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Synopsis Chapter I Polly, a child
of the circus, is brought up by Toby,
a clown, and by a boss canvnsninn
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
hir for her reckless rhV.c?.
Chapter III Polly urges Bingo to
tnprecedented speed ,cd 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
care for be 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'n in a
lion's cage." The minister reads to
her about Ruth and Naomi, and Polly
says "I guess I'd like to hear you
spiel."
Chapter VI Douglas offends Dea
con Strong by defending boys who
play baseball on Sunday.
Chapter VH Polly recovers her
health, but is saddened by the death
of Toby. Jim sends the news and
promises to keen in touch with her.
Chapter. VTII Polly recovers from
the blow dealth her by Toby's death.
She has ceased using slang and is
educating herself under Douglas'
guidance. She endeavors to improve
Mandy's grammar
Chapter IX Deacons Strong and
Elverson reprove the pastor for har
boring the circus girl. Douglas de
clares that he is merely doing his
duty. Strong declares that the girl
must go. Douglas defies him.
Chapter X Douglas suggests to
Polly that she go to a seminary. Her
quotation "And Ruth said, 'Entreat
me not to leave thee,' " reveals to
both the fact that they love each oth
er. Douglas takesc her in his arms
and tells her that she is never to leave
him. '
Chapter XI "Muvver Jim" calls
and notes' the change in Polly's
speech. Polly tells him she has
abandoned the circus business. Dea
cons Strong and Elverson inform
Polly that she can save the minister
trouble by returning to the circus.
Learning that the deacons contem
plate discharging Douglas, she re
buffs Douglas, declares that she
yearns for the circus and rushes
away sobbing.
Chapter XII Douglas is very un
happy. A month passes, and the cir
cus plays a return engagement. Has
ty, Mandy's husband, ascertains that
Polly is not riding. Douglas believes
she is ill and starts for the circus. .
Chapter XHI Barker, manager of
the show, reproves Jim because Polly
will not ride in the minister's town.
. Polly admits to Jim that she loves
the minister, but declares that he
does not love her. She makes Jim
promise to keep her secret.
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mHE "leap of dentil" Implements
were being carried from the
ring, and Jim turned nwny to
superintend their loading.
Performers again rushed by eaeh
other on their way to and from the
main tent
Polly stood In the center of ;(ho lot.
frowning and anxious. The mere men
tion of thq pastor's nnmc had made II
seem Impossible for her to ride to
night. For hours she had been whip
ping herself up to the point of doing
It, and now her courage failed her.
She followed Barker as he came from
the ring.
"Sir. Barker, please!"
He turned upon her sharply.
. "Well, what Is It now?"
"I want to ask you to let me off
again tonight." She spoke in a short.
Jerky, desperate way.
-".What!" he. shrieked. "Not go.inj
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the ring, with alT them people Tnsldo though the worila hud been wrung froth
what's paid their money because tbeylblm. The- pastor came hack with a
knowed you?"
"That's It!" she cried,
"I can't! I
can't!"
"You're gettin' too tony!" Barker
sneered. "That's the trouble with you.
You ain't been good for nothlu' since
you was at that parson's house. You
didn't stay there, and you're no use
here. First thing you know you'll be
out all round."
"Out?"
"Sure. You don't think I'm golu' to
head my bill with
a dead one.' do
your'
"I am not a 'dead one,' " she answer
ed excitedly. "I'm the best rider
you've had since mother died. You've
said so yourself."
"That was afore you got In with
them church cranks. You talk about
your mother! Why, she'd be ashamed
to own you."
"She wouldn't!" cried Polly. Her
eyes were flashing; her face was scar
let. The pride of hundreds of years of
ancestry was quivering with indigna
tion. "I can ride as -well as I ever
could, and I'll do it too. I'll do It to
morrow." "Tomorrow?" echoed Barker. "What
do you mean by that?"
"I mean that I can't go Into that
ring tonight," she declared, "and I
won't."
