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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER
SERIAL STORY
6,
DONNA BIG TOP-
by BEULAH
POYNTER
CHAPTER XLVII.
waw not
1935.
a letter addressed to the two of you, the old man, his snowy head on white pillow, his face ha peaceful but I have an iden that hasn't any as if he were aleeping. Some of thing to do with the property."
"But I don't understand! I always the contentment Amos Siddal had known in life seemed to cling to him thought in death, and the harassed young nan, keeping the death watch, felt
•
At 6 o'clock in the morning the telo. Groggy with phone rang again. fatigue and the emotional atorm he had endured, Bill staggered into the
It was Minule who discovered that Donna was gone. Miss Perkins, the nurse, who considered it a blessbig
"I reckon he figured that, na you that Amon Siddal was at rent at last, spoke sharply to the servant girl and
were man and wife, It didn't make any difference who had the property hustled her into the kitchen to get
and maybe it was wiser for the man in else supper. Whether, any one the family wanted food or not, the
to have the any than the woman."
"But this will can't stand. It's-- nurse felt the need of it,
Snifling audibly. Minnie set about
it's wrong! Let's rend it at once, Mr. preparing the meal. It
take!" strange to her that Mrs, Siddal did
Hoskins. There must be some mis- Just as you say, Bill, but there's not come down to help. She was
A man's voice said, "This is Curt probably prostrated by grief. Minnie Kellogg, Dill. There's a telegram no mistake. The will will have to act the table, placed the food upon it for you. Want I should read it or stand." and called Miss Purkins. The nurse send it out?" insisted that Bill inust eat something, "Road it to me."
"It's dated to-day, five a.m., Chi-! toak Mrs. Shidal to come down, capo. It reads, "Con David fled. Minnie," she added. "Tell her I said May I come back and explain? she must have some food. She Wire Blackstone Hotel. Madeline. mustn't let herself get ill."
Want to send an answer?"
hall.
Rubbing her red eyes with a hand- "Not now." kerchief, Biinnle mounted the stairs. Bill went into the living room and The snifles were gone when she dash sat dow knees. So she wanted to his hands hanging limply ed back into the dining room. "She's between
Minnie cried excitedly. "Mis' come back and explain. Explain gone!" Siddal's genol
what? That she was divorced from nurse Con David but with her grandfather still unburied had run away to Chi- bag's
cags with himi 7
she's outside," the Ma'am. Her travelling one and there ain't any toilet things on the dresseri There's a big trunk in the hall with her name on it. Oh my Lordle!" Minnie
Telegrams were public property in Lebanon, Before noon everyone in town would know that, not only had her hands. nk if Donnan to wring Bili Siddal's wife run away, with an-
's disappear ance affected her personally.
other man, but she had wired her husband to take her back.
Bill pushed back his chair ond. He'd be damned if he would! He ktrode from the room. Only too had told her he would get out and evident were the indications of his that would not have created a scandal, svifo's departure. Bureau drawers and clothes hangers wore empty The huge wardrobe trunk with the binck letters, "Madeline Gabriel," stood at the foot of the second flight of stairs.
She bad gone without a word to him. If he needed further
proof that Con David had told the truth this supplied it.
the
tele-
He could have gone back to finish his medical course and Inter affairs be- twe tween himself and Madeline could) ha have been arranged quietly, No, he couldn't answer gram. Let her go back to the cir- eus where she belonged,
hud never been truly happy on the farm. | Always there had been something on her mind. No matter how close they
She
Bill Kearched for 802 farewell had seemed there had always been n message but there was none. Even barrier between them.
before Grandfather's funeral Made- The other marringe explained that. Jine hand left the house. Was she utterly heartless? But why expert
more of a woman who had been cheat from the day he had first met
her?
the
Ind
Poor kid, probably be had worried. plenty. Maybe she had heard from David and was afraid of what he might do. Maybe everything hadn't
No, use to been easy for her.
gel sentimental. She was gone.. Let her wast stay where she Why had she married him?
But he could not dismiss the tele- she separated from the animal train; grain. The uncertainty, the feeling er and been afraid a divorce would that perhaps she was in trouble per- have been frowned upon by Grand-sisted. There was a streak of stub- father? Or were she and David bornness in Bill's nature, however, divorced, so that she was legally Bill's that would not let him do what his wife? No-if that were case heart prompted. she would not have run away.
He heard the telephone bell ring- ing but did not answer it. Present- The day passed with no answer ly he heard, Miss Perkins saying, sent. And another
ранней. Hello! Yes, he's here." Then she Then came the funeral. Services called, i
A woman wants to speak were held at home and, in spite of the. to you, Mr. Sikini."
distance from town, many were pro A wild hope that it was Madeline sent. Neighbours who had known stirred in Bill's breast, When he Amos Siddal all his life and loved! heard Mrs. Planter's voice over the him. Many drawn through curiosity wire his disappointment was so acute that he felt almost ill
"Bill, in spite of the way you talk- ed to me I'm still your jent wanted to tell you that the circus feller checked out of the hotel and han gone-to-Chicago.
day
to learn, if possible, why young Mrs. Siddal had gone away. Others to see how Bill was taking the situation. friend. There were some who had known Donna casually and liked her, who refused to believe that she had gone away with another man...
"I'm not interested," he answered. "You should be considerin Made lina took the same train."
"What's that?"
It was a bitter ordeal for Bill The sight of Mr. Planter in rusty binck, sobbing dolefully, was almost too much for him. He would have liked to fling her out of the house but hel could not do that. She had lived in
"It's all over town. She didn't buy no ticket, but Ben Goddard said she told him she was goin' to Chicago the Siddal home for five years and
that
the
was supposed to be J close friend.
(To Be Continued)
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Joe Hoskins, the lawyer, a lifelong "Thanks," Bill interrupted and acquaintance of Grandfather Siddal, hun, at her fallings Reba Perkins Hill Minnic and Miss Perkins, sat
up receiver.
rodo to the cemetery in the car with
might have lud, curiosity was not behind.
his
one of them. She asked no questions Little was said on the dismal trip, of the silent, haggard-eyed man. She but on the way home again the at- contrived to induce him to eat and torney asked, "Shall I come out to offered no sympathy. She knew that your place to read the will or will sympathy at such a time would break you come in to the office?" down defence of reserve and might "It doesn't matter," Bill answered do untold harm.
gloomily, "The property all goes to Ale Adama sirove over dit in 'clock. Madelineth You!! have get in offering to sit up with Grandfather. touch with
·Bill thanked him but said it was not Hoskins coughed and adjusted his NCCESRATY. The sight of Adams spectacles. "No," he said. "It doesn't. aroused such poignant recollections Your Grandfather didn't leave Made- that Bili could not endure his pre-line & cent."
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Hofn
"What?"
to
He lay down on the
In the "The farm and everything else is living room. Not far away reposed | yours, Bill, unless—well, he did leave!
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