Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1928 — Page 14

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THIS HAS HAPPENED The summer she is 16, SALLY FORD leaves the State, orphanage, the only home she has known from the time she was four, to be “farmed out” to CLEM CARSON. At the Carson farm she meets DAVID NASH, athlete and student who is working on the farm during the summer. When Carson makes insulting remarks about David’s friendship for Sally. David hits him a terrific blow. David and Sally run away and join a carnival, David as cook’s helper and Sally in a sideshow disguise as “Princess Lalla.” crystal gazer. NITA, a Hula dancer, becomes infatuated with David and shows her enmity for Sally. Sally tells MRS. BYBEE, wife of the show owner, that her mother once lived in Stanton, the town where the carnival is now showing. The manager’s wife agrees to investigate and learn what she can. She returns from her trip to tell Sally that the woman who left her at the orphanage was not her mother, but a maid hired to take the baby from the real mother in New York and disappear. As Sally leaves the Pullman after hearing this news from Mrs. Bybee, she sees Nita and believes she has been eavesdropping. The last day in Stanton Saliy is paralyzed with fear to learn that they are moving next day to the capital city, where she spent so many years in the orphans’ home. Knowing that the police are after them for the Carson affair, she hurries to tell David they must run away again. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXII "POOR kid!” David consoled her jL after her first almost hysterical outburst. “I can’t talk to you now, and you shouldn’t be here. You’ve got to go back for your last performance. The show has to go on. They’ve been decent to us, and we can’t throw them over without warning.” “But David, we’ve got to run away again!” Sally whimpered, clinging to both his arms, bare to the shoulders in anticipation of his work in helping to load the cainval for its thirty-mile drag to the capital. "We can’t go back to Capital City! ‘‘We’ll be caught! Listen, David—” “Go back to your show tent,” David commanded her sternly. “I’ll be working pretty late helping to load up, but I’ll whistle a bar from ‘Always’ under your pullman window’. We all sleep on the train tonight, and pull out for Capita! City No Stomach Pains Orßack-acheNow Eats Heartily, Without Distress. Sleeps Soundly, and Is Full of Pep. Folks who drag tliemselves around; suffering from backache and stomach distress, will enjoy reading a letter recently written by Mrs. C. Larson, 917 Tenth Ave., Rockford, 111. She says: “For ten long years, I had severe stomach and kidney trouble and chronic constipation, and I suffered agony nearly all that time. After eating, gas formed, my stomach bloated, and I became nauseated. My kidneys pained me dreadfully, and were very irregular. I often had dizzy spells and headaches, and trouble with my eyes. My constipation was very bad for years. I had no appetite at all, and was so weak, nervous, and all worn-out that I really despaired of ever being well again.” “But what difference Viuna made In me. I heard people talking about this wonder medicine and finally 1 decided to try it. Now I can eat a hearty meal and not have any of the old gas, pain or bloating. It helped my kidneys wonderfully, too. The back-ache is all gone and I sleep fine all night. lam rid of the dizziness and head-aches, and the constipation is greatly relieved. I feel well and strong all over, and it is simply wonderful to be in good health again.” Viuna acts promptly on sluggish ißowels, lazy liver and weak kldnsvs. It isurifies the blood, clears the skin, restores appetite and digestion, and brings [lew strength and energy to the whole liody. Take a bottle on trial. Then if “you're not glad you tried Viuna, your money will be refunded. $1 at druggists, or mailed postpaid by Iceland Medtaine Cos., Indianapolis, Ind. © VIUNA The Wonder Medicine

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some time before morning. We pick up the engine at 3 o’clock, I believe. Plenty of time then to decide what to do.” He shook her a little to make her stop shivering and whimpering with fear. “Buck up, honey! I’m not going to let the police get you; neither is Pop Bybee. Dear little Sally!” and he stooped from his great height to brush the tip of her short, brown-powdered nose with his lips.

