The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-11

if she had let him give up his am
billions for her.
BY the time she had finished
breakfast in the cook tent the car
nival was nearly ready for business.
Even the Ferris wheels glittering
immensely was flung toward the
sky, the basket seats hanging mo-
tionless in the still, hot air Ban
ners advertising real and spurious
wonders were being tackled upon
SCARED booths, endoWing them with
glamor: 'Bybees Follies GiIlS-a
dazzling beautiful chorus straight
from Ziegfeld's Follies in New York
Six reasons why men leave lone;
Beautiful Babe, the Fattest Girl in
the World go pounds of rosy,
cuddly flesh; The Palace Of
Greatest Aggregation Of
Freaks in the World; also Princess
Lalla, from Constantinople crystal
gazer, escaped member of the Sui
tan'S Harem; Sees all, knows all
Past, Present and Future!"
Sally wandered along the midway,
waving a small brown hand to
Eddie Cobb, who was setting Up his
gambling wheel and gaudily dressed
Kewpie dolls; exchanged predictions
as to the days business with two
or three gOod-natured concession
aires; won a gold toothed smile
from the henpa- haired girl who
sold tickets for the tin rabbit races.
But she soon discovered that she
was restless and lonely The car
nival had no glamor in these early
hours. Without the crowds there
was no glamor; the crowds them
selves, though they did not suspect
it, furnished the glamOr with their
naive credulity, their laughter, their
free and easy spending, their
susceptibility as a relief from the
monotony Of their lives, to the very
spirit Of the carnival for which this
draggled old Hoyden of a show was
named.
THE kids would love it." Sally
remembered suddenly, seeing in a
painfully bright flash Of memory
the oldish, wistful little faces of
Betsy and Thelma and Clara and
all the other orphans who had until
SO ecently-though it seemed years
ago-been her only friends and
playmates.
7 wonder if Eloise Durant is
terribly unhappy, or if she has
found some other big girl to pet
her. I wonder if Betsey and Thelma
and Clara miss my play-acting."
She smiled at the picture OF her
self draped in a sheet and crowned
with her own braids-an ermine
cloak and a crow of gold adjoining
a queen! IF they could see me
now Play-acting all the time, ell
dressed up in purple satin trousers
and a green satin jacket all Cutlery
with gold braid! I wish 1 had lots
of money, so I could send them all
tickets to come to the carnival" her
thoughts ran on, as inconsistencies
for the place she had hoped never
to see again rose up, treacherOuS
and unWelcOme, to dim her JOY in
the glorious miracle or David's love
Il suppose she confessed for
lornly, that Mrs Stone is the only
mother III ever know. I wish I'd
always been good, so she wouldn't
believe the awful things Glenn Car
son said about me. She thinks I'm
bad now-like my mother I Won
der" she was startled, her face
flushing holly under the brown pow
der, IF I am bad! They say it's in
the blood. I'm crazy to have David
kiss me, and-and he had to ask
me not to. Maybe David is afraid
I'm bad, too. and will make him
bad!"
The thought was unbearable. She
wanted to fly to David, to search his
gold-tlecked hazel eyes again, to see
if he had lost any of his respect"
for her. But she wouldn't kiss him!
She'd bite her tongue out first! She
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