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SERIAL STORY-

DONNA BIG TOP

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY DONNA GABRIEL and MADELINE SI get something out of life--" DAL wh call themselves "The Gabriel inters" are elreus performers. Yeary arter

IATM,

When Donna,,is injured by a fall from K

of the tens and Ushers he takes part in

Con Kees one of Ikman's Jelters to Madeline Into dhcover how she tricked him marriage.

K

She dropped into a chair, laid her head on the shelf before the mirror

tears.

by BEULAH

POYNTES

rotten

Rever marry

you'd wanp out of it and begin to might have given her as much affec tion ne he was capable of giving-any. --one “With you?"

But Madeline was a woman in love. Yea, with me. In only your Madeline ran away from her grandfather's darned pride and conceit that's eating After a week's coolness, when she! you now. That's all it ever was alternated between hating Con and trapezo Madeline arranges for hes to be between you and Donna-and don't aching for him, she smothered her taken to GRANDFATHER SIDDAL'S farm tell me any different. I've lived with pride and begged his forgiveness.

"It was because I loved you," she to recuperate. To please her partner Donna you long enough to know you'll never pretends to be Madeline. She falls in love love any one but yourself. The only sobbed. "I know it was

was Just crazy and with BILL SIDDAL Madeline's cousin, and though she is nahamed of deceiving Bill and reason you wanted Donna whs be thing to do but I

cause you couldn't have her. I wish I knew Donun would Grandfather who is afraid to tell, the truth,

CON DAYID. circus animal trainer, leves to God she'd married you! I don' you. I'm telling you the truth, the God's truth! Donna had a crush on Donia but when Madeline tells him that her want you. Not any more!" partner martial Con, believing Donna, let

Bill Siddal the first time she went se him, marries | Madeline. Though terriffel

to visit my grandfather and I knew and burst into Angry

if she and Bill were thrown together ha animal act

defence Con could they'd get married. You've got to Tears were

& paced the little toom, forgive me, Con. 1 can't go on like not combat. He

have and

to then this! It's just killing me whistled isconsintely

you treat me this way." swung on his heels and left.

the letter, rend HI Madeline picked up

it was your iden to have Auppose CHAPTER XIX

it through and then destroyed it. She Donna go to the farm after the Ac- When the animals had been driven and Con had both speicen in the heat eldent? back through the covered runway and of passion but they had said things the uproar, had subsided Renfree that were not easily forgiven nor halted Con. "What's the idea?" he forgotten. With hor success in the demanded. "Trying to commit sulelde animal act, Madeline had hoped

win her husband's love. Con's fury or pull a new act?"

"Nelther." The animal trainer over discovering that Donna had been married until strade through the sawdust-covered neither engaged nor corridor that led from the "big top" after his own wedding showed Made- to the dressing tent, brushing aside line only too plainly that he did not

"I heard you the first time. love her, that he still cared for the everyone who stood in his way.

other girl.

your grandfather thinks Donnn la he la Madeline was waiting at the door

the Con was well aware of his conceit you! Haven't you told me of her dressing, room. Under rouge her cheeks were pale and her but he did not want any one else well-to-do?"

"Yes. Not rich, but the farm is eyes black. "Say, what's the matter to mention it, least of al the woman

who bore his name. Madeline had worth something. He's comfortably with you ? she began.

to

"Well, it was a lot better than hay- ng her stay in a hospital and it saved expense-"

"And threw her and your precious cousin together! Just what does your grandfather think of Donna's sponging on him this way?"

"Why, he thinks she is me-er-ho loves her because"

Con caught her wrist, jerked the added insult to injury and he could fixed. Why?" door open with his other hand and not forgive her. almost flung her into the room. The

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Because the scene still rankle and "It strikes me that in your anxiety were stubborn, the to marry your partner off so you Con could get your clutches on me you've had never known humility. Never thrown away your inheritance.

"I don't know what you in his life had he admitted himself

twn other women who shared the because both

in strained situation continued. him dressing room stared at amazement.

of

WAL

R

to

menn,

"Get out," he told them. Both left quickly, without a word. in the wrong. The overtures toward Donnn would never-you don't think reconciliation would have come Donna would influence him into leav Occasional quarrels and even fights

Would she have to do any [31. were to be expected between married from Madeline, and Madeline, in the ing her the farm, do you?" couples and Con

notoriously throes of jealousy, convinced herself wanted If he

that she hated Con and did not care fluencing? He thinks she is his temperamental.

if showdown, fight and all, it was none they never spoke again.

granddaughter. you any. She's mar- You don't sup- their business Madeline looked Consequently the breach widened. rying your cousin,

Con treated super-pose he going fortune, copable of taking care of herself, me cilious courtesy that infuriated her such as it is, lip through his hands f deadly calm. A smile that distort-and fanned to a higher flume her If Donan isn't unscrupulous enough such fashion that ed his features, robbing them of all hatred and jealousy. Probably dur-or elever enough to get the old man's httractiveness, aprend over his face. ing those days when she completely will warded in suc "So Donna is to be married?" he ignored him he came nearer to lay the money will be here, this cousin

ing her than at any other time. She will think up a way to do it. drawled.

vol be? And where

will you

You Why why, yes.

