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By Anne Austin,

CHAPTER XXXI.

Author of "The Black Pigeon.”

"Which Nina could hardly have committed, if she was in Chicago," Morgan interposed.

Nan sat motionless on the little sofa, waiting. Sho had the

"Of course she couldn't! Do you curious feeling that she bad at last think she'd risk doing it herself?" touched bottom, after plunging Nan was blithely acornful. "Sho through countless fathoms of the knows, because the old man has sea of despair. She thought she told her-sho made sure of that, had lost all power to feel pain or of course! that he is making e Tuve or hope. It was good to have now will, cutting off his villainous touched bottom. Better to know young son and leaving everything than to hope and to go on being to his loyal and loving wife, so hurt and hurt and hurt..

grossly, insulted by that villainous She did not know she was cry-young son. Soe?... She goes, Ing until a tear splashed upon the with all arrangements made for crisp ivory taffeta of her evening the murder to take place after the. dress. Such a dear dress. Al- will has been safely made and wit- though she had been married that nossed and after the quarrel which morning in a jaunty little tailored will throw suspicion upon the boy. suit, she had thought of this as Sco?" her wedding dress. Apathetical "I grant that of the two, the ly, she watched the spot of mole-woman had the stronger motive," ture spread and spread. What a Morgan big tearl Another fell, The dress would be ruined. But what did it matter? Her wedding day was ruined. It was only atting that the dress should be, too.

agreed thoughtfully, "Getting rid of an old husband and acquiring a fortune at one blow. But-wlint about an accomplice?"

"Ah! Thought you'd catch me," didn't you?" Nan laughed. But to There was a stop. Her hand tell you the truth, I had a hunch jerked up, dabbed fiercely at her about the actual murderer before eyes with the tiny pointlace hand-I became suspicious of the lovely kerchief. The handkerchief her Nina. I read all the stories in the mother had carried on, her wed paper before I knew the case was ding day. Had her mother wept coming to us, you know. And two into it, too?

or three days ago there was an cbscure. paragraph ahout the here'd been questioned by the police, Blackhall chauffeur. Remember? along with the other servants, the day after the murder, and had nothing of interest to tell. Then suddenly the police woke up to the fact that he was pissing. Nina Blackhul explained it by saying she'd discharged the man- Bassett, his name was, I belleve for impertinence to her."

Nan forced herself to show in cagorly interested face when husband rejoined her."

"There seems to be a conspiracy against our being together today," he grinned at her wryly. "The young widow of the murdered man is very mysterious, but she promises to talk fast enough, if I'll come to see her this evening. I refused, of course",

Nan had not put work ahead of love for four years for nothing. She was not pretending when ahe interrupted excitedly: "Refused? But, John! What she has to tell may be of vital importance to David Blackhull. You should know what it is before the pre- liminary hearing to-morrow. felt sure his step-mother was far more involved than David would admit today. Wait! I'll get his statement. Or course you're go ing!!!

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But

Morgan's face seemed to catch the glow from hers. All part of her scheme, you think? She has a scene with the chauffeur, carefully staged so that it will be overheard, discharges him, so that he can have an excuse for leaving?"

plotted together to kill the old man for his money and her freedom."

"Now that that's settled," Mor- Morgan and Morgan goes to call gan laughed, "suppose the firm of

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"Attaboy!" Nan applauded glee fully. "The row and the dismis sal were elever, weren't they? It

With sudden determination Nan anybody's Interested a year or two

rose from the little nofa and ran from now, it might be enlightening into the library. She would read to look up Mr. and Mrs. Bassett.

until her husband came home. In- She ran into the library, jerked The only way to explain it all instinctively her hand reached for a open her new briefcase, extracted on the assumption that the chauf- law book, but although it contained

summaries of some her typed copy of David Black-feur and Nina were lovers and

of the most hull's story and flashed back into

famous and fascinating murder trials in the annals of American the drawing room with it.

"Listen!" she commanded, the

criminal jurisprudence, the girl's old Nan again for the moment, a

tormented mind could not take in a page of it. She returned it to Nan sure of her worth and of her

its shelf, selected Instend a thin ground. No lovesick, despairing bride, this Nan. "I had a hunch

volume of poetry, an incongruous interloper among heavy legal tomes. when he was telling his story this

Nan opened the little volume where morning that he and his father

a scrap of paper, with a pencilled quarrelled over Nina Blackhull,

memorandum, served as a marker. not about money, as he insisted,

The scribbied words betrayed the Didn't you notice how he blushed-a-" she was about to say

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sacred word so casually yet-"-less than a week ago. Her hands ing on an appeal of the Nolan ease female lawyer would champ her Morgan had undergone

trembled so that she could hardly Alexandria style dreadfully. No, you run hold the book, but her eyes swept avia change, too. Gone was the em- along. I--I'm tired, anyway." barrassed, harassed bridegroom, "I must say you're anxious to

up the first stanza: torn between an old love and a get rid of me!" Morgan protested new loyalty. This was the man indignantly. "I'm not going to Nan had known and served for leave you--you merciless little four years-the keen lawyer, meet slave-driver"

And he put an ing her eyes unflinchingly, with arm about her shoulders and hug- admiration and respect.

ged her close.

