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DONNA BIG TOP by BEULAH
CHAPTER XXXI
Grandfather was sleeping when Bll and Donna arrived home and they did not have to make any ex planations about their early return. Dunna went
upstairs and undressed, but it was almost an hour later bg- fore El joined her.
Bill removed his clothes without turning on the light and Donna lay parfectly stil, pretending that she She yearned to throw was asleep.
rbout him and try to her arms banish the ugly thoughts that he knew were troubling him and raising a harrier between them.
A long time they lay there. Dan. na's eyes burning, her lids heavy from the tears she had shed. At last he could endure it no Inager. She touched his shoulder timidly. "Bill" she said, "are you asleep?"
"No."
"You aren't thinking that I went to pieces because of Con David?".
"No."
"Then-"
1
POYNTER
Mini moaned the even door end awent into her Regt wiejų. Į malenal Bill came into the kitchen then.
than the whole world. When you aren't yourself or there's any coolnessgust of hol nir between us the life in wl gone out of me. Sometimes 1 think. It must be wrong to love anyone n I do you. There was a quizzical.gr.nan I'm
frald some misfortune will comience. "Darling," he murmured, cracked her head on his chest, "What
crazy fool I am."
his
"I want to know, muʼam,” he
and f them gobbles
be wanting
both 50
And at the very time when the rife that had made thee was dis- miserable for 4 sipated Con David was making hla plans to come to Lebanon.
Infd, bow'at which one
one of you two oře
or the roasting pan? And witch
neck 7"
no chop off the being to help "O" gasped Donna. The turkey fues have to be killed, don't 1175
Bath Bill and Minnie laughed. "Yes, my dear, it does. That
are to
to have a proper Thanks riving dinner. I'm wondering if one
is,
Thanksgiving day was drawing
the little fellows wouldn't do," hear. It might be Grandfather
his earth and Donna was determined turkeys I raised last summer! Siddal's last Thanksgiving Day on
"You lon't mean one of the that it should be a pleasant and cheer- couldn't let you kill one of them! I'd ful ono. Having discovered that she feel like a cannibal eating a bird I had no little talent for cooking, he raised from a tiny ball of yellow set about preparing fruit, cakes and fluff!"' mince pies and great kettles of pump-,
kin.
wero
•
•
Bill winked at Minnle. "And I All Tuesday afternoon she and thought I could get you to hold him QUCAB It's In the warm, spicy while I use the axe, I "I'm facing the facts. I've been so Miunie
their to be the old daddy, ch, Minnie? It with happy that I suppose I've been a odoured kitchen, both blind fool, I should have realized Ileeves rol'ed to the elbows. While you aren't too busy now I'd like you had nothing to offer to take the Donna mixed cake batter, weighing the to come out and help me catch him.
Donna wann'i at all sure that the place of all you're accustomed to. I'd citron and nuta and fruit for the forgotten that you ran away once to cakes, Minnie stirred the kettle of turkey which Anally found its way escape the farm-and that if it was vellow
apkin and kept up a flow into the kitchen, plucked and ready for the stuffing, was young or old, unbearable then it would be more
but under the circumstances it seem- now that you've seen the world."
Donna was silent, not know.ng how to answer, since obviously he had not believed
hier protests that she was absolutely happy here.
"I know you've done your have brat to
Perhapa wife,
of
should have made that cake month ago," she said. "I thought maybe you'd think I wasn't mind. ing my own business if I did. Course fruit cake is fruit cake at any time, but the older it is the better.". be satisfied. No man
"Yes, I know," Donna answered usked for a batter
rod-naturedly. "Hand me that that's why I haven't understood as Ijott's of brandy, Minnie." should have before this. I'm not altogether selfish, Madeline. I love you. I love you so much that, anoner than see you go on getting paler and thinner every day, I'd rather give you up. Send you back, to the life you. love,"
*
it?
ed advisable not to seek information.. And Minnie, for once, had nothing to
Thursday dawned clear and cold with a crust of snow on the ground but no indication in the sky that
thero was more 10 come. Grand- father Neamed particularly well and anticipating being moved, bed und fall, into the dining room for the festive occasion. Gay winter berries were
hung in wreaths over the win- dows, the shades were drawn to nd- mil
it the sunlight, and the radio was tuned in for the Thanksgiving services.
"My landt dye think Mr. Siddal maan Grandp-will eat any fit ther's brandy in Brandy's liquor, allt it?"
Donna laughed, I don't think will object to this kind. It's just for cooking. Mrs. Planter She rested her must have used it, for I found it "D" she cried. weight on one elbow and tried to nee down in the cellar with the shelves his face la the shadows." belleve, if preserves."
there's nothing else I can believe- that you've brooded and thought to her the other day when I went into the long table. Mounds sweet hut- much over what I used to be that you own. She wouldn't speak to me. Iter and cattage cheese and pickled put a wrong construction on evory-reckon she holds it again' me 'cause cherries and walnuts, as well as thing I do. Won't you take my word you give her her walking papers and citron and ratains and almonds, were for it that nothing in the world is teak me on. Folks way ber nose got set out. And there was the rent farther from my mind than to return out of joint 'envse she didn't gel ajronsted bird, bursting with oyster to the circus?
chance to marry Grandpa Siddal."
dressing.
It
Donna, her checks Sushed and rosy, her oyca sparking, bustied On from kitchen to dining room. the old-fashioned enk buffer the fruit)
preserves and cranberry subco
"Spankin, of Mis' Planter, I saw cake rested in state. Jars raced
Miss Perkins, without her uniform
"I know they any show business wouldn't repeat that," Donna In the kitchen Mionle whipped Irish gels under your skin. It does with utioned gently. It's too silly to be-polatges into a veritable cream and some, but my aezident and others lieve."
basted candied yam with their own I've seen drove away all the glamour “Yes, ma'am, I spose it is, but she syrup. On the stove deep pumpkin the circus may have held for me. Wasn't regret, or anything like it, sure don't like this family and shei and mince pies retained the warmth that sent me to pieces tan ght,
must a-had some reason for sayin' of the oven. the things she does about you." was thinking about a friend, a very
"About me?". In anite of herself and rather pretty in a dark blus vel- dear friend who died In an accident.
Donna could not keep back the ques-into the dining room. From hta pile vot dresa, felped Bill push the bed That girl-the one, who played Polly
Lion Joked something like her—” "Why didn't you say so then?".
"Yes, ma'am. Nothing, much of of pillows Grandfather said the bless- "You didn't give me a chance. You course. She couldn't say very much, ing over the food they were about to receive. Bill and Donna, though their took it for granted it was something hough her tongue is prizen-fust that heads, were lowered, clasped hands rise. You're being unfair. I admit if Grandon hadn't been well-to-do under the table and offered another I'm unstrung-I have been ever xlace you'd never a-stayed home, and that prayer of thanks that the old man my full-but isn't that naturaleks might think you'd changed a lot they both loved so was sharing the Then Grand'ather's illness. We know and wasn't flighty no more but that dinner with them, he can't live much longer and that she knew better and could tell things Bill was tarving the bird and makes ne unhappy, If you are going All of which means nothing," the vegetables when the door bell Minnie was in the kitchen dishing un to be je-lous and suspicious her voice broke.
"If I were only sure you were tell ing the truth-"
"I am I am! I love you more
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Donna answered jerkily. "I wazine that every one knows Mrs. Planter and nuts small steek in what she says, | table. How's the oven, Minnie?"
go." Donna sald and left the
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