Show the jelf twins by HUBERT RAY rows copyright 1922 western Nowa pape r aall union on its a mutter of 0 split seconds 1 ID the ring and it calculation of split millimeters I 1 dunt dont know just what those tho sc are but im do told something pretty small anyway the jelf tins knew anaw that and by the wiy way toni tom and oil bill twins nor even brothers lin im glad ad to say thoy they relations at all in fact but agreed to work together and they took that title for business purposes been doing circus bork since they could renic remember taber grew up lip in the ring ant and so did maisie harlow arlow ll though it lt until three months before my story opens that the jelt jelf twins met malsie le she surely was a peach and by peach I 1 mean peach not nectarine or apricot pink and in white blue enes ees soft gulfy faulty hair every one was in loic loc with her ent but it was the jelf twins mins unit that she favored and they had the hie biggest part in Brox tons they did the trapeze stunt in the middle ring which never failed to bring down the house imagine two trapezes trape zes yards and yards apa apart rt at opposite sides of the tent 0 one no of the twins aings by ills his feet the other after getting up speed lets the trapeze swing him off and shoot him clear across the ring now I 1 was saying its a matter of split millimeters and what it was got it down so fine me that just at the second when the upward movement of the flying body stops and the downward plunge begins torn tom hanging hy by its ills feet with ills his arms anus down catches cat clies rills bills hand and holds him theres toni tom lia hanging nging from the trapeze with bill swinging underneath A strain not at all sit sir you see theres the momentum as they call it and no I 1 cant figure it out A professor lid did once and lie he said it was the prettiest thing hed ever seen so bill catches tonis toms hand hall and then the upward swing ing brings him to the tra trapeze he gets his feet on it the twins enri hang side by side a second or two and then the audience that thai had find pictured bills body hitting it with the force of a cyclone rises and shouts it long before malsie be pan gan to shiow low which of the Jelfs she pre berred and that was bill As soon as tom knew tor for sure he walked about all lay day in ablack a black rage ile he was crazed over pretty Bl malsie aisle and I 1 dont blame him but when lie was heard threatening bill things thing 3 began to look serious you see you cant have bad blood among circus folk never saw one of them in a rage did you in gen eral its understood that their minds blinds have got to be free so that they can do their jobs properly naturally with tom and bill doing their stunt find and had bad blood between them old broxton broston began to worry at last lie went to tom it was common talk by then and told him hill hed fire the pair of thern them un unless I 1 ess he made up tip with bill toni tom pulled the woul wool byer over the old mans ca aies es all right took him film to bills tent and shook hands with him but malsie came to bill that night I 1 ll 11 1 I dont want you to act with tom she said crying 11 1 I dont trust him ile he wis was threatening me this morning and bill was in an easygoing easy going fellow and laughed lau glied at her 1 I guess tonis toms all right lie said anyway were hiking loni tomorrow orrow find we cant spoil to nights show now that old Brox tons satis sails fi nod ed 1 I heard about all this afterward my ily part is bringing in the sawdust and helping liel ping out where im wanted I 1 used to be but neier neer mind me I 1 felt sick that night lis as I 1 watched from the runway and saw toni tom find and bill each on his fits trapeze sni smiling flIng and blow ing kisses to the audience and pretty milie riding her two horses round the lie ring and looking up and well I 1 thought shed fall and a ill thing ng that nobody eier ee borghes forg hes Soi something told me what was coming coining and et I 1 had a sort of instinct that it would be all right in the end I 1 waited for the big dive it came bill shot like lightning through lie air across the ring to where here tom was hanging banging by his feet head downward and then I 1 saw mind sir my ees trained liow how tom deliberately moved ills his hand a couple of inches aside and bill lew flew on and missed it was a matter of split seconds as ive said next instant bill bad shot out ills fits other arm and grabbed toni tom round the thigh for just an instant they hung there in ili a silence of death you child I 1 foel feel death in the air sir then toni tom dropped and holding each other locked they went whirling round and round down to the sawdust and tom was underneath dead the minute lie lilt hit the ground smashed to pieces but biats what saved bill save for a broken arm and collarbone collar bone and I 1 gus gue is bill care when he be looked into balsies Mal Imal sies stes eyes ill meaer forget her holding him in the middle of the sing jing among the screaming and confusion and knowing nothing not liing but bill lying there and sin smiling fling sit at her tile the way good women are made sir |