THE MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORKOON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. KM).
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Synopsis Chapter I Polly, o child
of the circus, is brought up by Toby,
a clown, and by a boss canvasman
called "Muvvcr 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 chu'.-h near the cir
cus lot interests Polly. Jim removes
her for her reckless ricKrp.
Chapter III Polly urges Bingo to
unprecedented speed find falls. Toby
nnd Jim carry the injured girl to the
parsonage nearby.
Chapter IV The Rev. John Doug
las, much to Deacon Elvcrsou'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.
r'Xou ought to have beard him,"
continued Mandy, made eloquent by
Polly's show of Interest " 'What will
dose poor folks do? he kept a-sayln'.
Jes" yo' lay where yo' Is,' I tole him.
'Dem poor folks will be "better off dan
flej would be a-comln' to yoali fu
neral.' "
"Poor folks!" Polly questioned. "Do
you give money to folks? We are al
ways ltchin' to get It away from 'em."
Before Douglas could think of words
with which to defend his disapproved
methods Mandy bad continued eager
ly: "An' den on Sunday, when be Can't
go to church an' preach" She got no
further. A sharp exclamation brought
both Mandy and Douglas to attention.
"Preach!" Polly almost shouted. Sbe
looked at him with genuine alarm this
time. ,
1 "That will do, Mandy," Douglas com
manded, feeling an unwelcome drama
gathering about bis head.
"Great Barnum and Bailey!" Polly
exclaimed. looking at him as though
be were the very, last thing in the
world she had ever expected to see.
"Are you a sky pilot?" -
'That's what he am. cblle." Mandy
clipped the words in slyly, for she
knew that they were against the pas
tor's wishes, but she was unable to re
strain her mischievous Impulse to sow
the seeds of curiosity that would soon
bear fruit In the .inquisitive mind of
the little invalid.
'"Will you get on to me a-lnndin' into
a mixup like this?" Sbe contluued to
study the uncomfortable man at her
Bide. "I never thought I'd be a-talkln
to one of you guys. What's your
name?"
"Douglas." He spoke shortly.
"Ain't you got no handle to it?"
"'If you mean my Christian name. It's
John."
"Well, that sounds like a sky pilot
all right. But you don't look like I
B'posed they did."
"Why not?"
"I always s'posed sky pilots was old
an' groucby-like. You're a'most as
good lookln' as our strong man."
"I done tole him he was too good
lookln' to be an unmarried parson,"
Mandy chuckled, more and more
amused at the pastor's discomfort.
, "Looks don't play a very important
part In my work," Douglas answered
curtly. Mandy's confidential snickers
made him doubly anxious to get to a
i less personal topic. ;
.' "Wreli, they count for a whole lot
.with us." Sbe nodded ber head decid
edly. "How long you been sbowin' In
this town, anyhow?"
"About a year,". Douglas answered,
with something of a sigh.
"A year!" she gasped. "In a burg
like this! You must have an awful lot
of laughs In your act to keep 'em
a-comln' that long." She was. wise In
the ways of professional success.
Not many, I'm afraid." He won
dered for the first time If this might
be the reason for his rather Indifferent
success.
"Do you give them the same stuff, or
have you got a rep?"
"A rep?" he repeated In surprise.
"Sure, repertory different acts en
tries, some calls 'em. Uncle Toby's got
twenty-seven entries. It makes a heap
of difference In the big towns where
you have a run."
"Oh, I understand!" Douglas answer
ed In a tone of relief. "Well, I try to
Bay something new each Sunday."
"What kind of spiels do you give
em?" she Inquired, with growing In
terest "I try to help uiy people to get on
bettor terms with themselves and to
forget their week day troubles." He
bad never had occasion to define his ef
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forts so minutely.
"Well, that's jes' the same as us,"
Polly told biro, with an air of conde
scension, "only circuses draws more
people 'an churches."
