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She turned to Jarambo, and sud
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denly she felt like a little girl be
George McAusland was 38 years old
fore this old man who had been her
MONKEYING WITH THE
Whan he sailed from America to under
father’s friend and hers. She said
take his post as a missionary tn the Fiji
BIG SHOW
to
Jarambo:
"Keep
this
house
Islands
A crime he had committed In
From
Sarasota
comes the word
a fit of excitement had shattered all his
well. Jarambo.”
confidence tn himself He felt forced to
that the circus of 1941 will have
He
assented.
"Yes.
But
better
avoid pretty Mary Doncaster, who board
more rutiles thun ever. It hus been
ed the ship at Honolulu. She was en
you go.”
route to vtsit her parents, who were mis
going Hollywood for the past few
They
moved
down
the
path
togeth
sionaries on Gilead Island
Mary was
attracted by George's attempts to avoid
er. Jarambo spoke to her, and she seasons, but next year the biggest
show on earth will look like some
her
One day George accidentally fell
turned. He thrust into her hands a
overboard Mary unhesitatingly- dove into
little twist of tappy cloth, and he thing out of the "Arabian Nights”
the sea to rescue Georec who falls tn
via Metro-Goldwyn.
love with her. When the boai approached
said:
her home on Gilead Island, they learned
• • •
"You
keep.
Belong
to
you.
”
She
that Mary's parents had both died
Norman Bel Geddes has been re
George volunteered to take charge of
slipped Ute packet into her waist,
the mission and asked Mary to be his
tained by the Ringlings to stream
and turned and faced Peter.
wife. She accepted his clumsy proposal,
“Come along, Mary," # he said. line, decorate und dress the big
and they left the ship to live in her for
mer home on the island. The scanty
show from the peanut bag to the ele
"It's late already."
dress of the natives shocked George at
phants; and circus addicts who like
She
followed
him
toward
the
boat
first, but he soon became reconciled to
their customs
Mary discovered that
When she was seated, she looked their circus plain and a bit oderifer-
CHAPTER IX
Corkran. a sailor friend ot George's, had
It may be hard
back and saw Jarambo standing ous are worried
come there to help George and Mary if
to
tell
the
1941
show
from a night
alone
where
the
path
emerged
they needed him. Their peaceful life
Late that morning Captain Corr’s
was Interrupted one day when a ship body, sewed snugly in clean canvas, from the trees.
She touched the club interior.
■topped in the harbor in search of
• • •
pearls
They see the pearl divers at was brought ashore. Mary went to packet inside her dress, wondering
tacked and their schooner sunk by a hear Richard read the funeral serv what it contained, pressing it with
The circus of tradition had faded
pirate ship. The pirates head their boat
She felt in it some costumes, a hard-boiled Queen of
toward the bay near their village. George ice. and she thought he was like a her fingers.
sends Mary inland tor safety and walks small boy floundering through a reci small, hard, round objects. Several Sheba and a Maharajah of Indore
down to the beach, alone and defense tation badly memorized.
of them. Her heart began to pound. who had two cauliflower curs and
less. to meet the unwelcome visitors.
When the time came to speak to She knew even then, without see a broken nose.
NaUves ?arry him back to Mary hours
later, shot through the shoulder. Na George of departure, Mary told him ing them, that they were pearls.
tives killed the pirates that night and
Cinderella and her ladies general
The sun was already below the
set their boat afire. The boat was still what they planned; but she found in
burning when the long-awaited whaler, him an unexpected opposition. He mountains when Peter's boat with ly had the appearance of being ref
the Venturer, arrived
Mary was told was weak enough to be stubborn; Mary in the stern sheets came ugees from a midway.
that its captain had died, and that his
sons. Richard and Peter Corr, were now and he watched them all with dry alongside the Venturer. George on
in charge as captain and first mate.
burning eyes and said flatly that he his stretcher lay on the main hatch
The Fairy Prince had fallen
would not go. Peter in his persua amidships, and Mary stopped with arches, a three-days’ growth of beard
sions was gentle with the hurt man; him there. Men were at the wind and a middle tooth missing. And
CHAPTER VIII—Continued
but Richard, uneasy for his ship, lass, and aloft making sail; but be the Caliph of Bagdad seemed fresh
Mary told him what had happened. I was brisk and stern. Sometimes fore the anchor came aweigh, Rich ly bounced from a corner saloon.
ard picked George up in his arm;
When she spoke of Fritz Aulgur’s
with a feminine gentleness, and car
But the old-time circus fan was
first coming to hunt pearls, Richard
ried him like a baby aft and down satisfied. He didn't expect too much.
asked quickly:
the companionway.
