THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH
TUESDAY, JULY
1929.
RIVAL WIVES
By
CHAPTER XXV.
Anno Austin.
Nan's heart stood still. Her eyes, black with four, asked Willis Todd the question which she could not make her lips form.
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dragging at her ohyly, she knelt down beside his bed and laid her hot cheek against his pale check until he was sound asleep.
Nan alipped out of the house
"No, he isn't dead-not even.bad-without saying good-night to hor
ly hurt," Willis reassured her gent
ly.
employer. From the hall sho heard the masculine rumble of what seemed to be a very earnest
"Oh!" Nan drew a shuddering breath of relief. "Thank God!" conversation which she had no She relaxed against the cushions inclination at all to interrupt., of the car for a minute, trembling She found Wills Todd patiently violently. Then, "What are you waiting for her, and the glow of waiting for, Wills Todd1
his cigarette was strangely com- the car! Get me thero as quick as forting to the overwrought girl you can! Tell me what happened, The kid all right, honey?"
Willis, but drive-drivel"
Start
"It seems that your faith In Lit-Willis asked gently as she climbed tle Pat as the kid's bodyguard was file the seat beside him, Amply justified, for Pat flung Cur.
"Yes....
Oh, Willis, what an tis out of the way of a taxi and awful fool I've been!" She slump-: took both wheels across his owned into a forlorn littlà huddle and legs. Both broken. Little Pat's in began to sob gaspingly against his
contsleeve. the hospital, poor lad-"
"And Curtis?" Nan whispered, o shaking hand over her eyes to shut out the horrible picture that Willis kud described.
"Who says so?" Willis chal- lenged.
Oh,
"Idol" Nan sobbed." Willis, Willis Why didn't you "Littla Pat must have flung him take me when I said I'd marry pretty hard, for the kid has a bro-you?"
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ken arm. Ho struck the curb, I "I've often wondered myself," believe," Willis continued.
Wills Todd answered gruffly.
At last the car drew up at Mor-"Just selfish, I suppose. I wanted yan's home. Nan hurried upstairs,you to be as crazy in love with me then hesitated for a moment, inno-Ins 1 am with you. It nover ticed, in the doorway of the room happens that way, I suppose. which she had transformed from an One always loves more than the overdecorated nursery into a "re-other. Morgan and his Iris—| gular boy's" room. A uniformed trained nurse bent over the bed in it's a great life if you don't Borry, honey! Heigh-ho, darling! which Curtis lay, his splintered and
wenken, And I've weakened-so bandaged left arm propped upon have you! pillows. Dr. Black and John Curtia! Morgan, both with their backs to-
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The next morning, after more
ward the door, stood at the foot of sleep than she had hoped to get, the bed, joking for the benefit of
Nan Carroll took up her tem- the petulant ttle patient.
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"I won't have a nurse, either!"porarily neglected duties in Mor- Curtis shrilled, slapping at a white gan's offices. It was good to have
of n divorce. Of course! Oh, Nan had worked herself into the KOWLOON GOLF CLUB. Pad-Up Capital linen sleeve with his uninjured to work like a whirlwind, nice to
poor man! Yesterday Curtis' ac curious post of long-distance house- hand. "Nana said 1 didn't have to be tenned by Evans and bave a nurse any more. I'm too about her prospective status as acident, which might so easily have bly to have a nurse. I want Nana "flapper lawyer."
been fatal; to-day this new blow, keeper of his home, and a slic to stay with me!"
"You'll have to grow a new crop killing the last stubborn hepe the walked beside Morgan Into the big, Nan sang of hair and straddle that babylah deserted husband had clung to rather magnificent dining room of "Hello, Man-child!",
For six months she had out huskily from the doorway. "So nose of yours with a black-rib this is the way you behave when boned pince nez," Blake told her. fought to give him peace and to help the Traylor Hotel, Nan felt ridicul- I go to the capital to tako my bar Even grumpy old Evans had his him banish the devils of despair ously self-conscious, examinations!"
Jokes, addressing her ponderously which had taken possession of him as "Attorney Caroll."
when Irish had left him. Now the
"It's Nana!" Curtis shouted, aftting bolt upright in bed and look- ing heartbreakingly pale and dizzy from the effort. "Father, you and
It was into this genial aimos-battle would have to be fought all phere of work and fest that John over again.
Curtin. Morgan stepped at 10 The buzzer at inst. Nan caught
"Have you lunched yet, Nan?. Then I wonder if you'd go want to talk with with me? you'll Morgan said, not looking up, as if he were unable to meet her They had never lunched together vaocially" before, not
even since
eyes.