"Yours does seem to be a more pop
ular form of entertainment," Douglas
answered dryly. He was beginning to
feel that there were many tricks In the
entertainment trade which ho bad not
mastered. And, after all, what was his
preaching but an effort at entertain
ment? If be failed to hold his congre
gation by what be was saying, his lis
teners grew drowsy and his sermon
fell short of Its desired effect It was
true that his position and hers had
points of similarity. She was appar
ently successful. As for himself he
could not be sure. He knew be tried
very bard and that sometimes a tired
mother or a sad faced child looked up
at him with a smile that made the
service seem worth while.
Polly mistook the pastor's reverie for
envy, and her tender heart was quick
to flud consolation for him.
"You ain't got all the worst of It,"
she said. "If we tried to play a dump
like this for six mouths, we'd starve to
death. You certainly must give 'era a
great show,'.' she added, surveying him
with growing interest
"It doesn't make much difference
about the show" Douglas began,
but he was quickly interrupted.
"That's right; it's jes' the same with
a circus. One year you give 'em the
rottenest kind of a thing, an' they cat
it tip; the next year you hand 'em a
knockout an' it's a frost Is that
the way it Is with a church show?"
"Much the same." Douglas admitted,
half amusedly, half regretfully. "Very
often when I work the hardest I seem
to do the least good."
"I guess our troubles is pretty much
alike," Polly nodded, with a motherly
"Well, you (tike my Up. Don't you never
'jo in for rldln'."
air of condescension, "only there ain't
so much danger in your act"
"I'm not so sure about thnt," he
laughed. ,
"Wei), you take my tip." She leaned
forward as though about to Impart
a very valuable bit of information.
"Don't you never go . In for rldln'.
There ain't no act on earth so hard
as a rldln' act The rest of the bunch
has got It easy alongside of us. Take
the fellows on the trapeze. They al
ways get their tackle up in Jes' the
same place. Take the balancln' acts.
There ain't no difference In their lay
outs. Take any of 'em ns depends on
regular props, and they ain't got much
chance a-goln' wrong. But, say, when
you have to do a rldln' act there ain't
never no two times nllke. If your
horse is fcelin' good, the ground Is
stumbly; If the ground ain't on the
blink, the borne is wobbly. There's al
ways somelliln' wrung somewhere,
and you ain't never knowln' bow it's
goin' to end, especially when you got
to do a careful act like mine. There's
a girl, Elolse. in our bunch what dues
a showy net on n horse what Barker
calls Barbarian. She goes on In my
place siiiietiinis, and, say, thi-tii Itubes
applauds her aw much as me, an' her
slunts Ik baby tricks alongside of mine.
It's enough to make you fclrk of art."
She shook her head dolefully, then sat
ill, with HT.ewc-d Interest.
"You Fee. mine Is careful balanelu'
an' all that, an yon got to know your
horse an' your ground for that. Now.
you get wise to what I'm n-tellln' you
and don't you never go Into anything
which depends on suiyllilng else."
"Thank yon. roily. I won't." Doug
las somehow felt that he wus very
much Indebted to her.
"I seen n chur-li y.hmv o'.i-e." Pol'.y
sahj. suddenly..
"You did?"" Douglas asked, with new
Interest
"Yes," she answeerd, closing her lips
and venturing no further comment.
"Did you like It?" he questioned aft
er a pause.
"Couldn't make uothln' out of It 1
don't euro lunch for readln'."
"Oh, It Isn't nil reading," ho correct
ed. "Well, tho guy I saw read all of
hls'ii. He got the whole thing right
out of a book."
"Oh. that was only his text," laughed
Douglas. v
"Text?"
"Yes. And luter he tried to Interpret
to his congrega"--
"Easy! Knsy!" she Interrupted.
"Come again with that, will you?"
"He told them the meaning of what
he rend."
"Well, I don't know what he told
'em, but It dldu't ineuu anything to me.
But maybe your show is bcttcr'n his
was," Blie added, trying to pacify hlni.