She was desperate now and trading
upon a strength beyond her own.
He looked at her with momentary In
decision. She was a good rider, the
best since her mother, as he had often
told ber. Be could see this meant an
issue. He flit she would be. on her
mettle tomorrow, as far as her work
was concerned, If ho let her alone
tonight. '
"All right," he said sullenly.- "You
can stay off tonight I got the crowd
la there anyway, and I got then
money. I'll' let Elolse do a turn on
Barbarian, but tomorrow you'd better
show me your old act."
"I'll show you!'' she cried. "I'll
show you!" - - . '
"Well, see that you do.", He crossed
Into the ring. . .-
Polly stood where Barker bad left
her, white and tense. Jim came toward
her from the direction of the wagons.
He glanced at her uneasily. "What's
he been a-saylri to you?"
"He says I can't ride any more."
Her lips closed tightly. She stared
straight ahead of her. "He says I was
no good to the people that took me in
and I'm no use here."
"It's not so!" thundered Jim.
"Xo; it's not!" she cried. "I'll show
him, Jim! I'll show him tomorrow V
She turned toward the dressing tent
Jim caught her firmly by the wrist
"Wait, Poll! You' ain't ever goln'
Into the ring a-feclin' that way." Her
eyes met his defiantly.
"What's the difference? What's the
difference?" She wrenched her wrist
quickly from him and ran Into the
dressing tent, laugbhig hysterically.
"An' I brung her back to it" mum
bled Jim as he turned to give orders
to the property men.
Most of the "first half props" were
loaded, and some of the men were
asleep under the wagons. The lot was
clear. Suddenly he felt some one ap
proaching from the back of the ln-
closure. He turned and found himself
face to face with the Btern, solitary
figure of the pastor, wrapped in his
long black cloak. The moonlight
slipped through a rift in the clouds
and fell into a circle around them. .
"What made you come here?" was
all Jim said.
"I heard that Miss Polly didn't ride
today. I was afraid she might be ill."
"What's that to you?"
"She isn't ill?" Douglas demanded
anxiously, oblivious to the gruffness
in the big fellow's voice.
"She's all right," Jim answered
shortly as be shifted uneasily from
one foot to the other and avoided the
pastor's burning gaze.
"And she's happy, she's content?"
"Sure."
"I'm glad," said Douglas dully. He
tried to think of some way to' prolong
their talk. "I've never heard, from
her, you know."
"Us folks don't get much time to
write." Jim turned awny and began
tinkering with one of the wagons.
Douglas had walked up and down in
front of the tents again and again,
fighting against a desire to do the very
thing that he was doing, but to no
purpose, and now that be was here it
seemed Impossible that he should go
away so unsatisfied, lie crossed to Jim
and came determinedly to the point.
"Can't I sec, her, Jim?"
"It's agin the rules." He did not turn.
There was another pause; then Doug
las started slowly out of the lot
J'.Wflt . minute,", called Jim aj
question in his eyes.
"I lied to you." .
"She's not well, then?"
"Oh, yes, she's well enough. It ain't
that; it's about her being happy."
"She Isn't?" There was a not of
unconscious exultation In his voice.
"Xo. She ain't happy here, an' she
was happy with you."
'Then why did she leave me?"
."I don't know. She wasn't goln' to
do it at first. Somvthlu' must 'a' bap-
penea anerwaras, somcimn' mat you
an
me man t snow aoout."
"We will know about It, Jim. Where
Is she?" His quick eye searched the
lot His voice hnd regalued Its old
command. He felt that ho could con
quer worlds.
"You can't do no good that way," an
swered Jim. "She don't want to Bee
you again."
"Why not?"
"I don't know, but she told me she'd
run away If I ever even talked to you
about her."
"You needn't talk, Jim. I'll tnlk for
myself. Where Is she?"
"She'll be comln' out soon. You can
wait around out here with me. I'll let
you know in time." He led the way
through a narrow passage between the
wagons.
