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Synopsis Chapter I roily, a child
f the circus, is brought up by Toby,
a clown, and by a boss canvasman
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
rus lot interests Polly Jim removes
her for her reckless ridlceO
Chapter III Polly urges Bingo to
l.nprecedented speed nnd falls. Toby
and 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
violets. When sTio wiis able Douglas
took her with him to visit some of the
outlying houses of the poor. Her
woman's Instinct was quick to per
ceive many small needs in their lives
that lie bad overlooked and to suggest
simple, inexpensive joys that ninclo
them her devoted friends.
Their evenings wore divided between
making plans for these unfortunates
aud reading aloud from the Bible or
other books. . ' .
When Tolly gained courage, Douglas
sometimes persuaded her to read to
him, and the little corrections that he
made ntx these times soon became
noticeable lu her manner of speech.
She was so eager, so starved for
knowledge that she drank It as fast
as he could give It It was during
their talks about grammar that Mandy
generally fell asleep in her rocker, her
unfinished sewing still in her lap. .
When a letter came from Jim and
Toby It was always shared equally by
Mandy and Hasty, Polly and the pas
tor. But at last a letter came from
t. 1 nnt!l 1-1. n la w-rtll
n,nio, v TVhon Pollv W.impj ,lluonl nnd DollKlas. who was asked
Chapter V-When Polly becomes t0 u mtmA
conscious she declares that she must the first few ,vorS
rejoin the circus at once. "Are you irs no use my tryin' to keep 'It from
a sky pilot!" she asks the minister, you any longer. Poli," the letter began.
Her mother was killed riding a circus "We niu't got Toby with us no more.
horse, nnd her father "got his'n in a He dldirt have no necident; It wasn't
lion's cage." The minister reads to
her about Ruth and Naomi, nnd Polly
that ne Just seemed kinder sick an'
alliu' like ever since the night we had
in InnvA vim ttnlilu.l . T ,,..a.i l.t
says "I guess I'd like to hear you warm d'rill.s , blaea nn ,try to
spiel." pull him through, but he was always
Chapter VI Douglas offend:; Den- a-chltlin' and n'nchln". If It wasn't oiie
con Strone by defending boys who thing it was another. I done all I
, i , ii ct j knnwtwl T-nu',1 ar wnn
pi.iy oaseoau on oumiuj.
"We think we've done pretty well by
this church," said Deacon Strong, who
was the business head, the political
boss and the moral mentor of the
small town's affairs. "Just you worry
along with the preachin', young man,
and we'll attend to the buyln' and
buildln' operations."
Douglas" mind was too active to con
tent Itself wholly with the writing of
sermons and the routine of formal pas
toral calls. He was a keen humani
tarian, so little by Htle be came to
be interested in the heart stories and
disappointments of many of the vil
lage unfortunates, some of whom were
outside his congregation. The men
tally sick, the despondent, who needed
words of hope and courage more than
dry talks on theology, found In him
an ever ready friend and adviser, nnd
these came to love and depend on
him. But he was never popular with
. the creed bound element of the
church.
Mandy had her wish about being on
the spot the first time that the parson's
jaw squared itself at Deacon Strong.
The deacon had called at the parson
age to demand that Douglas put a stop
to the boys playing baseball hi the ad
joining lot on Sunday. Douglas had
been unable to see the deacon's point
of view He declared that baseball
was a healthy and harmless form of
exercise, that the air was meant to be
breathed aud that the boys who en
Joyed the game on Sunday were prin
cipally those who were kept Indoors
by work on other days. The close of
the interview was unsatisfactory both
to Douglas nnd the deacon.
"Dey kinder made me cold an'
prickly all up an' down de back,"
Mandy said later when she described
their talk to Hasty. "Dat 'ere deacon
don' know nutlln 'bout glltiu' rouu'
de parson." She tossed her bead with
a feeling of superiority. She knew the
way. Make him forget himself with a
laugh. Excite his sympathy with some
village underdog.
knowed you'd 'a' wanted me to. nn'
the rest of the folks was mighty while
to him too. I guess they kinder felt
how lonesome he was. He couldn't get
no more laughs In the show, so Barker
had to put on another man with blm.
That kinder hurt him, too, I s'pose,
an' showed him the way that things
was a-goin. It was just after that he
wrote the parson a-tellln' him to never
let you come back. He seemed to 'a'
got an Idee In his head 'that you was
happier where you was. He wouldn't
let me tell you 'bout his feelln' rocky,
'cause he thought it might mebbe
CHAPTER VII.
ANDY bad secretly enjoyed the
commotion caused by the lit
tle circus rider being left in
. the parsonage, at first be
cause of her Inborn love of mischief I
and later because Polly hud become !
second in her heart only to the pastor.
She went about her work, crooning :
softly during the days of Polly's con- j
vnlescence. The deep, steady voice of
the pastor reading aloud In the pretty j
window overhead was company. She '
would often climb the slnlrs to tell
them some bit of village gossip and
leave them laughing at a quaint com
ment about some Inquisitive sister of
the church who had happened to Incur
bar displeasure.
