Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-07

Miss SRppnira says snoui0nt. Wnat
q poor helpless man-as I'm holding
you now, / presume! But l laughed in
meeting. People ought to 30 outdoors
to smile. and keep their religion in q
house, guess. I'm going to tell you
why laughed, for you've never
guessed, and you've always been
afraid to ask"
AFRAID of you, Franz"
lawfully, I'm going to show you.
let 20, 90 can show you. No, I'm In
earnest-you can have me. afterwards.
Remember that evangelist?
There he stood. waving his hands-as
I'm doing now-uov!nE hts arms with
his eyes fastened upon the congrega.
tion-this way-look. Abbott"
Fran! AS II wore not already
looking"
LOOKOUT 90: not saying . word
only waving this way and that :.
And it made me thing of our hypno.
tiser-the man that waves people into
our biggest tent-he seems to pick 'em
up bodily and carry them in his arms.
Wei! And II the people are to be
waved into \ church. 1t won't take
much Of q breese to blow them out.
I don't believe in soul-waving. But
that doesn't mean that don't believe
IN the church-does it?-do you
Think"
"You believe IN convictions, Fran.
And since you've como into the church.
you don't have to say that you believe
In it."
"Yes-there's nothing on the out
side, and oh. sometimes there's 80
little, SO little under the roof-what
do you think of me, Abbott?"
"Fran, 1 think you are the most"
but do you!" she interposed, still
unsteadily. I'm the superlative? l
don't see how you can, after that exhi.
bition behind the bars. Anyway, I
want you to talk about yourself. What
made you go away from town? But
that's not the worst: what made you
stay away7 And what were yon doing
OF there wherever 1t was, while poor
little girls were wondering themselves
sick about you1 But wattl-ths
wheels going dovn-down-down.
Good thing I have you to hold
to-poor Miss Sapphire, she can't
come nowi Listen ct Ill the street
criers, getting closer. and the whistle
sounds wish We had whistles; the
souawky kind. See my element, Al
bott, the air I've hreathed all my life
the carnival Here W are. just above
the clouds OF conhetti. Now
we're riding through pretty
damp. those clouds are. don't you
Think Those ribbons OF electric
lights have been the real world 70 ne.
Abbott-they were home. No,
Bill, we don't want to get out. We IN.
tend to ride until you take this wheel
to pieces. And oh. By the way. Bill
Just stop this wheel, every once in .
while. will you ?-when were up At the
very tiptop. All r1ght-good-by."
And Abbott called gaily. "0ood.by,
MI. smookinsl"
I'm glad you did that, Abbott You
think you're somebody. when some
body else thinks 20. too. Now we're
rising in the world" Fran was so ex.
cited that she could not keep her body
from quiver1ng. In spite Of this. she
fastened her eyes upon Abbott to
AJAX, suddenly: "'Most'-what?"
Most adorable" Abbott answered.
as If he had been waiting for tho
prompting. Most precious. Most be-
witchingly sweet. Most unanswerably
and eternally-Fran!"
"And you" she whispered.
"And l." he told her. IAN nothing
but most wanting-to-be-boved."
It's 20 queer" Fran said, plaintive-
". you know. Abbott. how long
you've fought against me. You know
It. and don't blame you, not in the
least. There's nothing, about me to
make people. But even now.
how can you think you understand me.
when I don't understand myself?''
Il don't" he said. promptly. I've
given UP trying to understand you.
Since then. I've just loved. That's
easy"
What will people think Of super
intendent Of public schools caring for
show-Sirl, even II she is Fran Non
pareil. How would 1t affect your ca.
reer?"
But you have promised never again
to engage in show, 90 you are not .
show-girl"
What about my mother who lived
and died as q lion-tamer? What will
you doabout my life-history! I'd nov
or speak to q man who could feel
ashamed Of my mother. What about
my father who has never publicly
acknowledged met I'd not want to
have anything to Do with man Who
who could be proud Of him"
AS to the past. Fran. have only
this to say: Whatever hardships 1t
contained, whatever wrongs or wretch
edness-it evolved you, you, the Fran
Of today-the Fran Of this living
hour. And It's the Fran OF this living
hour that want to marryr
(To Be C5ncluded.)
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