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SERIAL STORY-

DONNA BIGTOP-

CHAPTER XXIII

anabis gossip.

can

leave the farm?

constant

Donna

an

do

by BEULAH

worse

POYNTER

1935.

Yes, she had triumphed but it wasness is the result of a guilty con- Donna sprang to her feet, her face, hollow victory. Mrs. Pianter had science.

been hostile enough before. What Donna, busy with cooking for livid with anger. "You horrible old would she do now that Donna had hungry farm workers, with washing woman!" she cried. "You would openly defied her, had ordered her to dishes and sweeping and

scrubbing choose a time like this to say such o

and making beds, could not work thing! And you know it's not truel

She She had little time to speculate fast enough to forget her fears. I'll admit that I was in your room. about the future, for before she had tried to tell herself that they wero

I wanted to find the handbill because I washed the traces of emotion from exaggerated, that Mrs. Planter had expected you to use it to back up her cheeks bill hurst into the room. never really intended to harm her but

this

Piaur merely

bullying enjoyed 'making husband about "What the authoot lad your

threats. The bill. Tell him anything you loney, we can't let her go, row! Besides, the woman was gone now want to, and see how much good it With Grandpop needing

and the circus hand-the only bit does you. Do you think Bill will

the dairy to look after and the of evidence she And possessed-wa believe your stories? Ife knows my meal to cank, you could never do it destroyed. But such reasoning hold partner was married a short time

the scant comfort for the girl. She

realized by this time that

and before I was and he hasn't your evil, all alone! What's come over auspicious mind! He'll know by the woman 7"

paid too much attention to the hand- date that the

couldn't handbill possibly

have anything to do with

hill. It would have been far better I wasn't even with the

to have treated the matter with calm Why,

Indifference. Yes, Donna's own im- circus then!"

Mrs. Planter's thin upper Hy drew back over her yellowed teeth, The nostriis

of her pinched nose quivered. "There ain't any date on the bill," she said

said. "Far'a' I know, it may have been printed a year ago--or mebbe two. Mebbe you and that feller got a divorce, but I calculate Bill Siddal wouldn't relish no divorced woman for his wife."

Donna insisted. "There is a date!"

have a date! "Handbills always Leave me alone now and go away.

The arrival of the letter made Don- You can do whatever you like! All it

nn sit down immediately to write a will get you is to be thrown out of this house, hag and baggage! Bitl Those were heetle days that follow tong reply. In it she told Madeline

d. Minnie was willing and capable nil the facts about the old man's ill will belleve my word against youral

"Mebbe he will and mobbe henough in many ways, but the work of nars. From that hour she waited,

new to expectine at any moment the won't," the woman answered, "but managing a household was

her marriage. Just the same there ain't no date on

Donna and, with a helpless invalid to that would wreck that hill. I reckon I orter know. If

care for, she found herself so over- Donna did not know whether it! you don't believe me, take a look at

orked and harrassed that by night would come in the form of a letter fall.

to Grandfather Siddal or From a shabby handbag she carried fall she was too tired even to talk.itressed

She

whether Madeline herself had no

time to speculate on the Bill, or

arrive Arm Mrs. Planter extracted resuits of her quarrel with Mrs. would her

at the farm. But since the other girl was concerned about the paper. She unfolded it and Plater, waved it before Donna's face,

her inheritance without even knowing that

Amos Sildal was ill, Donna was sure that Madeline would take drantle ensures to make certain she did not use whatever fortune Amos Siddal

on

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kee

"She was inapient", swere, avoiding his eyes. "I'll mun age with the work all right. Send one of the men over to the Jones placo to get Minnie. She and I can

Then Madeline's letter arrived, ask-i everything. And I think we should sness hud ande a bad situation have a nurse for Grandfather, Surely

'ne Donna what she Intended to do Dr. Freeman can get one for us."

