New Britain herald., 1928-04-10
THIS HAS HAPPENED

and leaves the state orphanage, the only home she has known since she Was four. At the farm she meets IS working during the summer When Carson makes insulting re- marks about David's friendship with Sally, David strikes the farmer a crushing blow.
 David and Sally run away and join a carnival, David as cooks help CT and Sally in a sideshoW disguised as Princess Lalla.' crystal gazer.
 Nita, the Hula dancer, becomes infatuated with David and threat tns Sally with exposure to the po- lice if she doesn't give David up.
 Sallys tells Mrs. Bybee. wife of the carnival owner. that her mother once lived in Stanton, the town where the carnival is now showing, and the showman's wife agrees to investigate. She learns that the wo- man who placed Sally in the Home was not her mother, but maid hired 10 take the baby from the real mother in New York and disappear.
 Sally is paralyzed to learn the carnival is next going to the capital city. where she spent so many years in the orphans home. Knowing that lhe police are after them and be- lieving they will be recognized, she hurries to tell David they must run away again. He comforts her and tells her he will meet her that night after the train is loaded and they can talk their plight over then. She waits eNcited'y that night for his promised whistle beneath her ear window. When it comes. she hurres happily toward the door. but she notices that Nita's berth is vacant
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER NXIII
 The night was cerie with voices from unseen bodies, or bodies, half revealed in the flare Of gasoline torches, as the business of loading the carnival proceeded. Soft. rich voices from black mems throats blended with the ,clvety softncss of the la,e-Junc night:
 "Oh, if Ah had wings like an
 angel,
 Over these prison wall. An
 would fly.
 An would fly to the ahms of my
 poah da hlinE',
 An theah And be ~illin to
 die.'
 A lonesome, hearthreakinE plaint. Sally shivered Except for David and Pop Rybee and Dan. the barker. she and David might have been behind prison bars tonight, learning the shame and misery that had created that song.
 X white roustabout said some thing evil to her out of the corner of his mouth as she brushed past him on her way to join David. But she scarcely noticed, for there was David, hi. shoulders looming inn nensely broad in the dark coat he had donned in her honor. Her hands were out to him before he had reached her, and when he took them both and laid them softly against his breast, so that her leap ing blood caught the rhythm of his strongly beating heart. she could scarcely restrain herself from raising her small body on hic kiss.
 They were shy at first. as they drifted away from the show train across the vacant lot where the carnival had so recently vcndcd trickery and truth. freaks and and music. They walked softly, slowly. Sally having the absurd feeling that if the grass stubble were tender. tiny flowers, her joy light feet would not have crushed them. Her fingers were inter twined with pavids and the cleo 'ric thrill ot that contact seemed 10 be the motor force which pro pclled her body. Without a word as to direction, they drifted, con- plcte1y in accord. toward a clump of trees which would some day. when Stanton had become beauty conscious, form the nucleus of q park.
 Sally felt that she was in 8 spell woven of the beauty and breathless ht.ss of he night and of her mar tonatn joy as, still without speak Ing, David took off his coat and spread it upon the ground that sloped gently from the sturdy trunk of an oak tree. As he was s'oopirg to spread the coat her hand lowered over his head. ach- ing 10 touch the dear waving crisp ness Of his hair. yet not daring quite. But when he strengthened more suddenly than she had ex- rected. his head fitted into the cup Of her lowering hand before she could snatch ii away
 He whirled upon her, sweeping her slight body 70 his breast with such fiercensss and suddenness that her head swan.
 Sally Sally" Just that hoarse cry. muted. eNul'ant.
 Her hands crept slowly up his breast, SO loving every inch of the l gear body whose warmth came 1 through the cloth of his shirt that 1 they abandoned it reluctantly l When her hands were on his shou- | 1ers. clineing there. she threw her head back upon tho curve of | his right arm, and smiled up into { his face. Her lips parting slowly | to let out q little gasping sigh of 1 joy.
 In he silvery sheen with which | tn" moon Joyously and approvinslv ! bathed them their eyes wide. dark. ! luminous, clung for an aeon Of |