When London Sleeps — page 13: what you’re looking at

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“THE WHITE QUEEN OF THE SLACK WIRE, aan ease no other home than the circus, which is fat from being the best school in which to bring up a a young girl, no breath of scandal had ever touched the White OQueen’s name. Even had it done so, one look into that pure face would have caused any dis- _ eriminating observer to reject the tale as false. ‘ Both the young athlete, who, night after night _ watched her daring performance upon the wire with his whole soul in his gray eyes, and the stern- _ visaged, beetle-browed man, who had once come to the circus, out of a curiosity he despised, but could not resist, and wholly prejudiced, had reached the same conclusion in almost the same words: ‘That is a good girl if there ever was one.”’ _ And this opinion would have been emphatically coincided in by those who knew her well and’had been her daily companions for years. The story of Queenie Carruthers’ origin and how. she had come to be a performer 1 in a circus, is a strange and sad one. One day there came to Signor Roberto Jonesio, an otherwise plain Bob Jones, proprietor of the Grand - Cosmopolitan Circus, a woman with a sweet, sad Mis face, dressed in widow’s weeds and with a tiny six -month’s old baby pressed to her heart. To the signor io and his big-hearted wife, she told a sorrowful story. She had been a trick rider, when she attracted the attention of a rich and well-born gentleman, who made her acquaintance, won her iove and finally -martried her. This union turned out to be of the haps Hes _piest for both the participants, but alas, their bliss Bn iy 4 vest to os oe short- Bee ais husband died ou o ‘ ARs fiir | ae ‘ ee en te Stes iri €. is 4 i wae tL, oP, f Ate seid . | Lt ey if \ eT ane, f ) “4 ye ods di ‘ ! hint j v3 ~ joa ; fF) Ad v4 ’ wy oe 7 4 7 jana ~ { < ; 1A" PLT OM AY EF 7 a ¥, es 4 7) irs 4 thaw g j : Os ys « ,<«F es 1) / . Le $19 rs ‘thd a Ae > Pue, ivt . " BT aig 7 fe tps ‘y rity , Py ) é * eae ay / ey 1 lg Fy Ah PP v5 . ‘ ie ie nN My ; ‘ , oP iN 8 Mares Renal bike ANN) MER Dy: MG. Lake pie eral eh aA ATR ety Oe yy ee OS Titty Satie Leics ty ay | ; * : eas iP Yi say Wit dt or A AF Cee te 4 iy ; ot “2 ‘¥ rf Pe cd ot Te el oi can aus " ‘ 1 ee =I RUE WR LETGP-, tO ataeat hte irre es Te H ide SY aay er LG ON AAD at 48 WL ies Oe 7 TY oP vy