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SERIAL STORY.
DONNA BIG TOP-
by BEULAH
POYNTER
CHAPTER XLI
Bill and Donna stood facing each other in the warm, cheery, altting room that smelled of woodfire and drled lavender and the faint odour of drugs drifting in from Grandfathe Siddal's room. Through the double doors Minnie,could be seen setting the table for supper.
Donna laughed nervously, pulled off the know-covered hat, removed her coat and shook it; then crossed to the Areplace to warm her stiff, chilled
hands.
ho took. Every act of hers seemed to lead to conviction. Even her shoes were evidence against her, proof she had waded through snow, when there had been no necessity.
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man his pupper. She talked_ensually but all the tling her thoughts were with her husband, wondering where he had gone and what had caused his strange manner.
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Later the nurse confirmed her fears. When Grandfather dozed the two women returned to the living room. Then Miss Perkin anid, "Your hus- band was terribly worried. After he telephoned your friend and found that you hadn't been there his face. was as white as a sheet."
"But she won't lie. There is no high, with Bill glowering at the other suspected that she had not told!
Grandfather works 7"
"I was worried. That's all,"
could not see her face as she spoke. of stayed
I intended. Mrs. Adamager than
П
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clusion
How hard Bill's fned was Like granite.
If he found out about this fle and reacted so bitterly what would he do when he learned their whole
married life had been lie?
When she descended the stairs Bill and Miss Perkins were already at the table, Bil
Bill did not rise and he served Donna in silence. The nurse, Inclined to be loquacious at meal time, "II should have phoned him." "If she lles I know that damn- found it impossible to keep up a con- Donna stammered, wondering if the able letter is Bill thought. true#
of the table and Donna obviously Bill the truth. "When I was delay- ed I intended to stop there on my reason why she should. Anonymous ill at ease. lettors are always vile untruths." The anonymous letter burned in way back but the storm kept mo in Nevertheless he waited.
Bill's pocket. He was torn between town longer than I expected." Donna said. "The "I'm late,"
So Bill know she had not been near desire to completely ignore it and drifts are something awful for such the suspicion that it held too much the Adamses! He had tricked her
truth what's the matter, Bill?" Noticing
into telling for
a dellberate lic. Her his happiness. If only
resentment sudden for the first time his curious pallor Madeline had not lied. Where had she cheeks burned with and tight lipa, she went on, "Is been if not in town? And why had against him. What if she had gone She had a perfect right to she denied going there unless she had to town? She turned her back so that he gone for some reason she did not want do so. Many wivos camo and went
him to know?
without discussing it with their hus "No dessert, Minule," Bill sald, bands. For all his protestations of shoving back his chair.
and love, Bill had jumped to the that she was doing somo- Without another word he left the thing she shouldn't. dining room. In fur cap, cont and If her conscience had been entirely high rubber boots he strode out' into clear Donna would have confronted the storm, taking a grim satisfaction him and demand the reason for such in the discomfort of trudging through a narrow attitude. Knowing sho drifta
the that made him stumble, was treading edge of a precipice, Battling with the tearing wint, pit-sho could do nothing.
She was too restless to read, and
her ting his strength against the elements
nerves. She adio rasped gave him courage to face something the radio he knew might change the course of could not keep her attention on what Miss Perkins was saying and her his life.
But there must be some proof hands trembled too much for her to against his wife besides the vicious now. She went into the kitchen and words of the unknown letter writer made some molasses candy, glancing and the le her lips had uttered. every few minutes toward the clock Even if he found out that the
and listening for the sound of Bill's footsteps. mentioned in the letter was
When he came in sho did not go to Lebanon ho would not accuse Made- line. B
Even if he learned that she meet him. She heard him bid the ne had met this man he would not be nurse good night and ask if Grand- Heve her unfaithful. She couldn't be. father was sleeping peacefully. Then Not
he went up the stairs. When he did Madeline!
down again. Donna realized There
must be some explanation of not come what had happened but he lacked the he was not looking for her, did not for it. He had in-care where she was. courage to ask tended to show Donna the letter and
"Oh, went to the Adamses?"
you "OL COUTRO."
She lifted her hat and flicked it with her forefinger. "I told you I was going there."
"I know, but when you stayed so I thought perhaps you had long changed your mind." His voice was hareh, as cold as the air outside.
"No. I'm sorry if you were worried. said you didn't mind my going." You
"I didn't." His fist clenched and unclenched in an effort at self-control "Thought maybe you might have gone to Why should I go to lown?"
NO
"No reason that I know."
per!" Minnie announced.
chango my" shoes, Donna Raid hastily. "They're wet,"
BI looked at her feet. The shoes were sodden. "Why didn't you use the robe?"
"I did, but I had to get
out there's a knock in the car and I-"
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in
Her reluctance to be alone with bim
His laugh rasped. "And you got out to scr what caused it! Fun laugh at the whole thing, giving it grew stronger. It was not that sho thing for you to do in this weather when you can't tell one piece of the consideration such scrawls de- was actually afraid of the entire truth
served, but the lie she had told made cor
becoming known
80 much as
as that she machinery from another."
Donna's oyes widened. Her lips that impossible. With the suspicion was in a state of panic, causing her to
loso perspective. She knew Darted but, noticing Minnio's stare of growing stronger every moment that
new that, true, he Bill sat
judgment over the curiosity, she left the room. Her what the letter said was
Finall le end would be reached when Mrs. heart pounded with agonizing in-
Could a joke! As if such a thing)
not and it to Donna and say, Pbly would. The feeling that tho spoke as speak she unques- ten as she climbed the stairs,
He walked on, trying to convince man she loved and would have trusted himself that the whole affair should to the end of the world had failed her be dismissed and forgotten, trying to was a deeper hurt than anything else
could have been cling to his faith in the woman he loved
Dill, the steadfast, the true, the man more than anything else
can't know not ao
BOON] would Influence me!" Unless Mrs. Planter telephoned him And I don't know that it was sirs. Planter who saw us. Bill wouldn't Isten to anything she said. Perhaps
in
I should have told him I went to town. But at the end of an hour the of high principles and honour, had Maybe he telephoned the Adamse doubts still lingered and he was no never existed. Instead her husband Suppose he phoned! Oh God!"
was proving himself jealous, unrea- sonably suspicious, small-minded and intolerant. What difference could it make now if their marriage did go on
To Re Continued).
The
decision room reeled about her and nearer a
than before. That hour was as miserable for waves of nausea rose in her throat. She braced herself against the dresser Donna. She went with Miss Perkins with the realization of her folly. The to Grandfather Sidal's room and sat mesh was tightening with every stop there while the nurse gave the old
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