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CHAPTER XX. ! Estelle, the maid, opened the door befors Nan could reply to Curtis's embarrassing question. The tight-lipped maid, who ob viously resented Nan's intrusions, led the way silently, after a curt gredug up the broad staircase to thecond floor; but the child's voluble chater more than made up for any conversational shortage on Estelle's part,
"Naba's my own special comp'ny, Estelle ain't you, Nana? Nana works for my father in his office, and she's going to be a lawyer too when she's grown-up-just like me, ain't you, Nana?"
"I'm already grown-up, Curtle," Nan laughed, "but I am going "to be a lawyer. Maybe you and your father and I will all be partners to gether some day.”
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as to furnish her, servants with the makings of a backstairs scandal?
Estelle," she said at last, turn Ing to the girl who was regarding her nervously and a little deanntly,
should like to see you stay on here: I can see that you do your work well. This room la Immacu late." She was flattering the girl deliberately, but, justly, too, and Estelle's brightening face told her that she was on the right tack. "But if you decide to stay, I should like it to be very plainly understood between us that there is to be no more gossip about Mrs. Morgan. Mrs. Morgan is abroad. She will be gone for some time. That is absolutely all that 'you know, Is that clear, Estelle?""
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"Yes, Miss Carroll," the maid answered in a low voice. please, I'd like to stay., I didn't "Uh huh," Curtis agreed, charg-say anything to anybody but Maudė, ing on ahead to open the door of and I didn't say I know anything the guest room that had been as-for sure I was just guessing," she signed to Nan. "Listen, Nana, I floundered.
Hot a police puppy and guess what "That's all now, Estelle," "Nan I narded him? Cop! He diga tun-dismissed her briskly. And please nels in the snow and he can pretty don't discuss anything I have sald nearly jump through a hoop. I'm with Maude. I want to talk with teaching him tricks. Here's your her myself after dinner." room, Nana. It's got twin beds. In case you're man-and-wife. But you ain't man-and-wife, are you, Nam? Does man mean husband, Nana 7"
"Yea, and I haven't a husband, Curtis, so I'll need only one" of theso pretty beds," Nan assured him, as she looked about the large, beautiful guest chamber with daz
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Culbertson and Fritz, Sassoon House, Shanghai, (cabla address "Swan- stock," Shanghai), who are not res- she loved could see her when she ponsible for the cable mutilations. was dreamed for dinner in one of The quotations are subject to con the two pretty dresses she hadfirmation: brought for her three or four eve-} nings in her employer's home. The As soon as Estelle was gone, Nan
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Copper green as was used in the bedroom; tumbling over each other on the International Cement, "You're not listening, Nan!" the titles themselves were a rich, living room rug.
(Common) Curtin stormed with sudden petu-deep yellow; the floor a mosnic of tance. "I said-if you ain't man- green and yellow. A door at the and-wife, could I sleep in here with apposite end of the room suggested you in the other twin bed? Clara's that this bathroom lay between two Kone," he explained proudly, "I guest chambers, and the opened it, threw a fork at her and it stuck curious to eco how Iris had de- in her cheek. I ain't got a nurse corated it.
It was a smaller room than the any more, and I'm not gonna have one either. All the other kids make one which had been assigned to fun of me because I have a nurse. her and for a moment she was puzdress. Ladies look awful dif- New Jersey... But can. I sleep with you, Nana?zled as to why she had been given 1--1 don't exactly like to sleep by room with twin beds when this other guest chamber was obviously myscif."
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Nan knew that now was the time to bargain with the spoiled little
It was John Curtis Morgan's United States Leather boy for his gond behaviour, but
temporary housekeeper, rather "4" there was something so mournful
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pic, heaped high with meringue stuck right here to, take care of of discipline, but Nan still had not latter colour appearing in the thick, ly good, for Maude could undoubt
Each dish was almost superlative them." the faintest idea what that method sheenless silk curtains. The furedly cook, but the total caloric was bringing in the coffee: "Tell Aloud she said to Estelle, who "I'll be glad to have you, Curtia niture, masculine and substantial, value of the meal appalled Nan. Maude I'm coming out to the It was with positive pain that she kitchen to talk with her when watched Curtla devour six of the I've finished my coffee. hot biscufta, burdened with butter, Estelle, I'll take Curtis up to bed And then dig estatically Into
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And now, suppose you play outside with Cop until dinner time. You might even have time to teach him a new trick. I'm going to be busy unpacking and dressing for dinner, you know,"
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Getting rid of the child was not quite no easy as that, but al lust he was gone, and not in tears, and Nan was able to spenk plainly to Estelle, who was sullenly unpacking her suitcase,
was of dark walnut.
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Nan realized suddenly that it was no longer a guest room, but John Curtis Morgan's bedroom. book on the bedside table, a pe, which she had seen many times, lying beside it; an array of mascu line tollet accessories on,the dress- er top-these were clues so obvious that her first glance should have taken them in.,
"That means," she reflected, "that he can't bear to sleep in the room that is haunted by Iris." "Did Mr. Morgan tell you why, he She bathed more hurriedly than wanted me to be here in his home she had intended, for, she was white he's in the capital, Estella?" acutely conscious now that this The maid raised her head and was bla bathroom, and that she Nan saw that she was flushing was, in a sense, an intruder. But painfully, "Yes, Miss Carroll. He being feminine and therefore I- Bald you was to have a free hand togical, she wished that the man here, to hire and fire as you see fit. But" and the words tumbled out with a rush then-"that ain't what I'm bothered about. The cook and mo both don't mind you coming to get things in shape for the poor man. But I heard what Cürlia Anid to you about me being a liar, because I suld his mother wasn't coming back, and I just been wait- ing for you to jump on me about that."
Nan went to the closet to hang. up her hat and coat. "I'm glad you mentioned it, Estelle, though! hadn't intended to jump on you, she said 'ovenly. "Don't you think, however,that any news of Curtis'n mother should have come to him from his father? Has Mr. Morgan told you his-wife's plans?"
"I didn't tell Curtis his mother wasn't coming back," the maid pre- tested, her voice threatening to break with tears. "I was talking to Maude that's Mrs. O'Brien, the cook-and I didn't know Curtis was listening. It was after breakfast this morning. Mr. Morgan had told me you was coming today to take temporary charge of the house and I says to Maude, I. says: "What did I tell you Maude? Mrs, Mor- gan ain't coming back,
"Curtle cama bursting into the kitchen then and flew into one of his tantrums, and he's been like the devil's own imp all day, till you comb, Miss Carroll. It's funny how you can manage him-botter'n his own mother. He's, usually pret- ty' good with me, because I'm not his nurse and I don't treat him like a baby,"
Nan considered for a long minute, frowning at her reflection in the full-length mirror of the closet door. How much did Estelle - know about. Iris Morgan and Bert Craw- ford? Had Iris been so, Indiscreet
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anyhow house she had deserted.
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