Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 299, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1928 — Page 18

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THIS HAS HAPPENED The summer she is 16, SALLY FORD Is "farmed out” to CLEM CARSON and leaves the State orphanage, the only home she has known from the time she was 4. At the farm she meets DAVID NASH, athlete, and university student, working there during the summer. Wher Carson makes insulting remarks about their friendship. David strikes him a terrific blow and not knowing then whether the man is dead or alive. Sally and David flee. They ioin a carnival, David as cook’s helper and Sally in a side-show disguised as “Princess Lalla,” crystal gazer. NITA, the Hula dancer, becomes infatuated with David and threatens Sally with exposure to the police for the Carson affair if sh? doesn’t keep "hands off" David. Sally hears they are going next to Capital City, where sh“ spent so many years in the orphange. She tells David they must run away. David promises to meet lier that night after the train is loaded to talk things over with her. They stroll to a clump of trees and sit down to talk. David trikes her in his arms and for the first time they confess their love for each other. She tells him the news of her mother which MRS. BY BEE uncovers lor her in Stanton. The woman who had left her at the home was not her mother, according to Mrs. information. but was a maid hired to take the baby from the mother in New York and disappear. As they sit there, they are startled to hear Nita’s voice in the darkness somewhere near them. “Steve —I’m warning you. If you double-cross me I'll cut your bart out. Fifty-fifty—” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIV "VIS THEN Sally was awakened soon VV after dawn the nest morning —Wednesday—by the shouts and tongs of the “white hopes” unloading the carnival on .the outskirts of the Capital City, the question which had insisted on worming it* way through the heavenly joy of knowing that David loved her sprang instantly to the foreground of her mind: who was “Steve” with whom Nita had quarreled and bargained in the dark last night? Sally and David had met or had had pointed to them nearly every member of the show troupe, and there was no Steve among them. Os course Steve might be one of the roughneck white roustabouts. But a star performer, such as Nita considered herself, would hardly consort with such a man. The two classes—simply did not mix, except in rare instances. David of course was different. Everyone connected with the carnival knew that he was a university student, working in the kitchen, with Buck only because he was hiding from the police. Then the thought of David dismissed Nita and her threats and her Steve. She crawled out of her berth, scurried to the women’s dressing room and hastily applied her show make-up. Pop Bybee had summoned her to the privilege car on her return from her momentous walk with David the night before to caution her not to appear in Capital City, even in the dress or cook tent, without iier “Princess Lalla” complexion, which she was to apply with exceeding care so

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| that the disguise might De imI penetrable. ! Because the carnival lot selected !by “the kidder,” Pop Bybee’s ad- | vance man and “fixer,” was in the ! heart of the city, and the railroad | spur allotted to the show train on ! the outskirts of it, the cars would ibe abandoned by the carnival performers and employes, only Pop | and Mrs. Bybee continuing to oc- [ cupy their drawing room in one of ; the Pullmans. Sally, being told | the arrangements, suspected that ; they stayed with the train to guard the safe under the green plush seat, the existence of which was known only to Sally. Mrs. Bybee took little interest in the carnival itself, caring only for the heaviness of the canvas money bags, which were brought to her at the end of each day’s business. It was still not seven o’clock when Sally joined the straggling procession of performers headed for the cook tent and dress tent, a quarter of a mile from the show train. She knew very little of the city itself, since the orphanage was situated on its own farm in a thinly settled suburb. There was no glow of pride, no sense of home-coming as she trudged through the almost deserted streets, but every time she passed a policeman idly swinging his “billie” on a street corner she thanked Pop Bybee in her heart that he had cautioned her to don her disguise. For beyond a casually interested glance at her brown face and hands and her long, swinging braids of fine, lustrous black hair, the law did not seem to find her worthy of attention—certainly not of their official notice. If only David could pass that cordon successfully! Probably he had gone to the carnival grounds. But Pop Bybee, true to his promise to protect the boy, had decreed that he should become private chef and waiter to himself and Mrs. Bybee, remaining cooped up all day in the privilege car of the show train. Poor David! Dear David! Her heart ached passionately for his loneliness, for his magnificent body caged in a hot box of a kitchen, when it had been so gloriously free in fragrant, sun-kissed fields before shs had met him. Why, he might almost as well be in jail! And he had done nothing but protect a girl alone in the world from the cruel revenge of a man who had promised the State to treat her as his own daughter. But even though her heart throbbed with pain for David she could not be wholly sad, for he loved her, wanted to marry her, would even now be married to her

