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But there they were, and there they would not stay, for three nights ago, Iris, they ran away, and nobody in the wide world knows where they are at the present moment." "Well, and what do you propose to do?" said Mr. Dolman. "For my part, I think the police " "Excuse me, sir, this is a matter for me, not the police. I propose, sir, to stay at Madersley until I bring the children back.
The seaside town of Madersley was crowded to excess. It was the height of the summer season, and Holt's circus was doing a roaring trade. There were two exhibitions daily, and every available corner in the great tent was crammed to excess. The spectators said that they came principally to see the little dark-eyed girl ride.
Being an American, I never lose any clews, and there may be just the ghost of a chance that the children who were not at the performance to-day are the very identical same children that are written about in that there poster. Maybe you has heard of those children that is, if you are Madersley folk?"
Iris could not follow Fortune's reasonings, but she submitted to her desire to pay a visit to the traveling circus, and, accordingly, that afternoon, the very last of Holt's stay at Madersley, two other little Delaneys entered the large tent and took their places in the front row. The children were accompanied both by Uncle William and Fortune.
"Yes, yes; we are Madersley folk," said the young man, now turning and speaking eagerly to Fortune. "Well, sir, do you know anything about the children who were not in the circus to-day?" "I have heard of them, of course," said the man.
I'm off to Madersley this minute to see after those posters. Why, we post up everything in America, every single thing that is lost, let alone children, and we do it in big type, as big as they make it, and we put the posters on the walls, and wherever there's a scrap of available space. By your leave, sir, I'm off to Madersley now." Fortune was as good as her word.
"Now," she said to herself, "why should not I just go and pay a visit to my old friend and neighbor, Matty Bell. I want a woman that is a gossip just now, and if there is a gossip in the whole of Madersley, it's Matty Bell.
She not only went to Madersley and interviewed some of the best printers in the place, but she also visited the police station, and told the police to be on the lookout. "For the two youngest little Delaneys are missing," she said, "and found they must be, if heaven and earth are moved to accomplish the job."
"I have done something," she said to Iris, "and what I have done at Madersley ought to have been done before now all over the length and breadth of England. But now, Miss Iris, having put the posters up, it doesn't mean that we are to be idle. We have got to do more. I have my eye on that circus.
But two little circus children might wander about at their own sweet will at Madersley, and be heard nothing whatever of at Delaney Manor, and these little children might never have been found, and this story might have had a totally different ending, but for Fortune. When Fortune, however, lay down on her mattress by Iris' side, she thought a great deal before she went to sleep.
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