"Pearls? Did he find any?"
Richard laid George for the pres-
There was something rough,
“Yes.”
ent on the long bench in the com- catch-as-catch-can and impromptu
"Here? On this island?”
mon room. He felt the Venturer an
ubout
the
big
He frowned at his own thoughts
swer her sails and turned to go on
show that was ap
as she went on. She told him she
deck. The sun was gone, night had
pealing,
If you
and George had half forgotten Fritz,
fallen; but there was light enough
wanted art and
because there were so many people
to see the bold headlands at the
beauty you went
sick on the island, and dying, and
mouth of the bay. He took the
to
a
musical
be asked:
ship in hand, and Mat Forbes spoke
show or a muse
"Whece’d they catch it?”
at his elbow.
um. And a circus
“George had a cold when we land
had to smell like
"A white man came aboard just
ed here. He’s not very well, even
now, Cap'n Corr," he reported. "He a circus, too.
now. I’m afraid they got it from
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swam off to us in nothing but his
him.” She went on to tell him of
But
the
big
top
woke up one spring
pants, with a handkerchief around
thi- other schooner, and how the
his head and a parrot hanging to morning and found that it had been
men aboard her killed Aulgur, and
it. Name of Corkran, he says, and to the beauty parlor, caliphs,
shot George; and bow the islanders
princes, maharajahs, princesses, el-
calls himself a sailor.”
surprised that schooner in the night
Richard asked sharply: •Was he ephants. ponies and all.
and clubbed the men and burned her
• • •
off that schooner the islanders
afterward.
When the bands blared for the
burned?"
She saw him more and more alert
as she proceeded.
"That’s why
"No, he deserted from the Sun- opening pageant that season there
they’re hiding now,” he decided.
set, the ship that brought Mr. and wasn’t a plug-ugly in the parade.
eat
"They’re afraid of us. They’ll jump
Mrs. McAusland. He looks scared.”
That would have been all right
us too if we give them a chance.
"Scared of what?”
They’re scared, and when natives
"He didn't say. He doesn’t look | with the old-time circus addict it
are scared you can't figure ’em.” He
like one that's easy scared, either." I they had stopped there. But the
asked: "Mary, have you told P»ter
Later Richard met the sailor un circus management went in head
about the pearls?”
over heels for glamour.
der the boat house.
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"No. I didn’t tell him much of
“Your name's Corkran?"
anything."
Mary went to bear Richard read
They
rouged
the elephant’s toe
“Aye, sir.”
"Well, don’t, then,” he directed.
the funeral service.
nails, powdered the gorilla's nose
"Where did you come from?”
“Don’t tell him or anyone about the
and made even
"Off the ship Sunset”
pearls. The men will be w dng to his tone made anger rise in George’s
the hostlers wash
"Deserted?"
cheek.
turn divers if they know.”
behind the ears
“Yes, your honor, sir.”
“All right.”
"You’ll never be really well
They hired beau-
“I’ve no use for deserters."
“Is your husband badly hurt?”
here,” Mary pleaded. “I want to
Corkran nodded respectfully. "Nor tifui showgirls, in
"I think he'll be all right. But he's ' get you back to clean, sunny, cold I, sir! But I did think himself and troduced the De
sick, too, Richard.”
weather. That's what you need.”
the young lady might be needing a j Mille, the sur
"Richard, will you take us home
He looked past her at Richard, yet good man with his fists some d^y, on realist and the
with you?”
he spoke to her. "What changed the island, sir. Himself is a good De Sylva influ
His eyes lighted. “Sure! Now your mind, Mary?” he asked. “Has
plucked one, but he knows nothing ence in one movement, and even
y.ju’re sensible. You don’t belong Captain Corr here persuaded you?”
at all, and such gets themselves into went in for air conditioning the cir-
here. Mary. How about your hus
Mary said: "No, of course not! I trouble they can't get out of.”
i cus tent
band? Will he go?”
think I’m afraid to stay!”
see
“You weren't much use to him
"He wants to, yes.” He swung to
“You can always hide.” he pro when he did need you."
