The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-18
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SYNOPSIS

nieSee her nnrtner. MADE.
 LINE GIDDAL, Donnn goes to
 11a0eline's home to recuperate,
 pretending to De the other girl.
 She is ashamed of this deccp.
 li0n but keeps it up even when
 BILL DlDDAL, Madellne's
 cousin, asks her to marry him.
 AMOS SKDDAL, Mndellne's
 grandfather who owns the
 farm, is blind. MRS PLAN
 TER, housekeeper discharged
 by Donna, is her enemy.
 Donna and BiIl are married. Meanwhile Madeline has mar.
 Ried CON DAVID, circus ami.
 nal trainer, and takes part fin
 the animal act.
 Amos Siddal has . stroke.
 Tn New Orleans Madeline
 goes into the cage with the
 Bengal tiger and Is killed. Con
 ig discharge and, unable to get
 work, decides to go to the
 Eiddal farm.
 From the nearby town he
 sends c note to Donna and she
 agrees to meet him the next VI afternoon. Mrs Planter learns
 of this and writes an anOny.
 mOuS letter Ot BULL
 Donna tells Bill she is going
 to Q nclghbor's and sets out to
 keep the appointment with
 CHAPTER XXXvII Nothing could have fired Con David's desire to see Donna quite so much as her reluctance to meet him. After he had learned from Madeline that Donna had not been married to Bill Siddal at the time of his own marriage to Made line, Con had convlnced himself that, in spite of her rcpulsos. Don. ma had really been in love with him. Ho assured himself that if he had remained single Donna would havo become his wife.
 Madeline had been right when she had said What Donna's great attraction for Con was due to the fact that sho had refused his at. tentions so frequently. The elc. ment in the small boy that makes him want what is forbidden waA strong in Conn. While his prlncl. pal reason for coming to Lebanon was to secure tho property that would have been his wifo's by in-
 
 that tho only woman who had ever caused his he1rt to beat moro quickly would find him moro at- tractive now and more desirable than in tho days past.
 It did not occur to him that Don m might fear him. What sho had said over tho telephone flhttcred his vanity. If she was afraid t0
 l.lw 4 h. l.aN l.as husband WIS jealous of him. If siddnl was jealous, ho must know something about Con and ho could sneans--thr0ugh Donna, T h q sneant she had not forgotten him. psyhnps Donna was afraid 10 trust herself with Con because he snIght arouse an affection gho was trying tO crush. This thought plcasod him greatly. Az he shaved and dressed mctlculOuBly for the sneOtlng no Vlsloncd Donna in the days v hon ho hnd first know hor' HmgN, lltho and eXqulsitGly bcautl. 5uI. he had thought her. Tho nr. FogHnt way in which Bho carried hor hoad with It's nurcolo of fam. ing curla, tho perfect symmetry of her body. her daring in tho ring, and hor tutor indifference to tho admiration of men hnd all attract. ed him.
 Though tho two girls, Donna md Madeline, had looked much alike. thero had boon n distinction about Donna that always mado her part. ner appear drab and col0rloss when the two were together. From the very beginning Con had doubt. cd tho statement that the girls were sisters, though no ono else in the troupe had seemed to do so.
 It did not seem credible to Con, who had spent almost hls entire life under tho big top,' that mem. bers of tho Bafno family should not only show such different traits be m accomplished aoriallst, skill. cd in ever trick of hcr profossl on, while tho other, though not with out ability, was obviously now to the circus,
 Wildly no recalled the day whom the two girls hnd Joined the snow, Ronfroe'g headquarterB were m Virginih and until tho season bee fore Con had housed his animals with RenfrOe'B. Tho snowman had boen disappointed by two European performers who had failed to keep an engagement, and had answorGd an adVertisoment in G theatrical publication. Photographs aecom. panied the letter of application, ana Renfro0 had shown them to Con. "Thero' good. .iookers, aren't theyT', Renfroe had said. "Tho Gabriel sisters. 1 remember there used to be q Val Gabriel in your lino, Con Maybe you knew him. l think he was killed by q lion."
 "Yes. He was q headiinor. Wife was a trapeze performer"
 "Wonder # these girls are his kids. Seems to me l heard he left . family" . had advised Renfroe to hire the sIstors, Soon after that the girls arrived at headquarters, after cnn' ceiling some small-time v&udeVisie dates.
 Though Donna had admitted the relationship to Val Gabriel, neither girl offered any other information about themselves. But their ac' had made good. The "big top" wal small enough, the circus intimate enough so that audiences could take not of the girls youth and beauty. Madeline and Donna would have succeeded on that score, even # they had been less clever.
 From the first day of their meet ing In the huge enclosed grounds of the headquarters Con had beer definitely conscious of D n n a Though everyone was busy-and ht most of all, with a couple of nc" cats to break in--he found mo. ments in which he had endeavored to win her regard.
 The fact that she had obviousl, sought to avoid him had piquet his interest, and by the time th' circus opened two weeks later h' had known that he was in low with her.
 He supposed he was still in lov'
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