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CHAPTER XXIV

Anno Austin.

"Well, Nan!" Jolin Curtis Mor- gan dropped to the couch be- side the girl and stretched his long Jegs to the warmth, of the fire in the grate. "Now that between us we've managed to get that young hellion of mine to bed, I'd like to have a first-hand account of how cortain miracles havo been wrought.

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Author of The Black Figoon.""

Jaho challenged the thoughtful

man beside her.

BRITISH MATTERS.

SIR MILES LAMPSON'S CON- FERENCES AT NANKING.

Shanghai, Juno: 30:

MONDAY JULY 1, 192

WIMBLEDON TENNIS.

GILAW. AUSTIN ONE OF ** LAST EIGHT. ^

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"Bunny Austin, the former Cam Sir Miles Lampson has arrived bridge captain, who has been playing from Nanking where he has been some sensational tennis at Wimbledon, discussing with Dr. C. T. Wang, 18 the only. Britisher remaining

Singles the Foreign Minister, the question has now

the Men's

which bosn reduced to the of the return of the Boxer mast eight. He had a long duel Indemnity, the rendition of Wel-with another Briton to qualify and it halwel and the new Anglo-Chinose was not until the match had gone the commercial treaty.

full five sets that ho eliminated Kings.. Toy,

Sir Miles has requested further "No. I'm afraid Ir-ve let him

It was a real gála day for sport in dictate his own diet," Morgan re-

instructions from London regard London on Saturday, the star attrac- mitted ruefully. Was there a hint.g the first two issues. In the ions being at Lards, where represen meanwhile ho will go to Welhal- tatives of the Home Land are up of accusation in the glance he

wel aboard H.M.S. Suffolk against the South Africans, and at flashod at Iris's picture?

'Reuter.

"I'm going to trick him Into eating some of the things he thinks he doesn't like, and lot Little Pat bully him into consum. ing the others, I'm counting, "I go away and 28 hours later heavily on Little Pat-foraG-> return to find my son not only en sistance in more ways than one;" tered in public school but crazy Nan told Curtis's father gravely. about it, and provided, not only "But to get back to my job as with a boy playmate but with long-distance housekeeper. Every whole delightful family to look Monday morning I'll furnish the after him. The O'Briens were alcook with complete menus for the stroke of genfus on your part, week. She'll do most of hor Nan. Suppose you take the stand marketing Monday, buying fresh and tell the whole story in your vegetables, eggs, etc., during the own words," he added, burlesqu-week as they're needed. "I might ing his own manner the add that I took a thorough course courtroom.

in dietetica in college and that Nan obeyed,, giving her em-I'm no slouch as a cook, my-self!" ployer a vivid account of her ac- "You're no slouch at anything. Livities in his home, as well as Nan, dear,” Morgan laughed. “Go the reasoning which had motivat-on! You're certainly a glutton for. ed her. Morgan listened atten-punishment, child!" tively, but his eyes wore fixed, "Maybe I like showing off," Nan throughout her recital, upon the retorted, "Anyway, there are your startling life-like portrait of his meals taken care of; Curtis looked wife that hung above the mantel after by the O'Briens, mother and "I think you've been Inspired in son, when he's not in school; and your handling of the boy," Morgan your house kept in apple-ple order said, when Nan had finished her by the effclent Estolle. Then what "defence.!

remains? Shopping for Curtis and Inepired by my love for you, for the house, of course, as equip- which you don't BURpect,ment and linens wear out. Pooh! thank God!" Nan agreed in her can do it all in three or four. heart.

hours a week, and you wouldn't chant a poor girl out of her fun, would you?"

cven

"I suppose you haven't yet hud time to hire a housekeeper. Lord, but I dread having one of those

"'ngree to let you try it, lon middle-aged, genteel women in re to conditions," Morgan answered duced circumstances pervading slowly. First, that you let me the house," Morgan sighed. "Sho will inevitably be stout, afflicted pay you what I would have to pay a housekeeper; and second, that

!

with varicose veina, hay fever and you take an afternoon a week off a wart on the side of her nose. from the office and give Curtis and And she'll have a dozen peaky me the great pleasure of your com- little legal troubles that she'll

pany for dinner. Otherwise I'm waat to consult me on every night afraid it's going to be a bit lonely I'm at home."

Nan giggled, thrust out both for the Morgan men."

"Good! I can use a free dinner legs and regarded them with

every Monday," Nan accepted Hip- rueful humour. "And I was, just flattering myself tonight that Pantly, to hide her joy. "You can gamble that Monday's dinner will they're quite nice legs. And always be a feast. Now I'm going six o'clock this evening, the last to pack my suitcase and toddle on time I consulted a mirror, there home or you'll be secusing your was absolutely no hint of a wart housekeeper of 'pervading the on this insignificant but entisfac-house."

"I'll take you home," said Mor- gan.

tory noso of mine."

