THE MEDPOBD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, PRISCON, WEDNESDAY, MUl'THMIlHlt H, 1MI!.
(Continued.)
' .Synopsis Chapter I Polly, a child
of tho cirous, is brought up by Toby,
a clown, and by a boss canvnsmau
-called "Muvver Jim." She learns to
' ride Bingo, a circus horse, and grows
to womanhood knowing no life ex-
.cept that of the circus.
' Chapter II A chuh near tho cir
cus lot interests Polly. Jim reproves
her for her reckless ciilli'?'.
Chapter III Polly urges Bingo to
unprecedented speed m:d falls. Toby
Mid Jim carry the injured girl to the
parsonage nearby. '
Chapter IV The Rev. John Doug
las, much to Deacon Elverson's dis
gust, takes Polly into the parsonage.
Toby and "Muvver Jim" are receiv
ed kindly by Douglas, who has placed
Polly in charge of his- colored serv
ant, Mandy. Douglas promises to
care for the girl until she is well.
CHAPTER V.
EHE church bells were ringing
their first warning for the
inorulng service when Mandy
peeped into the spare bedroom
lor tile secouil time and glanced cau
tiously at the wisp of hair that bespoke
t a feminine bead somewhere between
the covers and the little white pillow
on the four poster bed. . There w?s no
eound from tte sleeper, so Mandy ven
tured across the room on tiptoe and
raised the shades. The drooping
boughs of autumn foliage lay shim
mering against the window panes, and
through them might be seen the gray
outline of the church. Mandy glanced
again toward the bed to make sure
that the burst of sunlight had not
wakened the invalid, then crossed to
a small, rickety chair laden with the
discarded finery of the little circus
rider.-
"Lawdy sakes!" she cried, holding
np a spangled dress admiringly. "Ain't
idat beautiful!" She drew near the
mirror, attempting to see the reflec
tion of the tinsel and chiffon againBt
ther very ample background of ging-
. "ham and avoirdupois. "You'd sure' be
swell nigger wid dot on, hapey!"
ehe chuckled to herself. "Wouldn't
idem deacons boiler if dey done see
' datr
The picture of the deacons' aston
ishment at such a spectacle so grew
upon Mandy that she was obliged to
cover her generous mouth to shut in
her convulsive laughter lest it awaken
the little girl in the bed. She crossed
to the old fashioned bureau which for
many months bad stood unused against
the wall. The drawer creaked as she
opened it to lay away the gay, span
, gled gown.
"It'll be a mighty long time afore
she puts on dcin t'lngs ag'in." she said,
With a doubtful shake of her large,
round bead.
Then she went back to the chair and
icked up Polly's sandals and exam
ined the besdwork with a great deal
of Interest "Lawdy, lawdy!" she cried
as she compared the size of the san
das to that of her own roiurb. worn
shoes. She was again upon the point
of exploding with laughter as the
church bell added a few final and
more emphatic clungs to its warning.
She turned, with a start, motioning a
vain warning out of the window for
the bell to be silent, but the little
sleeper was- already stirring uneasily
- on her pillow. One soft arm was
thrown languidly over her bead. The
large blue eyes opened and closed
dreamily as she murmured the words
i of the clown song that Jim and Toby
- bad taught her years ago:
"Ting ling, .
. . That's what the betla sing"
Mandy reached the side of the bed
' as the girl's eyes opened a second time
and met berg with a blank stare of
astonishment. . A tiny frown came into
the small white forehead.
"What's the matter?" she asked
faintly, trying to find something fa
' miliar In the black face before her.
"Hush, child, hush," Mandy whis
pered. "Jes' you lay pumckly still.
lJat's only de furs' bell a-rlngiu'."
"First bell?" the girl repeated as her
eyes traveled quickly about the strange
walls and the unfamiliar fittings of the
room. "This ain't the show!" she cried
suddenly.
"Lor' blpBH you, no! DIs ain't no
Fhow!" Mandy answered, and she
laughed reassuringly.
"Then where am i?" Polly asked,
half breathless with bewilderment.
"Nebber ,you mind 'bout dat," was
Mandy'g unsatisfactory reply.
"But I do mind." protested Polly,
trying to raise herself to a sitting po-
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Tou'ii nr be a mcell nigger told dot on,
honey!" the chuckled.
sltion. "Where's the bunch?''
"De wat?" asked Mandy in surprise.
"The bunch Jim and Toby an'- the
rest of the push!"
"Lor" bless you," Mandy exclaimed,
"dey's done gone 'long wld de circus
hours ago."
"Gone! Show gone!" Polly cried In
amazement "Then what am I doin'
here?"
"Hoi' on dar, honey! Hoi' on!"
Mandy cautioned. "Don't you 'cite
yo'se'f."
"Let me alone!" Polly put aside the
arm tbat was trying to place a shawl
around her. "I got to get out of here."
"Youse got plenty o tune for dat,"
Mandy answered. "Jes' yo' wait
awhile."
"I can't wait, an' . I won't!" Polly
shrieked, almost beside herself with
anxiety. "I got to get to the. next
burg Wakefield, ain't It? What time
is it? Let me alone! ; Let me go!" she
cried, struggling desperately.
The door opened softly, and the
young pastor stood looking down at
the picture of the frail, white faced
child and her black, determined cap
tor. "Here, here! What's all this about?'
be asked in a firm tone, though evi
dently amused.