"He'd have to send to the city, about the form and the money Amos you mean a trained nurse. And i Suldal would leave to his grand- may take several days for her to get daughter after his death. Daily Don- wait until na hnd postponed the unpleasant duty here Why didn't you things were running a little smoother of informing the other girl that the before you let Mrs. Planter, go? old man was seriously ill and that the hink you're making a mistake, Donna. doctor had small hopes that he would! At a time like this"

"It'll be all right, Donna rupted. "Send for Minnie and don't worry, please.)

inter-

The older woman, without commont, had packed her trunk, telennoned to neighbour to send her son for it, and had departed. Apparently she had passed out of Donin's life, for nothing more was heard of her.

recover.

blow

sob. she sprang toward the house to in what she could to make Though Donna could not know it, the

that he was still alive. But no reply come from Madeline.

bill

the woman's arm and twisted it

line.

The girl saw the words, "Saturday afternoon," and nothing else. There was no date, nothing to indicate when the public marriage ceremony was to take place. The housekeeper's leer-

should leave. It made litte difference how ing face became the countenance of

For a week Grandfather Siddal luy Madeline went about it. Any sitm of devil. Suddenly

red like a block of wood in his bed. revelation, Donna felt, would crush danced before Donna's eyes. All dis-

own happiness forever. cretion vanished and, with a strangled There was only the fluttering of inher

eyelids and his slow, painful breathing And so she wufted. T, trying to snatch the paperDonns fro... her hand,

Mrs. Planter gave a half-insane him comfortable, following the doctor's let'er that might have changed both nstructions exactly. Each day Dr. Rekle and put the hand that held the Freeman came out to see the al mun.ves, was never read by Made- and on the fourth day he brought a It reached New Orleans promptly

efficient, middle-aged woman and was delivered to Madeline's dres wearing a white uniform who quietly sing room on the day she encountered docli. took charge of the sick inan. The Ned Trafford down by the arrival of the nurse lifted, a goodly Madeline, arriving late and hurrying Krand portion of the burdens from Dunna's to dona lusty makeup for the slender shoulders.

march which ce, saw the red every performan envelope but neglected to it. Subsequent events drove a thoughts of letters fren her mind.

Evidently Ned Trafford, after talk- ing her back and les ached from butik house, palled an his coat and out of the. her, hours spent in the kitchen and in the dairy, from trudging to hen houses hat and found some means of convey and hack and digging in the truck unce to the circus grounds, for, as gardens, she would lie beside Bill, her Madeline emerged from the arena and eyes too heavy to keep open, but her started through the canopied corridor

toward the dressing mind too netive for sten,

tent, he พร She grew thinner and Bill had the standing in the passa void him, no

There was no way to added worry of watching his bride

He worried about other means of reaching the dress. grow hollow-eyed.

would not-have-risk- her health and tried with clumsy ten ing room, or she

second

with Trafford, meeting derness to comfort her, thinking sheed a was grieving over her grandfather's is buck was turned toward her

He she could see that there was belliger- Illness (as. Indeed, she was). did everything he could to make ence in his squared shoulders. And things easier for her, but even love she knew it meant trouble. cannot cure a sick soul when the Ill-

To Be Continued).

behind her. "No, you don't!" she chortled.

Unmindful of resulta, Donna caught around. Using all the strength that had given her the power to swing her body, supporting all her weight by one wrist, she crushed the woman's Josh and muscle until the paper fell from Mrs. Planter's fingers. Then, like lightning, she bent, snatched it up and tore it to shreds..

"Now." ahe "talk! Say anything you want to any, but get out of this house! Get out now! Only be careful that you can prove every statement you make or-so help my, Gol-I'll have you sent to prison for libel!

-

The minute she had the opportunity to relax, Donna's problem reared its ugly fangs again. At night, though

er, had walked cried triumphantly,

Without a retort the house-keeper opened the door and left the room. Donna stood holding the scraps of paper in her trembling hands and listening to the woman's footsteps She had triumphed, down the hall, but he knew that from that moment on Mrs. Planter would be her active

onemy,

but

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