Morgan stared at the, girl for a moment as if he thought she was

During the six months at fol- crazy, then she saw dismay and lowed, Nen Carroll lived from embarrassment leap into his black Monday to Monday, and all the eyes. She hustened to reassure words in the English language, him, Indirectly: "Yes, I've hired the most Important, the most *myself as your housekeeper, if musical, and the most heart-shake you please, sir, but a new sorting became, so far as Nan Carroll is long-distance housekeeper. I was concerned, "I'll take, you ean, furnish the best of references horas."

and I promise to become neither

· stout

nor genteel, and, not to

to

For during each of those Mon-

pervade the house. In fact, your day night drives from the Morgan housekeeper's desk has a strange home to the tiny apartment which your private she also found time to keep im resumiblance to

maculate, the girl played a pa- accretary's,"

"But-Nan! My dear girl" thetic little game with herself. Morgan remonstrated. Then he She pretended that Morgan waa did something that completely un-not an abandoned and grief- nerved the girl who was already stricken husband at all, but trembling at her own nudacity. young man entirely free to be in He reached for her hand and love; that he was in love, in fact, lifted it to his lips. She closed and that these Monday night a host's duty were not her eyes so that he could not drives

and his quest, secretary possibly see in them that which he must not guess..

housekeeper-of-sorts, but "dates." "You should have been numol And so, while the Nan that Martha," he said gently, when he Morgan knew carried on an un- had released her hand, "because muted conversation about Curtis, domestie problems and legal your joy is 'in service. She saw his eyes sweep upward to tangles, the Nan that only Nau Irla' pietured beauty, and she knew whispered soft, sweet non- wondered if John Curtis Morgan sense with her mythical "alendy." Week by week Nan found joy in was, for the first time, comparing or contrasting these two women ensuring Jolin Curtis Morgan's" who had been closest to him. He slow but definite recovery from sighed, then said almost abruptly: the tragic depression into which "But of course I can't let you take Iris' desertion had plunged him on the burden of my house as well on that dreadful Friday when he her cruelly curt of my office, Nan. Not even had received

letter At first, she knew, he your splendid health and your fostered a stubborn hope that enormous capacity for work could;

Iris had decided hastily, that she stand up under the strain," Y

Nan retorted "Bunk!"

in. would write and ask forgivenean, elegantly. "I intend to be a home that she would return. But when, efficiency expert, and whoever after three months of utter silence from his wife, he evidently made a great up his mind to accept her deser- tion na nul, his sensitive faco took on

an expression of snd

tion came

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heard of an efficiency expert] working? There isn't deal more- to be done just supervising, mainly. I've already resignation. And after resigna.

an appointment to take

a sort of peace, for Curtis to Dr. Black, the child Nan was making him and his boy specialist, tomorrow."

Morgan was startled and alarmed, very comfortable indeed in the

Beautiful home. which "In the boy sick?"

mude

she was

"Not exactly sick, but malnour-managing from his office. ished," Nan explained, firmly.

Of course it was not so easy as "I'm going to ask. Dr. Black to prescribe a diet for Curtis, then she had pretended to Morgan exercise all the ingenuity I possess that it would be. A hundred to keep the kid from knowing he's trivial" annoyances and at least on a diet and to get him to eat it. half a dozen major problems camo Tonight's "Hidden Treasure was up during those six months, re- the first in that campaign. Curtis quiring for more of her time and simply must eat lots of milk and energy than Morgan dreamed that green vegetables, and he refuses she spent upon his home affairs. to touch either until he dug She spared him here, as she had into my famous Hidden Treasure' spared him the knowledge that his tonight. You'd never expected to wife had run away with another see him ent spinach, had you?" man-a man whom he had called

Wimbledon, where the tennis tourna- ments are going on. - At the latter place the gallary was packed to capa city, with a programmno set to decide. friend and whom he had saved the remaining four men's matches and from prison:

three women's matches to complete

He would never know from her the fourth round and select the last how nonrly Curtis had como to dis-aight of each of the Bingles events. grace in school for kicking a The weather was Ideal but with teacher until, her shins bled. strong sun. Neither would he know from her that Curtis' had stolen money from Estelie to go on a candy orgy which left him so ill that candy had no appeal at all for the boy for weeks afterwards. From these and many other minor tragedies she protected the man she loved.

4.

And every Monday night she saw that he was a litle more at

peace, a little more at case with

Was

her and with his son, whose frien- Bhip and confidence. The cultivating, as if he were a little bit jealous of the boy's devotion to Nan.

I

In June Nan wont to the stato capital to take her bar examinn. tions, for Morgan persisted in his desire to see his, secretary he camo his junior partner.

*

On her return Willis Tedd, with whom she was still having a date or two a week, met her at the sta- tion. It was nine o'clock of a soft June night.

"Are you

a lawyer yet?" he teased, his gray eyes very fond and tender.

Nan squeezed his

arm. "Oh, it's always nice to see you, Willis! Of course I'm not a lawyer yet. I won't hear from my exame for wooks and thero's all sorts of red tape before 1 can be admitted to the bar. Whew! I'm tired1 And! I feel as if I'd been gone for weeks. I see they haven't built a now station yet! Doesn't anything| over happen in this town?"

"Walt!" Willie stopped her as she took a newspaper from the seat of his car. "I didn't want to tell you tonight, but you'll see it in the paper; the little Morgan kid was in an accident to-day—" (To Be Continued.)

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