THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1829.
RIVAL WIVES
By Anne Austin.
THIS HAS HAPPENED. Since her graduation with honour three years previously, Nan Carroll has been prie vate secretary to Attorney John Curtis dier Sat.
While
they are at work, Iria Morgan, haughty beautiful wife of Morgan, arrive, accompanied by heṛihandsome child, the Curus. She peevishly demande a large che to finance a shopping expedition and Iran kile Curtis on Nan's hand while she go out to shop. Nan bliserir resents being the treated, as a nursemaid, and her dlake of Iria trebles.
That evening Nan die with Willie Todi,
who for the Afth time proposes marriage her. When Nan Inaista she cannot Kive VP her prospect for passing the bar examina tions, Willla accuses her of being in few with Morgan, After WIa leaves. Nan tries to diamiss his outburst centur jealousy, but her heart tells her afferenti and at as she admits that she, Nan Car roll, who has always priied Berself on being
of
Author of The. Black Pigeon, **
aquaro, like a kid's. Just learning to write
"Nan gasped involuntarily, Hand- writing experts, learnedly analyz- ing the queer script in which the how famous blackmailing letters ware Indited, had not been half so vivid as Annie Crayfish!
"Did Mrs. Fleming see you look- Ing at the letter?" Nan asked, dizzy with joy.
"Yes, Miss," Arfnie confessed, "And she slapped my face. But that no clue to the real truth,gizing and trying to make-up to the next minuto she was spolo however infinitesimal, might es- cape her,
me for her hot, temper, as she called it. She seemed so awful The clue, when she did find it, sorry that I couldn't stay mad, tlmost escaped her, it was so tiny: and when she offered to send me just a name, an odd name, and for out to Arizona to stay with Madge some obscure reason, familiar to'd told her all about Madge, Nan. The name occurred in the testimony of a chambermaid of the Country Club?
County Club?
long before thot-why, I was just tickled to death, of course. I couldn't let false prido stand in the way of going to my sister, could 1
fiss
"Of course not," Nan agreed heartily. "Listen, Annie, do you l think Grace Cox is guilty?"
A puzzled look spread over the chambermaid's pleasant face, "Guilty of what, Miss?
Miss
Q. (District Attorney): How long have you been employed as a chambermaid in the Riveroldo
A. Since September 5. Annie Cryfish recommended" me for the job when she was leaving, sir!!. honourable, square sa a man, is in love with Q. (District Attorney); Please
confine yourself to answering ques-Cox The thought is su Interabin, wir enttions, Now. Bertha, what were the offer next morning determine t alien. There in the mainlng mail she firm your hours on duty?
■ blackmail nota illrected to Morgan. Nag is torn with conflets Shall she give him the ante suid let him learn the truth about cold wife or shall she withhold it T
Another woman's husband,
CHAPTER V.
ne
Was
operator of the club? An awful nice girl, not a bit stuck-up"
that's the switchboard
Nan knitted her brows. Crysh?
"Haven't you been reading the. Why was the name so familiar? She herself had written that name, Grace Cox is accused of having papera, Annie?" Nan marvelled. had laughed at it-Oh! Of course! blackmailed several wealthy mem- The head cleaning woman of that bera of the Country Club, including Nan took his brief ense from very office building John Curtis Morgan, rifled through Cryfish!
named Mrs. Fleming herself. And the a-sheaf of memoranda and found name at Christmas time last year, writing you've just described to Nam had learned her letters" were in the funny hand- sehe had known she would-the had written it on the envelope con me, Anule! They're trying to McTeague deposition.. How help taining Morgan's Christmas ft of less he was, how dependent upon money for the woman Undoubt-send Grace Cox to the penitentiary her! And how happy she was to elly Annie Crayfish, former cham-for writing those letters, Annie!" serve him. Would his next secre-bermaid of the Country Club, was she emphasized slowly. tary, be as alert and intelligent a related to old Mrs. Crayfish of the herself, as enger to wait upon Sanderson Building. him?
He loathed detail, wanted to have Impulsively, her brown eyes is mind free for concentration shining, Nan called the superin- upon the bigger aspects of the legal tendent of the building upon the problems which he was called upon of John Curtis Morgan's office, Mr. telephone. This is Miss Carroll, to handle. And yet incompetence in those who were responsible for Bennett. 1 very much want to see detail made him nervous and im Mrs. Crayfish, head of the cleaning patient, even ill. It, took a lot of staff. Is she on duty now?" understanding and pallence and in- telligence to work for John Curtis Morgan.
"Not until four o'clock. The old dames work until 10, you know," Bennett answered.
"Could you give me her address, "If his next secretary serves him; as faithfully as I have done, it will please, Mr. Bennett? It's terribly he because she loves him, Nan important really, or I shouldn't decided, and hot jealousy of her bother you," Nan pleaded in her prospective successor flooded her sweetest voice. already tortured heart.