Douglas was undecided whether to
feel amused or grateful for Polly's
ever increasing sympathy. Before he
could trust bis twitching lips to an
swer she had put another question to
blui.
"Are you golu' to do n stunt while 1
am here?"
"I preach every Sunday, if that's
what you mean. I preach this morn
ing." "Is this Sunday?" she asked, sitting
up with renewed energy and looking
about the room as though everything
had changed color.
"Yes."
"And you got a matinee?" sbe ex
claimed incredulously.
"We have services," ho corrected,
gently.
I'We rest up on Sundays," Bhe said
In a tone of deep commiseration. '
"Ob, I see," he answered, feeling It
no time to enter upon another discus
sion as to the comparative advantages
of their two professions.
"What are you goln' to spiel about
today?"
"About Ruth and Naomi."
"Ruth and who?"
"Naomi," be repeated.
"Naomi," sbe echoed, tilting ber bead
from side to side as sbe listened to
the soft cadences of the word. "I nev
er beard that name before. It 'ud look
awful swell on a billboard, wouldn't
it?"
"It's a Bible name, honey," Mandy
said, eager to get into the conversa
tion. "I tor's a buful pleture bout her.
I seed It."
"I like to look at pictures," Polly an
swered tentatively. Mandy crossed the
room to feteli the lnrge Bible with Its
steel engravings.
"We got a girl named Ruth In our
'leap of death' stunt. Some of tho
folks Is kinder down on 'er, but I
ain't."
She might have tcld Douglas more
of her forlorn little friend, but Just
then Mandy came to the bed hugging
n large, old fashioned Bible, and iiou.;-
las helped to place the poiiderous'bock
before I lie Invalid. '.
"See, honey, dar dey Is," the old wo
man said, pointing to the pleture of
Ruth and Naomi.
"Them's crackerjaeks, ain't they?"
Polly gasped, and her eyes shone with
wonder. "Which one's Kuth?"
"Ills une." said Mandy. pointing with
her thumb. -
. "Why, they're dressed Just like our
chariot drivers. What docs it say about
'em?"
"You can read it for yourself," Doug
las unswered gently. There was some
thing pathetic in the eagerness of the
starved little 'mind.
"Well, I ain't much on readln' out
loud," she faltered, growing suddenly
conscious of her deficiencies. "Read it
for me, will you?"
"Certainly." And he drew bis chair
nearer to the bed. One strong band
supported the other half of the Bible
and his head was very near to hers as
bis deep, full voice pronounced the sol
emn words, in which Ruth pleaded ho
many years Ix-fore.
" 'Kntreat me not lo leave thee,'" he
read, " 'or to return from following
after thee, for whither thou goest I will
go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge.
Thy people shall be my people and thy
God my (Jod.' "
He slopped to ponder over the poetry
of the lilies.
"Kind of pretty, ain't It?" Polly Raid
softly, ftyic felt awkward anil con
strained nnd n little overawed.
"Thorp are far more beautiful things
than that," Douglus assured her en
thusiastically as the echo of many
such rang In his ears.
"There arc?" And her eyes opened
J wide with wonder.
Tes, Fideed," lie replied, pitying
more and more tho starvation of mind
and longing to bring to It Bonds of
light and enrichment.
"I guess I'd like to hear you spiel,"
ami slie fell to studying lilin solemly.
"You would?" ho asked eagerly.
"la there any more to that story?"
she asked, Ignoring his question,'
"Yes, Indeed."
"Would you read mo n little more?"
Sho was very humble now.
"'Where thou dlest will I die, and
there will I bo burled. Tho Lord do so
to me, and inure also, It aught but
death part me ami tlu?e.' "
Their eyes met There was a long
pause. Suddenly tho sharp, sweet
notes of the church bell brought John
Douglas to his feet with a start of
surprise.
"Have you got to go?" Polly naked
regretfully.
"Yes, 1 must, but I'll rend the rest
from the church. Open the window,
Mandy!" And lo passed out of the
door and quIcKly down tho stulrs.
(To ho continued.)
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