeline it If you can convince nie Donna Gabriel ever wrote you she would conquer her if he had to kill had given little thought to what her was going to be married before this her.
Now the grandfather possessed, leiter-came-you-can-convinee-me I'm "Better watch out," Renfroe warn-farm and livestock and the Siddal vastin- "I don't have to tell you there bank account became of the King of England! Good God, you ed. women are more treacherous than are some cats you can't train. That portance as she realized that
lick considered her an heiress. After tigers! I suppose she's marrying him beast in a devil. You'll never now because you married me."
her."
Madeline had written to Donna, first Agents: "I will fit the last thing, I do wishing her lappiness, then tactfully I'll make her crawl on iter belly and inquiring what the situation would Madeline burst into hysterical like it."
be it Grandfather Siddal should die, laughter. "Of all the conceit! Don't
she began to wonder if Con were not tell me you still believe Donna would If Madeline had learned a lesson a better judge of character than ever have had you! She couldn't see from the Bongal tiger she might have herself, Was Donna, in marrying you for dust at any time, and I won Con's love. If she had continued Bill Siddal, looking forward to know it! Yes, I lied when I said they to be aloof, cold and deflunt he would future that included property and were going to be married. Why not?in time have forgiven what she had valuable assets as well as home and I was fool enough to think that if done and found it worth while to try husband?
*(To Be Continued) you knew you could never have her to reinstate himself. Eventually he
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in which two daredevil and toured the country in "The Mer- picturesque capital of Corsica. This drivers battle both for racing honours chant of Venice" The arrival of huge set, comprising churches shops, and the love of a beautiful girl. In "talkies" induced him to return to cafe and three-storied dwelling the cast besides Talbot and Miss Ar- filme to remake "Disraeli" and "The housea, covered ten acres of the B.tor are Roscoe Karno, Frankie Darre, Green and D. studios and occupied the atten- Gavin Gordon,
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were
Goddess". Ho has sinco and achieved a brilliant screen career,
which highlights of
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The Last Gentleman" and the
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London, Nov. 2. "Becky Sharp" most distinguished character star grounds for the hilarious story of the netually earned his Hving in exactly nan who is obliged to spend half a this fashion during one season carly
Two remarkable cornen grafting Inaugurating what many bellevo to operations, carried out at the months million of money in six mont order to qualify for a legacy of
in his career. six
Ho admits that his be a new era in screen entertainment, millions, a story which made thou-voice was pretty dreadful and after Pioneer Pleturas' first full-colour fes Central London Ophthalmic Hos
to him- ture,
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so successful' that both patients, Queen's Theatre. self not to let it thole honds off. Lili Damita plays
happen again. Arliss
Based upon William Makepeace one of whom has been blind since Jack Buchanan, whilst the was born in Londen on April 10,
1868. Ho indulged
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Mit- chell
stage play "Becky friend's home. At his father's insis-stara Miriam Hopkins.
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en- Miss Hopkins' artistry. As fiction's Sebastian Shaw. Tho muslelal num- tence, ho spent a year in his publish tirely in the now three-component | Immortal coquetto, the blonde and hors are by Ray Noble, and Thornton ing house. Then he joined the old Technicolor, it promises a revelation lovely Miss Hopkins has a role der Freeland, of "Whooper" famo, directs. Elephant and Castle stock, company is the first full lengtli dramatic tenso emoticos
bonuty,
uty, fidelity to life and clarity. manding both sparkling humour and brilliantly playing blood and
In
thunder It mellors". Tours of the English potion picture of this process and supported by Frances Dee, Sir Cedria Mary Astor and Lylo Talbot talked provinces with various stock com- may, as many predict, revolutionize Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Allison in whispers for two days as a resalt panles followed and then came the entire future course. of the Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, Alan of over-enthusiasm. Working together tho memorablo singing Benson, film industry becauso, colour portec Mowbray G. P. Huntley Jr., Colin in the First National picture "Red Hot Ho mot his wife in a theatrical school tion is now avaliabio Coming as Tapley, William Faversham Tires," coming soon to the ̈ Quoon's) and proposed to’hor because she had a Roubon Mamoulian production, other notable players.
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birth, and the other for 28 years, recover their uro expected sight.
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