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Five minutes later, Nan, having Nan followed him into his pri vate office, the anonymous letter left a resentful and bewildered tucked Into the pocket of her clerk in charge of the front office, blouse, the ather mall, or such of was on her way to the addrese it as required his personal atten- which Bennett had supplied. Mrs. Crayfish had no telephone; there tion, in her hands,
He lifted awarding hand, his was no time to be wasted on tele- black eyes plending with her hn-grams or messenger boys. She was mourously for indulgence. "Haven't playing a long hunch, at the risk of time to read a single letter, Nan. incurring Morgan's displeasure for You handle all of it if you can, and having deserted the office, but her let the rest ride. Nothing of life. eyes were still shining wfih excite- and-death importaner, I suppose?" ment when she knocked upon the Nun decided irrevocably then, door of a small frame house on the The anonymous letter should stay outskirts of the city. in her pocket. She had her orders "No, Mr. Morgan, nothing of life and-death importance. Anything special you want me to do to-day?"
"I want to see Mrs. Crayfish, please," Nan told the plump, homely woman who answered her knock.
Mama ain't home. Could I do "Nothing special," Morgan anunything for you, Mies? I'm Amule swered absent-mindedly, his eyes Crayfish"
ang
on the memoranda In his hand. Annie Crayfish?" Nan almost "Oh, yea! When the complete transcript of this Grace Cox ease comes from the court stenographer this morning, I'd like to have you read through it carefully. I can de pend upon you to see light where apparently all is dark. I'm pretty
the nomusical syllables. Then you're the very person I want to see. You used to work at the Riverside Country Club as a cham- bermaid, didn't you, Annie Will you tell me why you left your job? "Yes, Mins. I been out to Ari- aure of making Brainerd look like zona, ataying, with my sister who a fool before the day is over, but was sick with T. B. Shehe died I'm not taking any chances. That's last week, and I burled her out a slippery crowd. I'll phone during there and came home. the morning if I have an opporhome to-day. Me and Mama are I just got luntly, and will come back here feeling awful bad about Madge, Miss, so I hope there ain't going to
when court recesses for lunch.”
"I'll order a nice kuch sent up be no trouble" from the Bellaire Grill, and you can
∙eat it while you go over your notes," I'm awfully sorry about Madge,'
Nan planned cheerfully.
•
Nan said softly. "But it was aw- fully nice you had saved up enough Of course she had had no oppor-money to go way out there and tunity to resign, she scolded her stay with her until the end." conscience, when Morgan had de- "I didn't have enough saved up," parted for court.. "Besides," she Annie Crayfish confessed. "I never raminded herself, "I've decided to coulda gone if Mrs. Fleming hadn't write him a note of resignation, sent me. It was funny, too," she but I'm certainly not going to added in a burst of confidence. "I bother him with it until this case didn't know she was
so kind-
is settled. It ought to go to the carted. And I didn't think she jury by Friday night, and Satur-ked me very much. One time slie day morning will be time enough.acolded me something fierce-" Maybe if he finds out I. held out "What for, Annie?" Nan scarcely this anonymous letter he'l fire me dared to breathe,
مل
and save me the trouble of resign- "Why nothing n-tall," Annie bri- ing,"
lled. "I went in to clean her mom-- She tried to forget the blackmall-you know, lotas: the members keep Ing letter, with its unspeakable In-rooma out there and stay week- sinuation against Iris Morgan, but ends-and 1 acen her a-writing at her mind tugged and worried at her desk, and I said, 'I never no- the thing, while her heart follow- ticed before you was left-handed,
ed John Curti Morgan to the court- Mrs. Fleming, and I thought she'd house,
take my head off. And funny Evans, the middle-aged, soar-thing-she wasn't left-handed, mouthed clerk, arrived just as Mor- Miss! I took pains to notice after gan was leaving, and Blake, the that."
'young lawyer on salary, raced in
and out again in time to catch hin "Of course," Nan said casually, chief at the elevator,
to keep from frightening her wit
If only she could go with him,ness, "you never happened to no- could be there to ward off evilice what it was that Mre. Fleming If she, not that ailly Blake, sat at was writing with her left hand his elbow, she could sense a trap, that day, did you? Just as a mat- before it was sprung, warn him, ter of curiosity, such as anyone save him the ghastly humiliation would have felt?" she suggested which, if the anonymous letter-subtly. writer was to be believed, awaited
"Well, yes, Misa, I did," Annie him at the courthouse to-day. He Cryish flushed. "It hurt my feel- had told her often enough that he ings the way she carried on just counted on her intuition-
because I made an innocent re- mark like that and so when clie was A messenger boy with the called to the door to sign for a tele court stenographer's transcript gram I stopped real quick and of the case interrupted Nan's silpped the book off the letter she'd milling thoughts. She salzed bean writing with her left hand- upon the bulky manuscript, force-she'd covered it up soon as I came ly determined to winnew 'the pro-in-and it was the funniest writ secution's evidence so thoroughlying-almost lying on its back, and
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Annie Crayfish protested dazedly. "But I don't understand,"
"I ain't seen any papers from here or hardly anywhere else since I left home. I'm not much hand for reading and Madge But I neen lettera, Miss" The full truth Mrs. Fleming writing one of them dawned on the woman's slow intel- lect
"Don't you understand, Annie?" Nan exulted. "Mra. Fleming bribed you to leave the state, so you could never testify against her! She's a wicked woman, Annic, and they may send Grace Cox to prison for a crime Mrs. Fleming committed, if you don't came with me right now and tell the court exactly what you've told me! Will you, Aunle? I know you didn't mean to commit a crime yourself in accepting a bribe, and I know you don't want poor little Grace Cox to suffer for a crime, she didn't do, Come, Anniel Hurry!"
(To Be Continued).
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