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CHAPTER XVII.
had defended against a criminal charge, had been planning all the "Nan wanted desperately to runtime to use the freedom which from the room, so that Morgan Morgan had won for him and the should be spared the added humill-money he had stolen to run away ation of having a witness to is with his defender's wife. For that shock and griet. But he so piti-Nan was profoundly grateful. fully unprepared, had told her to But oh, the diabolical cleverness stay while he read his letter from of the woman! In a red flare of his wife, and now, before she had anger, Nan saw Iris's motive time to collect her wits and make clearly as if Iris had written it out an excuse to go into her own of-in a detailed postscript. If Iris had nee, Morgan was drawing the mentioned Crawford, either by crackling sheets of -expensive note-name or anonymously, as the man paper from the big square envelope who had won her love from her addressed in Iris handwriting.
husband, Morgan would have hunt- ed down his false friend, and the despoiler of his wife, if it had taken his the rest of his life to do so.
Out of sheer decency and pity she did close her eyes, so that when he looked at her-ns at length he must he would think that she was still conetrating on the Lofs Downs mystery, would be grateful that she hnd not seen his face before he had time to control it—
Rs
the con-
Iris must have been sure of that; if not, Crawford himself, standing, over Iris and censoring the letter she wrote, had taken ng chances, Nan never knew how long she She had not even dared suggest sat there with her eyes screwed that her husband get a divorce, for lightly shit and her mind reeling fear he would jump to drunkenly from thought to thought, clusion that she wanted legal free Horever long it was, there was no dom in order to marry another man. sound at all from the man who sat
And how cleverly the letter had less than two feet from her, until been worded, to appeal to every. his voice, unrecognizable in 15 re-generous and chivalrous instinct. strained hearseness, called to her of the deserted husband's nature! "Nan-"
"No man could have been a better "Yes, Mr. Murgan." She tried to husband than you, Jack. It is not make her voice sound normal your fault that I do not love you. cheerfully expectant-la case he But it isn't mine either, ta it? was looking at her, she blinked her Do one last generous thing for me, eyes rapidly and smiled.
Jack-"Oh, the bitter cruelty of But the bit of acting was unnec|her-holding his love, making de- essary. The man's long, thin body mands upon it, even as she flung was hunched forward against his it back at him as a burden she desk, his face shielded from her could no longer bear! sight by a cupped hand.
His words came jerkily, with the Bound of laboured breathing be-
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Morgan's swivel chair cranked tween phrases. "I'm sorry-but as he straightened his bowed back don't think I'll work any more—and, squared his shoulders slowly, To-morrow" But he like a man adjusting himself to to-night: could not drag his volée past that receive and carry an intolerably The faint sound word, which can be the most heavy load. terrible in the English language. aroused Nan from the welter of emotions. and speculations into Nan could feel in her own heavily which Iris's incredible, lotler had throbbing heart the man's hor-plunged her. She stepped softly rified recall from all that the word to the desk, laid the stiff sheets of meant-days stretching endlessly notepaper upon the edge of it. Annihilate She must say something, of course, ahead-The need to
It was to his friend, not thone two feet of space between, them that small yet Infinite dis-to his secretary, that he had shown tame that had always separated the letter.
Nan Carroll, private secretary, from John Curtis Morgan, employer and married man-became such an unbearable ache that the girl was Impelled to her feet, was bending over him, her arms outstretched in a passion of tenderness and pity to
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when Morgan straightened In his chair.
Nan's nuns dropped to her sides. She stepped backward just in time to prevent his head striking her. Thank God, she hadn't betrayed herself: he hadn't seen. He would think she was simply leaving the room at his implied bidding, ...
"I apologize for accusing you— of curiosity, Nan-"
Amazed, then more profoundly moved than she had ever been in her life, Nan halted on her way to the door, waited, scarcely daring to breathe. He was not buckling
up weakly under the blow. Not he! Not he! Oh, she might have known he would be like this....
His voice was jerking on: "But Iwant you--to know, I'm afraid Will i can't talk about it-yet. you-read this letter, Nan?".
From the expensive jule-grey sheets rose the faint but ummistuk- able odor of Iris's favourite per- fume, a flagron of which had been one of John Curtis Morgan's Christmas gifts to his wife. Now its seductive odor was helping Iris to enslave the senses of another
m.