As spring came on Douglas curried
folly down to the sunlit garden be
neilth the window, and Mandy flut
tered about arranging the cushions
with motherly solicitude.
More days slipped by and Polly began
to creep through the little, soft leaved
trees nt the back of the church nnd to
look for the deep, blue, sweet si-ented
,A grlng came on Douylus carried Polly
ilmm to the mmllt garden.
make you come back. 'She's difTrunt
from us,' he was alius a-snyluV 'I
never spected to keep 'er.' "
Douglas stopped. Polly was waiting,
her face white nnd drawn. He had
not told her of Toby's letter because
with It had come a request to "say
notblii ter the kid."
He felt thnt Polly was controlling
herself with an effort until he should
reach the end of Jim's letter, so be
hurried on.
"The parson's promise didn't get to
him none too quick," he rend. "That
seemed to be what he was waitln' for.
ne give up the night It come, an' I
got him a little room In a hotel after
the show an' let one of the other fel
lers get the stuff out o' town, so's I
could stay with him up to the finish.
It come round mornlii'. There wasn't
much to it he Just seemed tired an'
peaeeftil-llko. 'I'm glad he wrote what
lie did, he said, iiieanlir the parson.
'She knows, she alius kuowg,' he whis
pered, rneanln' you. full, nn' then ho
was. on his way. He'd already give
me wlint was saved up for you, an'
I'm Heudlii' It along with this" A
blue money older for If'J.VI had flut
Icred from the envelope when Douglas
opened It.
"I got everything r.cndy afore I went
on the next day, an' I went up an'
saw the Utile spol on the hill where
(hey was gnln' to stow him. It looked
kinder nice, an' the digger's wife sr.id
sl:e'd li'.il soi.:e llnwers on It' now i-u'
then'. Ti was you what innde ine UilnE
o' that, Poll, Vmise It see 1 1 led to mo
what yoit would V done. You was al
ius so daffy nhout flowers, vou an'
blm.
"I guess this letter's too long for mo
to be a-saylu' much about tho show,
but the . 'Ira p-n -death' girl got hor'n
last week. She wasn't strong enough
for the job nohow. 1 dono what I
could for her outside tho show, 'cause
I knowed how you was alius n feelln'
'bout her: 1 guess the 'lenp-n-denth's'
husbaud Is goin' to jump bis job soon,
If ha gets enough saved up, 'enuso him
an' Barker can't hit It off no more.
Wo got a good deal o' trouble among
the animals too. None o' the snakes
is sheddln' like they ought to, an'
Jumbo's a-carrylu' a sixteen foot band
age around that trunk o' hls'u 'cause
he got too fresh with Trtxy'g grub tbo
other night, an' the new giraffe's got
the croup in that seven foot neck o'
hls'u. I guess you'll think I got the pip
"Something which is of coiiKidnr
known is tho vyslem of prepaid or
able interest to tho public, generally
and which is tmrhnps not generally
dors now in effect between stations
of tho Southern Paeif'ui company
nnd ail point in tho United States
By means of this system tiekhls limy
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V
H hereby given thnt tho undersigned
will apply at tho regular meeting of
tho city council of Modford, Oregon,
on September 0, 100!), for license to
sell mult, vinous nnd spiritous
liquors in less quantities than one
gallon for six mouths at lot 12,
block 20, in Modford, Oregon, for n
period of six months.
SLJNGKR & DOVNINO.
TAXIDERMIST AND FURRIER
Send your trophies to me for mount
ing. Big game heads, fish, birds and
for fiiir this time, so I'll Just get on to uiammnls mounted true to iinturo by
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Telephone Main 3(100.
myself now an' cut this short I'll be
wrltin' you ng'lu when we bit Morgan
town. "YOm OLD MUVVEK JIM."
Douglas laid the letter gcutly 'on tho
table, his hand still resting upon it. Ho
looked helplessly at the little, shrunk
en figure in the opposite chair. Tolly
had made no sound, hut her head had
slipped lower and lower, and she now
sat very quietly with her face in her
hands. She had bceil taught by Toby
and Jim never to whimper.
"What a plucky lot they nrel"
thought Douglas as he considered these
three lonely souls, each, accepting
whatever fate brought with tm rebel
lion or even surprise. It was a strange
world of stoics In which these chil
dren of the amusement arena fought
aud lost. They came and went like
pli.niloms,w!th ns llttlu consciousness
of their own best interests ns of the
great, moving powers of the world
about them. They folt no throes of
envy, no bitterness. They loved nnd
worked aud "went their way."
For once the pastor was powerless
In the presence of grief. Both he nnd
Mandy left the room quietly, feeling
thnt Polly wished to be spared tho
outburst of tears that a sympathetic
word might brlug upon her. They al
lowed her to remain alone for a time;
then Mandy entered softly with a ten
der good night, and Douglas followed
her cheerily as though nothing' at all
had lmppencd.
It was many wks before Polly
again became a Companion to Douglas
and Mandy. but they did not Intrude
upon her grief. Tliey walled patiently
for the time when youth should again
assert Itself aud bring back their
laughing mate to them..
(To be continued.)
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