The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-08
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0X tNt8 UoGGUtAUO 0ut kU8p8 " Wph even when hfLE. SfDDAL, Mndes flne'e cousin, asks her Co marry AsH1ls AMOS BIDDAEA Mndclimc's 6 blind. MRS PLANTER, house. keeper discharged by Donna, is her enemy.
 Donna and Blll gre married. Meanwhile Madeline has married trainer, and takes part In the animal act.
 Amos Siddal has . stroke.
 ln New Orleans Madeline goes Into thc cage alone with the Bengal tiger. Tho tiger sprlngs and silc ls killed. RenfrOe dts. charges Con. He ls unable t0 gct work and decides Co go 10 the Sl0dai farm.
 CHAPTER XxIX
 Day after day Amos Siddal lay on his bod, unable to lift q hand or move the body that had known such strength and agility and cn. aured such hardships.
 Donna, sitting beside him, won- dered what thoughts could bu passing through his mind. There were hours that sho was. to re: call h after lifo, when she read aloud his favorito passages In the Bible and listened as hls foohio lips repeated tho words after her, often before lHmpli.ht baniahed tho shadows of tho little room she would hold ono of his hands in hor whllo he talked of tho struggles he had known as n youth,
 Sometimes tho girl could al- most feel tho presence of tho to love. Sometimes ho spoke Of his son and ot Madeline ns n child,
 "A little tousled rcd.head," he chuekied, with frceklos. Mighty sweet, but hot.hoAdod, Pm glad she learned to conquer hor tenn per"
 When first ho spoke of Made- line In tho third person DonnnA heart missed n beat. Thon she realized that to him tho woman end the child were not tho same,
 But you growed up beautiful Maddie," ho would go on, "Fm sorry l wasn't able to sec you, l cnn feel--or l eould--the straight ness Of your nose, All tho Siddnls had straight nosos, And your llt. tie round chin, But l cant Soo tho color of your eyes, not your hair, Dill says it Isn't NO rcd any more,'
 No. its--lts brownish," she chokod.
 "Blll says irs liko gold with tho sunset on it, WomAns crowninH glory" ho chucklod, My, how dis' appointed your Grandma was when she saw n red.hcaded Rrandbaby, she cried. Yes, sir, sho cried, In these days red hair wasn't so pop plgs that women put storo stun on honest brown hair 10 color tt, Times change, Yos, times change" Once no asked, "you don't rec. olloet the time you foll down tho rain barrel, do sou9"
 'That was funny, There you were with your foot sticking up In tho alr and your body caught in tho middle and yelling ut tho top of your lungs, And whom came in from helping old Nell with her memory is getting ns poorly as my body. That was your pn, Yes, it must have been your Pa be- cause Nellie diod whom he was . little boy and I'm sure it was Nei' iie--"
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 Denna felt a morbid fascina. ton in listening Co hlm talk or MndelIno'g childhood. Tho chubby little glrl ho described, who mndo mud ples In tho hog pen, who tell from apple trees and almost broke her neck when sho tumbled through tho hay mow, who waN rcd .hnired and freeklcd nnd otteh dirty, had nothing in common With tho Madeline whom Donna hnd known, mnn foil naloep, Always whom hts eyellda woro lowered tho w0xeh whltonoss of hls chooks, tho sunk on eyeballs and hls frnglllty hurt her with a physical pain, Ho eould not 1.-Two with thls continued vast ing away, lIo was littlo more than n wrath now, though his spirit was nB strong as over,
 "When you're young and ovnry... thing is ahead of you, Madd,e," ho snld, "donth hns n kind of tor, TOT, which it sh0uldnt have, Bul after you've lived your lifo--livod it as best you know how, making mistakes, of course, and somctimcaa , shining, why n long sleep is Rihd of plonsnnt, ttll bo n wrench 70 leave you and Blll, but there's Ma and my boy and n hoap or my friends and l calculate tho reunion win sort of softon tho sorrow of parting from living loved ones'
 You mustn't think you're go. Ing to dlo yet" sho sobbod, tonrs railing down her ehooks, we mod you, Rill and t--"
 "rhnts sweet Of you, Maddie considering I'm nothing moro than burden now, But you ana BiII will got along all right by your: selves, You lov0 oaoh other ana when a man and a woman really love eaeh other they can surmount all obstacles. You had to overcome ono in getting married, but l knew you'd do it, know t was tho to become man and wlte--Just as right thing for you two children Two known thnt your sou' l" Us benutiful ns your taee''
 "0randfnther-"
 oh yes, Maddie. When tho Lore first sont my nffliction to mo l was bitter. It didn' soom fair whom I'd tried Co bo n righteous man and never knowingly harmed any one, but Emorson--I think it was how 1t was somo writer---snid one Emerson who wrote 1t, but any of the truest things in the world If you lose something, he said, you gain something. My blindness wa' really blessing. I've seen more'r T could ever have seen with eye' alone. and the seeing has given me understanding - understanding o' peoples intentions. figure. in spite of that adage about helrs. pave ments, that when the day of judg ment comes we're going to be judged more by our intentions tha what we did."
 "I hope so." Donna murmuret fervently.
 often the old mans voice traiie' ofs in the midst of a sentence ant then Donna crept noiselessiy iron the room to go about her house hold chores, They were many ant