THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929.
RIVAL WIVES
By Anne Austin.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
At 3 o'clock that day Kan Car- roll Morgan, junior partner in the law firm of Morgan and Morgan, was sitting at her desk in the richly furnished prison which was labelled "Mrs. Morgan--Private."
Her brown eyes lironded unsee ingly upon a nent stack of letters which she had somehow maunged to dictate that morning and which Kathleen O'Hara had delivered to her hours before. They were still unsigned, unread, though Nan's limp band held the new desk foun- tain pen in readiness to affix her signature. She did not realize she
had been holding it thus for more than an hour.
Author of The Black Pigem."
in for Mr. Morgan and simply bully him into eating when he was so busy he forgot all about food. My greatest ambition is to be as good a private secretary as you were, Mrs. Morgan,... Now, will you promise to eat every bit of it?"
The tender white meat of the chicken sandwich might have been feather for all Nan knew, but she Kathleen O'Hara's thoughtfulness had done munched obediently. Nap one good service. at least. It had released the tears which had pressed, unshed, against her bot eyeballs all day. It did not occur to her that she looked like a pa- there at her deak, doggedly munck- thetic but absurd child as she sat
ing
sandwich. while tears Slow, terrible. Thoughts milled trickled steadily down her checks. about in her feverish brain. Dis- For she was not thinking of her- jointed pictures Bitted seross her self at all, except as herself was mind. ke a badly assembled, film bound up inextricably with John run off on a par projector. Scraps Curtis Morgan. She was sure he of one of these new "talkie" pie-had not eaten at all that day and tures, Nan thought, with bitter the thought made her tears flow amusement. Iris Morgan, baking incredibly lovely and frail, lying on the big etch and stretching courthouse at the beginning of the
He had telephoned from out a feebly trembling hand to Dr. Black; Iris' lovely vofve, like recess, to tell her that he the sobbing ! a violín
"Dear 13
Black! Inver thought we should meet nin like this."
Dr. Black' grail volee; "What seems to be the trouble, Mrs. Mor- gan?. Any severe pain?"
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faster.
the
ewald not join her for lunch. By the strained nate of apology and harry in his vulce San had been told, as plainly as if he had spoken the word that he was going to spend the neon recess hour at the hospital with his farmer wife. Nan Jind filt
resentment toward
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Iris blue-green eyes widening him; only a dull despair. atchùm reproachfully, "Only i course he had to see Iris, both for my heart, Dartf ... No, no, the sake of his peace of mind and don't gel our Your stethoscope!) to arrange some sort of financial Tell him, Jack. I haven't thuttlement with her, Iris' trugle Strength, or the beart.
wail broken, east-off John Curtis Morgan squaring niless" must have tormented his shoulders to face the tortor.him all day like a dagger in his His võire harsh and uneven: “Mrs. heart. Even If his no longer loved or desired her, Iris had made her Morgan tells me she has not been well for some time. She chose self his responsibility again. konte, not knowing that! haut secured a divorce and married That started the mad whirligig ngain. The shock caused her to of thought again. Could it be faint. My wi---Nan, culled you." possible that it was only last night. The im jerked; showed to But John-what if you saw Tris Nun's brooding yen a closeup of again?" and he had answered, the doctor's professionally non-corning to lie: "--don't know. committal fare, one hand shaking can only say, Nan. I love you his newly shaved chin, his small, with all my heart and soul. And cold, grey pyes narrowed sperula mind. A hope I shall never see fria
fively upon the recumbent woman. gain.""
"Moi! Nothing serious, 1 take it. Now that he had seen her again, A few daya rest in bed, will pur | had all bis old passion for her feet again... St. burst into fame again? Could just
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Luke's Hospital all right, Mor-one night of deep but sane, happi- ****
nes with his new wife avail now 10. protect him against the terrific appeal of his passion for the wo in who had been his wife for penniless eight years?
"Oh!" a desolate wail from Iris. I can't go to a hospital, De. Black. I have no money-ne money at all, fll, Broken, cast-of
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"If she had only kept on reviling Another jerk of the flu; him and me, sn that he could have close-up of John Curtis Morgan's seen her as she really is-an uts face this time. But Nan could notterly sultial and erud woman!" Nan's heart. erjed despairingly,
look upon it; closed the eyes of heat she chose the one aure method mind against it desperately. But she could not shut out the memory to shake him to the very ronks of his being. She has made him be- of his words:
"Any hospital you say, Doctor,, Of course P'il pay. The best room available, naturally special
I
ve she came back to him ready to give him her whole heart."
For the first time that day Nan tried to picture the events in Iris' immediate past which had driven. her back to her deserted and de- "Oh, that won't be necessary spised hundmand as the only pos- --a special nurse, I mean," Nangible refuge. It was obvious that heard again the doctor's rallen fris had suffered. It was answer. “A few days' rest, plenty possible-yes, highly probable----- of sleep and good food and, that she had tried to commit sui. should say, a philosophis accept-cide as she had so plaintively ass ance of facts. Now, now, nafsured her stricken husband. Bert hysteria, Mrs. Mirgan, please, or Crawford was the answer, of 1 shall have to give you a hypo-course Nan had felt sure that Bert would tire of her, dermie. I'll run her over to the Crawford hospital myself, Morgan.. I see by would be unfaithful. The two had the papers that you'll be bugy in undoubtedly lived riotously, Aling- court to-day on the Blackhulling Crawford's stolen money away they could Bighly interesting trial, in handfuls. But that. Do you think you'll get the scarcely have spent a quarter of a dollars in 11 months. boy off, Morgan--you and your million
wan 100 shrewd brilliant young junior partner, 1 Crawford
hin- pauperize a m to MEAN ***
Case.
