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DONNA BIG TOP by BEULA
CHAPTER XXXÍ
POYNIER
Minnie anened the oven door and gust of hot air swept into Tier f Rout rich. I reckon."
Bill camo Into the kitchen then. 07 Hin There was a quizzical gr.n
mid, bowing to Donna, "which one face."I want to know, mem and of them gobblors
wanting And which help
than tho whole world. When you aren't yourself or there's any coolness Grandfather was alceping when between us the life is all gone out of Bill and Donna arrived home and me, Sometimes I think it must be they did not have to make any ex-wrong to love anyone as I do you. planations about their early return. Donna went upstairs and undressed, I'm afraid some misfortune will come
of but It was almost an hour later be Darling," he murmured, fore Bill joined her
one of you two are going Bill removed his clothes without cradled her head on his chest. "What for the roasting
on the light and Danna lay a crazy.fool I am."
And at the very time when the chop off the
"O 11. pretending that she
made them both so She yearned
to throw rife that had my while was dis-loes have to he
miserable for about him and try to
thoughts that she sipated Con David was making his
to come to Lebanon..
was asleep. her arms banish the
knew were troubling him and raising/ksgiving day was
a barrier between them.
of the
turkey
doesn't it?" Both Bill and Minnie "Yes, my dear, it does. if we are to have a proper Thanks drawing giving dinner. I'm wondering if one It might be Grandfather
little fellows wouldn't do.” A long time they lay there, Don- near
"Bill" You don't mean one of the na's eyes burning, her lids heavy from Siddal's last Thanksgiving Day on
Lears she had shed. At last the this earth and Donna was determined turkeys I Taised last summer! sould, endure it no longer. She that it should be a pleasant and cheer couldn": let you kill one of them. I'd touched his shoulder timidly. "Bill" ful one. Having discovered that she feel like a cannibal eating a bird I had no little talent for cooking, she raised from a tiny ball of yellow she said, "are you asleep?
set about preparing fruit cakes and fluff!" "No."
mince pies and great kettles of pump.
the
"You aren't thinking that I went to pieces because of Con David?”“
"No."
"Then-"
"I'm facing the facts. I've been ao happy that I suppose I've been blind Iool. I should have realized 1 had nothing to offer to take the place of all you're accustomed to. I'd forgotten that you ran away once to escape the farnt--and that if unbearable then it would be more so now that you've seen the world."
Donna was silent, not knowing how to answer, since obviously he had not believed her protests that she was absolutely happy here.
bo
Was
"I know you've done your best to satisfied. No man could have naked for a better wife, Perhaps that's why I haven't understood as 11 should have before this. I'm not altogether selfish, Madeline. I love you. I love you so much that, Rosner 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,"
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"B" she cried: She rested her weight on one elbow and tried to ace his face in the shadows. "I believe, there's nothing else I can believe- that you've brooded and thought so much over what I used to be that you But a wrong construction on every thing I do. Won't you take my word for it that nothing in the world is farther from my mind than to return to the circus?
something like en 7"
It
kin.
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Bill winked at Minnie. "And I All Tuesday afternoon she and thought I could get you to hold him
I guess It' warm, apicy while I use the axe. Minnie were in the odoured
kitchen, both with their to be the old daddy, oh, Minnie? If sleeves rolled to the elbows. While you aren't too busy now I'd like you Donna wasn't at hll sure that the Donna mixed cake battor, weighing the to come out and help me catch him." which finally found its way citron and nuts and fruit for the cakes, Minnie stirred the kettle of turkey teen fucked unit ready yellow pumpkin and kept up a flow for the sturcunstances it seem young or old, of evatehould have made that cake but advisable not to seek information. month ago, he said. of thought divinable, not to se, hinformatio maybe you'd think I wasn't mind-
зду.
Thursday dawned clear and ing my own business if I did. Course
cald fruit cake is fruit cake at any time, with a crust of snow on the ground but the older it is the better."
but no indication In the sky that
"Yes. I know," Donna answered good-naturedly. "Hand me that bottle of brandy, Minnie."
it?
under the
for the
there was more entue. Grand father seemed particularly well and anticipating being moved bed And all, into the dining rooni
occasion. Gny winter berries were
hung in wrenths over the win dows, the shades were drawn to nd- mit the sunlight, and the radio wa3
for tuned in the Thanksgiving services.
Donna, her checks flushed
eyes sparkling, bustled from-kitchen-to-dining-room.—Da. the old-fashioned oak, buffes the fruit
preserves and cranberry sauce
"My land, d'ye think Mr. Siddal
mean Grandpa-will eat any fest it if there's brandy in Brandy's liquor, aint it?"
Donna laughed, "I don't think ho will object to this kind, It's Just for cooking. Mrs. Planter
just have used it, for I found rosy, her down in the cellar with the shelves of preserves.
and
"Spenkin, of Mis' Planter, I saw leake rested in state. Jara acol
her the other day when I went into the long table. Mounds of sweat but town. She wouldn't speak to me. Iter and cottage cheese and pickled reckon she holds it again' nie 'cause cherries and walnuts, as well as you give her her walking papers and citron and raisina and almonds, were took me on. Folks say her nose got set out. And there was the great out of joint 'cause she didn't get a roasted bird, bursting with
oyster chance to marry Grandpa Siddal."
dressing
"I know they say show business "I wouldn't repeat that." Donna In the kitchen Minnie whipped Irish gets under your skin. It does with cautioned gently. It's too silly to be-potators into a veritable cream and some, but my accident and others lieve."
busted candied yams 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.
sure don't like this family and she and mince ples retained the warmth wasn't regret, or anything like it.
must a-had some reason for sayin' of the oven. that sent me to pieces to-night.. It
Miss Perkins, without her uniform the things she does about you." was thinking about a friend, a very
"About me?" In spite of herself and rather pretty in a dark blus vel- dear friend who died in пп
accident.
vat dress, helped Bill push the bed That girl-the one who played Polly Donnú could not keep back the ques into the dining room. From his pite of pillows Grandfather said the bless- loaked
"Yes, ma'am. Nothing much of ing over the food they were about to "Why didn't you say so
She couldn't say very much, receive. Bill and Donan, though their "You didn't Είνα
You me a chance.
though her tongue la prizen-just that ends were lowered, clasped kandis it for granted Look
it was something else. You're being unfair. I admit if Grandpa hadn't been well-to-do under the table and offered another. I'm unstrung-I have been ever since you'd never stayed home, and that prayer of thanks that the old man that natural folks might think you'd changed a lot they both loved so was sharing the myfall hut isn't Then Grandfather's illness-We know and wasn't flighty no more but that dinner with tham
Bill was carving the bird and he can't live much longer and that she knew better and could tell things makes me unhappy. If you are goingAll of which means nothing" the vegetables when the door bell
if she wanted to."
Minnic was in the kitchen dishing un to be felous and suspicious her! voice broke.
"If I were only sure you were tell ing the truth"
"I am!
I am! I love you more
the
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tion.
course.
Donna answered ferkily,
maine
that every one knows Mrs. Planter and puls small stock in what she says. Lable. How's the oven, Minnie?”*
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