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SERIAL STORY-
DONNA BIG TOP-
CHAPTER XXIX
such
Day after day Amos Siddal lay on his bed, unable to lift a hand or move the body that had known strength and agility and endured such hardships.
by BOULAR
POYNIET
unfortunate becauso It
"When you're young and everything her. Doubly is ahead of you, Maddie," he said, pasard through Bill's hands before it "death has a kind of terror, which it reached her. shouldn't have. But after you've lived your fellved it as best you knew how, making mistakes, of course, und Rometimes sinning, why a long sleep Donna, sitting beside him, won-is kind of pleasant. It'll be a wrench dered what thoughts could be passing to leave you and Bill, but there's a through his mind. There were hours and my boy and a heap of my friends that she was to recall in after life, and I calculate the reunion will sort she read aloud his favourite of soften the sorrow of parting from when passages in the Bible and listened as living loved ones." his feeble lps repented the words
after her. Often before lamplight
banished the shadows of the little "You mustn't think you're going room she would hold one of his hands to die yet," she sobbed, tears rolling In her while he talked of the strug-down her checks. "We need you, Bill
gles he had known as a youth.
and I"
As he handed the lotter to ber there was an expression on Bill's faco that Donna had never seen before auspicion, Jealousy, curicalty and a desire to hide all three
"Thanks," she stammered, cons- clous that her cheeks were flaming.
"Who is this man7" Bill asked, trying to appear casual when she put the letter on the dresser.
"Why, he was the-you remember, he had the animal act in the circus." "I remember the night I took you to supper after the show and you
you and this followmething between "Bill" She recolled as though ho had struck her.
"Well, why are you writing him?" "This is the first time I have," pho
back to said, "And you see the letter came,
me," "But why a first time? Why write him at all?""
Sometimes the girl could almost "That's sweet of you. Maddie, con-admitted he wanted to marry you,"
ho answered. than a feel the presence of the young wife sidering 'n nothing moro
"Oh, that!" sho laughed. "I was he had never ceased to love. Some burden now. But you and BU will kidding."
you? I also remember "Were spoke of his son and of get along all right by yourselves times he Madeline as a child.
You love each other and when a man "A little tousled red-head," he and a woman really love each other something your partner sald. Lia- chuckled, with freckles. Mighty they can surmount all obstacles. You ten, Madeline, portaps it's none of sweet, hut hot-headed. I'm glad tho had to overcome one in getting marmy business. what you did before we ried, but I know you'd do it. I knew were married. If you've chosen to
Be learned to conquer her temper."
to me about affairs before you When first he spoke of Madeline in it was the right thing for you two knew moI can overlook that, too, the third person Donna's heart miss- children to become man and wife-
your soul is but if there's still awal. Then she realized that to just as I've known that him the woman and the child wero na beautiful as your face."
"Grandfather not the same.
"But
"Oh, yes, Maddle, When the Lord you growed up beautiful,
afletion to me I was Madile," he would go on. "I'm sorry first sent my I wasn't able to see you. I can feel hitter. It didn't seem fair when I'd or I could the straightness of your tried to be a righteous man and never
harmed anyone, but nose. All the Siddals had straight knowingly
it noses. And your little round chinson-I think But I can't see the colour of your eyes wrote
wrote it, but unshow If things in the world. you lone In her wild attempt to find a
he said, you something, "No. It's brownish," she choked.
gain some
logical excuse without admitting tho was really truth, names became twisted on her My blindness "Bill says it's like gold with the thing.
sel on it Woman'n- crowning a blessing. I've seen more'n I could tongue and her voice thickened. She chuckled. "My, how dis- ever have seen with eyes alone, and
"May I see the letter?" appointed your Grandma was when the seeing has given me understand- hawn red-headed grandbaby! Ing-understanding of people's inten- Yes, sir, she cried. Intions. I figure, in spite of that adag cried. those days red hair wasn't, so popular about hell's pavements, that when the that women put store stuff on honest day of judgment comes we're goin brown hair to colour it. Times change to be Judged mare by our intentions Yes, times change,"
than what we did."