Jim and Douglas bad barely left the
lot when Deacon Elverson's small,
round bead slipped cautiously around
the corner of the dressing tent. The
little deacon glanced exultantly about
him. He was monarch of all be sur
veyed. It was very thrilling to stand
here on this forbidden ground smelling
the sawdust gazing at the big red wag
ons, studying the unprotected circus
properties and listening to the lighten
ing tempo of the band. .'
"Did you see him?" shouted Strong,
who had followed closely upon Elver
son's heels.
The little deacon started. Strong was
certainly a disturbing factor at times.
"Yes, I I saw him."
'"Well?" -
"He he didn't see her."
"What did he do?" Strong was be
side himself with impatience. '
"He he just talked to the big un
and went out that way." Elverson
nodded toward the wagons.
"I guess be ain't gone far," sneered
Strong. "He come over to this lot to
see her, and he alii't goln' to give up
till he does It You wait here. I'll
take a look round." He went quickly
In the direction of the wagons.
Elverson needed no second invitation
to wait. He was congratulating him
self upon his good fortune when he nil
but collided with a flying apparition,
vanishing In tlio Clrectit-.: of the main
tent. Sophisticated eyes would have
seen only n iat!i;r s:.,:t clad
In pink tights, but Elverson was not
sophisticated, and be teetered after the
flitting angel, even unto the forbidden
portals of the big top.
He was peeping through the curtains
which had fallen behind her and was
getting his first glimpse of the great
sawdust world beyond when one of
the clowns dashed from the dressing
tent on his way to the ring.
The clown was late. He saw the
limp coattalls of the deacon, who was
three-quarters in the tent. Here was
a chance to nuke a funny entrance.
He grabbed the unsuspecting little man
from the rear. The terrified deacon
struck out blindly in all directions, bis
black arms and legs moving like a cen
tlped's, but the clown held blin firmly
by the back nnd thrust him headfore
most into the tent
Strong returned almost Immediately
from his unsuccessful search for the
pastor. He looked about the lot for.
Elverson. .
"Hey, there, Elverson!" he called
lustily. There was no response. . j
"Now, Where's he got to?" grumbled I
Strong. He disappeared quickly around !
the corner of the dressing tent, re-
solved to keep a sharp lookout for j
Douglas. ;
Elverson was thrust from the tent 1
soon after, spitting sawdust and much !
discomfited, by the laughing perform-
ers who followed him. Ills knees al- j
I most gave way beneath him when Bur-
ker came out of the ring, snnpplng hlf j
long black whip. j
"Get out of here, you bloke!" roared
Barker, and Elverson "gut."
No one had remembered to tell the
groom that Polly was not to ride to
night, so Lingo was brought out as
usual when Miclr "turn" approached.
"Take him back. Tom," Polly called
from the entrance when she learned
Bingo wus.waltin.;, "i,mi bring Barba
rian. "1'ni not going on tonight. Eiolse
Is going to ride in my place."
This was the second time today that
Blngu had been led uway without go
ing lutothe ring. Something in JiU
big, wondering eyes inmle roily follow
him mid apologize. Ho wus very
proud, was llingu, and very conKclen
lloiiH. Ho felt iinoiiHy when lie nau
tili) other horses going to their work
without him.
"Never mind, ltlngo," nln niiM, put
ting his great, uivht'd neck; "we'll
show 'etii tomorrow." He nililieil his
satiny noso against her dice!;, "We'll
niake them nit up again. Murker nays
our act's no gootl- tluit I've let down,
ltut It's not your fault, Hlngo. I've
not been fair to you. I'll glvo you n
chance tomorrow. You wait. He'll
never say. It again, lllngo, never
ugalu!"
Polly had nothing more to do to
night except to get Info her street
clothes. The. wagtuis would soou be
moving away, Vor a moment she
glanced at the dark church steeple;
thou she turned to go inside the tunt.
A deeL funftllnr voice stopped her.
(To be continued.)
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