THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929.
RIVAL WIVES
By Anue Austin. “
CHAPTER XV.
On Monday, the ninth of January, the day Iris Morgan had chosen for her departure for New York on what her husband belleved to be
Author of The Black Pigeon."
byé, lover. Good-bye, Nan. You'll look after these tivo bad boys of mine while I'm gone, won't you?"
Nan linched, from the kisa which Iris' velvety red lips laid a short pleasure trip, John Curtis on her cheek, but her brown eyes Morgan had to appear in court as were very stealy as they met and defence counsel for Lois Downs, aheld for a moment the blue-green pretty young nurse acused of the eyes of John Curtis Morgan's murder by polsoning of her pa- wife. "I'll do my best." she said tient, a middle-aged chronic invalid clearly, but no one elso fir the whose husband and fortune she was room realized that a solemn prp-
misc had been given..... supposed to have coveted.
The case had been twice set for hearing and twice postponed, but now a jury was being impanelled.
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When they were gone, Nan sat idle at her typewriter, her fright- caed eyes fixed on the little desk clock. Ind she committed an un-
"If he doesn't come soon I shall have to leave without telling him
forgivable crime in not warning good-bye, and it will serve him right!" Iris protested petulantly to Morgan that his wife was leav Nan for the third or fourth time.ing him for Crawford? But, ns "I only have half an hour to make she had told Willis
Todd, she
my train. Careful, Curt, lover, would rather have died than to you're mashing the pleats in moth-have shown him that letter of er'a skirt."
"I wanna go to New York, top,"
the little boy plended.
Bert Crawford's, which proved that Crawford was not only thief but Iris Morgan's lover. And as Willis had pointed out to her, Morgan's knowing would "not" have stopped Iris, and, if it could have, Morgan would not or should her... But Willis
"Mother's explained over and over. sweetheart, that New York's a borrid big place, not at all nice for little boys," Iris answered e-not want jolingly. Nan, stealing a glance at didn't know how much Morgan the two, saw the mother' m loved her.... tighten convulsively about the thin
little body that leaned forlornly The minute hand of the clock against her knees.
moved slowly and inexorably. "I suppose she bus got something Train time! Too late now! Fiv that passes for a heart," Nan ad-minutes past train time now..... mitted grudgingly to herself, "And John Curtis Morgan and his child, I hope it hurts her so bad tonight happily ignorant, of the fact that that she can't sleep running away they were deserted, would be turn- to New York in a drawing room ng toward the movie theatre that her husband has paid for, to now, Curtis shrilling excitedly join a lover who owes his freedom about his police dog..... to her husband. Oh, how can she do it? And how can he love her so much, when she's rotten, rotten! Just because she's beautiful---"
"WII he know to-night? Did she leave a letter? Surely the wouldn't just go away, leaving no word behind.... I wish I could work I feel as if I'm going
Although she hated Iria Mór," Nun moaned.
gan with every throb of her own "At last she forced herself to honest, loyal heart, Nan Carroll had contentrate on the Lois Downs nover denied or underestimated the|ense, which had opened that day other woman's beauty,
In Judge Trimble's court. It "I'm pretty, too," Nan reflected promised to be one of the hardest. bitterly. "But do you suppose herts that John Curtis Morgan knows it? I might as well have a had ever waged for the life of harolip and greasy, mouse-coloured an accused murderer,
hair, for all he sees-or eares. But Nan knew that District Attor she's leaving him; may never seeney Brainerd was as convinced of her again, after today.' her love, the guilt of the pretty young audacious with hope, dared whisper Course as Morgan was sure of her In her heart.
innocence. The crime of which Then shume made her flush scar- | Loja Downs was neeused had been let. "No, no! I'm not that bad! committed in July-six months I'm singing on only because ke'n ago. Mra, Andrew Ward, 54 going to need a friend so badly. years old, a wheel-ebair invalid Afterward, when the worst is over, who had not walked for three I go away. I will, I will!" years, had died at two o'clock in she reiterated sharply, desperately, the morning of Atrychnine poi stamping upon that treacherous soning, and her
Hurac, Lois hope until she thought it was dead. Downie, bad been immediately ar But it only alunk into the very rested on depths of her heart and lay down Mrs. Ward, a multi-millionaire in a charge of murder. very quietly....
her own right, had married, at the age of 49, a handsome young ne'er-do-well of 26.
"Well! At last! I was just leaving without telling you good bye," Iris greeted her husband "There's hardly time to crparly. make my train."
"Oh, lota of time, darling," Mor-
Living in the home of the ill- matched couple were two apin- ster daughters of Mrs. Ward's by previous marriage. Three
gan reassured her. "I'm awfully years before her death, sorry to be, inte, but could hardly Ward declared, that she
Mr.
Was
ask for an early adjournment....paralyzed from the waist down, Hello, Sonny-Boy! Know what
and settled herself luxuriously in we're going to do soon as Mother's on the train?"
He knelt beside the little boy, who was still drooping forlornly agalnat his mother's, knees, and
wheel-chair invalidiam, requir-į
ing the constant care of a doctor, a day nurse, a night nurse and her yung husband.
put his arms about the two of them, After her death by strychnine hugging them close. Nan, before poisoning, Mrs. Ward's daughters | she turned sharply away, saw one told the district attorney and po- of Iris hands flutter the boy'alle detectives that their mother black hend; saw Morgan lay his had been insanely jealous of check against its alim whiteness. young Andrew Ward's attentions "I wanna go to New York, too!" Downs, telling them that she be
to the pretty night nurse, Lole! Curtis sobbed.
lieved Ward wished her dead so "And leave Daddy all by him-that he could marry the girl. self!" the father reproached him
Because Ward had. Lenderly, "Listen, Man-Child!
#perfect aliki, and because Lois Downs had You and I are going to a Wild been the only person with the in- West movie and then we're going valid the night of her death, the to drive out to the Banbury ken-nurse's arrest and indictment for nels and you're to pick out a murder had followed. guess what!"
WEDNE
Morgan had listened to the
"A dog!" Curtis shouted, hap-girl's story, had believed her, in- py again. "I
Germanocent, and had, with Nan's en- police dor, just like Strong-thusiastic help, worked
up the
heart-"
defence which Nan was reviewing "Oh, Jack, think of the furni- the afternoon of Iris' departure ture! A police dog galmphing for New York.
through the houso" Irls. exclaim,
ed petulantly: then she must have
Becoming absorbed, she worked
remembered that that house would steadily untf six o'clock, then no longer be any concern of hers, want out for dinner at a restau- į for her voice softened, grew rant in the neighbourhood. But little hunky: "Oh, all right, lover! her anxiety for Morgan made It You can have any kind of dog you imposible for her, to ent. She want. Just be sure he isn't left a tip heaida her plate of al- vicious, Jack. But we must be most untouched food, paid her koing," and she rose abruptly, check, and ran through the cold. disengaging her slim body from windy business street to the of her husband's embrace.
[fice building. She could stand it Silly Jack" Iris. Inughed, and no longer; she must know some Nan hoped fiercely that she would thing- never hear those scornful tips. The telephone was ringing with utter that phrase again-those thrill Insistence, when she reach two words with which Iris Mored her office. Her suddenly Icy gan always auswored her hus- hands fumbled interminably with band's adoration and reduced him the key and lock, but at last she to absurdity. "Tell Nana good was at the instrument, panting.
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