During the last performance in the Palace of Wonders a village constable, his star shining importantly from the lapel of his Palm Beach suit, sauntered leisurely through the tent, eyeing the freaks with skeptical amusement and asking all the Smart-Aleck questions which the more timid members of the, carnival crowd longed to ask and did not dare. “Bet you wouldn’t let me put any of that glass you’re eatin’ in my coffee,” he guffawed to the ostrich man whom Gus, the barker, was ballyhooing at the moment. “I’m on to all you guys. Rock candy, ain’t it?” “Sure, officer,” Gus interrupted his spiel to answer deferentially “Won’t you have a little snack with the human ostrich? I particularly recommend these nails. Boffo eats only the choicest six-penny nails; will accept no substitues. And if a nail’s rusty, out with it! Sort of an epicure, Boffo is! Have a handful of glass and nails with Boffo, officer! Big-hearted, that’s Boffo!” The constable refused hastily and the crowd roared with delight. The discomfited officer of the law ambled over to make his disparaging inspection of Jan, the giant from Holland. “Pull up your pants legs and let me see your stilts," the constable ordered authoritatively. “I ain’t the sucker you guys think I am. I’m on to your tricks—been going to carnivals man and boy for fifty years.” With his eyes as remote and sad and patient as if he had not heard or understood a word of the constable’s insult, Jan obeyed, rolling his trousers to the knees. When the Doubting Thomas representative of the law had pinched the pale, puttycolored flesh of Jan’s pitifully thin calves and found them to be flesh-and-blood indeed, he passed on, red of face, furious at the snorts of laughter which filled the tent. “What if he takes a notion to wash my face?” Sally shivered, bending low, in an attitude of mystic concentration, over the . crystal which she was pretending to read for a farmer’s wife who had no interest in Boffo, the human ostrich, but who did have perfect faith, m the powers of “Princess Lalla.” “What if he is just pretending to be interested in the other freaks and is really looking for me? Has Nita dared to tip him off that Sally Ford is here?” But her little sing-song voice droned on, predicting prosperity and happiness and ‘ a journey by land sea” for the credulous farmer’s wife. “What’s your real name, sister?” i the constable demanded loudly, of- j ficiously, stamping up the steps that led to the little platform. “Please,” Sally pleaded prettily, making her eyes wide and cloudy with mystic visions, “do not een-terr-upt! The veesion she will go away!” “You let her alone, Sam Pelton!” the farmer’s wife commanded tartly. “Go on, Princess Lalla. I think you’re just wonderful knowing about my mother being dead and even her name and all.”

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“Gimme a knock-down to my past, present and future, Sister,” the constable suggested with heavy sarcasm and jocularity. “Reckon an officer of the law don’t have to pay. And you’d better make it a good one, or I’ll run you in for obtaining money under false pretenses. Come, on, now! Miss Holtzman has already give you a good tip-Off, and I guess my star speaks for itself. Knowing my name and my business, yoif oughta be able to take a pretty good line for me, but if you don’t tell me my wife’s name, how many kids I got, where I come from, and anything else I’m a-mind to 'ask you, I’ll make you a present of free board and lodging at the county’s expense.” Unknown to Sally, whose eyes were fixed, blind with fear, upon the crystal tightly cupped in her ice-cold palms, Gus, the barker, had drawn near enough to hear the constable’s threats and demands. “Sure, officer!” he boomed heartily, to Sally’s amazement, “just askthe little lady anything you like. She sees all, knows all. Step right up, folks, and hear Princess Lalla, favorite crystal-gazer to the Sultan of Turkey before she escaped from his harem, tell you fellow-towns-man, Constable Sam Pelton, the truth, the whole truth and something besides the truth—a few things that are going to happen to him that Officer Sanv don’t yet dream ofi Step right up, folks! Don’t be bashful! Step up and get an earful about your esteemed fel-low-townsman and officer of the law—” Sally felt the ice melting slowly in her veins. Dear Gus; He was stalling, gaining time, subtly frightening the constable, whose face had gone redder and redder, whose eyes glanced with furtive unease from the crystal to the grinning faces of his “fellow-townsmen,” who apparently had no great love for Constable Sam Pelton. Then that which Gus had arranged by means of a code signal took place. Two "schillers,” hastily summoned by a carnival employe, suddenly broke into loud curses and sharp, slapping blows which echoed in the instantly quiet tent. “Pick my pocket, would you?” the raucous voice of a “schiller” demanded between slaps and punches, j “I seen you—sneakin’ your hand in : my pocket!” Constable Pelton, glad to be able to assert his authority, glad also, J possibly, to escape a too intimate j revelation of his past, bounded J from the platform, collared the fighting “schillers,” and dragged ; them triumphantly away. When the last stragglers of the carnival crowd had been ushered rather unceremoniously from the tent, Saliy rose from her chair and pattered swiftly to where Gus, the barker, stood talking with Pop Bybee, owner and manager of Bybee’s Bigger and Better Carnival.

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“Thank you, Gus! I was scared nearly to death! It was wonderful the way you stalled along till those two rubes—” —she was already becoming familiar with carnival lingo —“got into a fight. Wasn’t it lucky for me they did?” she added naively, “Hell, kid!” Gus grinned at her and tilted his derby more rakishly over his left eye. “It was a frameup. Them’s our boys. The guy that pretended to have his pocket picked will swear he made a mistake, and the worst old Sam can do is to have ’em fined for disorderly conduct. I’ll square It with ’em, and they’ll be in Capital City by show-time tomorrow.” Pop Bybee chuckled richly, his bright, pale-blue eyes gleaming in the lobster-red expanse of his old face. “Didn’t I tell you, child, that the law couldn’t touch you long as you stucir with the carnival? Dave tells me you’re babbling about running away again because we’re hitting the trail for your home town tonight. You stick, Sally. Pop Bybee and Gus and the rest of us will take care of you.” Sally’s lips parted to tell him of Nita’s threat to tip off the police if she did not relinquish her claim upon Oavid’s love and friendship, but before the first word tumbled out, the old inhibition against tattling, taught her in the stern school of life In an orphanage, restrained her. “You’re all so good to me," she choked, then turned abruptly away to where “Pitty Sing,” the midget, was impatiently awaiting her human sedan-chair. “I don’t want to influence you unduly,” the midget piped in her prim, high little voice, “but Mr. Bybee and Gus are right. You are safer

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