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Synopsis Chapter I Polly, a child
of the circus, is brought up by Toby,
a clown, and by a boss cauvasman
called "Muvver Jim." Sho learns to
ride Bingo, a circus horse, and grows
to womanhood knowing no life ex
cept that of tho circus.
Chapter II A chu'di near the cir
t us lot interests Polly Jim removes
her for lur reckless hY.kit.
Chapter III Polly urges Bingo to
unprecedented speed nr.d falls. Toby
and Jim carry the injured girl to the
pnrsonnga nearby.
Chapter IV The Rev. John Doug
las, much to Deacon Elversou's dis
gust, takes Polly into tho parsonage.
Toby and "Muvver Jim" are receiv
ed kindly by Douglas, who has placed
Polly in charge of his colored serv
ant, Mandy. Dpuglas promises to
care for the girl until she is well.
Chapter V When Polly becomes
conscious she declares that she must
rejoin the circus at once. "Are you
a sky pilot?'' she asks the minister.
Her mother was killed riding a circus
horse, and her father "got his'u in a
lion's cage." The minister rends to
her about Ruth and Xanuii, and Polly
says "I guess I'd like to 'hear yon
spiel."
CHAPTER VI.
HEX Jobu Douglas' uncle of
fered to educate his nephew
for the ministry the boy was
less enthusiastic than his
mother. lie did not remonstrate, how
ever, for it had been the custom-of
generations for at least one son of each
Douglas family to preach the gospel
of Calvinism, and his father's career
as an architect and landscape gardener
had not left him much capital.
Douglas senior bad been recognized
as an artist by the few who under
stood his talents, but there is small
demand for the builder of picturesque
houses In the little business :,t owns of
the middle west, and at last he passed
away, leaving his son only the burden
of his financial failure and nn ardent
desire to succeed at the profession In
which his father had fared so badly.
The hopeless, defeated look on the de
' parted man's face had always haunted
the boy, who was artist enough to feel
his father's genius Intuitively and
human enough to resent the Injustice
of bis fate.'
Douglas' mother had suffered so
much because of the impractical ef
forts of ber husband that she discour
aged the early tendencies of the son
toward drawing and mathematics and
tried to direct his thoughts toward
creeds and Bible history. When he
went away for his collegiate course
she was less In touch with him and he
was able to steal time from his ath
letics to devote to his art. He spent
his vacations in a neighboring city be
fore a drawing board In the office of a
distinguished architect, bis father's
friend.
. Douglas was not a brilliant divinity
Btudent, and he was relieved at last
when he received his degree in theol
ogy and found himself appointed to a
small church In the middle west.
His step was very bright the morning
be first went up the path that led to
- his new home. His artistic sense was
charmed by the picturesque approach
to the church and parsonage. The
view toward the tree encircled spire
was unobstructed, for the church had
been built on the outskirts of the town
to allow for a growth that had not
materialized. He threw up bis head
and gazed nt the blue hills, with their
background of soft, slow moving
clouds. The smell of the fresh earth,
the bursting of the buds, the forming
of new life, set him thrilling with a
Joy that was very near to pain.
He stopped halfway up the path
and considered the advantages of a
new front to the narrow eaved cot
tage, and when his foot touched the
first step of the vine covered porch be
was far more concerned about a new
portico than with any thought of his
first sermon.
His speculations were abruptly cut
Nhort by Mandy, who bustled out of
the door with a wide smile of welcome
on ber black face and an unmlstnkable
ambition to take him Immediately un
der her motherly wing. She. Mas much
concerned because the church people
bad not met tho new pastor at the sta
tion and brought blm to the house.
Upon learning that Douglas had pur
posely avoided their escort, preferring
tq come to bis new borne, the. first, time
alone, she made up her mind that she
was going to like him.
Mandy bad long boon a fixture in tho
parsouace. She and her worse half.
j nasty Jones, bad come to know and
: discuss tho Weaknesses of tho many
'clergymen who had come and gone,
j the deacons and the congregation, both
I Individually and collectively. Sho con
fided to Hasty that sho didn't "blame
de new parson fcr not want In' to mix
up wid dat nr crowd."
In tho study that night, when sho
and Hasty helped Douglas to unpack
his many boxes of books, they wore as
eager ns children about the drawings
and pictures which be showed them.
Ills mind had gone beyond the parson
age front now, and he described to
them the advantage of addlug an ex
tra ten feet to the church spire.
Mandy felt herself almost an artist
when she and Hasty bade the pastor
good night, for she was still quivering
from the contagion of Douglas' enthu
siasm. Here, at last, was a master
who could do something besides find
fault with her.
"I jos' wan' to be on de groun.' do
firs' time dat Mars Douglas and dat
ere Deacon Strong clinches," she said
to Hasty as they locked the doors and
turned out the hall light. "Did you
done see his jaw?" she whispered.
"He look laughin" enough now, but
jes" you wait till lie done set dat 'ere
Jaw o' his'n, and dar ain't nobody
what's goin' ter unsot It."
"Maybe dar ain't goin' ter bo no
cliiK'bin'," said Hasty, hoping for Man
dy's assurauce to the contrary.
"What?" shrieked Mandy. "Wld dat
'ere sneak hi' Widow Willoughby al
ready a-tellin' de deacons how ter start
de new parson n-goln' proper?"
'Now. why youse always a-plckln'
on to dat 'ere widow?" asked nasty, al
ready enjoying the explosion which he
knew his defense of the widow was
sure to excite.
'I don' like no woman what's alius
braggiu' 'bout her clean floors," an
swered Mandy shortly. She turned
out the Inst light and tiptoed upstairs,
trying not to disturb the pastor.
John Douglas was busy already with
pencil and paper, making notes of the
plans for the church and parsonage.
which he wonld perfect later on.
Alas, for Douglas' day dreams! It was
not many weeks before he understood
with a heavy heart that the deacons
were far too dull and uninspired to
snare uis lann m neaury as an aiu to
man's spiritual uplift..
Notice.
is hereby given that tho undersigned
will apply nt the regular meeting of
tho city council of Medford, Oregon,
on September 0, 1909, for license to
sell malt, vinous and spiritmis
liquors in loss quantities than one
gallon for six months nt lot 12,
block 20," in Medford, Oregon, for a
period of six months.
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Telephone Main IKitlO.
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