The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-06-04
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pretending to be the other girl.
She is, ashamed of this, deception
but keeps it up, even, when. Bill
Siddai, .Madeline's cousin, asks
her to marry him. Amos Siddal,
iMadeline's grandfather who owns
tic farm, is blind. Mrs. Planter,
housekeeper discharged by Don.
ma, is her enemy. ,- ,..s..,,
J. Donna and Bill are married.
Meanwhile Madeline has married
! Con David, circus animal train
err, and takes part in the animal
act. ~.
Amos Sidial has a stroke.
! In New. Orleans Madeline goes
into the cage with the Bengal
tiger and is killed. Con is dis
charged. Unable to get work, he
decides to go. to the Siddal farm.
From the nearby town he sends
note to Donna who agrees to
telephone him later. Mrs. Plant
err, now working at the hotel,
learns of Cons arrival. a.. .
! NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
:. CHAPTER XXXIV .a
! Whatever Mrs. Planters mo-
tive for telephoning to Donna
may have been, she was smiling
as she hung up the receiver. Not
for an instant did she believe the
girl did not know Con David was
in Lebanon, and the fact that she
had pricked .Donna's bubble of
happiness was worth several re-
Bluffs. -.. ..... ..... .
Her hatred for Donna had be-
come an obsession. Although her
gossip about the Siddal family
had been limited to innuendoes,
due to the fact that she had no
proof to back up more definite
statements, Mrs. Planter had been
striving for some means of re-
venge ever since leaving the
farm.
"Give hussy enough rope and
she'll hang herself she mutter-
ed. pretending just as if she
didn't send for him! Of course
she did. I'll bet he's her real
husband, and poor Bill wish I
knew just why she married Bill !!
Mebbe Amos made out his will
in favor of Bill and cut her off.
No, that wouldn't do her no good
if Bill found out he wasn't her
husband. Unless-well, murders
have been committed for less. l
wouldn't put nothin' past a man
who's cruel to pore dumb beasts,
even if they are wild, and a wo-
man who shows her figure in
public without enough clothes to
cover her nakednesS." ..q-
Mrs. Planter did not really be-
leve that Madeline and Con Da-
yid contemplated murder but,
considering herself a God-fear-
ing. righteous woman, it was
necessary for her to have some
logical reason for her hatred, and
thus she supplied herself with an
excuse for her action.
If Donna slept little that night,
neither did the former house
keeper. For hours Mrs. Planter
gloated over the wreck of DON
mas happiness. Sooner or later
she would confront the girl and
the animal trainer together and
then!
Con spent a dull afternoon and
a duller evening, when Pete re-
turned and repeated what Donna
Rad said Con decided he would
stay in the hotel until the tele-
phone message came. The after
noon hours rolled around but the
call did not come. He went down
stairs to the office and engaged
RAIDER in conversation, but the
hotel proprietor was an inarticu-
late man, more given to asking
questions than answering them,
and Con had no intention of ex-
planning his reasos for being in
Lebanon util he knew what his
reception would be. .. 49,.
Supper over, Con stood outside
on the porch and smoked a cigar,
vainly waiting summons to the
telephone. What little good ma
ture he possessed was sorely
tried. He regretted that he had
not driven to the farm and con-
fronted Donna without prelimi-
naries.
"If she tries to make monkey
of me-" he muttered, 'Tll show
her where she gets off,
Pete's hero worship caused him
to join the animal trainer. "Are
you going back to the circus"
the boy asked timidly. -" $780, i
eyes" rur .... ,..
"D'ye reckon Madeline Siddal
will ever join up with circus
again." .. .,....
''I'm sure I don't know"
"Mis' Planter says faint nat
ural for a show girl to quit and
stay quit" r. -H
"Who is Mis- Planter
"Our cook. She used to work
for the Siddals. After Bill Sid
dial hitched up with Madeline
they fired Mis- Planter. Are you
going to tr.~and persuade Made
line to come back to the circus
with you?"
"Why should II" .
81 dunno. Paw says it's kinder
queer, you bein' here, and l
thought mebbe that was your
reason. She's right pretty. Made
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