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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28,

SERIAL STORY

DONNA BIG TOP by BEULAH

BIG-TOP

POYNIED

1935.

"I do. Well, I shan't invite you to CHAPTER XL

sympathy for Bill when he learned the truth if he had not been a party the farm and I'll use every bit of "There's another gute." Donna to such a Godless deed.

persuasion I can to get Grandfather whispered tremulously. "Let's go out

She, waited until the man and waiddal to make cut a new will in yards. favour of my husband-not because I that way."

"What are you shaking for?" Conan had gone on about 59 demanded. "Whoover that, was be. Then she gathered the shabby folds want the farm for myself nor bo- side the bushes dhin't hear anything of her coat about her and began to cause i couldn't get along without we said and

lazy Janie hadn't started supper you have no right to."

That's Come on, probably didn't even re-run, in the opposite direction If that something keep you from getting

"Ahalute "I'm sure it was a woman-and there'd be the Old Nick to pay. Joba weren't so plentiful that Mrs. Planter

"You know what I can do to you?" I was followed."

"I know what you think you can do. Go

ahead! It happens that both my husband and grandfather love me.

that

ORD

In heaven's

follow

namo why should any-wanted to chanes losing hers, even in

doing

her duty towards the Sho wished she could have found

cont-

In her!" Donna forgot that munity,

Madeline and that cir- against you believe my word!

cus fellow went after they left the cemetery but, after all, that didn't natter much,

Con himself was an enemy. She said slowly, "Because there is a woman out where

"I hardly think so, but we'll see.” she used to be our housekeeper who would do anything on earth to cause

"You're getting out here," Donna said, stopping the machine at the me trouble. She hates me like polson,

one corner. Cold, devastating fury mado Donna and Con passed no though I don't know why. Somehow sho hold of

got your marriage to

of the handbill that an on their way to the car. Donna her oblivious to the danger of being

to Madeline climbed in and unlocked the engine, seen with him,

"Thanks so much for the lift," drawled sarcastically, Ho friends, Con. For the sake of Made Con

avolding a snowdrift, and tipped his fine. I know you didn't mean what stepped out of the car, carefully you said back there."

hat.

nounced your whistled Solty. It was then hold out her hand: "Let's part:

not

to surprise but because he had just thought of something. They were moving cautiously now toward the rear

rear gate, opening into the church grounds proper. They walked close to the vine-covered wall, hidden by the shadows cast by the trees.

"Yes," Donna continued. "She ac cused me of bigamy and I discharged

for

"I'm going with you," he answered, ignoring her outstretched hand

"But you can't!" she protested. "Not home with me."

•

逛 •

The clock in the courthouse chimed four

Donna timos. In the storm

"I don't mean that." As he spoke knew it would take the better part he got into the car beside her. We of an hour to reach the farm: How foolish, she had been to come, since haven't come to any sort of decision. Bigamy, oh? Well, it was natural There isn't any to come to. You nothing had been gained by the risk! her to think that, wasn't it?”

feel you are entitled to what would of course Con's threats were just words, He was a coward and he "Not if she liked me and accepted have been Madeline's. I think it wor my word that the person who was should belong to Bill." She switched would never go to Bill What could married that day was another woman, on the engine and, with a sputter, the he prove if he did go? And to say She

knows

you are in town, and car leped forward. "I'll drive you she had committed a felony-it was nothing would suit her more than to to the corner of the square Ther find out that I came here to meet you. Im going home." But how could she know I was coni- ing? llaw could she find that out?**

"Search me. I think you're worry- ing without any cause. It's dollars to doughnuts that wasn't an eaves-amund here. I don't want to make dropper but someone taking a short eut through the grave yard."

"I hope so."

"Whero's your car?"

"I left it on a side street not Car from here. We'll have to walk around

past the front gate, though. I were only sure 13frs, Planter~~"

"And try to induce the old man to

hie will?

Yes."

"I wouldn't. I intend to

Atlck

ridiculous!

But if he should go to Bill she would lie. Lie to the last breath! Oh, God, if only she had never be come tangled in such a mesh of lies! The truth seemed so dreadful as Con put it. How could sho account to bill for her silence during all those things unpleasant for you, but if you weeks when he had hesitated to ask

Madeline's her to marry him because force my hand I'll have to.

lieved they were related? Bill would find that harder to forgive than any

Keeping the knowledge of seemed 1oo. I did make it look as she wanted to inherit the

denth took a lot out of me—”

#

She laughed incredulously.

Else's death a. secret

"I don't mean the way you think;!

1. never loved her and I won't pretend]

I did. But it wasn't a particularly though

pleasant sensation to see my wife farm. It had been glib and easy to Con squeezed her arm to reassure filled before my eyes and they shot say she would insist on the old man's her and her anxiety was such that my best cat. I went to pieces, The will being changed, but how could

IL? she did not notico the. enress, Nor story got around that I sent her to she go about doing

She couldn't ask Grandfather if ho did she notice, as they turned the her death, and I couldn't get cher had left everything to her. What corner after passing the gate, that ments. It will take a while to live all he slipped an arm around her.

Poor Andered you! You did What explanations could she offer?

"And how she

pay you, of course,

thut down. I figure her folks owe me would he think if she did? And ho would expect explanations if the The Baptist Church was at the something for what she cost nie.”

his heir. extreme limit of the town. There

Donna murmured. asked him to make Dill were na street lights within a block.

Her head was burning but her body The know was blinding and neither send her to her death. I can never felt as though it were slowly freezing saw the figure crouching beside the forgive you for that. You knew she into ice.

Hor

суса checks stung iron pillars that supported the gate, hadn't the gift you had, yet you" and she felt slightly giddy. The car But Mrs. Planter, who had seen the She choked, remembering the girl with skidded and she almost lost control couple disappear, had Judged correct, whom she had worked for me fag. of the wheel. When the danger wha herself Bobbing you expect to make her fam-over

found ly that they would not leave through the main entrance. Having passed;}ly |

hysterically. Donna's car, she felt sure they

Don't She realized that she must pick her return to it She had been within say it can't be donet I'll leave you way carefully. It was impossible to arm's reach of Donna when the girl to figure it out as best you can, but see the road because of the snow and stepped out of the machine, but had in some way you are going to invite there was no path or wheel ruts to

too shrewd to trail at her heels. me to visit the farm and I'm been

going to guide her. She had waited until Donna had been stay there until I'm on my feet again. She became so intent oh driving,. with Con several minutes before en-And-" he leaned closer, "I'm going listening to the varning knock in the tering the cemetery.

to see that you don't get that will engine, that it wasn't until she had changed. Any monkey business and passed the Adams house that she re- 'li tip of your beloved Bill to the membered she was supposed to have gone there to see a sick baby. Thero truth!"

"Was no time to stop now."

(To Be Continued).

To her chagrin she had been unable to hear what they said. Much as her ers-urned to catch the words, she had not dared to move closer. But, in spite of the obscuring darkness and the falling snow, she Ald neo Con's arm around Donna's shoulder. and her righteous soul boiled over! with indignation at such goings-on,"

She had hoped Bill also would be n witness to the meeting, but she did not see him anywhere. One thing Wan certain, she had gauged Madeline Saddal correctly. The girl was `A "hussy, fit for decent folks to associate with, and before another 21 hours went by not only Bill Siddal but everyone In Lebanon was going to

know about it!

But what cùuld folks expect of a circus girl who probably nover attended services until she found it

do not paid to

A girl who had married her own cousin! Well, half- cousins were too close kin to make marriage what it should be. Mrs. Planter would have fell more

"So it's blackmail f

"I wouldn't call it that."

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