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DONNA BIG TOP by BOULAT
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Mrs. Adams voice came over the "I my wife still there ? B asked.
"Who is this ?"
POYNIEE
minutes or
1935.
Sho'll be she'll
hope so." Scarcely knowing what he was doing, Bill lifted a pile of mail that lay on the dining room tablo,
telephone. He discovered, na he and something held her up. spolte, that he was shaking and the homo in a few When Donna was out of sight Bill uneasiness that had hung over hit telephone-you'll soc." roturned to the house. He was all the afternoon had developed into strangely restless and uneasy, sorry definite four.
Old that that he had let her go. she should have insisted on going to wire the Adamses through the snow storm when she had never been neighbourly with them before.
(„Elddal's room. The old man was eating his noon meal and showed no indication of the hard night he had had.
"Looks like a blizzard," Bill said, "Reckon I'd better fix up some adtlei protection for the stock."
Bill went into GraETESE
"I heard the wind," Amos Siddul nodded. "Is it snowing?"
"Coming down fast.
you,
me
That came while you were out in the barn," the nurse hastened to ex- blain. "I forgot to say, anything
"Dil Siddal. Is Mrs. Siddal still about there?"
"Why, no,"
"But she's been at your house to-day 7"
"No. I didn't expect her."
Like a man ravaged by a long, li- tens, Bill moved automatically away from the telephone, Miss Parkins, who had followed him into the hall, gave a little cry at the sight of his stricken face.
her."
It
There were catalogues, circulara, a nowspaper and a lotter. The address on the letter was in unfamiliar hand- writing. Bill shoved the circulars to one side and picked up the letter. who's writing me from
wo" he said,
Then he opened it. The nurse, watching his face, saw it turn the colour of death. His nostrils quivered and his mouth grow taut—a mere, vivid line in his ashen face.
"Mr. Siddal, what is it?
Nothing. I'm going to town." Ho Jammed Mrs. Planter'a I'm anonymous
into his cont message
She
Nothi*
The
What's
"The little fellers will like it. Don't you recollect when a snow storm was about the finest thing in the world,
"Something's happened,” he mum- Bill
"Yes. And that reminds
that bled thickly, "An accident. while I'm about it Pil grease the hasn't been there at all." runners of the bobsled. I don't sup
"Oh, but just half a mile-" "Don't let on to the old man. pose Madeline has been in a bobsled alace she was a Xi.
Miss Perkins going to get the bobsled and go after pocket. "I'm going back to town
he repeated. "I Madeline should murmured,
mured, looking up from the tray It occurred to him that his fore come tell her" she held in her lap from which she thought in oiling the sled and getting
The wra feeding the patient. You put it in shape was a grim coincidence. killed the rest of the sentenc engine straw in the bottom of the sted, don't Not oner, as 10 hiblankets and put stopped in front of the house. Bili
the borses, ear
and came into the driveway up with piles of covering them with cover
"did
he blankets 76
СУСА ting blinders, over their
slood watching, as though holding That's it. And sometimes the doubt Madeline's word. She had sak! hla breath.
The nurse, instinctively realizing whole kit and caboodle gets dumped she was going to the Adamses and on the roadside, but no one is ever she had not arrived there. The only that some sort of scene was imunin- hurt. Used to be great fun when I explanation was that there must have ent, slipped out of the room was a boy."
been an accident. Perhaps at this Donna opened the front door. The nurse rose and carried the tray moment she was lying in a gulley at
To Be Continued). to the kitchen. When she returned the side of the road, dead or dying.. she stood for a second, studying the
A grønn lore at Bil's throat. Why young farmer. "Do you ever regret had he let her go? He had seen the giving up your medical studies, Mr. storm coming. It had already begun Siddal 7" she asked, picking up some when she left. She wasn't sewing she had dropped in a cimir.driver. If she was dead-
"Not since my marriage."
