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CHAPTER XXXVI
Words that Grandfather Siddal had ed to leave. Somehow, though, she could not make up her mind to, Rowpoken about intentions being more while he stayed inside, lying there important then actions seemed trivial ao completely ignorant of the raging now, though in the past she had used them to reassure her falling spirita tumult in her heart.
over and over again. Every step aho she had taken that had drawn the net of intrigue tighter flashed across her
"The Adams baby has diphtheria," Minnie announced as she took the remains of yesterday's roast turkey from the aven and placed it on a plai
The snow flakes were falling faster ter. "Ma says that last night Mis now and the skies were more lower Adams sent for Doc Lenman. Heng. Bill yawned and dropped his was there for more'n an hour and he magazine to the floor at his feet had to do something to the baby's
"Honey, did you notice Dr. Free- he asked. "Looks MAR
this morning throat"
bad, doesn't he?"
"Does he?"
Yes. I wonder if there is any
with
"I hope the little thing will live," Donna answered. "Is anyone Mra. Adams?"
her sister's there,"
memory.
There had been many opportunities to set herself right with the man sho had married, but she had let all of them slip by. Cowardleo had made her do it. Donna knew that now.
phtherin. is a terrible disease." truth in the reports going around7" | Cowardice and the terrible fear that
at once.
д
17
on
was
she might lose Bill's love. Oh, if she "What reports?" # said. "I remember once when
could only have understood before! child in the circus had it" Her
Bill laughed and renched uut his Each step in the angle of subterfugo Audden hand, ir 03 volco trailed off
"You're not a gossip, are you had led to another. Each step mado thought had struck her. The Adam dear? I heard in town the other day it harder to turn around and face
Siddals' nearest family were the
a little too the truth. And now the very things his wife is just that Donna scarcely neighbours. While knew them, under other circumstances intimate with the fellow who boards she had done to mave her love might. the Adania farm She drove past she would have offered her assistance with them. Of course in a small town take it away from herl
everything a wo
is magnified woman does
house, scarcely conscious that she Once the car skid- The child's illness seemed an answer and misconstrued but"
"Bill! I'm surprised nt you! To was passing it.
led
road, now covered with to her prayer. What could be more
think would listen to such talk 7
you
of natural than to tell Bill that she was
slippery snow Roft. "I didn't, Sweet," Bill laughed good a thin layer"
feed that
all the Buck's
more treacherous going over to see if there was any-
"I was in wing she could do for the family naturedly, Mr. Freeman went by, and because of the heavier cont of ice
the store when with the sick child? And way back from town she would stop Buck and George Lincoln got to talk underneath. The cold wind and the known fakes stung Donna's I couldn't help bearing what driven ing
cheeks. The windshield needed con- and make good her statement.
It seemed a positive Inspiration. then you stand up for her?” stant wiping. She
She did not see Lem She had been unable to invent any
to
"How could 1, considering she was Holden's little car as they passed at tukej excuse important enough. her to Lebanon on a day when Grand with the boarder when we saw her? the edge of town, nor hear his cheery
old saying that where And Donna Tirere's an father Siddal was so ill.
she had, she might have been I felt that she had to have an excuse, there'n fire there must be anoke. Nol reeling, "Holia, Mrs. Siddall"
the letter ilmt would have given spared both Bill and herself the countless hours of agony.
(To Be Continued)
on
Con David would be waiting for her it's the other way around, isn't 117 at three o'clock. She had promised if she doesn't want talk, she shouldn't ahe would meet him What Con lay herself open to it by her actions. do if she failed to be there, she It's too bad. Freeman is a fine fellow, might do dared not think!
I reckon he's heard things." At noon over
the dinner table)
suppose,"
se, Donna said tensely. Donna passed on Minnie's information if there were smoke around me you'd
She added look for the fire 7 about the Adams baby,
the fact that she knew something "Sure would-but you take nbout diphtheria and remembered how they had trented a little girl in the circus who was suffering from
care
the
there's no smake! Boy, look at that
now. If you're going to Adamses, you'd better get started."
