COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY. DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY [Continued from last week.] “But, Jim, you haven't seen Mr. Douglas,” Polly protested, trying to keep him with her until she could think of some way to comfort him. “I'll look in on him comin’ back,” said Jim, anxious to be alone with his disappointment. He was out of the gate before she could stop him. “Hurry back, won't you, Jim? I'll be waiting for you." She watched him going quickly down the road, his fists thrust into his brown coat pockets and his hat pulled over his eyes. Lie did not look back, as he used to do, to wave a parting farewell, and she turned to- ward the house wifh a troubled heart. She had reached the lower step when Strong and Elverson approached her from the direction of the church. “Was that feller here to take you back to the circus?’ demanded Strong. She opened her lips to reply, but be- fore she could speak Strong assured her that the congregation wouldn't do anything to stop her if she wished to go. He saw the blank look on her face. “We ain't tryin’ to pry into none of your private affairs,” he explained. “but my daughter saw you and that | there feller a-makin’ up to each other. | If you're calculatin’ to run away with him you'li save a heap of trouble for the parson by doin’ it quick.” “The parson!” “You can’t blame the congregation For not wantin’ him to keep yon here. You got sense enough to see how it looks. He'd see it, too, If he wasn't just plain bullheaded. Well, he'd bet- ter get over his stubbornness right now. If he don't we'll get another min- ister; that’s all.” “Another minister? Youdon't mean" It was clear enough now. She recalled Douglas’ troubled look of an hour ago. She remembered how he had asked if she couldn't go away. It was this that he meant when he promised not to give her up, no matter what happened. In an instant she was at the deacon’s side pleading and terrified. “You wouldn't get another minister! please, Deacon Strong, listen to me, listen! You were right about Jim. He did come to get me, and 1 am going back to the circus—only you won't send Mr. Douglas away, you won't! Say you won't!” She was searching his eyes for mercy. “It wasn’t his fault that I kept staying on. He didn’t know how to get rid of me. He did try. He tried only today.” “So he's comin’ round,” Strong. “Yes, yes, and you won't blame him any more, will you?’ she hurried on anxiously. “You'll let him stay. no matter what he does, if 1 promise to go away and never, never come back again?" “I ain't holdin’ no grudge agin him." Strong grumbled. “He talks pretty rough sometimes, but he's been a good enough minister. 1 ain't forgettin’ that.” “Oh, thank you, Mr. Strong, thank you. I'll get my things. It won't take a minute.” She was running up the steps when a sudden thought stopped her. She returned quickly to Strong. “We'd better not let him know just yet. You can tell him afterward. Tell him that | ran away. Tell him that"- She was interrupted by Douglas, who came from the house. “Hello, Strong! Back again?’ he asked, in some sur- prise. Polly remained with her eyes fixed upon the deacon, searching for some way of escape. The pastor ap- sneered proached. She burst into nervous laughter. “What's the joke?" Douglas asked. “It's only a little surprise that the deacon and I are planning.” She tried to control the catch in her voice “You'll know about it soon, won't he deacon? Good afternoon, Mr. Strong!" She flew into the house, laughing hys- terically. Douglas followed her to the steps with a puzzled frown. It was unlike Polly to give way to her moods before “You'll save a heap of trouble for the parson by doin’ it quick.” others. “Have you gentlemen changed your minds about the little girl stay- ing on?” he asked uneasily. “It's all right now,” said Strong. seating himself with a complacent air. “All right? How so?’ questioned Oh, | Douglas, more and more puzzled by the deacon's evident satisfaction. “Because,” sald Strong, rising and facing the pastor—‘“because your cir- cus ridin’ gal is goin’ to leave you of her own accord.” felt the eyes of the deacons upon her. Courage returned, and she spoke in a firm, clear voice, “I am going to run away.” Douglas stepped before her and stud- fed her keenly. “Run away?” he exclaimed incredu- lously. “Yes—to the circus with Jim.” “You couldn't do such a thing,” he answered excitedly. “Why, only a mo- ment ago you told me you would never In Tan, Brown Shaded Mode. $4.50 for Saturday's driving, at Claster’s Clothing Store. Claster’'s Clothing Store. Value $3.50 to . $2.29 sizes 28 to 42, worth soc, at Savings for Saturday on High Class Merchandise. BOY'S SUITS D. V. B. 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Do you hear me? I won't—not until you've thought it over.” “I have thought it over,” Polly an- swered, meeting his eyes and trying to speak lightly. Her lips trembled. She could not bear for him to think her so ungrateful. She remembered his great kindness, the many thoughtful acts that had made the past year so pre- cious to her. “You've been awfully good to me, Mr. John.” She tried to choke back a sob. “I'll never forget it—never! I'll always feel the same toward you. But you mustn't ask me to stay. I want to get back to them that knew me first— to my own. Circus folks aren't cut out for parsons’ homes, and I was born in the elrcus. I love it—I love it!” She felt her strength going and cried out “OH, SEE HOW SERIOUS HE LOOKS" SHE TEASED. wildly: “I want Bingo! 