The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-11
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DONNA GABRiisi.. clrrus per.
 former, falls from the traipexe
 Hu1 e injured. To rfemse free
 NARlneF, MADELINE BlDDAL,
 Donna goes t0 MndeElnc's horne
 S1 r1cufieFnte, pretending tO be
 fnf other girl. klle is ashnmed
 eE lhis deception but keeps it up,
 even when BILL SlDDAL, Mnde.
 Nne's cousin, nsks her to marry
 ninl. AMOS slDDAL, Amdellne's
 *F1u0fntller who owns the farm
 Is blind. MRS PLANTER, house.
 keeper discharged by DOnnR, b
 her enemy.
 Donnn and nllI arc married.
 AlennWhile Madeline has married
 CON DAVID, circus animal trnIn
 er, and takes part in the animni
 Amos slddal has Q stroke.
 In New Orleans Madeline goes
 Into the cagc alone with the
 Bengal tiger and Is killed. Ken.
 fFoe discharges Con. Unable to
 get work, Con decides t0 70 to
 fhe slddnl farm.
 Blll and Donna go tO q movie.
 They have misunderstanding
 that increases Bills jealousy.
 fa CHAPTER X$XI
 Grandfather was sleeping when Bill and Donna arrived home and they did not have to make any ex- plantations about their early re-. turn. Donna went upstairs and un. dressed, but it was almost aN hour later before Bill joined her.
 Bill removed his clothes without turning on the light and Donna lay perfectly still, pretending that she was asleep. Sho yearned to throw her arms about hlm and try 10 banish the ugly thoughts thnt she know were troubling him and raising q barrier between them.
 A long time they lay there, Don- mas eyes burning, her Ids heavy from the tears sho had shed. AZ last she could endure lt no longer She touched his shoulder tlmIdly. "Bill, she said, "aro you asleep"
 "No."
 "You---arent thinking that I vent to pieces because Of --- Con
 Then"
 "ym facing the facts. Two been so happy that 1 suppose I've been n blind fool. should have real ized had nothing 10 offer to tako the place of nll you're accustomed to. I'd forgotten that you run away once to escape tho farm and that if it wns unboarnblo then at would Do moro SO now that you've seen tho world"
 Donna was silent, not knowing how to answer, sInoo obviously no had not believed her protests that she was absolutely happy hero.
 "f know you've done your best to bo satisfied. No man could have asked for n better wife. Perhaps that's why 1 haven't understood nB l should have before this I'm not altogether selfish, Madeline. love you. love you NO much that, sooner than see you go on getting paier and thinner every dny, I'd rather give you up, Send you bnck to tho llfo you love"
 "BIfl!" she cried. She rested her weight on ono elbow and tried 10 sec hls face in tho shadows, "l Do. nothing olso l can believe--that you've broodod and thought 50 much over what l used 10 be that you put n wrong con. struction on everything l do. Won't you take my word for it that nos thing in tho world is further from my mind than Co return to tho cir. GUS?
 q know they say show business gets under your skin. lt does with some, but my accident and others I've seen drove hWny nll tho glamour the circus may have held for mo, IL wasn't foBrot, or any thing like it, that sent mo Go pieces tonight. ft wnB thinking about q friend, l. very denr frlond who died In an accident. That glrl---thc one who played polly---lookcd somo. thing like hor---"
 "Why didn't you sDy NO them z"
 You didn't give mo n chance, You took it for granted lt was something olso. You're being un. fair. admit Pm uDstrung -- ] have been ever Blnco my fnll-but isn't that nntUralY Then Grand. fathers illness-- Wo know ho cDn't live much longer and thnt mnkog mo unhappy, If you nre going 10 be jealous and sUBplclous~-'" Hor voice broko,
 "if were only sure you were telling tho truth"
 "f nm. nnl love you moro than the whole world, When you aren't yourself or there's my cool. ness between UB the llfo is nll gone out Of me, Sometimes l think lt must be wrong to love anyone hs ] do you. Pm afraid Bomo mis- fortune will como of it,"
 "DnrlIng." hn murmurod, and rrndlcd her bend on hls chest, ''Whnt a crazy fool l nm,"
 And nt tho very tune when tho