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a

"Yes. Go on. Thank God for

Nan's womanly intuition," he grinned, a corner of his mouth quirking down in the way Nan loved.

shook her head." "No, John. You Nan was sorely tempted, but she go alone. If Nina's the siren I think she ls, she'd resent having me tag along. She wants to vamp some information cut of you, and

"Oh yes, you are!" Nan assured him, pushing him away with mock severity, when every nerve in her body clamoured to have him hold her closer and closer. "I suppose the junior partner of this firm has some say-so! Go along! I'm crazy to find out if our theory has any

"Well, I can guess why Nina Blackhull wants to see you. She's frantle to know how much David told. I'll bet anything she vamp- basis in fact

be

ed the youngster until lie lost hie

"Oh! All right," Morgan agreed head. Probably the old man saw abruptly, turning sharply away or heard something that gave them from her. For one precious moment Nan thought that he was hurt and away,.and-why, that's the reason she'd left for Chicago in such af angry with her for sending him away from her on their wedding hurry!" Nan concluded triump-night. But she reminded herself hantly,

"But the will, which old Black-liu. had touched bottom, leaving hull made after she left, and after very decency, he had had to pre- hope far behind. Of course, for ha knew whatever it was that made tend. him quarrel with his son, leaves

But hope had not been so.com- everything but $10,000 to Nina," pletely crushed as Nan had Morgan pointed out.

lieved. After her husband had "That's 80," Nan admitted. She gone, Nan sut quito still for many propped her round little chin on minutes, staring at her hands, like her right fist and scowled na fierce-little pink cups, holding something ly' as her husband. Then, her face infinitely precious. A kiss in the clearing, her

shining: palm of each. "How's this? Sounds wild The house

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silent. grant, but I've got a hunch it's Estelle had left at 8. By this protty near correct! As I said time the O'Briens-Big Pat, Little bofore, Nina Blackhull vamps Pat and Maude--were cozily talk- young David until he's mad about ing over the wedding. In their her. He forgota for a minute pleasant apartment over the she's his father's wife and makes gärifge. Curtle was sound asleóp love to her. Probably only a kisa in his own small room. What or two. But enough for Nina's was that terrible thing he had purpose. Very much the scanda-sald, in his appalling Innocence? lized, virtuous wife, she goes to Won't my other mother by her doting old husland, tells him je'prised when she comes home that his son has taken torrible ad- I'll have two mothers at home, vantage of her motherly interest and you'll have two wives won't. has, in short, made love to her, and you, Father?"

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she can't live under the same roof. Nan shivered; her with him another day. The boy clonched convulsively, aqueezing was away the day she left and did the life out of those two precious not return till the next afternoon kisses. She was being foolishly. late, you know--the night of the neurotic, she told herself in dis murder"

gust, Iris Morgan had left of

"Your hands, my dear, adorable,

Your lips of tenderness -Oh, I've loved you faithfully

and well, Three, years, or a bit less.

It wasn't a success." Faintly, in pencil, in the margin opposite "three years" was writ- ten, in the hands she knew so well, Nan's frantic eyes leaped down "nine years." Iris, always Iris! the page, raced to the next. In; his heartbreak, had he thought of her at all? The last lines of the poem answered her question:

"And I shall find some girl, per-

haps,

And a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindller, And lips as soft, but true. And I daresay she will do." floor with a gesture of loathing. Nan dropped the book to the "And I daresay she will do. She forgot that Rupert Brooks, and not John Curtis Morgan, had writ ten the poem. He had made it his own, with that pencilled correc. stooped and picked up the little tion. After a long time, Nan

book of poems. It had sprawled open, so that the flyleaf was ex- posed. Her eyes could not help taking in the blackink words: which flowed neross its whiteness: "For my adored wife, on our Morgan," first anniversary-John Curtis

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“And I daresay she will do!" Nan quoted fiercely, between shuddering sobs, as nho turned the key in the bathroom door that led into John Curtis Morgan's room. Pride was Nan Carroll Morgan'a bedfellow on her wedding night.........

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