Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-02-13


edness-it evolved you. you. the Fran
of '>day-the Fran Of this living
hour And it's the Fran of this living
hour that l want to marry"
Fran covered her face with her
hands. For a while there was silence,
then she said:
Father was there, tonight"
AT the lion-show? Impossible! Mr..
Gregory go to a-a-to-a-
Yes, it Is possible for him even to
go to a show. But to do him justice.
he was forced under the tent. he had
no intention of doing anything 30
wicked as that, he only meant to do
some little thing like running away
But no. can't speak OF him with bit
terness. now. Abbott. he seems all
changed"
Abbott murmured. as II stupehed:
"Mr. Gregory at q show!"
Eyes, and a lion-show. When II was
over he came to me-he was 60 ex-
cited"
80 was l." spoke up the other
"rather!"
"You didn't show It. thought
maybe you wouldn't care II had been
eaten up. No, no. listen. He
wanted to claim me-he called me
daughter right there before the peo-
pie, but they thought it was just sort
of-of church nama But he was won
derfully moved. left the tent with
him, and we had q long talk came
from him to you. never saw any
body 90 changed"
But why?"
"You see, he thought was going to
be killed right there before his eyes.
and seeing 1t with his very own eyes
made him feel responsible. He told
me, afterwards, that when he found
out who it was in the cage, he thought
of mother in a different wayne saw
how his desertion had driven her to
earning her living with showmen, 30 l
could be supported. All in all. he is a
changed man."
Then will he acknowledge you?-
but no. no
"You see? He can't, on account of
Mrs. Gregory. There's no future for
him, or for her. except to 60 on living
as man and wife-without the secre-
tary. He imagines 1t would be a sort
of reparation to present me to the
world as his daughter, he thinks 1t
would give him happiness-but 1t can't
be. Grace Noir has found it all out"
Then she will tell" Abbott ex-
claimed, in dismay.
"She would have told but for one
thing. She doesn't dare. and it's on
her own account-of course. She has
been terribly-well, indiscreet. You
can't think of what lengths she was
willing to go--not from coldly making
up her mind, but because she lost grip
on herself, from always thinking she
couldn't So she went away with Bob
Clinton-she1l marry him. and they'll
go to Chicago, out Of Littleburg his
tory-poor Bob! Remember the night
he was trying to get religion? I'm
afraid he'll conclude that religion
isn't what he thought it was. living SO
close to 1t from now on"
"All this interests me greatly. dear.
because it interests you. Still. 1t
doesn't bear upon the main question"
Abbott, you don't know why,I went
to that show to act. You thought
was caring for a sick friend. What do
you think of such deceptions?"
Il think l understand. Simon JET.
ferson told me of girl falling from q
trapeze; 1t was possibly La Gonizetti'a
daughter. Mrs. Jefferson told me that
Mrs. Gregory is nursing some one
The same one, imagine. And La Con
izetti was a friend Of yours. and you
took her place, 50 the mother could
stay with the injured daughter"
You're a wonder. yourself!" Fran
declared. dropping her hands to stare
at him. Yes. that's 1t. All these
show-people are friends Of mine
When the mayor was trying to decide
what carnival company they'd have
for the street fair, told him about
this show, and that's why it's here
Poor La Confetti needs the none,
dreadfully-fors they spend 1t a. fas
az it's paid in. The little darling vii
have TO 60 to a hospital, and there'l
nothing laid by. The boys all threw
in, but they didn't have much, them
selves. Nobody has. Everybody's poo
in this old world-except you and me
I've taken La Gonizetti's place In thu
cage all day to keep her from losing