"Yes. I suppose so."
"If you don't think Grandfather needs me here I think I'll drive over afternoon," eho to Adamses thin said. "Maybe there's something I rose and went lo could do to help."
He
A Riverside Home in Devon
Winter has no rigours in South Devon. "I'll get the car out for you." On the most beautiful reach of the Dittisham, tura the window. "Dart estuary, ot don't believe I'd go to-day, Haney. houses of satisfying design, built of craftsmanship This may blow over, but it looks like with a rare pride
and beauty of material. They are we're in for a real blizzard." Bill, who was naturally friendly
"I'd rather go and gel it and had often worried a little over
Well,
He left work to a minimum and are complete. Pr the daeto, ver with," ingchiously arranged to reduce house- you're
mass develop- his bride's reserve and distaste for the room and she went upstairs toly protected against mingling with strangers, greeted this change her dress. It was two o'clock men Golf courses are within easy suggestion with approval.
Any chance she had had to stop teach. For a free booklet giving full That'd be mee, Iloney. Mr. now. Adams is a nice little woman and Int the Adams place un her way to particulars of this and the four other worried sick. town was gone. She dare not keep Dartington estates, Paignton, Chura- reckon she's about
Con waiting in a snow storm. She ton, Carlyon and Exeter, write to: I know the little codger. Just the
chosen the cemetery Tor sort of kid I hope we'll have some ing place because it seemed the place STAVERTON BUILDERS, LTD., day.
Better go early though-there they would be least likely to Staverton, Toines, 8. Devon, England looks as though we might have n
encounter anyone whom he knew, blow."
The skies had darkened during theiress into a dark, heavy wool it oc Donna slipped from her house were snow clouds dre moguing. There
curred to her that, of all places in Bird & still wind was blowizard world, she had chosen the worst on threatened to turn inte
but as
meet-
As I spoke, a few big fakes scur- she should be seen there with Con ried through the air and danced the worst construction possible would
be given to the affair.
the window
This time last year" Bill added,
"We
were Rnowed in for week,
2.
She heard the wheels of the auto- Telegraph
and
telephone pales mobile crunching on the hard ground blew, down. Trains couldn't outside, and the noisy chug-chug of Doa- and
heap
of the engine. Then Bill whistled.
coat and hat, livestock died of cold and starvation. na snatched
up her
re through,
"
-I don't want you to get caught in a With a new desperation she planked
blizzard, Honey."
the hat on her head and drew on her when cont.
"There's not much chance I'm going just half a mile," Donna Inughed. But she glanced uneasily
out of the window,
Bill helped her into the little ear. "Don't slay lang," he said, klasing her "You aren't a crack driver at best and In the snow—”
"Mother hen!" she laughed.
"I'll drive you over, if you like." This was what Donna had feared he would say, "No, no, I'd rather She turned at the bend in the rond you didn't, I'm aure Grandfather to wave to him. He was still stand- will be all right, but just the same
I think one of us should be withining on the porch looking after her. the wind whipping his dark hair and call."
making it stand on end. Something Maybe you're right." There was a new farm magazine in his posture, as though he had bid- to look over and Bill sprawled on the her farewell and was taking a Inst, yearning look at her, caught at couch in the living room for some Donna's heart and almost, stifled her Lime after finishing his meal. Now and then Donna looked apprehensive-breathing.
She thought, "Oh, God-suppose
ly at the clock. watching the hands spin around with what seemed amaz-It's the last time I'll ever see him! ing speed. Her feeling of guilt Suppose this foolhardiness of mine deepened with every moment. There should separate us! Suppose God, as a punishment for all the things was no reason for her to wait until Bill left the house. For that matter, I've done, should tear him away from he gave no indication that he intend-mol"
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