Morgan tried, rather awkwardly, to make an occasion of their lunch n. the matter of food, but Nan
Nan knew that he expected his newa to bo upsetting, for he con- scientiously gave her plenty of time to ent before plunging Into whatever it was that he had to tell her.
When he did begin it was abruptly, oven haralily: "I'm going to apply for a divorce, Non."
(To Be Continued.)
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Dr. Black go off and tell your old o'clock, accompanied by old Judge up notebook and pencil and hasten chose a single dish and firmly re- ton. jokes somewhere else. I want to Jennifer, retired, from the benched into the private office, but those fused everything else. tell Nana all about my accident. Nobody's going to tell her but me" thene 20 years but still practicing tools of her trade were not needed
law. Morgan, who was only 30, in after all, "Hello, junior partner 1
- Morgan put his arm about her shoulders and spite of his eminence in the pro- drew the girl close to him, with fession, had begun his career as a frank affection, as he turned to Dr. very humble clerk in Judge Jenni- Black. "Doctor, isn't she a ridicu-fer's offices 16. years before, and lons mile to be a lawyer? All our the two were more like father and Anest young men will be committ-son than anything else..
It was not often, however, that ing murder for the pleasure of having the prettiest little lawyer in the old man honoured the younger the late to defend them. You with a visit to his offices, and ought to be disbarred for that rea- somehow Nan received the impres son alone. Nun Carroll!"
sion, after a quick glance at her "Aw, Nana, make 'em go away employer's face, that this was not so I can tell you about my aceia visit at all, but a professional dect!" Curtis implored disgustedly.consultation. And yet-there was: "Maybe," the nures contributed, no case in Morgan's office at the in the professionally arch tone that time that seemed to call for Judge so many nurses use toward small Jennifer's well-seasoned advice. patients, "this bad little boy will In fact, the old man, grown weary go to sleep if he can tell his aweet-of criminal law, had been devoting heart all about his accident."
himself almost exclusively for Curtis let out a howl of Indigna- several years to the less objection. tion, "Nana ain't my sweetheart! able types of divorce suits. She's she's my parent pro tem,' The conference-If such it was 'cause I heard my teacher, Miss lasted until almost noon. Oddly Anderson, say so to the principal enough, Morgan did not accom Nan could have kissed the nurse pany his old friend to the door, did not, In fact, emerge from his
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for the delicate diplomacy which private office. Judge Jennifer made her engage both the father came out alone and stopped before and the doctor in conversation while before Nan's deak. Curtle was still shouting his ex- "Well, Well, Nan, my child," hei planation. Her face was flaming as rumbled, with grandfatherly affer she drew up a chair to the injured tion, "John tells me you're going boy's bedside, but when the door
lawyer, Been to the closed upon the three whom Curtis to be a
had ordered out of the royal pre- capital to take your bar examina- sence she bent and kissed him tions. "You're a amart girl, Nan, with the passionate love, of and we're proud of you, but mother, rather than like a "parent and he lowered the rumble to
gusty, strangely significant whis- pro tem."
"Little Pat's a hero, Nan", Cur-per-take an old man's advice tis began eagerly, holding fast to and leave these dirty criminal her hand, "kce "The boy stood on cases to the men. Marry a law- the burning deck. But he ain't yer, raise up a boy to be a lawyer, if dead. Both his legs got broke, you've got to meddle with the law, and only just one of my arms, and but-leave the courtroom fights to Cop wasn't hurt at all. In the the men, my dear." story books the dog always gets You find me a nice young law- killed saving his little master, but yer for a husband, Judge Jennifer, I'm glad Cop didn't get killed." and maybe I'll take your advice," Nan let him talk on, telling her Nan retorted flippantly, but she had the whole story, hind part an uneasy suspicion that Judge before," but sometimes her atten- Jennifer knew exactly what her tion wandered, so that Curtis hot blush meant. scolded her petulantly. She was That's a bargain-remember!" reliving, over and over, that the lawyer chuckled from the precious minute when Morgan doorway. had drawn her close, le arm
about her shoulders; then, with For nearly an hour there was no sickening embarrassment, that sound from the private office of other minute when Curtis' amaz John Curtis Morgan. Nan forced ing designation of her had been herself to go on working at high hurled like a bomb into the room pressure, but three times she made What was he thinking?" J
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"You're not listening again, was writing-an inefficiency record Nana," Curtia complained, but his she had never sunk to before. volca was dragging with drowal-: Something was afoot, ness. "Can I go to the hospital to Judge Jennifer-divorce. see Little Pat? And take Cap? Light poured in. Iris, of course! Can I, Nana? Can I?"
She had written to Judge Jennifer,
"Yes, yes," Nan promised rash-as her attorney, had asked him to ly. Then, because his hand was 'approch her husband on the subject
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