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THE-. HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER
RIAL STORY-
DONNA BIG TOP by BEULAH
CHAPTER XLIII
"I
POYNDER
2, 1935,
anow-covered met. Get this? She married me in that was reckless on
ronds. He did not know what he was the arena-"
going to do or what he would say to Con's surprise was genuine. "An "That's a lie,?"
had destroyed his anonymous, letter?" he repeated. "Is it? Here's the certificate to the woman who don't understand."
"Perhaps you will when you readProvo if Ask her! Ask your Hly faith, who had torn his heart into can't deny it. bits and crushed them. Iis blood white bride. She it." Bill tossed the letter on the That's why she came when I sent was pounding against his cars and table. His eyes did not leave the for her!" He stooped and snatched his body, bathed in perspiration, al- other's face as he read the message, Then Bill asked, "What about It?""
"Well-what about It 7"
day 7"
Did my wife meet you yester Con drew a cigaretto from his poc ket and held a lighted match to it "You haven't questioned her?" he asked.
"I said I came to you. Did she meet you?"
"Why?"
you
"If I were you I'd ask hor." I'm not asking for advice but ineet information. Why did she
"Becauso I sent word for her to." "What right have you to ask my wife to meet you secretly?"
·
"As good a right as you have to demand an explanation from me."
"That's no al wet-now." "It's all you'll Bill's Asta denched. He felt an almost irresistibo impulse to smash
into the his fist into handsome, mocking face before him. "I don't know the code your kind lives by" he said thickly, "but the day Madeline icft the circu
circus she was through with you and your standards. She's my wife now. Shell live according to my principles and they don't include re- lations with other men."
"Yeah?"
"If you value your skin you'll pack
up and leave this town on the first
"I don't?"
led paper, Alpped of the ternately shook with cold and burned
and dangle the cortificate with fever,
name? See the
God, what an awakening from a Bill's eyes.
been no other man in her Madeline. Siddal and Conrad David!" fool's paradise! And she had insisted
Bill gave a strangled ery, flung there open the door and dashed down the life before she met him! Lies-all hall. He swayed like a drunken man, her promises had been lies!
long would it be before he He had been prepared for anything
was the laughing stock of but this. The enormity of it sent him
How
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 never
hold In his arms again. to the farm and killing his wife.
kiss those soft red lips. Why bad she loved
His wife but she wasn't his wifel she married him! Had She was the wife of that yellow-him so much that-7 faced scoundrel who had known she had married another legally and done nothing about it. The woman he had loved and trusted was a cheat, a bigamist. Ilut for that damned papor he would never have believed It!
Ile did not see the gaunt figure at who stood the end of the passage watching him with voracious eyes and a smirking, smile. When sho called him by name he turned auto- matically, without knowing that he did so.
ter
"Bil Biddall It's me-Mia' Plan-
You seen him? "Want 7"
"You seen thai circus feller?" "What do you know about him?" "Everything. I sent you the lot-
ter.
Did you get 7 I was afraid
to sign my name, but now that you know about him I don't care. I ree-
"I'll find some means to see that kon everybody will be knowing now.
you do."
Better
"Strong arm stuff, eh? consult Madeline before you do any thing she wouldn't like
to Rave
you. If
Sich things can't be kept hid. I was you'd a-followed her yesterday mebbe you could a-stopped talk."
It le
il
Ho stared at her dully. "Why, damn you!" Bill lunged for- ward but Con dodged the blow. He doubtful if he heard anything she aughed and the laughs was like aald. He was thinking of other whip lash in Bill's face-a confirm things: his wife in a little gingham tion of all the doubts that had been dress, sleeves rolled to the shoulder gnawing at his heart since the night and her bare arms plunged into
Hour bin; her first attempt, to bake a before.
Grand- "f you don't want a dirty scandal cake; Madeline bending over
father's bed, that
her fingers soothing the you'll be sorry for, you'd better
aching the
hair back from an Bhimal keep your temper." trainer anarled. At that's no idle temple; Madeline feeding the chic. threat! I know she's played you for kena, the wind blowing through her
sucker and that you're innocent of
eyes sparkling.. the whole mess, but if you get asty copper curls, her cheeks flushal, her
esn, too, I've kept my mouth shut but if you rile me, by God I'll drag her into court and let the devil pay the bilin
I
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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, her eyes lowered, her face so earnest, hor His words staggered Bill. They mouth so sweetly tremulous as she incomprehensible. A whispered "Yes," to the question, "Do utterly scandal-yes, that would, wreek his you take this man life and Madelino's. But what was band" this threat about court?
were
All the time who pure band. Bill passed married Д onlover his forehead. "You think little ce maiden," Con went
his relentlessly,
anger mounting at perspiration. the scorn he read in the other's face. "So-honest-that
•
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to be your hus-
had had a bus-
a shaking hand
It was moist with
"I knowed it a long time ago," con-
never
No, he mustn't think of that. He must not iry to excuse her. He must rush his love for her. If he didn't
(To Be Continued) he would go mad!
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thout the wall. knocking over that her and that circus feller is
man and wife, Yes, they are! Leb her swear till doomsday that it was the other giri he married under her
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robe. He shook the animal trainer until his teeth rattled. "That will
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Con
stumbled sudden on back
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That don't fool me! No sir. Black eyes narrowed to mero slits. My boy, Nub, sent me a handbill and
BRANCHES-Bombay. Caloutin, Calicut, Con's is became a crimson gash in it said they were
to
be narrict Colombs, langkeng, Madras, Shanghel, Singa a pasty white, face. "Ask her who Madeline and that circus feller, I pose.
Agencies-In all the principal towns of it showed to Madeline Siddal married in Louisville
her and-". before 2,000 witnesses," he gasped "When? Before we were married?" the world.
General Exchange and Banking Business I had it before but I showed transscled Loss and overdrafts granted ou explosively. "Ask her about the cere-
in the big top. Ask her the it to her afterward.'
approved security. Current and Fixed Deposit on the man who stood up with
Bill's face darkened with passion. tenis ned
BAVINGS ACCOUNTS to local currency?—— "You old dovil!" he
cried. "You
Interest wilwed at 8% per annum. her!"
STERLING HAVING ACCOUNTS-Interest "Revulsion swept over Bill. For a keep your mouth shut about this er,
allowed at talas which may be obtained on kill second the other man's insinuations se help me God, I'
yout unheeded. Then slowly passed
OF Mrs. Planter began to, suivel. "I application.
TRAVELLERS' LETTERS
CREDIT and TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES. dawned upon him that Can had said might a-knowed that's what I'd get
CREDIT LETTERS OF PASSENGERS" something of vital importance, none for my trouble! I was only tryin' to thing that shook the whole structure help you. That's all the. thanks for us only on board P. & D. and B..
get! But wint should I expect of of his marriage.
Home Line steamer, and at Ports of Cell British Income Tax Recovered "What do you mean?" he stam-man who'd marry his cousin"
Executorships and Trusteeships undertaken. Bill did not wait. He tore through mored.
W. J. WADDINGTON,
Manager Con flung back his head, laughing the office and into the street. In the tauntingly. "Madeline Siddal married sleigh he urged the horse to a speed fongkong, 18th November, 1935.
nante
it
"
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