Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-05-29
COPYRIGHT. i9os. BY DODD. MEAD AND COMPANY

"Mebbe yo'd like Mandy to be saryin your supper in here tonight. It's more | cheerfuler."
 ] He crossed to the window and looked out upon the circus lot. The flare of 1 the torches and the red fire came up to meet his pale, tense face. How like the picture of thirteen months ago!' he thought. and old Toby's words came back to him--"The show has got to go on."
 He longed to have done with dreams and speculation. to feel something tan giblc, warm and real within his grasp. q can't go on like thisr' he cried. "l can't"' He turned from the window and walked hurrledly up ana down the room. Indoors or out, he found no rest. He threw himself in the arm chair near the table and sat buried in thought
 Mandy came softly into the room. She was followed by Hasty. who car ried a tray laden with things that ought to have tempted any man. She motioned for Nasty to put the tray on the table and then began arranging the dishes. dasty stole to the window and peeped out at the tempting fare Of red fire.
 When Douglas discovered the pres ence of his two "faithfuls' he was touched with momentary contritlon.
 Have you had a hard day with the new gravel wali?' he asked Nasty, remembering that he lad been laying q fresh path to the Sunday school room.
 "Jes' yo' come eat yo' supper" Man. dy called to Douglas. Don yo' worry your head bout dat lazy husbln' ob mine. He ain't goin' ter work huff to hurt hisself" For an instant she had been tempted to let the pastor know how Nasty had gone to the cir GUS and seen nothing of Polly, but her motherly instinct won the. day. and she urged him to eat before disturbing him with her own anxietics. It was no use. He only toyed with his food; he was clearly i'll at case and eager 10 be alone. She gave up trying 10 tempt his appetite ard began to lead up in roundabout way to the things which she Wished to ask.
 "Dar's quite some racket cut Gar in de lot tonight" she said. Dou las did not answer. Af:er moment she went on. "Hasty didn't work on no walk today" Douglas looked 2t her quiz zically, while Nasty. convinced that for reasons cf her own she was going to get him into trouble, was making frantic motions. He done gone ter Ge circus" she blurted out. Douglas face became suddenly grave. Mardy saw that she had touched an open wound.
 II jes' couldn't stan it, Massa John. had ter fnd out bout dat angel chile" There was pause. She felt that he was waiting fer her to go on.
 "She didn't done ride today"
 He looked up with the eyes of a dumb, persecuted animal. ".And de gemmen in de show didn't tell nobody why-jes' speaked bout de udder gal takin' her place."
 "Why didn't she ride?' cried Doug las, in an agony of suspense.
 Oats what don know. sah." Mandy began to cry. It was the first time in his experience that Douglas had ever known her to give way to any such weakness.
 Nasty came down from the window and tried to put one arm about Man dy's shoulders.
 "Leab me alone, yo' nigger" she e=- claimed. trying to cover her tears with a show of anger that she did not feel; then she rushed from the room, fol lowed by Nasty.
 The band was playing loudly. The din of the night performance was increasing. Douglas nerves were strained to the point of breaking. He would not let himself go near the win dow. He stood by the side of the ta- ble, his fists clinched, and tried to beat back the impulse that was pulling