RIVAL WIVES
By Anne Austin:
CHAPTER XXI,
Author of "The lack. Pigeon."",
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fit does scent rather ridiculous' to As soon as Nan Carroll looked ing for one lone man and boy, have three grown people all work Into Maude O'Brien's broad, plump doesn't it? So I've been wonder face she know that the two would
ing, sined talking with you, Mrs like each other.
"Go on with your dishwashing. O'Brien, if you and Estelle be- Mrs. O'Brien, Nan suggested, after Curtis the evenings that Mr. tween you couldn't manage to look looking about the immaculate kit Morgan will be working late or chon with frankly approving eyes dining out. If you could," "I know you want to get through as hastened to add, "I am sure that soon as you can. You don't live Mr. Morgan will be glad to pay you in, do you?"
"No, miss. There's me husband both a little more salary than Mrs. Morgan arranged for. Eatello could and me boy, and we can't be so have two evenings as well as one arated, miss," the cook answered, afternoon a week out, if you could cheerfully voluble "I did make so bold as to ask Mrs. Morgan to let arrange with her to be here the the three of us live in the servants' other evenings, or at least when rooms over the garage, seeing as Mr. Morgan aska you to stay, how Big Pat-that's me husband, What do you think, Mrs. O'Brien ?" miss, called that because of Little
The cook considered, as she un Pat, ma boy, you know-tends the furnace here nights and mornings. rolled her sleeves, her work done Big Pat offered to mind the furnace for the night. "The part about and do odd jobs to pay for the rent, Curtis is easy, miss, Lord, I can but the missus 'lowed she didn't keep an eye on two rapscallions want her boy playing with her as well as one. But I'm just think. ing, miss, if you don't mind me cook's boy-"
saying so, that a house without a woman bossing it is like a ship "Ten he in, and smart as a whip, with mutiny on it. Estelle's nice if I do any se u I shouldn't. Full enough girl, and I guess I'm fair. of spirits, miss, but not a mean to-middlin' envy to get along with, streak in his whole little Irish body. but neither of us knowing which Curtis is crazy about Little Pat; ono ia to take hold and give or- tries to sneak out and play with him dors, like... Me-for instance, every night. It's a lonely lad he is, poor liftie one."
"How old is Littis Pat, Mrs, O'Brien?" Nan Interrupted.
1 Hke to have the lady of the house write out the mee-nus for me, not having much gift that way, though being a fair cook-"
Nan suddenly felt as excited as i si were stumbling upon the solution of a murder mystery. "I'd
"You're a wonderful cook, Mrs. like to meet Big Pat and Little Pat O'Brien," Nan corrected her Mrs. O'Brien. Perhaps Mrs. Mor-warmly. "But I do understand gan spoke a little hastily, without what you mean, and I think it's really knowing Little Pat, Mrs. awfully nice of you to put it so Morgan," she added, in a carefully honestly. I wonder if you and casual voice, "Is going to be abroad Estelle would very much mind my for several months, according to keeping an eye on things? I could her present plans, and Mr. Morgan give you the menus for the week has asked me to help arrange mat-every Monday, and you could be tera hero during her absence."
"If you'd like to see Big Pat and responsible for the marketing. I'm Ruro you would try Little Pat, they're down the base- ment this very minute, fixing the to be as economical as if you were furnace for the night. T'll call buying food for your own table,"
them,
They usually wait for me
aho Battered the cook.
down there till I'm through with "That I would, miss, and glad my work; then we go home to- to do it for the poor lone man," gether, and 1 stir up a bit of sup"It's a grand idea, miss, if you Maude O'Brien, agreed heartily. per for the three of us, but it la hard-s living across the tracks could spare the time.". and the nights cold and snow on the "Then suppose we figure on that ground.