I told you that had spoken truly when she said it time ago.

was because Donna cared nothing for could swear until doomsday that you to what ly left, but with two against she had even thought of such to win hor.

Lucy, the Bengal, was the only one you you'd just be out of luck.' thing. Let's yer-haw muany

Madeline's lips curled scornfully. months ago was it? Long

before of his beasts Con really cared for.

Lucy could not bo tamed. She could "And you claimed to love Donnal you trapped me...“

"Don't you say I trapped you!" be driven into the great barred ring, don't know anything about Madeline rasped.

but no persuasion, threats or whip Siddal, but I do know Donna. She "Why not You knew that if Iping could make her mount a stool wouldn't rob me and no mant could hadn't thought Donna was going to and sit there as the other animals induce her to try to cheat me out of marry that rube cousin of yours I did. Beautiful as some evil tropical anything Grandfather might leave." "I wouldn't be too sure! I suppose flower, she would stand deflant, wouldn't have married you. ten you snarling and lashing her tall, her you kept that letter 7" lied. You told me she'd written you yellow eyes gleaming with malice that they were engagel...” to be and contempt for her brothers that "You just said they're going to bowed before the crack of Con's

she broke in. know what you're talking about! pistol, the lank of his whip. Now you say I lied-

A

ou told 'me! You told me/Con that he had been so determined were the granddaughter and entitled

married,

her

Bill

"No. I destroyed it. But just to satisfy you I'll write Donna and ask her what she intends to do if Grand-

die." father should

You think she'd tell you?" "I know she would."

"If she docs, for your own pro- Until This conversation Madeline tection be sure to keep the letter

Con After

Con And it was because he had met "I'm talking about this." extracted the letter from his pock his match in this jungle ent that et and flung it at her. "Oh, I read Con loved her. He gloried in her it If you can convince me that undefeated spirit while he swore he

she would conquer her if he had to kill had given little thought to what her Now the Donna Gabriel ever wrote you

grandfather possessed. was going to be married before this her.

"Better watch out," Renfroe war-farm and livestock and the Siddal im- Vast letter cane you can convince me I'm the King of England! Good God, you ed. "I don't have to tell you there bank account became of women are more treacherous than are some eats you can't train. That portance as she realized that

is a devil, You'll never lck considered her an heiress. tigerst I suppose she's marrying him?

Madeline had written to Donna, first now because you married me."

will if it's the last thing 1 doll quiring what the situation would wishing her happiness, then tactfully I'll make her crawl on her belly and be if Grandfather Siddal should die, Madeline burst into hysterical like it."

she began to wonder if Con were not Inughter. "Of all the conceit! Don't tell me you still believe Donna would if Madeline had learned a lesson a better judge of character

Was Donna, in marrying ever have had you! She couldn't see from the Bengal tiger she might have herself. you for dust at any time, and I won Con's love. If she had continued Bill Siddal, looking forward to a knew it! Yes, I lied when I said they to be aloof, cold and deflant he would future that included property and were going to be married. Why not? in time have forgiven what she had valuable assets as well as home and I was fool enough to think that if done and found it worth while to try husband? you knew you could never have her to reinstate himself. Eventually he

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9th November.

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ops, and the love of a beautiful girl. In "talkies" induced him to return to dwelling the east besides Talbot and Miles As-films to remake "Disraeli" and "The

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one of whom has been blind since sands of pre-war theatre-goers laugh that season he kept a promise to

10. Based

William Makepeace their heads off Lili Damita. plays self not to lot it happen again. Arliss audiences at the Queen's Theatre. so successful that both patients,

he was born in London, on Apr 1 Thackeray's famous fiction classic, opposite Jack Buchanan neve 1868. He indulged his childhood ar "Vanity Fair and the Langden Mit

on all chell stage play "Becky Fairbrother, Ian McLean theatricale in the

en- Miss Hopkins' artistry. As fletion's Amy Yonens, Anthony Holles and bern are by Rav Noble, and Thornton teneo, ho spent a year in his publish-tirely in the new three-component immortal coquette, the blonde and house. Then he joined the old Technicolor, it promises a revelation lovely Miss Hopkins has a role do- brilliantly Freeland, of "Whoopee" fame, directs. Elephant and Caetle stock company, in beauty, delity to life and clarity, manding both sparkling humour and

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Sebastian Shaw. The musicial num-end's home. At his father's insis-stars Miriam Hopkins it "Bocky Sharp" offers the fincat off

and

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