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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

SERIAL STORY

DONNALE BIG TOP

CHAPTER XLII

Bit was sitting by the window, aldring out at the falling snow. Ho

Donna entered did not turn when She crossed the room and slowly be gan to remove her dress. She said, "I told you a lie to-night, Bill"

you did,

"I know

went to town."

"know that, too. Why?"

"It didn't occur to me that you would

"" sho evaded.

know that I did object Not to your going to town."

"You deliberately tricked me into lying," she said hotly. "That was objecting."

"Why did you le?" Ile rose and came to her. How small she looked and how palo! The healthy bronzo of her cireus days was gone and her features looked pinched and tense. There were shadows under her eyes and a pathetic quiver about her lips that made his heart ache

If

plodded through the snow atablen,

NOVEMBER 30, 1935.

by BEULAH

POYNIER

to the the message verbatim. Rader camo Into the office then, wiping his muathiche. He greeted Bill genially, but his oyes showed the curiosity he felt: "Out early, ain't you?" Snow do much damage in your vicinity!"

"No. The wind blow the branches off some trees and I had to dig the drifts away from the barn doors, but thint, was all.

"We're serving breakfast if you'd like nomo."

Bill took a pipe

"

The storm was over. There were hogo drifts in the farm. yard, but a streak of crimson in the sky gave promise of a sunny day. The car Donna had used the day before had not been taken into the garage and The was completely snow-covered."

probably radiator must be frozen, and the engine was water-soaked,

Bill felt bitter, resentment toward "No, thanks.” the mathing. But for it, Madeline from his pocket, filled and lighted could not have made that trip to it and sat down in a chair by the window. When he had ontored the town.

office, he had had no intention of penking to the man he considered his rival. He had sent Pete after David on an Impulse and now he was sorry he had done it. Ile felt Incapable of handling a most un-

The hotel

noting proprietor, pleasant situation.

what had

happoned. Bill'n grim face and haggard eyes, wondered When his son whispered that DI

After he had fed and, watered the animals he gut out the sleigh and hitched the horses to lie was go ing to find out whether Con David

Lebanon or not, was

Breakfast

being served at the Breng Commercial House when he hitched the horses in front of the building. A drummer who had to catch an early train, the conductor of a freight that

witness.

scerve

sho would offer some explanation "made up" in Lebanon, and a farmer diadal had sent for the circus per

that would convince him who had stayed in town because of the

and preened himself to become a that damnable letter was a lie! But storm were sitting at the long table former, Rador, anticipated

ay Bill stalked and even as sympathy swept over him the reserved for "regular"

But he was to be disappointed. staggering thought that perhaps she into the office.

Pete's red head appeared from bo-

desk regis- wyns suffering because she loved an-

tered a bell ringing to 44. Pete other man made his voice harsh and hind the desk, followed by Pete's The hoard behind the

It and came why did cold,

you lie?" he repented, freckled face and wide-toothed grin.

back to AUTO

in town early." Fu mistrusted

"Yes. Mind if I look over your nothing-nothing

n minute?"

"Bey use I could see you

WALER Rand you had sworny, Mr. Siddal," he chirped, hurried off to

could ever make you

ankwer

Canadian Pacific

· CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY CRUISE

TO

MANILA & RETURN

BY THE

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

FRIDAY,

SATURDAY,

SUNDAY,

MONDAY, TUESDAY,

Dec. 20.--Leave Hongkong at 7 pm. Dec. 21.-En route,

Doc. 22.-Arrive Manila in morning.

Dcc. 23.-in Manila,

Dcc. 24.-in Manila.

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 25.-Leave Manila at 5 p.m.

Dec. 26-En route.

1xll

THURSDAY, Bill that Mr. David

FRIDAY. wanted him to come up to his room. Bill's steps lagged as he moved

doubt me again. I wanted to rec~ { register answer was a grunt, in down the hall. His shoes seemed weighted with lead and his body End which Bill ignored.

to

"I have

- -י- יין

"Mind if I drink some coffee while

we talk?" Con nodded toward a tray

on the table.

"Go abend." Bill looked steadily at the other man, taking in every detall features and compact, muscular bolly.

"Sit down, won't you?" "No, thanks."

Con sat down at the rickely table

to see if you ing me,, eh? Thanks. After giving my open on the desk and Bill him in the doorway, offering his

His laugh out like a rapier. Trine bay open on the curve. The register ma couple of rotten hours visioning rapid survey of the names before him, you freezing to death in the snow you the lipped the page to the day be asked you sp here," Con sald think it's sporting to test my trust, fore. Only one name appeared, "Con with an alry-grace be did not feel,

David, Chicago."

"brenure 1. Ingined you had Thanks!"

Until he saw that name, heavily something to say to me privately." "Bill"

serawled, he had clung to the hope "Next time I won't waste that the circus performer was not in

to know anxjely, but I would like wint inndo you change your plans. Or own, that the anonymous letter had didn't you intend to go to the Adumsen been the work of a vicious inlngina tion. Shock momentarily obscured when you left?"

the features of the small

boy, the Pete's

Bill back voice brought She did not answer. Slowly she register, the walls about him. reached for her nightgown and went the necessity of hiding his emo into the ting dressing room adjoining. tiens. D'e know who that Sobs were tearing at her throat, Her Mr. Siddal? It's the feller that

... heart was pounding in a way that was here with the circus last spring, on which the tray rested and poured made her sick and lizzy. She heard the feiler, that went into the cage the creak of bed spriors, and the fear that Bill would desert her that night with all them lions and tigers. But, a cup of coffee. He drank it in ane pshaw-of course you know! I swallow and turned to Bill. "Well, disappeared.

plumb forgot your wife was with what brought you here?"

"An anonymous letter," Bill 'an- closet the took out blankets, the circus, too, and that Con. Davidswered slowly. "I did not want to in From prend them-on-the couch in the drew came here to see her."

sult my wife-by-haking-her-about-it- ing room and flung herself upon them.

"I don't think he came to see Mrs. Sa I enme to yun." bono and muscle ached as Siddal,” Bill said quickly. "Of course though she had done hard manual they are friends but-" labour. She fell she would

never Oh, yes, he did." Pete insisted/ sicep again, but outraged nature re-jor he wouldn't written ber a belled and son she was asleep.

letter right away;" Hill lay awake, reviewing his life with Donna. Little incidents that had sormed of no importance took on new meanings the strange antipathy between Madeline and Mrs. Pianter, dolinr,"

"Regular plutocrat, eh?" Fill the sudden exit of the housekeeper, the telephone call that had upset mumbled. "I'd like to Arr Mr. Madeline 29. Had Mrs. Planter writ-David." The name slurk in else? ten the anonymous letter? Who

throat. It would be characteristic of the such a to strike back in woman fashion, but even Mrs. Planter must have had some basis for such state. ments.

"How do you know he wrote her a letter

(To Be Continued).

Seclusion and

Winters

Mild 'Cause dellevered it for him.

Didn't she tell you? Hle gimme a

he ain't up."

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He thought of the letter Madeline i But it's awful early and he might had written Con David that had been get sore if I woke him now," Pete bathing and golf. Safeguarded from returned, Other letters, too, that she argued. bad received, supposedly from her You tell him I want to see him."nins development and distinctive in partner. Suppose~~

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