He thinks I ought to see if Celia Jane won't suit them."
"Mother! Take me away from home!" wailed Celia Jane aghast.
"I'm at the end of my string," Mrs. Mullarkey's discouraged voice
continued. "I've never been able to make both ends meet since Dan died."
"She couldn't make them meet so's to give us money to buy tickets to the
circus," Jerry explained corroboratively to his father.
"You'll have to come to it eventually, Mrs. Mullarkey," warned the
County Overseer. "This is a good chance for Celia Jane. The Thompsons
are well fixed; they'll give her a fine home and a good education."
Celia Jane at that sat down on the floor and let her body relax into a
limp bundle.
"I won't go!" she sobbed. "I won't leave mother! What would I do without
mother?"
Jerry was very much distressed at Celia Jane's misery and he looked
pleadingly up at his clown-father; that extraordinary man knew without a
word having been spoken that Jerry expected him to fix things so that
Celia Jane could stay with her mother. Whiteface spoke at once.
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