Bends perspiration formed on "You would have made a wonderful his temples and upper lip and froze doctor. I've noticed you often. You in the ley air. His hands trembled never say anything to irritate the so that he had difficulty in grasping. patient and your presence, always the reins. seems to soothe your grandfather."
Bill patted the old man's hand. "We're mighty close-Grandpop and I," he said. "Have lots of things in common."
Ku
He added as he turned to "I'll be back in half an hour, Grand-
map, and then I read you the far now." With a half sheepish look toward the nurse he bent and pressed his lips against the withered foretel, "You just better hurry up and get well" lie said softly.
of
12 god
He ought to have Miss Perkins gel | in touch with Doc Freeman so that he could be on his way out to the farm when Bill reached home with Indeline. No, he wouldn't take tha time, to stop and tell Miss Perkins. Every moment was precious.
why n
lle w the nurse in the open door
the
#led cut through the driveway, the great lumbering horses fuching and stumbling in the piles of snow. She waved at Bill but he gave no response.
Don't Let Rheumatism Cripple You.
AB
Drive It Out By Tonic Treatment Through The Blood. Nothing incapacitates more quickly. for work, sport and pleasure than rheumatism, and once this dreadfully painful malady gets a hold the attacks increase in frequency and Intensity as time goes on unless proper means are Ones out on the open road he drove adopted to remove their cause.
Like most other ailments rheuma- One of the baby lambs was sick slowly, his eyes searching, searching and this delayed hin. It was dusk for a dark object in the snow. Once Lism is most carlly checked in
before the poisone in the Siser Bill, tired and apprehensive he stopped the horses and leaped out early stages be a bold throughout the
object he had blood
whole
Dr. Williams Pink of the weather, trudged back to the of the sled, but the
system, renowned for their ability to threw the living room window
Adams farm
ke turned red blood in abundance, have proved tu Theumatic in the woodshed long enough to use
bewilderment added to his of the greatest now from his round. 4 broom to brush
of all ages. woman, walking, might sufferers shoes and clothing. Then he entered anxiety. A
Through the blood these pills build of the kitchen. By have wandered off the path, gotten rights Donna should now be helping into the woods and become lost there, up the nerves and restore health and but an automobile could not dis-strength to the whole system. Ar a Minnie with the evening meal,
remedy for anaemic conditions, appear completely.
Elther Madeline had gone beyond nervous debility, digestive weakness, the Adams place or the car had been and as a restorative after fevers, and wrecked and towed away. In the other serious illnesses they are latter ease it did not seem plausible rivalled.
house. A yellow gleam of light from hoped was Madeline.proved to be only pills, the blood and to create rich | come glow on the path. He wel.a log, half-covered with snow."
prised
But Deans was not in the kitchen. Minnie looked up from'a pan of pota- toes she was peeling and grinned at him. On the table beside her was a motion picture
"Where's my "Dunno,"
"Bill"asked
Calling, "Madeline!" he
At
thi
everyone
ON-
that she would not havo bocn. taken. If you are suffering from any of the to the Adams house or that he would consequences of an impoverished state have been notified Although of the blood it is more than worth passed, not Through the pantry and corridor. few of the neighbours knew his wife your while to try Dr. Williams' Pink
knew her by Pills. Sold by chemists everywhere. When there was no reply he ran up personally, the stairs. Their bedroom was empty sight.
At the crossroads he stopped again. and both her hat and cont were gone.
Ilis watch informned him that it it would be impossible to drive the was after five o'clock. "She's stay- horses and sied through the growth time,' Bill muttered. of underbrush but if by chance Madeline had had trouble with the
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In Grandfather's room he tried to engine and started on foot for help when he inquired if she might have missed the way and casual Madeline had telephoned, but there gone in that direction.
note of muxiety in his voice A search with the aid of a pocket flashlight, however, yielded no re- that could not be disguised.
Bill climbod back into tho "Perhaps she tried to." Miss Per-suits. kins suggested, "and the storm pre- seat of the sled and started for home. vented her from getting the message There he would telephone to town and ask someone to send out a search- through."
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