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SERIAL STORY-
DONNA BIG TOP. by B
CHAPTER XLIII
Con's surprise wan kehuine, "An anonymous letter?" be repeated. don't understand.”..
"I
"Perhaps you will when you read it. Bill tossed tha letter on the Lable. Ils eyes dit not leave the other's face as he read the message. Then Bill asked, "What about it 7""
"Well-what about 117"
"Did my wife meet you yester
dayon drew a cigarette from his
POYNIER
met Get, this? She married me in that was reckless on the arena"
anow-covered ronds. He did not know what he was "That's a lia!"
going to do or what he would say to "Is it? Here's the certificate to the woman who had destroyed his prove it Ask her! Ask your lily-faith, who haul torn his heart into white bride.
can't She
"deny it. bits and crushed them. Ilis bloo That's why she came when I sent was pounding against his cars und for her!" He stooped and santched is body, bathed in perspiration, al- up the rolled paper, flipped off the ternately shook, with cold and burned ribbon
certificate with fever. bon and, dangled the
name? before Bill's eyes. See the
God, what an awakening from a Madeline Siddal and Conrad David!" fool's paradies! And she had insisted
ocup Bill gave a strangled cry, flung there had been no other man, in her
ket and held a lighted minich to it hall. He swayed like a drunken man. her promises had been lica! "You haven't questioned hor?" lie had been prepared for anything asked.
but this. The enormity of it sent
he
I said I came to you. meet you?".
Did she
"Yes"
"Why?
were you I'd ask her." I'm not asking for advice but nho meet information. Why did you
"Because I sent word for her to." "What right have you to ask my wife to meet you secretly?"
"A
good n right as you have to demand an explanation from me,"
"That's no answer."
"It's all you'll get now."
Bill's fints dlenched. Ile felt an Irresistibe impulse to smash
antont
How
hira Was
long would it be before he the nughing stock of the
a bit insane. At the foot of the stairs county? Not that that mattered. It
ho hesitated, weighing the advisability wasn't what people said or did that of returning and choking the life out hurt, but the fact that Madeline and of the animal trainer or going back he were through. He would nover to the farm and killing his wife. hold her in his arms again, never king those soft red lips. Why had she married him? Had she Joved him so much that?
*
His wife--but she wasn't his wife! She was the wife of that yellow-
No, he mustn't think of that. He faced scoundrel who had known she had married another legally and must not try to excuse her. He must done nothing about it. The woman crush his love for her. If he didn't he had loved and trusted was a cheat, he would go mad!
(To Be Continuod) abigumist. But for that damned paper he would never have believed
He did not see the gaunt figure at who stood the end of the passage
his fist into the handsome, mocking watching him with voracious eyes face before him. "I don't know the and e smirking smile. When she code your kind lives by," he said called him by name he turned auto- thickly. but
the day Madeline leftmatically, without knowing that he the circus she was through with you did no.
and your standards. She's my vlfe "Bill Siddal! It's mo-Mig' Plan- now. Shell live necording to my ter. You seen him 7" principles and they don't include re- Intions with other men."
"Yeah 7"
"If you value your skin you'll pack
up and leave this town on the first
train."
"And if I don't?"
"What?"
"You seen that circus feller 1" "What do you know about him?” "Everything. I sent you the let- I was afraid ter. Did you get it?
know
to sign my name, but now that you him I don't care.. I rec- about "I find some means to see that kon everybody will be knowing now: you
I WAN do."
Sich things can't be kept hid. ch? star,
to Better trying
you. If you'd "Strong arm consult Madeline before you do nny-n-followed her yesterday mebbe you thing she wouldn't like
could a-stopped talk."
He stared at
her dully. It is "Why, damn you!" Bili lunged for- ward but Con dodged the blow. He doubtful if he heard anything she thinking of other laughed and the laugh was like nsaid. He was whip inshin Bill's face-a confirma- things: his wife in a little gingham Lion of all the doubts that had been dress, sleeves rolled to the shoulder gnawing at his heart since the night and her bare arma plunged into before.
flour bin; her first attempt to bake a you don't want a dirty scandal cake: Madeline bending over Grand- that you'll be sorry for, you'd better father's bed, her fingers soothing the
ihe naimal temper,'
Rn aching Intrack from keep your
snowy
the chic- trainer snarled. And that's no idle temple; Madeline feeding threat! I know she's played you for kens, the wind blowing through her
innocent of sucker and that you're
copper curls, her cheeks flushed, her the whole mess, but if you get nasty eyes sparkling. I can, too. I've kopt my mouth shut but if you rile me, by God I drag her into court and let the devil pay the bill
A
རྭ
каш
He saw her as she had looked the first day he wheeled her out to the garden in the chair. And he her in the vine-covered church, hor eyes lowered, hor face so earnest, her His words staggered Bill. They mouth so sweetly tremulous as she incomprehensible. A whispered "Yes," to the question, "Do utterly
to be your kus- Acandal-yes, that would wreck his you take this man ilfe and Madeline's. But what was band?" this threat about court?
were
All the tinto she had had a bus-
"You think you married a pure band. Bill passed a shaking hand went on over his forehead. It was moist with little ice maiden," Con relentlessly, his anger mounting at perspiration. the scorn he read in the other's face. "So honest that"
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He shook the animal-trainor Lime ago. I ortor have told you then, only
sho-the-snippity-chithe-sald! until his teeth rattled, "That Was long as I hadn't no proof she'd
Surprised at the
Bill asked do" he onslaught,
"Proofs of what?" Con stumbled, Rudden
"That her axi that circus feller is back against the wall, knocking over the suitcase bench on which reated man and wife. Yes, they are! Let
vallee. The contents, in- an open
rolled document tied with her swear till doomsday that it was cluding a
the other girl he married under her blue ribbon, tumbled to the floor.
name. That don't fool me! No sir. Black eyes narrowed to mere slits. My boy, Nub, sent me handbill and
Con't
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