THE MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OK KAON. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9,
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(Continued.)
Synopsis Chapter! Polly, a child
of tho circus, is brought up by Toby,
a clown, and by a boss canvnsmnu
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 church near the cir-
us lot interests Polly. Jim repiovcs
her for her reckless riilirp.
Chapter III Polly urges Bingo to
unprecedented speed r.d falls..Toby
and Jim carry the injured girl to the
parsonage nearby. '-'.
Chapter IV Tho 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 liis colored serv
ant, Mandy. Douglas promises to
care for the girl until she is well.
"An" you will show me how?"
"Indeed," I will."
"How long am t In for?" she asked.
"The doctor cau tell better about
that when he comes."
"The doctorl So It's ns bad as that,
eh?"
"Oh, that need not frighten you,"
Douglas answered consolingly.
' "I ain't frightened," she bridled
quickly; "I ain't uever scared of noth
in'. It's only 'cause they need me In
the show that I'm a-kickin'."
"Oh. they will get along all right,"
.he said reassuringly.
"Get along!" Pollv. flashed wtthsud;
"SHE DOSE BEEN VUTT1X'
den resentment. "Get along without
my act!" It was apparent from her
look of astonishment that Douglas had
completely lost whatever ground he
had heretofore gained in ber respect
"Say, have you seen that show?" She
waited for his answer with pity and
contempt
"No," admitted John weakly. ,
"Well, I should say you ain't or you
wouldn't make no crack like that. I'm
Hie whole thing in that push," she said,
with an air of self complacency, "an'
with me down an' out that show will
be on the bum for fair."
"I beg your pardon," was all Doug
las could say, confused by the sudden
volley of unfamiliar words.
"You're klddln' me," she said, turn
ing her head to one side, as was her
wont when assailed by suspicion. "You
must 'a' seen me ride?"
"No, Miss Polly, I have never seen
a circus," Douglas told her, half regret
fully, a souse of his deep privation
stealing upon him.
"What!" ciied Polly Incredulously.
"Lordy, no, chile. lie ain't nebber
seed none ob rteni rings," Mandy in
terrupted ns she tried to arrange a
few short stemmed posies in a varie
gated boiuiuet.
"Well, what do you think of that!"
Polly gasped. "You're the first Kube I
ever saw that hadn't." She was look
ing at him as though he were a curi
osity. "So I'm a Rube!" Douglas shook his
head with a sad little smile and good
naturcdly agreed, that he had some-
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times feared as much.
"That's what we always calls a guy
like you," she explained ingenuously
and added hopefully: "Well, you must
'a' seen our parade. All the pikers see
that It don't cost nothlu'."
"I'm afraid I must also plead guilty
to the charge of belug a piker," Doug
las admitted, half sheepishly, "for I did
see the parade."
"Well, I was the one on the white
horse right behind the Hon cage," she
began excitedly. "You remember?"
"It's a little confused In my mind"
be caught ber look of amazement "Just
at present," he stammered, feeling her
wrath again about to descend upon
him. t !
"Well. I'm the twenty-four sheet
stand," she explained.
"Sheet!" Mandy shrieked from her
corner.
"Yes, the billboards, the pictures,"
Polly said, growing Impatient at tbelr
persistent stupidity
"She suab am a funny talkln' thing!"
mumbled Mandy to herself as she clip
ped, the withered .leave from a plant
near the window.
"You are dead sure they know I ain't
coinln' on?" Polly asked, with a linger
ing suspicion In her voice.
"Dead sure." And Douglas smiled to
himself as he lapsed Into her vernacu
lar. There was a moment's pause. Polly
realized for the first time that she must
actually readjust herself to a new or
der of tlilugs. Her eyes again roved
about the room. It was a cheerful
place in which to be Imprisoned. Even
Polly could not deny that The broad
window at the back, with Its white and
Dint chintz curtains on the Inside and
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its frame of ivy on the outside, spoke
of singing birds and sunshine all day
long. Everything from the white cell
ing to the sweet smelling matting that
covered the floor was spotlessly clean.
The cane bottomed rocker near the
curved window seat with Its pretty
pillows told of days when a convales
cent might look In comfort at the gar
den beneath. The counterpane, with its
old fashioned rose pattern: the little
white tidies on the back of-each chair
and Mandy crooning beside the win
dow all helped to make a homelike pic
ture. She wondered what Jim and Toby
would say if they could see nor now,
sitting like a queen In the midst of her
soft coverlets, with no need to raise
even n linger to wait upon herself!
"Ain't It the limit?" (die sighed, and
Willi Hint Jim and Toby seemed to
(drift farther away. -She begun to
mm; llielr life apart from hers. She
eoiilil pleturo Jim with his head in
Ills bauds. She could bear bis sharp
orders to the men. He was always,
short with the olbers when anything
went wrung with her.
"I'll bet 'Muvver Jim's' In the
dumps," she niiiriuured ns a cloud
stole across the lloweiiike fare; then
the tired mustics relaxed, and she
censed to rebel.
"Muvver Jim?" Douglas repealed,
feeling that be must recall her to n
knowledge of bis presence.
"That's what I enll him." Polly ex
plained, "but Hie fellows mil him
Jim,.' You inl:;!it not thin!: Jim cor.Id
"ioi'dy, no, aiile. He oin't ncober rrl
none ob dem flags."
but he Is, only sometimes you can't
tell him things you could a real
mother," she added, half sadly.
"And your real mother went away
when you were very young?"
"No, she didn't go away."
"No?" There was a puzzled note in
the pastor's voice.
"She weut out," Polly corrected.
"Out!" he echoed blankly..
"Yes; finished lights out."
"Oh, an accident." Douglas under
stood at last
"I don't like to talk about it." Polly
raised herself on ber elbow and
looked at him solemnly, as though
about to Impart a bit of forbidden fam
ily history. It was this look in the
round eyes that had made Jim so often
declare that the kid knew everything
"Why, mother 'd 'a' been ashamed It
she'd 'a' knowed how she wound up.
She was the best rider of her time
everybody says so but she cashed In
by fallln' off a skate what didn't have
no more ginger 'an a kitten. If you
can beat that!" She gazed at him
with ber lips pressed tightly together,
evidently expecting some startling ex
pression of wonder.
"And your .father?" Douglas asked
rather lamely, being at a loss for any
adequate comment upon a tragedy
which the child before him was too
desolate even to understand.
"Ob, dad's finish was all right. lie
got his'u In a lions' cage where he
worked. There wns nothin' slow about
his end." She looked up for his ap
proval. "For de Lord's sake!" Mandy
groaned as the wonder of the child's
conversation grew upon ber.
"An' now I'm down an' out," Polly
concluded, with a sigh.
"But this Is nothing serious," said
the pastor, trying to cheer her.
"It's serious enough with a whole
show a-dependiu' on you. Maybe you
don't know bow It feels to have to
knock off work."
"Oh, yes, 1 do," Douglas answered
quickly. "I was 111 a while ago m.v.self.
I had to be In bed day after day. think
ing of dozens of things that 1 ought to
be doing."
"Was you ever floored?" Polly asked
with a touch of unbelief as she studied
the flue, healthy physique at the sale
of her tied.
" 'Deed, he was. chile." Mandy cried,
feeling that ber opportunity had now
arrived, "an 1 had the Ivors', time
n-keepiu' him In bed. He act Jes' like
you did."
"Did he?" Polly was delighted to
find that the pastor had "nothin' on
herj' as she would have put It
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