The jerky Malkie" film was self, Nau knew. bruken by a knock on the door. Then how had it happened that San raised her hand, blinke berris had had to green homs, peruti- eyes to clear her mental vision, lere? There could be only one an- Crawford had abandoned "Come in!"
swer:
And then Grannie spoke!
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MURDER ON RUBBER ESTATE.
BY COOLIE.
Nan squared her shoulders, gan came for him in a taxi 'bout LONDON BANKERS. Kathleen O'Hara's brightly smiler as heartlessly as she had aban- Crawford's villainy and of his him?
and Iris' relationship.
lifted her head gallantly. Thai 10 minutes ago, and-" "I ought to show it to John!" (was part of her job, ing, pretty face peeped In. Then dored her husband. Perhaps they
"Thank you, Little Pat," Nan iN- | world. she pushed the door open with her had lived on the $20,000 which the Nan told herself fiercely: "That
"If Mr. Morgan comes in or tele-terrupted crisply. foot and entered Nan's private of embezzler had given to Morgan as would kill his pity and his passion phones, tell him I've gone home,
The boy, who adored her, lootedly fee, a tall glass of hot chocolate an unsolicited fee for having won for her, if anything could! But planse," she said to Kathleen ronplussed and crestfallen, then,
O'Hara on her way out.. in ane hand, a paper napkin-cov-him his freedom, and which Mor-I can't fight that way. I can't."
to hide ha confusion, began to "Iris has ered plate in the other.
gat had presented to his wife,
no scruples. She'll
She found the sedan where she chase the police dog with loud ["I just couldn't bear to think of Crawford-as 'wily and settish as fight you with every weapon she
whoopa.. have given can lay hier land on," temptation re-had parked it that morning, got in, you working away in here without Iris herself-could
started it mechanically, with the Nan locked the car carefully, any lunch," Miss O'ltura explained Iris a dozen plausible exeusen for minded her,
"But I'm not like Irla, Nan'a case of three months' practice. She then walked steadily, unhurriedly eoaxingly. "Please, for my sake, using her money instead of his
of the heart retorted, with forlorn prideud driven down, alune that morn- up the path to the house.
"Please, ma'am," Estelle greeted eat every bit of it, Mrs. Morgan, wii-ar rather, instead
And she was rewarded by anothering, for her husband had insisted I had them put lots of thick money he had ambezzled. whipped cream in the chocolate, "If John knew that Iris and dash of memory. Last night, when accompanying his former wife her nervously in the hall, "Maude ASSISTANTS WIFE STABBED
want for dinner, to and look! A chicken sandwich Crawford had been lovers, that he had used the game words to and the doctor as far as the busi- says would you mind telling her to sted! Doesn't it look good? they've been living together, that her husband, he had answered for-ness district, on their way to the what you
vantly: "No-thank God!*** hospital. There had been no chance night
"Tell Maude to prepare anything for him to kiss her good-bye, with, Please don't worry about the Crawford was really guilty of the Blackhull cuse, dear Mrs. Morgun. charge of embezzlement-" Nan It was 4 o'clock when Nan finish-Iris watching every movement he she pleases," Nan wanted to un- I just know Mr. Morgan will win could keep that thought down no ed signing the long-neglected letters made. Would be ever kiss her swer. Instead, she went directly on a Sumatra, estate.
to the kitchen.
A Javanese coolic at Parnaboliu, , after all the marvellous work longer. It had been hurking, like and cleared her desk to go home. again?
An hour later she raised her tear-who apparently imagined that he a coiled snake ready to spring, and Bir Curtis had ever needed her, he When Nan stoned the car before wet, convulsed face from the cush-had a grievance against an em- San flushed jeuilly, She had now it had struck. She shudder-would need her this afternoon, the house which had been her home fans of her chaise lounge and l-ployee named Landzaut, entered scarcely given the murder trial aed, recoiled, Involuntarily abe The memory of his wistful, be- for three months, Cop, Curtis' po caned. Yes, they were back. She the latter's house and fatally stab- thought that day: "Thank you, went to har filing cabinet, took wildered eyes, as they cast a lin- lice dog, reed across the lawn to heard Curtist shrill, excited voice, bed Landznat's wife aged 27. Miss O'Hara. You're a darling." from its secure hiding place the gering backward glance toward the great her, followed more slowly, the deeper rumble of her husband's, The victim's cries were heard by "Oh, no I'm not the little sec- betraying letter from Crawford to dining room door beyond which but as eagerly by "Little Pat" Nan sprang to her feet, flew from another employee named. Rogge, retary laughed and blushed, tre- Iris which she had kept all these his mother, strangely returned O'Brien.
one door to the other, locking them. who attempted to shoot the coolle, mendously pleased. "I'm just tak-months; held it gingerly, as if it after a strange absence, was engag- "Hello, Mra. Morgan!" the cook's ing a leaf out of your book! Mr.were unclean, while her tormented ed in a strange scone with his 11-year-old son sang out. "Curt Evans and Mr. Blake huve told moeyes seauned its familiar contents. father, stabbed the girl's tender has gone with his papa to ace his how you used to bring lunches Yes, it was incontrovertible proof' heart. But what could she tell mother at the hospital. Mr. Mor-
both of you have done on it,"
There has been another murder
Medan, July 8,
He shouldn't bring his load of but his plate! missed are. The grief into this room that had only coolje fled, but was arrested Inter. last night witnessed perfect joy!
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