Donn jhope #o," Once he asked, "You don't recollect the time you fell down the rain bar-forvently.
nor your
was
Emor- Emersun who it was
WhyWhy I hadn't heard from
red any more Bill says it isn't so samo writer-sald one of the truest Mad-from Donna for some tinio und i
She
rel, do
"No ou
And when I came in from helping they tired her
phy
murmured
There's nothing in it, Bill. Nothing that is disloyal to you, I swear it
Then let me see it." He moved towards her. She snatched up the letter
and crumpled it in her fist.. "No. If you doubt me and have to have
proof "Give me thut letter!!! "No!"
Afterward she was to regret the Often the old man's voice trailed off in the midst of a sentence and then action bitterly, but as he reached "That was funny. There you were Doma crept noiselessly from the towards her, whether to take the with your feet sticking up in the nir roora to go about her household letter from her or with a gesture of to realize. and your body caught in the middle chores. They were many and varied, command she did not stop to and yelling at the top of your lungs, but they were a bles Inasmuch as she tore the envelope into shreds and
and brought flung them into the open fireplace. Nell with her calf you-no,
that sleep. Idle hours
loft "You know," he said slowly, his almost as whitens her own, wasn't you. My memory is getting time for tortured thoughts.
face a poorly as my body. That was
When she received no answer from "that gives me the right to believe Pa.
the letter to
anything ference to Madeline's death in the newspapers a feeling of security set- tled over Donna. It was too much to hope that the truth need never be known, and yet Madeline was dead. With the exception of Con David, no one in the world knew that the girls had exchanged identities, and it was doubtful that Con knew the whole story.
Four l'a because Nellle died when he was a little bay and I'm sure it was Nellic-"
Donna felt a morbid fascination in listening to him talk of Madeline's childhood. The chubby little girl he described, who made mud pies in the hog pen, who fell from apple trees and almost broke her neck when she
Mr. Planter had ceased to be a tumbled through the hay mow, who was red-haired and freckled and often menace. There was the question of dirty, had nothing in common with the property, but, with Madeline dead, the Madeline whom Donna had known. Bill would be Grandfather's next of Sometimes as she read the old man kin and Donna, assured herself that, fell asleep. Always when his eyelids should the property come to her, she were lowered the waxen whiteness of would see that it was turned over to his cheeks-the-sunken eyeballs and Bill.
swung about abruptly and left horror the room. Donna stood stricken as the Import of his words forced themselves upon her. For months she had been prepared to face crisis, but not an accusation of this kind.
That Bill, who possessed every atom of her love, who was so much a part
of her that sometimes she felt she had only begun to live and breathe after knowing him, should for one moment think she cared for another man, and that man Con David, believable!
Wad un-
She gave a strangled sob, ran to the door and called, "Bill B, I' tell you what was in the letter! Bill"
his fragility burt her with a physicalIt was unfortunate that just who-But-the front door-alammed with a pain. He could not live with this she had gained a measure of peace jar that shopk the house and the man, He was and the shock of Madeline's death was striding towards the barn, missed the continued wasting away. little more than a wralth now, though lessened her letter addressed to Con explanation she would have made.
David should have been returned to
(To Be Continued). his spirit was as strong as over.
NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
day
Altis Anne АСЧИС
CINEMA NEWS toe-tapping lanes and an originality in "Love Me Forever" which takes of story that is refreshing as an alr-place in a small garret, the set actual- cooled theatre on a sweltering summery resembles a garret, and is realistic "Every Night At Eight" proves because the audience can look through to be a blues-chasing, heart-warming the large garret windows to see the plece of funny business as has come snow-covered mofs of Paris. In the along in a month of musicals. The stage productions, picture opens on a gay nola with covers the entire stage, and is, there
Allco Fayo and fore, usually unconvincing. To bulld Suffering, mental and physical, has Frances Langford, produced much of the world's greatest Patsy Kelly as stenographer, switch-it smaller would require much con
board operator and bottle packer res-struction, too much to make it possible literature. Milton was blind when he wrote.. "Paradies. Lost." Dante pectively in a mint julep factory get- for the stage hands to remove the Ling fired from their jobs for prae- setting to make way for the setting Alighieri, national moet of Italy, was an exile when he wrote meeting their burmany singing in the of the next act during the brief in- poem, the "Divine Comedy" whose boss's office. Broke and homeless termigro, Victor Scherzinger, t first phase has been used as a basis they decide to try their luck on a sing-rector of "One Night of Love" direct- Michael Bartlett, for the new Fox Film, "Dante's In- ing trio on an amateur hour. At the od "Love Me Forever." Leo Carrillo,
Link the radio station they lose the prise to Robert ferno," coming on Sunday to King's Theatre and featuring Spencer George Raft who appears this time in Spring Byington,
a new kind of dramatic role, that of Douglas Dumbrille sind Thurston Hall Tracy, Claire Trevor, II. B. Waltnalla concaited band lender. Attracted to appear in support of Grace Moore.
af and Alan Dinchart. The greatness the work must have been apparent the girls and seeing their possibilities, even in the Middle Ages. The city of he starts than on their career as the Florence sought to have Dante buried S Sisters. He builds them up there after his denth in 1321, but the/to be a trio of sweet, unsophisticated {love of a girl for a boy, and his battle
look alike, and in petition was refused and Dante's tomb southern girls, makes them is in Raverns where he had spent alike,
Love Me Forever"
dress general
Allen,
"Laddie"
"Alberni
Life's must beautiful theme, the
in
against all opposition to win her the last years of his exile, More than manages their lives for them. There heart, is treated with exquisite tasto
is a series of sparkling events, then and sympathetic understanding, the
RKO-Radio's "Laddie," while the Aix centuries have passed since
a surprise climax.
powerful drama of the Gene Stratton- poot's death, but the timelessness of his work cannot be bobter illustrated
Porter classic novel is laid upon the than by the fact that the motion pic
screen in as telling a fashion as Now showing at the King's and characterised "Little Women" by the ture which, more than any other medium, depends. utterly upon catch-Alhambra Theatres is Columbia Pie. same producers. In simple, yet most Ing the pubile's mind and interest in tures fine dramatic musica), "Love effective manner the picture bares the the great "now" of to-day deems it Me Forever" which stars the un-hearts of the two who80 romance is s suitable for its cameras and its au- forgettable Grace, Moore of "One highlight of the dramatic tale, and Fox made an carlier ver- Night of Love.", "Love Me Forever" with bold, vigorous, smashing strokes diences. Blon of the "Inferno," a silent film features, several stenos from "La paints the unfolding battle that ac- produced in 1924. Most of its playara Boheme" and "Rigoletto" two of the companies the youth's struggle for operan in existence. | his heart's desire. In this production, have long been forgetten. Of the erl- most famous
That the
(Continued on Page`11.) ginal cast, only three (Ralph Lowia, That the picture alulias can do better Pauline Starke and Josef Swickard) justice than the actual stage to the are likely to be remembered by con- compusitions of the old masters is a temporary audiences. Edmund Gould-known fact, proven in many instances. inge, who wrote the original screen From the performer's standpoint, the adaptation, has become a successful screen has one great advantage, for
the performer can present a director, So much for the past performance to his public. On the perfect Possibly the most significant aspect
doing of the now photoplay is that it repre-stage, the performer is
for some three hours sents the first shy approach of the same show, modern talking screen to the classical every night. He becomes worn, tired, shelves of poetry. Short of "Casey performances are not going to he
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