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DONNA BIG TOP
CHAPTER XLI
she 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.
been
by BSULAH
POYNTER
She talked casually man his summer. but all the time her thoughts were with her husband, wondering where he had gone and what had caused his strange manner."
•
Bill and Donna stood facing ench other in the warm, cheery sitting room that smelled of woodfire and dried lavender and the faint odour of How hard. Bill's face was! Like! drugs drifting in from Grandfather granite. If he found out about this Later the nurse confirmed line fears, Siddal'k room. Through the double lie and reacted so bitterly what would When Grandfather dozed the twe doora Minnie could be seen setting ho do when he learned their whole women returned to the living room.
allo? the table for supper.
married life had
Then Miss Perkins said, "Your hus- Donna laughed nervously, pulled off When she descended the stairs Bill and was terribly worried. After he the snow-covered hat, rentoved hor and Alex Perkins were already at telephoned your friend and found coat and shook it; then crossed to the the table. Bill did not rise and he ireplace, to warm her stuff, chilled served Donna in silence. The nurse, that you hadn't been there his face
sheet hands.
Inclined to be loquacious at meal time, "I-1 should have 'phoned him,” "It she lies I'll know that damn-found it impossible to keep up a con- Donna stanmered, wondering if the able letter is true," Bill thought, veraation, with Bill glowering at the other suspectes that she had not told "But sho won't lie. There is no head of the table and Donna obviously ill the truth. "When I was delay- ed 1-1 intended to stop there on my reason why she should. Anonymous ill at ease.
`untruths."
back vile
The anonymous letter burued in letters are always
but the storm kept me in anway Nevertheless he waited.
Bill's pocket lie was torn between town longer than I expected." "I'm. late," Denna said. "Then desire to completely ignore it and So Bil
knew she had not been near held too much the Adamses! He had tricked her drifts are something awful for such the suspicion that
lic. Her what's the matter, Bill?" Noticing truth for his happiness. If only into telling a deliberate for the first time his curious pallor Madeline had not lied! Where had she cheeks burned with sudden resentment
him
if she had gone and Light lips, she went on, "Is been If not in town? And why had Grandfather worse?"
do no. Many wives came and went without
it with their hus discussing to town? She had a perfect right to
bands. For all his protestations of falth and love, Bill had jumped to the conclusion that she was doing some thing she shouldn't.
"I was worried. That's all." She turned her back so that he
could not see her face as she spoke. "I stayed
she denied going there unless she had
him to know? gone for some reasons she did not want said, "No dessert, Minnio," B
Mrs. Adam than I intended, shoving back his chair.
You
in
1
against
to
a
What if
you went to the Adamnes?"
Without another word he left the "Of course, She lifted her hat dining room. In fur
If her conscience had been entirely cap, coat and and flicked
It with her forefinger. high rubber boots he strode out into clear Donna would have confronted "I told you I was going there."
the storm, taking grim satisfaction him and demand the reason for such "I knew, but when you stayed so
ΠΑΥΣΟΥ attitude. Knowing, she! long I thought perhaps you had the discomfort of trudging through stumble
was trending the edge of a precipice, changed your mind. His voice was Entling with the tearing wind, pit she could do nothing. harsh, as cold as the air outside.
She was too restless to read, and "No. I'm sorry if you were worried. Ling his strength against the elements
her. rasped nerves. Sho gave him courage to face something the radio you didn't mind my going." sald "I didn't." His Ast clenched and he knew might change the course of could not keep her attention on what Misa Perkins was saying and her! unclenched in an effort at self-control. in life.
But there must be some proof hands trembled too much for her to "Thought maybe you might have gone
against his wife besides the vicious sew. She wont into the kitchen, and to town."
words of the unknown letter writer made some molasses candy, gisicing and the lie her lips had uttered. every few minutes toward the clock Even if he found out that the man and stening for the sound of Bill' mentioned in the letter was in footsteps. Lebanon he would not accuse Made- line. Even if he learned that she ad met this man he would not be. lieve her unfaithful. She couldn't be.
shoes,"
"No. Why should I go to town?" "No reason that I know."