"I'll have all Yoo-hoo, Big basis," Nan beamed. Pat," who called in a strident but tradesmen's bills sent to me at the pleasant voice, down the laundry office, and will check them with chute.
your duplicates once a month. I'l pay salaries, too, and see that raises
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A tall, broad-shouldered man, come when they're efirned. Men black-haired and blue-eyed, and don't notice about such things, you small masculino edition of red-know. And I'll do the shopping haired, blue-eyed Maude O'Brien for the house, if you and Estelle pushed into the kitchen from the will keep a list and give it to me basement atairs, laughing at home once a week. Curtis' clothes, too, Joke of their own. When they saw of course. Does the laundry go Nan, in amber chiffon, perched upon out?"
the kitchen stool, Big Pat became "No, miss. Hattie, a coloured awkward and shuffling, but Little woman, comes two days a week- Pat planted his feet wide apart, Monday for washing and Tuesday thrust his hands into his trouser for Ironing and mending," Maude pockets and grinned up at her with answered. "Sho keeps the clothes a sereno unconsciousness of class in order, as well as the linens, distinction. For which Nan, ador-She's good, Hattie is,"
ing him at sight, could have hugged "Fino!" Non cried, seeing the him.
last of her most pressing probleins "Hello, Big Pat and Bitle Pat," slipping away. "When could you she sang out gally. "Mrs. O'Brion move into the rooms aboye the ga and I have been latching a grand scheme, haven't we, Mrs. O'Brien?" "Have we now?" Maude O'Brien repeated innocently.
rage?"
"Tomorrow, miss," Big Pat an- swered, grinning his approval of her quick decisions. "I take It you'd like to see the little shaver settled while you're here, miss, With me and Maude and Little Pat "Betcha life!" Little Pat replied on the premises you won't need to' promptly, his broad grin almost worry about the lad, miss." reaching his edrs.
"Of course we have. Sny, Little Pat, would you like to make some money-r dollar a week?"
"If you and your mother and fa-
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When she return to the living
ther took the rooms over the garage room Nan found Curtis lying do you think you'd like to take before the fireplace, his mournful Curtis to and from school-the black eyes gazing upward at the nearest public school, of cou¥BO~~~- and play with him in the afterlife-size portrait of his exquisite noons? He has a wonderful police mother, his languid fingers pulling | absent-mindedly at the care of a puppy, you know."
"Sure, I know. It was me that sleeping puppy.
Nan's heart, which had been so named that puppy," Little Pat toss- ed off nonchalantly. "Call him full of pity and love for the de- Cap, kid," I said, and he did. Sure certed husband, swelled suddenly I'd like the job. Gee! It's be swell to make room, for the forlorn lit- - dollar a wock for nothing but tle boy who had been made worse playing! Can't I, Mom 7”.
than. motherless by Iris guilty
"It's the sensible young lady you passion for Bert Crawford, are, mlas," Maude O'Brien told Nan "Bed time man-child," she call- Carroll with apparent irrelevance, ed blithely, but ́ ́her voice was "Public schoolf It'll be the making husky with tears.
of the poor little motherless lad--| "Man-child," Curtis repeated motherless only temporary, I mean,dreamily. "That's what Father mias," she hastened to amend. calls me-man-child, Sometimes "There is a grade school just he says Sonny-boy, too. Mother about six blocks from here, I be- calls me layer. What's a lover, Hleve," Nan mused, nodding her Nana?". brown head thoughtfully, I un-
"One who loves, of course," Nan
dorstand, Big Pat, that you're will-gibed gally, but there was a swift Ing to attend to the furnace in ex-stab of pain in her heart at the change for the rent of the rooms, thought that some day Curtia over the garage."
"Yes, mies, and glod of the would know a different, less sim- chance," Big Pat acknowledged, ple, more sinister meaning of the after clearing his throat politely. word, and that he might hear it "You see, miss, I have a job day applied to the man who had stolen timea, but the extra money. comes his mother from her husband and in handy, so I tend the furnace in her son... "Come along, now. It'A this house and the next. Me and eight o'clock. And I've got some Maude's saving up to send the boy thing awfully exciting to tell you to college. He wants to be a doc- while you get ready for bed." tor, and doctor it'll be, If we keep; The girl and the child were our strength.".
walking up the staire. together, "I really haven't known exactly hand in hand, when the telepliono what to do," Nan confessed frank-rang,
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ly. "Mr. Morgan thought I'd bet "That's long distance!" Curtis ter try to find a housekeper, In shrilled; beginning to jump up and addition to the cook and maid, but down on the stairs. "The phone's
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