if she had let him give up his ambitions for her. By the time she had finished breakfast in the cook tent the carnival was nearly ready for business. Even the Ferris wheel’s glittering immensity was flung toward the sky, the basket seats hanging motionless in the still, hot air. Banners advertising real and spurious wonders were being tacked upon scarred booths, endowing them with glamor: “Bybee’s Follies Girls—a dazzling beautiful chorus straight from Ziegfeld’s Follies in New York —Six reasons why men leave Lome”; “Beautiful Babe, the Fattest Girl in the World! C2O pounds of rosy, cuddly flesh”; “The Palace of Wonders—Greatest Aggregation of Freaks in the World; also Princess Lalla, from Constantinople, crystalgazer. escaped member of the Sultan’s Harem; Sees all, knows all— Past, Present and Future!” Sally wandered along the midway, waving a small brown hand to Eddie Cobb, who was setting up his gambling wheel and gaudily diessed kewpie dolls; exchanged predictions as to the day’s business with two or three good-natured concessionaires; won a gold-toothed smile from the henna-haired girl who sold tickets for the tin rabbit races. But she soon discovered that she was restless and lonely The carnival had no glamor in these early hours. Without the crowds there was no glamor; the crowds themselves, though they did not suspect it, iiirnished the glamor with their naive credulity, their laughter, their free and easy spendng, their susceptibility as a relief from the monotony of their lives, to the very spirit of the carnival lor which this draggled old Hoyden of a show was named. “The kids would love it.” Sally remembered suddenly, seeing in a painfully bright flash of memory the oldish, wistful little faces of Betsy and Thelma and Clara and all the other orphans who had until so recently—though it seemed years ago—been her only friends and playmates. “I wonder if Eloise Durant is terribly unhappy, or if she has found some other 'big girl’ to pet her. I wonder if Betsey and Thelma and Clara miss my play-acting.” She smiled at the picture of herself draped in a sheet and crowned with her own braids—an ermine cloak and a crow of gold adorning a queen! “If they could see me now! Play-acting all the time, all dressed up in purple satin trousers and a green satin jacket all glittery with gold braid! I wish I had lots of money, so I could send them all tickets to come to the carnival.” her thoughts ran on. as homesickness for the place she had hoped never to see again rose up, treacherous and unwelcome, to dim her joy in the glorious miracle of David's love “I suppose,” she confessed forlornly, “that Mrs. Stone is the only mother I’ll ever know. I wish I’d always been good, so she wouldn’t believe the awful things Clem Carson said about me. She thinks I’m bad now—like my mother. I wonder,” she was startled, her face flushing hotly under the brown powder, “if I am bad! They say it’s in the blood. I’m crazy to have David kiss me, and—and he had to ask me not to. Maybe David is afraid I'm bad, too, and will make him bad!” The thought was unbearable. She wanted to fly to David, to search his goid-flecked hazel eyes again, to see if he had lost any of his “respect” for her. But she wouldn’t kiss him! She'd bite her tongue out first! She

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was going to be good, good, prove to herself and David and all the world that “it” wasn’t in her blood. But all day, as the crowds gathered and money clinked merrily as it fell into cash boxes, she longed for David, lived over every kiss he had given her, from the brushing of his lips against the tip of her short nose to that dizzying wedding of lips when their love had been confessed in the moonlight. And because she was bemused with romance, thrilling with her own awakening to love, she made an almost riotous success of her crystalgazing that first day of the carnival in Capital City. Girls laughed shyly and cuddled against their sweethearts provocatively as they left the Palace of Wonders, determined to make “Princess Lalla’s” enchanting prophecies come true. And she was so seductively beautiful herself, a-sparkle with love as she was, that three or four unaccompanied young men. seeking knowledge of past, present and future. suggested that she lulfill her own prophecies of a "zo beautiful brunette,” until. embarrassed, though flattered, she took refuge in assuming that all gentlemen prefer blondes. She did net see David that night after the carnival had shut up shop, for he could not leave the show train and only male performers, barkers and concessionaires were permitted to hang around the train. Sally understood from the midget, “Pitty Sing,” that a nightly poker game attracted the men to the privilege car and that fist-fighting and even gun-play was no uncommon break in the monotony. Pep Bybee, genial until he heard the rattle of poker chips, was the heaviest winner, as a rule, many a performer’s salary finding its way back into the stateroom safe within a few hours after Mrs.

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Bybee had reluctantly handed it over. By Thursday afternoon Sally's confidence in the efficacy of her disguise had mounted perilously high. The policemen who strolled grandly through the tents, proud of not having to pay for their fun, accorded her admiration or goodnatured skepticism but no suspicion. The city papers had apparently lost interest in the hunt for David Nash, university student and farm hand, wanted for assault with intent to kill and for moral delinquency. and in Sally Ford, runaway ward of the State and juvenile paramour of the youthful would-be murderer, as the papers had previously described them. At least there were no references to the case in either Wednesday's or Thursday’s papers, and Sally’s heart was light with gratitude to David and Pop Bybee for having persuaded her to stick with the carnival. It was rather fun to be on exhibition, reading the fortunes of the very policemen who had been given her description and orders to “get” her—much more fun than fleeing along state roads at night and hiding in cornfields by day, hungry, exhausted, afraid of her shadow and of the more menacing shadow of the State reformatory. ‘Hel-lo! Hel-Io! Bless my soul! What have we here? A real live Turkish harem beauty, as I live!” Sally aroused herself from her apparently absorbed gazing into the “magic crystal” and looked with

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