If you want your circus straight,
look vigilantly toward the Venturer tested. "And after what happened
"It’s sorry I am, sir. Would your with all the smells that had become
at anchor half a mile off, and she this time, the people will hide too."
honor be telling me what hap- traditional, you had to stay down
said: "George doesn’t know what
The argument proceeded for so pened?”
near the camels and sea lions.
happened. I mean about the mas long that Richard became more and
•
s
•
"You don’t know?”
sacre.",
more impatient. He broke in at last
"I know 'twas bad.” Corkran
And
it
looks
like
a
non-top trend.
Then Tommy came down the path on their long futility of argument looked around.
"They had me Norman Bel Geddes is now report
to f ill Mary that George was awake and pleading.
asleep, your honor, sir,” he said in ed working on the tents. That looks
and calling her; and a moment lat
"Mr. McAusland,” he said, "this shame.
like carrying the glamour stuff too
er Peter appeared. He saw Rich is no place for Mary.”
"Drunk?”
far.
A circus tent has always looked
ard, and hesitated, and Richard said
"It’s my place," George retorted.
"I would not say so. I no more like a circus tent. What it will
briefly:
"I’m needed here; and Mary’s place than noticed a queer taste to the look like in 1941 is anybody's guess.
"Father died about daylight, Pe is with me, isn’t it?"
coconut juice, not bad at all; so I
• • •
ter. We'll bury him here this morn
Richard cried explosively: "Man, drank it and fell for a bit of a nap.
THE
BREAK
ing, and pull out this afternoon.”
they don’t need you! They need to The next I knew, an old man of I haven’t any sables to slip ele
Peter protested: "What’s the hur get rid of you!”
them came to see was I still asleep.
gantly on.
ry?”
Mary caught her breath; but be I was awake enough by that time to Nor silver fox or monkey-fringe to
"The natives here killed three fore she could speak George asked pretend to be asleep; but when a
lure a Don Juan;
white men a couple of days ago. sharply: "What do you mean?"
troop of them went up the trail I haven’t any star sapphires or robe
Traders.” Richard looked at Mary
“Why, I mean you've killed a fair past my house, I could look with
with diamond bustle.
warningly.
"And burned their batch of them already,” Richard one eye; and after that I sweated
And I haven’t any bomb-proof cell
schooner. That was the smoke we told him.
cold blood till I got away from that
to which I have to hustle!
saw. That’s why they’re hiding
Island, sir.”
She cried: "Hush, Richard!”
G. K. B.
now. It wouldn’t be safe to lie in the
George lifted his thin, veined
"What did you see?”
• • •
bay overnight”
band. "Be still, Mary,” he com
"Save me from remembering,
"Eskimos Can’t Understand Peo
Peter stared at his brother, and manded. Rage choked him; he be your honor. Would yow honor be
Mary saw his lips white. "Killed j gan to cough heavily, and could not needing a good harpooner, maybe?” ple Setting Into Wars.”—headline.
Have patience; it’ll come to yon.
them?” he whispered hoarsely, and '
speak, and a red stain touched his
"You’ve served on whalers?"
• • •
looked quickly around, "Say. are lips. He wiped it away with his
"Aye, sir. Nineteen months, I
HOW
LIFE GOES
they laying for us?” He swung to fingers, and muttered apologetically can earn my way, you’ll find.”
Part to working, part to sleeping,
ward Mary. "Blast it, why didn’t to Mary: "I guess the bullet must
Richard nodded. "All right, Cork part to playing, but most of life gees
you tell me?”
have touched my Jungs.”
ran. The less talk about that back to waiting for some woman!