Upper Minnie announced. change Douna and hastily, "They're wat!" Bull looked at her feet. The shoes were sodden. "Why didn't you use the robe?"
“I did, but I had to get out-Not Madeline!
knock in the car and I-" E
there's
•
When he came, in she did not go to meet him. She heard him bid the nurse good night and ask if Grand-
he went up the stairs. father was sleeping peacefully. Then
When he did
served, but the lis she had told made become of panie, causing her to
the
stronger
There must be some explanation of not come down again Donna realized what had happened but he lacked the he was not looking for her, did not Iis laugh rasped. "And you got courage to ask for it. He had in-care where she was.
Her reluctance to be alone with him out to see what caused itt Funny tended to show Donna the letter and thing for you to do in this weather laugh at the whole thing, giving it grow stronger. It was not that she when you can't tell one plece of the consideration such scrawls de- was actually afraid of the entire truth machinery from another."
ing known so much as that she that Impossible. With the suspicion Was in eyes widened. Her pa
winte of Donna's
lose parted but, noticing Minnie's stare of Krowing
letter at moment that inspective. She knew that, if.
sat in
over a small lie, judgment", curiosity, she left the room. Her what
was true, he could not heart hounded with agonizing Inant this a joke! As if such a thing tionably, would. The fooling that the
the hand it to Donna and say Planter spoke-R speak she unques end would be reached when Mrs. tensity as she climbed tot so soon! would influence me!"
"He can't know Unless Mrs. Planter telephoned him He walked 01, trying to convince man she loved and would have trusted I don't know that it was Mrs. himself that the whole affair should to, the end of the world had failed her deeper hurt than anything else Planter who
dismissed ዜና
and forgotten, trying to wo 15. B wouldn't be listen to anything she said. Perhaps cling to his faith in the woman he could have been.
Bill, the steadfast, the true, the mon loved I should have told him I went to town.
in anything else But at the end of an hour the of high principles and honour, had Maybe, he telephoned the Adamses. life,
nover existed. Instead her husband doubts still lingered and he was no Suppose he phoned! Oh God!""
The room reeled about her and nearer a decision than before.
was proving himself jealous, unrea- waves of nausea rose in her throat. That hour was o miserable for sonably suspicious, small-minded and She braced herself against the dressor Donna. She went with Miss Perkins make now if their marriage did go on Intolerant. What difference could it with the realization of her folly. The to Grandfather Siddal's room and sat mesh was tightening with every stop there while the nurse gave the old
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bachelor officer whose household is Dix provides a denouement crammed i managed by a coloured housekeeper, with pathos and drama. "His Great- Louise Beavers. Any true picture of jest Gamble" brings to the screen a the academy must give the fair sex member of Hollywood's junior ranks only minor roles,
whose talents will astonish screen fans. Sho Is nine-year-old Edith Fellows who enacts the role of Dix's "Call of the Wild," 20th Century's Zane Grey's newest and greatest daughter as a child. In other aup colourful film version of Jack London's story of rip-roaring outdoor advenporting roles a cast chock-full of ture, "Thunder Mountain," showing at ability supports Dix in "His Greatest immortal story of the Yukon Gold the Alhambra from Sunday to Tues- Gamble," Among the featured Rush, comes to the King's Theatre the play, next Sunday,. A Jocation unit headed the screen as a two-fisted, virile, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Shirley Grey and by Clark Gable, Loretta Young and fighting hero of the lawless west. Leonard Carey are outstanding. John Jack Oakie faced danger and starva- Adapted from the new boat-seller Robertson performed a masterly Job
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Makersing story of the Idaho gold rush, j
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bucklica seeking gold in Alaska. They faithless beauty in this picture. Ann brand of clarity "The Nit rescue beautiful Claire Blake from castern girl, she encourages her father wito" Bert Wheeler and Robert
for Woolsey wolves and learn that her husband has to stake O'Brien in his search for y's newest comedy hit, show- is said to been lost in the Aretle wastelands, gold, hoping to share in his fortune. in at the King's
She possesses details regarding a rich O'Brien locates the mother Jodobe different from eatre, they have
Thunder Mountain, a a district long done heretofore. The elements of
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