Not all the excitement
that filled the fortnight to overflowing, nor all the homage that came
to him, could ease the dull, insistent pain of separation from
interests so vital to his young heart.
He stole away one night, accompanied by a single servant--for now he
was "lord of the manor" and traveled only as a true gentleman of the
South should travel. Half-way to his destination he stopped off to
draw from the savings bank the money he had placed there. With this
small fortune in his possession he resumed the journey, now closely
guarded by old Jeff, who always had been a slave to the Jenisons and
would be till he died, Abraham Lincoln to the contrary.
David's constant prayer was that he might not be too late.
He was destined to find many changes in Van Slye's Great and Only
Mammoth Shows.
Let us go back to the night after the one which saw David's departure
from the show. For two days Thomas Braddock had slunk about the show
grounds, morose, ugly, taciturn. He avoided every one except those
with whom he was obliged to consult. His wife and daughter caught
fleeting glimpses of him; Colonel Grand and the others saw him but
little more.
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