"I'm not afraid of them,” Mary
Richard spoke in wrath, "Don’t there, the better. Go forward now.”
• • •
explained. "I never thought of tell be blind, man. You’ve got con-
Richard went below. George still
Several
New
York policemen have
ing you.” She said: "I must go to sumption, You’ll die of it if you lay on the bench in the common
George. Don’t tell him about the stay here, and so will half the peo room, Mary beside him; and Rich been drafted into the army, and
this ought to discourage Hitler about
killing, Peter.”
ple on the island.”
ard said: "We’ve a friend of yours as much as anything else.
He nodded. At the house, she
"Richard, don't! You’re cruel. Be ’board. Corkran, off the Sunset.”
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went in first. She found George in still. George, it isn’t true.”
George exclaimed: "Corkran?"
NEW
VERSION
his right mind, his fever gone; but
"It is true, isn’t it?” George Mary looked up at Richard quickly.
Early to bed, early to rise,
he demanded at once:
asked, looking up at her. “What
"Yes. He swam off to us with
Leaving more to your heirs
“Who was that boy here, Mary?” Captain Corr says? I can see it
his parrot on his shoulder.”
Than you would otherwise.
"That was Tommy Hanline, my must be true.”
“Swam off? You mean he was at
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cousin. Don't you remember I told
She said slowly: "I’m afraid it is, Gilead?”
“Italy Breathes Easier After
you the Venturer is here?”
my dear.”
Richard was surprised. "Didn’t Pact.”—headline.
"I don’t remember much of any
He nodded in a broken submis you know it? He must have kept
That isn't breathing; It’s heavy
thing. What happened to the men sion. "Very well,” he said. “Then out of your way.”
panting.
from the schooner, the men who shot I’ve failed here. Worse than failed.
George looked at Mary, and saw
• • •
me?”
We’ll have to go.”
confession in her eyes, and smiled
Simile
by
T.G.D.
—As overdressed
She told him less than the truth.
After that surrender, as though understanding^. "You knew it?”
as ■ cut-rate drugstore window.
“They took some girls aboard, crushed by his own defeat, by the
"Yes. I was afraid it would both
• • •
George, but they’re gone now.”
collapse of his life and hopes, he er you to know he was there.”
EPITAPHS FOR TRAFFIC CHAOS
“I tried to stop them, but I wasn’t did not speak, He was passive in
"It would have,” he admitted.
("Neon lights on store fronts are
man enough. Where are the people their hands.
Peter came down the companion,
lights.
”—News item.)
from the Venturer? Bring them in.”
Once the decision to depart was and Richard said to Mary:
Here lies Lester
So she called them into the little made, Mary had begun to pack their
“You’ll want to give him supper
Luther Watt:
room where he lay. They seemed to belongings. When the last of the here, I expect.”
He
thought a traf-
fill it; and George on the bed was load was borne away down the path,
She nodded, and she stayed with
Fic light was not.
very smal’. Mary said: "This is Peter said urgently:
George while Richard and Peter
Richard Corr, George. And Peter.
"All right, Mary, come along.”
went into the main cabin. Mat
Here reposes
And my cousin Tommy.”
She bade him go. ”1—want to Forbes came below to join them,
Bixby (Leon):
“Glad you've come," George told say good-by alone," she said. Ja and Tommy brought them their
He thought the stop
them. “We’ve had trouble here.”
rambo stood watching. Peter moved meals.
Light was ■ Neon
"We saw no sign of them when grudgingly down the trail.
(TO UE CONTINUED)
synopsis
we came in.” Richard assented.
Mary looked at him gratefully.
George asked:
"Where's your uncle. Mary?”
"Uncle Tom was killed by a whale
months ago. George.” she said.
"And Cap'n Corr died last night.”
She looked at Richard. "Richard is
Captain of the Venturer now.”
“I'm sorry!" He spoke apologet
ically. "I'm not in shape to play
host. I’m afraid; but you're welcome
here. How long can you stay with
us?"
"Peter and I want to bury my fa
ther ashore here. Mr. McAusland."
he said. "I thought I'd—see to that
first. This morning.”
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