Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-05-07

dress, | entered the managers anteroom
| was late, for had net been well enougl
to hasten, and all the company had Assem-
eled, lOunging or busting about accordin,
to the appointed tasks.
"Late, o Monarch Of the VibratipI
Wire, said Ninette, as | hesitated be
fore her, looking at her half enthralled
and balf amused. She was leaning against
the table, in her crimson velvet habit-for
she had no wonderful feats to perform to
night-the little crimson cap, with it,
white feather, set cOquettishly on one side
Of her bright fair eurls.,
"You look" she continued, sauciiy,
"as ifyou had risen from a sick bed tC
perform for the sick. How interesting =
l moved into the dimlY lighted build.
ing. which surrounded the tent, and looked
in at the performance.
"The Circus is crowded." Niuette
whispered, as she sauntered out with me,
al hardly ever remember our having such
a crowd, Ricardo"
"And hope VIC never shall have il
again" | painted, unbuttOning my coat.
The place is sitting"
30, hope we shall, i" she laughed mer-
rily, Il should like to see hundreds turned
away from the doors, and nc room left in.
side even for one child more"
All Ninette, how soon vou we're to
have your wish fulfilled
1--WE shall have splendid gift for the
hospital, she continued "but Ricardo,
what do you :hink ? A clergyman here,
who was going to have a service in his
church on Sunday especially for the mfr
mary, has declined to do so now because we
have taken up its cause. He thinks he
says" Ninette's voice was low and puz.
zled here, and her eyes angry; "he says
IT 1t will accept money earned-So, his
conscience does not allow him to give it
money from Gods house. Why don't
you answer ri" she went on, impetususly,
as paused. "Why don't you say some.
thing angry p
at isn't worth speaking Of" | replied
though think my heart was as hot as her
own. at is only worth laughing over
And then Ninette, looking searchingly
into my face, did laugh, her clear. happy
laugh, though the puzzled look still shone
in her bright, excited eyes.
"Yes; we shall send worthy present
to the hospital hope and trust, and be.
lieve," she continued, slowly. "but our
help is only to lower it--or, at lest," she
went on, as l tried to interrupt her in
hasty dissent, "good mer think so."
Zone man--and who ought to be good,
| put in, contemptuously. a
"One man., she rejoined, the puzzled
look deepening again, speaking for many
who think as he does, and who understand
this as we cannot. And yet--and yet
Ricardo, look at that mass of eager, ex-
pecant faces. Why do they come to see
us-why do they encourage us-if we sin
in what we do? Why doesn't the world
show us so in the only way which there
would be no withstauding? Does this
thought bewilder you too, Ricardo?
1t has bewidered me many and MANY
time, but | could not tel, her so, for the
very shadow of the fear that this life in
which we were so much together might be
wrong, made me shiver coldly. Her ear.
nestuess, which had been almost appeal.
ing, vanished suddenly. "Nevcr mind,
she said with her quick laugh, tossing back
the bright little head in its velvet car
San lives have their aching, troublesome
moments [ supposs. There! they are
waiting for your first feat and your great
est. Go on Signor, and prosper
With her pleasant words in my ears,
went in amid the deafening applause of
tho crowd and, bowing slightly, walked
coolly across the ring. l thought nothing
of the mass of faces rising in rows, but I
remembered that Ninette could see me,
and that she had said | was working in a
good cause. | felt that performed as
hardly ever performed before, and the
long applause was again and again renewed
as | left the ring. What would Niuette
say? Would she congratulate me ? Pass.
ing through the dimly lighted building
outside the tent, where the horses waited,
caught sight of two figures standing
lside in the shadow, Ninette, aud the
gentleman whom VIC had met that morn
og, talking low and earnestly. lad
,ftcn noticed bin in the circus and no.
iced his evident admiration of Nlnette,
but then did not every one gaze at her in
admiration p still | had never seen him
'ut there among us before, and | started
IS came up to them inthe gloom. Min.
'tte carelessly turned her eyes upon me
or moment, then went on talking CO.
and flippantly it seemed to me- ;