"Who are you?" returned the girl as
she shoved herself quickly back
against the pillows and drew the cov
ers close under ber chin, looking at
him oddly over then- top.
"She done been cuttin' up somefin
awful!" Mandy explained as she tried
to regain enough breath for a new en
conn tor.
"Cutting up? You surprise me, Miss
Polly," be said, with mock seriousness.
"How do you know I'm Polly?" the
little rebel asked, ber eyes gleaming
large and desperate above the friendly
covers. '
"If you will be very good and keep
very quiet, I will try to tell you," be
said as be crossed to the bed.
"I won't be quiet, not for nobody,"
Polly objected, with a bold disregard
of double negatives. "I got to get a
move. If you ain't goln' to help me
you needn't butt in."
"I am afraid I can't help you to go
Jutt yet," Douglas replied. He was be
ginning to perceive that there were
tasks before him other than the shap
ing of Polly's character.
"What are you tryln' to do to me,
anyhow?" she asked as she shot a
glain-e of suspicion from the pastor to
Mandy. "What am I up against?"
"Don't you be scared, honey," Man
ily reassured her. "Youse 'Jes' as safe
here as yon done been In de circus."
"Safer, we hope." Douglas added,
with a Ninlle.
"Are you two bug?" Polly ques
tioned as she turned her head from
oik Hide to I lie other and studied them
with a new Idea. "Well, you can't
get none the best of me. I can get
mvity all right, an' I will too."
She made n desperate effort to put
one foot to the lloor. but fell bark with
j rrv of nnln.
"liar, 'dar." .Mainly murmured, put
ting the pillow under the poor,
cramped nc-k and smoothing the tan
gled linlr from Tolly's foii'lientl. "You
done hurt yo'wf for snail ills time."
The pastor had taken n uti-p Kiwnrd
the bed. His look of uiiiukpiiumiI bad
changed to one of p:y. ,
"You see. Miss I'olll'. y," bine li:n!
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a very bail ran. aim you can t got away
Just yet nor see your friends until you
are better."
"It's only a scratch." Polly whim
pered. "I can do my work; I got to."
One more feeble effort and she suc
cumbed, with n faint "Jlmlny crick
ets!"
"I'ucle Toby told nm that yon were
a very good little girl," Douglas said
as be drew up a chair and sat down
by her side, confident by tho expres
slon on her face that at last ho was
master of the situation. "Do you think
he would like you to behave like this?"
"I sure am on the blink," she sighed
as she settled back wearily upon the
pillow.
"You'll be all right soon." Douglas
answered cheerily. "Mandy and I will
help the time to go."
"I recollect now,". Polly faltered
without hearing htm. "It was tho last
hoop. Jim seemed to have a hunch I
was goln' to be In for trouble when I
went Into the ring. ISIngo must 'a' felt
It too. He kept a-piillin' and a-Jerkln'
from the start. 1 got myself together
to mnke the last jump, an' I can't re
member no more." Her head drooped,
and her eyes closed.
"I wouldn't try Just now If I were
you." Douglas answered tenderly.
"It's my wheel, ain't It?" Polly ques
tioned after a pause.
"Yonh what, chile?" Mandy exclaim
ed as she turned from-the table, where
she had been rolling up the unused
bandages left from the doctor's call the
night before.
"I say It's my creeper, my paddle,"
Polly explained, trying to locate a few
of her many pains. "Gee, but that
hurts!" She tried to bend -her ankle.
"Is it punctured?"
'Only sprained," Douglas answered.
striving to control his amusement at
the expression on Mandy's puzzled
face. "Better not talk any more about
It"
Ain't anything the matter with my
tongue, is there?" she aBked, turning
her bead to one side and Btudylng him
quizzically.
T don't think there Is," be replied
good naturedly.
"How did I come to fall In here any
how?" she asked as she studied the
walls of the unfamiliar room.
"Wo brought you here." ;-V -
"It's a swell place," she couceded
grudgingly.
"We are comfortable," be admitted
as a telltale smile again hovered about
his lips. , He was thinking of the
changes that he must presently make
In Miss Polly's vocabulary.
"Is tbls the big top?" she asked.
"The what?" he stammered.
"The main tent," she explained.
"Well, no; not exactly. It's going to
be your room now. Miss Polly."
"My room! Gee! Think of that!"
she gasped as the possibility of ber
actually having a room all of her own
took hold of her mind. "Much
obliged," she said, with a nod, feeling
that something was expected of her.
She knew no other phrase of gratitude
than the one "Muvver Jim" and Toby
had taught her to say to the manager
when she received from him the first
stick of red and white striped candy.
"You're very welcome," Douglas an
swered, with a ring of genuine feeling
In his voice.
"Awful quiet, ain't It?" she ventured
after a pause. "Guess that's what
woke me up."
Douglas laughed good naturedly at
the thought of quiet as a disturber
and added tbat he feared it might at
first be rnther dull for her, but that
Jim and Toby would send her news of
the circus and tbat she could write to
them as soon as she was better.
"I'll have to be a heap better 'an
I ever was 'fore I can write much,"
Polly drawled, with a whimsical lit
tle smile.
"I will write for you," the pastor
volunteered, understanding ber plight
"You wilir For the first time be
w a show of real pleasure It her
eyes.
"Every day," Douglas promised sol
emnly. (To he continued.)
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