Hot anger cleared Nan's vision. Her eyes leaped down the page;
"Dear Juck: I am not coming back. You must have suspected for Jong time that I did not love you. My chance for freedom hus coment last and have taken it. You told; me the $20,000 was mine to do with as pleased, and I am using it to start life over. You must not worry about me, for I um safe and If I told you my plans you would try to find me, and that you positively must not do. Of course I wanted to take Curtis with me, but I know how deeply you love him, and I did not think it would be fair to take your son from you. I know that you will take the beat care of him and that you will not teach him to hale me. No min could have been a better husband than you, Jack. It is not your fault that 1 do not love you. But it isn't mine either, it is Do one last generous thing for me, Jack: do not try to find me, it would be worse thuri useless, Irla,”'
*
'Nen's first reaction to the letter was a deep, quivering broath of relief. Whatever the motivo-and Nan knew that Iris Morgan had not been actuated by pity-the desert- Ing wife had not mentioned Her- bert S. Crawford. Morgan was spared the supreme humiliation. He need never know now that the man he had called friend, and whom ho
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Morgan.". Hor There was, after all, something volde was husky and rough with that she could do. She could help tears. "Is there anything I can him go into court certain of vic do? J'm no-terribly. "sorry" tory. His work and his son were Nan hated words then; they were all that Iris 'Morgan had left him. such silly, futile things. If only Eagerly Nan drew the bulky tran- she could touch him, hold his head script toward her and began to against her breast, so that he could rehd, pausing occasionally to jot feel how her heart throbbed with memorandum upon her notebook, compasalon and love. But that and at other times to dash teare was ailly, too. Only one woman's from her oyca. farms and love could comfort him
now.
woman,
At a little after 11 the door of "Thank you, Nan. I-thought Morgan's office opened and Nan you'd better know. Sorry to dis. looked up, startled and apprehen tress you." He did not look at hersive, to see him standing in the as he spoke, in a flat, dead mono- doorway. Twice, during her career tone. I'm afraid there isn't any as private secretary to Morgan thing you can do just now. when he had been district at- torney, Nan Carroll had seen con- Good-night, Nan.”
victed murdererä'ressive the death The ache to touch him was too sentence. One man had sunk to his grent to be borne. His right hand knees after the awful words had lay clenched upon the desk, the been spoken, and had been half knucklea gleaming whitely through dragged, half carried, sobbing like the tightened skin, and before a hysterical
from the discretion could stop her, her own court-room. The other had stif hand weat out, fell gently upon fened his body and his spirit to his, her little cold Angers pressmeet the blow like a man. His ing tight for a breath-taking hopeless, yet courageous eyes had instant. She was about to with- not flinched from the judge's face. draw her hand after that fleeting contact when Morgan's fist' un- As. Nan looked up at Morgan knotted and his long, thin Angers now, stand.ng straight and stiff reached up and imprisoned hers, and very tall, his deep-set eyes- There were no spoken words be. two fathomless wells of despair- tween them, ns Morgan's hand meeting hers steadily, it was like clung to Nan's, the grip of his looking into the face of the man Angers almost crushing hers, but who had been strong enough to if the man had only known it, one receive a sentence of death un- woman was dedicating her heart | flinchingly, Her, love leaped and her life to his acrvice, while proudly in her heart. he was striving to realize that an- other had deserted him.
She did not give him time to ask been going over the Lola Downs her why she was still there. I've case and I'm sure my hupch is right. Want to hear it?"
When his clasp was loosened, Nan withdrew her hand gently and slipped from the room. She knew that he wanted to be alone, but when she was putting on her hat She held her breath for his re- she realized that she could not ply. Would John Curtis Morgan leave him yet. It would be like show as much courage in recelying leaving a man to sit up alone with a "life" sentence from that impia- his dead. She removed her hat, cable judge, Duty, as he was dis- then toptoed silently about her playing under the death sentenge office. If he found her working he of Love? could not be so very angry with
(To Be Continued). her for staying.
The court stenographer's tran-) script of the prosecution's testi- mony against Lofs Downs lay on her desk. She stared at it for à long minute, her fingers pressed into her throbbing temples... What tremendous discovery bad ahe been upon the verge of making when Iris's letter had come? The Lols. Downs case seemed vastly unimportant and far away now, but her conscience jerked her up shortly not unimportant to Lois Downs! To-morrow morning John Curtis Morgan would have to go: into court, io fight for the life of the pretty young nurse accused of poisoning her patient.
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