1 want to go round and round the ring! I want the “iave you been talking to that girl?’ asked Douglas sternly. “] have,” said Strong, holding his | ground. “See here, deacon, if you've been browbeating that child I may forget that I'm a minister.” The knuckles on Douglas’ large fists grew whiter. “She's goin’, I tell you, and it ain't because of what I said either. She's goin’ back to the circus.” “1 don’t belleve you.” “You would ‘a’ belleved me if you'd seen the fellow that was just a-callin’ on her and her a-huggin’ and a-kissin’ of him and a-promisin' that she'd be a-walitin’ for him here when he come back.” “You lie!” cried Douglas, taking a step toward the retreating deacon. “There's the fellow now!” cried Strong as he pointed to the gate. “Suppose you ask him afore you call me a liar.” Douglas turned quickly and saw Jim approaching. His face lighted up with relief at the sight of the big, lumber- ing fellow. “How are you, Mr. Douglas?’ said Jim awkwardly. “You've seen Polly?” asked Douglas, shaking Jim cordially by the hand. “Yes, I've seen her.” “The deacon here has an idea that Polly is geing back to the circus with you.” He nodded toward Strong, al- most laughing at the surprise in store for him. “Back to the circus? asked Jim. “Did she say anything to you about it?" He was worried by the bewlilder- ment in Jim's manner. Before Jim could reply Polly, who had reached the steps in time to catch the last few words, slipped quickly between them. She wore her coat and hat and carried a small brown satchel. “Of course I did, didn’t I, Jim?" she said, turning her back upon the pas- tor and motioning to Jim not to an- swer. Douglas gazed at her in aston: ishment. “What do you mean?” he asked in a hoarse, strained voice. He glanced at the coat and hat “Where are you going?” Polly avoided his eyes and continued nervously to Jim: “What made you come back? Why didn't you walt for me down the street? Now you've spoiled every- thing.” She pretended to be very vexed with him. The big fellow look- ed puzzled. He tried to protest, but she put a warning finger to her lips and pressed the little brown satchel into his hand. “It's no use,” she went on hurriedly. “We might as well tell them everything now.” She turned to Douglas and pretended to laugh. “You have found us out.” The deacons were slightly uneasy. The frown or Douglas’ forehead was deepening. “Oh, see how serious he looks!" she teased, with a toss of her head toward the grim visagefl pastor. “Is this some trick?’ he demanded sternly. “Don’t be angry,” she pleaded. “Wish me luck.” She held out one small hand. He did not take it. She wavered; then she | clown songs!” lights and the music and the hoops! 1 want the shrieks of the animals and the rumble of the wheels in the plains at night! 1 want to ride in the big pa- rade! I want to live and dle—just die —as circus folks dle! 1 want to go She waltzed about humming the snatch of melody that Mandy had heard the morning that Polly first woke in the parsonage: Ting, ling— John Robinson’s Circus. oss a. CR eI JOHN ROBINSON'S 10-BIG SHOWS--10 4 Big Circus Rings, Wild West, 3 Menageries roo Noted Artists—100 New Acts—i100 Feature Acts. Greatest Riders. Most Noted Acrobats. 50 Clowns. 10 Menage Acts. Horse Back Riding Sea Lions. Famed Gymnasts. Troupe Trained Horses. Troupe Japanese and Arabs. CHAMPION HEAVY WEIGHT LIFTER and hy Man, Allowing 3 Bij tazwen) Automobiles to Rua Over iis Body e 2—Herds of Big Performing Elephants—2 KING'S COMPLETE WILD WEST. Company of U. S. Cavalry In All Kinds of Monkey Drills and Riding. GRAND FREE STREET PARADE At 10.00 A. M. Daily, Rain or Shine. TWO PERFOMANCES DAILY. DOORS OPEN 1 and 7 P. M. CHEAP EXCURSIONS ON ALL RAILROADS. Warren Travis, Bellefonte, Wed., June 23 RN back! I want to go back!” She put out one trembling hand to Jim and rushed quickly through the gate, laughing and sobbing hysterically and calling to him to foliow. L Mandy went about her duties very quietly, feeling that the little comments which once amused the pastor had now become an interruption to thoughts in which she had no part He would sit for hours with his head in his hands, taking no notice of what passed before him. She tried to think of new dishes to tempt his appetite and shook her head sadly as she bore the untasted food back to the kitchen. She sometimes found a portfolio of drawings lying open upon his study ta- ble. She remembered the zeal with which he had planned to remodel the church and parsonage when he first came to them, how his enthusiasm bad gradually died for lack of encourage- ment and how he had at last put his books in a cupboard, where they grew dusty from long neglect. She mar veled at their reappearance now. but something in his set, faraway look made her afraid to inquire. Thus she CHAPTER XIL NELY days followed Polly's desertion of the parsonage. went on from day to day, growing MEN AND YOUNG—Recome to be wearers of our Clothing and yoa will increase your dressy appearance and you will decrease your clothing expense. See our Suits from $3.95 to 814.75, at each price you'll see distinctivness aad a saving as we promised. Bellefonte, Pa. more impatient with Hasty and more silent with the pastor. Mandy needed humor and compan- fonship to oil the wheels of her hum- drum life. There was no more laugh- ter in the house, and she began to droop. Polly had been away from the parson- age a month when the complacency of the village was again upset by the ar- rival of the “Great American Circus.” There were many callers at the par- sonage that day, for speculation was now at fever heat about the pastor. “Will he try to see her?” “Has he for gotten her?’ and “What did he ever find in her?’ were a few of the many questions that the women were asking each other. Now that the cause of their envy was removed they would gladly have reinstated the pastor as thelr idol, for, like all truly feminine souls, they could not bear to see a man unhappy without wishing to comfort him, nor happy unless they were the direct cause of his state. “How dare any man be happy without me?’ has been the cry of each woman since Eve was created to mate with Adam. [To be Continued.] ~——8he— They say girls can’t throw straight, but when a girl throws sly glances I notice she generally hits the mark. He (recently bitten) —Yes—the easy mark. EE ESN, Lyon & Co. 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