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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1985,
SERIAL STORY-
by
DONNALË BIG TOP ↳ BALL
CHATTER XL
POYNIST
and probably didn't oven to run in the opposite started supper/something you have no right to.".
"Absolutely." there'd be the Old Nick to pay. Jobs
heaven's
In har diate why should any wanted to chance losing hers, even in.
one follow
of
"I do. Well, I shan't invite you to sympathy for Bill when he learned) the truth if he had not been a party the farm and I'll use every bit
persuasion I can to get Grandfather gate, Donna to such a Godless deed. "There's another whispered tremulously. "Let's go out. She waited until the man and wo-Siddal to make out a new will in ihat way."
"What are you shaking for?" Conan had gone on about 50 yards, favour of my husband-not because demanded. "Whoever that was be Then she gathered the shabby folds want the farm for myself nor be side the bushes didn't hear anything of her coat about her and began to cause Bill couldn't get along without direction. If that it, but to keep you from getting we said
lazy Janle
That's anal?" cognize you,
"I'm sure it was woman-and
♫
weren't so plentiful that Mrs. Planter
"You know what I can do to you?" that I was followed."
"I know what you think you can "In
doing her duty towards the com-do. Go ahead! It happens that both my husband and grandfathor Donna forgot that munity.
said
She wished she could have found love me. They'll believe my word Con himself was an enemy. Sho slowly,
"Because there is a woman out where Madeline and that cir- against yours."
"I hardly think so, but we'll see.” she used to be pur housekeeper-who eus fellow went after they left the would do
said, stopping the machine at the anything on earth to cause cemetery but, after all, that didn't, "You're getting out here," Donna me trouble. She hates
liko me Polson, watter much.
Denna and Con passei no one corner. Cold, devastating fury mado though I don't know why. Somehow she got hold of the handbill that and on their way to the car. Donnut her oblivious to the danger of being
Thanks "climbed in and unlocked the engine, seen with him.
Ko much for the lift," nounced your marriage to Madeline
drawled sarcastically, Again Con whistled softly. It was then held out her hand. "Let's part
the par, carefully not due to just thurprise but beenuse ho had friends, Con. For the sake of Made- Con
something. They line. know you didn't mean what stepped out of
avolding a snowdrift, and tipped his were moving cautiously now toward you said back there." the rear gate, oponing into the church "I'm going with you," he answered, hat. grounds proper. They walked close ignoring her outstretched hand.
"But
you can't!" she protested. The clock in the courthouse chimed four times. In the storm Donna to the vine-covered wall, hidden by the
"Not home with me." shadows cast by the trees.
"I don't mean that." As he spokej knew it would take the better part "Yes," Donna continued. "She ac-
to come, since red me of bigamy and I discharged he got fute the ear beside decision. foolish she had been to forme, sirove
haven't come to any sort of
"There isn't any to come to. You nothing had been gained by the risk! course Con's threats were just "Bigamy, eh? Well, it was natural
feel you are entitled to what would of dolle was a ceward and ho for her to think that, wasn't It?"
I think it words. Madeline's. "Not if she liked me and accepted have been iny word that the person who was should belong to Bill." She switched murried that day was another woman, on the engine and, with a sputter, the She knows you are in town, and ear leaped forward. "I'll drive you nothing would mult her more than to to the corner of the square. Ther find out that I came here to meet you. I'm going home.", But how could she know I was com-|· "And try to
of
Ha
would never go to Bill. What could bo prove if he did go? And to say ridiculous! she had committed a felony--it was Bat ir he should go to Bill whe lie. Lie to the Inst breathl would.
ing? How could she find that out?" change his induce the old man tolok God, if only she had never be
"Search me. I think you're worry- ing without any enuse. J's dollars to doughnuts that wasn't an enves dropper but someone taking a short cut through the grave yard."
"I hope no."
"Where's your car?"?
"I left it in a side street not far from here: We'll have to walk around. past the front gate, though. If I' were only sure Mrs. Planter
"Yes."
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come tangled in such a mesh of lies! The truth seemed so dreadful as Con "I wouldn't. I intend to stick put it. How could she account to around here, I don't want to make for her silence during all thone things unpleasant for you, but if you weeks when he had hesitated to ask force my hand I'll have to. Madeline's her to marry him, because he be
lieved they were related? Bill would death took a lot out of me.”
find that harder to forgive than any- the knowledge of thing. Keeping
She laughed incredulously.
socmed
"I don't mean the way you think. Madeline's death a secret
look ส never loved her and I won't pretend, terrible, too. It did make it
she wanted to inherit the I did. But it wasn't a particularly though pleasant sensation to see my wife farm. It had been glib and easy to Con squeezed her arm to reassure filled before my eyes and they shot say she would insist on the old man's her and her anxiety was much that my best cat. I went to pieces. The will being changed, but how could
she did not notics the
caress.
Nor
it?
She couldn't ask Grandfather if he her
and denth, dis she notice, as they turned the story got around that I sent her to she go about doing
I couldn't get engage corner after passing the gate, that ments. It will take a while to live all had left everything to her. What he slipped an arm around her.
that down. I figure her folks owe me would he think if she did? And ho would expect explanations if she at the for what she cost me."
naked him The Baptist Church was
to make Bill his heir. Madeline," Do
Donna murmured, extreme limit of the town. There:
Her head was burning but her body were no street lights within a block. "And how sho ndered you! You did What explanations could she offer? The snow was blinding and neither send her to her death. I can never felt as though it were slowly freezing anw the figure crouching beside the forgive you for that. You knew she into ice. Her eyes and checks stung fron pillars that supported the Kato, hnd choked, remembering the girl with skidded and she almost lost control gate. hadn't the gift you had, yet you and she felt slightly giddy. The car But Mrs. couple dianter, who
had judged correct- whom she had worked for so long of the wheel. When the danger was
"How
herselt sobbing over Abe found Is that they would not leave through the main entrance. Having pas550x1},
hysterically. Don't She realized that she must pick her Donna's car, she felt sure return to it. She had been within as it can't be done! I'll leave you way carefully. It was impossible to arm's reach of Donna when the girl to figure it out as best you can, but see the road because of the snow and stepped out of the machine, but had in some way you are going to invite there was no path or wheel ruts to been too shrewd trail at her heels. me to visit the farm and I'm going to guide her.
She became ao intent on driving, She had waited until Donna had been stay there until I'm on my feet again. with Con several minutes before en-And he leaned closer, "I'm going listening to the warning knock in the tering the cemetery.
to see that you don't get that will eftging, that it wasn't until she had To her chagrin she had been unable changed. Any monkey inusiness and passed the Adams house that she re- to hear what they said. Much as her I'll tip off your beloved Bill to the membered she was supposed to have gone there to see a sick baby. There was no time to stop now. cars burned to catch the words, sho truth"
"So it's blackmall?" -
(To Be Continued).
they
~ Day 11 expect to make her fam.
you, of course,
hnd-not-dared to move closer. But,I wouldn't call it that."
In spite of the abscuring darkness and the falling snow, she did seo Cos's arm around Donna's shoulder and her righteous soul boiled over with indignation at such "goings-on."
.
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She had hope Bill also would be a witness to the meeting, but she lid not see him anywhere. One thing was certain, she had gauged Madeline Siddal correctly. The girl was "hussy" unfit for decent folks associate with, and before another 21 hours went by not only Bill Siddal but everyone in Lebanon was going to know about it!
to
П
But what could folks expect of circus girl who probably never attended services until she found it. paid to do ao? A girl who had married her own cousin! Well, half- cousins were too close kin to make' marriage what it should be. Mrs. Planter would have felt inore
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