The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-31
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heb hllk from the trapeze and II
injured. To please her partner
| Madeline Siddal, Donna goes to
| Madeline's home to recuperate
pretending to be the other girl
She is ashamed of this deception
but Keeps tit up, even when Bill
Si3dal, Ms,1eline's cousin, ask
! her to marry him. Amos Siddal
tMadeline's grandfather who owns
: the farm, is blind. Mrs. Planter
hersekeeper discharged by Don
ma, is her enemy.
J Donna ar1 Bill are married
Meanwhile Madeline has married
Con David circus animal trainer
and takes part in the animal act
! Amos Siddal has stroke.
In New Orleans Madeline goe,
into the cape alone with the Ben
gal tiger and is killed. Renfroe
discharges Con. Unable to gel
work, Con decides to go to the
Siddal farm. -
Bill and Donna 60 to movie
They have, a misunderstanding
that increases Bills jealousy.
CHAPTER XXI '..-..'',
7 Grandfather was sleeping when
Bill and Donna arrived home and
they did not have to make any
explanations about their early re-
! turn. Donna went upstairs anc
undressed, but it was almost an
hour later before Bill joined her
/ Bill removed his clothes with
out turning on the light and Don
ma lay perfectly still. pretending
that she was asleep. She yearned
to throw her arms about him and
Try to Danish the ugly thoughts
that she knew were troubling hin
and raising a barrier between
them.
A long time they lay there,
Donna's eyes burning, her lids
heavy from the tears she had
shed. At last she could endure
It no longer. She touched his
shoulder timidly. BILL" she said
ARE you asleep"
"No."
"You-aren' thinking that
went to pieces because of-Con
David"
"No."
! Then"
'I'm facing the facts. I've been
so happy that / suppose I've been
a blind fool. | should have real.
lied I had nothing to offer to
take the place of all you're &C
customed to. I'd forgotten that
you ran away once to escape the
farmland that if it was unbear'
able then IT would be more sc
now that you've seen the world
%" Donna was silent, not knowing
how to answer, since obviously
he had not believed her protest:
that she was absolutely happy
here.
- 81 know you've done your bes
to be satisfied. No man cOulC
. have asked for a better wife
Perhaps that's why ! haven't un
aderstood as ! should have before
u this. I Pm not altogether selfish
Madeline. ! love you. / love yor
so much that. sooner than see
you go on getting paler and thin
ner every day, I'd rather give
you up. Send You back to the
life You love"
"Biliw she cried. She restet
her weight on one elbow anC
tried to see his face in the shad'
ows. 81 bGlieve--there's nothing
else I can believe--that you've
brooded and thought so much
over what ! used to be that you
put a wrong construction or
everything l do. Won't you take
my word for it that nothing in
the world is farther from my
mind than to return to the cir
Gus? {
! "T know they say show bust
ness gets Under your skin. 1t
does with some, but my accident
and others I've seen drove away
all the glamour the circus NAV
have held for me. 1t wasn't re-
greet, or anything like it, that
sent me to pieces tonight. 1t was
thinking about a friend. a very
dear friend who died in an acct
dent. That girl--the one who
played Polly - looked something
| like her"
"Why didn't you say so then?
"You didn't give me a chance
You took it for grated it was
something else. You're being un.
flair. l admit Pm unstrung-l
Ihave been ever since my fall
lbut isn't that natural? Their
Grandfather's illness-We know
he can't live much longer and
that makes me unhappy. If you
are going to be Jealous and sus'
picious--" Her voice broke.
"Tf I were only sure you were
telling the truth"
81 am! | am! I love you more
than the whole world. When you
aren't yourself Or there's any
GOODNESS between lis the life is
all gone out of me. Sometimes
II think it must be wrong to love
anyone as I do YOU. I'm afraid
some misfortune will come of it,
Darling" he rhurmured. and
Graded her head on his chest
what a crazy fool ! ami"
! And at the very time when the
rift that has made. them both SC
miserable for a brief while was
| dissipated Con David was; max
ling his nlans to come to Lebanon
| Thanksgiving day was, drawing
near. 1t might be Gfandfather's
Siddaps last Thanksgiving day on
J this earth and Donna was deter.